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Homeland Security Overtime Reimbursement Act

Bill: 108-hr-4153
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Hours of labor
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Police
Police training
Puerto Rico
Terrorism
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
Homeland Security Overtime Reimbursement Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize a recipient of a grant under a homeland security overtime program (i.e., a program for which a grant is made to fund overtime expenditures to law enforcement agencies for training and increased patrols related to homeland security concerns) to use grant funds to pay for homeland security overtime expenditures incurred during the fiscal year before the grant is made. Directs that: (1) the Attorney General waive the requirement of a nonfederal contribution for any portion of a grant used to pay for such expenditures; and (2) Puerto Rico be considered both a unit of local government and a State for purposes of such a program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Cigarette Fire Safety Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4155
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cigarettes
Civil actions and liability
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Drug abuse
Emergency Management
Fire prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Liability (Law)
New York State
Product safety
Standards
State laws
Tobacco industry

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
Cigarette Fire Safety Act of 2004 - Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to prescribe fire safety standards for cigarettes that, except as provided in this Act, are substantively the same as specified standards promulgated by the State of New York. 
 
Directs sponsors of testing methodologies employed under this Act to notify the Commission of any modifications in such methodologies. Authorizes the Commission to modify established fire safety standards to incorporate modifications that will enhance those standards.
 
Requires fire safety standards promulgated under this Act to be treated as consumer product safety standards, and directs that cigarettes shall be treated as consumer products, under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA).
 
Precludes the preemption by this Act of the New York standard or more stringent fire safety standards for cigarettes promulgated by any State.
 
Makes the CPSA's private remedy provisions applicable to fire safety standards promulgated under this Act.
 
Denies the Commission any jurisdiction over tobacco or tobacco products except as provided in this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E534)
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To improve access to physicians in medically underserved areas.

Bill: 108-hr-4156
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Access to health care
Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Education
Federal-state relations
Foreign students
Foreign-trained physicians
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical personnel
Physicians
Residence requirements
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 to reauthorize for a period of five years the &quot;Conrad State 30&quot; program, which annually allows each State to request up to 30 waivers of the home residency requirement applicable to J-1 foreign medical graduates for medical service by those graduates in health professional shortage areas.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow State departments of public health to designate health professional shortage areas for purposes of the Conrad State 30 program (currently designated only by the Secretary of Health and Human Services).
 
Exempts Conrad State 30 physicians from the numerical limitation on H-1B visas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the alternative minimum tax from effectively repealing the Federal tax exemption for interest on State and local private activity bonds.

Bill: 108-hr-4157
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Interest
Minimum tax
Tax exclusion
Tax preferences
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate tax-exempt interest earned on private activity bonds as an item of tax preference for purposes of calculating the alternative minimum tax. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E524)
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Grand Canyon Hydrogen-Powered Motorboat Demonstration Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4160
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Arizona
Boats and boating
Commerce
Commercialization
Concessions
Energy
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Fuel cells
Government Operations and Politics
Hydrogen
Law
Marine engines
Motor vehicle pollution control
National parks
Natural gas vehicles
Noise
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public-private partnerships
Research and development
Sports and Recreation
Technological innovations
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
Grand Canyon Hydrogen-Powered Motorboat Demonstration Act of 2004 - Directs the the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of the Interior to implement jointly a research and development program, in partnership with the private sector, regarding hydrogen-based motorboat propulsion technologies suitable for operations in sensitive resource areas such as national parks, including a demonstration of hydrogen-based motorboat propulsion technology at Grand Canyon National Park.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to extend existing Department of Energy hydrogen-related vehicle research and development programs in order to meet the objectives of research, development, and demonstration of a hydrogen-based alternative motorboat propulsion system suitable for recreational whitewater river operations on the Colorado River within Grand Canyon National Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
340B Program Revision and Expansion Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4161
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Auditing
Child health
Commerce
Community health services
Contracts
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug industry
Drugs
Electronic government information
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health information systems
Hospital care
Hospitals
Internet
Law
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Mental care facilities
Mental health services
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Science, Technology, Communications
Web sites
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
340B Program Revision and Expansion Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include in the discount drug purchasing program those entities that receive funding under the Social Security Act for the provision of maternal and child care services, mental health services, and substance abuse services.
 
Allows otherwise qualified hospitals to purchase discounted drugs through group purchasing agreements and organizations. 
 
Allows discounted drugs to be provided in an inpatient setting. (Currently, discounted drugs must be provided only on an outpatient basis.)
 
Allows covered entities to contract with multiple pharmacies to purchase covered drugs.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prevent abuse and misuse of discounted prices by: (1) developing a system to verify the accuracy of information regarding covered entities that is listed on the Department of Health and Human Services web site; (2) establishing a third-party auditing system to regularly audit covered entities and ensure compliance with requirements of the discounted drug program; (3) conducting supplemental audits and implementing dispute resolution guidelines and other compliance programs; (4) issuing advisory opinions in response to questions by manufacturers or covered entities about the application of this program in specific factual circumstances; and (5) providing covered entities access through the Department's web site to the prices for covered drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Reverend Oliver L. Brown Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 108-hr-4162
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Black history
Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Clergy
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Desegregation in education
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Foundations
History
Kansas
Law
Minorities
Religion
Social Welfare
Supreme Court decisions

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
Reverend Oliver L. Brown Congressional Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the posthumous presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal in commemoration of the Reverend Oliver L. Brown (the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education) in recognition of his and his fellow plaintiffs' enduring contributions to civil rights and American society. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a greater number of members on certain combined Farm Service Agency county committees.

Bill: 108-hr-4163
Sponsor: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Department of Agriculture
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Farmers
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Soil conservation
Water Resources Development
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to provide for a greater number of members on certain combined Farm Service Agency county committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to index for inflation the exemption amount for individuals under the alternative minimum tax and to repeal the alternative minimum tax on individuals in 2010.

Bill: 108-hr-4164
Sponsor: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Minimum tax
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) index for inflation the exemption amounts for the alternative minimum tax applicable to individual taxpayers; and (2) repeal such tax for individual taxpayers in 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives to encourage the use of biodiesel as fuel.

Bill: 108-hr-4165
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
All terrain vehicles
Alternative energy sources
Commerce
Diesel motor
Energy
Energy crops
Income tax
Oils and fats
Sports and Recreation
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for the production and use of biodiesel fuel. Specifies the required mixture rate for biodiesel fuel eligible for the credit. Requires, for purposes of the credit: (1) certification from the producer identifying the product; (2) sale of the fuel for use in a trade or business; and (3) sale of the fuel for use in a vehicle that is not registered for highway use. Imposes a tax for biodiesel mixture which is not used as fuel, but for which a credit was taken.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
American Workforce Improvement and Jobs Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-4166
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Americans in foreign countries
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Diplomats
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Embassies
Federal law enforcement officers
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Graduate education
Higher education
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Recruiting of employees
Skilled labor
Temporary employment
Transfer of employees
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
American Workforce Improvement and Jobs Protection Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt up to 20,000 aliens holding a master's or higher degree from the numerical limitation on H-1B (temporary employment in a specialty occupation) nonimmigrants in any fiscal year.
 
Makes permanent: (1) the attestation requirement concerning nondisplacement of U.S. workers applicable to H-1B-dependent employers and willful violators; (2) the filing fee applicable to H-1B petitioners; and (3) the Secretary of Labor's authority under the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act to investigate an employer's alleged failure to meet specified labor attestation conditions (by repealing a sunset provision in that Act).
 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to impose a fraud prevention and detection fee on H-1B or L (intracompany business personnel) petitioners for use in combating fraud and carrying out labor attestation enforcement activities. Establishes an H-1B and L Fraud Prevention and Detection Account for the deposit of such fees. 
 
Renders ineligible for L visa status those aliens who will serve in a capacity involving specialized knowledge at the worksite of an employer other than the petitioning employer or its affiliate if: (1) the alien will be controlled principally by the unaffiliated employer; or (2) the placement with the unaffiliated employer is part of an arrangement merely to provide labor rather than to use the alien's specialized knowledge.
 
Eliminates the current reduction in the continuous employment requirement for aliens seeking L visa status pursuant to an employer's blanket petition.
 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to maintain statistics regarding L visa petitions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Mercury-Free Vaccines Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4169
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2004-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Child health
Communication in medicine
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug adulteration
Drug approvals
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Influenza
Law
Mercury
Pregnant women
Public health
Terrorism
Vaccination
Vaccines
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: 
Mercury-Free Vaccines Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a banned mercury-containing vaccine to be adulterated. Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem a vaccine to be a banned mercury-containing vaccine if: (1) one dose of the vaccine contains 1 or more micrograms of mercury in any form; or (2) the vaccine contains any thimerosal and is listed in the current version of the recommended childhood and adolescent immunization schedule of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
 
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to declare that an actual or potential bioterrorist incident or other public health emergency makes the administration of such vaccines advisable for a specified period.
 
Specifies different effective dates of the provisions of this Act for particular vaccines.
 
Requires the Secretary to revise the vaccine information included with thimerosal-containing vaccines to include: (1) a statement that indicates the presence of thimerosal in the vaccine; (2) information on the availability of any thimerosal-free or thimerosal-reduced alternative vaccine and instructions on how to obtain such an alternative vaccine; and (3) a recommendation against administration of any thimerosal-containing vaccine to a pregnant woman.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the CDC should disseminate, with any vaccine-related information, a recommendation against administration of any thimerosal-containing vaccine to a pregnant woman.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that soldiers serving in a combat zone do not lose eligibility for the refundable child tax credit by reason of receiving nontaxable combat pay.

Bill: 108-hr-4171
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2004-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Families
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Military pay
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat nontaxable combat zone compensation as earned income for purposes of calculating the refundable portion of the child tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to codify certain additional diseases as establishing a presumption of service-connection when occurring in veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during active military, naval, or air service, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4172
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2004-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Bone diseases
Brain diseases
Cancer
Colon cancer
Disabled
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Families
Health
Ionizing radiation
Labor and Employment
Law
Lung cancer
Ovarian cancer
Radiation victims
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Women
Women veterans

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: 
Includes in the list of diseases presumed to be service-connected, in the case of radiation-exposed veterans, and therefore compensable for purposes of veterans' disability compensation and medical care, the following cancers: bone, brain, colon, lung, and ovarian. Includes as a covered radiation-risk activity service which, if performed as an employee of the Department of Energy, would qualify the individual for inclusion as a member of the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000.
 
Provides that a radiation-exposed veteran who receives payment under provisions of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 (such Act) shall not be deprived, because of such payment, of receipt of either veterans' disability compensation or dependency and indemnity compensation for service-connected radiation exposure, but there shall be deducted from the latter payment the amount of the payment under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: -Provision incorporated. See H.R. 1716, Title II, Section 201 and 202.
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