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Disabled Veterans Transition Assistance Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-3002
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Case management
Continuum of care
Department of Defense
Disabled
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Iraq compilation
Law
Military discharges
Military medicine
Military personnel
Social Welfare
Veterans' medical care
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
Disabled Veterans Transition Assistance Act of 2004 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to carry out a program to provide a support system for members of the Armed Forces who incur severe disabilities on or after September 11, 2001, including a system of advocacy and follow-up to assist those members to transition from military service to the civilian community.
 
Requires the Secretary to designate an executive agent to carry out the program throughout the Department of Defense and, in cooperation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, for members of the Coast Guard with severe disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Southern Nevada Limited Transition Area Act

Bill: 108-s-3003
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental Protection
Land transfers
Land use
Nevada
Noise
Recreation
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
Southern Nevada Limited Transition Area Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the city of Henderson, Nevada, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to specified Federal land in Henderson (the Transition Area). 
 
Permits the City, after conveyance, to sell any part or parts of the Transition Area for nonresidential development purposes, or to elect to retain parcels in the Transition Area for public recreation or other public purposes consistent with the Recreation and Public Purposes Act. 
 
Requires the City to: (1) plan and manage the Transition Area in accordance with Federal law and regulations relating to airport noise compatibility planning; and (2) agree that if any land in the Transition area is sold, leased, or otherwise conveyed by the City, the sale, lease, or conveyance shall contain a limitation to require uses compatible with that airport noise compatibility planning.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11499)
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11499)
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend chapter 99 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that certain coal industry health benefits may not be modified or terminated.

Bill: 108-s-3004
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Coal
Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Miners
Retiree health benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit any court in a bankruptcy proceeding from terminating or modifying certain coal industry employee health benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11499-11500)
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural and Part-time Firefighter Training Fairness Act

Bill: 108-s-3005
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Part-time employment
Rescue work
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Volunteer workers
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
Rural and Part-time Firefighter Training Fairness Act - Authorizes the use of funds appropriated to the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness for grants to States and local governments to provide reasonable stipends to part-time and volunteer first responders not otherwise compensated for travel to or participation in terrorism response courses approved by the Office for Domestic Preparedness. 
 
States that such stipends shall not be considered compensation for purposes of rendering first responders employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11500)
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11500)
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
HRIFA Improvement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-3006
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aliens
Caribbean area
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Families
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Guardian and ward
Haiti
Haiti compilation
Haitians
Immigrants
Latin America
Law
Parents
Refugees
Residence requirements
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
HRIFA Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 (HRIFA) to require determinations regarding derivative status for the children of qualifying Haitians to be made using the age of the child as of October 21, 1998. Authorizes parents or guardians of children seeking derivative status to file an adjustment application on the child's behalf if the child is physically present in the United States on the date of filing.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Attorney General to waive grounds of inadmissibility not specified in HRIFA for humanitarian purposes, to assure family unity, or when otherwise in the public interest, with the exception of those grounds related to controlled substances trafficking and certain security and related matters.
 
Permits qualifying Haitians seeking benefits pursuant to this Act to file new status adjustment applications and motions to reopen. Extends to those who file the same protection from exclusion, deportation, removal, or enforcement of a voluntary departure order as currently applies to HRIFA beneficiaries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
National Park Anniversaries--Great American Spaces Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 108-s-3007
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2004-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Alaska
Anniversaries
Arizona
California
Civil War
Coins and coinage
Colorado
Copper
Department of the Interior
District of Columbia
Ex-presidents
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
History
Lincoln Administration
Maine
Military parks
Montana
Monuments and memorials
National monuments
National parks
Pennsylvania
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Silver
Social Welfare
Utah
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: 
National Parks Anniversaries-Great American Spaces Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue silver coins emblematic of certain National Parks that are observing historic anniversaries of their founding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Wolf House Study Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-3008
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2004-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arkansas
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Courthouses
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Law
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Wolf House Study Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to: (1) study and report to specified congressional committees on the suitability and feasibility of designating the Wolf House located on Highway 5 in Norfolk, Arkansas, as a unit of the National Park System; and (2) consider management alternatives for the Wolf House.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
National Food and Agricultural Science Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-3009
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2004-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural innovations
Agricultural research
Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Biomass energy
Capital investments
Colleges
Commerce
Developing countries
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Energy
Energy security
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Hunger
International Affairs
International competitiveness
Livestock
National Science Foundation
New products
Obesity
Petroleum
Plant fibers
Plant protection
Plants
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Research grants
Rural economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Sustainable agriculture

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: 
National Food and Agricultural Science Act of 2004 - Establishes: (1) in the National Science Foundation a Division of Food and Agricultural Science, which shall be administered by a Director of Food and Agricultural Science; and (2) in the Division a Standing Council of Advisors. 
 
States that the Division's sole function shall be to award grants to promote complementary, fundamental agricultural research to: (1) individual scientists; (2) single and multi-institutional research centers; and (3) private and public sector entities, including the Department of Agriculture, the Foundation, or other Federal agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR 11/20/2004 S11642-11643)
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 11/20/2004 S11641-11642)
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Firefighters Special Operation Task Force Act

Bill: 108-s-3010
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Chemical industries
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency communication systems
Employee training
Energy
Environmental Protection
Equipment and supplies
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Fire prevention
Grants-in-aid
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Layoffs
Motor vehicles
Nuclear power plants
Petroleum refineries
Police communication systems
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: 
Firefighters Special Operation Task Force Act - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to authorize the Administrator of the U.S. Fire Administration to award grants to a task force (two or more fire services operating under a cooperative agreement to coordinate incident response within a geographic area) for: (1) salary and benefits to hire or rehire firefighting personnel to provide services to the task force; (2) expenses related to the participation of firefighting personnel in appropriate training courses offered by the Department of Homeland Security, the National Fire Academy, or a State or local fire academy; (3) training related to incident response; (4) appropriate equipment or support systems for task force members; or (5) improved communications between task force members and a local police department or hospital.
 
Requires the Administrator, in selecting grantees, to give priority to task forces serving geographic areas within 50 miles of: (1) a nuclear power facility; (2) a large facility that produces, treats, or refines chemicals or petroleum products; (3) a business district of national significance; or (4) a location with one or more critical infrastructures.
 
Requires grantees to provide non-Federal matching funds of at least 55 percent of the amount awarded by the Administrator for each fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Ambulance Payment Reform and Rural Equity Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-3011
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2004-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulances
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Housing and Community Development
Medical fees
Medicare
Rural health
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: 
Medicare Ambulance Payment Reform and Rural Equity Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) revise ambulance payment rates; and (2) provide additional payments for providers furnishing ambulance services in rural areas. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review the system for adjusting payments for rural ambulance services to determine their adequacy and appropriateness.
 
Amends SSA title XVIII with respect to a Secretary-specified uniform coding system identifying furnished ambulance services for purposes of a fee schedule. Directs the Secretary to establish a system or systems for the coding of claims for ambulance services for which payment is made, including a code set specifying the medical condition of the individual who is transported and the level of service that is appropriate for the transportation of an individual with that medical condition. Requires the code set to take into account the list of medical conditions developed in the course of the negotiated rulemaking process. (Current law authorizes the Secretary to require the claim for any ambulance services to include a code (or codes) under a uniform coding system specified by the Secretary, but does not require the establishment of such a coding system.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to ensure a balanced survey of taxpayers in any system of precertification for the earned income tax credit.

Bill: 108-s-3012
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2004-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Earned income tax credit
Income tax
Metropolitan areas
Social Welfare
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: 
Prohibits more than five percent of the total participants in any system of precertification for the earned income tax credit from being residents of the same metropolitan statistical area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-3013
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2004-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Communication in medicine
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health information systems
Identification devices
Law
Licenses
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medication abuse
Pharmacists
Physicians
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: 
National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award one-year grants to each approved State to establish or improve a State controlled substance monitoring program. Requires the Secretary to develop minimum standards for States to ensure security of information collected and to recommend penalties for the provision or use of information in violation of applicable laws or regulations.
 
Requires each approved State to: (1) require dispensers to report to the State within one week of each dispensing of a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject; and (2) establish and maintain an electronic searchable database containing the information reported. Allows a State to provide information from the database in response to certain requests by practitioners, law enforcement, narcotics control, licensure, disciplinary, or program authorities, the controlled substance monitoring program of another State, and agents of the Department of Health and Human Services, State Medicaid programs, State health departments or the Drug Enforcement Administration.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) specify a uniform electronic format for the reporting, sharing, and provision of information under this Act; and (2) study and report to Congress on such programs, including on interoperability between programs, the feasibility of a real-time electronic controlled substance monitoring program, privacy protections, and technological alternatives to centralized data storage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Fatuka Kaikumba Flake.

Bill: 108-s-3015
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2004-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: 
Declares Fatuka Kaikumba Flake to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Swain County Settlement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-3017
Sponsor: Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]
Introduced: 2004-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Claims
Compensation (Law)
Dams
Government liability
Infrastructure
Law
North Carolina
Reservoirs
Road construction
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: 
Swain County Settlement Act of 2004 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) offer to compensate Swain County, North Carolina, for a road along the north shore of the Fontana Resevoir not being built in an amount determined by the parties to a specified agreement dated July 30, 1943, taking into consideration the estimated cost of the proposed road; and (2) pay to the County the amount of compensation determined.
 
Declares that acceptance by the County of such payment by the Secretary constitutes full settlement of the claims of the County against the United States, the Department of the Interior, and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) under the agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Inspector General of the Department of Justice to submit semi-annual reports regarding settlements relating to false claims and fraud against the Federal Government.

Bill: 108-s-3018
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2004-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Business ethics
Claims
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate accountability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Department of Justice
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government liability
Health
Inspectors general
Medicaid
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: 
Amends the Inspector General Act to require the Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Justice (DOJ), in preparing semiannual reports on the activities of the IG's office, to describe each settlement or compromise of any claim, suit, or other action entered into with the DOJ that: (1) related to an alleged violation of statutory provisions prohibiting major fraud or false claims against the United States; and (2) results from a claim of damages in excess of $500,000.
 
Specifies the required elements of each such description.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 11/20/2004 S11646)
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-3019
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2004-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Internal revenue law

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: 
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2004 - Makes technical revisions and clerical corrections to specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, including certain provisions related to: (1) the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004; (2) the Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004; (3) the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003; (4) the Trade Act of 2002; (5) the Victims of Terrorism Tax Relief Act of 2001; and (6) the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. Provides that such revisions and corrections shall take effect as if included in the original enactments to which they relate. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate