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To suspend temporarily the duty on Methylene Bis-Benzotriazolyl Tetramethylbutylphenol.

Bill: 108-hr-4405
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2004-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Methylene Bis-Benzotriazolyl Tetramethylbutylphenol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Immigration Litigation Act

Bill: 108-hr-4406
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2004-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aliens
Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Constitutional law
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Habeas corpus
Injunctions
International Affairs
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Law
Minorities
Political persecution
Punishment
Racial discrimination
Refugees
Religion
Religious liberty
Right of asylum
Torture
Treaties
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: 
Fairness in Immigration Litigation Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to preclude aliens, including criminal aliens, from seeking judicial review of removal orders or the denial of specified discretionary relief through habeas corpus, mandamus, or other extraordinary petitions. 
 
 Declares that this Act does not preclude circuit court review on appeal of constitutional claims or pure questions of law. 
 
Establishes the INA's judicial review provisions as the sole avenue for challenging removal orders and reviewing claims arising under the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
 
Limits judicial authority to grant stays of removal.
 
Requires all petitions for review of removal orders to be filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
 
Expands the list of alternative countries to which an alien may be removed in the event that the country otherwise designated is unwilling to accept the alien.
 
Requires asylum applicants to: (1) show that one of five statutory bases was the central motive for persecution in order to establish refugee status; and (2) submit corroborating evidence where it is reasonable for the trier of fact to expect such evidence. Lists factors relevant to credibility determinations in asylum cases. Precludes the reversal of determinations concerning the availability of corroborating evidence unless the court finds that a reasonable adjudicator is compelled to conclude that such corroborating evidence is unavailable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Technology Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4407
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2004-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Antitrust law
Authorization
Awards, medals, prizes
Building construction
Building materials
Chemical engineering
Chemical research
Chemistry
Commemorations
Commerce
Commercialization
Computers
Curricula
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electrical engineering
Electronics
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Engineering
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Fire prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
High technology
Higher education
Industrial engineering
Industrial standards
Intellectual property
Laboratories
Law
Maintenance and repair
Manufacturing industries
Materials research
Mathematics
New products
Physics
Public-private partnerships
Quality control
Quality of products
Research and development
Research grants
Scientific education
Small business
Teacher education
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Voting machines

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: 
Technology Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology Act of 2004 - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce for the: (1) Under Secretary for Technology and the Office of Technology Policy's activities; (2) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientific and technical research and services laboratories activities; (3) Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award program; (4) NIST facilities construction and maintenance; (5) NIST industrial technology services; (6) Teacher Science and Technology Enhancement Institute program; and (7) NIST under the Enterprise Integration Act of 2002.
 
Requires: (1) the Director of NIST to carry out a Standards Education program to award competitive, merit-reviewed grants to institutions of higher education to support their efforts to develop curricula on the role of standards in the fields of engineering, business, science, and economics. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E915)
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Jen-Hui Tsai.

Bill: 108-hr-4408
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2004-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: 
Makes Jen-Hui Tsai 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: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Shortage Response Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4410
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Law
Licenses
Mathematics
Reading
Rural education
Scholarships
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Teacher Shortage Response Act of 2004 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the amount of student loans that may be forgiven for highly qualified teachers in mathematics, science, and special education and for reading specialists.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to notify local educational agencies eligible to participate in the Small Rural Achievement Program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 of the benefits available under the amendments made by this Act, and to encourage such agencies to notify their teachers of such increased benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Clarification of Antitrust Remedies in Telecommunications Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4412
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Affiliated corporations
Antitrust law
Commerce
Information networks
Restrictive trade practices
Telecommunication industry
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Clarification of Antitrust Remedies in Telecommunications Act of 2004 - Amends the Clayton Act to make it unlawful for an incumbent local exchange carrier (a Bell operating company) or an affiliate to create or preserve a monopoly in any part of commerce by using its networks to engage in anticompetitive practices.
 
States that applicability of this Act is not affected by agency regulation of the conduct it proscribes, except that conduct required by agency regulation shall not be construed to create liability under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Liquefied Natural Gas Import Terminal Development Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4413
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Energy
Energy facilities
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal preemption
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gas pipelines
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Imports
Independent regulatory commissions
Judicial review
Law
Liquefied natural gas
Marine terminals
Pipeline siting
Public records
State laws
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Liquefied Natural Gas Import Terminal Development Act of 2004 - Amends the Natural Gas Act to transfer from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to the Secretary of Energy oversight functions regarding the exportation or importation of natural gas, including free trade agreements and liquefied natural gas.
 
Declares that no person shall site, construct, expand, or operate a liquefied natural gas import terminal without first having secured a FERC authorization.
 
Prohibits any State or local government from requiring any form of authorization with respect to the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of a liquefied natural gas import terminal except as otherwise provided by Federal law.
 
Prescribes guidelines for FERC oversight authority pertaining to scheduling and administrative proceedings.
 
Defines liquefied natural gas import terminal as including all facilities located onshore or in State waters that are used to receive, unload, store, transport, gasify, or process liquefied natural gas imported to the United States from a foreign country, but does excluding the tankers used to deliver liquefied natural gas to such facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
SHIELD Privacy Act

Bill: 108-hr-4414
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Computer security measures
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Electronic government information
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Identification devices
Internet
Law
Legislation
Office of Management and Budget
Public records
Regulatory impact statements
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Terrorism
Trade secrets
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Strengthening Homeland Innovation to Emphasize Liberty, Democracy, and Privacy Act or SHIELD Privacy Act - Directs the President to designate a senior official within the Office of Management and Budget as the Chief Privacy Officer, who shall have primary responsibility for privacy policy throughout the Federal Government. 
 
Directs the head of each department and independent agency in the executive branch to appoint a senior official of the department or independent agency, respectively, to assure primary responsibility for privacy policy. Requires the official appointed for the department or independent agency to: (1) assess the impact on privacy of each proposed action of the Department or agency that will require collecting, using, or accessing personally identifiable information from ten or more persons; and (2) make the results of such assessments publicly available through the Department's web site.
 
Establishes the Commission on Privacy, Freedom, and Homeland Security to conduct a legal and factual study relating to U.S. efforts to further homeland security in a manner that protects privacy, civil liberties, and individual freedoms. Requires the Commission to: (1) conduct at least two field hearings in the five geographical regions of the United States; and (2) appoint a Director. Instructs the Commission to arrange with the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences for assistance in studying specified matters respecting such study, including the impact of Federal legislation enacted since September 11, 2001, or pending before Congress, on civil liberties.
 
Terminates the Commission 30 days after the Commission submits a report of its findings, recommendations, and conclusions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Save American Jobs Through L Visa Reform Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4415
Sponsor: Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Families
Immigrants
Labor and Employment
Married people
Minimum wages
Skilled labor
Transfer of employees
Visas
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Save American Jobs Through L Visa Reform Act of 2004 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate specialized knowledge as a basis for obtaining an L (intracompany transferee) nonimmigrant visa. 
 
Imposes an annual numerical limitation of 35,000 on the number of L visas that may be issued to principal aliens.
 
Removes L nonimmigrants from those classes of aliens that are not presumed to be immigrants (and thus requires L nonimmigrants to establish their entitlement to nonimmigrant status at the time of applying for a visa or admission).
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that employers should pay L nonimmigrants the greater of the actual wage level paid to similarly qualified individuals for the specific employment in question or the prevailing wage level for the occupational classification in the area of employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Protection and Restoration Committee Act

Bill: 108-hr-4416
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Canada
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Great Lakes
Illinois
Indiana
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Interstate relations
Legislation
Michigan
Minnesota
New York State
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Performance measurement
Planning-programming-budgeting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
State laws
State-local relations
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Great Lakes Protection and Restoration Committee Act - Establishes the Great Lakes Protection and Restoration Committee to: (1) study and report to the President, the Congress, and the Governor of each Great Lakes State on programs established and carried out to achieve restoration goals for the Great Lakes prepared by the Governors of Great Lakes States; and (2) make recommendations for prioritization of such goals, legislation, and funding to achieve them, and improvement of coordination among programs and governments with respect to them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Executive Comment Requested from Commerce, Interior.
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E939)
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Making emergency supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for wildland firefighting costs.

Bill: 108-hr-4419
Sponsor: Rep. Dicks, Norman D. [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal budgets
Fire prevention
Forest fires
Government Operations and Politics
Off-budget expenditures
Supplemental appropriations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Makes specified FY 2004 emergency supplemental appropriations for the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture for wildland fire management, to remain available through December 31, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4420
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Anesthetics
Civil actions and liability
Communication in medicine
Damages
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal preemption
Fetus
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Health education
Informed consent (Medical law)
Internet
Law
Licenses
Medicaid
Medical associations
Medical records
Pain
Physicians
Pregnant women
Punitive damages
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State laws
Web sites
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require an abortion provider, before beginning any abortion of a pain-capable unborn child (defined as an unborn child who has reached a probable stage of development of 20 weeks after fertilization), to: (1) make a specified statement to the pregnant woman that Congress has determined that there is substantial evidence that the process will cause the unborn child pain, and that the mother has the option of having pain-reducing drugs administered directly to the child; (2) provide to the woman an Unborn Child Pain Awareness Brochure (unless she waives receipt) and an Unborn Child Pain Awareness Decision Form; and (3) obtain on the form the woman's signature and her explicit request for or refusal of the administration of drugs to the child. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop the brochure and form.
 
Makes such provisions inapplicable to a provider in the case of a medical emergency. Requires the provider to certify that a medical emergency exists. Sets penalties for false statements.
 
Establishes penalties for willfully failing to comply with this Act, including civil penalties, medical license suspension, or both. Authorizes: (1) specified officials to bring suit in Federal court; and (2) private rights of action by a parent or guardian of a woman who is an unemancipated minor. Requires each State and State medical licensing authority to promulgate procedures for the revocation or suspension of a provider's license upon a court finding that the provider has violated this Act. Subjects a State that fails to implement such procedures to loss of Medicaid funding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 5/21/2004 H3497-3498)
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House