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Medicare Trust Fund Reimbursement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4458
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bush (George W.) Administration
Campaign funds
Collection of accounts
Congress
Congressional investigations
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government ethics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Medicare
Political advertising
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Medicare Trust Fund Reimbursement Act of 2004 - Provides that if the Comptroller General of the United States determines that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have violated the restriction on using appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes contained in the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 or any other provision of law, the principal campaign committee of the President shall reimburse the Federal Government for the amount used in committing such violation as appropriate. Requires the amount reimbursed to be credited to the appropriate Medicare trust fund to the extent that it was initially appropriated to such trust fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2004-05-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Navajo Nation Higher Education Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4460
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Building construction
Community colleges
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Educational planning
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Indian education
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Minority employment
New Mexico
School buildings
Surveys
Technical education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Navajo Nation Higher Education Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Navajo Nation's Dine College to receive all Federal funding and resources under this Act and other laws for its operation, improvement, and growth.
 
Authorizes the College to expend certain funds to undertake all renovations and repairs to its infrastructure, as identified by a strategic plan approved by it College and submitted to the Secretary of the Interior. Allows funds to be treated as non-Federal, private funds of the College.
 
Authorizes appropriations to the College for: (1) operation and maintenance, to be funded by the Secretary separately from funding institutions under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978; and (2) facilities and capital projects, to be funded through any of specified Federal agencies. 
 
Supersedes and repeals the Navajo Community College Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E954)
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Walnut Canyon Study Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4461
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Arizona
Boundaries
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consultants
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grazing
Hunting
Land transfers
Land use
National forests
National monuments
National parks
Natural areas
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Walnut Canyon Study Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of specified Federal land in Coconino National Forest, State and private lands, and Walnut Canyon National Monument in Arizona (the study area) to evaluate: (1) the significance of the resources of the study area as they pertain to the management objectives of the Forest Service and the National Park Service (NPS); (2) the opportunities for maintaining existing public uses, such as grazing, hunting, and recreation; and (3) a range of options for managing and conserving resources by the NPS or the Forest Service, or by both agencies, including the feasibility of a boundary adjustment to the Monument, designation of the study area as a national park or preserve, maintaining the study area as managed by the Forest Service, and any other designation or management option that will accomplish the protection of resources and the maintenance of public use and access for such area.
 
Requires the Secretaries to: (1) contract with a third-party consultant with experience in park and land use planning to prepare a draft study; and (2) collaborate with the Forest Supervisor of the Coconino National Forest, the Superintendent of the Flagstaff Area National Monuments, the Flagstaff City Council, and Coconino County Board of Supervisors in developing a scope of work for the draft study under the guidance of the third-party consultant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior, USDA.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E926)
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Making appropriations for homeland security programs within the Departments of Energy, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4462
Sponsor: Rep. Sandlin, Max [D-TX-1]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative fees
Air cargo
Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Aviation safety
Biological warfare
Border patrols
Building construction
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Chemical warfare
Congress
Congressional oversight
Construction costs
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster insurance
Disaster relief
Drone aircraft
EBB Terrorism
Electronic surveillance
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-city relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire fighters
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Freight
Government Operations and Politics
Government aircraft
Government vehicles
Grants-in-aid
Health
Hours of labor
Immigration
Informers
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Marine safety
Marine transportation
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Occupational health and safety
Patrol aircraft
Patrol ships
Preventive medicine
Public health
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Terrorism
Transfer of employees
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety
User charges
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Makes appropriations for homeland security programs within the Departments of Energy (DOE), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Homeland Security (DHS) for FY 2005, including to: (1) DOE for atomic energy defense and defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (2) HHS for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, the Strategic National Stockpile, and for activities to ensure a year-round influenza vaccine production capacity and the development and implementation of rapidly expandable influenza vaccine production technologies; and (3) DHS for border and transportation security and customs and border protection, Federal air marshals, air and marine interdiction operations and procurement, the Transportation Security Administration (for civil aviation security and maritime and land transportation security), the Office for Domestic Preparedness (including for State and local government grants for terrorism prevention activities and for firefighter assistance grants), countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, and emergency management performance grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E957)
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Depleted Uranium Screening and Testing Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4463
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical tests
Military and naval supplies
Military medicine
Military operations
Military personnel
Military training
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Radioisotopes
Retired military personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Surveys
Uranium
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Depleted Uranium Screening and Testing Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) establish procedures for the predeployment notification to members of the Armed Forces of any known or likely use of depleted uranium in the theater of operation and any health risks associated with exposure to depleted uranium; (2) provide predeployment training on how to handle depleted uranium before deploying individuals to a theater in which it will be used; (3) carry out a program to identify individuals exposed to depleted uranium during active service in the Armed Forces; (4) provide such individuals with bioassay testing and notification of test results; and (5) identify specified depleted uranium exposure events.
 
Requires the Secretary of each military department to establish procedures for collecting, tracking, and maintaining information on the health status of individuals tested under this Act to assess long-term health consequences of exposure to depleted uranium.
 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct an independent review of bioassay types and contamination thresholds for purposes of required testing.
 
Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide appropriate treatment for any illness of an individual resulting from depleted uranium contamination or exposure.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a survey of radioisotope identification equipment used by the Department of Defense (DOD) to assess the capability of DOD facilities to identify concentrations of different radioisotopes in naturally occurring levels of uranium and to report survey findings to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
No Child Left Behind Reform Act

Bill: 108-hr-4464
Sponsor: Rep. Simmons, Rob [R-CT-2]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Computer software
Computers
Continuing education
Data banks
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Licenses
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
School administration
School choice
School districts
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Special education
Student enrollment
Student records
Teacher education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
No Child Left Behind Reform Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise certain requirements which were added by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, including ones relating to: (1) adequate yearly progress (AYP); (2) academic assessment and local educational agency and school improvement; (3) school choice and supplemental services options; and (4) teacher qualifications.
 
Allows schools to be given credit for performing well on measures other than test scores when calculating student achievement.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to State educational agencies to: (1) develop or increase the capacity of data systems for accountability purposes; and (2) subgrants to increase the capacity of local educational agencies to upgrade, create, or manage information databases for the purpose of measuring AYP.
 
 Allows schools to target school choice and supplemental services to the students who are members of specified types of groups that fail to make AYP. Requires placement and service in the least restrictive environment for students who receive services under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act who use an option to transfer under ESEA.
 
Revises the definition of highly qualified teacher to authorize States to: (1) use a generalist exam for middle school teachers; and (2) issue certificates that qualify teachers to teach a number of subjects in social studies or in science. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E961)
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend loan forgiveness for certain loans to certified or licensed teachers.

Bill: 108-hr-4465
Sponsor: Rep. Stenholm, Charles W. [D-TX-17]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government lending
Higher education
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand eligibility for certain student loan forgiveness for teachers to those who were new borrowers on or after October 1, 1986. (Current law makes eligible only new borrowers as of October 1, 1998.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to exclude the Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse from lists of endangered species and threatened species published under that Act.

Bill: 108-hr-4466
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Department of the Interior
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from including the Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse in any list of endangered or threatened species.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Montgomery GI Bill Second Chance Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4468
Sponsor: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Military pay
Military pensions
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Montgomery GI Bill Second Chance Act of 2004 - Authorizes certain members of the Armed Forces to make an irrevocable election during October of any year beginning in 2004 to become entitled to basic educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill. 
 
Requires a reduction in basic pay of those members electing such educational assistance or, if the member is discharged or released from active duty prior to such reduction, the collection of specified amounts from the member or an equivalent reduction in retired or retainer pay.
 
States that members who are enrolled in the post-Vietnam era veterans' educational assistance program shall be disenrolled from that program upon electing the educational assistance described in this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary concerned, in conjunction with the Secretary of Defense, to provide notice of the opportunity created by this Act to elect educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Angel Island Immigration Station Restoration and Preservation Act

Bill: 108-hr-4469
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Commemorations
Federal installations
Health
Historic sites
History
Hospitals
Immigration
Islands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Angel Island Immigration Station Restoration and Preservation Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior for restoring the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, in coordination with the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and the California Department of Parks and Recreation. Requires funds appropriated by this Act to be used first for restoration of the Immigration Station Hospital on Angel Island.

action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 

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

 
Angel Island Immigration Station Restoration and Preservation Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior for restoring the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, in coordination with the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and the California Department of Parks and Recreation. Requires funds appropriated by this Act to be used first for restoration of the Immigration Station Hospital on Angel Island.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7662)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7662)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4469.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7662-7664)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Mr. Radanovich moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House