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Constitution Restoration Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3799
Sponsor: Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Church and state
Constitutional law
District courts
Extraterritoriality
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Impeachments
International Affairs
International agencies
Judicial ethics
Jurisdiction
Local employees
Religion
State courts
State employees
Supreme Court
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal judicial code to prohibit the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal district courts from exercising jurisdiction over any matter in which relief is sought against an element of Federal, State, or local government or officer of such government by reason of that element's or officer's acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government.
 
Prohibits a court of the United States from relying upon any law, policy, or other action of a foreign state or international organization in interpreting and applying the Constitution, other than the constitutional law and English common law.
 
Provides that any Federal court decision relating to an issue removed from Federal jurisdiction by this Act is not binding precedent on State courts. 
 
Provides that any Supreme Court justice or Federal court judge who exceeds the jurisdictional limitations of this Act shall be deemed to have committed an offense for which the justice or judge may be removed, and to have violated the standard of good behavior required of Article III judges by the Constitution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
First Amendment Restoration Act

Bill: 108-hr-3801
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business and politics
Campaign funds
Commerce
Corporations
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Political advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
First Amendment Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to repeal: (1) a requirement that persons making disbursements for electioneering communications file reports on such disbursements with the Federal Election Commission; (2) a prohibition against the making of disbursements for electioneering communications by corporations and labor organizations; and (3) a provision treating coordinated communications as contributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Mandatory IDEA Full Funding Compromise Act

Bill: 108-hr-3802
Sponsor: Rep. Bass, Charles F. [R-NH-2]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Local budgets
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Mandatory IDEA Full-Funding Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to revise and reauthorize part B programs of education of all children with disabilities. 
Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for part B for FY 2005 through 2011 and thereafter. (Provides phased-in increases of funding designed to reach a promised 40 percent Federal share of funding by FY 2011.) 
Makes appropriations in specified amounts for part B for FY 2005 through 2011 and thereafter. 
Provides an exception to local educational agency (LEA) maintenance of effort requirements under part B.
Repeals certain provisions relating to LEA treatment of Federal funds as local funds under part B.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Osteoporosis Education and Prevention Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3803
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Mass media
Osteoporosis
Performance measurement
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
Osteoporosis Education and Prevention Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a national campaign to increase awareness and knowledge with respect to osteoporosis. 
 
Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to direct the Assistant Secretary for Aging to make demonstration program grants to public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions to provide information and outreach for the prevention of osteoporosis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2004-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to make beach nourishment projects eligible for inclusion in mitigation plans and for hazard mitigation assistance.

Bill: 108-hr-3804
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Beaches
Disaster relief
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Shore protection

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to make beach nourishment projects that meet such standards as the Secretary of the Army may establish eligible for inclusion in mitigation plans and for hazard mitigation assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Los Padres National Forest Conservation Act

Bill: 108-hr-3805
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Energy
Geothermal resources
Mining claims
Mining leases
National forests

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
Los Padres National Forest Conservation Act - Withdraws the Los Padres National Forest in California from: (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; and (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) operation of the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2004-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against the alternative minimum tax where stock acquired pursuant to an incentive stock option is sold or exchanged at a loss.

Bill: 108-hr-3806
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee stock options
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Losses
Minimum tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable credit against the alternative minimum tax for certain stock options sold or exchanged at a loss. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E194)
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Safeguarding Assets For Employees in Bankruptcy Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3808
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Debtor and creditor
Earnings
Employee health benefits
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Leave of absence
Salaries
Severance pay
Sick leave
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
Safeguarding Assets For Employees in Bankruptcy Act of 2004 - Amends Federal bankruptcy law to: (1) increase from $4,000 to $20,000 the dollar amount of specified unsecured claims related to employment benefits in the third and fourth priority tier; and (2) place in fifth order of priority the allowed unsecured claims of employees arising under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H483)
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Repairing Young Women's Lives Around the World Act

Bill: 108-hr-3810
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Health
Maternal health services
Obstetrics
Preventive medicine
Surgery
United Nations
United Nations finances
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
Repairing Young Women's Lives Around the World Act - Authorizes appropriations to be used only for U.S. voluntary contributions to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for prevention, remedy, and repair of obstetric fistula.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Cancer and Terminal Illness Patient Health Care Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3811
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cancer
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Medical records
Physicians
Self-employed
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Terminally ill

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Cancer and Terminal Illness Patient Health Care Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to waive the employee portion of the Social Security tax for any period in which a taxpayer has been certified by a physician as having cancer or a terminal illness. Applies the waiver if an individual's cancer is in remission only during the period the individual incurs significant costs (not reimbursed by insurance or otherwise) due to the disease. 
Reduces by 50 percent the rates of tax levied on a self-employed individual for old age, survivors and disability insurance and hospital insurance if a physician has certified the individual as having a terminal disease or cancer throughout the taxable year. Applies the reduction if an individual's cancer is in remission only during the period the individual incurs significant costs (not reimbursed by insurance or otherwise) due to the disease. Specifies that if an individual is certified as having a terminal illness or cancer for only part of a taxable year, the reduction will be the number of percentage points that bears the same ratio to 50 as the portion bears to the entire taxable year. 
 Declares that this Act does not affect Social Security trust fund deposits or benefits under the Social Security Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a demonstration project on priorities in the scheduling of appointments of veterans for health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3812
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Health
Hospital care
Medical statistics
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) carry out a demonstration project to assess the feasibility and advisability of providing for priorities in scheduling appointments for health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs in accordance with the Department's Waiting Time for Appointments goals (30-30-20) of 2000 and the provisions of the Veterans Health Administration directives entitled Priority for Outpatient Medical Services and Inpatient Hospital Care (VHA Directive 2002-059) and Priority Scheduling for Outpatient Medical Services and Inpatient Hospital Care for Service Connected Veterans (VHA Directive 2003-062); (2) select three Veterans Integrated Service Networks for the project and ensure that the project is carried out in urban, rural, and highly rural areas; (3) schedule each outpatient and inpatient appointment under the project at a Department facility unless the cost is unreasonable or medical or other reasons necessitate an appointment at a non-Department facility. 
 
Requires the Secretary to report to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs in the Senate and the House of Representatives annually on waiting times of veterans for Department health care appointments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
George R. Brown Near-Earth Object Survey Act

Bill: 108-hr-3813
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Asteroids
Astronomy
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Planning-programming-budgeting
Space activities
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
George R. Brown Near-Earth Object Survey Act - Requires the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to plan, develop, and implement a Near-Earth Object Survey program to detect, track, catalogue, and characterize the physical characteristics of near-Earth asteroids and comets at least 100 meters in diameter in order to assess the threat of such near-Earth objects striking the Earth. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act to declare that the general welfare and security of the United States requires that the unique competence of NASA in science and engineering systems be directed to provide warning and mitigation of the potential hazard of near-Earth objects impacting the Earth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Enhancement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3814
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Aggression
Alliances
Arab-Israeli conflict
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Boundaries
Capital cities
Civil-military relations
Conferences
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Democracy
Development credit institutions
EBB Terrorism
Economic assistance
Economic development
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign leaders
Fund raising
Gaza Strip
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Immigration
Infrastructure
International cooperation
International propaganda
International relief
Israel
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Nongovernmental organizations
Palestinians
Peace
Peace treaties
Political violence
President and foreign policy
Recognition (International law)
Refugees
Rule of law
State-sponsored terrorism
Sunset legislation
Terrorism
Treaties
United Nations
Water Resources Development
Water allocation (Policy)
Water rights
West Bank

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Enhancement Act of 2004 - Calls for: (1) any new Palestinian authority to take security-related steps to implement a road map to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and (2) the U.S. Administration to work toward the two states living in peace within secure and internationally recognized boundaries.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that a Palestinian State should not be recognized until the President makes specified determinations, including that new leadership of a Palestinian governing entity, not compromised by terrorism, has been elected and has taken measures to counter terrorism and terrorist financing in the West Bank and Gaza. 
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to allow U.S. assistance to be provided to a Palestinian state only: (1) during the effective period of a presidential certification that a Palestinian state exists that has been recognized by the United States and Israel and admitted to the United Nations, that a binding international peace agreement exists between Israel and the Palestinian state, and that the new Palestinian Government has been democratically elected, has renounced violence against Israel, has dismantled any group that conducts terrorism against Israel, has instituted clearly agreed upon limits on its military, and has no agreements that threaten Israel's security; and (2) if the President has provided advance notice to Congress.
 
Authorizes the President to provide assistance to a Palestinian State to improve the economy and living conditions of the Palestinians.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to coordinate a program of international economic assistance to the Palestinians.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Badge and Uniform Security and Trustworthiness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3815
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Clothing
Federal law enforcement officers
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Law enforcement officers
Police
Sentencing guidelines
Signs and symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
Badge and Uniform Security and Trustworthiness Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to apply prohibitions against the use of counterfeit police badges to the use of any public safety officer insignia or article of clothing. Defines a public safety officer to include any officer or employee of a Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency.
 
Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend the sentencing guidelines to assure that the sentence imposed on a defendant who is convicted of a Federal offense while wearing or displaying such insignia and clothing reflects the gravity of this aggravating factor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E174)
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3816
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2004-02-11 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Customer service
Federal Trade Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Independent regulatory commissions
Internet
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Telemarketing
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: 
Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act of 2003 - Directs each U.S. corporation or subsidiary that utilizes a call center to initiate telephone calls to, or receive calls from, individuals located in the United States to require each call center employee to disclose the physical location of such employee at the beginning of each call.
 
Requires such corporation or subsidiary to annually certify to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) their compliance with such requirement. Subjects noncomplying corporations or subsidiaries to such civil penalties as the FTC may prescribe.
 
Directs the FTC to prescribe rules for effective monitoring and compliance with such requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Introduced in House
Rural Housing Equity Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3817
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2004-02-24 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Arizona
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Government lending
Housing finance
Rural economic development
Rural housing

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-24
text: 
Rural Housing Equity Act of 2004 - Makes Casa Grande, Arizona, eligible for loan and grant programs in the Rural Development mission area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2004-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-02-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-24
text: Introduced in House