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A bill to provide for the reliquidation of certain entries of clock radios.

Bill: 108-s-2608
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2004-07-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: 
Directs the Customs Service to liquidate or reliquidate certain entries of clock radios and to refund any amounts owed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend and improve national dairy market loss payments.

Bill: 108-s-2609
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2004-07-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Commerce
Dairy industry
Government Operations and Politics
Milk

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 with respect to national dairy market loss payments to: (1) extend, by two years, program sign-up and contract periods; and (2) double single dairy operation payment quantities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2611
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2004-07-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Abandonment of family
Agriculture and Food
Caregivers
Charities
Child abuse
Child health
Child nutrition
Child sexual abuse
Child welfare
Children's rights
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Developing countries
Disabled
Displaced persons
Drugs
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Estates (Law)
Executive reorganization
Families
Food relief
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
International agencies
Labor and Employment
Law
Malnutrition
Medical laboratories
Medical personnel
Medical supplies
Mental health services
Nongovernmental organizations
Orphans
Performance measurement
Poor children
Probate law and practice
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Social Welfare
Sustainable development
U.S. Agency for International Development
United Nations
United Nations finances
Women
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: 
Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries Act of 2004 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to replace the program of assistance to disadvantaged children in Asia with a program of assistance for orphans and vulnerable children in developing countries.
 
Authorizes the President to provide assistance (grants, international organization contributions, or governmental assistance) for orphans and other vulnerable children in developing countries for: (1) basic care; (2) HIV/AIDS treatment, including mental health services; (3) school food programs; (4) education and employment training assistance; and (5) protection of inheritance rights.
 
Establishes within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) an Office for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children.
 
Provides assistance priority for countries with specified HIV levels among women and high-risk groups.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7751)
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Law Enforcement Pension Adjustment Equity Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2612
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2004-07-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil service retirement
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Federal law enforcement officers
Labor and Employment
National parks
Police
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Salaries
Secret service

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: 
Federal Law Enforcement Pension Adjustment Equity Act of 2004 - Amends the Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 to repeal a prohibition against treatment as an increase in salary, for purposes of increased annuitant pension benefits, of the conversion of positions and members of the U.S. Park Police and the Secret Service Uniformed Division to a new salary schedule, and the associated initial adjustments in basic pay rates. (Thus permits cost-of-living adjustments in pension benefits for annuitants of the U.S. Park Police and the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security.
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7752)
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7751-7752)
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Health Preparedness Workforce Development Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2613
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2004-07-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: College costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Local employees
Medical education
Public health
Public health personnel
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
State employees
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: 
Public Health Preparedness Workforce Development Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Public Health Workforce Scholarship Program to assure an adequate supply of public health professionals to eliminate critical public health preparedness workforce shortages in Federal, State, and local public health agencies by offering four-year scholarships in return for employment at such agencies. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish the Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program to provide for the repayment of loans incurred by individuals in the pursuit of the relevant public health preparedness workforce educational degree or certificate in exchange for working at such agencies for at least three years.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants to public health agencies that receive public health preparedness cooperative agreements from the Department of Health and Human Services to operate State and local public health workforce loan repayment programs


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Introduced in Senate
ESRD Modernization Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2614
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2004-07-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Case mix (Medical care)
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Health education
Health surveys
Home care services
Kidney diseases
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical research
Medicare
Nurse practitioners
Nurses
Physicians
Physicians' assistants
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-care
Social Welfare
Social work
Surgeons
Surgery
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: 
ESRD Modernization Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to provide for an annual update mechanism under the Medicare end stage renal disease (ESRD) program to adjust the payment rates for changes in input prices and inflation. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish demonstration projects to: (1) increase public awareness about the factors that lead to chronic kidney disease, how to prevent it, how to treat it, and how to avoid kidney failure; and (2) enhance surveillance systems and expand research to better assess the prevalence and incidence of chronic kidney diseases. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish demonstration projects to enable individuals with ESRD to develop self-management skills. 
 
Provides for Medicare coverage of kidney disease patient education services.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish demonstration projects to evaluate how blood flow monitoring affects the quality and cost of care for Medicare beneficiaries with ESRD; (2) provide appropriate incentives to improve the home dialysis benefit for individuals on behalf of whom payment may be made; (3) enter into an arrangement with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate the barriers to increasing the number of individuals with ESRD who elect to receive home dialysis services under the Medicare program; (4) review the surgical procedures and evaluate whether to include in such procedures the full range of dialysis access procedures and to revise such units to reflect evaluation findings; (5) review the relative value units under Medicare that are applicable with respect to physicians' services for vascular access procedures and revise them to reflect accurately the difficulty of such procedures; and (6) establish demonstration projects under which the Secretary shall evaluate methods that improve the quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries with ESRD.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the impact of the temporary codes for nephrologists' services applicable under the fee schedule for physicians' services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7752-7753)
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to eliminate the consumptive demand exception relating to the importation of goods made with forced labor.

Bill: 108-s-2615
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2004-07-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Forced labor
Human rights
Import restrictions
International Affairs
Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to eliminate the consumptive demand exception to the prohibition against importation of goods manufactured by convict, forced, or indentured labor. (The consumptive demand exception allows importation of such prohibited goods if similar goods are not sufficiently produced in the United States to meet U.S. consumer demand.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Relief for Rural Borderlands Act

Bill: 108-s-2616
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2004-07-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Alien labor
Aliens
Boundaries
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Seasonal labor
Temporary employment
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: 
Emergency Relief for Rural Borderlands Act - States that aliens issued H-2B (temporary nonagricultural worker) nonimmigrant visas may not be counted toward the numerical limitation applicable to such visas during FY 2004 if the alien is working: (1) at a work site in a rural area not more than 50 miles from an international border; and (2) for an employer who has hired H-2B workers during not less than two fiscal years between FYs 1999 and 2003. Requires expedited visa processing for aliens who meet such requirements.
 
Requires these provisions to take effect as if enacted on September 30, 2003.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7753-7754)
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7753)
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Introduced in Senate
No Child Left Behind Appropriations Support Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2617
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2004-07-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Supplemental appropriations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: 
No Child Left Behind Appropriations Support Act of 2004 - Makes a supplemental appropriation for the Department of Education for FY 2004 to carry out this Act. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to make payments in additional amounts to each local education agency (LEA) that receives a lesser amount of funds for FY 2004 than it received for FY 2003 under subpart 2 (Allocations) of part A (Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies) of title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Requires such payments to equal the difference between the amount the LEA would otherwise receive for FY 2004 and the amount the LEA received in FY 2003.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7754)
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7754)
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the annex to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Building and United States Courthouse located at 333 Constitution Ave. Northwest in Washington, District of Columbia, as the "Judge William B. Bryant Annex to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Building and United States Courthouse".

Bill: 108-s-2619
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
District of Columbia
Federal office buildings
Judges
Law
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Designates the annex to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Washington, D.C., as the Judge William B. Bryant Annex to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Building and United States Courthouse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7829)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to extend the pilot program for alternative water source projects.

Bill: 108-s-2621
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase the amount of authorized appropriations for the pilot program for alternative water source projects and extend program authorization through FY 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7835)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7834-7835)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in Senate
SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act

Bill: 108-s-2623
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aliens
Cubans
Haitians
Immigrants
Immigration
Refugees
Right of asylum
Supplemental security income program
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide a two-year extension of supplemental security income (SSI) from FY 2005 through 2007 for qualified aliens (including asylees and certain Cuban and Haitian entrants). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7836-7837)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the United States Trade Representative to pursue a complaint of anti-competitive practices against certain oil exporting countries.

Bill: 108-s-2624
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Cartels
Commerce
Dispute settlement
East Asia
Energy
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Export controls
Free trade
Indonesia
International Affairs
International agencies
Kuwait
Latin America
Middle East and North Africa
Natural gas
Nigeria
Nontariff trade barriers
OPEC countries
Petroleum
Price fixing
Qatar
Restrictive trade practices
Trade negotiations
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Requires the President to initiate consultations with Indonesia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, The United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela to seek their elimination of any action that limits the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product, sets or maintains the price of any such product, or otherwise is an action in restraint of trade with respect to such products when such action constitutes an act, policy, or practice that is unjustifiable and burdens and restricts U.S. commerce.
 
Requires the U.S. Trade Representative to: (1) initiate World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute proceedings if the consultation is not successful with respect to any such country; and (2) take appropriate action regarding the country under U.S. trade remedy laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7838)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7837)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Friends of the Children National Demonstration Act

Bill: 108-s-2625
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: California
Charities
Child abuse
Child welfare
Commerce
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Delaware
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Juvenile delinquency
Massachusetts
Mental illness
Mentoring
New York City
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Performance measurement
Poor children
Public-private partnerships
Social Welfare
Teenage pregnancy
Washington State
Women
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Friends of the Children National Demonstration Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish a national demonstration project regarding early and sustained intervention programs for disadvantaged children and youth, through a project grant to Friends of the Children, National Office, which shall make subgrants to its local chapters in specified cities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7838)
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in Senate
District of Columbia and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program Act

Bill: 108-s-2626
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: American Samoa
Coins and coinage
Commemorations
Copper
District of Columbia
Federal-city relations
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Silver
Urban affairs
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
District of Columbia and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue during 2009 redesigned quarter dollars commemorating the District of Columbia and the U.S. Territories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Closing the Coverage Gap Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2629
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2004-07-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical savings accounts
Medicare
Metropolitan areas
Prescription pricing
Rebates
Social Welfare
Subsidies
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: 
Closing the Coverage Gap Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to eliminate: (1) the initial standard prescription drug coverage limit of $2,250 (adjusted for inflation); and (2) the MedicareAdvantage regional plan stabilization fund.
 
Repeals the Premium Support Demonstration Program.
 
Eliminates Health Savings Accounts under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-09
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 621.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Introduced in Senate