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Children's Development Commission Act (Kiddie Mac)

Bill: 108-hr-5265
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Aid to dependent children
Building laws
Cash welfare block grants
Child development
Child safety
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy conservation
Equipment and supplies
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire prevention
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Home repair and improvement
Law
Liability insurance
Liens
Local laws
Mortgage banks
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Poor children
Preschool education
Presidential appointments
Presidential commissions
Quality of care
Residential rehabilitation
Secondary mortgage market
Social Welfare
Solar energy
Standards
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Children's Development Commission Act (Kiddie Mac) - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to insure mortgages for: (1) new or rehabilitated child care and development facilities, including mortgage insurance for fire safety equipment loans; and (2) purchase or refinance of existing child care and development facilities. 
 
Establishes the Children's Development Commission (Kiddie Mac) which shall: (1) issue facility standards and compliance certifications; and (2) make loans not in excess of $50,000 for facility rehabilitation or renovation. Authorizes appropriations. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a study of the availability of child care facility secondary mortgage markets. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1856-1857)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage investment in facilities which use woody biomass to produce electricity.

Bill: 108-hr-5266
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Biomass energy
Commerce
Electric power production
Energy
Forest management
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Trees
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for up to 20 percent of the basis of qualified woody biomass energy property placed in service in any taxable year. Defines &quot;qualified woody biomass energy property&quot; as new property which is used to produce electricity from woody biomass (e.g., trees and woody plant debris) placed in service before January 1, 2010, and which has a useful life of not less than five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To improve the security clearance process and increase the number of detention beds along the United States-Mexico border.

Bill: 108-hr-5267
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arizona
Armed Forces and National Security
Border patrols
Boundaries
California
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Government Operations and Politics
Identification of criminals
Immigrants
Information technology
International Affairs
Latin America
Mexico
New Mexico
Science, Technology, Communications
Security clearances
Terrorism
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) ensure that Department of Homeland Security personnel along the United States-Mexico border have the security clearances required to access information to adequately screen entering immigrants, including IDENT and IAFIS databases and databases used by the Department's inspectors in secondary inspections; (2) develop the interagency agreements and information technology infrastructure necessary for such screening; and (3) increase by 2,000 the number of detention beds in the Port Isabel Service Processing Center at Los Fresnos, Texas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Fatal Grade Crossing Accident Investigations Act

Bill: 108-hr-5268
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Accident prevention
Death
Emergency Management
Governmental investigations
Railroad safety
Traffic accidents and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Fatal Grade Crossing Accident Investigations Act - Amends Federal transportation law to require the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate all railroad grade crossing accidents that involve a fatality or substantial property damage.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5269
Sponsor: Rep. Pryce, Deborah [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
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: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Education for Public Service Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5270
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Charities
Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Higher education
Income
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Married people
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
State employees
Student loan funds
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Education for Public Service Act of 2004 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise certain student loan income contingent repayment plan requirements with respect to public service employees and married borrowers.
 
Provides public service employees with a shortened maximum student loan repayment period before receiving debt forgiveness under an income contingent repayment plan. Prohibits the Secretary of Education from prescribing such a repayment period exceeding 15 years (instead of the usual 25 years) in the case of those borrowers who, after electing such a plan, have been full-time public service employees for at least eight years, whether or not continuously. 
 
Revises income contingent student loan repayment schedules for married borrowers to attribute to the borrower one-half (rather than all) of the combined adjusted gross income of the borrower and the borrower's spouse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish and award a decoration, to be known as the "Coalition of the Willing Medal", to members of the military services of nations participating with the United States in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Bill: 108-hr-5271
Sponsor: Rep. Shimkus, John [R-IL-19]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Alliances
Commemorations
Crime and Law Enforcement
International Affairs
International military forces
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Military operations
Peacekeeping forces
South Asia
Terrorism
War

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish and award a Coalition of the Willing Medal to members of the military services of nations participating in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom for their participation in either operation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
United States Boxing Commission Act

Bill: 108-hr-5272
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Advice and consent of the Senate
Athletes
Boxing
Bribery
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corruption in sports
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Commerce
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Executive reorganization
Extortion
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health
Injunctions
Internet
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Medical research
Minorities
Native Americans
Occupational health and safety
Organized crime
Parties to actions
Presidential appointments
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
State laws
Subpoena
Sunset legislation
Web sites
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
United States Boxing Commission Act - Establishes the United States Boxing Commission within the Department of Commerce to: (1) protect the general interests of boxers; and (2) ensure uniformity, fairness, and integrity in professional boxing.
 
Requires professional boxing personnel to be licensed and registered by the Commission. Authorizes the Commission to issue, suspend, or revoke such licenses and collect license fees through boxing commissions or by other means.
 
Directs the Commission to: (1) maintain a national registry of boxing personnel; (2) conduct investigations and carry out certain enforcement actions; and (3) study health and safety aspects of boxing.
 

 

 

 
Provides a temporary exemption from licensing requirements under this Act for boxing personnel already licensed by a boxing commission.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1881)
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To convert certain temporary judgeships to permanent judgeships, to create an additional judgeship for the district of Nebraska and for the eastern district of California, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-5273
Sponsor: Rep. Thomas, William M. [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
California
Congress
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Hawaii
Judges
Judicial tenure
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Requires the conversion from temporary to permanent status of the existing district judgeships for the district of Hawaii, the district of Kansas, and the eastern district of Missouri.
 
Directs the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate: (1) one additional district judge for the district of Nebraska; and (2) one additional district judge for the eastern district of California.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To create an additional judgeship for the eastern district of California, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-5274
Sponsor: Rep. Thomas, William M. [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
California
Congress
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
Judicial districts
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
 Directs the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional district judge for the eastern district of California.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
American Indian Veterans Pay Restoration Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5275
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Collection of accounts
Families
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Indian lands
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Military pay
Minorities
State government-Indian relations
State taxation
Survivors' benefits
Tax refunds
Taxation
Veterans' benefits
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
American Indian Veterans Pay Restoration Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary concerned to pay to each person who is a qualifying Indian veteran an amount equal to the amount of that person's basic pay withheld as State income tax for periods of time during which that person was in active service and domiciled in Indian country. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1860)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Federal Employees Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-5276
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Blind
Commerce
Disabled
Dismissal of employees
Employment of the disabled
Federal employees
Government contractors
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Privatization
Sheltered workshops
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Disabled Federal Employees Protection Act - Prohibits the termination of employment of a disabled Federal employee due to a conversion to contractor performance of any activity or function of an executive agency under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 or any other Federal policy, directive, or regulation. Exempts certain nonprofit agencies for the blind or severely handicapped from this prohibition if the terminated Federal employee is offered an equivalent position in the Federal Government or with the nonprofit agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1867-1868)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Nylosan red F-GS SGR.

Bill: 108-hr-5279
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Nylosan red F-GS SGR. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Basic yellow 94.

Bill: 108-hr-5280
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Basic yellow 94.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Acid brown 298.

Bill: 108-hr-5281
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Acid brown 298.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Basic blue 154.

Bill: 108-hr-5282
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Basic blue 154.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Disperse blue 281.

Bill: 108-hr-5283
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Disperse blue 281.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Acid red 336.

Bill: 108-hr-5284
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Acid red 336.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Direct blue 90.

Bill: 108-hr-5285
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Direct blue 90.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in House