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Critical Access to Clinical Lab Services Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4257
Sponsor: Rep. Otter, C. L. (Butch) [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2004-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Hospital rates
Medical laboratories
Medical tests
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-30
text: 
Critical Access to Clinical Lab Services Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that clinical diagnostic laboratory services furnished by a critical access hospital shall be treated as being furnished as part of outpatient critical access services without regard to whether: (1) the individual for whom the services are furnished is physically present in the critical access hospital at the time the specimen is collected; (2) such individual is registered as an outpatient on the records of, and receives such services directly from, the critical access hospital; or (3) payment is available for such services under the fee schedule established for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2004-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2004-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2004-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Safe Communities and Safe Schools Mercury Reduction Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4260
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Contractors
Dental care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection Agency
Families
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Hazardous wastes
Health
Health education
Law
Manufacturing industries
Medical supplies
Mercury
Product safety
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recycling of waste products
Refuse and refuse disposal
School buildings
School security

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Safe Communities and Safe Schools Mercury Reduction Act of 2004 - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a grant program for projects to: (1) reduce free-flowing elemental mercury and mercury-added products from the environment; (2) safely dispose of or recycle mercury; (3) educate communities and citizens about mercury's harmful effects; (4) develop and carry out a plan for eliminating free-flowing mercury and instruments containing mercury from K-12 public and private schools; or (5) carry out a mercury thermometer exchange program.
 
Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to: (1) prohibit the sale or supplying of mercury fever thermometers to consumers except by prescription; and (2) require manufacturers of such prescribed thermometers to provide instructions on careful handling to avoid breakage and proper cleanup in the event of breakage. Requires contractors who replace building thermostats in residential or commercial buildings to dispose of replaced thermometers through recycling programs established or participated in by building thermostat manufacturers as required by this Act.
 
Requires the Administrator to publish guidance to assist State and local governments in removing elemental free-flowing mercury and mercury-added instruments from public and private schools.
 
Directs the Administrator to issue regulations requiring dentists to install a device that captures 90 percent or more of mercury-laden amalgam on every chair or office structure in which mercury amalgam is administered to patients.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Reading Failure Prevention Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4261
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Dyslexia
Economics and Public Finance
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Health
Higher education
Medical screening
Reading
School administration
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Reading Failure Prevention Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to States to establish statewide programs for screening children between the ages of five and seven for the prevention of reading failure.
 
Requires a State to agree to use the grant to: (1) develop and implement a program that screens such children for traits that indicate dyslexia or that they are otherwise at risk of reading failure; and (2) provide adequate professional development for personnel who administer screening programs under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E736)
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the calculation of per-unit costs payable under expiring annual contributions contracts for tenant-based rental assistance that are renewed in fiscal year 2004.

Bill: 108-hr-4263
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Housing authorities
Housing subsidies
Public housing
Rental housing

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 to revise the per-unit cost calculation for expiring tenant-based rental assistance contracts under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To provide that when a company makes a charitable donation of equipment, the company is generally not liable for harm later caused by that equipment, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4265
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Aircraft
Aviation safety
Commerce
Corporate philanthropy
Electronics
Equipment and supplies
Federal preemption
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Liability (Law)
Machinery
Motor vehicles
Nonprofit organizations
Office buildings
Office equipment and supplies
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State courts
State laws
Torts
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Protects business entities from civil liability under Federal and State law for any injury or death resulting from: (1) the use of equipment donated to nonprofit organizations by such entities; (2) the authorized use of facilities made available to nonprofit organizations by such entities where the use occurs outside the scope of business; or (3) the authorized operation of aircraft or motor vehicles loaned to nonprofit organizations by such entities for use outside the scope of business. Creates an exception for injuries or death resulting from a business entity's gross negligence or intentional misconduct.
 
Preempts inconsistent State laws unless such laws provide additional protection for business entities or the State elects not to be covered by this Act. Makes the provisions of this Act inapplicable to civil actions in State court where all parties are citizens of the State and the State has opted out of coverage by such election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To reduce until December 31, 2006, the duty on potassium sorbate.

Bill: 108-hr-4266
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemicals
Food additives
Food preservation
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2006, the duty on potassium sorbate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To reduce until December 31, 2006, the duty on sorbic acid.

Bill: 108-hr-4267
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemicals
Food additives
Food preservation
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2006, the duty on sorbic acid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Lead-Free Drinking Water Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4268
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
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: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia Fair Federal Compensation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4269
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Building construction
Capital budgets
Capital investments
Charter schools
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal-city relations
Government trust funds
Higher education
Indexing (Economic policy)
Information technology
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Interest
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Local budgets
Local finance
Maintenance and repair
Payments in lieu of taxes
Public debt
Public schools
Road construction
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
District of Columbia Fair Federal Compensation Act of 2004 - Provides for an annual Federal infrastructure support contribution to the District of Columbia.
 
Establishes the Dedicated Infrastructure Account in the general fund of the District.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E733-734)
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Wrongful Death Accountability Act

Bill: 108-hr-4270
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Employers' liability
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health
Industrial accidents
Law
Occupational health and safety
Recidivists
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Signs and signboards
Wrongful death

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Wrongful Death Accountability Act - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to revise requirements for citations and penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Dual Gateway Policy Review Act

Bill: 108-hr-4271
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Airlines
Airports
Aviation agreements
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Governmental investigations
Infrastructure
Ireland
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Dual Gateway Policy Review Act - Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) review the Irish Government's dual gateway policy (which requires certain air carriers serving Dublin Airport to undertake equal numbers of flights annually to Shannon and Dublin airports), and determine the effects such policy's discontinuation might have on the economies of the United States and Western Ireland before taking any diplomatic action that could end such policy; and (2) consider the effects such discontinuation might have on U.S. businesses operating in Western Ireland and Irish businesses operating in and around Shannon Airport.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E736-737)
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to modify the terms and scope of a land exchange involving Fort Lewis, Washington, authorized between the Secretary of the Army and the Nisqually Tribe and affecting the interests of the Bonneville Power Administration.

Bill: 108-hr-4272
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Easements
Electric power transmission
Energy
Indian lands
Land transfers
Law
Licenses
Military bases
Minorities
Native Americans
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Relocation
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 to modify the terms of an authorized land exchange involving Fort Lewis, Washington, between the Secretary of the Army and the Nisqually Tribe to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Army to make such transfer to the Secretary of the Interior to hold in trust for the Tribe; (2) correct the acreage involved in the exchange; (3) consider such exchange a transfer (currently, a conveyance); (4) provide for the treatment of existing permit rights; and (5) direct the Secretary of the Interior to grant to the Bonneville Power Administration easements across the transferred property as necessary to relocate or reconnect power transmission facilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
United States Military Cancer Institute Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4273
Sponsor: Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cancer
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Defense
Environmental Protection
Environmentally induced diseases
Epidemiology
Ethnic groups
Executive reorganization
Genetic research
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Medical research
Medical tests
Military medicine
Minorities
Nursing
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
United States Military Cancer Institute Act of 2004 - Establishes in the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences the United States Military Cancer Institute to carry out research studies on: (1) the epidemiological features of cancer among populations of various ethnic origins, as well as complementary research on oncologic nursing; (2) the prevention and early detection of cancer; and (3) basic, translational, and clinical investigation matters relating to such studies.
 
Directs the Institute to conduct the study in collaboration with other cancer research organizations and entities selected by the Institute.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Rona Ramon, Asaf Ramon, Tal Ramon, Yiftach Ramon, and Noah Ramon.

Bill: 108-hr-4274
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Makes Rona Ramon, Asaf Ramon, Tal Ramon, Yiftach Ramon, and Noah Ramon each 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: 2004-09-14
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in House