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Program Reform Commission Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3761
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2004-02-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid programs
Government paperwork
Government spending reductions
Governmental investigations
Legislation
Public meetings

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: 
Program Reform Commission Act of 2004 - Establishes an independent Program Reform Commission to: (1) identify unnecessary Federal programs; (2) review such programs; (3) conduct public hearings on agency recommendations regarding unnecessary programs; and (4) report to Congress recommendations for termination, modification, or retention of each program reviewed. Requires each Federal agency to include in budget documents submitted in FY 2005 a list of programs within that agency that are unnecessary, together with recommendations for appropriate action.
 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that, following submission of the Commission's report, the House of Representatives and the Senate should promptly consider legislation that would enact changes in Federal statutes necessary to implement the Commission's recommendations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Efficiency and Financial Management.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3762
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2004-02-03 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government spending reductions
Governmental investigations
Income tax
Legislation
Public meetings
Subsidies
Tax preferences
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: 
Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission Act of 2004 - Establishes an independent Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission to: (1) identify Federal programs and laws that provide inequitable Federal subsidies; (2) review such subsidies; (3) conduct public hearings on agency recommendations regarding inequitable subsidies; and (4) report to Congress recommendations for termination, modification, or retention of each subsidy reviewed. Requires each Federal agency to include in budget documents submitted in FY 2005 a list of programs or laws within that agency that provide inequitable Federal subsidies, together with recommendations for appropriate action.
 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that, following submission of the Commission's report, the House of Representatives and the Senate should promptly consider legislation that would enact changes in Federal statutes necessary to implement the Commission's recommendations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Efficiency and Financial Management.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
Military Survivor Benefits Improvement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3763
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Families
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Survivors' benefits
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Military Survivor Benefits Improvement Act of 2004 - Adjusts the basic Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuity amount for surviving spouses, age 62 and older, of former military personnel to: (1) 35 percent of the retired pay of the decedent (current law), for months before October 2005; (2) 40 percent for months after September 2005 and before October 2008; (3) 45 percent for months after September 2008 and before October 2014; and (4) 55 percent for months after September 2014 . Adjusts similarly percentage amounts with respect to survivors of reserve personnel and survivors of persons who die while on active duty. Provides a corresponding phased elimination of the SBP supplemental annuity authorized to be provided to such surviving spouses. Requires periodic recomputation of: (1) annuity amounts beginning in October 2005; and (2) retired pay reductions for supplemental survivor annuities. 
Provides a one-year open enrollment period for SBP participation, commencing October 1, 2005, for those currently not participating, those electing to increase current coverage, and those wishing to participate in the supplemental SBP. 
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to require appropriate premiums for SBP participation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Pathways Advancing Career Training Act

Bill: 108-hr-3764
Sponsor: Rep. Hart, Melissa A. [R-PA-4]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Career education
College costs
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Counseling
Day care
Displaced homemakers
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Higher education
Information technology
Job hunting
Labor statistics
Performance measurement
Recruiting and enlistment
Science, Technology, Communications
Single-parent families
Social Welfare
Students
Technical education
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Vocational and technical education
Vocational guidance

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: 
Pathways Advancing Career Training Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make formula matching grants to States with approved plans for programs of vocational education, training, employment counseling, and related services, including tuition assistance, for: (1) single parents and displaced homemakers; and (2) secondary and postsecondary students pursuing nontraditional training and employment. 
 
Provides that State boards designated or created as State agencies responsible for vocational and technical education vocational education agency shall administer such programs and make competitive subgrants to eligible entities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial Coin Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3765
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-44]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
California
Cemeteries and funerals
Coins and coinage
Congress
Congressional Medal of Honor
Construction costs
Finance and Financial Sector
Gold
Maintenance and repair
Monuments and memorials
Nonprofit organizations
Silver
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: 
Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial Coin Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 50,000 five dollar gold coins and 250,000 one dollar silver coins emblematic of the values and abilities necessary to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor.
 
 Requires the Secretary to pay the proceeds from the sale of such coins to the Riverside National Cemetery Support Committee for the purposes of: (1) maintaining the National Medal of Honor Memorial at Riverside National Cemetery; and (2) constructing and maintaining such memorials as the Committee and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may jointly designate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
United Nations Facility Financing Restoration Act

Bill: 108-hr-3766
Sponsor: Rep. Houghton, Amo [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
International Affairs
Tax-exempt securities
United Nations
United Nations finances

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: 
United Nations Facility Financing Restoration Act - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions to allow for tax-exempt bonds for United Nations (UN) facilities used in conjunction with, but outside of, the UN headquarters district.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E118-119)
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3767
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: 
Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2004 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as added by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for each year beginning with 2006, to: (1) offer one or more Medicare operated prescription drug plans nationally that offers qualified prescription drug coverage and access to negotiated prices, while allowing the plan to offer supplemental prescription drug coverage in the same manner as other qualified prescription drug coverage offered by other prescription drug plans; and (2) enter into negotiations with pharmaceutical manufacturers to reduce the purchase cost of covered Medicare part D drugs for eligible part D individuals, and encourage the use of more affordable therapeutic equivalents. Requires the monthly beneficiary premium charged under such a plan to be uniform nationally and for months in 2006 shall be $35 and for months in succeeding years shall be based on the average monthly per capita actuarial cost of offering the Medicare operated prescription drug plan for the year involved, including administrative expenses. Allows for adjustment of such premium amount in case of supplemental prescription drug coverage. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain transportation provided by seaplanes from the excise tax imposed on the transportation of persons by air.

Bill: 108-hr-3770
Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Jennifer [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air cargo
Aircraft
Airline passenger traffic
Excise tax
Marine transportation
Tax exemption
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the excise tax on air transportation of persons or property certain tranportation provided by seaplanes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
To extend the date for the submittal of the final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, to provide additional funding for the Commission, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3771
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
International Affairs
September 11, 2001
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: 
Amends the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 to extend through January 10, 2005 (currently May 27, 2004), the date for submission of the final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Earmarks specified funds made available for FY 2004 for the National Foreign Intelligence Program for transfer to the Commission for Commission activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
To include Nelson County and Franklin County, Virginia, in the Appalachian region for purposes of the programs of the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Bill: 108-hr-3772
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appalachia
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Regional economic development
Rural economic development
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: 
Includes Franklin County and Nelson County, Virginia, in the Appalachian region for purposes of provisions regarding Appalachian regional development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Tax Relief Guarantee Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3773
Sponsor: Rep. Hulshof, Kenny C. [R-MO-9]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption
Adult day care
Building construction
Capital gains tax
College costs
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Conservation easements
Cost of living adjustments
Day care
Defined benefit pension plans
Defined contribution plans
Depreciation and amortization
Disabled
Disaster relief
Dividends
Earned income tax credit
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education savings accounts
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Employee benefit plans
Environmental Protection
Estate tax
Excise tax
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Health
Higher education
History
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Individual retirement accounts
Inheritance tax
Interest
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Labor and Employment
Married people
Medical education
Minimum tax
Nazism
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Scholarships
School buildings
Secondary education
Small business
Social Welfare
State taxation
Student loan funds
Sunset legislation
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Tax rates
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Tax-exempt securities
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: 
Tax Relief Guarantee Act of 2004 - Repeals the current termination date (December 31, 2010) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal: (1) the reductions in the amount of the child income tax credit scheduled for taxable years 2005 through 2009 and to set the amount of such credit at $1,000 for all taxable years after 2004; (2) the reductions in the basic standard deduction percentage for married couples filing joint tax returns scheduled for taxable years 2005 through 2008; (3) the reductions in the percentage applicable to the maximum taxable income in the 15 percent tax bracket for married couples filing joint tax returns scheduled for taxable years 2005 through 2007; and (4) the reduction in the income threshold amount for ten percent income tax rate eligibility scheduled for taxable years 2005 through 2007. 
 
Repeals the current termination date (December 31, 2008) of provisions in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 reducing capital gains tax rates and allowing the taxation of dividends at capital gain tax rates. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) set the dollar limitation for the expense deduction for depreciable business assets at $100,000 for all taxable years after 2004 and to permanently increase to $400,000 the threshold amount for determining reductions in the dollar limitation of such deduction; (2) increase the percentage of the additional depreciation allowance for property acquired after May 5, 2003, from 30 to 50 percent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
To impose a ban on the importation of soybeans and soybean meal that are products of Argentina or Brazil.

Bill: 108-hr-3775
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Argentina
Brazil
Import restrictions
Latin America
Soybeans

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: 
Bans soybean and soybean meal imports from Argentina and Brazil.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Songwriters Capital Gains Tax Equity Act

Bill: 108-hr-3776
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Copyright
Income tax
Intellectual property
Music
Tax deductions
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Songwriters Capital Gains Tax Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to define certain self-created musical works or copyrights in musical works as capital assets eligible for capital gains tax treatment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
Help Establish Access to Local Timely Healthcare for Your Vets (HEALTHY Vets) Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3777
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2004-02-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Community health services
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Health
Housing and Community Development
Rural health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: 
Help Establish Access to Local Timely Healthcare for Your Vets (HEALTHY Vets) Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in the case of a veteran for whom Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities are geographically inaccessible, to use current authority for contracting out veterans' medical care to non-Department facilities in order to provide the following care to such veterans: (1) primary care; (2) acute or chronic symptom management; (3) nontherapeutic medical services; and (4) other medical services determined appropriate by the director of that geographic service region, after consultation with the Department physician responsible for the primary care of the veteran. Outlines conditions under which Department facilities shall be deemed geographically inaccessible. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the requirement of geographic inaccessibility, on a case-by-case basis, if the Secretary determines that the costs to the Department of providing such care significantly outweigh the benefits of localized health care for the veteran.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Introduced in House