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Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2652
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2004-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: 
Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2004 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as added by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for each year beginning with 2006, to: (1) offer one or more Medicare operated prescription drug plans nationally that offer qualified prescription drug coverage and access to negotiated prices, while allowing the plan to offer supplemental prescription drug coverage in the same manner as other qualified prescription drug coverage offered by other prescription drug plans; and (2) enter into negotiations with pharmaceutical manufacturers to reduce the purchase cost of covered Medicare part D drugs for eligible part D individuals, and encourage the use of more affordable therapeutic equivalents.
 
Requires the monthly beneficiary premium charged under such a plan to be uniform nationally. Makes the premium for months in 2006 $35. Bases the premium for months in succeeding years on the average monthly per capita actuarial cost of offering the Medicare operated prescription drug plan for the year involved, including administrative expenses. Allows for adjustment of such premium amount in case of supplemental prescription drug coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 639.
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8119-8122)
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Kindergarten Plus Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2654
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2004-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Art
Arts, Culture, Religion
Child abuse
Child development
Child health
Child nutrition
Class size
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Day care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Higher education
Homeless
Immigrant education
Immigration
Indian children
Indian education
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Learning
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Mental health services
Migrant education
Minorities
Music
Native Americans
Paraprofessional school personnel
Parent-school relationships
Preschool education
Public service advertising
Reading
Recruiting of employees
School districts
School health programs
Social Welfare
Special education
Student records
Student transportation
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: 
Kindergarten Plus Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) to provide Kindergarten Plus (K+) programs of voluntary full days of kindergarten during the summer before and the summer after the traditional kindergarten school year determined by the State.
 
Directs the Secretary to ensure, to the extent possible, that each such grant is of sufficient size to enable the SEA to provide K+ to all eligible students served by the local educational agencies (LEAs) within the State with the highest concentrations of eligible students. Makes eligible students those children who are: (1) five-years old, or who will be eligible to attend kindergarten at the beginning of the next school year; (2) from a family with an income at or below 185 percent of the poverty line; and (3) not already served by a high-quality program in the summer before or the summer after the child enters kindergarten.
 
Requires SEAs, in awarding subgrants, to give priority to LEAs that: (1) serve the greatest number or percentage of eligible students; and (2) propose to reduce class size and student-to-teacher ratios in K+ significantly below the average ratios in regular kindergarten classes served by the LEA. Provides for direct grants to LEAs in States that do not apply for grants. Sets forth K+ teacher and personnel quality standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8128-8131)
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8127-8128)
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Water and Energy Efficient Appliances Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2655
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2004-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Electric appliances
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Income tax
Manufacturing industries
Refrigeration
Tax credits
Water Resources Development
Water conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: 
Water and Energy Efficient Appliances Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for the production of certain water and energy efficient appliances (i.e. dishwashers, clothes washers, and refrigerators). Sets the amount of the credit based upon certain energy and water efficiency ratings. Terminates the credit after 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8131-8132)
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8131)
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Department of Energy National Laboratories Water Technology Research and Development Act

Bill: 108-s-2658
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2004-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Aquifers
Arid regions
Block grants
Colleges
Commerce
Commercialization
Communication in science
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric power production
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Hydraulic engineering
Hydroelectric power
Infrastructure
International Affairs
Irrigation
Laboratories
Legal education
Mine wastes
New Mexico
Nuclear energy research
Performance measurement
Public-private partnerships
Refuse and refuse disposal
Research and development
Research centers
Research grants
Saline waters
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology transfer
Transboundary pollution
Waste water treatment
Water allocation (Policy)
Water conservation
Water pollution control
Water purification
Water quality
Water supply
Water treatment plants
Water use
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: 
Department of Energy National Laboratories Water Technology Research and Development Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a National Laboratories water technology research and development program for research, development, and commercialization of water supply technologies, with Sandia National Laboratory as the lead laboratory.
 

 
Instructs Secretary to establish the National Water Supply Technology Advisory Panel to advise the Program Coordinator.
 
Requires establishment of Regional Centers comprising certain universities and National Laboratories acting in partnership to conduct specified water commercialization research.
 
Provides for: (1) block grants to such Regional Centers; and (2) competitive grants to eligible collaborative institutions for water supply technology research, development, and demonstration projects.
 
Designates the Utton Center at the University of New Mexico Law School as the National Water Supply Law and Policy Institute, which shall: (1) establish a database of existing water laws, regulations, and policy; (2) furnish legal, regulatory, and policy alternatives to increase national and international water supplies; (3) consult with the Regional Centers and other interested persons on water law and policy; and (4) conduct an annual water law and policy seminar on research carried out or funded by the Institute.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8135-8137)
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8135)
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Rural Home Health Services Improvement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2659
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Home care services
Housing and Community Development
Medical fees
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: 
Medicare Rural Home Health Services Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to provide for a two-year extension of the temporary Medicare payment increase for home health services furnished in a rural area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8230-8231)
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Firefighters Act

Bill: 108-s-2660
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2004-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular diseases
Colleges
Disasters
Education
Emergency Management
Fire fighters
Forest fires
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Lung diseases
Medical research
Medical tests
Nervous system diseases
Occupational health and safety
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: 
Healthy Firefighters Act - Requires the United States Fire Administrator to contract with a medical research university to conduct long-term medical health monitoring of those firefighters who responded to emergencies in any areas declared a disaster by the Federal Government. Directs that such monitoring include monitoring of pulmonary illness, neurological damage, and cardiovascular damage and exposure documentation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8231-8232)
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify the effects of revocation of a visa, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2661
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2004-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aliens
Deportation
Government Operations and Politics
Judicial review
Law
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make the revocation of visas and of other documentation authorizing admission administratively and judicially unreviewable.
 
Adds revocation of visas or of other documentation authorizing admission to those grounds of inadmissibility supporting deportation (thus making aliens subject to such revocation immediately removable). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8232)
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
SUTA Dumping Prevention Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2662
Sponsor: Sen. Nickles, Don [R-OK]
Introduced: 2004-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Affiliated corporations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate mergers
Crime and Law Enforcement
Directories
Employee selection
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Law
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
State laws
Subsidiary corporations
Tax evasion
Taxation
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: 
SUTA Dumping Prevention Act of 2004 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to administration of unemployment taxes and benefits. 
 
Revises SSA title III (Grants to States for Unemployment Compensation Administration) to require State unemployment compensation laws, as a condition of State eligibility for such grants, to provide for transfer of unemployment experience upon transfer or acquisition of a business. Directs the Secretary of Labor to study and report to Congress on State implementation of such requirement.
 
Revises SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to disclose information on individuals and their employers in the National Directory of New Hires to a State agency that, for purposes of administering a Federal or State unemployment compensation law, transmits such individuals' names and Social Security account numbers to the Secretary. Requires such disclosure only to the extent that it would not interfere with effective operation of the part D program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2663
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2004-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Connecticut
Governmental investigations
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: 
Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2004 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a specified segment of the lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook in Connecticut for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8233)
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8232-8233)
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Prevention of Terrorist Access to Destructive Weapons Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2664
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2004-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Antiaircraft missiles
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms sales
Aviation safety
Biological warfare
Capital punishment
Commerce
EBB Terrorism
Explosives
Export controls
Extraterritoriality
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Genetic engineering
Health
International Affairs
Interstate commerce
Jurisdiction
Launch vehicles
Law
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Money laundering
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Rockets (Ordnance)
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smallpox
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Virus diseases
Wiretapping

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: 
Prevention of Terrorist Access to Destructive Weapons Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly producing, acquiring, transferring, possessing, using, or threatening to use: (1) an explosive or incendiary rocket designed as a weapon to seek an aircraft; (2) any device to launch or guide such rocket; (3) parts designed for use in assembling or fabricating such a rocket or device; (4) any weapon designed or intended to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life; (5) any object capable of and designed or intended to endanger human life; or (6) the variola virus. (Makes exceptions for specified governmental conduct.)
 
Amends the Atomic Energy Act to expand the scope of provisions governing atomic weapons to prohibit transferring or receiving in interstate or foreign commerce, using, or possessing and threatening to use an atomic weapon.
 
 Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) when such prohibited conduct shall be considered to have occurred within the jurisdiction of the United States; and (2) applicable criminal penalties, including the death penalty.
 
Expands the scope of Arms Export Control Act licensing provisions and Federal criminal code provisions regarding interception of communications, acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, and money laundering to cover offenses under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Weapons of Mass Destruction Prohibition Improvement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2665
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2004-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Commerce
Conspiracy
EBB Terrorism
Extraterritoriality
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign agents
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Interstate commerce
Jurisdiction
Law
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
State-sponsored terrorism
Terrorism
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: 
Weapons of Mass Destruction Prohibition Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal criminal code to expand the jurisdictional bases and scope of the prohibition against the use of, and threat, attempt, or conspiracy to use, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to cover such actions against property within the United States under specified circumstances, including property owned, leased, or used by a foreign government.
 
 Restores the coverage of chemical weapons under the prohibition.
 
Expands the categories of restricted persons subject to prohibitions relating to select agents to cover persons acting for or on behalf of, or operating subject to the direction or control of: (1) a government or official of a country that Secretary of State has determined has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism; or (2) a terrorist organization.
 
Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit participation in the development or production of any special nuclear material or atomic weapon except as authorized by that Act.
 
Prohibits anyone within the United States or subject to U.S. jurisdiction from willfully participating in or providing material support or resources to a nuclear weapons program or other WMD program of a foreign terrorist power (or attempting or conspiring to do so). Establishes extraterritorial Federal jurisdiction over such offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Replacement Drug Demonstration Project Improvement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2667
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2004-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Drug industry
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: 
Medicare Replacement Drug Demonstration Project Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to: (1) require the Secretary to negotiate the lowest possible price for the drugs and biologicals for which payment is made under the Medicare replacement drug demonstration project; and (2) eliminate limitations on funding for such project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Griselda Lopez Negrete.

Bill: 108-s-2668
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2004-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: 
Declares Griselda Lopez Negrete to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence upon payment of the required visa fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11328-11329; text as passed Senate: CR S11329)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11328-11329; text as passed Senate: CR S11329)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 776.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Direct Broadcast Satellite North Country Access Act

Bill: 108-s-2669
Sponsor: Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH]
Introduced: 2004-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Direct broadcast satellites
Law
Licenses
Television broadcasting
Television relay systems
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: 
Direct Broadcast Satellite North Country Access Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize satellite carriers to carry the signal of a commercial television broadcast station that was the only network station in that State on January 1, 1995, for secondary transmission to subscribers in communities in the State that are not within one of the first 50 television markets listed in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations.
 
Authorizes satellite carriers to carry the signals of any network station in a State in which all network stations and superstations licensed by the FCC as of January 1, 1995, were assigned to the same local market and the local market does not encompass all counties of the State, for secondary transmission to subscribers in the State who reside in one of the first 50 major television markets listed in FCC regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate