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Americans Outdoors Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2590
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Animals
Citizen participation
Coastal zone
Continental shelf
Demography
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Estuaries
Federal aid to Indians
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Indian lands
Indigenous peoples
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Interstate compacts
Land transfers
Land use
Local finance
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Metropolitan areas
Minorities
Native Americans
Nature conservation
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Open space lands
Outdoor recreation
Parks
Petroleum in submerged lands
Planning
Recreation areas
Restoration ecology
Revenue sharing
Sports and Recreation
State finance
State laws
Urban affairs
Urban areas
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Water rights
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
Americans Outdoors Act of 2004 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to require the transfer of qualified outer continental shelf revenues from the Treasury to specified programs.
 
Rewrites coastal impact assistance program provisions to set forth new formulas for allocating amounts transferred for coastal impact assistance payments among producing States (coastal States within a specified distance from qualified Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas drilling leases) and among coastal political subdivisions.
 
Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (LWCFA) to: (1) establish a new formula for apportioning outdoor conservation and recreation funds to the States (including U.S. territories and the District of Columbia); (2) make Indian tribes eligible for funds under a competitive grants program established by the Secretary of the Interior; and (3) require States to allocate a percentage of their annual apportionment to localities.
 
Requires States seeking LWCFA funds to develop State action agendas.
 
Amends the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to establish a new formula for apportioning Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account funds to include apportionments to Indian tribes.
 
Amends the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978 to: (1) include among that Act's purposes the development of new recreation areas and facilities; and (2) address the treatment of funds transferred under OCSLA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 108-712.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR 6/25/2004 S7447-7452)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/2004 S7446-7447)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Entrepreneurial Incubators Development Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2591
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advertising
Economics and Public Finance
Entrepreneurs
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Intellectual property
Internet
Law
Legal services
Marketing
Rural economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Strategic planning
Urban affairs
Urban economic development

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Entrepreneurial Incubators Development Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to provide financial assistance, through grants, for the establishment and support of entities that provide business incubator services (services necessary for the initiation and initial sustainment of operations of a newly established business, including legal, intellectual property, and technology services and planning) for small- and medium-sized businesses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Agricultural Assistance Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2592
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Animals
Crop insurance
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Farm produce
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Livestock
Losses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
Agricultural Assistance Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide: (1) emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2004 crop losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2004 losses in an emergency- or disaster-designated county.
 
Sets forth crop payment rate and eligibility provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/2004 S7453-7454)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Geriatric and Chronic Care Management Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2593
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Capitation (Medical care)
Caregivers
Case management
Chronically ill
Coinsurance
Community health services
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Disabled
Drugs
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health counseling
Health education
Health planning
Living wills
Long-term care
Medical economics
Medical ethics
Medical fees
Medical records
Medical tests
Medicare
Physicians
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-care
Social Welfare
Telemedicine
Terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
Geriatric and Chronic Care Management Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to provide for Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) coverage of geriatric assessments and chronic care management services for eligible individuals.
 
Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on: (1) the effectiveness of the different payment methodologies applicable with respect to chronic care management services developed and implemented under this Act; (2) the effectiveness of the pay for performance programs to serve Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions, including dementia; (3) process measures and outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic illnesses, including dementia; (4) the cost-effectiveness and quality associated with chronic care management under the Medicare program; and (5) the feasibility of broadening and incorporating the findings of the Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) study into the Medicare program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Access to Assistive Technology for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2595
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
American Samoa
Colleges
Commerce
Computer industry
Computer software
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Curricula
Data banks
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational technology
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Employment of the disabled
Exports
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federally-assisted loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Guam
Higher education
Income tax
Industries
Information technology
Interest rates
Internet
Labor and Employment
Lease and rental services
Loan defaults
Loans
Maintenance and repair
Medical technology
Minorities
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Northern Mariana Islands
Performance measurement
Public-private partnerships
Reading
Research and development
Revolving funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-help devices for the disabled
Small business
Special education
Standards
Statistics
Students
Subsidies
Tax credits
Taxation
Teacher education
Technical education
Technology assessment
Telecommunication industry
Teleconferencing
Telephone
Virgin Islands
Vocational rehabilitation
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
Improving Access to Assistive Technology for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to States for programs for: (1) assistive technology (AT), with required uses of funds for State financing systems to increase access to and funding for AT devices and services, and for device demonstrations, loans, reutilization, training, and technical assistance; and (2) AT-related protection and advocacy services.
 
Authorizes competitive grants for AT-related: (1) supplementary activities; (2) national projects, including research and public awareness; (3) State training, technical assistance, data collection, and reporting; and (4) updating of the National Public Internet Site.
 
Authorizes an assessment of the AT industry.
 
Directs the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration to administer this Act.
 
Repeals the Assistive Technology Act of 1998.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR 6/25/2004 S7463-7472)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/2004 S7461-7463)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic located in Peoria, Illinois, as the "Bob Michel Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".

Bill: 108-s-2596
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Clinics
Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Health
House of Representatives
Illinois
Names
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic located in Peoria, Illinois, as the Bob Michel Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Prescription Drug Price Comparison for Savings Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2597
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Electronic government information
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Internet
Medicaid
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Web sites
Zip code

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
Prescription Drug Price Comparison for Savings Act of 2004 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and maintain an Internet website using the information supplied by participating pharmacies to allow an individual to compare for each zip code the usual and customary prices for a range of strengths and quantities of covered outpatient drugs sold by retail pharmacies that receive Medicaid payments.
 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to direct States to: (1) require a participating pharmacy, concurrent with filling a prescription for an individual receiving assistance under Medicaid, to report to the State its zip code and the usual and customary price for the covered outpatient drug as of the date the prescription is filled; and (2) submit this information to the Secretary to enable the Secretary to post monthly updates on the website.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR 6/25/2004 S7474)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Land Protection and Conservation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2598
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Ecological research
Ecological surveys
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental monitoring
Environmental technology
Federal aid to Indians
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Indian lands
International Affairs
Landowners
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Minorities
National forests
National parks
Native Americans
Non-native species
Oceania
Palau Islands
Pest control
Planning
Planning-programming-budgeting
Public-private partnerships
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
Public Land Protection and Conservation Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide grants to: (1) States to carry out assessment projects consistent with relevant State invasive species management plans to identify invasive species that occur in the State, including methods to control or detect incipient infestations, or control or assess established populations, of invasive species in the State; and (2) appropriate public or private entities and Indian tribes to carry out, in partnership with a Federal agency, control projects for the management or eradication of invasive species on public land.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to States, local governments, nongovernmental entities, and Indian tribes to rapidly respond to outbreaks of invasive species that are at a stage at which rapid eradication or control is possible.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to submit to Congress a budget analysis of Federal programs relating to invasive species, including a list of general priorities of Federal efforts and programs in prevention, detection, eradication, and control of such species.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR 6/25/2004 S7476-7477)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/2004 S7474-7476)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Information Sharing Improvement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2599
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Bank records
Business records
Classified defense information
Commerce
Consumer credit
Counterintelligence
Court records
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Criminal procedure
Department of Justice
EBB Terrorism
Federal employees
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Foreign agents
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grand jury
International Affairs
International cooperation
Law
Minorities
Native Americans
Sabotage
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone
Terrorism
Wiretapping

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
Information Sharing Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal criminal code, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Right to Financial Privacy Act, and the National Security Act of 1947 to authorize the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to disseminate information relevant to an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities only as provided in guidelines approved by the Attorney General (currently, only for foreign intelligence collection or foreign counterintelligence investigations and only if the information is clearly relevant to another agency's authorized responsibilities).
 
Amends the USA PATRIOT Act to allow the disclosure of counterintelligence or foreign intelligence information obtained as part of a national security investigation (currently limited to a criminal investigation).
 
Amends rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to authorize the disclosure of certain grand-jury information to foreign government personnel. Authorizes: (1) a Government attorney to disclose any grand-jury matter involving specified activities, including a threat of attack, sabotage, terrorism, or clandestine intelligence-gathering, to any appropriate Federal, State, State subdivision, Indian tribal, or foreign government official for the purpose of preventing or responding to such a threat; (2) any State or other specified recipients of information under rule 6 to use the information in accordance with guidelines that the Attorney General and the Director of Central Intelligence jointly issue; and (3) the court to allow disclosure of any grand-jury matter at the request of the Government when sought by a foreign court or prosecutor for use in an official criminal investigation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/2004 S7477-7478)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Architect of the Capitol to enter into a contract to revise the statue commemorating women's suffrage located in the rotunda of the United States Capitol to include a likeness of Sojourner Truth.

Bill: 108-s-2600
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Blacks
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Minorities
Monuments and memorials
Sculpture
Slavery
Voting rights
Women
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
Requires the Architect of the Capitol to enter into a contract to revise the statue commemorating women's suffrage located in the rotunda of the United States Capitol (known as the Portrait Monument) to include a likeness of Sojourner Truth. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR 6/25/2004 S7479)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/2004 S7478-7479)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 37, United States Code, to require the payment of monthly special pay for members of the uniformed services whose service on active duty is extended by a stop-loss order or similar mechanism, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2601
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military discharges
Military pay

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
Requires the payment of special monthly pay to members of the uniformed services whose enlistment period is extended, or whose eligibility for retirement is suspended, due to a stop-loss order or similar mechanism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR 6/25/2004 S7480)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/2004 S7479-7480)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
District of Columbia and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program Act

Bill: 108-s-2602
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: American Samoa
Coins and coinage
Commemorations
Copper
District of Columbia
Federal-city relations
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Silver
Urban affairs
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
District of Columbia and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue during 2009 redesigned quarter dollars commemorating the District of Columbia and the U.S. Territories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR 6/25/2004 S7481)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/2004 S7480-7481)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the recognition period for built-ins gains for subchapter S corporations.

Bill: 108-s-2604
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2004-06-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Small business
Tax administration
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from ten to seven years the period during which certain built-in gains of subchapter S corporations are subject to tax.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR 6/25/2004 S7483)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/2004 S7483)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the National Estuary Program.

Bill: 108-s-2606
Sponsor: Sen. Chafee, Lincoln [R-RI]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Authorization
Conferences
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection Agency
Estuaries
Federal aid to water pollution control
Government Operations and Politics
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Marine resources conservation
Planning
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize appropriations for the national estuary program through FY 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7519)
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7519)
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the reliquidation of certain entries of candles.

Bill: 108-s-2607
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2004-07-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: 
Directs the Customs Service to liquidate or reliquidate certain entries of candles without assessment of antidumping duties and interest and to refund any amounts owed. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Introduced in Senate