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Green Chemistry Research and Development Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2967
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-10-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Chemical engineering
Chemical research
Chemistry
Commerce
Commercialization
Communication in science
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Department of Commerce
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Engineers
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Green products
Higher education
Industry-university relations
National Science Foundation
Research and development
Research grants
Scientific education
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: 
Green Chemistry Research and Development Act of 2004 - Directs the President to establish a Green Chemistry Research and Development Program to promote and coordinate Federal research, development, demonstration, education, and technology transfer activities related to green chemistry and chemical engineering to design chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances.
 
Requires the President to establish an Interagency Working Group to oversee the planning, management, and coordination of the Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10860-10861)
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Gift Card Act

Bill: 108-s-2969
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-10-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Automated teller machines
Commerce
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Electronic funds transfers
Fees
Gifts
Restrictive trade practices
Retail trade
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: 
Fair Gift Card Act - States it is unlawful for any person to impose a dormancy fee, inactivity charge or fee, or a service fee with respect to a gift certificate, store gift card, or general-use prepaid card. 
 
Exempts from this prohibition any such charge or fee if: (1) the certificate or card has a remaining value of $5 or less at the time the charge or fee is assessed; (2) the charge or fee does not exceed $1; (3) there has been no activity with respect to the certificate or card for at least the last 24 months; (4) the holder of the certificate or the card may reload or add value to the certificate or the card; and (5) specified charge or fee disclosure requirements have been met. 
 
Declares it is unlawful to sell or issue a gift certificate, store gift card, or general-use prepaid card that is subject to an expiration date unless the date is not less than five years from the date the card is purchased and the expiration terms are prominently disclosed in specified font size and in all capital letters.
 
States that a violation of this Act shall be treated as a violation of a rule defining an unfair or deceptive act or practice prescribed under the Federal Trade Commission Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10986-10987)
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the project for navigation, Saco River, Maine, as an anchorage area.

Bill: 108-s-2970
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-10-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Boats and boating
Maine
Navigation
Rivers
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: 
Redesignates a portion of the project for navigation, Saco River, Maine, as an anchorage area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Education Savings for Students Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2971
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2004-10-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Education
Education savings accounts
Higher education
Income tax
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: 
Education Savings for Students Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the maximum annual contribution limit for Coverdell education savings accounts from $2,000 to $5,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10987-10988)
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Introduced in Senate
College Savings Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2972
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2004-10-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Education
Education savings accounts
Higher education
Income tax
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: 
The College Savings Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the maximum annual contribution limit for Coverdell education savings accounts from $2,000 to $5,000; and (2) allow a tax deduction up to $5,000 for contributions to an education savings account. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10987-10988)
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Preservation of Federalism in Banking Act

Bill: 108-s-2973
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2004-10-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Bank examination
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer credit
Consumer protection
Damages
Department of the Treasury
Electronic government information
Federal preemption
Federal-state relations
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Internet
Law
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws
Subsidiary corporations
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: 
Preservation of Federalism in Banking Act - Amends the Revised Statutes of the United States to set forth State law preemption standards for national banks and their subsidiaries. 
 
Declares that any State: (1) consumer law of general application (including any law relating to unfair or deceptive acts or practices and any consumer fraud law) shall also apply to any national bank; and (2) law applicable to State banks shall also apply to any national bank if it was enacted pursuant to, or consistent with, Federal law permitting the States to exceed or supplement Federal law requirements.
 
Prohibits construction of Federal law governing visitorial powers, or otherwise limiting or restricting the supervisory, examination, or regulatory authority to which any national bank is subject, as limiting or restricting the authority of a State attorney general to enforce: (1) any applicable Federal or State law; or (2) on behalf of residents of such State, any applicable provision of any Federal or State law against a national bank, or seek relief and recover damages for such residents from any violation of any such law by any national bank.
 
Prohibits construction of Federal law governing nondepository institution subsidiaries of national banks as preempting the applicability of State law to any State-chartered nondepository institution subsidiary of a national bank, except to the extent the preemption is explicitly provided by an Act of Congress.
 
Directs the Comptroller of the Currency to record and monitor each complaint received from a consumer regarding a national bank or any subsidiary of a national bank as well as the resolution of the complaint.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10989)
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10988-10989)
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify regulations relating to overtime compensation.

Bill: 108-s-2975
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2004-10-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Labor
Government Operations and Politics
Hours of labor
Law
Salaries

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: 
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to nullify the force or effect of any portion of a specified final rule promulgated on April 23, 2004, that exempts any employee from overtime pay provisions who would not otherwise be exempt if regulations in effect on March 31, 2003, remained in effect. 
 
Provides for the following to remain in effect: (1) that portion of the regulations in effect on March 31, 2003, that would prevent such an employee from being exempt; and (2) the increased salary level eligibility for overtime pay in the final rule promulgated on April 23, 2004.

action_date: 2004-10-10
text: 

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

 
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to nullify the force or effect of any portion of a specified final rule promulgated on April 23, 2004, that exempts any employee from overtime pay provisions who would not otherwise be exempt if regulations in effect on March 31, 2003, remained in effect. 
 
Provides for the following to remain in effect: (1) that portion of the regulations in effect on March 31, 2003, that would prevent such an employee from being exempt; and (2) the increased salary level eligibility for overtime pay in the final rule promulgated on April 23, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11068-11087; text as passed Senate: CR S11084; text of measure as introduced: CR S11107)
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11068-11087; text as passed Senate: CR S11084; text of measure as introduced: CR S11107)
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act to life the patient limitation on prescribing drug addiction treatments by medical practitioners in group practices, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2976
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2004-10-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug addiction
Drug traffic
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Group medical practice
Law
Licenses
Physicians

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: 
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to eliminate the 30-patient limit for medical practitioners in group practices that may dispense specified narcotic drugs for maintenance or detoxification treatment.

action_date: 2004-10-11
text: 

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

 
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to eliminate the 30-patient limit for medical practitioners in group practices that may dispense specified narcotic drugs for maintenance or detoxification treatment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-12-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-11-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-11-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-11-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11260-11261; text as pased Senate: CR S11261)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11260-11261; text as pased Senate: CR S11261)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Our Communities by Making Returning Offenders Better Citizens Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2977
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2004-10-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Case management
Child welfare
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community organization
Community-based corrections
Correctional personnel
Counseling
Criminal statistics
Criminology
Department of Justice
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational tests
Employee training
Ex-offenders
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Halfway houses
Health
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Mental health services
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
Parole
Prisoners
Prisoners' rights
Probation
Rehabilitation of criminals
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Urban affairs
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: 
Protecting Our Communities by Making Returning Offenders Better Citizens Act of 2004 - Establishes within the Department of Justice the Office of Community Services. Requires the Office Director to: (1) develop and administer grant programs to prepare incarcerated persons for reentry into the community or to assist reentering offenders in their transition; and (2) make grants to nongovernmental entities that have expertise in providing such services.
 
Authorizes the Director to award a grant to an eligible organization to establish a National Offender Reentry Initiative Clearinghouse.
 
Requires the Director to award grants: (1) to State or local corrections agencies to provide services to incarcerated persons, including education, substance abuse treatment, and vocational skills training; (2) to consortiums of such agencies and to State or local parole or probation agencies to provide services to incarcerated persons who have not more than one year remaining of their sentence or to released offenders within 18 months after release; (3) to parole and probation agencies to provide offenders with services to help with their transition; and (4) to correctional, parole, or probation agencies and nongovernmental entities for community protection programs.
 
Directs the Bureau of Prisons to provide each offender released from Federal prisons information on how to restore voting rights and other civil and civic rights.
 
Earmarks specified funds for research, technical assistance, and training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11307-11309)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11306-11307)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill relating to State regulation of access to hunting and fishing.

Bill: 108-s-2978
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2004-10-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Animals
Federal preemption
Federal-state relations
Fishing
Government Operations and Politics
Hunting
Law
Licenses
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: 
Declares that: (1) the continued regulation of access to hunting and fishing by the States is in the public interest; and (2) silence on the part of Congress shall not be construed to impose any commerce clause barrier to State regulation of such activities.
 
Requires access to hunting and fishing to be subject to State laws. States that no Act of Congress shall be construed to invalidate, impair, or supersede such State laws unless that Act specifically so provides.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11310)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11309-11310)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Regulatory Improvement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2979
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2004-10-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administrative Conference of the U.S.
Administrative procedure
Authorization
Citizen participation
Civil actions and liability
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Judicial review
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: 
Federal Regulatory Improvement Act of 2004 - Revises the purpose of the Administrative Conference of the United States to include: (1) promoting more effective public participation and efficiency in the rulemaking process; (2) reducing unnecessary litigation in the regulatory process; (3) improving the use of science in the regulatory process; and (4) improving the effectiveness of laws applicable to the regulatory process.
 
Authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 through FY 2007.

action_date: 2004-10-11
text: 

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

 
Federal Regulatory Improvement Act of 2004 - Revises the purpose of the Administrative Conference of the United States to include: (1) promoting more effective public participation and efficiency in the rulemaking process; (2) reducing unnecessary litigation in the regulatory process; (3) improving the use of science in the regulatory process; and (4) improving the effectiveness of laws applicable to the regulatory process.
 
Authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 through FY 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11330; text as passed Senate: CR S11330)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11330; text as passed Senate: CR S11330)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2980
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2004-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms control agreements
Arms control verification
Ballistic missile defenses
Chemical warfare
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Europe
Export controls
Fissionable materials
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Former Soviet states
Government Operations and Politics
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
President and foreign policy
Russia
Sanctions (International law)
Technical assistance
Terrorism
Treaties
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: 
Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 2004 - Amends the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991, the Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 1993, and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, respectively, to repeal specified restrictions on the use of Cooperative Threat Reduction program (program) funds and activities.
 
Amends the the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 to modify authority to use program funds outside the former Soviet Union, including transferring such authority from the President to the Secretary of Defense.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to report on each country in which a program is being carried out, including its adherence to arms control and nonproliferation agreements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11380)
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Coventional Arms Threat Reduction Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2981
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2004-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Conventional weapons
Department of State
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
International cooperation
Surface-to-air missiles

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: 
Conventional Arms Threat Reduction Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of State to carry out an accelerated global program to secure or eliminate stocks of man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), other conventional weapons, tactical missile systems, and related equipment and facilities that pose a proliferation threat.
 
Establishes within the Department of State an Office of Conventional Arms Threat Reduction which shall formulate policy on conventional arms threat reduction and plan and administer arms reduction programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11380-11381)
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make a stillborn child an insurable dependent for purposes of the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program.

Bill: 108-s-2982
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2004-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Childbirth
Death
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Labor and Employment
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: 
Makes a stillborn child an insurable dependent under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance Program for veterans and their survivors and dependents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11381)
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate