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National Trails System Willing Seller Act

Bill: 108-hr-3860
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, John E. [R-PA-5]
Introduced: 2004-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
District of Columbia
Idaho
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Land transfers
Landowners
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New York State
North Dakota
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Right of property
South Dakota
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Utah
Virginia
Washington State
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: 
National Trails System Willing Seller Act - Amends the National Trails System Act to: (1) prohibit the Government acquisition of lands outside the exterior boundaries of any federally administered area, except with the owner's consent, for the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer, Lewis and Clark, Iditarod, and Nez Perce National Historic Trails and the Continental Divide, North Country, Ice Age, and Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trails; and (2) provide that the Government's authority to acquire fee title shall be limited to an average of not more than one-quarter mile on either side of such national historic trails and the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit the operation of the Medicare comparative cost adjustment (CCA) program in Texas.

Bill: 108-hr-3861
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2004-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Competitive bidding
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medicare
Metropolitan areas
Rebates
Social Welfare
Texas
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: 
Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to prohibit the operation of the Medicare comparative cost adjustment program in Texas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-02-26
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: 2004-02-26
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: 2004-02-26
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: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Extended Deployment Pay Increase Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3862
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2004-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Military pay

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: 
Extended Deployment Pay Increase Act of 2004 - Entitles a member of the armed forces who completes a period of 180 days of continuous duty on deployment away from the member's permanent station (or home of record, in the case of a reserve member) to an increase in basic pay of $1,000 for each month thereafter during which the member continues such deployment. Provides for retroactive application of such entitlement for duty performed in connection with a deployment commenced or completed before the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E256-257)
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Realtime Investor Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-3863
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2004-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Brokers
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer education
Data banks
Electronic data interchange
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grievance procedures
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Investment advisers
Investors
Labor and Employment
Law
Liability (Law)
Professional ethics
Science, Technology, Communications
Securities regulation
Stock exchanges
Telephone
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: 
Realtime Investor Protection Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require a registered securities association to: (1) establish and maintain a registration information system on its members and their associated persons; and (2) establish and maintain a toll-free telephone listing, and a readily accessible electronic or other process, to receive and promptly respond to inquiries regarding that information. (Currently such an association is required to maintain a toll-free telephone listing to receive inquiries regarding disciplinary actions involving its members and their associated persons.)
 
Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require an investment adviser to: (1) file with the SEC any fee, application, report, or notice required to be filed through any entity designated by the SEC for that purpose; and (2) pay the reasonable costs associated with such filing and the establishment and maintenance of the telephone and electronic systems required by this Act.
 
Directs the SEC to require the designated entity to establish and maintain a toll-free telephone listing, and a readily accessible electronic or other process, to receive and promptly respond to inquiries regarding registration information (including disciplinary actions, regulatory, judicial, and arbitration proceedings, involving investment advisers and persons associated with investment advisers).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Residual Radioactive Contamination Compensation Act

Bill: 108-hr-3864
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2004-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Beryllium
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government publicity
Health
Law
Nuclear weapons
Occupational health and safety
Radiation
Radiation victims
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: 
Residual Radioactive Contamination Compensation Act - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to cover individual employees: (1) at an atomic weapons employer facility with respect to which the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found a potential for residual contamination outside of the period in which weapons-related production occurred; and (2) during a period of significant residual contamination at such facility.
 
Instructs the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to submit to Congress updated reports regarding residual contamination in such facilities and the employees working in them while their employers were under Federal contract to process nuclear weapons materials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2004-02-26
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: 2004-02-26
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: 2004-02-26
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: 2004-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E258-259)
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Prescription Drug Safety and Affordability Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3865
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2004-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Business travel
Commerce
Conferences
Costs
Drug industry
Expense accounts
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Income tax
Physicians
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: 
Prescription Drug Safety and Affordability Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny prescription drug manufacturers an income tax deduction for gifts provided to or for the benefit of a physician, not including product samples. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E251-252)
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Haitian Refugee Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-3867
Sponsor: Rep. Deutsch, Peter [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2004-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Caribbean area
Haiti
Haiti compilation
Haitians
Latin America
Refugees
Residence requirements

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: 
Haitian Refugee Protection Act - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti as a country whose nationals may be eligible for temporary protected status. Restricts eligibility for such status to aliens who were physically present in the United States on February 25, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Tax Hike Phaseout Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3868
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: 
Social Security Tax Hike Phaseout Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from 85 to 60 percent the maximum applicable percentage of social security benefits includable in the gross income of a taxpayer. Phases in this reduction between 2005 and 2008. Appropriates to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund amounts equal to the reduction in revenues to the Treasury by reason of the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6542)
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Pride in the Lunch Line Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3869
Sponsor: Rep. Keller, Ric [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Child nutrition
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Food service
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Information technology
Planning
Right of privacy
School lunch program
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: 
Pride in the Lunch Line Act of 2004 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to provide for the expanded use of technology and information management systems in the administration of the school lunch and breakfast programs, including providing for methods to ensure that there shall not be any overt identification of children receiving free or reduced price meals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H712-713)
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Prescription Drug Abuse Elimination Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3870
Sponsor: Rep. Norwood, Charles W. [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative procedure
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Data banks
Death
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Drug industry
Drug law enforcement
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic commerce
Electronic data interchange
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health information systems
Health surveys
Identification devices
Import restrictions
Internet
Interstate relations
Labeling
Law
Licenses
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical statistics
Medication abuse
Packaging
Patients' rights
Pharmacies
Pharmacists
Physicians
Product counterfeiting
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: 
Prescription Drug Abuse Elimination Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to States to develop or enhance prescription drug monitoring programs, subject to specified requirements. Requires a dispenser to report to the State database when a patient presents a prescription for a Schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance. 
 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require Internet pharmacies to meet specified criteria, including obtaining verification of a valid prescription in some circumstances. Allows district courts to order Internet providers to remove access to sites that violate this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary to promulgate chain-of-custody requirements to track prescription drugs from the manufacturer through each importer, distributor, and retailer. Deems a drug misbranded if such requirements are not met.
 
Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to restrict the importation of a schedule II, III, or IV drug by a U.S. resident without a valid prescription to once during any 30-day period. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to convene a working group to study and report on pharmaceutical counterfeiting.
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct research and report on issues related to prescription drug abuse.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to maintain a comprehensive, national database on deaths occurring as a result of substance abuse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House
United States-Israel Homeland Security Foundation Act

Bill: 108-hr-3871
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Jim [D-TX-2]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Capital budgets
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Indexing (Economic policy)
International Affairs
International cooperation
Israel
Joint ventures
Middle East and North Africa
Product development
Social Welfare
Subsidies
Technological innovations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: 
United States-Israel Homeland Security Foundation Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a United States-Israel Homeland Security Foundation for awarding conditional grants to joint business ventures between U.S. and Israeli private corporate entities to develop, manufacture, sell, or otherwise provide products and services with applications related to homeland security. Limits grant amounts to 50 percent of proposed costs. Requires grant recipients to repay the Foundation up to 150 percent of the grant awarded. Directs the Foundation to include an advisory board. Provides Foundation funding through the Acceleration Fund for Research and Development of Homeland Security Technologies.
 
Directs the Secretary, if not establishing the Foundation, to use a specified amount from such Fund to support the efforts of the Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation to make grants to joint U.S.-Israeli business ventures for projects relating to homeland security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Access to Information Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3872
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Data banks
Interactive media
Internet
Law
Liability (Law)
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: 
Consumer Access to Information Act of 2004 - Prohibits the misappropriation of a database by classifying such misappropriation as an unfair method of competition and an unfair or deceptive act or practice in commerce under the Federal Trade Commission Act. Exempts from liability under this Act the provider of an interactive computer service that makes available information provided by another content provider. 
 

 
Excludes from coverage by this Act specified securities-related laws, authority, and information.

action_date: 2004-03-16
text: 

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

 
Consumer Access to Information Act of 2004 - Prohibits the misappropriation of a database by classifying such misappropriation as an unfair method of competition and an unfair or deceptive act or practice in commerce under the Federal Trade Commission Act. Exempts from liability under this Act the provider of an interactive computer service that makes available information provided by another content provider. 
 
Excludes from coverage by this Act specified securities-related laws, authority, and information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 253.
action_date: 2004-03-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 108-437.
action_date: 2004-03-16
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 108-437.
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that qualified homeowner downpayment assistance is a charitable purpose.

Bill: 108-hr-3875
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Mortgages
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to designate the provision of qualified homeowner dowpayment assistance as a &quot;charitable purpose&quot; for purposes of income, estate, and gift taxes. Defines &quot;qualified homeowner downpayment assistance&quot; as a gift of cash for the purpose of providing any downpayment for the purchase of a principal residence. Denies an income tax deduction to certain donors of homeowner downpayment assistance who receive a direct financial benefit in connection with the purchase of a principal residence for which the purchaser received downpayment assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in House