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Christopher Kangas Fallen Firefighter Apprentice Act

Bill: 108-hr-4472
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2004-06-01 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Apprenticeship
Emergency Management
Families
Fire fighters
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Volunteer workers
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: 
Christopher Kangas Fallen Firefighter Apprentice Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the definition of &quot;firefighter&quot; for purposes of death benefit provisions to include fire department members regardless of age, status as an apprentice or trainee, or related duty restrictions. Makes this Act applicable to deaths and injuries which occur on or after May 4, 2002.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3572)
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5505 Stevens Way in San Diego, California, as the "Earl B. Gilliam Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-4474
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2004-06-01 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: California
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
Law
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5505 Stevens Way in San Diego, California, as the "Earl B. Gilliam Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1154-1155)
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Introduced in House
Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4475
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2004-06-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Department of Defense
Department of Transportation
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Export controls
Farm lands
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Foreclosure
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Habitat conservation
Import restrictions
Interstate commerce
Land transfers
Land use
Landowners
Law
Local taxation
Natural areas
Rent
Soil conservation
Soil erosion
State taxation
Tax incentives
Taxation
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: 
Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2004 - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to redefine &quot;endangered species&quot; as any species in danger of extinction throughout all of its global range, subject to existing exceptions.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to identify from among endangered or threatened species the 109 species in greatest danger of extinction and to publish a list of such species (in lieu of listing all endangered or threatened species).
 
Limits the Secretary of Commerce's requested listings to the 109 species.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from listing species absent approval by majority vote of a panel comprised of the Secretary, the Secretary of Transportation, and the Secretary of Defense.
 
Limits the listing period to five years.
 
Eliminates the requirement that the Secretary identify endangered and threatened species &quot;solely&quot; on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data available.
 
Requires prior notification to landowners if a species to be listed occurs on private land.
 
Limits prohibitions regarding endangered species to the 109 species identified under this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to complete review of habitat conservation plans seeking permission for otherwise prohibited takings within 180 days.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) implement a species conservation reserve program under which eligible land is enrolled through the use of contracts to assist owners and operators in conserving endangered species; (2 bear the cost of conservation measures set forth in such contracts; and (3) pay rent to compensate for the loss in agricultural value of subject property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-09
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Introduced in House
Patriotic Employer Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4477
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employee rights
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Signs and signboards
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Patriotic Employer Act of 2004 - Amends the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) to require employers to post notice at the place of employment of rights, benefits, and obligations under the USERRA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
To provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 through July 23, 2004, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4478
Sponsor: Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative fees
Bonds
Business education
Economics and Public Finance
Entrepreneurs
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Government procurement
Law
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Securities
Small business
Venture capital
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Extends through July 23 (currently, June 4), 2004, under the same terms and conditions, the authorization for any program, activity, or provision, including any pilot program, that is authorized under the Small Business Act or the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 as of September 30, 2003.

action_date: 2004-06-03
text: 

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

 
Extends through July 23 (currently, June 4), 2004, under the same terms and conditions, the authorization for any program, activity, or provision, including any pilot program, that is authorized under the Small Business Act or the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 as of September 30, 2003.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H3749)
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H3749)
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Mr. Manzullo asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H3748-3749)
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Committee on Small Business discharged.
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Committee on Small Business discharged.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit States from denying certain veterans who have been convicted of a felony and who have completed their sentence the opportunity to register to vote or vote.

Bill: 108-hr-4479
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Julia [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Crime and Law Enforcement
Ex-offenders
State laws
Voter registration
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit States from denying voter registration to or voting by certain veterans convicted of felonies who have completed their sentences.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3724)
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4480
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Brownfields
Commerce
Cost of living adjustments
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Environmental Protection
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Oil pollution
Pollution control
Real estate development
Refuse and refuse disposal
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for up to 50 percent of qualified remediation expenditures for contaminated sites (property used in a trade or business on which there has been a release (or threat of release) or disposal of any hazardous substance) in certain poverty-rated areas. Defines &quot;qualified remediation expenditures&quot; as expenditures for: (1) the abatement or control of any hazardous substance, petroleum, or any petroleum by-product at a contaminated site in accordance with a State-approved remediation and redevelopment plan; (2) the complete demolition of a structure; (3) the removal and disposal of property; and (4) the reconstruction of utilities on a contaminated site.
 
Requires States to allocate credit amounts under an allocation plan that considers specified criteria, including: (1) poverty rates: (2) location of a contaminated site; and (3) the amount of new employment expected to result from redevelopment. Imposes a ceiling on the State environmental remediation credit and limits the national environmental remediation credit for each calendar year to $1 billion. Sets forth special rules for: (1) allocating unused environmental remediation credit carryover amounts among States: (2) adjusting the limitation on the national environmental remediation credit for inflation; (3) assigning portions of the credit; and (4) recapturing credit amounts if a taxpayer fails to properly complete environmental remediation under a State approved remediation and redevelopment plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Long Island Sound Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-4482
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Atlantic Ocean
Bioaccumulation
Chemicals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Connecticut
Department of Defense
Dredging
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental assessment
Environmental technology
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Harbors
Health
Law
Long Island Sound
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Navigation
New York State
Planning
Public meetings
Refuse and refuse disposal
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Sediment control
Shore protection
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Waste disposal in the ocean
Waste disposal sites
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Long Island Sound Protection Act - Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to revise requirements for the dumping of dredged material in Long Island Sound.
 
Prohibits dredged material from any Federal or non-Federal dredging project from being dumped, or transported for the purpose of being dumped, into Long Island Sound, Fisher's Island Sound, Block Island Sound, or Peconic Bay (including any harbor or tributary of such bodies of water) until the dredged material is determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) have, or to cause, concentrations of chemical constituents that are not greater than those concentrations present in the water column, sediments, and biota of areas proximate to, but unaffected by, the proposed disposal site; and (2) meet certain Federal dumping requirements.
 
Prohibits dumping or transportation for dumping into any covered body of water, except at a site designated by the Administrator, and upon a determination that no feasible alternative to ocean disposal (including sediment remediation, beneficial reuse, and land-based alternatives) is available prior to the time of designation.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator, before designation of a dredged material disposal site in a covered body of water, to develop a dredged material management plan and to submit it to Congress and to the Governors of the States of Connecticut and New York for their approval.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 1,2 Hexanediol.

Bill: 108-hr-4483
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on 1,2 Hexanediol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 1,2 Octanediol.

Bill: 108-hr-4484
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on 1,2 Octanediol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Methyl Salicylate.

Bill: 108-hr-4485
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Methyl Salicylate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Anisic Aldehyde.

Bill: 108-hr-4486
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Anisic Aldehyde.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 1,2 Pentanediol.

Bill: 108-hr-4487
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on 1,2 Pentanediol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
Public Good IRA Rollover Act

Bill: 108-hr-4488
Sponsor: Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-8]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Charitable contributions
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Law
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Public Good IRA Rollover Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income distributions from individual retirement accounts for certain charitable purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 18, United States Code, to mandate a life sentence for repeat sex offenders.

Bill: 108-hr-4489
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Recidivists
Sex crimes
Sex offenders

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Amends the Federal criminal code to mandate a life sentence for repeat sex offenders. (Current law provides for a sentence of twice the term otherwise provided for a repeat offender or mandatory life imprisonment for a repeat offense in which a minor was the victim, unless the sentence of death is imposed.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
To provide for acquisition of subsurface mineral rights to land owned by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and land held in trust for the Tribe, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4490
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Government Operations and Politics
Indian lands
Land transfers
Mines and mineral resources
Mining claims
Minorities
Native Americans
Real estate appraisal
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to acquire, by use of eminent domain, subsurface mineral rights to certain land owned by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and certain land held in trust for the Tribe in Arizona.
 
Requires the Secretary to take such interests into trust for the Tribe's benefit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-07
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the reduction in Medicare payment for certain items of durable medical equipment.

Bill: 108-hr-4491
Sponsor: Rep. Hobson, David L. [R-OH-7]
Introduced: 2004-06-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical supplies
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to repeal the reduction in Medicare payment for certain items of durable medical equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-06-02
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: 2004-06-02
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: 2004-06-02
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: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Introduced in House