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To extend the operation of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States to serve as a resource for the President and Congress, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-5125
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2004-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Authorization
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
International Affairs
Science, Technology, Communications
September 11, 2001
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Amends the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 to extend the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (currently terminated as of August 21, 2004) until the earlier of: (1) the date on which the Commission chairman and vice chairman determine that the Commission has done all it can to assist Congress with respect to the recommendations contained in its final report; or (2) July 24, 2007. 
Adds as Commission functions: (1) serving as a resource to the President and Congress with respect to the findings and recommendations contained in its final report and monitoring the progress of the President and Congress in implementing such recommendations; and (2) investigating and issuing a supplemental improvements made, and still required, in Federal, State, and local emergency communication and coordination.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Patients' Privacy Protection Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5126
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2004-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil procedure
Confidential communications
Criminal procedure
Evidence (Law)
Health
Medical records
Patients' rights
Physician-patient privilege
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: 
Patients' Privacy Protection Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Rules of Evidence to declare that a patient has a privilege with respect to any evidence consisting of a confidential communication or record made in the course of medical treatment by a duly licensed health care provider.
 
 Authorizes a court to order the disclosure of such a communication or record to the extent the court determines that the public interest in disclosure significantly outweighs the patient's privacy interests. Requires the court to ensure that personally identifiable information is redacted and that the patient's communications and records remain under seal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in House
527 Reform Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5127
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2004-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting
Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Election candidates
Finance and Financial Sector
Fund raising
Government paperwork
Political action committees
Political advertising
Political parties
Presidential elections
Voter registration
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: 
527 Reform Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to revise the definition of political committee to include any committee, club, association, or other group of persons that has as its major purpose the nomination or election of one or more candidates (&quot;Section 527 Organizations&quot; or major purpose organizations).
 
Treats certain expenses by major purpose organizations as expenditures subject to the limitations and reporting requirements of such Act.
 
Provides that any disbursement by separate segregated fund or nonconnected committee shall be allocated between Federal and non-Federal accounts in accordance with this Act and regulations prescribed by the Federal Election Commission. States that disbursements allocated to non-Federal accounts may be paid only from a qualified non-Federal account.
 
Prohibits a separate segregated fund or nonconnected committee from accepting more than $25,000 in funds for its qualified non-Federal account from any one individual in any calendar year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in House
National Park Anniversaries--Great American Spaces Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 108-hr-5128
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-09-22 in the House
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: 2004-09-22
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: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Thomas W. Sikes and Wellington Trade, Inc., doing business as Containerhouse.

Bill: 108-hr-5129
Sponsor: Rep. Norwood, Charles W. [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2004-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to Thomas W. Sikes and Wellington Trade, Inc., doing business as Containerhouse, in full satisfaction of claims against the United States for damages sustained in connection with a 1991 government contract for the purchase and delivery of certain ocean freight containers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11110 Sunset Hills Road in Reston, Virginia, as the "Martha Pennino Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-5133
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
County politics and government
Government Operations and Politics
Local officials
Names
Postal facilities
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11110 Sunset Hills Road in Reston, Virginia, as the "Martha Pennino Post Office Building."
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 

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

 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11110 Sunset Hills Road in Reston, Virginia, as the "Martha Pennino Post Office Building." 

action_date: 2004-10-10
text: 

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

 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11110 Sunset Hills Road in Reston, Virginia, as the "Martha Pennino Post Office Building." 

action_date: 2004-10-30
text: 

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

 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11110 Sunset Hills Road in Reston, Virginia, as the "Martha Pennino Post Office Building." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-30
text: Became Public Law No: 108-407.
action_date: 2004-10-30
text: Became Public Law No: 108-407.
action_date: 2004-10-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2004-10-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2004-10-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2004-10-19
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2004-10-12
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11125-11126)
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11125-11126)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
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 H7708)
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 H7708)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5133.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7708-7709)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Mr. Davis, Tom moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 108-407
To require the prompt review by the Secretary of the Interior of the long-standing petitions for Federal recognition of certain Indian tribes, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-5134
Sponsor: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of the Interior
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Judicial review
Law
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Requires prompt review by the Secretary of the Interior of the long-standing petitions for Federal recognition of certain Indian tribes.

action_date: 2004-11-19
text: 
Requires prompt review by the Secretary of the Interior of the long-standing petitions for Federal recognition of certain eligible Indian tribes. Requires the Secretary to publish final determinations with respect to such petitions within one year after enactment of this Act.
 
Prescribes a procedure for potentially eligible tribes to opt into the expedited procedure for proposed findings and final determinations under this Act. Authorizes such a tribe to seek a recognition determination in the appropriate U.S. district court if the Secretary fails to publish a proposed finding or a final determination by the end of specified time periods. Requires the court, in any such action, to treat such failure by the Secretary as final agency action. Authorizes a tribe also to seek review in such a court of any adverse final determination by the Secretary.
 
Prohibits the processing of any other petitions for recognition as an Indian tribe until the Secretary has published a proposed finding with respect to the petition of each eligible tribe as required by this Act, except those listed as having a status of &quot;Active&quot; or &quot;In Post-Final Decision Appeal Process&quot; by the Department of the Interior on July 1, 2004.
 
Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to change the criteria established by the Department to determine whether or not a petitioner meets the requirements to be a federally recognized tribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 482.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 108-788.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 108-788.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Preservation of Orphan Works Act

Bill: 108-hr-5136
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Archives
Arts, Culture, Religion
Copyright
Government Operations and Politics
History
Intellectual property
Libraries

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Preservation of Orphan Works Act - Provides that the limitation on rights of reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works does not apply to the authority of libraries or archives, during the last 20 years of any term of copyright of a published work to reproduce, distribute, display, or perform in facsimile or digital form a copy or phonorecord of such work for purposes of preservation, scholarship, or research when certain conditions apply.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to revise the eligibility criteria for presumption of service-connection of certain diseases and disabilities for veterans exposed to ionizing radiation during military service.

Bill: 108-hr-5137
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Environmental Protection
Ionizing radiation
Nuclear weapons
Radiation victims
Radioactive pollution
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Includes within the definition of a "radiation-risk activity" for purposes of eligibility criteria for veterans' disability compensation the exposure to ionizing radiation due to residual contamination resulting from participation in a nuclear detonation, without regard to whether any particular level of radiation exposure was measured for that individual.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Fair Credit Card Interest Rate Act

Bill: 108-hr-5138
Sponsor: Rep. Bell, Chris [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Credit cards
Federal Reserve System
Interest rates
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Fair Credit Card Interest Rate Act - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit a creditor during any calendar quarter from imposing a finance charge under an open end consumer credit plan involving a credit card which results in an annual percentage rate greater than ten percentage points over the most recent composite prime rate published in the Wall Street Journal before the beginning of the ten-business-day period ending on the first day of such calendar quarter (thus setting a ceiling on credit card interest rates) .


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Oglala Sioux Tribe Angostura Irrigation Project Modernization and Development Act

Bill: 108-hr-5139
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Auditing
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to Indians
Finance and Financial Sector
Fishery management
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Health
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Indian education
Indian lands
Indian medical care
Indian water rights
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Interest
Investment of public funds
Irrigation
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Missouri River development
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
South Dakota
Sports and Recreation
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water supply
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Oglala Sioux Tribe Angostura Irrigation Project Modernization and Development Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) carry out the modernization and improvement of the irrigation facilities at the Angostura Unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River basin program; and (2) provide for the delivery of the water saved through such modernization and improvement for fish and wildlife purposes and environmental restoration on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (South Dakota) .
 
Establishes the Oglala Sioux Tribal Development Trust Fund.
 
Requires the governing body of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota to prepare a plan for the use of payments to the Tribe out of the Fund.
 
Prohibits distribution of any payment to any member of the Tribe on a per capita basis.
 
States that no payment made to the Tribe shall result in the reduction or denial of any entitlement service or program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1701-1702)
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Ammonium Nitrate Security Act

Bill: 108-hr-5140
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Explosives
Fertilizers
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Import restrictions
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Nitrates
Nitrogen compounds
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Storage

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Ammonium Nitrate Security Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to redefine explosives to include detonable nitrate fertilizers.
 
Makes it unlawful for any person to engage in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in detonable nitrate fertilizers materials without a license.
 
Requires the Attorney General to promulgate regulations specifically related to the storage of such fertilizers.
 
Modifies requirements for explosive material licenses and user permits to exempt an applicant from the fee for a license or user permit for detonable nitrate fertilizers. Excludes license or user permit applicant's employees who will be authorized to possess detonable nitrate fertilizers from the requirement that they be checked for convictions of certain felonies.
 
Sets forth fines and penalties for violation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the alternative minimum tax treatment of incentive stock options, thereby changing the taxable event from the exercise of the stock option to the sale of stock.

Bill: 108-hr-5141
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee stock options
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the alternative minimum tax treatment of incentive stock options. Makes this repeal applicable to options exercised in 2000 or thereafter regardless of when such options were granted. Allows a waiver of any rule of law preventing the payment of a refund or credit resulting from the enactment of this Act if a claim for a refund or credit is made within one year after enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
Pitkin County Land Exchange Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5142
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Boundaries
Charities
Colorado
Conservation easements
Easements
Environmental Protection
Land transfers
Law
National forests
Open space lands
Outdoor recreation
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Pitkin County Land Exchange Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) and the Secretary of the Interior, upon receipt of title to certain lands located in Pitkin County, Colorado, and certain lands located on Smuggler Mountain in the County, to convey to the County or to the Aspen Valley Land Trust, if the County so requests, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain National Forest and Bureau of Land Management lands located in the County. 
 
Prohibits the conveyance of a specified parcel to the County unless and until the County grants to the Aspen Valley Land Trust, the Roaring Fork Conservancy, or both, or to another entity mutually agreeable to the County and the Secretary of the Interior, a permanent conservation easement which provides public access to the parcel and limits future use of the parcel to recreational, fish, and wildlife conservation, and open space purposes. 
 
States that, prior to the conveyance to the County of a specified parcel, the County shall deliver to the Secretary a quitclaim deed to the parcel from any party who, prior to the introduction of this Act, had asserted a claim of any right, title, or interest in such parcel, and shall permanently relinquish any such claim against the United States in or to the parcel.
 
States that lands acquired by the Secretary pursuant to this Act shall become part of White River National Forest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in House