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To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to extend Medicare cost-sharing for the Medicare part B premium for qualifying individuals through September 2005.

Bill: 108-hr-5160
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2004-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Insurance premiums
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to extend through September 2005 Medicare cost-sharing for the Medicare part B premium for qualifying individuals for additional low-income medicare beneficiaries.
 
Revises requirements for the total allocation amount for three specified periods between January 1, 2004, and September 30, 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the safe and secure storage of explosive materials by State and local law enforcement agencies.

Bill: 108-hr-5162
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Crime prevention
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic surveillance
Emergency Management
Explosives
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Larceny
Law
Police
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Storage
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Requires each State to submit to the Attorney General a written report (and subsequent updates) that specifies each location at which a State law enforcement agency stores explosive materials that have been transported in interstate or foreign commerce and the types and amounts of such materials. Directs the Attorney General to prescribe final regulations governing the storage of such materials by such agencies, including public safety and security standards and requirements for video surveillance or an alarm system.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to: (1) make matching grants to State and local law enforcement agencies for complying with such regulations; (2) enter any place where such an agency keeps such explosive materials for inspection and compliance determinations; and (3) reduce by ten percent the funds that an agency would otherwise receive under any Department of Justice grant program if the agency fails to comply.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
National Health Museum Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5164
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Building construction
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
District of Columbia
Environmental Protection
Federal office buildings
Government liability
Health
Land transfers
Land use
Law
Leases
Liability for environmental damages
Museums
Nonprofit organizations
Relocation
Rent
Social Welfare
Urban affairs
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
National Health Museum Act of 2004 - Directs the Administrator of General Services to convey specified property in the District of Columbia as a site for a national health museum, under an agreement with the National Health Museum, Inc., including certain terms and conditions. 
 
Provides for the Administrator's leasing of a certain portion of a building to be constructed by the Museum on such site, at a rent below prevailing market rates. Authorizes the Administrator to apply any or all of the proceeds from conveyance of the property toward rental charges incurred by the Federal Government under such lease.
 
Sets forth related provisions regarding environmental matters, incidental costs, and land use approvals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Boutique Fuels Reduction Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5165
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Disasters
Emergency Management
Energy prices
Energy shortages
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental assessment
Environmental research
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Reformulated gasoline
Science, Technology, Communications
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Boutique Fuels Reduction Act of 2004 - Amends the Clean Air Act (CAA) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily waive controls or prohibitions on the use of a fuel or fuel additive regulated under specified provisions of that Act or prescribed in an applicable State Implementation Plan (SIP) if the Administrator determines that: (1) extreme and unusual circumstances exist in a State or region that prevent distribution of an adequate supply of the fuel or fuel additive to consumers; (2) such circumstances are the result of a natural disaster, an Act of God, a pipeline or refinery equipment failure, or another unforeseeable event; and (3) it is in the public interest to grant the waiver.
 
Permits such a waiver only if it: (1) applies to the smallest necessary geographic area; (2) is effective for 20 days or the shortest practicable time period; (3) permits a transitional period after the termination of the temporary waiver to allow wholesalers and retailers to blend down their inventory; (4) applies to all persons in the motor fuel distribution system; and (5) is preceded by public notice to all parties in the distribution system, local and State regulators, public interest groups, and consumers in the State or region covered by the waiver.
 
States that the Administrator shall have no authority, when considering a SIP or SIP revision regarding State controls or prohibitions on motor vehicle fuel or fuel additives, to approve any fuel: (1) if doing so would increase the total number of approved and fully implemented fuels as of September 1, 2004, in all SIPs; and (2) unless that fuel was approved and fully implemented in at least one SIP in the applicable Petroleum Administration for Defense District (with the exception of fuels with a specified summertime Reid Vapor Pressure).
 
Requires the Administrator and the Secretary of Energy jointly to study and report to Congress on the effects on air quality, number of fuel blends, fuel availability, fuel fungibility, and fuel costs of SIPs adopted pursuant to CAA provisions regarding State controls or prohibitions on motor vehicle fuel or fuel additives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Armed Forces Voluntary Immunization and Heath Justice Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5166
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Anthrax
Biological warfare
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Informed consent (Medical law)
Insubordination
Law
Medical research
Military medicine
Military personnel
Personnel records
Research centers
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Smallpox
Vaccination
Vaccines
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Armed Forces Voluntary Immunization and Health Justice Act of 2004 - Prohibits requiring a member of the Armed Forces to participate in either of the smallpox or anthrax vaccine immunization programs of the Department of Defense. Permits administering either vaccine to any such member without the informed consent of the member.
 
Requires the correction of the records of servicemembers previously punished for refusing to take either vaccine.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to assess the current threat of an anthrax or smallpox attack on members of the Armed Forces and report the results.
 
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) carry out an ongoing assessment of the adverse health effects being reported by members and former members of the Armed Forces with respect to the smallpox and anthrax vaccines administered by the Department of Defense; and (2) prepare an estimate of the future cost to the Department of Veterans Affairs to treat those adverse health effects, if determined to be service-connected.
 
Requires the President to establish a National Center for Military Deployment Health Research to coordinate and synthesize research efforts by Federal departments and agencies relating to the health effects of military deployments on members of the Armed Forces, including members of the reserve components.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Protection of Family Farmers Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5167
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Bankruptcy
Debtor and creditor
Families
Family farms
Farm income
Farmers
Law
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Protection of Family Farmers Act of 2004 - Amends the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 to extend for 18 additional months (until July 1, 2005) the period for which chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code (Adjustments of Debts of a Family Farmer) is reenacted.
 
 States that such extension shall take effect on January 1, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Bennett Freeze Rehabilitation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5168
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Building construction
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-Indian relations
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Indian claims
Indian economic development
Indian housing
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Minorities
Real estate development
Residential rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Bennett Freeze Rehabilitation Act of 2004 - Amends Federal law commonly referred to as the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974 to authorize the Commissioner of the Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Commission to carry out a rehabilitation program to redress the effects of Federal development restrictions in the western portion of the Navajo Reservation (the Bennett Freeze, issued administratively in 1966 by former Bureau of Indian Affairs Commissioner Robert Bennett to restrict the Navajo tribe in Arizona from constructing and repairing their dwellings on land subject to a land dispute with the Hopi Tribe.) Limits such rehabilitation program to housing construction and renovation, infrastructure improvements, and economic development initiatives.
 
Provides that, upon the Secretary of the Interior's approval of an agreement between the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe settling the land dispute over the lands subject to the Bennett Freeze, certain provisions of such Act concerning any development of lands in litigation are repealed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1749-1750)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Tax Empowerment and Relief for Farmers and Fishermen (TERFF) Act

Bill: 108-hr-5169
Sponsor: Rep. Nussle, Jim [R-IA-1]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural production
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Animals
Charitable contributions
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Cooperative societies
Disasters
Dividends
Droughts
Earnings
Emergency Management
Energy
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Farm income
Farmers
Feeds
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fisheries
Fishing boats
Floods
Food industry
Food relief
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Inventories
Judicial opinions
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Law
Leases
Livestock
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marketing of farm produce
Minimum tax
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Rent
Self-employed
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Soil conservation
Stocks
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Tax-exempt organizations
Tax-exempt securities
Trusts and trustees
Unrelated business income tax
Water Resources Development
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Tax Empowerment and Relief for Farmers and Fishermen (TERFF) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow certain commercial farming and fishing businesses a tax deduction for cash contributions (up to 20 percent of taxable income) to a Farm, Fishing, and Ranch Risk Management Account (FFARRM Account); (2) exempt agricultural bonds from private activity bond volume caps; (3) allow individuals a tax deduction for charitable contributions of food (currently restricted to C corporations); (4) extend income averaging to fishermen (currently allowed for farmers) and exclude income averaging for farmers and fishermen from the computation of the alternative minimum tax; (5) modify cooperative marketing rules to include value-added processing involving animals; (6) permit farmer cooperatives to seek declaratory judgments with respect to their tax-exempt status; and (7) allow the allocation of the small ethanol tax credit amounts to patrons of tax-exempt cooperatives. 
Amends the Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to exclude certain rental income and conservation reserve program payments from the self-employment tax. 
Provides that dividends on the capital stock or other proprietary capital interests of tax-exempt cooperatives shall not reduce the net earnings of such cooperatives. 
Modifies involuntary conversion rules to extend from two to four years the replacement period for livestock sold due to drought, flood, or other weather-related conditions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Transportation, in computing the estimated tax payments attributed to highway users for purposes of title 23, United States Code, to take into account any law that replaces the reduced rates of tax on gasohol with an excise tax credit.

Bill: 108-hr-5170
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Excise tax
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Tax credits
Tax rates
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to determine apportionments of Federal highway funds to the States by using the amount of tax receipts that the Secretary estimates would have resulted for a fiscal year had any increase in taxes on fuels containing alcohol enacted after this Act taken effect at the beginning of such fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to ensure the same requirements that apply to voters who register by mail also apply to voters who do not register in person with an officer or employee of a State or local government entity, and to provide for increased penalties for fraudulent registration in cases involving 10 or more violations.

Bill: 108-hr-5171
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Crime and Law Enforcement
Election fraud
Fines (Penalties)
Identification devices
Presidential elections
Voter registration
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a State to apply the same self-identification requirements currently applicable to voters who register by mail to those voters who do not register in person with an officer or employee of a State or local government entity. 
 
Amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the National Voter Registration Act to provide for increased penalties relating to fraudulent voter registration in cases involving ten or more violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to declare Yo-Yo Waterball toys to be a banned hazardous products.

Bill: 108-hr-5172
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Defective products
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Product safety
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a rule declaring the Yo-Yo Waterball toy a banned hazardous product under the Consumer Product Safety Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Alcohol Without Liquid Machine Safety Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5173
Sponsor: Rep. Beauprez, Bob [R-CO-7]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol
Defective products
Department of Health and Human Services
Fines (Penalties)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Machinery
Product safety

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Alcohol Without Liquid Machine Safety Act of 2004 - Prohibits the introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any alcohol without liquid machine without premarket approval by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs. Requires approval only if the applicant demonstrates that the machine is safe. Defines an &quot;alcohol without liquid machine&quot; as a device designated or marketed for the purpose of mixing alcohol with oxygen or another gas to produce a mist for inhalation for recreational purposes. 
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5 of the United States Code to increase the amount of additional compensation payable to an employee who is disabled and requires the services of an attendant, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-5174
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Caregivers
Cost of living adjustments
Disabled
Federal employees
Labor and Employment
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Increases the amount of additional compensation payable to certain disabled Federal employees and provides for a biennial inflation adjustment to such amount beginning in FY 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in House