hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
TIER Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4553
Sponsor: Rep. Cunningham, Randy (Duke) [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2004-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Computer industry
Computers
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Recycling of waste products
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax credits
Television
Television industry

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: 
Tax Incentives to Encourage Recycling Act of 2004 (TIER Act of 2004) - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow manufacturers of computer and television equipment a business tax credit for the disposal and recyling of such equipment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1102)
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 40 Putnam Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut, as the "Linda White-Epps Post Office".

Bill: 108-hr-4554
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2004-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Connecticut
Government Operations and Politics
Local officials
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 40 Putnam Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut, as the "Linda White-Epps Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1096)
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
Millennium Challenge Accountability Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4558
Sponsor: Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2004-06-14 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Administration of justice
Agricultural production
Agriculture and Food
Auditing
Bribery
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Competition
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cooperative societies
Credit unions
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Democracy
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Disaster relief
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Employee rights
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Foreign investments
Foreign loans
Free enterprise
Freedom of the press
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Government regulation
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
Hunger
Infant mortality
Intellectual property
International relief
Israel
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Law
Legislation
Malaria
Maternal health services
Middle East and North Africa
Monetary policy
Performance measurement
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Potable water
Poverty
Preventive medicine
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public corruption
Public health
Refuse and refuse disposal
Right of property
Rule of law
Saline waters
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex discrimination
Small business
Social Welfare
Sustainable development
Textbooks
Trade associations
Treaties
Tuberculosis
United Nations
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Water treatment plants
Women
Women's health
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: 
Millennium Challenge Accountability Act of 2004 - Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004 to: (1) direct the Comptroller General to conduct annual audits, evaluations, and investigations of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; (2) establish the Millennium Challenge Advisory Council; and (3) transfer statutory authority to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for the Millennium Challenge program, the HELP Commission Act, and the Foreign Aid Impact Assessment Act.
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to repeal specified provisions respecting: (1) general development assistance; (2) prototype desalting plants; and (3) international disaster assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify the treatment of adopted children.

Bill: 108-hr-4561
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2004-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Adoption
Aliens
Families
Immigrants
International Affairs
Naturalization
Treaties
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow foreign children adopted while under age 18 for whom adoption proceedings were initiated while they were under the age of 16 (currently, children adopted while under age 16) to be treated as children for immigration and naturalization purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1105)
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Trust Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4562
Sponsor: Rep. Musgrave, Marilyn N. [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2004-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Colorado
Commemorations
Federal-Indian relations
Historic sites
History
Indian lands
Land transfers
Minorities
Native Americans
Oklahoma
Religion
Surveying

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: 
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Trust Act of 2004 - Authorizes the United States to take into trust certain land in Kiowa County, Colorado, owned by the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Tribes of Oklahoma.
 
Directs the Tribes to convey title to the Dawson Ranch to the United States.
 
Declares that: (1) all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the Ranch, including all improvements and appurtenances to the Ranch and rights to all minerals, are to be held in trust by the United States for the Tribes; and (2) the Ranch is to become part of the Tribes' Indian reservation. Requires the Ranch to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the law generally applicable to property held in trust for Indian tribes and the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2000.
 
Instructs that the Ranch be used only for historic, religious, or cultural uses that are compatible with the use of the land as a national historic site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-21
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
President Ronald Reagan $20 Bill Act

Bill: 108-hr-4563
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2004-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ex-presidents
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
History
Money
Reagan Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: 
President Ronald Reagan $20 Bill Act - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the face of $20 Federal reserve notes printed after December 31, 2004, to bear the likeness of President Ronald Wilson Reagan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for reform relating to employment at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Bill: 108-hr-4564
Sponsor: Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]
Introduced: 2004-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil service retirement
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Justice
Emergency Management
Employee training
Executive reorganization
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Fringe benefits
Government travel
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Relocation
Retirement age
Salaries
Social Welfare
Temporary employment
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: 
Amend Federal retirement provisions relating to the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System to raise, from 60 to 65, the mandatory separation age for employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who have been exempted, because it is in the public interest to do so, by the head of the agency from being retired at the earlier automatic separation age limit of 57.
 
Sets forth provisions for payment of retention and relocation bonuses for the FBI. 
 
Authorizes the Director of the FBI to provide for the establishment and training of a Federal Bureau of Investigation Reserve Service (FBI Reserve Service) for temporary reemployment in the FBI of previously full-time employees of the FBI during emergencies. Limits the membership of the FBI Reserve Service to 500 members at any given time.
 
Amends Federal law relating to Government organization and employees, to include, with regard to pay authority for critical positions, positions at the FBI, the primary duties and responsibilities of which relate to intelligence functions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Obain Attouoman.

Bill: 108-hr-4565
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2004-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: 
Declares Obain Attouoman to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Konstantinos Ritos.

Bill: 108-hr-4566
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2004-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: 
Makes Konstantinos Ritos eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident of the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, upon payment of the required visa fees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend provisions of law originally enacted in the Clinger-Cohen Act to enhance agency planning for information security needs.

Bill: 108-hr-4570
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Capital investments
Chief information officers
Computer security measures
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Federal officials
Government procurement
Information technology
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Amends provisions of law originally enacted in the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 concerning executive agency planning for information security needs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To condition United States military cooperation with the government of Bulgaria within the territory of Bulgaria on the certification by the Secretary of Defense that United States citizens and corporations are afforded full due process of law in Bulgaria and that certain United States legal decisions against Bulgarian nationals have been satisfied.

Bill: 108-hr-4572
Sponsor: Rep. Taylor, Gene [D-MS-4]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agriculture and Food
Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Claims
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporations
Due process of law
Europe
Fertilizers
Labor and Employment
Law
Military agreements
Military bases
Military training
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from entering into any contract or agreement with the Government of Bulgaria concerning U.S. military cooperation with that Government within the territory of Bulgaria unless the Secretary certifies to Congress that U.S. citizens and corporations are afforded full due process in Bulgaria, which would be evidenced at least in part by the full and fair resolution of the claims of IBE Trade Corporation for the wrongful conversion of its shares of stock in a fertilizer plant located in Bulgaria, consistent with New York State court decisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Intelligence Community Language Capabilities Enhancement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4573
Sponsor: Rep. Bereuter, Doug [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Advice and consent of the Senate
Alien labor
Aliens
Central Intelligence Agency
Classified defense information
College costs
Colleges
Computers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational technology
Electronic government information
Employee training
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Immigrants
Immigration
Intelligence community staff
Intelligence officers
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Law
Military intelligence
Presidential appointments
Promotions
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Students
Surplus government property
Teachers
Teaching
Telecommunication systems
Telephone
Transfer of employees
Translating and interpreting
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Intelligence Community Language Capabilities Enhancement Act of 2004 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to create the position of Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Language and Education (ADCI for Language and Education) who shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.
 
Establishes a foreign language proficiency requirement for certain senior level positions in the Central Intelligence Agency. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) and the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) jointly to establish a program for the advancement of foreign language skills in languages critical to the intelligence community's national security activities. Authorizes heads of elements of the intelligence community, in carrying out the program, to: (1) enter into education partnership agreements with U.S. educational institutions to encourage and enhance the study of critical foreign languages; and (2) accept from dedicated personnel voluntary services in support of the program.
 
Authorizes the DCI, acting through the heads of elements of the intelligence community, to assign certain employees of such elements as foreign language students at accredited institutions of higher education.
 
Requires the DCI to conduct a pilot project to establish a Civilian Linguist Reserve Corps of U.S. citizens with advanced foreign language proficiency.
 
Clarifies the functions of the National Virtual Translation Center.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a study and report to appropriate congressional committees on methods to improve the recruitment and retention of qualified foreign language instructors at the Foreign Language Center of the Defense Language Institute.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Food Promotion Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4576
Sponsor: Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural statistics
Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Business records
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Fines (Penalties)
Fisheries
Fishes
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Imports
Labeling
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Meat
Surveys
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Food Promotion Act of 2004 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing of 1946 to replace current mandatory country of origin labeling requirements with voluntary country of origin labeling programs for: (1) meat and meat products; (2) wild fish, wild shellfish, farm-raised fish, farm-raised shellfish, and related products; and (3) perishable agricultural commodities.
 
Sets forth: (1) limitations on use of United States country of origin labels; and (2) civil penalties for program violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To allow binding arbitration clauses to be included in all contracts affecting the land within the Gila River Indian Community Reservation.

Bill: 108-hr-4577
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Contracts
Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands
Law
Leases
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Amends specified Federal law to allow binding arbitration clauses to be included in all contracts, including leases (as under current law), affecting the land within the Gila River Indian Community Reservation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Children's Hospitals Education Equity and Research (CHEER) Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4578
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Authorization
Child health
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Higher education
Hospitals
Law
Medical education
Medical residents

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Children's Hospitals Education Equity and Research (CHEER) Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments through FY 2010 (currently, through FY 2005) to children's hospitals for costs associated with operating approved graduate medical resident training programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To remove certain restrictions on the Mammoth Community Water District's ability to use certain property acquired by that District from the United States.

Bill: 108-hr-4580
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Land transfers
Land use
Water Resources Development
Water districts

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Allows specified land patented to the Mammoth County Water District in Mono County, California, to be: (1) used for purposes other than the purpose for which the land was being used prior to conveyance to the District; and (2) transferred as authorized under State law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the conveyance of the former Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service laboratory in Fresno, California, to the City of Fresno.

Bill: 108-hr-4581
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Laboratories
Land transfers
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Directs the Administrator of General Services to convey without consideration to Fresno, California, the former Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service laboratory in Fresno to be used for educational purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House