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Pitkin County Land Exchange Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2904
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2004-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Boundaries
Charities
Colorado
Conservation easements
Easements
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Law
Maps
National forests
Open space lands
Outdoor recreation
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: 
Pitkin County Land Exchange Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) and the Secretary of the Interior, upon receipt of title to certain lands located in Pitkin County, Colorado, and certain lands located on Smuggler Mountain in the County, to convey to the County or to the Aspen Valley Land Trust, if the County so requests, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain National Forest and Bureau of Land Management lands located in the County. 
 
Prohibits the conveyance of a specified parcel to the County unless and until specified conditions are met, including that the County grants to the Aspen Valley Land Trust, the Roaring Fork Conservancy, or to another entity mutually agreeable to the County and the Secretary of the Interior, a permanent conservation easement which provides public access to the parcel and limits future use of the parcel to recreational, fish, and wildlife conservation, and open space purposes. 
 
States that lands acquired by the Secretary pursuant to this Act shall become part of White River National Forest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR 10/7/2004 S10577-10578)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/7/2004 S10577)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordability in Medicare Premiums Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2906
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2004-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Budget deficits
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Health maintenance organizations
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medicare
Risk
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: 
Affordability in Medicare Premiums Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for each year beginning with 2005, to reduce the monthly Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) premium rate for each month in the year for individuals not enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan and each individual enrolled under Medicare part B so that the aggregate amount of such reductions in the year equals an amount computed according to a specified formula involving reduced payments to Medicare Advantage organizations.
 
Requires the Secretary, in applying risk adjustment factors to payments to Medicare Advantage organizations, to ensure that such payments are adjusted to reflect the enrollee's health status, including adjusting for the difference between the health status of the enrollee and individuals enrolled under the original Medicare fee-for-service program under Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B. Requires payments to such organizations, in the aggregate, to reflect such differences.
 
Eliminates the MA Regional Plan Stabilization Fund (Slush Fund).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR 10/7/2004 S10580-10581)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/7/2004 S10579-10580)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2908
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2004-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advertising
Animals
Birds
Commerce
Dogs
Evidence (Law)
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate commerce
Law
Postal service
Protection of animals
Sports and Recreation
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: 
Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) sponsoring or exhibiting a bird in a fighting venture in a State where it would not otherwise be in violation of the law, only if the person knew that any bird in the venture was knowingly bought, sold, delivered, transported, or received in interstate or foreign commerce for such purpose; or (2) knowingly sponsoring or exhibiting in an animal fighting venture any other animal that was moved in interstate or foreign commerce.
 
Prohibits knowingly: (1) selling, buying, transporting, delivering, or receiving, for purposes of transportation in interstate or foreign commerce, any dog or other animal to participate in an animal fighting venture; (2) using interstate mail service for commercial speech promoting an animal fighting venture except as performed outside the limits of the States (with an exception for bird fights in States whose laws allow them); or (3) selling, buying, transporting, or delivering in interstate or foreign commerce a knife, gaff, or other sharp instrument to be attached to the leg of a bird for use in an animal fighting venture.
 
Sets penalties of a fine under the code, two years' imprisonment, or both for violations of this Act. (Repeals conflicting provisions of the Animal Welfare Act.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/7/2004 S10582-10583)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Natural Gas Pipeline Enlargement Act

Bill: 108-s-2909
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2004-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Cultural property
Easements
Energy
Gas pipelines
Law
Licenses
National recreation areas
Pennsylvania
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: 
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Natural Gas Pipeline Enlargement Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to grant the Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation an easement to enlarge the diameter of a specified pipeline from 14 inches to not more than 20 inches, consistent with the recreational values and protection of the resources of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Pennsylvania.
 
Authorizes the Superintendent of the Recreation Area to issue a permit to the Corporation for the use of the Recreation Area for temporary construction and staging areas required for the construction of the enlarged pipeline.
 
Requires the Corporation to comply with all requirements for certification by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that are necessary to permit the increase in pipeline size.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from granting additional increases in the diameter of, or easements for, the pipeline within the boundary of the Recreation Area after the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/6/2004 S10583)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Competitive Acquisition Improvement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2911
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Health care fraud
Identification devices
Law
Licenses
Medicaid
Medical supplies
Medicare
Metropolitan areas
Social Welfare
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Medicare Competitive Acquisition Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Moderization Act of 2003, to revise requirements for the phase-in among competitive acquisition areas of Medicare programs for acquisition of competitvely priced items and services. Prescribes a phase-in schedule from FY 2005 through 2007 (currently from FY 2007 through 2009). 
 
Revises the conditions for awarding a competitive acquisition contract to require an entity to have an active National Supplier Clearinghouse identification number and comply with specified additional requirements, including all Federal and State licensure and regulatory requirements. Requires such entity also not to have been suspended within the 12 months preceding its bid for billing for items or services not furnished.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2912
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Adult education
Agriculture and Food
Child development
Child nutrition
Commerce
Community and school
Community health services
Community schools
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Day care
Dental care
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Mental health services
Nonprofit organizations
Nutrition
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Preventive medicine
Problem children
Public-private partnerships
School health programs
School personnel
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Vocational guidance

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to: (1) eligible entities to assist public elementary or secondary schools to function as full-service community schools; and (2) State collaboratives to support development of full-service community school programs. 
 
Requires such schools to: (1) participate in community-based efforts to coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and other comprehensive services through community-based organizations and public and private partnerships; and (2) provide access to such services to students, families, and the community.
 
Gives local grant priority to entities that: (1) will serve at least one school eligible for schoolwide programs under specified provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and more than one full-service community school as part of a community or districtwide strategy; and (2) demonstrate a record of effectiveness in integrating at least three of various qualified services.
 
Establishes a Full-Service Community Schools Advisory Committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act

Bill: 108-s-2913
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Commerce
Community health services
Dislocated workers
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Health
Higher education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Layoffs
Manufacturing industries
Medical education
Medical personnel
Occupational retraining
Paramedical personnel
Plant shutdowns
Social Welfare
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to establish and carry out a health professions training demonstration project that awards grants to eligible entities to train certain unemployed workers from the manufacturing or service sector for employment as health care professionals in communities with manufacturing and service sector job loss, health professional shortages, or health services shortages, or those designated as a medically underserved community.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10706)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10705-10706)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Common Sense Automobile Efficiency Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2914
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Automobile engines
Automobile industry
Biomass energy
Commerce
Compressed natural gas
Consumer education
Cooperative societies
Department of the Treasury
Diesel motor
Electric vehicles
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy crops
Energy efficiency
Energy industries
Energy storage
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Exports
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
High technology
Hydrogen
Income tax
Labeling
Law
Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied petroleum gas
Methanol
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicles
Natural gas vehicles
Retail trade
Sales tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Standards
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax returns
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Common Sense Automobile Efficiency Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the phaseouts of the tax credit for qualified electric vehicles and of the tax deduction for clean-fuel vehicles.
 
Allows a tax credit for investment in certain alternative motor vehicles, including fuel cell vehicles, advanced lean burn technology motor vehicles, hybrid motor vehicles, and alternative fuel motor vehicles. Sets forth formulae for determining the amount of such credit based on various factors, including vehicle weight and fuel efficiency ratings.
 
Allows a tax-exempt cooperative organization to elect to apportion amounts of the small ethanol producer tax credit among its patrons on a pro rata basis. Increases from 30 to 60 million gallons the maximum productive capacity allowed to eligible small ethanol producers for purposes of qualifying for the tax credit.
 
Allows a tax credit for biodiesel used as fuel.
 
Allows a tax credit against the gasoline excise tax for alcohol fuel and biodiesel mixtures.
 
Excludes from the export exemption from certain excise taxes the delivery of a taxable fuel into a fuel tank of a motor vehicle which is shipped or driven outside of the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10708-10713)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10708)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reauthorize programs under section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 636(a)) through September 30, 2005.

Bill: 108-s-2915
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Liens
Loans
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to permanently authorize small business loan provisions concerning: (1) combination financing; (2) loan guarantee fees; (3) express loan requirements; (4) deferred participation loan standards; and (5) increased Small Business Administration (SBA) guaranteed loan limits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Domestic Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2916
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arrest
Assault
Child sexual abuse
Commerce
Compensation for victims of crime
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Criminology
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Housing and Community Development
Imprisonment
Income tax
Informers
Internet
Interstate commerce
Jurisdiction
Labor and Employment
Local laws
Nonprofit organizations
Performance measurement
Police training
Prosecution
Prostitution
Rape
Recidivists
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex crimes
Shelters for the homeless
Social Welfare
State laws
Tax evasion
Taxation
Victims of crimes
Web sites
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Domestic Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2004 - Directs the Attorney General to award grants to States and political subdivisions to establish model law enforcement programs that promote the effective prosecution of purchasers, exploiters, and traffickers of commercial sex acts.
 
Permits the use of grant funds for: (1) prosecutions against purchasers of unlawful commercial sex acts, including through the use of female decoys; (2) prosecutions against traffickers and exploiters of unlawful commercial sex acts, including through surveillance of places of business engaged in such acts; and (3) social service programs operated by non-governmental organizations with special expertise in assisting victims of unlawful commercial sex activities, whose programs offer protection, education, food, and shelter for victims.
 
Amends the Federal criminal code to increase penalties for purchasers of unlawful commercial sex acts. 
 
Requires the Departments of Justice (DOJ), Labor, Health and Human Services, and any other Federal agency involved in combating unlawful domestic sex trafficking and providing services to the victims to coordinate their activities with the Senior Policy Operating Group to ensure that Federal programs directed at domestic trafficking are consistent with Federal enforcement of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
 
Requires the Attorney General to: (1) disseminate best practices for training State and local law enforcement personnel at each annual conference conducted by DOJ; and (2) carry out a biennial comprehensive statistical review and analysis of unlawful commercial sex acts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to establish a centennial challenge program and establish a National Aeronautics and Space Foundation.

Bill: 108-s-2917
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Aeronautics
Astronautics
Atmosphere
Awards, medals, prizes
Commemorations
Economics and Public Finance
Foundations
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Planets
Research and development
Social Welfare
Space activities
Spacecraft
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to: (1) authorize the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to carry out a Centennial Challenge Program to award prizes to stimulate innovation in basic and applied research, technology development, and prototype demonstration that have the potential for application to the performance of NASA's space and aeronautical activities; and (2) establish a charitable and nonprofit corporation to be known as the National Aeronautics and Space Foundation to encourage private gifts of real and personal property for the benefit of, or in connection with, NASA and to further the public's knowledge of, and inspiration by, the Earth and space.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Long-Term Care Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2918
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Long-term care insurance
Medical economics
Pension funds
Tax exclusion
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Long-Term Care Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income distributions from an individual retirement account and other tax-exempt retirement plans used to pay long-term care insurance premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10713-10714)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide funding for Indian tribal prison facilities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2919
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Correctional institutions
Correctional personnel
Crime and Law Enforcement
Income tax
Indian law enforcement
Minorities
Native Americans
Prison overcrowding
Prisoners
Prisons
Tax credits
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable tax credit for investment in Indian tribal prison facility bonds. Requires that 95 percent of the proceeds of such bonds be used for the construction, acquisition, rehabilitation, expansion, or operating expenses of Indian tribal prison facilities and that the term of such bonds not exceed ten years.
 
Establishes a national limitation for Indian tribal prison facility bonds in 2005 through 2007, with no limitation after 2007. Allows a carryover of unused bond limitation amounts to succeeding calendar years. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to allocate bond amounts to Indian tribes based upon specified criteria, including overcrowding, the condition of existing facilities, the health and safety of both inmates and prison employees, and other financial resources available to an Indian tribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10714-10715)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10714)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate