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Clinical Research Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4779
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Clinical trials
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Community and school
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Human experimentation in medicine
Information technology
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical ethics
Medical records
Medical research
Mentoring
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Clinical Research Act of 2004 - Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health to award clinical research support grants to eligible academic health centers to: (1) defray the costs of unfunded Federal requirements for the protection of human research costs; and (2) support activities leading to innovative ways to meets such requirements in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Requires that health centers receive a proportionate share of the total grant money awarded based on the amount invested by the grantee in clinical research compared to the total clinical research investment of all grantees.
 
Allows the Director to award clinical research infrastructure grants to eligible academic health centers for: (1) necessary infrastructure to facilitate the transfer of new understandings of disease mechanisms gained in the laboratory into the development of new methodologies for diagnosis, therapy, and prevention; (2) the initial testing of human subjects; and (3) addressing obstacles impeding the expeditious application of new science, including a lack of up-to-date information technology systems and a shortage of willing participants.
 
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make up to five grants to eligible academic health centers to form partnerships between the centers involved and health care providers for carrying out clinical human subject research to demonstrate how academic research centers may collaborate with the practicing health care community in such research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1346)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
To require the United States Trade Representative to pursue a complaint of anti-competitive practices against certain oil exporting countries.

Bill: 108-hr-4780
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Cartels
Commerce
Dispute settlement
East Asia
Energy
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Export controls
Free trade
Indonesia
International Affairs
International agencies
Kuwait
Latin America
Middle East and North Africa
Natural gas
Nigeria
Nontariff trade barriers
OPEC countries
Petroleum
Price fixing
Qatar
Restrictive trade practices
Trade negotiations
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Requires the President to initiate consultations with Indonesia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, The United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela to seek their elimination of any action that limits the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product, sets or maintains the price of any such product, or otherwise is an action in restraint of trade with respect to such products when such action constitutes an act, policy, or practice that is unjustifiable and burdens and restricts U.S. commerce.
 
Requires the U.S. Trade Representative to: (1) initiate World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute proceedings if the consultation is not successful with respect to any such country; and (2) take appropriate action regarding the country under U.S. trade remedy laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
MMA Territorial Equity for Low-Income Individuals Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4781
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
American Samoa
Coinsurance
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Governmental investigations
Guam
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical statistics
Medicare
Northern Mariana Islands
Prescription pricing
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
MMA Territorial Equity for Low-Income Individuals Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to treat Medicare-eligible citizens of Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Puerto and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands the same as low-income citizens in the 50 States and the District of Columbia with respect to the Medicare prescription drug transitional assistance program, and premium and cost-sharing subsidies under the Medicare prescription drug program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Himan Services to request the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to undertake a study for a report to the Secretary and Congress on access of Medicare beneficiaries in territories to prescription drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-08
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: 2004-07-08
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: 2004-07-08
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: 2004-07-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1329)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 East Illinois Avenue in Vinita, Oklahoma, as the "Francis C. Goodpaster Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-4782
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Brad [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Names
Oklahoma
Postal facilities
United States Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 East Illinois Avenue in Vinita, Oklahoma, as the "Francis C. Goodpaster Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Ouachita National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act

Bill: 108-hr-4783
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Brad [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arkansas
Boundaries
Land transfers
National forests
Oklahoma

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Ouachita National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act - Modifies the boundaries of the Ouachita National Forest, Oklahoma and Arkansas. 
 
Directs that: (1) any federally-owned lands that, before the enactment date of this Act, have been acquired for National Forest System (NFS) purposes within the boundaries of the Ouachita National Forest as modified by this Act, and any lands that are acquired on or after that date for NFS purposes within such boundaries, be managed as lands acquired under the Weeks Act and in accordance with the other laws and regulations pertaining to the NFS; and (2) for purposes of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the boundaries of the Ouachita National Forest as modified by this Act be considered to be boundaries of such forest as of January 1, 1965.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-16
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2004-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Professional Development Institutes Act

Bill: 108-hr-4784
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Community and school
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Teacher Professional Development Institutes Act - Amends the the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a program for Teachers Institutes (TIs). 
 
Requires a TI to: (1) be a partnership or joint venture between or among one or more institutions of higher education (IHEs) and one or more local educational agencies (LEAs) serving a significant low-income population; and (2) use collaborative seminars to enhance subject matter and participants' teaching resources.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to: (1) award grants to TIs to establish and operate TIs; and (2) provide technical assistance to LEAs and IHEs to prepare to establish and to operate TIs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1333)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
To enhance navigation capacity improvements and the ecosystem restoration plan for the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway System.

Bill: 108-hr-4785
Sponsor: Rep. Hulshof, Kenny C. [R-MO-9]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Biological diversity
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Construction costs
Dams
Dikes (Engineering)
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to water resources development
Fishes
Floodplains
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Illinois
Infrastructure
Inland water transportation
Iowa
Islands
Land transfers
Minnesota
Mississippi River
Missouri
Navigation
Performance measurement
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Shore protection
Transportation and Public Works
Waterways
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army (at a specified cost of Treasury funds to be matched by the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, which is paid by private users) to: (1) construct mooring facilities at Locks 12, 14, 18, 20, 22, 24, and LaGrange Lock, provide switch boats at Locks 20 through 25 over five years for project operation, and conduct development and testing of an appointment scheduling system; (2) construct new 1,200-foot locks at Locks 20, 21, 22, 24, and 25 on the Upper Mississippi River and at LaGrange Lock and Peoria Lock on the Illinois Waterway; and (3) conduct mitigation for new locks and small scale and nonstructural measures authorized under this Act. 
 
Directs the Secretary to modify the operation of the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway System to address the cumulative environmental impacts of operation of the system and improve the ecological integrity of the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois River.
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out ecosystem restoration projects to attain and maintain the ecosystem of the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois River in accordance with the general framework outlined in the preferred integrated plan contained in the Integrated Feasibility Report and Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the UMR-IWW System Navigation Feasibility System, dated April 29, 2004. Lists projects that may be included, such as island building, floodplain restoration, and land acquisition. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) submit implementation reports to specified congressional committees; and (2) appoint and convene an advisory panel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
To provide grants to tribes to assist those tribes in participating in the Federal acknowledgement process.

Bill: 108-hr-4786
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Fines (Penalties)
Fund raising
Law
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide a grant of up to $500,000 in any fiscal year to an entity to assist it in preparing, submitting, or otherwise supporting a petition to the Bureau of Acknowledgement and Recognition in the Department of the Interior for recognition or rerecognition of such entity as an Indian tribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the sale to, and possession by, unauthorized users of traffic signal preemption transmitters, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4787
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Electronics
Fines (Penalties)
Science, Technology, Communications
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the sale to, or possession by, unauthorized users of traffic signal preemption transmitters (devices or mechanisms that can change a traffic signal's phase).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1346-1347)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
National Guard and Reservists Education Benefits Act

Bill: 108-hr-4788
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Block grants
College costs
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Labor and Employment
National Guard
Public schools
Scholarships
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
National Guard and Reservists Education Benefits Act - Requires the Secretary of Education to carry out a program of block grants to States (defined to include U.S. territories and the District of Columbia) to pay tuition and fees for undergraduate studies at public institutions for members of the Selected Reserve.
 
Excludes from the block grant program those members of the Selected Reserve who participate in other specified educational assistance programs.
 
Requires the chief executive officer of each State wishing to receive block grant funds to submit an annual certification that the State will: (1) use such funds to defray the cost of undergraduate tuition and fees for members of the Selected Reserve; (2) return any unused funds to the Secretary according to the reconciliation process set forth in this Act; and (3) comply with the reporting requirements of this Act.
 
Sets forth an allotment scheme for block grant funds that requires allotments to reflect the ratio of Selected Reserve members in the receiving State to Selected Reserve members in all States. Establishes minimum allotments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Veronica Mitina Haskins.

Bill: 108-hr-4789
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Makes Veronica Mitina Haskins eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident of the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, upon payment of the required visa fees. Considers Veronica Mitina Haskins to have satisfied the requirements applicable to adopted childrenn.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in House
San Diego Water Storage and Efficiency Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4791
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2004-07-09 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Reservoirs
Water storage
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: 
San Diego Water Storage and Efficiency Act of 2004 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Sweetwater Authority public water agency in San Diego, to undertake an appraisal investigation of opportunities for construction of a three-reservoir intertie system to improve water supply reliability and water yield of the existing non-Federal water storage system. Directs that: (1) the appraisal report include a determination of whether to recommend the initiation of a feasibility study for the proposed intertie system; and (2) Federal obligations for costs of the investigation conform with reclamation policy.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to determine the feasibility of the reservoir and intertie system recommended. Directs that the feasibility report: (1) document the Secretary's engineering, environmental, and economic investigation of the proposed reservoir and intertie project, taking into consideration the range of potential solutions and the circumstances and needs of the area to be served, the potential benefits to the people of that area, and improved operations of the proposed reservoir and intertie system; and (2) indicate whether the proposed project is recommended for implementation.
 
Limits the Federal cost share to 50 percent. Directs the Secretary to submit a feasibility report and to seek appropriate construction and development authority for any recommended project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-26
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1347-1348)
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Introduced in House
New United States Global HIV Prevention Strategy to Address the Needs of Women and Girls Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4792
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2004-07-09 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Comprehensive health care
Condoms
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against women
Economic assistance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Equality before the law
Estates (Law)
Families
Family planning and birth control
Health
Health education
Health planning
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
Intergenerational relations
International cooperation
Law
Marriage
Maternal health services
Nongovernmental organizations
Preventive medicine
Probate law and practice
Right of property
Sex discrimination
Sexual abstinence
Small business
Women
Women in business
Women's education
Women's health
Women's rights
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: 
New United States Global HIV Prevention Strategy to Address the Needs of Women and Girls Act of 2004 - States that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) pursue an HIV prevention strategy for each country for which the United States provides assistance to combat HIV/AIDS that emphasizes the needs of women and girls; and (2) support a variety of culturally appropriate HIV prevention programs for each country for which the United States provides HIV/AIDS assistance, and to ensure that unnecessary requirements on fund use are not imposed.
 
Directs the President to establish a comprehensive and culturally appropriate HIV prevention strategy for each country for which the United States provides assistance to combat HIV/AIDS. Requires each strategy to encompass health and HIV prevention education beyond the ABC model &quot;Abstain, Be faithful, use Condoms&quot; as a means to reduce HIV infections, particularly among women and girls.
 
Amends the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 to eliminate the &quot;abstinence-until-marriage&quot; reference with respect to the sense of Congress' HIV/AIDS funding allocation.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6539-6540)
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1342)
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Introduced in House