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To prohibit the anticipated extreme reduction in the national marketing quotas for the 2005 crop of Flue-cured and Burley tobacco, which, if permitted to occur, would mean economic ruin for tobacco farmers and their families.

Bill: 108-hr-4960
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Economics and Public Finance
Farm production quotas
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government lending
Marketing of farm produce
Tobacco
Tobacco exports

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain the national marketing quota for 2005 Flue-cured and Burley tobacco at the 2004 level.
 
Authorizes a producer-owned cooperative marketing association to fully settle a loan made for the 2005 crop of Flue-cured and Burley tobacco by forfeiting to the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) the tobacco covered by the loan regardless of its condition. Provides that: (1) any resultant CCC losses shall not be charged to the No Net Cost Tobacco Account, and shall not affect the amount of certain Flue-cured or Burley tobacco assessments; and (2) forfeited tobacco shall not be counted for the Flue-cured or Burley tobacco quota, nor sold for use in the United States, except that the CCC may market directly or through the use of U.S. leaf dealers such tobacco outside the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4961
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: American Samoa
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Medicaid Act of 2004 - Amends the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to extend the temporary freeze of the Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) for certain States (continuing the FY 2003 FMAP through each calendar quarter of FY 2004, and the FY 2004 FMAP for each calendar quarter of FY 2005 if the FY 2005 FMAP would otherwise be less than the FY 2004 FMAP).
 
Amends the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to increase the FMAP: (1) by 2.95 percentage points for the last two calendar quarters of FY 2003 and the first three calendar quarters of FY 2004; and (2) by 1.60 percentage points for the last calendar quarter of FY 2004 and each calendar quarter of FY 2005.
 
Increases by 5.9 percent the ceiling on Medicaid payments to specified territories for the last two calendar quarters of FY 2003 and the first three calendar quarters of FY 2004. Increases such ceiling by 2.52 percent for the last calendar quarter of FY 2004 and each calendar quarter of FY 2005.
 
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
50 State Capitols Commemorative Currency Program

Bill: 108-hr-4962
Sponsor: Rep. Lampson, Nick [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Money
State legislatures

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
50 State Capitols Commemorative Currency Program - Amends Federal law governing coinage to declare that during the ten-year period beginning on January 1, 2005, the center panel of the reverse side of the $1 Federal reserve notes shall incorporate designs emblematic of the capitols or statehouses of the 50 States, with five States selected each year in the order in which they ratified the Constitution of the United States or were admitted into the Union.
 

 
Proscribes representation of any head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, or any portrait of a living person in the design of a State capitol or statehouse on any such $1 Federal reserve note. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow Federal employees to take time off from work, without loss of time or pay, for the purpose of donating blood.

Bill: 108-hr-4963
Sponsor: Rep. Lampson, Nick [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Blood
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Federal employees
Health
Leave of absence

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Provides that a Federal employee is entitled to leave without loss of, or reduction in, pay, leave to which otherwise entitled, credit for time or service, or performance or efficiency rating for the time necessary to permit such employee to serve as a blood donor. Prohibits such leave from being granted on more than four occasions in a calendar year, or in an amount greater than one day for each donation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Improving Electronic Voting Standards and Disclosure Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4966
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Business records
Commerce
Computer software
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional elections
Crime and Law Enforcement
Election administration
Fraud
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification of criminals
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Law
Licenses
Manufacturing industries
Personnel records
Presidential elections
Quality of products
Science, Technology, Communications
Signs and signboards
Standards
Voting machines

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Improving Electronic Voting Standards and Disclosure Act of 2004 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to: (1) establish specific requirements for software used in electronic voting machines in Federal elections; (2) prohibit Election Assistance Commission accreditation of a laboratory unless it meets standards the Commission may establish to prevent the existence or appearance of any conflict of interest in the testing of voting system hardware and software; and (3) require the posting of notice of the availability of administrative complaint procedures for individuals who believe that a voting machine or other equipment used in the election is not working properly, or who otherwise believe that a State or jurisdiction is not in compliance with the requirements of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Nursing Home Fire Safety Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4967
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Building laws
Commerce
Consumer education
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Fire prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Medicaid
Medicare
Nursing homes
Social Welfare
State laws
Taxation
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Nursing Home Fire Safety Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require automatic fire sprinkler systems in all Medicare and Medicaid funded nursing facilities and provide for reimbursement of the additional costs incurred with respect to installing such systems. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1495-1496)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 25 McHenry Street in Rosine, Kentucky, as the "Bill Monroe Post Office".

Bill: 108-hr-4968
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional tributes
Entertainers
Government Operations and Politics
Kentucky
Music
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 25 McHenry Street in Rosine, Kentucky, as the "Bill Monroe Post Office."
action_date: 2004-12-21
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced in the House on July 22, 2004. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 25 McHenry Street in Rosine, Kentucky, as the &quot;Bill Monroe Post Office.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-12-21
text: Became Public Law No: 108-473.
action_date: 2004-12-21
text: Became Public Law No: 108-473.
action_date: 2004-12-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2004-12-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2004-12-10
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2004-12-10
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2004-12-07
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-12-07
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11877)
action_date: 2004-12-07
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11877)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 10/7/2004 H8272)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR 10/7/2004 H8272)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4968.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR 10/7/2004 H8272)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Mr. Duncan moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1507)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 108-473
To require the annual poverty estimate and the National Assessment of Educational Progress to be subject to certain guidance on the release of information to the public.

Bill: 108-hr-4969
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Government publicity
Income statistics
Law
Office of Management and Budget
Poverty
Social Welfare
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Requires the annual poverty estimate and the National Assessment of Educational Progress to be treated as if they were principal economic indicators and subject to the Statistical Policy Directive on Compilation, Release, and Evaluation of Principal Federal Economic Indicators of the Office of Management and Budget (including its guidance on the release of information to the public).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1508)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Passenger Security Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4970
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air cargo
Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Aviation safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Labor and Employment
Security measures
Transportation workers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Passenger Security Act of 2004 - Amends Federal transportation law to repeal the security screening opt-out program (under which an airport operator may apply to the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to have the screening of passengers and property at the airport be carried out by the screening personnel of a qualified private screening company).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1486-1487)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Restoring Democracy to the U.S. Congress Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4971
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Bribery
Census
Computer crimes
Computer hackers
Congressional committees
Congressional conference committees
Congressional districts
Congressional ethics
Congressional mail
Congressional officers
Congressional publicity
Congressional voting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Franking privilege
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
House rules and procedure
Internet
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Legislative resolutions
Members of Congress
Prosecution
Science, Technology, Communications
Senate rules and procedure
Time

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Restoring Democracy to the U.S. Congress Act of 2004 - Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to address: (1) the time limit on roll call votes; (2) actual voting required in conference committee meetings; (3) waiver of the germaneness requirement for conference reports; (4) removal of Members from committee meetings; (5) a limit on redistricting after an apportionment of Representatives; (6) availability of legislation on the Internet; (7) bribery on the House floor; (8) hacking into other Members' computer files; (9) capping committee mailing expenses; and (10) a requirement that at least one-third of committee budget be provided to the minority ranking member.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-12-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2180)
action_date: 2004-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1481)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Gateway to Democracy Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4972
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Data banks
Directories
Driver licenses
Election administration
Electronic government information
Families
Government paperwork
Minors
Presidential elections
Transportation and Public Works
Voter registration
Voting age

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Gateway to Democracy Act of 2004 - Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to allow individuals under the minimum legal voting age, but who will reach such age before voting, to fill out the voter registration application forms when they get their driver's license.
 
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to maintain information on such individuals and make it available to election officials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1501)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
GRAD Act

Bill: 108-hr-4973
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Community and school
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Higher education
Mathematics
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
Public schools
Reading
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student aid
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Graduation Really Achieves Dreams Act - GRAD Act - Authorizes a grant to Project GRAD USA, a nonprofit educational organization for improving high school graduation and college-going rates for disadvantaged students, to provide technical assistance and support through subgrants to existing and new programs that implement a set of integrated education reform services.
 
Requires the grantee to select only subgrantees that serve a substantial number or percentage of low-income students. Requires the programs to identify one or more groups of public schools at which services will be provided through a feeder pattern through which elementary and secondary schools channel students having participated in program services into an identified high school. Requires program services to include: (1) research-based programs in reading, mathematics, and classroom management; (2) campus-based social services programs, including increasing family and community involvement in schools; (3) a college access program, including providing college scholarships for students who meet established criteria, increasing student and family college awareness, and assisting students to apply for college financial aid; and (4) other services the grantee identifies as necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to require emergency contraception to be included on the uniform formulary of pharmaceutical agents of the pharmacy benefits program of the Department of Defense.

Bill: 108-hr-4976
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Contraceptives
Drugs
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Health
Military medicine
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Requires emergency contraception to be included on the uniform formulary of pharmaceutical agents for the pharmacy benefits program of the Department of Defense.
 
States that no prior authorization may be required for such contraception.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
E-mail Privacy Protection Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4977
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Electronic mail systems
Fines (Penalties)
Internet
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Storage
Telecommunication industry

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Email Privacy Protection Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal criminal code to include within the definition of &quot;electronic communication&quot; (and thus within the scope of provisions regarding the interception of communications) any temporary, intermediate storage of a communication incidental to the electronic transmission thereof.
 
Prohibits a provider of an electronic communication service from acquiring or using the contents of a stored electronic communication of which that provider is not an intended recipient, other than for the purposes of providing that service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House