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Interstate 3/3rd Infantry Division Highway Initiation Act

Bill: 108-s-2736
Sponsor: Sen. Miller, Zell [D-GA]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional tributes
Georgia
Governmental investigations
Infantry
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Iraq compilation
Limited access highways
Names
Road construction
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Interstate 3/3rd Infantry Division Highway Initiation Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) a new interstate highway designated as &quot;United States Interstate Route 3&quot; should be constructed between Savannah, Georgia, to Knoxville, Tennessee; and (2) such highway should be known and designated as the &quot;3rd Infantry Division Highway&quot;, in honor of the professionalism, heroism, and sacrifice of the men and women of the U.S. Army 3rd Division in defending the freedom of the United States.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the steps and estimated funding necessary to designate and construct a new interstate route for the 3rd Infantry Division Highway, from Savannah, Georgia, and Knoxville, Tennessee (formerly the Savannah River Parkway in the State of Georgia).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Science Park Administration Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2737
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative fees
Auditing
Bankruptcy
Bonds
Capital investments
Collection of accounts
Colleges
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Corporate finance
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government securities
Governmental investigations
High technology
Higher education
Income tax
Industrial parks
Industry-university relations
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Loans
Losses
Real estate development
Research and development tax credit
Research centers
Revolving funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Subsidies
Surety and fidelity
Tax deductions
Taxation
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Trade associations
Transportation and Public Works
Trusts and trustees
Venture capital
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Science Park Administration Act of 2004 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) award grants and enter into cooperative agreements for the development of plans for the construction of science parks; (2) make grants to six regional centers for the development of science park infrastructure through the operation of revolving loan funds by such centers; (3) guarantee loans for projects for the construction of such infrastructure; and (4) enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences under which the Academy shall evaluate annually the development of such parks.
 
Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to establish a Science Park Venture Capital Fund Pilot Program.
 
Permits banks to invest in any: (1) science park venture capital company; or (2) entity established to invest solely in such companies.
 
Applies the provisions relating to New Market Venture Capital companies to science park venture capital companies.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit the expensing of certain investments in science parks; and (2) allow certain credits with respect to such parks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Samuel de Champlain 400th Commemoration Commission Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2738
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Anniversaries
Arts, Culture, Religion
Coins and coinage
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
International Affairs
International cooperation
Lakes
New York State
Nonprofit organizations
Postage stamps
Research grants
Social Welfare
Strategic planning
Tourism
Vermont
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Samuel de Champlain 400th Commemoration Commission Act of 2004 - Establishes the Samuel de Champlain 400th Commemoration Commission to provide technical and financial assistance to the States of Vermont and New York and communities in those States to commemorate: (1) the arrival of Samuel de Champlain into the Champlain Valley in 1609; and (2) the heritage of the greater Lake Champlain Basin.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8714)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Dental Health Provider Shortage Act

Bill: 108-s-2740
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Accreditation (Medical care)
Child health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Curricula
Demography
Dental care
Dentists
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Indian medical care
Labor and Employment
Leases
Maintenance and repair
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical residents
Medical supplies
Medically uninsured
Minorities
Paramedical personnel
Poor children
Public health personnel
Recruiting of employees
Rural health
Salaries
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Dental Health Provider Shortage Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award grants to: (1) health centers to increase the number of dental providers and to increase dental health care capabilities by constructing or renovating building space; and (2) eligible individuals in dental health professional shortage areas to increase dental health care capabilities by constructing or renovating building space in exchange for an agreement to practice for five years in such an area and to provide care for certain patients receiving assistance or unable to pay.
 
Allows the Secretary to award grants to health centers to establish accredited dental residency training programs.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants to: (1) simplify and automate the procedures applicable to Medicaid providers to encourage providers to participate in the dental component of the program; and (2) develop, disseminate, and assist with the implementation of a model contract for States to use to enroll dentists as Medicaid providers.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to carry out a program to repay any outstanding student loans of full-time faculty members of a school of dentistry or an accredited dental education program.
 
Allows the Director of the Indian Health Service to authorize a retention bonus for an eligible dental officer of the Indian Health Service.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding dentists and dental hygienists in the National Health Service Corps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8721-8723)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8720-8721)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Eye Treatment Safety (VETS) Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2743
Sponsor: Sen. Fitzgerald, Peter [R-IL]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Dentists
Eye care
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Osteopathy and osteopaths
Physicians
Surgeons
Surgery
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Veterans Eye Treatment Safety (VETS) Act of 2004 - Allows eye surgery at a Department of Veterans Affairs facility or under contract with the Department to be performed only by a licensed medical doctor, licensed doctor of osteopathy, or licensed dentist whose practice is limited to oral or maxillofacial surgery. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8728-8729)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8728)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2744
Sponsor: Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Coins and coinage
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Ex-presidents
Families
Gold
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
History
Money
Presidential families
Signs and signboards
Vending machines
Women
Women's rights
Women's voting

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2004 - Amends Federal monetary law to set forth requirements for the redesign and issuance of circulating $1 coins emblematic of each President of the United States.
 

 
Prohibits inclusion of a President who has not completed his or her term of service (sitting President).
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue during the same period in which such $1 coins are issued commemorative coins emblematic of the spouse of each deceased former President so honored.
 
Mandates that all Federal agencies and instrumentalities and entities that operate any business on Federal premises (including vending machines) take action to ensure that business operations they conduct that involve coins or currency shall be fully capable of accepting and dispensing $1 coins in connection with such operations.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress about the issuance of such coins.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8729-8730)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area and Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness Act of 2000 to rename the Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area as the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area.

Bill: 108-s-2745
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Congress
Congressional tributes
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Names
Natural areas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Amends the Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area and Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness Act of 2000 to rename the Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area as the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8730-8731)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Los Alamos National Laboratory National Security Act for Fiscal Year 2004

Bill: 108-s-2746
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: California
Colleges
Defense contracts
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Laboratories
Military research
New Mexico
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear weapons
Research and development facilities
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Los Alamos National Laboratory National Security Act for Fiscal Year 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) terminate the contract of the University of California to operate Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico; (2) appoint either a Federal or private sector entity as interim contractor to operate the Laboratory until appointment of a successor contractor; and (3) ensure retention of essential employees at such Laboratory both during the transition period and after commencement of Laboratory operations by the successor to the University of California.
 
Prohibits any future contract award to University of California for operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Commission on the Future of the United States Economy Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2747
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Antitrust law
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dislocated workers
Economic development
Economic growth
Economic statistics
Education
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
Entrepreneurs
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign investments
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intellectual property
International banking
International competitiveness
International education
Inventions
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Labor productivity
Language and languages
Law
Legislation
Mathematics
Multicultural education
Policy sciences
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Small business
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Commission on the Future of the United States Economy Act of 2004 - Establishes the Commission on the Future of the United States Economy.
 
Requires the Commission to conduct a study of the economy and the competitiveness of U.S. companies and workers and, in conducting such study, to: (1) review the findings and recommendations of previous commissions and studies; (2) analyze the current economic environment and competitive challenges facing U.S. workers and companies; (3) review the strategies of other countries for responding to the competitive challenges of the new economic environment and analyze the impact of those strategies on the future of the U.S. economy; and (4) formulate recommended policies and actions on specified issues relating to the development of the Nation's skill-base and innovative capacity.
 
Directs the Commission to submit to Congress and the President a report regarding its findings and recommendations. Authorizes interim or special reports in the Commission's discretion. 
 
Addresses Commission personnel matters.
 
 States that the Commission shall terminate 90 days after the date on which it submits its final report. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8732-8734)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8731-8732)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Baby Selling Prohibition Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2748
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Adoption
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Counseling
Families
Fees
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Legal fees
Maternal health services
Medical fees
Profit
Social Welfare
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Baby Selling Prohibition Act of 2004 - Amends Federal criminal law to prohibit accepting or charging any fee in excess of allowable costs in connection with the adoption of a minor.
 
Applies such prohibition to all individuals, intermediaries, or entities involved in such adoptions. Provides a prison term of up to ten years for violators. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8735)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8734-8735)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Access to Vision Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2749
Sponsor: Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Eye care
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health education
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Optometry
Performance measurement
Physical examinations
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Children's Access to Vision Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to make grants to States for: (1) comprehensive eye examinations for children needing such services, with priority for children under nine years old; (2) subsequent vision treatment or services; and (3) educational materials on recognizing signs of visual impairment in children.
 
Directs the Secretary to coordinate the grant program with appropriate Federal and State child services programs. Requires an annual State program evaluation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8735)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Tumalo Water Conservation Project Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2750
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Irrigation districts
Oregon
Water conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Tumalo Water Conservation Project Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Tumalo Irrigation District, to participate in the planning, design, and construction of the Tumalo Irrigation District Water Conservation Project in Deschutes County, Oregon. Sets the Federal share of the cost of the Project at 50 percent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
ASPIRE Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2751
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Auditing
Collection of accounts
College costs
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education savings accounts
Executive reorganization
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Individual retirement accounts
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Investments
Labor and Employment
Law
Payroll deductions
Personal budgets
Saving and investment
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Student aid
Survivors' benefits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Trusts and trustees
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
America Saving for Personal Investment, Retirement, and Education Act of 2004, or the ASPIRE Act of 2004 - Establishes a KIDS Account Fund (KIDS) in the Treasury.
 
Establishes within the KIDS Account Fund a Kids Investment and Development Savings Account (KIDS Account). Provides that a U.S. citizen born after December 31, 2005, and under 18 years of age, whose modified adjusted gross income is below the applicable national median adjusted gross income amount, is eligible to contribute to such account and to receive a matching Federal contribution.
 
Establishes the KIDS Account Fund Board to establish a default investment program under which, in a manner similar to a lifecycle investment program, sums in each KIDS Account are allocated to investment funds in the KIDS Account Fund based on the amount of time before the account holder attains the age of 18.
 
Subjects the Board to the same statutory composition requirements, duties, and responsibilities as the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board.
 

 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, to develop programs to promote the financial literacy of account holders of KIDS Accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8736)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Zero Downpayment Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2753
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Insurance premiums
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Single family housing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Zero Downpayment Act of 2004 - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to insure zero-downpayment mortgages of an eligible single family residence for a first-time homebuyer who has received specified homeownership counseling.
 
Terminates program authority after September 30, 2011, except for mortgages executed prior to such date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8863-8864)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8738-8739)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Social Security COLA Protection Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2754
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Annuities
Cost of living adjustments
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Medical economics
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Prescription pricing
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Social Security COLA Protection Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to limit increases in the monthly Medicare premium, including the Medicare Advantage prescription drug program premium, to 25 percent of any Social Security cost of living increase.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8740-8741)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8739-8740, S8741-8742)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate