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Guardsmen and Reservists Financial Relief Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2375
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2004-05-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
National Guard
Pension funds
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-03
text: 
Guardsmen and Reservists Financial Relief Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the ten percent penalty on early distributions from tax-exempt retirement plans withdrawals made by military reservists or national guardsmen called to active duty for a period in excess of 179 days or for an indefinite period. Permits reimbursement of such withdrawals within two years after the end of the active duty period. 
 
Applies the provisions of this Act to individuals ordered or called to active duty after September 11, 2001, and before September 12, 2005, for retirement plan distributions made after September 11, 2001.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-05-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4769)
action_date: 2004-05-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Working Family Tax Relief Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2376
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Cost of living adjustments
Earned income tax credit
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Married people
Minimum tax
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax rates
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Working Family Tax Relief Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the scheduled reductions in: (1) the amount of the child tax credit for taxable years 2005 through 2009 (maintains the current $1,000 credit amount for all taxable years after 2004); (2) the basic standard deduction for married taxpayers filing joint returns and surviving spouses for taxable years 2005 through 2008; and (3) the increased upper limit threshold amounts for qualifying married individuals filing joint returns for the 15 and ten percent income tax brackets. Allows an inflation adjustment to such threshold amounts for taxable years beginning after 2003 based on the difference from the Consumer Price Index for 2002. 
 
Exempts from the general terminating date (December 31, 2010) under the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 provisions relating to: (1) the increased upper limit amounts for the ten and 15 percent tax bracket for married taxpayers filing joint returns and surviving spouses; (2) the increase in the child tax credit; (3) the increased standard deduction for married taxpayers filing joint returns; and (4) the earned income tax credit.
 
Extends the increased amounts of the exemption from the alternative minimum tax for individual taxpayers through 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9570)
action_date: 2004-05-07
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4839)
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Lead-Free Drinking Water Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2377
Sponsor: Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Caregivers
Child health
Commerce
Consumer education
Corrosion
Data banks
Day care
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Electronic mail systems
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Families
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Health warnings
Infants
Infrastructure
Internet
Laboratories
Landowners
Lead
Lead poisoning
Medical tests
Municipal services
Parents
Planning
Plumbing
Pollution measurement
Potable water
Pregnant women
Product safety
School buildings
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Telephone
Water pollution control
Water supply
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Lead-Free Drinking Water Act of 2004 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to revise the national primary drinking water regulation for lead to provide adequate protection for individuals affected by lead contamination, particularly vulnerable populations. 
 
Requires the revised regulation to establish a maximum contaminant level or a drinking water treatment technique that meets specified criteria.
 
Directs community water systems or nontransient noncommunity water systems to: (1) annually replace a percentage of non-lead free service lines until all such lines are replaced; (2) provide notice to individuals and entities that may be exposed to lead contamination; (3) provide water lead test results to tested residences; (4) establish a public education program on lead in drinking water; and (5) provide water filters to each residence, school, and day care facility in the service area that reasonably could experience lead contamination.
 
Requires the General Services Administration to conduct water supply testing in Federal buildings and to take related action.
 
Directs each water system to test drinking water for lead contamination within one year. 
 
Requires the Administrator to revise monitoring requirements under the national primary drinking water regulation to incorporate specified criteria.
 
Redefines &quot;lead free&quot; to reduce acceptable lead levels in specified drinking water hardware. Requires new plumbing parts and components to be lead free by January 1, 2005.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish a grant program to address lead contamination in school drinking water.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4839-4840)
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the conveyance of certian public land in Clark County, Nevada, for use as a heliport.

Bill: 108-s-2378
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Air routes
Airports
Animals
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Commerce
Cultural property
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Helicopters
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Mountains
Natural areas
Nature conservation
Nevada
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
User charges
Wilderness areas
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey a specified parcel of Federal land to Clark County, Nevada, for operation of a commercial heliport facility. Prohibits the disposal of such conveyed land by the County.
 
Establishes a conservation fee for, and restricts the flight path of, helicopter tours originating from or concluding at the conveyed land which fly over the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area. Requires collected fees to be deposited into a special account in the Treasury for use by the Secretary in cultural, wildlife, and wilderness resources management on public lands in Nevada.
 
Provides that title to the conveyed land shall revert to the United States if the County ceases to use the land for the purpose described in this Act. Makes the County responsible for any reclamation necessary for reversion.
 
Directs the Secretary to require the County to pay the administrative costs of conveying the land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-748.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4841)
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4840-4841)
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Nebraska.

Bill: 108-s-2379
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Congress
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
Judicial districts
Nebraska
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional district judge for the district of Nebraska.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the President to issue posthumously to the late William "Billy" Mitchell a commission as major general, United States Army.

Bill: 108-s-2380
Sponsor: Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Army
Military promotions
Officer personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Authorizes the President to issue, posthumously, a commission as major general, United States Army, in the name of William &quot;Billy&quot; Mitchell, a former colonel who resigned his commission on February 1, 1926.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4841)
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Central Contractor Registry Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2383
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2004-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Computer matching
Confidential communications
Data banks
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Directories
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax returns
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: 
Central Contractor Registry Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to maintain a centralized, electronic database, to be known as the Central Contractor Registry, for the registration of sources of property and services (contractors) who seek to participate in contracts and other procurements entered into by various Federal procurement officials.
 
Requires the Registry to include certain tax-related information for each contractor, including their taxpayer identification numbers and authorization for the Secretary of Defense to obtain verification of such numbers from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Makes contractors who do not register such information, or who register invalid information, ineligible for contracts entered into under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4913-4914)
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4912-4913)
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Small Business Act to permit business concerns that are owned by venture capital operating companies or pension plans to participate in the Small Business Innovation Research Program.

Bill: 108-s-2384
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2004-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Employee benefit plans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government contractors
Industrial research
Labor and Employment
Law
Pension funds
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Small Business Administration
Small business
Venture capital

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to state that a business shall not be prevented from participating in the Small Business Innovation Research Program (a program under which a portion of Federal agencies' research and development efforts is reserved for award to small businesses) solely because the business is owned in part by: (1) a venture capital operating company managed and controlled by one or more U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens; or (2) an employee benefit or pension plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4915)
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4915)
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the United States courthouse at South Federal Place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the "Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse".

Bill: 108-s-2385
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2004-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Judges
Law
Names
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Designates the U.S. courthouse located at South Federal Place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: 

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

 
Designates the U.S. courthouse located at South Federal Place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse. 

action_date: 2004-07-19
text: 

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

 
Designates the U.S. courthouse located at South Federal Place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-07-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-07-20
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-07-19
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8427; text as passed Senate: CR S8427)
action_date: 2004-07-19
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8427; text as passed Senate: CR S8427)
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 596.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4915)
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4915)
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to direct the Secretary of the Army to provide assistance to design and construct a project to provide a continued safe and reliable municipal water supply system for Devils Lake, North Dakota.

Bill: 108-s-2387
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2004-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Construction costs
Easements
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Municipal services
North Dakota
Right-of-way
Transportation and Public Works
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: 
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to direct the Secretary of the Army to enter into a local cooperation agreement with the non-Federal interest to provide assistance in designing and constructing a project to provide a continued safe and reliable municipal water supply system for Devils Lake, North Dakota.
 

 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4916)
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to make technical corrections to the Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2388
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2004-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alaska
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Indian lands
Indian medical care
Indigenous peoples
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Minorities
Mosquitoes
Native Americans
Pest control
Preventive medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: 
Amends the Mosquito Abatement for Safety and Health Act to allow Indian tribes to apply for grants to: (1) assess the need for mosquito control programs to prevent and control mosquito-borne disease; (2) develop plans for carrying out such programs; and (3) operate such programs. Allows an Indian tribe located on a low-income reservation to receive a grant without conducting an assessment to determine the immediate need for a control program. Defines &quot;low-income reservation&quot; as one on which not less than 40 percent of residents are from families with incomes below the poverty line established annually by the Office of Management and Budget.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
United Nations Oil-for-Food Accountability Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2389
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2004-05-05 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Appropriations
Compensation (Law)
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Evidence (Law)
Finance and Financial Sector
Food relief
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Interest
International relief
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Misconduct in office
Petroleum
President and foreign policy
Privileges and immunities
Public corruption
Sanctions (International law)
United Nations
United Nations finances
United Nations officials

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: 
United Nations Oil-for-Food Accountability Act of 2004 - Requires the withholding of certain FY 2005 and 2006 U.S. contributions to the United Nations (UN) until the President certifies that the UN is cooperating in the investigation of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4916-4917)
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Homeland Security Geospatial Information Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2390
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Aerial photography
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Executive reorganization
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Geodesy
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Hydrology
Intergovernmental relations
Maps
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Remote sensing
Science, Technology, Communications
Space activities
Surveying
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Homeland Security Geospatial Information Act of 2004 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish within the Office of the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Homeland Security the Office of Geospatial Management. Requires the Geospatial Information Officer to: (1) manage the geospatial information needs and activities of the Department; (2) design and implement comprehensive geospatial initiatives for homeland security purposes, including grants for data creation and information sharing agreements with State and local governments; and (3) coordinate and use geospatial information, in cooperation with the Federal Geographic Data Committee, for the use and enhancement of the national spatial data infrastructure for homeland security purposes.
 
Requires that the Intergovernmental Board of Directors of the Geospatial One Stop Project include the Department as a member. Designates the Geospatial Information Officer as the Department's representative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4998-4999)
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Pongsakorn Kaewkornmuang.

Bill: 108-s-2391
Sponsor: Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Makes Pongsakorn Kaewkornmuang eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident of the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, upon payment of the required visa fees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Political Candidate Personal Responsibility Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2392
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Direct mail advertising
Electronic mail systems
Government paperwork
Internet
Newspapers
Photography
Political advertising
Presidential elections
Science, Technology, Communications
Telemarketing
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Political Candidate Personal Responsibility Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 with respect to the publication and distribution of statements and solicitations to: (1) subject a printed communication that is transmitted through the Internet to the same requirements applicable to newspapers, magazines, and other print material; (2) require a campaign communication that is paid for and authorized by a candidate or a candidate's authorized political committee (or its agents), or that is paid for by other persons but authorized by a candidate or the candidate's authorized committee (or its agents) and makes any direct reference to another candidate for the same office, to contain a photo of the candidate and include a printed statement that the candidate has approved the communication; and (3) subject Internet and prerecorded telephone communications to applicable requirements with respect to communications by candidates or authorized persons that pertain to radio and television. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5000)
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4999-5000)
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in Senate