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To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to contract for a report on employment placement, retention, and advancement of recently separated servicemembers.

Bill: 108-hr-4173
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2004-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Disabled
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Management
Military education
Military training
Officer personnel
Promotions
Scholarships
Surveys
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment
Veterans' rehabilitation
Vocational rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to contract with a qualified entity to study and report on the employment histories of recently separated servicemembers, including whether: (1) the employment obtained is commensurate with their training and education; and (2) such servicemembers received educational assistance or training and rehabilitation under programs administered by the Secretary. Requires the report to contain specific recommendations to improve such employment opportunities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: -Provision incorporated. See H.R. 1716, Title II, Section 206.
action_date: 2004-04-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Voter Citizenship Verification Act

Bill: 108-hr-4174
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2004-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Absentee voting
Ballots
Citizenship
Congress
Congressional elections
Driver licenses
Election administration
Identification devices
Immigration
Photography
Presidential elections
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Voter registration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: 
Voter Citizenship Verification Act - Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require an individual to provide proof that the individual is a citizen of the United States as a condition of registering to vote in elections for Federal office. 
 
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require proof of citizenship at the polling place for an individual to vote in elections for Federal office. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Introduced in House
To award posthumously a congressional gold medal to Thurgood Marshall.

Bill: 108-hr-4178
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2004-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Law
Minorities
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to the family of Thurgood Marshall (the first African-American Justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court) in recognition of Marshall's contributions to the Nation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Carbon Tetrachloride Benefits Act

Bill: 108-hr-4179
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2004-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cancer
Carcinogens
Chemicals
Disabled
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Eye diseases
Health
Hearing disorders
Law
Lung diseases
Nervous system diseases
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Veterans Carbon Tetrachloride Benefits Act - Provides that any of certain listed diseases or disabilities becoming manifest in any veteran who served 90 days or more of active military duty during which such veteran was exposed to carbon tetrachloride shall be considered to be service-connected, and therefore compensable through veterans' disability compensation, notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of such disease during such service.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide reimbursement for members of the Armed Forces retired for a combat-related disability for travel to military treatment facilities for medical care during the first two years after such retirement.

Bill: 108-hr-4180
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2004-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disability retirement
Disabled
Health
Military medicine
Retired military personnel
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: 
Provides reimbursement for members of the Armed Forces who are retired for a combat-related disability for travel, during the two-year period beginning on the date of such retirement, to a military treatment facility for medical care. Requires such reimbursement to be under the same terms and conditions, and at the same rate, that applies to beneficiary travel reimbursement provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Family Life Education Act

Bill: 108-hr-4182
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2004-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Alcohol and youth
Child development
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contraceptives
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Ethnic relations
Families
Federal aid to education
Health education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Lifestyle
Marriage
Minorities
Parent and child
Preventive medicine
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Sexual harassment
Sexual orientation
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social life and customs
Stress (Psychology)
Teenage pregnancy
Women
Youth
Youth employment
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: 
Family Life Education Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States for family life education, including education on abstinence and contraception, to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that States are encouraged but not required to provide matching funds. 
Requires the Secretary to provide for a national evaluation of a representative sample of such programs for effectiveness in changing adolescent sexual behavior, including delaying sexual and high-risk activity, preventing pregnancy and disease (including HIV/AIDS), and increasing contraceptive knowledge. Requires States receiving such grants to provide for an individual evaluation of the State's program by an external, independent entity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4183
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2004-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Air force
Appropriations
Armed forces reserves
Army
Coast guard
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense budgets
Defense burdensharing
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Families
Family services
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health
International Affairs
International relief
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Jordan
Logistics
Marines
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
Military civic action
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military occupation
Military operations
Military personnel
Military research
Military sealift
National Guard
Navy
Pakistan
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Research and development
Revolving funds
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
Supplemental appropriations
Tanks (Combat vehicles)
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 2004 (including the transfer of funds in some cases) for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
 
Designates such amounts as an emergency requirement under the FY 2004 concurrent budget resolution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To require United States assistance for the repair, maintenance, or construction of the transportation infrastructure of Iraq to be provided in the form of loans subject to repayment in full to the United States Government.

Bill: 108-hr-4184
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2004-04-21 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Infrastructure
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Maintenance and repair
Middle East and North Africa
Road construction
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: 
Requires U.S. assistance for repair, maintenance, or construction of the transportation infrastructure of Iraq to be provided in the form of loans subject to repayment in full to the United States Government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4186
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2004-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Casualty insurance
Commerce
Disaster insurance
Earthquakes
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Income tax
Insurance companies
Law
Losses
Property insurance
Reinsurance
Storms
Tax deductions
Trusts and trustees
Tsunamis
Volcanoes
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow insurance companies (other than life insurance companies) to make tax deductible contributions to a tax-exempt policyholder disaster protection fund established by this Act for the payment of policyholders' claims arising from certain catastrophic events, such as windstorms, earthquakes, fires, or floods.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Know Your Vote Counts Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4187
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2004-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Ballots
Computer security measures
Election administration
Electronic data interchange
Government paperwork
Printing
Public records
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Standards
Voting
Voting machines

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: 
Know Your Vote Counts Act of 2004 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to revise voting system standards to require the voting system used in an election for Federal office to provide the voter with an auditable paper record showing how the vote will be recorded by the system after the voter enters it. Requires the voter to use such record to verify that the vote shown is the vote the voter intends to cast.
 
Requires the system, if the voter does not verify his or her vote, to provide the voter with: (1) the opportunity to change the ballot and correct any error, and (2) a new auditable paper record that reflects the change or correction made by the voter.
 
Makes a vote final once a voter verifies that the vote shown on a paper record is the vote the voter intends to cast. Makes the paper record serve as a permanent paper record of the vote. Prohibits the removal of such record from the polling place except for purposes related to a recount. Requires voluntary voting system guidelines to include guidelines to ensure security of electronic data.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E581)
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend chapter 1606 of title 10, United States Code, to increase the amount of basic educational assistance for members of the Selected Reserve, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4188
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2004-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Education
National Guard
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: 
Revises the rates of basic educational assistance to be paid by the Secretary of the military department concerned to members of the Selected Reserve to make such rate: (1) for a program of education pursued on a full-time basis, specified percentages, increasing for each of FY 2005 through 2009 and beyond, of the monthly rate of veterans' basic educational assistance; (2) for a program pursued on less than a full-time basis, an appropriately reduced rate as determined by the Secretary concerned; and (3) for a program pursued on less than a half-time basis, no such payment if tuition assistance is otherwise available to the person from the military department concerned.
 
Makes members of the Selected Reserve meeting certain other requirements eligible for basic educational assistance if they served a cumulative 24 months of active duty during any five-year period as a member of such Reserve. (Currently, in order to be so eligible, such members must have served two years of continuous active duty.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2004-04-21
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: 2004-04-21
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: 2004-04-21
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: 2004-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E586)
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Full Enrollment Environmental Quality Incentives Program (FEEQIP) Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4189
Sponsor: Rep. Lucas, Frank D. [R-OK-3]
Introduced: 2004-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural pollution
Agricultural subsidies
Air pollution control
Animals
Environmental Protection
Habitat conservation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Soil conservation
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water pollution control
Water quality
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: 
Full Enrollment Environmental Quality Incentives Program (FEEQIP) Act of 2004 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to delete current provisions specifying per-year funding amounts for the environmental quality incentives program from the Commodity Credit Corporation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-23
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2004-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Amusement Park Ride Child Labor Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4190
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2004-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Amusement parks
Child labor
Families
Health
Occupational health and safety
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to find and declare by order that operating power-driven amusement park rides is a hazardous occupation for the purposes of certain child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E582-583)
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
International Pediatric HIV/AIDS Network Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4191
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2004-04-21 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Child health
China
Clinics
Commerce
East Asia
Economic assistance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Guyana
Health
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
India
Latin America
Medical education
Public-private partnerships
South Asia
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: 
International Pediatric HIV/AIDS Network Act of 2004 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide for the establishment and operation of a network of pediatric centers in countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China, the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, and other countries and areas with high rates of HIV/AIDS to provide: (1) treatment and care for children with HIV/AIDS; and (2) training of pediatric health care professionals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for the expansion of areas designated as renewal communities based on 2000 census data and to treat certain census tracts with low populations as low-income communities for purposes of the new markets tax credit.

Bill: 108-hr-4193
Sponsor: Rep. Istook, Ernest J., Jr. [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2004-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Census
Community development
Depreciation and amortization
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Infrastructure
Investment tax credit
Labor and Employment
Poverty
Rural economic development
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax incentives
Urban affairs
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, at the request of all governments that nominated an area as a renewal community, to expand an area designated as such a community to include certain census tracts of general distress or with increased poverty rates based on 2000 census data; and (2) treat population census tracts with populations of less than 2,000 that are within empowerment zones and that are contiguous to a low income community as low-income communities for purposes of the new markets tax credit.

action_date: 2004-05-17
text: 

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

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, at the request of all governments that nominated an area as a renewal community, to expand an area designated as such a community to include certain census tracts of general distress or with increased poverty rates based on 2000 census data; and (2) treat population census tracts with populations of less than 2,000 that are within empowerment zones and that are contiguous to a low income community as low-income communities for purposes of the new markets tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text as passed House: CR H3030-3031)
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text as passed House: CR H3030-3031)
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4193.
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3030-3033)
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: Mr. Houghton moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2004-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-22
text: Introduced in House