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Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust Fund Enhancement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-2121
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational exchanges
Federal aid to education
Foreign leaders
Government trust funds
Higher education
International education
Scholarships

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: 
Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust Fund Enhancement Act of 2003 - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 2004 for the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust Fund.

action_date: 2004-07-06
text: 

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

 
Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust Fund Enhancement Act of 2004 - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 2004 for the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust Fund.

action_date: 2004-12-08
text: 
Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust Fund Enhancement Act of 2004 - Authorizes additional appropriations for the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust Fund. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-12-08
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-12-08
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-12-08
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S12029)
action_date: 2004-12-08
text: Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-12-08
text: Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text as passed House: CR H5159)
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text as passed House: CR H5159)
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2121.
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5158-5159)
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Mr. Flake moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Perchlorate Pollution Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2123
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Chemicals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental monitoring
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Groundwater
Infrastructure
Interest
Interest rates
Investment of public funds
Labor and Employment
Law
Potable water
Revolving funds
Standards
Storage
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water supply
Wells

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Preventing Perchlorate Pollution Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require that information on the discharge and storage of perchlorate be reported to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the appropriate State water pollution control agency.
Impose fines on violators.
Requires that fines be deposited in a newly created Perchlorate Pollution Prevention Fund and used for loans to public water suppliers and private well owners to replace water contaminated by percholorate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Foster Care Reform Commission Act

Bill: 108-hr-2124
Sponsor: Rep. Cardoza, Dennis A. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal advisory bodies
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: 
Foster Care Reform Commission Act - Establishes the Foster Care Reform Commission to study and report to the President, Congress, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the ongoing foster care crisis in the United States as well as individual efforts undertaken by States, localities, and through privately administered foster care programs. Requires the Commission, in reviewing such efforts, to determine a list of best practices that would help advance safe and reliable foster care in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Rite of Passage Community Service Act

Bill: 108-hr-2125
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Ethics
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Leadership
Mentoring
National service
Public speaking
Scholarships
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Students
Summer employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: 
Rite of Passage Community Service Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Rite of Passage Community Service Program.
 
Requires such program to be a community-based after-school and summer service corps for eligible young people who are between the ages of 12 and 16, inclusive, at the time they begin such service. Requires such program to offer participants service-learning curricula linked to academic goals, as well as opportunities for: (1) service in their communities; (2) activities that train in certain critical skills; and (3) working with older AmeriCorps members who can organize service projects and act as mentors.
 
Requires each individual program participant to: (1) agree to participate in such after-school or summer program for at least 150 hours during a period of at least two months and not more than one year; and (2) receive a $500 education award upon completion of such required hours of service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Teague Grant Reauthorization Act

Bill: 108-hr-2126
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Chet [D-TX-11]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Anniversaries
Authorization
Commemorations
Congress
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Ex-Members of Congress
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
House of Representatives
Legislation
Medical education
Medical personnel
Names
Nursing education
Physicians
Texas
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: 
Teague Grant Reauthorization Act - Recognizes: (1) the 30th anniversary of the enactment of the Veterans' Administration Medical School Assistance and Health Manpower Training Act of 1972; (2) the critical and historic role played by that Act towards alleviating the shortfall in the number of physicians and other health care professionals; and (3) the importance of continued growth in partnerships between the Department of Veterans Affairs and affiliated medical schools.
 
Adds as a purpose of current grants made by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to affiliated medical schools as a result of such Act the addressing of shortfalls in the number of physicians and other health care professionals employed in the Department's Veterans Health Administration. Designates such grants as &quot;Teague Grants&quot; in honor of Olin E. Teague, the most decorated veteran ever to have served in Congress.
 
Reauthorizes and extends the grant program for FY 2005 through 2009. Includes within criteria for grant approval a determination that proposed projects and programs will increase the number of medical and nursing students attending the affiliated school. Directs the Secretary to give a priority in grant awards to medical schools established under the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Savings and Employee Notification Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2127
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business insurance
Commerce
Contracts
Corporation taxes
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government spending reductions
Income tax
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Life insurance
Public debt
Restrictive trade practices
Tax exclusion
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Taxpayer Savings and Employee Notification Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include in gross income from nonqualified company-owned life insurance contracts (as defined by this Act) income and death benefits (amounts exceeding reported income and premiums).
States that violations of such provisions shall be treated as a violation of an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend chapter 171 of title 28, United States Code, to allow members of the Armed Forces to sue the United States for damages for certain injuries caused by improper medical care.

Bill: 108-hr-2128
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Claims
Damages
Families
Government liability
Health
Labor and Employment
Medical malpractice
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Military pensions
Military personnel
National Guard
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Amends the Federal Tort Claims Act to allow claims to be brought for damages against the United States for personal injury or death of a member of the armed forces serving on active duty or on full-time National Guard duty, arising out of medical or dental care furnished to such member in a fixed medical treatment facility operated by the Secretary of a military department or any other fixed medical facility operated by the United States.
Provides for a reduction of claims under this Act by the present value of other benefits attributable to such death or injury that are received by the member and by that member's estate, survivors, and beneficiaries pursuant to other Federal provisions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
To award a congressional gold medal to President Jose Maria Aznar of Spain.

Bill: 108-hr-2131
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbons, Jim [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Crime and Law Enforcement
Europe
Foreign leaders
Spain
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to President Jose Maria Aznar of Spain in recognition of his contributions to maintaining the security of all freedom-loving nations. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to strike such medal and authorizes the Secretary to strike and sell bronze duplicates.
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: 

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

 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to President Jose Maria Aznar of Spain in recognition of his contributions to maintaining the security of all freedom-loving nations. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to strike such medal and authorizes the Secretary to strike and sell bronze duplicates. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 267.
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 108-463.
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 108-463.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-03-10
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-03-10
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-03-10
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Pactola Reservoir Reallocation Authorization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2132
Sponsor: Rep. Janklow, William J. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Construction costs
Dams
Fishery management
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reservoirs
South Dakota
Water supply
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Pactola Reservoir Reallocation Authorization Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to reallocate construction costs of the Pactola Dam and Reservoir of the Rapid Valley Unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program in South Dakota from irrigation purposes to municipal and industrial and fish and wildlife purposes (to reflect increased demands for such purposes).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Cosmetology Tax Fairness and Compliance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2133
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Barber and beauty shops
Commerce
Contractors
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Leases
Self-employed
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax credits
Tax returns
Tipping

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Cosmetology Tax Fairness and Compliance Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the tax credit for social security taxes paid for employee cash tips to employers of cosmetologists. 
Requires employers of cosmetologists to report income and tips of their cosmetologist employees and to provide income and tip information to self-employed cosmetologists to whom they pay more than $600 in the taxable year. Imposes similar reporting requirements upon individuals who rent chairs to cosmetologists. Requires such employers to provide their cosmetologist employees and self-employed cosmetologists with information on the tax and tip reporting obligations of employees and self-employed individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Bail Bond Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2134
Sponsor: Rep. Keller, Ric [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Bail
Criminal procedure
Forfeiture

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Bail Bond Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit a judicial officer from declaring forfeited a bail bond for violation of specified collateral release conditions other than failing to appear in court. Makes forfeiture of a bail bond for violation of such collateral release conditions unavailable as a sanction.
Amends rule 46 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to provide that if the defendant fails to appear physically before the court (currently, if there is a breach of condition of a bond), the district court shall declare a forfeiture of the bail.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: 
Bail Bond Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit a judicial officer from declaring forfeited a bail bond for violation of specified collateral release conditions other than failing to appear in court. Makes forfeiture of a bail bond for violation of such collateral release conditions unavailable as a sanction.
 
Amends rule 46 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to provide that if the defendant fails to appear physically before the court (currently, if a condition of the bond is breached), the district court shall declare a forfeiture of the bail.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 191.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-316.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-316.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Discharged.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House