{"database": "openregs", "table": "legislation", "is_view": false, "human_description_en": "where congress = 108 and policy_area = \"Economics and Public Finance\" sorted by introduced_date descending", "rows": [["108-hjres-115", 108, "hjres", 115, "Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2005, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-11-24", "2004-12-03", "Became Public Law No: 108-434.", "House", "Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]", "VA", "R", "W000672", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends Federal law to provide further continuing appropriations for FY 2005 until the earliest of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in such law; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) December 8, 2004 (currently, December 3, 2004).", "2023-01-14T22:48:33Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/115"], ["108-hjres-114", 108, "hjres", 114, "Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2005, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-11-19", "2004-11-21", "Became Public Law No: 108-416.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends Federal law to provide further continuing appropriations for FY 2005 until the earliest of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in such law; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) December 3, 2004 (currently, November 20, 2004).", "2023-01-14T22:48:33Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/114"], ["108-s-2986", 108, "s", 2986, "A bill to amend title 31 of the United States Code to increase the public debt limit.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-11-16", "2004-11-19", "Became Public Law No: 108-415.", "Senate", "Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]", "TN", "R", "F000439", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate passed version is repeated here.) Amends Federal law to increase the statutory limit on the public debt from $7.384 trillion to $8.184 trillion.", "2023-01-14T22:48:30Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2986"], ["108-hr-5227", 108, "hr", 5227, "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Hurricane Disasters Assistance Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-10-06", "2004-10-06", "Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Hurricane Disasters Assistance Act, 2005 - Makes FY 2005 emergency supplemental appropriations for additional natural disaster assistance to: (1) the Department of Agriculture for the Emergency Conservation Program of the Farm Service Agency, the Emergency Watershed Protection Program of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Rural Community Advancement Program, the Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account, and Rural Housing Assistance Grants; (2) the Department of Justice for the Federal Prison System for salaries, expenses, buildings, and facilities; (3) the Department of Commerce for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for operations, research, facilities, procurement, acquisition, and construction; (4) the Small Business Administration for the Disaster Loans Program Account; (5) the Department of Defense for operation and maintenance (including transfer of funds in some cases) for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Defense-Wide, Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Army National Guard, Air National Guard, "Other Procurement, Air Force, "Procurement, Defense-Wide," Defense Working Capital Funds, and the Defense Health Program; (6) the Corps of Engineers - Civil for "General Investigations" and "Construction, General," "Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee," "Operation and Maintenance, General," and "Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies;" (7) the U.S. Agency for International Development for International Disaster and Family Assistance; (8) the Department of Homeland Security for the U.S. Coast Guard for Operating Expenses and Emergency Preparedness and Response for Disaster Relief; (9) the Department of the Interior for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service for construction, and the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (10) the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for State and private forestry, the National Forest System, wildlife fire management, and capital improvement and maintenance; (11) the Department of Health and Human Services for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund; (12) the Department of Defense for military construction for the Navy, Marine Corps, and Army Reserve, through FY 2007, family housing operation and maintenance of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and for the Base Realignment and Closure Account; (13) the Department of Transportation for the Federal Aviation Administration for facilities and equipment, Grants-in-Aid for Airports, the Federal Highway Administration for the Emergency Relief Program (including rescission of contract authorization); (14) the Executive Office of the President for unanticipated needs of the American Red Cross; (15) the Department of Veterans Affairs for the Veterans Health Administration for medical services, administration and facilities, general operating expenses, the National Cemetery Administration, construction, and minor projects; (16) the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Community Development Fund; and (17) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for space flight capabilities.", "2023-01-14T22:48:42Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/5227"], ["108-hr-5202", 108, "hr", 5202, "To clarify the treatment of supplemental appropriations in calculating the rate for operations applicable for continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2005.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-10-04", "2004-10-05", "Received in the Senate.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Declares that supplemental appropriations shall be included in the calculation of the rate for operations in FY 2004 appropriations Acts specified by Public Law 108-309 only in accordance with the attachments to Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 04-05 entitled "Apportionment of the Continuing Resolution(s) for Fiscal Year 2005."", "2023-01-14T22:48:43Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/5202"], ["108-s-2863", 108, "s", 2863, "Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2005 through 2007", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-09-29", "2004-09-29", "Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.", "Senate", "Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]", "UT", "R", "H000338", 4, "Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2005 through 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 through 2007 to carry out the activities of the Department of Justice. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Safe Streets Act) to: (1) merge the Byrne grant program and the local law enforcement block grant program into an Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program; and (2) establish within the Office of Justice Programs an Office of Weed and Seed Strategies to prevent, control, and reduce violent crime, criminal drug-related activity, and gang activity. Amends the USA PATRIOT Act to authorize grants for nonprofit neighborhood and community-based victim service organizations and coalitions to improve outreach and services to crime victims. Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act of 2004 - Amends the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to expand its scope to cover acts or threats involving burglary, embezzlement, and fraud in the purchase of securities. Prevention and Recovery of Missing Children Act of 2004 - Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require each State reporting on missing children to ensure that no law enforcement agency within the State establishes or maintains a policy that requires the removal of an entry from its State law enforcement system or the National Crime Information Center computer network based solely on the person's age and provide that any relevant information shall be entered within two hours of receipt. Revises the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act to require the responsible official to obtain from a sex offender who is required to register: (1) information regarding the offender's anticipated future residence, employer's name and address, license plate number and vehicle, and student enrollment; and (2) fingerprints and a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sample, unless they were obtained within the previous three months. Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2004 - Amends the Safe Streets Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program. Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act or PACT Act - Amends the Jenkins Act to prohibit any person or other legal entity from selling, transferring, or shipping cigarettes into a State that taxes the sale or use of cigarettes (or from advertising or offering cigarettes for such a sale or transfer and shipment) without filing specified information with the tobacco tax administrator of such State within a specified time frame. Grants the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives authority to conduct certain undercover investigative operations and to inspect records and cigarettes of cigarette sellers who ship, sell, distribute, or receive any quantity in excess of 10,000 cigarettes within a single month. Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement of 2004 or CREATE Act - Amends patent and trademark law to deem subject matter developed by another person and a claimed invention to have been owned by the same person or subject to an obligation of assignment to the same person, for purposes of provisions that treat inventions of a common owner similarly to inventions made by a single person, if: (1) the claimed invention was made by or on behalf of parties to a joint research agreement that was in effect on or before the date the claimed invention was made; (2) the claimed invention was made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of the agreement; and (3) the application for patent for the claimed invention discloses, or is amended to disclose, the names of the parties to the agreement. Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004 - Amends copyright law to authorize the Attorney General to: (1) commence a civil action against any person who engages in conduct constituting copyright infringement; (2) collect damages and profits resulting from such infringement; and (3) collect statutory damages. Koby Mandell Act of 2004 - Establishes within the Department of Justice an Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism. Seniors Safety Act of 2004 - Directs the Federal Trade Commission to establish procedures regarding telemarketing fraud. Federal Prosecutors Retirement Benefit Equity Act of 2004 - Includes Federal prosecutors within the definition of "law enforcement officer" (thus making them eligible for certain benefits). Anti-Atrocity Alien Deportation Act of 2004 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to provide for the inadmissibility and removability of aliens who have committed or otherwise participated in acts of torture or extrajudicial killings abroad.  Parental Responsibility Obligations Met through Immigration System Enforcement Act or PROMISE Act - Amends the INA to make an alien excludable from U.S. admission for nonpayment of child support, with an exception. Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act - Authorizes the President to present to the personal representative or next of kin of each individual who died on or after September 11, 2001, as a direct result of the act of terrorism within the United States on that date, a Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Congressional Medal. National Film Preservation Act of 2004 - Amends the National Film Preservation Act of 1996 to reauthorize appropriations to the Library of Congress for the National Film Preservation Board. National Film Preservation Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2004 - Amends specified Federal law to reauthorize appropriations to the Library of Congress for the National Film Preservation Foundation.  Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2003 (sic) or DREAM Act - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to repeal the denial of an unlawful alien's eligibility for higher education benefits based on State residence unless a U.S. national is similarly eligible without regard to such State residence. Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Database Act of 2004 or Dru's Law - Directs the Attorney General to establish a national sex offender registry that: (1) makes publicly available, via the Internet, information about sexually violent predators and persons convicted of a sexually violent offense or a criminal offense against a minor; and (2) allows users to determine which registered sex offenders are currently residing within a specified area.", "2023-01-14T22:48:45Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2863"], ["108-hjres-107", 108, "hjres", 107, "Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2005, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-09-28", "2004-09-30", "Became Public Law No: 108-309.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.) Makes continuing appropriations for FY 2005. (Sec. 101) Appropriates amounts for continuing, at the current rate of operations, projects or activities conducted in FY 2004 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were made available in the: (1) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004; (2) Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004; (3) District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2004; (4) Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004; (5) Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004; (6) Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2004; (7) Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004; (8) Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004; (9) Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2004; (10) Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2004; (11) Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004; and (12) Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004. (Sec. 106) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 107 activities authorized for 2004 in title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act with respect to requirements that a State plan provide for making medical assistance available (but only for premiums payable for January 1998 through September 2004) for Medicare cost-sharing for certain qualified Medicare beneficiaries whose income exceeds the threshold level. Deems such activities to be direct spending. (Sec. 107) Provides funding under this resolution until the earliest of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this joint resolution; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) November 20, 2004. (Sec. 112) Continues until the date specified in Sec. 107: (1) specified Franchise Fund pilot programs, including the Treasury Franchise Fund, under the Federal Financial Management Act of 1994; and (2) the Secretary of Defense's temporary limited authority to use operation and maintenance funds for construction projects outside the United States. (Sec. 114) Makes amounts available for the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). Prohibits SNS funds from being made available to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under this joint resolution. Reduces DHS funds made available under this joint resolution by the amount otherwise attributable to SNS funding.  (Sec. 115) Continues, until the date specified in Sec. 107, the development company debenture and small business investment company programs under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. (Sec. 116) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 107 or the enactment into law of a defense authorization Act for FY 2005, whichever is earlier, the authority of the Secretary or the Secretary concerned to: (1) provide, wherever practicable, prepaid phone cards, or an equivalent telecommunications benefit which includes access to telephone service to certain members of the armed forces stationed outside the United States; (2) use Department of Defense (DOD) funds for a unified counterdrug and counterterrorism campaign in Colombia; (3) temporarily waive the limitation on funding for a chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia; (4) provide travel allowances for family members of a member of the armed forces who is ill or injured as a result of service on active duty in support of Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, without regard to whether there is a determination that the presence of the family member may contribute to the member's health and welfare; (5) provide for procurement of civilian attire for a member of the armed forces medically evacuated for treatment in a medical facility, or for travel to a medical facility or the member's home station, by reason of an illness or injury incurred or aggravated on such active duty; and (6) provide an accession bonus for certain pharmacy officers of the uniformed service. (Sec. 117) Extends through the date specified in Sec. 107 the authority of the President to waive certain sanctions imposed on foreign persons in Pakistan before January 1, 2001, for violation of prohibitions of the Arms Export Control Act or the Export Administration Act of 1979 against the transfer of items on the Missile Technology Control Regime. Provides that the prohibitions on the use of funds appropriated under the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004 to provide assistance to any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree, or to furnish assistance to any country in default in excess of a year on payments on a U.S. loan, shall not apply with respect to Pakistan through the date specified in Sec. 107. (Sec. 118) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 107 programs, activities, eligibility requirements, and advisory committees authorized under the Higher Education Act of 1965. (Sec. 119) Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004 to apply a specified earmark of funds for assistance to certain candidate countries under the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 to funds made available by this joint resolution.  (Sec. 120) Amends the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 to extend through the date specified in Sec. 107 the authority of the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia with respect to personnel, procurement, and the preparation of fiscal impact statements during a control period. (Sec. 121) Amends the Panama Canal Act of 1979 to terminate the Panama Canal Commission and the Office of Transition Administration on October 1, 2004. Transfers, upon such termination, the Panama Canal Revolving Fund to the General Services Administration. Specifies the use of such Fund.  (Sec. 122) Makes funding available for administrative expenses of the: (1) Federal Highway Administration; (2) Bureau of Transportation Statistics; (3) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (4) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; and (5) Federal Transit Administration (FTA), in accordance with authorized FTA programs. Makes funding available for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to make grants to and enter into contracts with States for personnel costs for implementation of commercial motor carrier safety improvement grants and contracts, commercial driver's license program improvements, border enforcement operations, and new motor carrier entrant requirements. Deems the availability of funding with regard to contract authority to be direct spending. Continues amounts appropriated or credited to the Highway Trust Fund after the date of any expenditure pursuant to this joint resolution. (Sec. 123) Authorizes the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to undertake any program authorized by title IV of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 in Iraq, subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, through the date specified in Sec. 107. (Sec. 124) Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make $14.61 million available from amounts appropriated in FY 2004 under the heading "Housing for Persons With Disabilities" in title II of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 for amendments to existing tenant-based assistance contracts entered into before FY 2004 pursuant to the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (with only one amendment authorized for any such contract).  (Sec. 125) Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to extend the deadline for the payment of reclamation fees by operators of coal mining operations through the date specified in Sec. 107. (Sec. 126) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 107 certain activities for entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in appropriations Acts for FY 2004, and for activities under the Food Stamp Act of 1977. Declares that, notwithstanding such date, funds shall be available and obligations for mandatory payments due on or about November 1 and December 1, 2004, may continue to be made.  (Sec. 127) Provides a maximum of: (1) $5.087 billion for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC); and (2) $7.8 million for the Election Assistance Commission "Salaries and Expenses." (Sec. 129) Makes funds available under this joint resolution for "Bureau of Indian Affairs - Indian Land and Water Claims Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments to Indians" available for payments by the United States pursuant to the settlement of Seneca Nation of Indians v. State of New York. (Sec. 130) Deems that amounts made available under this joint resolution to carry out assistance in State workers' compensation proceedings in Public Law 106-398 include transfers of funds from other accounts made during FY 2004 to carry out such purposes. (Sec. 131) States that in the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 the terms "expended" and "payment" shall mean "delivered orders-obligations unpaid" as defined in the United States Standard General Ledger Accounts and Definitions. (Sec. 132) Provides $2.5 million for expenses necessary to carry out the Presidential Transition Act of 1963. (Sec. 133) Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 under the heading "Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund" to: (1) increase funding for security and law enforcement from $3.243 billion to $5.090 billion; (2) increase funding for justice, public safety infrastructure, and civil society from $1.318 billion to $1.960 billion; (3) decrease funding for the electric sector from $5.560 billion to $4.455 billion; (4) decrease funding for oil infrastructure from $1.890 billion to $1.723 billion; (5) decrease funding for water resources and sanitation from $4.332 billion to $2.361 billion; (6) increase funding for private sector development from $153 million to $845 million; and (7) increase funding for education, refugees, human rights and governance from $280 billion to $342 billion. (Sec. 134) Amends the Act to increase from $29 million to $119 million funds made available for administrative expenses of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for support of the reconstruction activities in Iraq. Prohibits such funds from being made available to USAID (currently, the Coalition Provisional Authority) for administrative expenses or to pay for a Federal agency's administrative expenses regarding the funds. (Sec. 135) Enacts into law provisions of H.R. 4818 as passed by the House of Representatives on July 15, 2004, that provide for: (1) the availability of certain funds for debt restructuring for Iraq; and (2) a shift from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the Secretary of State of responsibility for a report to Congress on the proposed uses, on a project-by-project basis over a certain three-month period, of appropriations for oversight of Iraq reconstruction. Limits to $360 billion the funds available for Iraq debt restructuring. (Sec. 136) Requires the Corps of Engineers, during the portion of FY 2005 covered by this joint resolution, to continue work on all uncompleted projects underway in FY 2004, notwithstanding budget proposals to withhold funding for shore protection and certain construction projects. Prohibits the Corps from diverting funds into any reserve fund not specifically authorized by an Act of Congress.", "2023-01-13T21:46:44Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/107"], ["108-s-2825", 108, "s", 2825, "Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-09-21", "2004-09-21", "Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 708.", "Senate", "Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]", "MO", "R", "B000611", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes FY 2005 appropriations to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for: (1) veterans' compensation, pensions, and readjustment benefits; (2) veterans' insurance and indemnities; (3) veterans' housing and vocational rehabilitation loan accounts, including Native American and homeless veterans; (4) veterans' medical care; (5) medical and prosthetic research; (6) medical administration; (7) departmental administration; (8) the National Cemetery Administration; (9) the Office of Inspector General; (10) construction; and (11) grants to States for construction of extended care facilities and State veterans cemeteries.  Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds made available under this title.  (Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reimburse the general operating expenses account from the National Service Life Insurance Fund, the Veterans' Special Life Insurance Fund, and the United States Government Life Insurance Fund for the cost of administration of the insurance programs financed through those accounts.  (Sec. 108) Directs the VA to continue until October 1, 2005, the Franchise Fund pilot program for providing administrative support services to designated Federal agencies. Extends program funding through such date.  (Sec. 110) Requires for FY 2005 that funds available in any VA appropriation or fund for salaries and other administrative expenses shall be available to reimburse specified service costs provided by the Offices of Resolution Management and Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication.  (Sec. 111) Prohibits the use of appropriations made by this title for: (1) entering into any new lease of real property with an estimated annual rental of over $300,000, unless the Secretary submits a report which the congressional appropriations committees approve within 30 days after submission; or (2) hospitalization or treatment for non-service-connected disability or illness unless the individual provides accurate insurance and annual income information.  (Sec. 113) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to implement specified provisions of the Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Preparedness Act of 2002 that: (1) establish medical emergency preparedness centers at VA medical centers; and (2) add an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Operations, Preparedness, Security, and Law Enforcement Functions.  (Sec. 114) Deposits and transfers receipts that would otherwise be credited to the Veterans Extended Care Revolving Fund, the Medical Facilities Revolving Fund, the Special Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Fund, the Nursing Home Revolving Fund, the Veterans Health Services Improvement Fund, and the Parking Revolving Fund to the Medical Care Collections Fund and to the Medical Care account.  (Sec. 115) Directs the Secretary to conduct a program of recovery audits for the fee basis and other hospital-related service contracts.  (Sec. 116) Authorizes enhanced-use leasing proceeds in the Medical Care Collection Fund to be transferred to construction accounts and used for VA medical facility construction or improvements.  (Sec. 117) Authorizes any general operating expense FY 2005 appropriation for the Veterans Benefits Administration to be transferred for property management contract use if such contract's administrative costs exceed a specified amount. (Sec. 118) Makes medical services amounts available for: (1) recreational facilities; and (2) funeral expenses for beneficiaries receiving Department care.  (Sec. 120) Authorizes and specifies medical account transfers. (Sec. 121) Authorizes the expenditure of specified funds originally appropriated to the medical care account for emergency expenses resulting from the January 1994 earthquake in Southern California for the same purposes of the medical services account. (Sec. 123) Directs the the Secretary to allow eligible veterans in rural areas of Alaska to obtain medical care from an Indian Health Service or tribal organization facility if no VA health facility or service is available, provided that such service results in no additional VA cost. Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes FY 2005 appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for: (1) public and Indian housing; (2) the Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds; (3) revitalization of severely distressed public housing (HOPE VI); (4) Native American housing block grants; (5) Indian and Native Hawaiian housing loan guarantees; (6) housing opportunities for persons with AIDS; (7) the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development; (8) empowerment zones and enterprise communities; (9) community development block grants and loan guarantees; (10) brownfields redevelopment; (11) the HOME investment partnerships program; (12) homeless assistance grants; (13) housing for the elderly and for persons with disabilities; (14) flexible subsidy fund; (15) manufactured housing fees trust fund; (16) the Federal Housing Administration (FHA); (17) the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA or Ginnie Mae); (18) housing policy development and research; (29) fair housing activities; (20) the Office of Lead Hazard Control; (21) management and administration; (22) the Working Capital Fund; (23) the Office of Inspector General; and (24) the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.  Rescinds specified amounts of rental housing assistance. Cancels specified funds with respect to: (1) the Indian and public housing certificate fund; (2) drug elimination grants for low-income housing; (3) Indian housing loan guarantees and block grants; and (4) housing for the elderly and for persons with disabilities. (Sec. 201) States that 50 percent of budget authority amounts, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured from certain \"qualified projects\" under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 shall be rescinded, or in the case of cash, remitted to the Treasury, and such non-rescinded or non-remitted amounts shall be used by State housing finance agencies or local governments or local housing agencies for certain approved projects. Authorizes the Secretary to use up to 15 percent of such non-rescinded or non-remitted amounts as refinancing incentives for project owners.  (Sec. 202) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used during FY 2005 to investigate or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activities aimed at achieving or preventing government or court action.  (Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make housing for persons with AIDS grants to any State that qualified in a prior fiscal year but does not qualify in FY 2005 due to decreased AIDS cases in non-metropolitan areas of the State.  Allocates certain FY 2005 housing funds for persons with AIDS from New York City, New York, on behalf of the New York-Wayne-White Plains, New York-New Jersey Metropolitan Division of the New York-Newark-Edison, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area to: (1) Jersey City, New Jersey, based on the number of AIDS cases in the portion of the metropolitan area or division that is located in Hudson County, New Jersey; and (2) Paterson, New Jersey, based on the number of AIDS cases in the portion of the metropolitan area or division that is located in Bergen County and Passaic County, New Jersey. Requires the recipient cities to use such amounts in their respective portions of the metropolitan division located in New Jersey. (Sec. 204) Declares, with respect to FY 2005 assisted living facility section 8 rental payments, that a family residing in an assisted living facility in Oakland, Macomb, Wayne, or Washtenaw Counties, Michigan, may be required to pay rent in an amount exceeding 40 percent of its monthly adjusted gross income.  (Sec. 205) Requires HUD to grant awards on a competitive basis.  (Sec. 206) Makes HUD funds subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or other restrictions available, without regard to limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services and services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae), Ginnie Mae, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC or Freddie Mac), Federal Financing Bank (FFB), Federal Reserve banks, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).  (Sec. 207) Limits HUD spending to amounts set forth in budget estimates submitted to Congress.  (Sec. 208) Authorizes HUD corporations and agencies subject to the Government Corporation Control Act to make necessary FY 2005 expenditures without regard to fiscal year limitations. Limits the use of collections of these corporations and agencies (with specified exceptions) to new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this Act, unless they are in support of other forms of assistance provided in this or prior appropriations Acts.  (Sec. 209) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure by HUD of funds provided in this title for technical assistance, training, or management improvements unless HUD provides the appropriations committees with a description of each proposed activity and budget estimates of the associated costs (by March 15, 2005, for FY 2005).  (Sec. 210) Exempts public housing agencies in Alaska, Iowa, or Mississippi from the requirement of having a public housing resident or section 8 recipient on the board of directors. Requires such public housing agencies to establish advisory boards that include public housing tenants and section 8 recipients.  (Sec. 211) Directs the Secretary to: (1) report quarterly regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, and excess funds in each HUD program; and (2) report annually regarding the number of federally assisted units under lease and the per unit cost of these units to HUD.  (Sec. 212) Directs the Secretary, in managing and disposing of any HUD-held multifamily property that is occupied primarily by elderly or disabled families in FY 2005, to maintain any section 8 rental assistance payments that are attached to such dwelling units. Authorizes the Secretary, if such payments are not feasible, to contract for project-based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners of other existing housing properties or provide other rental assistance.  (Sec. 214) Allocates certain FY 2005 housing funds for persons with AIDS from: (1) Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the Wilmington, Delaware-Maryland-New Jersey Metropolitan Division of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metropolitan Statistical Area, to New Jersey based on the number of AIDS cases in the New Jersey portion of the metropolitan area or division; and (2) Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of the Raleigh-Carey, North Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area, to Wake County, North Carolina. Requires that the allocations be used in such Areas.  (Sec. 217) Amends the National Housing Act with respect to grounds for civil penalties for violations by FHA participants and multifamily mortgagors. (Sec. 218) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to: (1) include nursing homes, intermediate care facilities, board and care homes, assisted living facilities, or hospitals among the properties for which the Secretary may recover damages for violations of certain mortgages held under the National Housing Act; and (2) expand the category of persons who may be held liable for such violations. (Sec. 219) Amends the National Housing Act to with respect to payment of mortgage insurance benefits to a mortgagor to: (1) make States or Indian tribes eligible asset purchasers in revitalization areas; and (2) define "State" as any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, or any designated agency or instrumentality.  (Sec. 222) Exempts funds for the PATH Initiative under the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 from certain competitive grant requirements.  (Sec. 223) Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 with respect to specified provisions for housing for the elderly and for persons with disabilities. (Sec. 224) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to prohibit a public housing agency from using funds under this Act for Federal, State, or local election activities.  (Sec. 225) Considers all financial assistance made available to any person by any college or university as adjusted income for rental housing eligibility purposes under the United States Housing Act of 1937. (Sec. 226) States that funds made available for Native Alaskans under the heading "Native American Housing Block Grants" in title II of this Act shall be allocated to the same Native Alaskan Indian Housing block grant recipients that received FY 2004 funds.  (Sec. 227) Makes funds appropriated for housing for the elderly and for supportive housing for persons with disabilities available for maintaining and disposing of such HUD-held properties.  (Sec. 228) Authorizes public housing agencies in tight rental markets to use up to 50 percent of their section 8 assistance for project-based assistance.  (Sec. 229) Authorizes, subject to specified conditions, the transfer of of project-based assistance, debt and statutorily required low-income and very low-income use restrictions from one multifamily housing project to another multifamily housing project. Title III: Independent Agencies - Makes FY 2005 appropriations for: (1) the American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) the Department of the Treasury, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program Account; (4) the Consumer Product Safety Commission; (5) the Corporation for National and Community Service; (6) the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; (7) the Department of Defense (DOD)-Civil for cemeterial expenses, Army; (8) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; (9) the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; (10) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); (11) the Hazardous Substance Superfund, including transfers of funds; (12 ) the Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Office of Environmental Quality; (13) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of Inspector General; (14) the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Citizen Information Center Fund; (15) the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness; (16) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); (17) the National Credit Union Administration; (18) the National Science Foundation (NSF); (19) the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and (20) the Selective Service System. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth conditions and limitations on the obligation and expenditure of funds appropriated or made available under this Act.  (Sec. 410) Expresses the sense of Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made.  (Sec. 411) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for any program, project, or activity when it is made known to the appropriate Federal entity or official that the program, project, or activity is not in compliance with Federal law relating to risk assessment, private property protection, or unfunded mandates.  (Sec. 414) Encourages all Departments and agencies funded under this Act, within the limits of existing statutory authorities and funding, to expand their use of \"E-Commerce\" technologies and procedures. (Sec. 417) Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Act of 1958 to replace the space flight capabilities appropriations account with an exploration capabilities account. (Sec. 418) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement any policy prohibiting the Directors of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks from conducting outreach or marketing to enroll new veterans within their respective Networks.  (Sec. 422) Makes specified NASA funds available to the families of the astronauts who died on the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003.", "2022-02-03T05:37:15Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2825"], ["108-s-2826", 108, "s", 2826, "District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-09-21", "2004-09-22", "See also H.R. 4850.", "Senate", "Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]", "OH", "R", "D000294", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2005 - Title I: Federal Funds - Makes appropriations to the District of Columbia for FY 2005, including amounts for the Federal payments: (1) for District of Columbia Resident Tuition Support; (2) for emergency planning and security costs in the District; (3) to District of Columbia Courts; (4) for Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts; (5) to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (including transfer of funds); (6) to the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority; (7) to the District Department of Transportation for the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative; (8) to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; (9) for the Unified Communications Center; (10) to the District Department of Transportation for a downtown circulator transit system and to offset a portion of the District's allocated operating subsidy payment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; (11) for foster care improvements; (12) to the Chief Financial Officer of the District (CFO); (13) for a school improvement program; and (14) for construction of a bioterrorism and forensics laboratory. Title II: District of Columbia Funds - Appropriates specified sums out of the District's general fund and/or other funds for the current fiscal year for: (1) operating expenses (with limitations); (2) governmental direction and support; (3) economic development and regulation; (4) public safety and justice; (5) the public education system (including transfer of funds); (6) human support services (including transfer of funds); (7) public works; (8) the Cash Reserve; (9) the Emergency and Contingency Reserve Fund; (10) repayment of certain loans and interest; (11) payment of interest on short-term borrowing; (12) principal and interest payments on the District's Certificates of Participation, issued to finance the ground lease underlying the building located at One Judiciary Square; (13) refunds and the payment of legal settlements or judgments that have been entered against the District government; (14) the John A. Wilson Building; (15) workforce investments; (16) certain non-departmental agency costs; (17) pay-as-you-go capital in lieu of capital financing; (18) the Emergency Planning and Security Fund; (19) the Old Convention Center Demolition Reserve; (20) a Tax Increment Financing Program; (21) the Pay-As-You-Go Contingency Fund; (22) the Water and Sewer Authority; (23) the Washington Aqueduct; (24) the Stormwater Permit Compliance Enterprise Fund; (25) the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund; (26) the Sports and Entertainment Commission; (27) the District of Columbia Retirement Board; (28) the Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund; (29) the National Capital Revitalization Corporation; (30) the University of the District of Columbia; (31) the Unemployment Compensation Fund; (32) the District of Columbia Personnel Trust Fund; (33) the District of Columbia Public Library Trust Fund; and (34) capital outlay (including rescissions).  Declares that, if the Chief Financial Officer for the District of Columbia certifies through a revised revenue estimate that funds are available from local funds, such available funds shall be expended as provided in the Contingency for Recordation and Transfer Tax Reduction and the Office of Property Management and Library Expenditures Act of 2004, approved by the Council of the District of Columbia on 1st reading, May 14, 2004 (Bill 15-768), including up to certain amounts to the Office of Property Management, the District of Columbia Public Library, the D.C. Police and Firefighters Retirement and Relief Board, and the Police and Fire Clinic. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized or prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act identical or similar to corresponding provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2004. (Sec. 307) Prohibits Federal funds provided in this Act from being used to carry out lobbying activities on any matter. (Sec. 308) Prohibits the availability of appropriations, without prior approval by the congressional appropriations committees, for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; (2) eliminates a program, project, or responsibility center; (3) establishes or changes allocations specifically denied, limited, or increased under this Act; (4) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or responsibility center for which funds have been denied or restricted; (5) reestablishes any program or project previously deferred through reprogramming; (6) augments existing programs, projects, or responsibility centers in excess of $1 million or ten percent, whichever is less; or (7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel assigned to a specific program, project, or responsibility center. (Sec. 314) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act for abortions except where the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in cases of rape or incest.  (Sec. 315) Bars the use of Federal funds under this Act to implement or enforce: (1) the District of Columbia Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992 (also known as the District Domestic Partner Act); or (2) any system of registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples for purposes of extending them benefits on the same basis as such benefits are extended to legally married couples. (Sec. 319) Prohibits the use of Federal funds contained in this Act: (1) by the District of Columbia Corporation Counsel or any other District government officer or entity to provide assistance for any petition drive or civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for voting representation in Congress for the District; or (2) for any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug (requires individuals or entities who do so to account for all funds used for such program separately from any funds contained in this Act). (Sec. 321) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act: (1) 60 days after its enactment to pay the salary of any chief financial officer of any District government office who has not filed a certification with the Mayor and CFO that the officer understands the duties and restrictions applicable, including reports required as a result of this Act or its amendments; or (2) to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act or any tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) derivative. (Sec. 322) Provides that the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by the electors of the District on November 3, 1998, shall not take effect. (Sec. 323) Provides that nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent the Council or the Mayor of the District of Columbia from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insurance plans. Expresses the intent of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue should include a "conscience clause" which provides exceptions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. (Sec. 324) Requires the Mayor to report quarterly to specified congressional committees on the following District issues: (1) crime; (2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treatment; (3) management of parolees and pre-trial violent offenders; (4) education; (5) improvement in basic District services, including rat control and abatement; (6) application for and management of Federal grants; and (7) indicators of child well-being. (Sec. 326) Prohibits the funds contained in this Act from being used to issue, administer, or enforce any order by the District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights relating to docket numbers 93-030-(PA) and 93-031-(PA) (In The Matter Of: Roland D. Pool and Michael S. Geller (Boy Scouts' Policy of Excluding Homosexuals)). (Sec. 327) Requires the District of Columbia Courts to transfer to the D.C. Treasury all fines levied and collected by the Courts in cases charging Driving Under the Influence and Driving While Impaired. Requires the Office of the Corporation Counsel to use such funds for enforcement and prosecution of District traffic alcohol laws. (Sec. 328) Prohibits funds contained in this Act from being made available to pay: (1) the fees in excess of $4,000 of an attorney who represents a party or defends an action, including an administrative proceeding, brought against the DC Public Schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); or (2) the fees of an attorney or firm whom the CFO determines to have a pecuniary interest, either through an attorney, officer or employee of the firm, in any special education diagnostic services, schools, or other special education service providers. (Sec. 329) Directs the CFO to require attorneys in special education cases brought under IDEA in the District to certify in writing, along with other specified disclosures, that the attorney or representative rendered any and all services for which they receive awards, including those received under a settlement agreement or as part of an administrative proceeding, under IDEA. (Sec. 330) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001 to repeal certain reporting requirements for the inspectors general of Federal agencies regarding the promptness of payments to the District for water and sanitary sewer services. (Sec. 331) Amends the District of Columbia Code to repeal the authority of the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration to approve the bonds of fiduciary employees with the D.C. court system. Repeals: (1) requirements that the Executive and Fiscal Officers in the D.C. court system give bond with two or more sureties with the Joint Committee's approval, in an amount prescribed by the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in the District of Columbia; and (2) similar requirements with respect to the Auditor-Master and the Register of Wills of the Superior Court. (Sec. 332) Provides that travel under Federal supply schedules is authorized for the travel of D.C. court personnel on official business, subject to requirements, conditions, and restrictions prescribed by the Joint Committee. (Sec. 333) Amends the District of Columbia Home Rule Act with respect to the District's emergency cash reserve fund and contingency cash reserve fund. Changes from February 15 to October 1 the deadlines for mandatory annual cash deposits into such funds by the Mayor. Reduces from four percent of operating expenditures to two percent of such expenditures the minimum balance in the emergency cash reserve the Mayor must maintain. Increases from three to four percent of operating expenditures the minimum balance in the contingency cash reserve fund the Mayor must maintain. (Sec. 334) Requires the CFO, for FY 2005, to recalculate such reserve funds (as amended by this Act). Authorizes the CFO, after such recalculation, to transfer funds: (1) between the reserve funds to reach the required percentages; and (2) from them to the General Fund of the District to the extent that such funds are not necessary to meet their established requirements. Bases cash reserve requirements for both funds upon prior year actual expenditures, rather than the proposed expenditures of the current budget year. Extends the replenishment requirement from one year to two years. Prohibits the CFO from transferring funds from the emergency or the contingency reserve funds to the extent that such a transfer would lower the FY 2005 total percentage below seven percent. (Sec. 335) Amends the Policemen and Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act Amendments of 1957 to allow payment of associated administrative expenses from appropriations made to the District to reimburse its retirement and disability benefit payments to or for members of the U.S. Park Police force, the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division, and the U.S. Secret Service Division. (Sec. 336) Appropriates for the Office of the Inspector General (IG) such amounts in local funds, as are consistent with the IG's annual estimates for the expenditures and appropriations necessary for the operation of the Office for FY 2005. (Sec. 337) Extends through FY 2005 the CFO's authority with respect to personnel, procurement, and the preparation of fiscal impact statements during a control period. (Sec. 338) Amends the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1999 to require that the funds provided for establishment of a scholarship fund for D.C. children of adoptive families, and for post high school education and training of D.C. children without parents due to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, once obligated by the District to establish the scholarship fund, remain obligated and be retained by the District for 25 years to allow for any individual within the class to be assisted to reach post high school, and to present expenditures to be extinguished by the fund. (Sec. 339) Amends the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2001 to authorize a recipient (eligible nonprofit corporation) of a grant from the Credit Enhancement Fund for Public Charter Schools in the District to use such funds to carry out activities to assist D.C. public charter schools in establishing regulations for administering lease guarantees to such schools through the credit enhancement fund. Amends the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2003 to place the Office of Public Charter School Financing and Support under the Mayor's authority in lieu of the Department of Banking and Financial Institutions. (Sec. 340) Amends the District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 to declare that a petition to establish a public charter school in the District or to convert a District public school or an existing private or independent school into a public charter school, is a public document. (Sec. 341) Reduces from two-thirds to 51percent the minimum number of full-time teachers employed in a school necessary to endorse a petition to convert a District public school or an existing private or independent school into a public charter school. Grants a teacher employed at a D.C. public school that converts to a public charter school the option of remaining at the charter school during the school's first year of operation after receiving an extended leave of absence. Provides that, after this one-year period, the teacher may continue in such employment at the sole discretion of the public charter school, or shall maintain current status within the D.C. public school system. Modifies the preference in leasing or purchasing former D.C. public school property for a public charter school to require the Mayor and the District government to give a right of first offer (currently, first preference) to be annually reinstated with respect to any facility or property not previously disposed of, or under contract to be disposed of, to an eligible applicant or Board of Trustees.  Modifies the requirement of the Mayor's jurisdiction over such facility or property. Requires the Mayor to have jurisdiction on the effective date of this Act or the Mayor or any successor agency to gain jurisdiction after such date.  Requires the purchase or lease to: (1) be negotiated by the Mayor; (2) include rent or an acquisition price, as applicable, that is at least 25 percent less than the appraised value of the property (based on use of the property for school purposes); and (3) include a lease period, if the property is to be leased, of not less than 25 years, renewable for additional 25-year periods as long as the eligible applicant or Board of Trustees maintains its charter. Grants a D.C. public school approved to become a conversion public charter school the right to exclusively occupy the facilities the school occupied as a D.C. public school under a lease for a period of not less than 25 years, renewable for additional 25-year periods as long as the school maintains its charter at the non-profit rate, or if there is no non-profit rate, at 25 percent less than the fair market rate for school use. (Sec. 342) Requires an eligible chartering authority to ensure that each public charter school complies with annual reporting requirements, including submission of the audited financial statement. Requires the annual report of each eligible chartering authority that issues a charter to include: (1) details of major Board actions; (2) major findings from school reviews of academic, financial, and compliance with health and safety standards and resulting Board action or recommendations; (3) details of the fifth year review process and outcomes; and (4) a summary of annual financial audits of all charter schools, including the number of schools that failed to timely submit the required audited financial statement, those whose audits revealed a failure to follow required accounting practices or other material deficiencies and steps taken by the authority to rectify such deficiencies, and the ones which have required intervention by an authorizing board to address any academic or operational issue and what recommendations the board has made to correct identified deficiencies. (Sec. 343) Requires the Secretary of the Interior to lease to the District government for public recreational use, without consideration and for a 50-year period, specified National Park Service land in Anacostia Park, and the Kenilworth Parkside Community Center (under the District's jurisdiction). Provides that nothing in the Act precludes the District of Columbia from entering into a sublease for all or part of the property with a public not-for-profit entity for the management or maintenance of the property. (Sec. 344) Requires the Comptroller General to conduct biennial management evaluations of the District of Columbia Chartering Authorities for the District of Columbia Public Charter Schools. Specifies the contents of such evaluations. Requires the Government Accountability Office, by May 1, 2005, to submit to congressional appropriations committees a baseline report on the performance of each authorizer in meeting the requirements of the School Reform Act of 1995. Applies to the District of Columbia Board of Education Charter Schools Office's financial statements the same auditing requirements that apply to a District of Columbia Public Charter School Board's financial statements  (Sec. 345) Requires the Public Charter School Board to: (1) maintain its accounts according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for Not-for-Profit Organizations; and (2) forward the findings and recommendations of any audit to the Mayor, the D.C. Council, the appropriate congressional committees, and the CFO. Grants such Board the authority to solicit, award, and execute contracts independently of the Office of Contracting and Procurement and the Chief Procurement Officer. Provides that nothing in the District of Columbia Code regarding procurement shall affect the Board's authority under this Act.", "2022-02-03T05:37:15Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2826"], ["108-s-2806", 108, "s", 2806, "Transportation, Treasury, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-09-15", "2004-09-15", "Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 696.", "Senate", "Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL]", "AL", "R", "S000320", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Transportation, Treasury, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2005 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 for: (1) the Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of the Secretary; (2) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (3) the Federal Highway Administration (FHA); (4) the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (5) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA); (6) the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA); (7) the Federal Transit Administration (FTA); (8) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (9) the Maritime Administration; (10) the Research and Special Programs Administration; (11) the Office of Inspector General; and (12) the Surface Transportation Board. (Sec. 102) Limits to no more than 350 the maximum number of technical staff-years for whose compensation funds may be used under the federally funded research and development center contract between the FAA and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development during FY 2005. (Sec. 104) Authorizes the Administrator of the FAA, for airport projects that will add critical airport capacity to the national air transportation system, to accept funds from airport sponsors (including funds for grants-in-aid to airports) for the FAA to hire additional staff or obtain the services of consultants (provided such funds are used to facilitate the timely processing, review, and completion of environmental activities associated with such projects). (Sec. 105) Extends the Secretary of Transportation's authority to issue war risk insurance through December 31, 2005. (Sec. 112) Directs the Secretary of Transportation to deduct .8 percent of certain highway funds apportioned to States and make such amount available to provide grants to States for: (1) the development or enhancement of notification or communication systems along highways for alerts and other information for the recovery of abducted children; (2) planning, highway corridor development, and highway construction projects in the Delta Regional Authority area; and (3) environmental streamlining activities. (Sec. 113) Rescinds $100 million in appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund. (Sec. 115) Makes the intermodal marine facility at the Port of Anchorage, Alaska, eligible for certain funding purposes as a publicly owned intermodal surface freight transfer facility. (Sec. 116) Directs DOT to complete approval of the proposed surety substitution for one-half of the bond debt service reserve amount for the RETRAC project within 30 days after receiving from RETRAC a binding commitment from a qualified provider to deliver a surety at an acceptable price.   (Sec. 117) Makes funds provided for the Utah-Colorado "Isolated Empire" Rail Connector Study that are unobligated as of October 1, 2004, available to the Central Utah Rail Line (Sigurd/Salina to Levan) Project. (Sec. 118) Designates the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area between Nevada and Arizona as the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. (Sec. 131) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement or enforce any provisions of the Final Rule, issued on April 16, 2003 (Docket No. FMCSA-97-2350), with respect to either: (1) the operators of utility service vehicles; or (2) maximum daily hours of service for drivers engaged in the transportation of property or passengers to or from a motion picture or television production site located within a 100-air mile radius of the work reporting location of such drivers. (Sec. 142) Authorizes the Secretary for FY 2005 to use amounts made available to States for safety incentive grants for use of seat belts for innovative project allocations (not to exceed the prior year's amounts for such allocations) before making such seat belt use incentive grants. (Sec. 151) Amend Federal law to authorize the Alaska Railroad to take any necessary action to preserve, protect, or other modify its railroad tracks and right-of-way including establishing fire breaks. Declares that any activity that occurred before the transfer of the Alaska Railroad from the FRA to the State of Alaska shall remain the liability of the FRA. (Sec. 152) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants from FRA next generation high-speed rail funds to the Illinois Department of Transportation for KBS Railroad track and grade crossing improvements in Kankakee County and Northeastern Illinois. (Sec. 163) Authorizes the use of funds otherwise made available for Alaska or Hawaii ferry boats or ferry terminal facilities to: (1) construct new vessels and facilities, or to improve existing vessels and facilities, including both the passenger and vehicle-related elements of such vessels and facilities, and for repair facilities; (2) initiate and operate a passenger ferryboat services demonstration project to test the viability of different intra- and inter-island ferry boat routes and technology; and (3) acquire passenger ferry boats and to provide passenger ferry transportation services within the areas of Hawaii under the control or use of the National Park Service. (Sec. 165) Increases from three to five the number of pilot projects authorized under the Consolidated Approriations Act, 2004 for cooperative procurement of major capital equipment. Prescribes a procedure for evaluation of proposals. (Sec. 166) Authorizes certain unexpended transportation funds for the Port Authority of Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) for the Airport Busway/Wabash HOV Facility project to be used by the Port Authority for the purchase of buses and bus-related equipment. (Sec. 167) Transfers to the Transit Planning and Research account any unobligated funds made available under the bus category of the Capital Investment Account in a prior fiscal year Appropriations Act for the Greater New Haven (Connecticut) Transit District Fuel Cell and Electric Bus project or CNG/alternative fuel vehicle project. (Sec. 168) Makes certain unobligated FTA, buses and bus facilities funds available to the Matanuska Susitna Borough (Alaska) for expenditure on ferry boat and ferry facilities and related expenses as part of the Port MacKenzie Intermodal Facility project. (Sec. 169) Makes new fixed guideway systems funds otherwise available for the Honolulu, Hawaii, bus rapid transit project also available to the City and County of Honolulu for replacement, rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and related equipment and the construction of bus-related facilities. Transfers any unobligated funds from such project to any eligible entity for use on improvements to the Kapolei Interchange Complex. Makes funds for Hawaii BRT Systems, Appurtenances and Facilities available for bus and bus facilities by the City and County of Honolulu. (Sec. 170) Authorizes the Navy to receive funds from the State of Hawaii for the procurement of passenger ferry boats to provide passenger ferry transportation services for the Arizona War Memorial. (Sec. 171) Directs the TRA to comply with the requirements of the Federal Transit Act of 1998, as amended by the Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004, with respect to the coordinated development and governmental funding of certain Utah transportation projects. (Sec. 173) Transfers to the FRA unobligated funds made available for the Burlington-Bennington, Vermont Commuter Rail project, the Burlington-Middlebury, Vermont Commuter Rail project, the Vermont Transportation Authority Rolling Stock, and the Burlington-Essex, Vermont commuter rail project in order to upgrade and improve the publicly-owned Vermont Rail Infrastructure from Bennington to Burlington with a northern terminus in Essex Junction. Sets the Federal share of project costs at 80 percent. (Sec. 186) Makes DOT appropriations contained in this Act available for the procurement by an agency head of temporary or intermittent services of experts or consultants, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for an Executive Level IV. (Sec. 187) Prohibits funds under this Act from being: (1) made available for salaries and expenses of more than 106 DOT political and Presidential appointees; or (2) used to implement the establishment of a National Highway Safety Advisory Committee. (Sec. 189) Prohibits a recipient of funds made available in this Act from disseminating personal information obtained by a State department of motor vehicles in connection with a motor vehicle record, except for specified permitted uses. (Sec. 191) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to allow the issuer of preferred stock sold to DOT to redeem or repurchase it upon the payment to DOT of an amount determined by the Secretary. (Sec. 192) Prohibits funds in this Act for DOT from being used to make a grant unless the Secretary notifies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations at least three full business days before any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding grant agreement totaling $1 million or more is announced from: (1) any discretionary grant program of the Federal Highway Administration other than the emergency relief program; (2) the airport improvement program of the FAA; or (3) any program of the FTA other than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization programs. Provides that no notification shall involve funds that are not available for obligation. (Sec. 194) Makes recovered improper payments by DOT to a third party contractor under a financial assistance award available to: (1) reimburse the actual expenses incurred in recovering improper payments; and (2) pay contractors for services provided in recovering them. (Sec. 195) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer unexpended balances available for the bonding assistance program from "Office of the secretary, salaries, and expenses" to "Minority business outreach". (Sec. 196) Prohibits funds made available in this Act for DOT from being obligated for the Office of the Secretary to approve assessments or reimbursable agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the modal administrations in this Act, except for activities underway on enactment of this Act, unless such assessments or agreements have completed the normal reprogramming process for congressional notification.  (Sec. 197) Reduces by $20.844 million the funds provided in this Act for the Working Capital Fund. (Sec. 198) Considers for FY 2005 the city of Norman, Oklahoma, to be part of the Oklahoma City Transportation Management Area. (Sec. 199) Prohibits the obligation of funds appropriated under this Act to establish or implement the Essential Air Service (EAS) local participation program, or any similar EAS local participation program.  Title II: Department of the Treasury - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 for the Department of the Treasury, including departmental offices and: (1) the Office of Foreign Assets Control; (2) department-wide systems and capital investments; (2) the Office of Inspector General; (3) Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; (4) the Air Transportation Stabilization Board; (5) the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; (6) the Financial Management Service; (7) the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau; (8) the United States Mint; (9) the Bureau of the Public Debt; and (10) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). (Sec. 216) Amends Federal law to extend from six years to seven years the authorization for the personnel management demonstration project providing for the compensation and performance management of not more than a combined total of 950 employees who fill critical scientific, technical, engineering, intelligence analyst, language translator, and medical positions in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. (Sec. 218) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act or any other Act to merge the U.S. Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without the approval of specified congressional committees. (Sec. 220) Amends Federal law to declare that the Secretary of the Treasury shall not be liable for a payment made by the Secretary or depository in due course and without negligence of an electronic payment issued by the Treasury or the depository. Requires the amount of liability relief to be charged to the Check Forgery Insurance Fund, and any recovery or repayment of a loss for which replacement is made out of the fund to be credited to such fund. (Sec. 221) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report by December 1, 2004, to a specified congressional committee on how certain statutory provisions addressing currency manipulation by America's trading partners can be better clarified administratively to provide for improved and more predictable evaluation, and to enable the problem of currency manipulation to be better understood by the American people and Congress. (Sec. 222) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to administer or enforce Cuban Assets Control Regulations with respect to any travel or travel-related transaction, with specified exceptions, including the administration of general or specific licenses for travel or travel-related transactions and certain business travel transactions. (Sec. 223) Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to use a certain amount of unobligated Department of the Treasury funds to establish the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) in the Department of the Treasury. Provides that the TFI shall be headed by the Under Secretary for Enforcement. Sets forth the functions of the TFI, including to provide policy, strategic, and operational direction to the Department of the Treasury on issues relating to: (1) terrorist financing; (2) financial crimes; (3) U.S. economic sanctions programs; (4) intelligence analysis and coordination functions of the Office of Intelligence Analysis; and (5) other enforcement matters. Title III: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 for compensation of the President and salaries and expenses of designated White House agencies, including: (1) the Council of Economic Advisers; (2) the National Security Council (NSC); (3) the Office of Administration; (4) the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); (5) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; (6) various Federal Drug Control Programs; and (7) special assistance to the President and the official residence of the Vice President. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Authorizes appropriation for FY 2005 for independent agencies, including: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; (2) the Committee For Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled; (3) the Election Assistance Commission; (4) the Federal Election Commission; (5) the Federal Labor Relations Authority; (6) the Federal Maritime Commission; (7) the General Services Administration (GSA); (8) the Merit Systems Protection Board; (9) the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation; (10) the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund; (11) the National Archives and Records Administration; (12) the National Historical Publications and Records Commission; (13) the National Transportation Safety Board; (14) the Office of Government Ethics; (15) the Office of Personnel Management (OPM); (16) the Office of Inspector General; (17) the Office of Special Counsel; (18) the U.S. Postal Service; (19) the U.S. Tax Court; and (20) the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance. (Sec. 407) Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to sell the Middle River Depot at Middle River, Maryland, and credit the proceeds as offsetting collections to the Federal Buildings Fund for appropriate capital activities. (Sec. 408) Amends Federal law to authorize the Administrator to pay direct expenses of highest and best use of property studies, utilization of property studies, deed compliance inspection, and relocation expenses among those incurred for the use of excess Federal property and the disposal of surplus Federal property.. (Sec. 409) Rescinds $106 million of the amounts made available under any Federal law from the Federal Buildings Fund for new construction and repairs and alterations. (Sec. 410) Authorizes the GSA Administrator, in order to address heightened security requirements for the proposed Moss United States Courthouse Annex project, to: (1) acquire and demolish the real property, including land and improvements, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the corner of 400 South Street and West Temple, and known as the Shubrick Building; (2) use previously appropriated project funds to initiate compliance procedures immediately in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act; and (2) redesign the proposed courthouse expansion to incorporate the new site. (Sec. 411) Amends Federal law to terminate the Panama Canal Commission and the Office of Transition Administration on October 1, 2004. Transfers the Revolving Fund to GSA, to be available for payments of any outstanding liabilities of the Commission and for other specified expenditures.  (Sec. 412) Directs the Postmaster General of the U.S. Postal Service to convey to GSA, for specified consideration, the property formerly used as the Main Postal Office Carrier Annex in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and located at 750 Florida Street. Directs the GSA Administrator, not later than ten days after such conveyance, to reconvey such land and improvements, without consideration by quitclaim deed and without recourse, to the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for use as a downtown park or for other public purposes. (Sec. 413) Prohibits the use of funds after July 1, 2005, to provide telecommunications service for any Federal government-owned building, unless it complies with a regulation or Executive Order that requires: (1) the provision of telecommunications services using redundant and physically separate entry points to Federal buildings; and (2) the use of physically diverse local network facilities to provide such services.  (Sec. 420) Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce restrictions or limitations on the Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or to implement certain proposed OPM regulations to add to the Code of Federal Regulations provisions relating to the detail of executive branch employees to the legislative branch. Title V: General Provisions (This Act) - Sets forth permissions for and restrictions upon the use of funds under this Act.. (Sec. 507) Prohibits payment of the salary from any appropriation under this Act for any person filling a permanent or indefinite position formerly held by an employee who has: (1) left to enter the U.S. Armed Forces; (2) satisfactorily completed his period of active military or naval service; (3) within 90 days after release from such service, or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year, applied for restoration to his former position; and (4) been certified by OPM as still qualified to perform the duties of his former position, but not been restored to it. (Sec. 508) Sets forth Buy American requirements, and penalties for their violation.  (Sec. 516) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004 to require all Federal agencies to consult with Alaska Native corporations on the same basis as Indian tribes under Executive Order No. 13175.  (Sec. 517) Prohibits the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, from determining that real estate brokerage activity or real estate management activity is financial in nature, is incidental to any any financial activity, or is complementary to a financial activity. (In effect, prohibits financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities). (Sec. 518) Amends the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to provide that any bond issued or sold by the Tennessee Valley Authority shall not be exempt from regulation under the Act. (Sec. 519) Amends the Denali Commission Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to make lump sum payments to the Denali Commission to construct docks, waterfront development projects, and related transportation infrastructure, provided the local community provides a ten percent non-Federal match in the form of any necessary land or planning and design funds. (Sec. 520) Requires each Federal agency to have a Chief Privacy Officer with primary responsibility for privacy and data protection policy. Requires each agency to establish and implement comprehensive privacy and data protection procedures governing the agency's collection, use, sharing, disclosure, transfer, storage, and security of information in an identifiable form relating to the agency employees and the public. (Sec. 521) Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to authorize the use of contributions accepted by a candidate, and any other donation received by an individual as support for activities as a Federal office holder, for: (1) donations to State and local candidates (subject to State law);or (2) any other lawful purpose not specifically prohibited by the Act. (Sec. 522) Revises the prohibition against the designation as an authorized committee of any political committee which supports or has supported more than one candidate. Increases from $1,000 to $2,000 the ceiling amount of contributions such a committee may make to an authorized committee of any other candidate without violating the prohibition (that is, still be designated as an authorized committee of the first candidate). (Sec. 523) Amends the Former Presidents Act to allow the use of allowance and office staff funds to pay fees of an independent contractor, who is not a staff member, for the review of the former President's Presidential records in connection with their transfer to the National Archives and Records Administration or a Presidential Library, without regard to such Act's limitation on staff compensation.   Title VI: General Provisions (Departments, Agencies, and Corporations) - Sets forth requirements for the use of appropriations by designated departments, agencies, and corporations. (Sec. 617) Sets restrictions upon the use of appropriations by any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality unless it has in place, and will continue to administer in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that all workplaces are free from discrimination and sexual harassment and are not in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (Sec. 632) Amends Federal law to extend from October 1, 2004, to October 1, 2005, the authorization for the franchise fund pilot programs in six executive agencies. (Sec. 633) Prohibits funds from being used by any Federal agency to collect, review, or create any aggregation of data by any means of any personally identifiable information relating to an individual's access to or use of any Federal Government Internet site. (Sec. 634) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to enter into or renew a contract for a Federal employee health plan which includes a provision providing prescription drug coverage, except where the contract also includes a provision for contraceptive coverage. Exempts specified religious plans. Prohibits such a health plan, however, from discriminating against an individual on the basis that the individual refuses to prescribe contraceptives because such activities would be contrary to his or her religious beliefs or moral convictions. (Sec. 640) Requires a pay increase of 3.5 percent for civilian Federal employees, including those of the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, and specified others, for FY 2005. (Sec. 642) Prohibits any limitation under Federal law or regulations from terminating the period within which the head of a Federal agency may initiate or take an administrative offset to collect a Federal claim against a person for money or property, except when a statute explicitly prohibits using administrative offset or setoff to collect the claim or type of claim involved. (Sec. 643) Amends Federal law with respect to the Federal Parent Locator Service to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) information in his or her custody for comparison with information in the National Directory of New Hires about persons who owe delinquent nontax debt to the United States and whose debt has been referred to the Secretary of the Treasury. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to seek information only to the extent necessary to improve collection of such debt (including child support collection). (Sec. 644) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of HHS, upon notification by a State that a person owes a past-due, legally enforceable State unemployment compensation debt, to: (1) reduce the amount of any overpayment payable to such person by the amount of such debt; and (2) pay that amount to the State to satisfy the debt. Sets forth certain priority offset requirements with respect to such overpayments. 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Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 for the Departments of Commerce, of Justice and of State, the judiciary and related agencies. Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for FY 2005 for: (1) general administration, including for a joint automated booking system, an integrated automated fingerprint identification system, office automation expenses of specified organizations, conversion to narrowband communications, administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, the Federal Detention Trustee, violence against women and prevention and prosecution programs, and the Office of the Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, for antitrust enforcement, the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys, interagency drug enforcement, the U.S. Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, fees and expense of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and for certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (4) the U.S. Marshals Service; (5) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), including the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force, the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, and the Terrorist Screening Center; (5) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (6) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; (7) the Federal Prison System, including for the construction of new buildings and facilities and for the Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated (subject to certain limitations on administrative expenses); and (8) the Office of Justice Programs, including State and local law enforcement assistance, the Weed and Seed Program Fund, community oriented policing services, juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers benefits. Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.  (Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. (Sec. 104) Declares that nothing in the prohibition against the use of funds for abortions shall remove the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to receive an abortion outside of a Federal facility. (Sec. 106) Makes funds available for Project Seahawk.  (Sec. 107) Provides additional funds for the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant for the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico.  (Sec. 108) Authorizes the Attorney General to make permanent the Personnel Management Demonstration Project without limitation on the number of employees or the positions covered. (Sec. 109) Authorizes the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to use confiscated funds during undercover operations necessary for the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States.  (Sec. 110) Includes the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives within the class of Federal officers and employees eligible for passenger carrier transport between residence and place of employment.  (Sec. 111) Requires the Bureau of Prisons to submit a comprehensive financial plan to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. Prohibits the rescission, cancellation, or use for any other purpose, of funds appropriated for the Federal Prison System for the construction of new facilities. (Sec. 112) Directs the Bureau of Prisons to implement a pilot program in the Southern District of Florida to allow the Federal Public Defender to transfer government computers for the use of an indigent defendant to review electronic discovery.  (Sec. 113) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for transporting a maximum or high security prisoner to a prison or other facility that is not appropriately secure for housing such a prisoner.  (Sec. 114) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for the purchase by Federal prisons of cable television services or other electronic equipment used primarily for recreational purposes.  (Sec. 115) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act (or any other Act) to acquire or lease a building for an interim FBI Central Records Complex without approval of a report on site-selection for a permanent facility. Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies - Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for FY 2005 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (including transfer of funds); (2) the National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council (including transfer of funds); (3) the International Trade Commission; (4) international trade activities; (5) export administration and national security activities; (6) economic development assistance programs; (7) minority business development; (8) economic and statistical analysis programs; (9) the Bureau of the Census, including for the 2010 decennial census; (10) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (11) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (12) information infrastructure grants; (13) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (including transfer of funds); (14) the Under Secretary for Technology Office of Technology Policy; (15) the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including amounts for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, the Advanced Technology Program, and for construction of new research facilities; (16) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including for the restoration of Pacific salmon populations, the Coastal Zone Management Fund, the Fishermen's Contingency Fund, the Foreign Fishing Observer Fund, and the Fisheries Finance Program Account; and (17) departmental management, including for the U.S. Travel and Tourism Promotion Advisory Board and the Office of Inspector General. Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.  (Sec. 201) Makes Department of Commerce funds available for advanced payments only upon the certification of Department officials that such payments are in the public interest.  (Sec. 205) Specifies amounts available to certain organizations for the promotion and development of fishery products and research pertaining to American fisheries. (Sec. 206) Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to operate a marine laboratory in South Carolina in accordance with a specified memorandum of agreement.  (Sec. 207) Provides that funds made available to administer the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program shall remain available until expended. (Sec. 208) Directs the Secretary to consider fish harvested during a survey for the sablefish fisheries in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska between 1985 and 1990 to count toward a vessel's catch history under the Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota Program.  (Sec. 209) Provides for the financing of a fishing capacity reduction program for the Alaska Purse Seine Fishery. (Sec. 210) Establishes the position of Coordinator for International Intellectual Property Enforcement within the International Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council. (Sec. 211) Specifies funding levels for certain projects within the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  (Sec. 212) Extends through FY 2007 funding for the environmental cleanup of the Pribilof Islands.  (Sec. 213) Authorizes the State of Hawaii to enforce its own laws (to the extent that they are no less restrictive than Federal law) for the operation in State waters of recreational and commercial vessels, for purposes of conservation and management of humpback whales. (Sec. 214) Directs the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish and administer the Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship Program to award scholarships in oceanic and atmospheric science, research, technology, and education, to be known as Ernest F. Hollings Scholarships. Sets forth purposes of and eligibility and repayment requirements for such scholarships. Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 for: (1) the Supreme Court, including care of the court building and grounds; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the court of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services, including for defender services, fees of jurors and commissioners, and court security; (5) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (6) the Federal Judicial Center; (7) judicial retirement funds; and (8) the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.  (Sec. 304) Increases maximum compensation levels for court-appointed criminal defense attorneys and allowances for investigators, experts, and other services under the Criminal Justice Act.  (Sec. 305) Requires the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to submit to: (1) the House and Senate Appropriations Committees a comprehensive financial plan for the Judiciary; and (2) the Senate Appropriations Committee a report on the financial status of the Edwin L. Nelson Local Initiatives Program.  (Sec. 307) Authorizes a salary adjustment for U.S. Justices and judges.  Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 2005 for: (1) the administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) modernization of information technology systems and networks; (4) the Office of the Inspector General; (5) educational and cultural exchange programs; (6) representation allowances; (7) protection of foreign missions and officials; (8) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (9) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) international organizations, conferences, peacekeeping, and commissions; (13) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico; (14) plan preparation and construction of authorized projects; (15) the International Joint Commission and the International Boundary Commission; (16) international fisheries commissions; (17) the Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund; (18) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (19) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (20) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West; and (21) the National Endowment for Democracy.  Makes appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for international broadcasting operations and capital improvements. Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.  (Sec. 402) Bars the use of funds under this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. (Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds under this Act for the operation of a U.S. consulate or diplomatic facility in Jerusalem unless under the supervision of the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, or for the publication of any official government document which lists countries and their capital cities unless the publication identifies Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. (Sec. 405) Directs the Secretary of State to record the place of birth of a U.S. citizen who is born in Jerusalem as Israel. (Sec. 406) Requires the Secretary of State to provide to a Member of the House or Senate Committee on Appropriations a copy of each cable sent to a State Department employee pertaining to any topic specified by the requesting Member within 15 days after the Member's written or verbal request, regardless of the level of classification of the cable. (Sec. 407) Establishes the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization within the Department of State. Sets forth the functions of such Office, including its monitoring functions for the purpose of addressing crises in countries in conflict or civil strife.  (Sec. 409) Enables individuals who were held hostage during 1979 and 1981 by a foreign state to bring a claim for money damages against such state for personal injury caused by an act of torture or hostage taking. Abrogates any provision of the Algiers Accords or other international agreement that would bar any such claim.  (Sec. 410) Amends the Secure Embassy Construction and Counterterrorism Act of 1999 to require all agencies with personnel overseas to participate and provide funding in advance for their share of the costs for providing new, safe, and secure diplomatic facilities. (Sec. 411) Directs the Secretary of State to require each chief of mission to review, at least once every five years, every staff element of chief of mission authority, and to report to Congress, the heads of all affected agencies, and the State Department Inspector General on such reviews.  (Sec. 412) Bars the use of funds under this Act: (1) for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development unless the Secretary of State certifies to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees that such Organization has not taken action against any country that encourages foreign investment by offering tax incentives; and (2) for international efforts to track or report on the investment income of foreigners in the United States. (Sec. 413) Allows the Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to obligate and expend funds notwithstanding provisions requiring an authorization of appropriations. (Sec. 414) Adjusts the percentage limitations on the U.S. share of assessments for United Nation peacekeeping activities for 2004 and 2005. (Sec. 415) Revises the Senior Foreign Service pay system.  (Sec. 416) Extends until September 30, 2007, the termination date for the Advisory Committee on Cultural Diplomacy.  (Sec. 417) Increases or eliminates limits applicable to post differentials and danger pay allowances. (Sec. 418) Modifies personnel review procedures to provide for the separation of members of the Foreign Service who rank in the bottom two percent (currently five percent) of their class at least twice in any five-year period (currently for two or more of a five year period). (Sec. 419) Authorizes the Department of State to settle employee salary claims and other personnel grievances. (Sec. 420) Sets forth a specific date for the issuance by the Office of Personnel Management of regulations relating to retirement credit for overseas service. Title V: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 for: (1) the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (2) the Commission on Civil Rights; (3) the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (4) the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (5) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; (6) the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); (7) the Federal Trade Commission; (8) the Legal Services Corporation with certain specified restrictions; (9) the Marine Mammal Commission; (10) the National Veterans Business Development Corporation; (11) the Securities and Exchange Commission; (12) the Small Business Administration, including the Office of Inspector General, the Surety Bond Guarantees Revolving Fund, the Business Loans Program Account, and the Disaster Loans Program Account; (13) the State Justice Institute; (14) the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission; and (15) the United States Senate-China Interparliamentary Group.  Title VI: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the uses of funds appropriated by this Act. (Sec. 601) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and the Small Business Administration to provide the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations with a quarterly accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated funds made available to such agencies in any previous appropriations Act.  (Sec. 605) Prohibits the availability of funds, without advance notice to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, for obligation or expenditure in FY 2005, through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates new programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted: (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorganizes or renames offices; (6) reorganizes programs or activities; or (7) contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities presently performed by Federal employees. Prohibits, without prior notification to Congress, the availability of funds for obligation or expenditure in FY 2005, for activities, programs, and projects through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $1 million or ten percent, whichever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects (including construction projects), or activities; (2) reduces by ten percent funding for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by ten percent as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress. (Sec. 606) Prohibits the use of funds for the construction, repair (other than emergency repair), overhaul, conversion, or modernization of vessels for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in shipyards outside the United States. (Sec. 607) Disqualifies any person from receiving a contract funded by this Act who intentionally affixes a fraudulent "Made in America" label to any product sold in or shipped to the United States. (Sec. 608) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) implement a certain Memorandum of Agreement between the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice; (2) fund a United Nation peacekeeping mission involving U.S. Armed Forces under the command of a foreign national unless sanctioned by the President; or (3) open, operate, or expand any U.S. diplomatic or consular post in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was not operating on July 11, 1995 or increase the number of personnel assigned in that country, unless Vietnam has cooperated in good faith with the United States in resolving certain POW/MIA issues. (Sec. 612) Limits to 90 percent the funding of the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant to an entity employing a public safety officer who retires or is separated because of injury suffered in the line of duty in an emergency situation or hot pursuit, if that entity fails to provide such officer health insurance benefits at the same level as received while on active duty, or better. (Sec. 613) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products, or seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products, except those not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the same type; or (2) issue visas to any individuals named or implicated in certain killings or murders in Haiti. (Sec. 615) Provides that amounts deposited or available in the Crime Victims Fund in any fiscal year in excess of $625 million shall not be available for obligation until the following fiscal year.  (Sec. 616) Prohibits the use of funds to grant visas to citizens of countries that deny or unreasonably delay accepting the return of their citizens under the Immigration and Nationality Act. (Sec. 618) Prohibits the use of funds to implement any tax or fee for the implementation of the national instant criminal background check system for firearms or any background check system that does not require the destruction of identifying information of any person who has been determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm. (Sec. 619) Requires the Small Business Administration to administer all disaster loans issued in Alaska, and prohibits the sale of such loans. (Sec. 621) Directs the Secretary of Commerce to represent the United States in negotiating and monitoring international agreements regarding fisheries, marine mammals, or sea turtles. (Sec. 622) Prohibits the use of funds to violate provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act denying admissibility to aliens engaged in international child abduction. (Sec. 624) Directs the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of State to study and report to specified congressional committees on all matters relating to interagency review of applications for nonimmigrant visas. (Sec. 625) Prohibits the use of funds for a U.S. contribution to an entity of the United Nations that is chaired or presided over by a country that has provided support for acts of international terrorism, or for the support or use of torture by any official or contract employee of the United States.  (Sec. 627) Rescinds specified unobligated balances available to the Department of Justice for the Working Capital Fund and the Asset Forfeiture Fund. (Sec. 629) Rescinds certain unobligated balances of the Department of Justice, excluding balances for the Office of Justice Programs or for community oriented policing services. (Sec. 630) Modifies certain requirements relating to the diversion control program of the DEA. Declares that reimbursements to DEA from the Diversion Control Fee Account for expenses of the diversion control program shall be made without distinguishing between expenses related to controlled substance activities and expenses related to chemical activities. Defines diversion control program as DEA controlled substance and chemical diversion control activities (related to registration and control of the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of controlled substances and listed chemicals) carried out by the Office of Diversion Control and DEA field diversion elements. (Sec. 631) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by the FCC to modify, amend, or change its rules or regulations for universal service support payments to implement the February 27, 2004 recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service regarding single connection or primary line restrictions on universal service support payments.  (Sec. 632) Allows the unobligated balance under the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 for the necessary expenses of the United States-Canada Alaska Rail Commission to be transferred as a direct lump-sum payment to the University of Alaska. Title VII: Patent and Trademark Fees - (Sec. 701) Establishes patent and trademark fees for FY 2005, including specified: (1) general patent fees; (2) patent maintenance fees; (3) patent search fees; and (4) fees for small entities.  (Sec. 702) Prescribes fees under the Trademark Act of 1946 for electronic and paper applications for trademark registration. (Sec. 703) Sets forth effective dates, applicability and transitional provisions for the revisions in patent and trademark fees under this title. Title VIII: Koby Mandell Act of 2003 - Koby Mandell Act of 2003 - (Sec. 802) Makes certain finding with respect to the murder of U.S. citizens abroad, particularly in areas administered by the Palestinian Authority.  (Sec. 803) Establishes within the Department of Justice an Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism (Office). Assigns responsibility for the Rewards for Justice program to the Office.  Directs the Office to: (1) establish and administer a program for notification of crime victims of efforts to capture terrorists; (2) work with other Federal agencies to expand legal restrictions on the ability of terrorists to profit from their crimes through book sales or movies; (3) investigate foreign police or security forces for terrorist infiltration; (4) undertake a comprehensive assessment of the pattern of U.S. indictments and prosecutions of terrorists who have harmed American citizens overseas; (5) monitor public actions by foreign governments pertaining to terrorists; (6) obtain compensation for American citizens or their families harmed by organizations supporting terrorism. (7) monitor the incarceration abroad of terrorists who have harmed Americans overseas and seek the extradition of terrorists to the United States for prosecution; and (8) identify all terrorists who have harmed U.S. citizens overseas as persona non grata and seek sanctions against such individuals. (Sec. 804) Authorizes appropriations.  Title IX: Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 - Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 - (Sec. 902) Amends the Controlled Substances Act to redefine anabolic steroid to mean any drug or hormonal substance, chemically and pharmacologically related to testosterone (other than estrogens, progestins, corticosteroids, and dehydroepiandrosterone). Sets forth a list of substances included as anabolic steroids. Repeals the authority of the Attorney General to exempt certain substances containing anabolic steroids which have been determined to have no significant potential for abuse from the application of the Controlled Substances Act. (Sec. 903) Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review the Federal sentencing guidelines for offenses involving anabolic steroids and to consider amending such guidelines to increases penalties for such offenses.  (Sec. 904) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for science-based education programs in elementary and secondary schools to highlight the harmful effects of anabolic steroids. Directs the Secretary, in awarding such grants, to give preference to programs helping athletes to avoid steroid use. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 905) Directs the Secretary to ensure that the National Survey on Drug Use and Health includes questions concerning the use of anabolic steroids. Authorizes appropriations.", "2022-02-03T05:37:18Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2809"], ["108-s-2810", 108, "s", 2810, "Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-09-15", "2004-09-15", "Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 699.", "Senate", "Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]", "PA", "R", "S000709", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)  Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and related agencies. Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration, training and employment services; (2) community service employment for older Americans; (3) Federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (4) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (5) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (6) employment and training program administration; (7) the Employee Benefits Security Administration; (8) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (9) the Employment Standards Administration; (10) certain special benefits, including ones for disabled coal miners; (11) the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund; (12) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (13) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (14) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (15) the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (16) the Office of Disability Employment Policy; (17) departmental management; (18) veterans employment and training; (19) the Office of Inspector General; and (20) a working capital fund for a new core accounting system. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 101) Prohibits use of Job Corps funds under this title to pay individual compensation at a rate in excess of Executive Level II. (Sec. 102) Allows not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between appropriations. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer. (Sec. 103) Prohibits, in accordance with a specified executive order, funds under this Act from being obligated or expended for procuring goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested, or services rendered, whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations to the Denali Commission, through the Department of Labor, to conduct job training of the local workforce where Denali Commission projects will be constructed. (Sec. 105) Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue a monthly transit subsidy to the Department's employees in the National Capital Region. (Sec. 106) Requires the Department of Labor to submit its FY 2006 congressional budget justifications to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate using the identical structure provided under this Act. (Sec. 107) Prohibits the use of funds by the Department of Labor to implement or administer any change to specified regulations regarding overtime compensation in effect on July 14, 2004. Makes an exception for specified changes in the Department's final regulation published on April 23, 2004 (thus allowing implementation and administration of rule changes which increase the maximum salary amount at which an employee must receive overtime pay, and the minimum salary amount at which an exemption from overtime pay requirements is triggered). (Sec. 108) Reinstates overtime regulations in effect on July 14, 2004. Makes an exception in order to allow the changes in salary amounts referred to in section 107. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration, for specified health resources and services activities; (2) health education assistance loans; (3) the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund; (4) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), for disease control, research, and training; (5) the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the John E. Fogarty International Center, the National Library of Medicine, and the Office of the Director; (6) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, for substance abuse and mental health services; (7) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (8) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for grants to States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, program management, and the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (9) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to States for child support enforcement and family support programs; (10) low-income home energy assistance; (11) refugee and entrant assistance; (12) payments to States for the child care and development block grant; (13) the social services block grant; (14) children and families services programs; (15) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (16) payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance; (17) the Administration on Aging; (18) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (19) the Office of Inspector General; (20) the Office for Civil Rights; (21) policy research; (22) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (23) the public health and social services emergency fund, for expenses related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, for the Strategic National Stockpile, and for activities to ensure a year-round influenza vaccine production capacity and the development and implementation of rapidly expandable influenza vaccine production technologies, as well as any purchase of such vaccine the Secretary determines necessary. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available through assignment not more than 60 employees of the Public Health Service to assist in child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs through and with funds provided by the Agency for International Development, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization. (Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a certain mandatory breast cancer study under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) or to construct regional centers for primate research under the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993. (Sec. 204) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to pay an individual's salary, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I. (Sec. 205) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act pursuant to specified evaluation provisions of PHSA, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of HHS, prior to a report by the Secretary of HHS to specified congressional committees detailing the planned uses of such funds. (Sec. 206) Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine a portion, up to 2.5 percent, of appropriations for PHSA programs to be made available for evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of such programs. (Sec. 207) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds in this Act for the current fiscal year for the Department of HHS. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional two percent subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 208) Authorizes the Directors of the NIH and of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) jointly to transfer up to three percent among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). (Sec. 209) Requires the amount for research related to HIV (of amounts made available for NIH in this Act), as jointly determined by the Directors of NIH and of OAR, to be made available to the OAR account. Requires the Director of OAR to transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out certain provisions of PHSA. (Sec. 210) Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA, unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to coerce them into engaging in sexual activities. (Sec. 211) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to carry out the Medicare+Choice program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions. (Sec. 212) Declares that no provider of services under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest. (Sec. 213) Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 to extend through FY 2005 certain provisions relating to establishing categories of aliens for purposes of refugee determinations. (Sec. 214) Prohibits funds under by this Act from being used to withhold substance abuse funding from a State pursuant to specified PHSA provisions, if such State certifies to the Secretary of HHS that the State will commit additional State funds to ensure compliance with State laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 18 years of age. Requires the amount of such funds to be committed by a State to equal one percent of its substance abuse block grant allocation for each percentage point by which the State misses the retailer compliance rate goal established by the Secretary of HHS. Requires the State to maintain its expenditures in FY 2005 for tobacco prevention programs and for compliance activities at least at its FY 2004 level, and to add to that level such required additional funds for tobacco compliance activities. Provides that no funds under this Act may be used to withhold such substance abuse funding from a territory that receives less than $1 million of such funding. (Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, in order for the CDCP to carry out international health activities, including those relating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during FY 2005, to utilize specified authorities under: (1) the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956; and (2) other Federal laws to lease, alter, or renovate facilities in foreign countries to carry out such programs. (Sec. 216) Authorizes the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ occupational health professionals and professionals in management and administration. (Sec. 217) Authorizes use funds under this heading to continue operating the Council on Graduate Medical Education. (Sec. 218) Authorizes the NIH Director to use certain available funds to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research in support of the NIH Roadmap Initiative of the Director. Authorizes the Director, in entering such transactions, to determine and use appropriate peer review procedures in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under PHSA. (Sec. 220) Rescinds the unobligated balance of funds appropriated, under certain Social Security Act provisions added by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173), for a program of loans to hospitals to pay capital costs of projects to improve their cancer-related health care infrastructure. (Sec. 221) Prohibits the Secretary of HHS or a Medicare fiscal intermediary or administrative contractor, until nine months after such report is made to Congress and the Secretary, from expending any funds appropriated by this Act or any other Act to: (1) apply certain Medicare program criteria, commonly known as the 75 percent rule, to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility (Sec. 222) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 for the Secretary of HHS, acting through the Bureau of Health Professions of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award up to five four-year grants to higher education institutions to establish summer health career introductory programs for middle and high school students. (Sec. 223) Transfers a specified amount, from funds appropriated to the Department of HHS under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173), to the Office of the Inspector General for oversight of programs established or revised under such Act.  Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the Department of Education for: (1) education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) Indian education; (5) innovation and improvement activities; (6) safe schools and citizenship education; (7) English language acquisition and language enhancement; (8) special education; (9) rehabilitation services and disability research; (10) special institutions for persons with disabilities, including the American Printing House for the Blind, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University; (11) vocational and adult education; (12) certain student financial assistance programs, as well as Federal administrative expenses for such programs (and sets a maximum individual Pell Grant amount); (13) specified higher education programs; (14) Howard University; (15) the college housing and academic facilities loans program account; (16) the historically Black college and university capital financing program account; (17) the Institute of Education Sciences; and (18) departmental management and program administration; (19) the Office for Civil Rights; and (20) the Office of the Inspector General. Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,050 during award year 2005-2006. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 301) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan. (Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds under in this Act to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition. (Sec. 303) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools. (Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer. (Sec. 305) Prohibits the Secretary of Education from implementing or enforcing for award year 2005-2006 any annual update to an allowance for State and other taxes in HEA need analysis to determine students' expected family contributions. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the: (1) Armed Forces Retirement Home; (2) Corporation for National and Community Service, for domestic volunteer service programs and operating expenses; (3) Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (5) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6) Institute of Museum and Library Services; (7) Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; (8) National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (9) National Council on Disability; (10) National Labor Relations Board; (11) National Mediation Board; (12) Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (13) Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account, Federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts, administration, and the Office of Inspector General; (14) Social Security Administration for payments to the Social Security trust funds, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program, and administrative expenses, and the Office of Inspector General; and (15) U.S. Institute of Peace. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act. (Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs, unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs.. (Sec. 506) Sets forth Buy American requirements. (Sec. 508) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act, or in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion, with exceptions specified in section 509 of this Act. (Sec. 509) Provides that the prohibition in section 508 shall not apply to an abortion: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Provides that nothing in section 508 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, entity, or private person of State, local, or private funds (other than a State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a State or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with State funds (other than a State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds). (Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under specified Federal regulations and the Public Health Service Act. Defines "human embryo or embryos" to include any organism, not protected as a human subject under specified Federal regulations as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells. (Sec. 511) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine such advantage. (Sec. 513) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a final standard under the Social Security Act providing for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.  (Sec. 515) Prohibits the Railroad Retirement Board from expending funds appropriated by this Act to enter into an arrangement with a nongovernmental financial institution to serve as disbursing agent, notwithstanding certain requirements under specified Federal law. (Sec. 516) Provides that the United States shall extend Federal recognition to the Native Hawaiian governing entity as the representative governing body of the Native Hawaiian people, pursuant to certain terms and conditions, upon election of the officers of such Native Hawaiian governing entity and certifications by the Secretary of the Interior. (Sec. 517) Conveys the U.S. Government's interest in the property at a certain location in Anchorage, Alaska, to Southcentral Foundation for a replacement Head Start facility.", "2022-02-03T05:37:18Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2810"], ["108-s-2803", 108, "s", 2803, "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-09-14", "2004-09-14", "Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 694.", "Senate", "Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]", "UT", "R", "B000382", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)  Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates FY 2005 funds for the following Department of Agriculture (Department) programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary); (2) executive operations, including Homeland Security Staff; (3) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (4) Office of the Chief Financial Officer; (5) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; (6) Office of Civil Rights; (7) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (8) agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments; (9) hazardous materials management; (10) departmental administration; (11) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations; (12) Office of Communications; (13) Office of the Inspector General; (14) Office of the General Counsel; (15) Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics; (16) Economic Research Service; (17) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (18) Agricultural Research Service; (19) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; (20) Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; (21) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (22) Agricultural Marketing Service; (23) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; (24) Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety; (25) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (26) Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; (27) Farm Service Agency; (28) Risk Management Agency; (29) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; and (30) Commodity Credit Corporation Fund.  Title II: Conservation Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment; and (2) Natural Resources Conservation Service.  Title III: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development; (2) rural development salaries and expenses; (3) Rural Housing Service; (4) Rural Business-Cooperative Service; and (5) Rural Utilities Service.  Title IV: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services; and (2) Food and Nutrition Service.  Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) P.L. 480 program account, title I ocean freight differential grants, and title II grants; (3) McGovern-Dole international food for education and child nutrition program grants; and (4) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) export loans program account.  Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Food and Drug Administration (FDA); (2) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) Farm Credit Administration.  Title VII: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. (Sec. 710) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to pay indirect costs charged against competitive agricultural research, education, or extension grant awards issued by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service that exceed 20 percent of total Federal funds provided under each award. (Sec. 715) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel. (Sec. 720) Prohibits the use of funds for the initiative for future agriculture and food systems, with an exception for administration of prior grants and obligations.  (Sec. 722) Prohibits fund use to relocate a State Rural Development office until cost and operation effectiveness have been determined. (Sec. 723) Makes additional appropriations for Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships. (Sec. 724) Provides that any balances and recoveries available to carry out title III of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 may be used to carry out title II of such Act.  (Sec. 725) Obligates specified amounts of agricultural commodities to assist foreign countries mitigate the effects of HIV and AIDS. (Sec. 726) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase obligated funding for the national sheep industry improvement center revolving fund.  (Sec. 727) Authorizes the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance through the watershed and flood prevention operations program for: (1) the Kuhn Bayou project in Arkansas; (2) the Matanuska River erosion control project in Alaska; (3) the DuPage County watershed project in Illinois; and (4) the Coal Creek project in Utah. (Sec. 728) Prohibits funds under this Act from being transferred to any Federal entity unless authorized by an appropriations Act.  (Sec. 729) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to close or relocate the FDA Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis in Saint Louis, Missouri, outside the city or county limits. (Sec. 730) Authorizes the Department to use any unobligated salaries and expense funds to reimburse the Office of General Counsel for representing its agencies and offices in employee complaints before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, or the Merit Systems Protection Board. (Sec. 731) Authorizes the Secretary to use up to 20 percent of competitive research funds under this Act for a competitive grants program similar to the initiative for future agriculture and food systems.  (Sec. 732) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to carry out CCC-funded rehabilitation of certain dams. (Sec. 733) Prohibits fund use to carry out the rural strategic investment program.  (Sec. 734) Prohibits fund use to carry out the rural firefighters and emergency personnel grant program. (Sec. 735) States that the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration shall not be required to establish obligations and outlays for purchases of interest bearing investments outside of the Treasury under specified circumstances.  (Sec. 736) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified food stamp funds for commodity processing, storage, transporting, and distribution. (Sec. 737) Limits wetlands reserve program enrollment acreage for 2005. (Sec. 738) Limits funds made available in FY 2005 or preceding fiscal years under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to reimburse CCC for the release of certain commodities under the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act. (Sec. 739) Limits funds for the environmental quality incentives program.  (Sec. 740) Authorizes the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide from appropriations financial and technical assistance to the Dry Creek project, Utah. (Sec. 741) Authorizes the Secretary to permit Department employees to carry and use firearms for personal protection in remote locations in the performance of their official duties. (Sec. 742) Prohibits fund use for renewable energy system and energy efficiency improvements assistance.  (Sec. 743) Prohibits, with an FY 2003 exception, fund use for access to broadband telecommunications in rural areas.  (Sec. 744) Prohibits fund use for the agricultural marketing resource center pilot program. (Sec. 745) Directs the Secretary, with lender consent, to structure the annual fee payment schedule for rural electrification and telephone bond and loan guarantees so as not to exceed an average of 30 basis points per year for the term of the loan in order to ensure fund availability to pay related subsidy costs.  (Sec. 746) Limits fund use for the ground and surface water conservation program. (Sec. 747) Limits fund use for the grazing, wildlife habitat incentive, source water protection, and Great Lakes Basin programs. (Sec. 748) Limits fund use for the farmland protection program. (Sec. 749) Appropriates funds to remain available through September 30, 2006, for the Northern Great Plains Regional Authority. (Sec. 750) Limits fund use for the rural business investment program. (Sec. 751) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to revise a proposed rule (July 8, 2003) respecting cost-sharing for animal and plant health emergency programs of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. (Sec. 752) Authorizes Department agencies and offices to use available discretionary funds to prepare for final employment discrimination decisions.  (Sec. 753) States that in the case of a high cost isolated rural area that is not connected to a road system in Alaska, the maximum level for the single family housing assistance shall be 150 percent of the average income level in the metropolitan areas of the State and 115 percent of all other eligible areas of the State.  (Sec. 754) Appropriates funds to the Denali Commission to address solid waste disposal problems which threaten to contaminate rural drinking water supplies.  (Sec. 755) Prohibits, without specific congressional authorization, fund use to study or enter into a contract with a private party for competitive sourcing activities relating to rural development or farm loan programs.  (Sec. 756) States that for all rural development mission area programs in Honolulu County, Hawaii, the Secretary may designate any portion of the county as a rural area or eligible rural community, except for any area included in the Honolulu Census Designated Place as determined by the Secretary of Commerce.  (Sec. 757) Authorizes community facility program borrowers and grantees to enter into service contracts with not-for-profit third parties.  (Sec. 758) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative aircraft lease agreements under the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. (Sec. 759) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make funding and other assistance available through the emergency watershed protection program to repair and prevent damage to nonfederal land in watersheds that have been impaired by fires initiated by the Federal Government; and (2) waive related cost sharing requirements. (Sec. 760) States that the Alaska Department of Community and Economic Development shall be: (1) eligible to receive a water and waste disposal grant for up to 75 percent of the cost of providing water and sewer service to the proposed hospital in the Matanuska-SusitnaBorough, Alaska; and (2) allowed to pass the grant funds to the local government entity that will provide such service. (Sec. 761) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to make certain previously-enrolled land planted to hardwood trees ineligible for the conservation reserve program.  (Sec. 762) Rescinds specified unobligated funds in the Local Television Loan Guarantee Program account. (Sec. 763) Requires written approval by the Department's Chief Information Officer prior to obligation of funds for any technology information project in excess of $25,000. (Sec. 764) Limits funds for the bioenergy program. (Sec. 765) Amends the Food Security Act to provide privacy protection for certain farm product sellers by using a "unique identifier" selected by the Secretary of State using a selection system or method approved by the Secretary. (Sec. 766) Makes the following construction projects eligible for community facilities grants (75 percent maximum): (1) the Tri-Valley Community Center addition in Healy, Alaska; (2) the Cold Climate Housing Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska; and (3) the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Allied Health Learning Center skill labs/classrooms. (Sec. 767) Amends the Equity in Educational Land Grant Status Act of 1994 to include Tohono O`odham Community College among the "1994 Institutions." (Makes such College eligible for land-grant college benefits as provided for by such Act.) (Sec. 768) Rescinds specified unobligated funds in the agricultural conservation program account. (Sec. 769) Makes funds available to the Dakota Value Capture Cooperative under the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 available until expended for a project conducted by the Dakota Value Capture Cooperative at South Dakota State University. (Sec. 770) Prohibits fund use to pay the administrative expenses of a State agency that authorizes any new for-profit vendor to transact Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food instruments if more than 50 percent of the vendor's expected annual food sales will be derived from the sale of WIC-obtained supplemental foods. Permits such vendor's authorization to assure participant access to program benefits. (Sec. 771) Rescinds specified unobligated funds: (1) under the Act of August 24, 1935; and (2) available to the Foreign Agricultural Service under title I of P.L. 480. (Sec. 773) Authorizes the Secretary to use unobligated Rural Utilities Service carryover funds (not including rural community advancement program funds) to carry out 911 access expansion activities. (Sec. 774) Prohibits fund use to reduce the Wildlife Habitat Management Institute in Mississippi as in existence on December 17, 2003. (Sec. 775) Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to authorize renewable energy system loan guarantees. (Sec. 776) Amends the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 to provide for the authorization of travel for agricultural and medical commercial sales to, from, or within Cuba. (Sec. 777) Includes elk, reindeer and bison in livestock assistance programs.  (Sec. 778) Makes Guymon, Shawnee, and Altus, Oklahoma, eligible for rural housing insurance fund loans and grants until receipt of the 2010 Census. (Sec. 779) Considers Great Falls, Montana, a rural area for business and industry guaranteed loan eligibility until receipt of the 2010 Census. (Sec. 780) Authorizes the Secretary to consider the Piedmont Municipal Power Agency of South Carolina eligible to participate in Rural Utilities Service programs until receipt of the 2010 Census. (Sec. 781) Appropriates funds for milk processing and packaging facilities in Alaska. (Sec. 782) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize the Secretary to enter into alternative funding arrangements with federally recognized Native American Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations (including affiliated membership organizations) if program objectives will be met and statutory contract limitations with individual producers will not be exceeded. (Sec. 783) Appropriates grant funds to Alaska Village Initiatives for a private lands wildlife management program in Alaska.  (Sec. 784) Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, as amended by the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004, to extend: (1) the summer food service rural transportation program through FY 2006; and (2) interim and final program report dates.  Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate audit funds to States administering the child and adult food care program in order to audit participating institutions. Makes specified technical corrections. (Sec. 785) Authorizes the Secretary to waive, as of October 1, 2005, non-citizen or non-immigrant benefits ineligibility for a landowner participating in a conservation reserve enhancement program in Hawaii.", "2022-02-03T05:37:21Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2803"], ["108-s-2804", 108, "s", 2804, "Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-09-14", "2004-09-14", "Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 695.", "Senate", "Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]", "MT", "R", "B001126", 0, "This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for FY 2005. Title I: Department of the Interior - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: (1) land and resource management; (2) wildland fire management; (3) remedial action of hazardous waste substances; (4) construction; (5) land acquisition; (6) Oregon and California grant lands; (7) range improvements; (8) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures with respect to public lands; and (9) miscellaneous trust funds.  Appropriates funds for FY 2005 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) the Landowner Incentive Program that provides assistance to private landowners for private conservation efforts; (5) the Private Stewardship Grants Program; (6) expenses related to carrying out the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (7) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (8) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (9) financial assistance for projects to promote the conservation of neotropical migratory birds; (10) expenses related to carrying out, through the Multinational Species Conservation Fund, the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, and the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000; and (11) wildlife conservation grants to States, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes.  Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the National Park Service (NPS) for: (1) the National Park System; (2) the U.S. Park Police; (3) expenses for national recreation and preservation programs; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996; (5) construction; and (6) land acquisition and State assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund.  Rescinds specified contract authority to obligate funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY 2005.  Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Minerals Management Service for royalty and offshore minerals management and oil spill research; (3) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for operation of Indian programs, construction, Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, and Indian guaranteed loans; (5) assistance to U.S. territories and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to the Marshall Islands and Palau; (6) the Department of the Interior for departmental management (including transfer of funds); (7) make payments in lieu of taxes to units of local government containing certain Federally owned lands; (8) the Offices of the Solicitor and of the Inspector General; (9) trust programs for Indians; (10) a program for consolidation of fractional interests in Indian lands by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement; and (11) the Department of the Interior for natural resource damage assessment and restoration.  Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds.  (Sec. 119) Prohibits claim maintenance and location fees from being increased until the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture have complied with the following obligations: (1) the establishment of a nationwide tracking system to determine and address the length of time from submission of a plan of operations to mine on public lands to final approval of such submission; and (2) filing of a report to specified congressional committees which provides information on the causes of delays in approval of mining plans of operations and recommending steps to reduce such delays. (Sec. 124) Provides that nothing in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 affects the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Sac and Fox Nation v. Norton, 240 F.3d 1250 (2001).  Prohibits the conduct of gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act on certain lands described in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, or land that is contiguous to such land, regardless of whether such land or contiguous land has been taken into trust by the Secretary of the Interior.  (Sec. 125) Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated for the Department of the Interior to study or implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or reduce the water level of the lake below the range of water levels required for the operation of the Glen Canyon Dam.  (Sec. 126) Limits the total amount of all fees imposed by the National Indian Gaming Commission for FY 2006 to $12 million.  (Sec. 127) Makes funds appropriated for FY 2005 under this Act available to the tribes within the California Tribal Trust Reform Consortium, the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community, the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, and the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boys Reservation through the same methodology as funds were distributed in FY 2003.  Requires this Demonstration Project (sic), under specified conditions, to continue to operate separately and apart from the Department of the Interior's trust reform and reorganization. Prohibits the Department from imposing its trust management infrastructure upon or altering existing trust resource management systems of such tribes which have a self-governance compact and operate in accordance with the Tribal Self-Governance Program. Directs the Department of the Interior to provide funds to the tribes in an amount equal to that required to be provided to the tribes under annual funding agreements under such Program, including funds specifically or functionally related to the provision of trust services to the tribes or their members. (Sec. 128) Provides for nonrenewable grazing permits authorized in the Jarbidge Field Office, BLM, within the past eight years to be renewed under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. (Sec. 129) Amends the Omnibus Consolidations Appropriations Act, 1997, with regard to the franchise fund established in the Treasury under the franchise fund pilot program, to provide for a certain amount to be retained in such franchise fund for use by the agency or subagency responsible for administering such fund for the acquisition of capital equipment and for the improvement and implementation of financial management, ADP, and other support systems. (Sec. 130) Instructs that the small mining claim FF-61472 be given notice of defect and the opportunity to cure. (Sec. 131) Amends the Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002 to except cases in which proceeds of a lease are provided to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas Research Foundation to carry out the purposes for which the Foundation was established from specified restrictions on the leasing of land conveyed to the Foundation by the Clark County Department of Aviation.  (Sec. 132) Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to extend, to June 30, 2005, the authority to collect the reclamation fee required from coal mine operators.  (Sec. 133) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land, waters, or interests therein for the purpose of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, Governors, and Liberty Islands.  Title II: Related Agencies - Makes FY 2005 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) State and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System; (4) wildland fire management; (5) capital improvement and maintenance; (6) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (7) range rehabilitation, protection, and improvement; (8) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; and (9) Federal land management in Alaska.  Defers until October 1, 2005, the availability of certain funds otherwise made available for obligation in prior years for clean coal technology, subject to a specified condition. Makes appropriations for the Department of Energy for: (1) fossil energy research and development that includes acquisition of real property, plants or facilities, technological investigations and research targeting mineral substances, and a Clean Coal Power Initiative; (2) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities; (3) installment payments pertaining to the Elk Hills School Lands Fund; (4) implementation of energy conservation activities; (5) implementation of activities of the Energy Information Administration; and (6) the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve.  Specifies that, unless specifically provided for in an appropriations Act, funds made available to the Department of Energy under this Act may not be used to: (1) finance or implement authorized price support or loan guarantee programs; or (2) issue or process procurement documents for various enterprises. Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the Department of Health and Human Services for the Indian Health Service and Indian health facilities.  Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to: (1) the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; and (2) the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development.  Makes appropriations in specified amounts for various purposes to: (1) the Smithsonian Institution (earmarking certain funds for the National Museum of the African American History and Culture, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and other specified programs); (2) the National Gallery of Art; (3) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (4) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (5) the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities; (6) the Commission of Fine Arts, including expenses for National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs; (7) the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (8) the National Capital Planning Commission; (9) the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, for the Holocaust Memorial Museum; and (10) the Presidio Trust Fund. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act.  (Sec. 305) Prohibits any assessments, from being levied against any program, budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by this Act without advance notice to, and approval by, the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 323) Permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior (Secretaries) to make reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished by an agreement to provide fire management services are considered, for tort liability, employees of the foreign country receiving the services when the individuals are fighting fires. Prohibits the Secretaries from making any agreement in which a foreign country does not assume any and all responsibility for acts or omissions of American firefighters who are firefighting in such foreign country. (Sec. 326) Allows the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior (Secretaries), in awarding a Federal contract for any of specified purposes with funds made available by this Act, to give consideration to local contractors who are from economically disadvantaged rural communities and who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers. Allows the Secretaries to award grants or cooperative agreements in certain areas to various entities, including local non-profits and the Youth Conservation Corps. Includes in such areas habitat restoration or management and forest hazardous fuels reduction. (Sec. 327) Prohibits: (1) any funds appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands from being expended for the filing of declarations of taking or complaints in condemnation without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (2) such prohibition from being applied to funds appropriated to implement the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989 or to funds appropriated for Federal assistance to Florida to acquire lands for Everglades restoration purposes. (Sec. 328) Provides for procedures regarding the process of any application for judicial review of a Record of Decision for any timber sale in Region 10 of the Forest Service that had a notice of intent prepared (currently, that had a notice of intent prepared on or before January 1, 2003) . (Sec. 329) Limits the amounts of funds made available by this Act or any other Act to the Departments of Energy or the Interior to initiate or continue competitive sourcing studies in FY 2005 for programs, projects, and activities for which funds are appropriated by this Act until the appropriate Secretary submits a reprogramming proposal to the Committees on Appropriations and it has been processed consistent with certain reprogramming guidelines. Limits funds appropriated by this Act to $2 million in FY 2005 for use by the Forest Service for competitive sourcing studies and related activities. Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 to repeal requirements regarding separate justification of competitive sourcing activities in budgets of the U.S. Government submitted by the President to Congress.  (Sec. 330) Requires: (1) estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects and activities to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central office operations to be presented in annual budget justifications; and (2) changes to such estimates to be presented to the Committees on Appropriations for approval. (Sec. 331) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act or prior Acts making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies from being used to implement SAFECOM or Disaster Management. (Sec. 333) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, until September 30, 2006, to permit the State Forester of Utah to perform forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration services on National Forest System lands in Utah. Mandates that restoration services provided are to be on a project to project basis as planned or made ready for implementation under existing authorities of the Forest Service. Prohibits the delegation of any decision required to be made under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 respecting any treatment activity to restore and improve forest, rangeland, and watershed health to any officer or employee of the State of Utah. (Sec. 334) Exempts each unit of general local government that lies in whole or in part within the White Mountain National Forest and residents within the boundaries of such unit from any requirement to pay a Program Fee (parking permit or passport) imposed by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) for access to the Forest. Directs the Secretary to establish a method of identifying persons who are exempt from paying such user fees. Permits such method to include a drivers license as a valid form of identification. (Sec. 335) Prohibits an entity that enters into a contract with the United States to operate the National Recreation Reservation Service (or any successor service) from carrying out any duties under the contract using: (1) a contact center located outside the United States; or (2) employees that are not U.S. residents. Prohibits the waiver of such requirements by the Secretary of the Interior. Restricts telecommuting by employees of a contact center operated under such a contract to telecommuting from one location to another in the United States. (Sec. 336) Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) to allow the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior to permit fishery research, management, enhancement, and rehabilitation activities within wilderness and wilderness study areas designated by such Act. (Sec. 337) Permits: (1) individuals who qualify for subsistence uses of resources in Alaska but who are unable to participate in the taking of fish, wildlife, or other resources due to age, infirmity, or disability, to designate an individual to engage in subsistence for them; and (2) designated individuals to be reimbursed the costs of engaging in subsistence without such payments deeming the subsistence a commercial activity. (Sec. 338) Directs the Secretary of the Army (the Secretary) to carry out drought conservation measures described in a section 7-03.3 of the 2004 Missouri River Master Water Control Manual if, as of any date in a year, the Secretary determines that Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin System water-in-storage is at or below 40,000,000 acre-feet. (Sec. 339) States that, for FY 2005 through 2007, a decision made by the Secretary of Agriculture to authorize grazing on an allotment shall be categorically excluded from documentation in an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement if: (1) the decision continues current grazing management of the allotment; (2) monitoring indicates that current grazing management is meeting, or satisfactorily moving toward, objectives in the land and resource management plan, as determined by the Secretary; and (3) no extraordinary circumstances exist. Limits the total number of allotments that may be categorically excluded to 900. (Sec. 340) Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to provide that the established use and occupancy as of June 6, 2003, of lands and maintenance or replacement of facilities and structures for commercial recreation services at Stub Creek, Arctic Creek, and Smith Gulch on the Salmon River in Idaho shall continue to be authorized, subject to such reasonable regulation as the Secretary of Agriculture deems appropriate, including rules that would provide for termination for non-compliance, and, if terminated, reoffering the site through a competitive process. (Sec. 341) Authorizes the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to make grants to the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition for the study and restoration of rangeland and other lands in Nevada's Great Basin in order to help assure the reduction of hazardous fuels and for related purposes. Requires the Director of BLM to enter into a cooperative agreement with the Coalition for the Great Basin Restoration Project, including hazardous fuels and mechanical treatments and related work. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 342) Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey in fee simple without compensation, Lots 1 and 2 of U.S. Survey 13150 to the Community of Elfin Cove, Alaska. (Sec. 343) Bars the IHS, after September 30, 2004, from disbursing funds for the provision of health care services pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to any Alaska Native village or Alaska Native village corporation that is located within the area served by an Alaska Native regional health entity. Treats Eastern Aleutian Tribes Inc., as such an entity to whom funds may be disbursed. (Sec. 344) Directs the NPS, in accordance with provisions under ANILCA relating to the establishment of administrative sites and visitor facilities within any conservation system unit in Alaska or outside the boundaries of and in the vicinity of such a unit, using funds previously appropriated, to: (1) not later than December 31, 2004, purchase the seven identified parcels of real property in Seward, Alaska, that have been selected for the administrative complex, visitor facility, plaza, and related parking for the Kenai Fjords National Park and Chugach National Forest, which shall be known as the Mary Lowell Center; (2) transfer to the City of Seward any remaining balance of previously appropriated funds not necessary for property acquisition and design upon the vacation by the City of Seward of Washington Street between 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue; and (3) transfer title of the appropriate portions thereof to the Federal Government, provided that the City uses any such funds for the related waterfront planning, pavilions, boardwalks, trails, or related purposes that compliment the new federal facility. Title IV: Supplemental Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2005 for Urgent Wildland Fire Suppression Activities - Appropriates funds for FY 2005 to the Department of the Interior's BLM and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service for wildland fire management. Provides that such funds shall only become available if funds provided for wildland fire suppression in Title I (with respect to the BLM) or II (with respect to the Forest Service) of this Act will be exhausted imminently and the appropriate Secretary notifies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the Budget of the need for these additional funds. Prohibits any funds under this title from being transferred to other appropriation accounts of: (1) the Department of the Interior; or (2) the Forest Service. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an independent cost-control review panel to examine and report on fire suppression costs for individual wildfire incidents that exceed $10 million in cost. Provides that, if the independent review panel report finds that appropriate actions were not taken to control suppression costs for one or more such wildfire incidents, then an amount equal to the aggregate estimated excess costs of suppressing those wildfire incidents shall be transferred to the Treasury from unobligated balances remaining at the end of FY 2005 in the Wildland Fire Management, National Forest System, and Capital Improvement and Maintenance accounts, if available.", "2022-02-03T05:37:21Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2804"], ["108-hr-5041", 108, "hr", 5041, "Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-09-09", "2004-09-09", "Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 413.", "House", "Rep. Walsh, James T. [R-NY-25]", "NY", "R", "W000099", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes FY 2005 appropriations to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for: (1) veterans' compensation, pensions, and readjustment benefits; (2) veterans' insurance and indemnities; (3) veterans' housing and vocational rehabilitation loan accounts, including Native American and homeless veterans; (4) veterans' medical care; (5) medical and prosthetic research; (6) medical administration; (7) departmental administration; (8) the National Cemetery Administration; (9) the Office of Inspector General; (10) construction; (11) the parking revolving fund; and (12) grants to States for construction of extended care facilities and State veterans cemeteries. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds made available under this title.  (Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reimburse the general operating expenses account from the National Service Life Insurance Fund, the Veterans' Special Life Insurance Fund, and the United States Government Life Insurance Fund for the cost of administration of the insurance programs financed through those accounts.  (Sec. 108) Directs the VA to continue until October 1, 2005, the Franchise Fund pilot program for providing administrative support services to designated Federal agencies. Extends program funding through such date.  (Sec. 110) Requires for FY 2005 that funds available in any VA appropriation or fund for salaries and other administrative expenses shall be available to reimburse specified service costs provided by the Offices of Resolution Management and Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication.  (Sec. 111) Prohibits the use of appropriations made by this title for: (1) entering into any new lease of real property with an estimated annual rental of over $300,000, unless the Secretary submits a report which the congressional appropriations committees approve within 30 days after submission; or (2) hospitalization or treatment for non-service-connected disability or illness unless the individual provides accurate insurance and annual income information.  (Sec. 113) Obligates funds appropriated under this title for information technology initiatives to support the VA's enterprise architecture.  (Sec. 114) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to implement specified provisions of the Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Preparedness Act of 2002 that: (1) establish medical emergency preparedness centers at VA medical centers; and (2) add an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Operations, Preparedness, Security, and Law Enforcement Functions.  (Sec. 115) Deposits and transfers receipts that would otherwise be credited to the Veterans Extended Care Revolving Fund, the Medical Facilities Revolving Fund, the Special Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Fund, the Nursing Home Revolving Fund, the Veterans Health Services Improvement Fund, and the Parking Revolving Fund to the Medical Care Collections Fund and to the Medical Care account.  (Sec. 116) Directs the Secretary to conduct a program of recovery audits for the fee basis and other hospital-related service contracts.  (Sec. 117) Authorizes enhanced-use leasing proceeds in the Medical Care Collection Fund to be transferred to construction accounts and used for Department medical facility construction or improvements.  (Sec. 118) Makes medical services amounts available for: (1) recreational facilities; and (2) funeral expenses for beneficiaries receiving VA care.  (Sec. 120) Authorizes and specifies medical account transfers.  (Sec. 122) Authorizes the expenditure of specified funds originally appropriated to the medical care account for emergency expenses resulting from the January 1994 earthquake in Southern California for the same purposes of the medical services account. Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes FY 2005 appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for: (1) public and Indian housing; (2) project-based rental assistance; (3) the Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds; (4) revitalization of severely distressed public housing (HOPE VI); (5) Native American housing block grants; (6) Indian and Native Hawaiian housing loan guarantees; (7) housing opportunities for persons with AIDS; (8) the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development; (9) empowerment zones and enterprise communities; (10) community development block grants and loan guarantees; (11) brownfields redevelopment; (12) the HOME investment partnerships program; (13) homeless assistance grants; (14) housing for the elderly and for persons with disabilities; (15) flexible subsidy fund; (16) manufactured housing fees trust fund; (17) the Federal Housing Administration (FHA); (18) the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA or Ginnie Mae); (19) housing policy development and research; (20) fair housing activities; (21) the Office of Lead Hazard Control; (22) management and administration; (23) the Working Capital Fund; (24) the Office of Inspector General; and (25) the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.  Rescinds specified public and Indian housing amounts from: (1) the housing certificate fund; (2) drug elimination grants for low-income housing; (3) Native American housing block grants; and (4) the Indian housing loan guarantee program account. Rescinds amounts from: (1) the housing assistance program; and (2) the FHA general and special risk program account. (Sec. 201) States that 50 percent of budget authority amounts, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured from certain qualified projects under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 shall be rescinded, or in the case of cash, remitted to the Treasury, and such non-rescinded or non-remitted amounts shall be used by State housing finance agencies or local governments or local housing agencies for certain approved projects. Authorizes the Secretary to use up to 15 percent of such non-rescinded or non-remitted amounts as refinancing incentives for project owners.  (Sec. 202) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used during FY 2005 to investigate or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activities aimed at achieving or preventing government or court action.  (Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make housing for persons with AIDS grants to any State that qualified in a prior fiscal year but does not qualify in FY 2005 due to decreased AIDS cases in non-metropolitan areas of the State.  (Sec. 204) Declares, with respect to FY 2005 assisted living facility section 8 rental payments, that a family residing in an assisted living facility in Oakland, Macomb, Wayne, or Washtenaw Counties, Michigan, may be required to pay rent in an amount exceeding 40 percent of its monthly adjusted gross income.  (Sec. 205) Requires HUD to grant awards on a competitive basis.  (Sec. 206) Makes HUD funds subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or other restrictions available, without regard to limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services and services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae), Ginnie Mae, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC or Freddie Mac), Federal Financing Bank (FFB), Federal Reserve banks, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).  (Sec. 207) Limits HUD spending to amounts set forth in budget estimates submitted to Congress.  (Sec. 208) Authorizes HUD corporations and agencies subject to the Government Corporation Control Act to make necessary FY 2005 expenditures without regard to fiscal year limitations. Limits the use of collections of these corporations and agencies (with specified exceptions) to new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this Act, unless they are in support of other forms of assistance provided in this or prior appropriations Acts.  (Sec. 209) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure by HUD of funds provided in this title for technical assistance, training, or management improvements unless HUD provides the appropriations committees with a description of each proposed activity and budget estimates of the associated costs (by March 15, 2005, for FY 2005).  (Sec. 210) Directs the Secretary to report quarterly regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, and excess funds in each HUD program.  (Sec. 211) Directs the Secretary, in managing and disposing of any HUD-held multifamily property that is occupied primarily by elderly or disabled families in FY 2005, to maintain any section 8 rental assistance payments that are attached to such dwelling units. Authorizes the Secretary, if such payments are not feasible, to contract for project-based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners of other existing housing properties or provide other rental assistance.  (Sec. 212) Allocates certain FY 2005 housing funds for persons with AIDS from: (1) Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the Wilmington, Delaware-Maryland-New Jersey Metropolitan Division to New Jersey based on the number of AIDS cases in the New Jersey portion of the metropolitan area or division; and (2) Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of the Raleigh-Carey, North Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area, to Wake County, North Carolina. Requires that the allocations be used in such Areas.  Authorizes the Secretary, with respect to the allocation of FY 2005 AIDS housing opportunity funds on behalf of a metropolitan statistical area, to designate the State (or States) in which the metropolitan statistical area is located as the eligible grantee(s). Provides for State allocation in proportion to the number of AIDS cases. (Sec. 213) Makes funds appropriated for housing for the elderly and for supportive housing for persons with disabilities available for maintaining and disposing of such HUD-held properties. (Sec. 215) States that certain housing certificate fund vouchers for non-elderly disabled families shall continue to be provided to non-elderly disabled families upon turnover. (Sec. 216) States that: (1) the installment contract between the Village of Hanna City, Illinois, and the General Services Administration (GSA) is in the nature of a purchase money mortgage which will be paid off at closing; and (2) HUD shall accept Hanna City's holding of equitable title as sufficient for the purposes of the housing for the elderly program.  (Sec. 217) Exempts Alaska, Iowa, and Mississippi from the requirement to have a public housing resident on the board of directors of a public housing authority or other administering body. Requires such authorities to establish an advisory board which shall have a specified number of resident members.  Title III: Independent Agencies - Makes FY 2005 appropriations for: (1) the American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) the Department of the Treasury, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program Account; (4) the Consumer Product Safety Commission; (5) the Corporation for National and Community Service; (6) the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; (7) the Department of Defense (DOD)-Civil for cemeterial expenses, Army; (8) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; (9) the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; (10) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); (11) the Hazardous Substance Superfund, including transfers of funds; (12) the Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Office of Environmental Quality; (13) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General; (14) GSA, Federal Citizen Information Center Fund; (15) the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness; (16) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); (17) the National Credit Union Administration; (18) the National Science Foundation (NSF); (19) the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; (20) the Selective Service System; and (21) the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth conditions and limitations on the obligation and expenditure of funds appropriated or made available under this Act.  (Sec. 410) Expresses the sense of Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made.  (Sec. 411) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for any program, project, or activity when it is made known to the appropriate Federal entity or official that the program, project, or activity is not in compliance with Federal law relating to risk assessment, private property protection, or unfunded mandates.  (Sec. 414) Encourages all Departments and agencies funded under this Act, within the limits of existing statutory authorities and funding, to expand their use of \"E-Commerce\" technologies and procedures. (Sec. 417) Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Act of 1958 to replace the space flight capabilities appropriations account with an exploration capabilities account. (Sec. 418) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement any policy prohibiting the Directors of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks from conducting outreach or marketing to enroll new veterans within their respective Networks.  (Sec. 419) Makes specified NASA funds available to the families of the astronauts who died on the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003. (Sec. 420) Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to increase from two to four the number of NASA centers at which real property may be leased.", "2023-01-13T22:01:48Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/5041"], ["108-hr-5025", 108, "hr", 5025, "Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-09-08", "2004-09-29", "Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 743.", "House", "Rep. Istook, Ernest J., Jr. [R-OK-5]", "OK", "R", "I000047", 0, "Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 for: (1) the Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of the Secretary; (2) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (3) the Federal Highway Administration (FHA); (4) the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA); (5) the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA); (6) the Federal Transit Administration (FTA); (7) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (8) the Maritime Administration; (9) the Research and Special Programs Administration; and (10) the Office of Inspector General. (Sec. 102) Increases from 350 (during FY 2004) to 375 the maximum number of technical staff-years for whose compensation funds may be used under the federally funded research and development center contract between the FAA and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development during FY 2005. (Sec. 103) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act for engineering work related to an additional runway at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.  (Sec. 105) Bars the use of funds appropriated or limited by this Act by this Act to change weight restrictions or prior permission rules at Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, New Jersey. (Sec. 106) Extends the Secretary of Transportation's authority to issue war risk insurance through December 31, 2005.   (Sec. 123) Transfers certain highway funds for Routes 70/38 Circle Elimination, New Jersey, to other specified New Jersey projects, including: (1) Mantua Creek Overpass in Paulsboro; (2) Delsea Drive Route 47 Timber Creek in Westville; (3) Camden Northern End Parking Garage in Camden; and (4) Route 47 Chapel Heights Avenue in Gloucester.  (Sec. 124) Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act to require a State or local government to post a traffic control device or variable message sign, or any other type of traffic warning sign, in a language other than English (except with respect to the names of cities, streets, places, events, or signs related to an international border). (Sec. 142) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement or enforce any provisions of the Final Rule, issued on April 16, 2003 (Docket No. FMCSA-97-2350), with respect to either: (1) the operators of utility service vehicles; or (2) maximum daily hours of service for drivers engaged in the transportation of property or passengers to or from a motion picture or television production site located within a 100-air mile radius of the work reporting location of such drivers. (Sec. 161) Authorizes FRA to: (1) use appropriated funds to provide for installation of a broad band high speed Internet service connection (including necessary equipment) for FRA employees; and (2) either pay directly recurring monthly charges, or reimburse a percentage of such monthly charges which are paid by such inspectors. Requires FRA to certify that: (1) adequate safeguards against private misuse exist; and (2) the service is necessary for direct support of its mission. (Sec. 175) Transfers unobligated balances from the FTA's Discretionary Grants account to: (1) its Formula Grants account; and (2) the Interstate Transfer Grants -Transit account. Requires such balances to be used, together with Formula Grant funds available for reapportionment in such account, to restore obligation authority reduced due to a prior deficiency. (Sec. 187) Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act from being used to implement or make an award pursuant to the National Defense Tank Vessel Construction Assistance Program Request for Proposals issued by the Maritime Administration on February 20, 2004. (Sec. 189) Makes DOT appropriations contained in this Act available for the procurement by an agency head of temporary or intermittent services of experts or consultants, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for an Executive Level IV. (Sec. 190) Prohibits funds under this Act from being: (1) made available for salaries and expenses of more than 106 DOT political and Presidential appointees; or (2) used to implement the establishment of a National Highway Safety Advisory Committee. (Sec. 192) Prohibits a recipient of funds made available in this Act from disseminating personal information obtained by a State department of motor vehicles in connection with a motor vehicle record, except for specified permitted uses. (Sec. 194) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to allow the issuer of preferred stock sold to DOT to redeem or repurchase it upon the payment to DOT of an amount determined by the Secretary. (Sec. 195) Prohibits funds in this title from being used to make a grant unless the Secretary notifies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations at least three full business days before any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding grant agreement totaling $1 million or more is announced from: (1) any discretionary grant program of the Federal Highway Administration other than the emergency relief program; (2) the airport improvement program of the FAA; or (3) any program of the FTA other than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization programs. Provides that no notification shall involve funds that are not available for obligation. (Sec. 197) Makes recovered improper payments by DOT to a third party contractor under a financial assistance award available to: (1) reimburse the actual expenses incurred in recovering improper payments; and (2) pay contractors for services provided in recovering them. (Sec. 198) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer unexpended balances available for the bonding assistance program from "Office of the secretary, salaries, and expenses" to "Minority business outreach". (Sec. 199) Prohibits funds made available in this Act for DOT from being obligated for the Office of the Secretary to approve assessments or reimbursable agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the modal administrations in this Act, except for activities underway on enactment of this Act, unless such assessments or agreements have completed the normal reprogramming process for congressional notification.  Title II: Department of the Treasury - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 for the Department of the Treasury, including: (1) department-wide systems and capital investments; (2) the Office of Inspector General; (3) Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; (4) the Air Transportation Stabilization Board; (5) the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; (6) the Financial Management Service; (7) the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau; (8) the United States Mint; (9) the Bureau of the Public Debt; and (10) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). (Sec. 211) Amends Federal law to extend from six years to seven years the authorization for the personnel management demonstration project providing for the compensation and performance management of not more than a combined total of 950 employees who fill critical scientific, technical, engineering, intelligence analyst, language translator, and medical positions in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. (Sec. 212) Extends through October 1, 2005, the Treasury Franchise Fund. (Sec. 213) Amends Federal law to declare that the Secretary of the Treasury shall not be liable for a payment made by the Secretary or depository in due course and without negligence of an electronic payment issued by the Treasury or the depository. Requires the amount of liability relief to be charged to the Check Forgery Insurance Fund, and any recovery or repayment of a loss for which replacement is made out of the fund to be credited to such fund. (Sec. 215) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act or any other source to merge the U.S. Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without the approval of specified congressional committees. Title III: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 for compensation of the President and salaries and expenses of designated White House agencies, including: (1) the Council of Economic Advisers; (2) the National Security Council (NSC); (3) the Homeland Security Council; (4) the Office of Administration; (5) the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); (6) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; (7) various other specified Federal Drug Control Programs; and (8) special assistance to the President and the official residence of the Vice President. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Authorizes appropriation for FY 2005 for independent agencies, including: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; (2) the National Transportation Safety Board; (3) Federal Election Commission; (4) the Election Assistance Commission; (5) the Federal Labor Relations Authority; (6) the Federal Maritime Commission; (7) the General Services Administration (GSA); (8) the Merit Systems Protection Board; (9) the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation; (10) the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund; (11) the National Archives and Records Administration; (12) the National Historical Publications and Records Commission; (13) the Office of Government Ethics; (14) the Office of Personnel Management (OPM); (15) the Office of Inspector General; (16) the Office of Special Counsel; (17) the U.S. Postal Service; and (18) the U.S. Tax Court. Title V: General Provisions (This Act) - Sets forth permissions for and restrictions upon the use of funds under this Act. (Sec. 507) Prohibits payment of the salary from any appropriation under this Act for any person filling a permanent or indefinite position formerly held by an employee who has: (1) left to enter the U.S. Armed Forces; (2) satisfactorily completed his period of active military or naval service; (3) within 90 days after release from such service, or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year, applied for restoration to his former position; and (4) been certified by OPM as still qualified to perform the duties of his former position, but not been restored to it. (Sec. 512) Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act to any person or entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act.  (Sec. 513) Prohibits the availability of funds appropriated under this Act to pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection with any health plan under the Federal employees health benefits program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions (except where the life of the woman would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest).  (Sec. 519) Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce a proposed rule declaring real estate brokerage to be an activity that is financial in nature or incidental to a financial activity, thereby permitting banks to enter the real estate business as agents and brokers. (Sec. 520) Expresses the sense of Congress that the DOT should consider programs to reimburse general aviation ground support services at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (including airports located within 15 miles of such airport) for their financial losses due to Government actions after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. (Sec. 521) Prohibits the obligation of funds made available under this Act to establish or implement a pilot program (commonly known as the EAS local participation program) under which up to ten designated essential air service communities located in proximity to hub airports are required to assume ten percent of their essential air subsidy costs for a four-year period. Title VI: General Provisions (Departments, Agencies, and Corporations) - Sets forth requirements for the use of appropriations by designated departments, agencies, and corporations. (Sec. 617) Sets restrictions upon the use of appropriations by any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality unless it has in place, and will continue to administer in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that all workplaces are free from discrimination and sexual harassment and are not in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (Sec. 631) Amends Federal law to extend from October 1, 2004, to October 1, 2005, the authorization for the franchise fund pilot programs in six executive agencies. (Sec. 632) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act by any Federal agency to collect, review, or create any aggregation of data by any means of any personally identifiable information relating to an individual's access to or use of any Federal Government Internet site. (Sec. 633) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to enter into or renew a contract for a Federal employee health plan which includes a provision providing prescription drug coverage, except where the contract also includes a provision for contraceptive coverage. Exempts specified religious plans. Prohibits such a health plan, however, from discriminating against an individual on the basis that the individual refuses to prescribe contraceptives because such activities would be contrary to his or her religious beliefs or moral convictions. (Sec. 638) Requires a pay increase of 3.5 percent for civilian employees of the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security for FY 2005. (Sec. 639) Bars the FHA from using funds made available in this Act to develop or disseminate any version of a programmatic agreement which regards the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. (Sec. 641) Bars the use of funds appropriated by this Act to plan, enter into, implement, or provide oversight of contracts between the Secretary of the Treasury, or his designee, and any private collection agency. (Sec. 642) Reduces by a certain amount the moneys otherwise provided by this Act for deposit in the Federal Buildings Fund. Specifies an aggregate amount available from revenues and collections deposited into the Fund shall be available for necessary expenses of real property management and related activities not otherwise provided for.  (Sec. 643) Bars the use of funds appropriated by this Act by the Council of Economic Advisers to produce an Economic Report of the President regarding the inclusion of employment at a retail fast food restaurant as part of the definition of manufacturing employment. (Sec. 644) Bars the use of funds appropriated by this Act by the Secretary of the Treasury to implement any suspension of issuance of U.S. obligations for purchase by the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, to implement any suspension of issuance of U.S. obligations for purchase by the Thrift Savings Fund for the Government Securities Investment Fund, or to implement any sale or redemption of securities, obligations, or other invested assets of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund before maturity. (Sec. 645) Bars the use of funds made available by this Act to implement the revision to OMB Circular A-76 made on May 29, 2003 (regarding the outsourcing process governing competitions between private contractors and Federal employees for certain job tasks). (Sec. 646) Bars the use of funds appropriated by this Act to assist in overturning the judicial ruling contained in the Memorandum and Order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois entered on July 31, 2003, in the action entitled Kathi Cooper, Beth Harrington, and Matthew Hillesheim, Individually and on Behalf of All Those Similarly Situated vs. IBM Personal Pension Plan and IBM Corporation (Civil No. 99-829-GPM). (Sec. 647) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to implement, administer, or enforce certain restrictions on travel to Cuba which limit an individual's visit to his or her relatives in Cuba to once every three years instead of once every year. (Sec. 648) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to implement, administer, or enforce certain regulations that limit licenses to study abroad in Cuba. (Sec. 649) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to implement U.S. sanctions on private commercial sales of agricultural commodities or medical supplies to Cuba (other than a sanction imposed pursuant to agreement with one or more other countries).  (Sec. 650) Bars the use of funds made available under this Act to issue or implement DOT's proposed regulation (Parts and Accessories Necessary for Safe Operation; Certification of Compliance With Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSSs), published in the Federal Register, volume 67, number 53, on March 19, 2002) that would provide foreign-built trucks that have previously entered the United States with a two-year exemption from current Federal safety standards.", "2023-01-13T21:46:41Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/5025"], ["108-hr-5006", 108, "hr", 5006, "Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-09-07", "2004-09-10", "Received in the Senate.", "House", "Rep. Regula, Ralph [R-OH-16]", "OH", "R", "R000141", 0, "Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for FY 2005. Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration; (2) community service employment for older Americans; (3) Federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (4) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (5) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (6) employment and training program administration; (7) the Employee Benefits Security Administration; (8) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (9) the Employment Standards Administration; (10) certain special benefits, including ones for disabled coal miners; (11) the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund; (12) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (13) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (14) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (15) the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (16) the Office of Disability Employment Policy; (17) departmental management; (18) veterans employment and training; (19) the Office of Inspector General; and (20) a working capital fund for a new core accounting system.  Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 101) Prohibits use of Job Corps funds under this title to pay individual compensation at a rate in excess of Executive Level II. (Sec. 102) Allows not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between appropriations. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer. (Sec. 103) Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue a monthly transit subsidy to the Department's employees in the National Capital Region. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration; (2) health education assistance loans; (3) the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund; (4) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), for disease control, research, and training; (5) the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the John E. Fogarty International Center, the National Library of Medicine, and the Office of the Director; (6) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; (7) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (8) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for grants to States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, program management, and the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (9) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to States for child support enforcement and family support programs; (10) low-income home energy assistance; (11) refugee and entrant assistance; (12) payments to States for the child care and development block grant; (13) the social services block grant; (14) disabled voter services; (15) children and families services programs; (16) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (17) payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance; (18) the Administration on Aging; (19) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (20) the Office of Inspector General; (21) the Office for Civil Rights; (22) policy research; (23) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (24) the public health and social services emergency fund, for expenses related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, for the Strategic National Stockpile, and for activities to ensure a year-round influenza vaccine production capacity and the development and implementation of rapidly expandable influenza vaccine production technologies. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available through assignment not more than 60 employees of the Public Health Service to assist in child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs through and with funds provided by the Agency for International Development, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization. (Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a certain mandatory breast cancer study under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) or to construct regional centers for primate research under the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993. (Sec. 204) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to pay an individual's salary, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I. (Sec. 205) Prohibits the use of funds under this title for Head Start to pay an individual, either as direct costs or any peroration as an indirect cost, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II. (Sec. 206) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act pursuant to specified evaluation provisions of PHSA, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of HHS, prior to a report by the Secretary of HHS to specified congressional committees detailing the planned uses of such funds. (Sec. 207) Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine a portion, up to 2.3 percent, of appropriations for PHSA programs to be made available for evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of such programs. (Sec. 208) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds in this Act for the current fiscal year for the Department of HHS. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional two percent subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 209) Authorizes the Directors of the NIH and of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) jointly to transfer up to three percent among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). (Sec. 210) Requires the amount for research related to HIV (of amounts made available for NIH in this Act), as jointly determined by the Directors of NIH and of OAR, to be made available to the OAR account. Requires the Director of OAR to transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out certain provisions of PHSA. (Sec. 211) Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA, unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to coerce them into engaging in sexual activities. (Sec. 212) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to carry out the Medicare+Choice program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions. (Sec. 213) Declares that no provider of services under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest. (Sec. 214) Prohibits funds under by this Act from being used to withhold substance abuse funding from a State pursuant to specified PHSA provisions, if such State certifies to the Secretary of HHS that the State will commit additional State funds to ensure compliance with State laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 18 years of age.  (Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, in order for the CDCP to carry out international health activities, including those relating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during FY 2005, to utilize specified authorities under: (1) the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956; and (2) other Federal laws to lease, alter, or renovate facilities in foreign countries to carry out such programs. (Sec. 216) Authorizes the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ occupational health professionals and professionals in management and administration. (Sec. 217) Authorizes the NIH Director to use certain available funds to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research in support of the NIH Roadmap Initiative of the Director. Authorizes the Director, in entering such transactions, to determine and use appropriate peer review procedures in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under PHSA. (Sec. 218) Rescinds the unobligated balance of funds appropriated, under certain Social Security Act provisions added by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173), for a program of loans to hospitals to pay capital costs of projects to improve their cancer-related health care infrastructure. (Sec. 219) Reduces the amount otherwise provided by this Act for Program Management at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  (Sec. 220) Reduces the amount appropriated in this Act for Disease Control, Research, and Training at the CDCP. Requires such reduction to be derived from amounts made available for administrative and related information technology expenses. Requires the CDCP Director to determine the allocation of the reduction among CDCP activities and report the proposed allocation to the Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 221) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make a contract with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to study and report on: (1) a clinical consensus on how to modernize Medicare criteria for distinguishing an inpatient rehabilitation facility from an acute care hospital and other providers of intensive medical rehabilitation; and (2) appropriate medical necessity criteria for determining clinical appropriateness of inpatient rehabilitation facility admissions. Prohibits the Secretary or a Medicare fiscal intermediary or administrative contractor, until nine months after such report is made to Congress and the Secretary, from expending any funds appropriated by this Act or any other Act to: (1) apply certain Medicare program criteria, commonly known as the 75 percent rule, to determine whether a hospital or unit of a hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility; (2) compile facility data pertaining to compliance with such 75 percent rule or enforce such rule; or (3) use or apply any existing or new local medical review policy, local coverage determination, or national coverage determination with respect to medical necessity standards for inpatient rehabilitation facilities under the Medicare program.  (Sec. 222) None of the funds appropriated in this title may be used to impede the exchange of information between the Office of the Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Congress, including its members, committees, and staff. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the Department of Education for: (1) education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) Indian education; (5) innovation and improvement activities; (6) safe schools and citizenship education; (7) English language acquisition and language enhancement; (8) special education; (9) rehabilitation services and disability research; (10) special institutions for persons with disabilities, including the American Printing House for the Blind, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University; (11) vocational and adult education; (12) certain student financial assistance programs, as well as Federal administrative expenses for such programs (setting a maximum individual Pell Grant amount); (13) specified higher education programs; (14) Howard University; (15) the college housing and academic facilities loans program; (16) the historically Black college and university capital financing program account; (17) the Institute of Education Sciences; (18) departmental management and program administration; (19) the Office for Civil Rights; and (20) the Office of the Inspector General.  Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,050 during award year 2005-2006. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan. (Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition. (Sec. 303) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools. (Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer.  (Sec. 305) Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend by two years, to October 30, 2007, the deadline for local educational agencies to submit applications for Impact Aid payments relating to Federal property acquired by the Federal Government before October 30, 2000. (Sec. 306) Prohibits any funds appropriated by this Act from being available to the Secretary of Education to: (1) enforce any change or clarification of Department of Education policy with respect to the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program Consolidation loans for borrowers with both FFEL and non-FFEL loans, as provided in a specified letter of the Secretary; or (2) issue letters, regarding loan verification certificates to providers of FFEL requesting information about William D. Ford Direct Student Loans, including Direct Stafford, PLUS, and Consolidation Loans, that make statements that certification forms cannot be approved because borrowers either have Direct Loans or have a Direct Consolidation Loan and no other loans. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the: (1) Armed Forces Retirement Home; (2) Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled; (3) Corporation for National and Community Service, for domestic volunteer service programs and operating expenses; (4) Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (5) Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (6) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (7) Institute of Museum and Library Services; (8) Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; (9) National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (10) National Council on Disability; (11) National Labor Relations Board; (12) National Mediation Board; (13) Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (14) Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account, Federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts, administration, and the Office of Inspector General; and (15) Social Security Administration for payments to the Social Security trust funds, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program, administrative expenses, and the Office of Inspector General. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act. (Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs, unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs. (Sec. 507) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act, or in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion, with exceptions specified in section 509 of this Act. (Sec. 508) Provides that the prohibition in section 508 shall not apply to an abortion: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Provides that nothing in section 508 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, entity, or private person of State, local, or private funds (other than a State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a State or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with State funds (other than a State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds). (Sec. 509) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under specified Federal regulations and the Public Health Service Act. Defines "human embryo or embryos" to include any organism, not protected as a human subject under specified Federal regulations as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells. (Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine such advantage.  (Sec. 512) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a final standard under the Social Security Act providing for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard. (Sec. 514) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Library Services and Technology Act for assistance to purchase computers or Internet access for any covered library (under specified provisions of such Act as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act) unless the library has certified its compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety. (Sec. 515) Prohibits the availability of funds under the Enhancing Education Through Technology Act of 2001 (part D of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act and the No Child Left Behind Act) to any covered elementary or secondary school, unless its local educational agency has certified the school's compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety. (Sec. 516) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into an arrangement under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 with a nongovernmental financial institution to serve as disbursing agent for benefits payable under such Act. (Sec. 517) Requires a 15-day advance notice of specified types of reprogramming of funds to be given the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress. (Sec. 518) Prohibits the use of funds by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to enforce a prohibition, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), against public disclosure by the PBGC of information, including funding status, that is required to be reported to the PBGC by certain pension plans. (Sec. 519) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 50 Federal employees from that agency at any single conference occurring outside the United States. (Sec. 520) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for the National Institute of Mental Health to fund two specified grants. (Sec. 521) Prohibits the use of funds by the Department of Labor to implement or administer any change to specified regulations regarding overtime compensation in effect on July 14, 2004. Makes an exception for specified changes in the Department's final regulation published on April 23, 2004 (thus allowing implementation and administration of rule changes which increase the maximum salary amount at which an employee must receive overtime pay, and the minimum salary amount at which an exemption from overtime pay requirements is triggered). (Sec. 522) Prohibits the use of funds by the Secretary of Education to administer or pay any special allowance to holders of student loans under certain provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 pursuant to specified regulations of the Department of Education. (Sec. 523) Prohibits the expenditure of funds made available under this Act to the Department of Education in contravention of the provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act of 1996 which prohibits aliens not lawfully present in the United States from being eligible for any postsecondary education benefit on the basis of their residence within a State or locality, unless any U.S. citizen or national is eligible for such a benefit without regard to State or local residence.", "2023-01-13T21:46:42Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/5006"], ["108-s-2747", 108, "s", 2747, "Commission on the Future of the United States Economy Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-07-22", "2004-07-22", "Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8732-8734)", "Senate", "Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]", "CT", "D", "L000304", 0, "Commission on the Future of the United States Economy Act of 2004 - Establishes the Commission on the Future of the United States Economy. Requires the Commission to conduct a study of the economy and the competitiveness of U.S. companies and workers and, in conducting such study, to: (1) review the findings and recommendations of previous commissions and studies; (2) analyze the current economic environment and competitive challenges facing U.S. workers and companies; (3) review the strategies of other countries for responding to the competitive challenges of the new economic environment and analyze the impact of those strategies on the future of the U.S. economy; and (4) formulate recommended policies and actions on specified issues relating to the development of the Nation's skill-base and innovative capacity. Directs the Commission to submit to Congress and the President a report regarding its findings and recommendations. Authorizes interim or special reports in the Commission's discretion.  Addresses Commission personnel matters.  States that the Commission shall terminate 90 days after the date on which it submits its final report.", "2023-01-14T22:48:25Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2747"], ["108-s-2752", 108, "s", 2752, "Family Budget Protection Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-07-22", "2004-07-22", "Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on the Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged.", "Senate", "Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]", "UT", "R", "H000338", 0, "Family Budget Protection Act of 2004 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to eliminate the May 15 deadline for consideration of annual appropriations measures. Requires annual joint (currently, concurrent) budget resolutions signed by the President. Provides for an amendment to change the statutory limit on the public debt.  Requires consideration of budget-related legislation before the budget resolution becomes law.  Sets forth provisions regarding the establishment of a reserve fund for emergencies. Requires: (1) biennial (currently, annual) budget resolutions; (2) biennial appropriations Acts; and (3) biennial Government strategic and performance plans. Provides spending caps on the growth of entitlements and mandatory budget outlays. Excludes benefits payable under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA), Tier 1 railroad retirement benefits, and benefits payable under part A of title XVIII (relating to part A Medicare hospital insurance benefits) of SSA and part C of such title (relating to the Medicare Advantage program) from required reductions under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, along with specified Government accounts and activities. Provides other exceptions, limitations, and special rules with respect to sequestration exemptions. Directs the Chairman to maintain the Family Budget Protection Mandatory Account and the Family Budget Protection Discretionary Account. Freezes at current levels spending authority for each unearned entitlement, high-cost discretionary spending program, and authorized and unauthorized discretionary spending programs. Establishes the Commission to Eliminate Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. Provides for accrual funding of the: (1) Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (2) Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System; and (3) Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System. Establishes in the Treasury: (1) the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Retirement Fund; (2) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Retirement System; and (3) the Coast Guard Military Retirement Fund.  Changes the name of the Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund to Uniformed Services Health Care Fund (thus, providing health care programs for all uniformed service retirees, under certain conditions). (Currently, such programs are for Department of Defense Medicare-eligible beneficiaries.) Decreases the limit on the public debt from $6.4 trillion to $4.393 trillion. Prohibits consideration of extraneous appropriations in omnibus appropriations measures.", "2021-09-30T00:53:13Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2752"], ["108-hr-4850", 108, "hr", 4850, "District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-07-19", "2004-10-18", "Became Public Law No: 108-335.", "House", "Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]", "NJ", "R", "F000372", 0, "(This measure was not amended before final passage after the Conference Report was filed in the House on October 5, 2004. Subsequent to final passage, Secs. 340, 342, and 347 were amended by the Miscellaneous Appropriations and Offsets Act, 2005, Division J of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005, enacted as Public Law 108-447 on December 8, 2004.) District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2005 - Title I: Federal Funds - Makes appropriations to the District of Columbia for FY 2005, including amounts for the Federal payments: (1) for District of Columbia Resident Tuition Support; (2) for emergency planning and security costs in the District; (3) to District of Columbia Courts; (4) for Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts; (5) to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (including transfer of funds); (6) to the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority; (7) to the Department of Transportation in the District for the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative; (8) to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; (9) for the Unified Communications Center; (10) to the District Department of Transportation for a downtown circulator transit system and to offset a portion of the District's allocated operating subsidy payment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; (11) for a D.C. Public School library enhancement program; (12) for the Family Literacy Program; (13) for foster care improvements in the District; (14) to the Chief Financial Officer of the District; (15) for a D.C. Public School improvement program; and (16) a bioterrorism and forensics laboratory.  Title II: District of Columbia Funds - Appropriates specified sums out of the District's general fund and/or other funds for the current fiscal year for: (1) operating expenses (with limitations); (2) governmental direction and support; (3) economic development and regulation; (4) public safety and justice; (5) the public education system (including transfer of funds); (6) human support services (including transfer of funds); (7) public works; (8) the Cash Reserve; (9) repayment of certain loans and interest; (10) payment of interest on short-term borrowing; (11) principal and interest payments on the District's Certificates of Participation, issued to finance the ground lease underlying the building located at One Judiciary Square; (12) refunds and the payment of legal settlements or judgments that have been entered against the District government; (13) the John A. Wilson Building; (14) workforce investments; (15) certain non-departmental agency costs; (16) the Emergency Planning and Security Fund; (17) the Old Convention Center Demolition Reserve; (18) a Tax Increment Financing Program; (19) equipment lease operating; (20) the Emergency and Contingency Reserve Fund; (21) the Family Literacy Program; (22) the Pay-As-You-Go Capital funds in lieu of capital financing; (23) the Pay-As-You-Go Contingency Fund; (24) the Water and Sewer Authority; (25) the Washington Aqueduct; (26) the Stormwater Permit Compliance Enterprise Fund; (27) the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund; (28) the Sports and Entertainment Commission; (29) the District of Columbia Retirement Board; (30) the Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund; (31) the National Capital Revitalization Corporation; (32) the University of the District of Columbia; (33) the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund; (34) the Other Post Employee Benefits Trust Fund; (35) the D.C. Public Library Trust Fund; and (36) capital outlay (including rescissions). Declares that, if the Chief Financial Officer for the District of Columbia certifies through a revised revenue estimate that funds are available from local funds, they shall be expended as provided in the Contingency for Recordation and Transfer Tax Reduction and the Office of Property Management and Library Expenditures Act of 2004, approved by the Council of the District of Columbia on 1st reading, May 14, 2004 (Bill 15-768), including up to certain amounts to the Office of Property Management, the D.C .Public Library, the D.C. Police and Firefighters Retirement and Relief Board, and the Police and Fire Clinic. (The Miscellaneous Appropriations and Offsets Act, 2005, Division J of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005, increased funds for construction projects to be derived from Rights-of-Way funds.) Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized or prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act identical or similar to corresponding provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2004. (Sec. 305) Authorizes the District to use local funds provided in this Act to carry out lobbying activities on any matter other than: (1) the promotion or support of any boycott; or (2) its statehood or voting representation in Congress. States that nothing in this title may be construed to prohibit any elected official from advocating with respect to any of such issues.  (Sec. 312) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act for abortions except where the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in cases of rape or incest. (Sec. 313) Bars the use of funds under this Act to implement or enforce: (1) the District of Columbia Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992 (also known as the District Domestic Partner Act); or (2) any system of registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples for purposes of extending them benefits on the same basis as such benefits are extended to legally married couples. (Sec. 317) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act by the District of Columbia Corporation Counsel or any other District government officer or entity to provide assistance for any petition drive or civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for voting representation in Congress for the District. (Sec. 318) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act for any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug. Requires individuals or entities who do so to account for all funds used for such program separately from any funds contained in this Act. (Sec. 319) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act: (1) 60 days after its enactment to pay the salary of any chief financial officer of any District government office who has not filed a certification with the Mayor and CFO that the officer understands the duties and restrictions applicable, including reports required as a result of this Act or its amendments; or (2) to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act or any tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) derivative. (Sec. 320) Provides that the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by the electors of the District on November 3, 1998, shall not take effect. (Sec. 321) Provides that nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent the Council or the Mayor of the District of Columbia from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insurance plans. Expresses the intent of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue should include a "conscience clause" which provides exceptions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. (Sec. 322) Requires the Mayor to report quarterly to specified congressional committees on the following District issues: (1) crime; (2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treatment; (3) management of parolees and pretrial violent offenders; (4) education; (5) improvement in basic District services, including rat control and abatement; (6) application for and management of Federal grants; and (7) indicators of child well-being. (Sec. 324) Prohibits the use of the funds contained in this Act to issue, administer, or enforce any order by the District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights relating to docket numbers 93-030-(PA) and 93-031-(PA) (In The Matter Of: Roland D. Pool and Michael S. Geller (Boy Scouts' Policy of Excluding Homosexuals)). (Sec. 325) Prohibits the transfer of any Federal funds to any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. (Sec. 326) Requires the District of Columbia Courts to transfer to the D.C. Treasury all fines levied and collected by the Courts in cases charging Driving Under the Influence and Driving While Impaired. Requires the Office of the Corporation Counsel to use such funds for enforcement and prosecution of District traffic alcohol laws. (Sec. 327) Prohibits funds contained in this Act from being made available to pay: (1) the fees in excess of $4,000 of an attorney who represents a party or defends an action, including an administrative proceeding, brought against the D.C. Public Schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); or (2) the fees of an attorney or firm whom the CFO determines to have a pecuniary interest, either through an attorney, officer or employee of the firm, in any special education diagnostic services, schools, or other special education service providers. (Sec. 328) Directs the CFO to require attorneys in special education cases brought under IDEA in the District to certify in writing, along with other specified disclosures, that the attorney or representative rendered any and all services for which they receive awards, including those received under a settlement agreement or as part of an administrative proceeding, under IDEA. (Sec. 329) Amends the D.C. Code to repeal: (1) the responsibility of the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration within the D.C. court system for approval of the bonds of fiduciary employees within the District of Columbia court system; and (2) the requirement that the Executive Officer and the Fiscal Officer of the D.C. courts, the Register of Wills, and the Auditor-Master give bond, with two or more sureties. (Sec. 330) Amends the D.C. Code to authorize travel under Federal supply schedules for the travel of D.C. Court personnel on official business, subject to requirements, conditions, and restrictions prescribed by the Joint Committee. (Sec. 331) Allows the increase of the amount appropriated by this Act by not more than $15 million from funds identified in the comprehensive annual financial report as the District's FY 2004 unexpended general fund surplus. Requires the CFO to certify that the use of such funds is not anticipated to have a negative impact on the District's long-term financial, fiscal, and economic vitality. Limits the use of such funds for: (1) unanticipated one-time expenditures; (2) expenditures to avoid deficit spending; (3) debt reduction; (4) unanticipated program needs; and (5) expenditures to avoid revenue shortfalls. Prohibits the funds from being: (1) used to fund District government agencies under court ordered receivership; or (2) obligated and expended without the approval of congressional appropriations committees in advance. (Sec. 332) Amends the District of Columbia Home Rule Act with respect to the District's emergency cash reserve fund and contingency cash reserve fund. Changes from February 15 to October 1 the deadline for mandatory annual cash deposits into such funds by the Mayor. Reduces from four percent of operating expenditures to two percent of such expenditures the minimum balance in the emergency cash reserve the Mayor must maintain. Revises the formulae for the replenishment goals of such funds. (Sec. 333) Requires the CFO, for FY 2005, to recalculate such reserve funds (as amended by this Act). Authorizes the CFO, after such recalculation, to transfer funds: (1) between the reserve funds to reach the required percentages; and (2) from them to the General Fund of the District to the extent that such funds are not necessary to meet their established requirements. Prohibits the CFO from transferring funds from the emergency or the contingency reserve funds to the extent that such a transfer would lower the FY 2005 total percentage below seven percent. (Sec. 334) Amends the Policemen and Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act Amendments of 1957 to allow payment of associated administrative expenses from appropriations made to the District to reimburse its retirement and disability benefit payments to or for members of the U.S. Park Police force, the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division, and the U.S. Secret Service Division. (Sec. 335) Amends the District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 to require amounts in the Charter School Fund to remain available until expended. Prohibits reversion to the General Fund of any funds remaining unobligated or unexpended at the end of a fiscal year. Includes in the contents of the Fund any other local funds that the CFO certifies are necessary to carry out the Fund's purposes during the fiscal year. (Sec. 336) Amends the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 to continue through FY 2005 the CFO's authority with respect to personnel, procurement, and the preparation of fiscal impact statements during a control period. (Sec. 337) Amends the District of Columbia Public Works Act of 1954 to eliminate certain reporting requirements for the inspectors general of Federal agencies regarding payments to the District for water and sanitary sewer services. (Sec. 338) Appropriates for the Office of the Inspector General (IG) such amounts in local funds as are consistent with the IG's annual estimates for the expenditures and appropriations necessary for the operation of the Office for FY 2005. (Sec. 339) Amends the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1999 to require that the funds provided for establishment of a scholarship fund for D.C. children of adoptive families, and for post high school education and training of D.C. Children without parents due to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, once obligated by the District to establish the scholarship fund, remain obligated and be retained by the District for 25 years to allow for any individual within the class to be assisted to reach post high school, and to present expenditures to be extinguished by the fund. (Sec. 340) Amends the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2001 to authorize a recipient (eligible nonprofit corporation) of a grant from the Credit Enhancement Fund for Public Charter Schools in the District to use such funds to carry out activities to assist D.C. public charter schools in establishing regulations for administering lease guarantees to such schools through the credit enhancement fund. (The Miscellaneous Appropriations and Offsets Act, 2005, Division J of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005, superseded this amendment in the following manner: Amends the Student Loan Marketing Association Reorganization Act of 1996 to require, instead of merely authorize, a recipient of a grant from the credit enhancement revolving fund for public charter schools to use grant funds for activities to assist public charter schools in the District in obtaining lease guarantees (not just in establishing regulations for administering such guarantees). Requires such guarantees to be obtained in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Office of Public Charter School Financing.) Amends the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2003 to place the Office of Public Charter School Financing and Support under the Mayor's authority in lieu of the Department of Banking and Financial Institutions. (Sec. 341) Amends the District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 (DCSRA) to declare that a petition to establish a public charter school in the District or to convert a District public school or an existing private or independent school into a public charter school, is a public document. (Sec. 342) Amends DCSRA to reduce from two-thirds to 51 percent the minimum number of full-time teachers employed in a school necessary to endorse a petition to convert a District public school or an existing private or independent school into a public charter school. Grants a teacher employed at a D.C. Public school that converts to a public charter school the option of remaining at the charter school during the school's first year of operation after receiving an extended leave of absence. Provides that, after this one-year period, the teacher may continue in such employment at the sole discretion of the public charter school, or shall maintain current status within the D.C. Public school system. Modifies the preference in leasing or purchasing former D.C. Public school property for a public charter school to require the Mayor and the District government to give a right of first offer (currently, first preference), to be annually reinstated with respect to any facility or property not previously disposed of, or under contract to be disposed of, to an eligible applicant or Board of Trustees. Repeals the proviso that the gift of the right of first preference will not result in a significant loss of revenue that might be obtained from other dispositions or uses of the facility or property.  Modifies the requirement of the Mayor's jurisdiction over such facility or property. Requires the Mayor to have jurisdiction on the effective date of this Act or the Mayor or any successor agency to gain jurisdiction after such date. Requires the purchase or lease to: (1) be negotiated by the Mayor; (2) include rent or an acquisition price, as applicable, that is at least 25 percent less than the appraised value of the property (based on use of the property for school purposes); and (3) include a lease period, if the property is to be leased, of not less than 25 years, renewable for additional 25-year periods as long as the eligible applicant or Board of Trustees maintains its charter. Grants a D.C. Public school approved to become a conversion public charter school the right to exclusively occupy the facilities the school occupied as a D.C. Public school under a lease for a period of not less than 25 years, renewable for additional 25-year periods as long as the school maintains its charter at the nonprofit rate, or if there is no nonprofit rate, at 25 percent less than the fair market rate for school use. (The Miscellaneous Appropriations and Offsets Act, 2005, Division J of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005, superseded Sec. 342 in the following manner: Revises amendments to the District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 with respect to public charter schools. Repeals the reduction from two-thirds to 51 percent of the minimum number of full-time teachers employed in a school necessary to endorse a petition to convert a District public school or an existing private or independent school into a public charter school. Repeals the grant to a teacher employed at a D.C. Public school that converts to a public charter school of the option to remain at the charter school during the school's first year of operation after receiving an extended leave of absence, and thereafter at the charter school's sole discretion. Modifies the requirement that the Mayor and the D.C. government give a right of first offer with respect to any facility or property not previously (or under contract to be) disposed of to an eligible applicant whose petition to establish a public charter school is conditionally approved. Repeals the mandatory annual reinstatement of such right. Extends the restriction on the exercise of such right with respect to certain facilities or properties to exclude any facility or property that is: (1) the subject of a previously proposed resolution submitted to the D.C. Council by the Mayor on or before December 1, 2004, seeking authority for disposition of such facility or property; or (2) under an Exclusive Rights Agreement executed on or before such date. Modifies the terms of purchase or lease of such a facility or property to require the Mayor to negotiate in accordance with written rules or regulations as determined by the Mayor, and published in the District of Columbia Register. Repeals the requirement that the rent or acquisition price for such facility or property be at least 25 percent less than its appraised value. Requires, instead, that such rent or acquisition price, as applicable, be at the appraised value of the property, based on its use for school purposes. Grants a D.C. Public school approved to become a conversion public charter school the right to occupy the facilities exclusively under a minimum 25-year lease, renewable for additional 25-year periods as long as the school maintains its charter at the appraised value of the property based on its use for school purposes (in lieu of maintaining its charter at the nonprofit rate, or if there is no nonprofit rate, at 25 percent less than the fair market rate for school use).)  (Sec. 343) Requires an eligible chartering authority to ensure that each public charter school complies with annual reporting requirements, including submission of the audited financial statement. Requires the annual report of each eligible chartering authority that issues a charter to include: (1) details of major Board actions; (2) major findings from school reviews of academic, financial, and compliance with health and safety standards and resulting Board action or recommendations; (3) details of the fifth year review process and outcomes; and (4) a summary of annual financial audits of all charter schools, including the number of schools that failed to timely submit the required audited financial statement, those whose audits revealed a failure to follow required accounting practices or other material deficiencies and steps taken by the authority to rectify such deficiencies, and the ones which have required intervention by an authorizing board to address any academic or operational issue, and what recommendations the board has made to correct identified deficiencies. (Sec. 344) Requires the Director of the National Park Service (NPS), acting on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior, to transfer to the District government, without consideration, and for public recreational use only, jurisdiction of a portion of specified NPs land in Anacostia Park which includes the Kenilworth Parkside Community Center (currently occupied under permit by the District) and all of U.S. Reservation 523. Provides that nothing in the Act precludes the District from entering into a sublease for all or part of the property with a public not-for-profit entity for the management or maintenance of the property. (Sec. 345) Authorizes the project for the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Dispersal Barrier, Illinois, initiated in Public Law 99-662, at a total cost of $9.1 million, with a Federal cost of $6.825 million and a non-Federal cost of $2.275 million. (Sec. 346) Requires the Comptroller General to conduct biennial management evaluations of the District of Columbia Chartering Authorities for the District of Columbia Public Charter Schools. Specifies the contents of such evaluations. Requires the Government Accountability Office, by May 1, 2005, to submit to congressional appropriations committees a baseline report on the performance of each authorizer in meeting the requirements of the School Reform Act of 1995. Applies to the District of Columbia Board of Education Charter Schools Office's financial statements the same auditing requirements that apply to a District of Columbia Public Charter School Board's financial statements. (Sec. 347) Requires the Public Charter School Board to: (1) maintain its accounts according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for Not-for-Profit Organizations; and (2) forward the findings and recommendations of any audit to the Mayor, the D.C. Council, the appropriate congressional committees, and the CFO. Grants such Board the authority to solicit, award, and execute contracts independently of the Office of Contracting and Procurement and the Chief Procurement Officer. Provides that nothing in the District of Columbia Code regarding procurement shall affect the Board's authority under this Act. (The Miscellaneous Appropriations and Offsets Act, 2005, Division J of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005, superseded Sec. 347 in the following manner: Repeals the qualification "for Not-for-Profit Organizations," to require the Public Charter School Board to maintain its accounts according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Repeals the proviso that nothing in the D.C. Code regarding procurement shall affect the Board's authority under this Act.)", "2023-01-14T22:48:17Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4850"], ["108-hr-4766", 108, "hr", 4766, "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-07-07", "2004-07-22", "Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.", "House", "Rep. Bonilla, Henry [R-TX-23]", "TX", "R", "B000617", 0, "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates FY 2005 funds for the following Department of Agriculture (Department) programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary); (2) executive operations; (3) Homeland Security Staff; (4) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (5) Common Computing Environment; (6) Office of the Chief Financial Officer; (7) working capital fund; (8) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; (9) Office of Civil Rights; (10) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (11) agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments; (12) hazardous materials management; (13) departmental administration; (14) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations; (15) Office of Communications; (16) Office of the Inspector General; (17) Office of the General Counsel; (18) Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics; (19) Economic Research Service; (20) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (21) Agricultural Research Service; (22) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; (23) Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; (24) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (25) Agricultural Marketing Service; (26) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; (27) Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety; (28) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (29) Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; (30) Farm Service Agency; (31) Risk Management Agency; (32) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; and (33) Commodity Credit Corporation Fund.  Title II: Conservation Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment; and (2) Natural Resources Conservation Service.  Title III: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development; (2) rural development salaries and expenses; (3) Rural Housing Service; (4) Rural Business-Cooperative Service; and (5) Rural Utilities Service.  Title IV: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services; and (2) Food and Nutrition Service.  Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) P.L. 480 program account, title I ocean freight differential grants, and title II grants; (3) McGovern-Dole international food for education and child nutrition program grants; and (4) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) export loans program account.  Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) Farm Credit Administration.  Title VII: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.  (Sec. 709) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to pay indirect costs charged against competitive agricultural research, education, or extension grant awards issued by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service that exceed 25 percent of total Federal funds provided under each award.  (Sec. 714) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel.  (Sec. 718) Prohibits fund use for the initiative for future agriculture and food systems, with an exception for administration of prior grants and obligations. Cancels FY 2005 initiative funds.  (Sec. 720) Prohibits fund use to relocate a State Rural Development office until cost and operation effectiveness have been determined.  (Sec. 721) Makes additional appropriations for Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships.  (Sec. 722) Provides that any balances and recoveries available to carry out title III of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 may be used to carry out title II of such Act.  (Sec. 723) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase obligated funding for the national sheep industry improvement center revolving fund.  (Sec. 724) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to collect from the lender at the time of issuance a guarantee fee of less than two percent of the principal obligation of guaranteed single-family housing loans administered by the Rural Housing Service.  (Sec. 725) Considers as eligible for rural development mission area assistance: (1) Salinas, California; (2) Watsonville, California; (3) Hollister, California; (4) Ulster, New York; (5) Cleburne County, Alabama; (6) Coachella, California; (7) Casa Grande, Arizona; (8) Creedmoor, North Carolina; (9) Eureka, California; (10) Clarksdale, Mississippi; (11) Vicksburg, Mississippi; (12) Wewahitchka, Florida; (13) Horseshoe Beach, Florida; and (14) Carbondale, Illinois.  (Sec. 726) Directs the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance through the watershed and flood prevention operations program to: (1) the DuPage County, Illinois, Kress Creek Watershed Plan; and (2) Rockhouse Creek Watershed, Leslie County, Kentucky.  (Sec. 727) Prohibits funds under this Act from being transferred to any Federal entity unless authorized by an appropriations Act.  (Sec. 728) Authorizes the Secretary to use up to 20 percent of competitive research funds under this Act for a competitive grants program similar to the initiative for future agriculture and food systems.  (Sec. 729) Prohibits fund use to: (1) carry out CCC-funded rehabilitation of certain dams; (2) carry out the rural strategic investment program under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act; and (3) carry out the rural firefighters and emergency personnel grant program.  (Sec. 732) States that the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration shall not be required to establish obligations and outlays for purchases of interest bearing investments outside of the Treasury under specified circumstances.  (Sec. 733) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified food stamp funds for commodity processing, storage, transporting, and distribution.  (Sec. 734) Limits: (1) wetlands reserve program enrollment acreage for 2005; and (2) funds for the environmental quality incentives program.  (Sec. 736) Authorizes the Secretary to permit Department employees to carry and use firearms for personal protection in remote locations in the performance of their official duties.  (Sec. 737) Prohibits fund use for renewable energy system and energy efficiency improvements assistance.  (Sec. 738) Prohibits fund use for access to broadband telecommunications in rural areas. Cancels specified funds for such use.  (Sec. 739) Prohibits fund use to carry out the value-added market development grant program. Cancels specified funds for such use.  (Sec. 740) Directs the Secretary, with lender consent, to structure the annual fee payment schedule for rural electrification and telephone bond and loan guarantees so as not to exceed an average of 30 basis points per year for the term of the loan in order to ensure fund availability to pay related subsidy costs. (Sec. 741) Limits fund use for: (1) the conservation security program; (2) the grazing, wildlife habitat incentive, source water protection, and Great Lakes Basin programs; and (3) the farmland protection program.  (Sec. 744) Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to commercial citrus and lime growers in Florida for tree replacement and for lost production for certain trees removed to control citrus canker, and for certified citrus nursery stocks within the citrus canker quarantine areas.  (Sec. 745) Prohibits fund use to carry out the rural business investment program.  (Sec. 746) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act: (1) in violation of PL 105-264 (Travel and Transportation Reform Act of 1998); (2) to revise a proposed rule (July 8, 2003) respecting cost-sharing for animal and plant health emergency programs of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; and (3) without specific congressional authorization, to study or enter into a contract with a private party for competitive sourcing activities relating to rural development or farm loan programs.  (Sec. 749) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative aircraft lease agreements under the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.  (Sec. 750) Limits fund use for the bioenergy program.  (Sec. 751) Amends the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations, 2004 to make Delta Regional Authority grants available for any rural community advancement program purpose.  (Sec. 752) Rescinds specified funds from the: (1) rural housing assistance grant program; and (2) rural housing insurance fund program.  (Sec. 754) Makes specified FY 2002 through 2005 conservation program funds under the Food Security Act of 1985 available until expended.  (Sec. 755) Prohibits funds available under this Act for the Food and Drug Administration to be used to prevent an individual not in the business of importing a prescription drug, wholesalers, or pharmacists from importing a complying prescription drug.  (Sec. 756) Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to include the guarantee fee in the principal obligation determination under the farm housing and farm service buildings loan program.  (Sec. 757) Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to rename the John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer program as the John Ogonowski and Doug Bereuter Farmer-to-Farmer program. Title VIII: Additional General Provisions - (Sec. 801) Prohibits funds available under this Act for: (1) the environmental quality incentives program, the wildlife habitat incentive program, the grassland reserve program, or the farmland protection program to be used to provide technical assistance under the conservation reserve program or under the wetlands reserve program; (2) the conservation reserve program to be used to provide technical assistance under the wetlands reserve program; and (3) the wetlands reserve program to be used to provide technical assistance under the conservation reserve program. (Sec. 802) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to: (1) make tobacco price support or tobacco quota payments; (2) provide agricultural credits or credit guarantees for commodities for use in Iraq in violation of specified credit restrictions under the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978; (3) pay food stamp program administrative costs for operations outside the United States; and (4) restrict to prescription use a contraceptive that has been determined to be safe and effective. (Sec. 806) Prohibits funds available under this Act to the Department to be used to acquire new information technology systems or significant upgrades without the approval of the Chief Information Officer and the concurrence of the Executive Information Technology Investment Review Board.", "2023-01-14T22:48:16Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4766"], ["108-hr-4754", 108, "hr", 4754, "Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-07-01", "2004-07-09", "Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.", "House", "Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]", "VA", "R", "W000672", 0, "Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 for the Departments of Commerce, of Justice and of State, the judiciary and related agencies. Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for FY 2005 for: (1) general administration, including for a joint automated booking system, an integrated automated fingerprint identification system, office automation expenses of specified organizations, conversion to narrowband communications, administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, the Federal Detention Trustee, and the Office of the Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, for antitrust enforcement, the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys, the U.S. Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, the U.S. Marshals Service (including for construction of prisoner-holding space), fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, for certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund, and payment to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust Fund; (4) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (5) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; (6) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (7) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; (8) the Federal Prison System, including for the construction of new buildings and facilities and for the Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated (subject to certain limitations on administrative expenses); and (9) the Office of Justice Programs, including State and local law enforcement assistance, the Weed and Seed Program Fund, community-oriented policing services, violence against women and prevention and prosecution programs, juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers benefits.  Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.  (Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. (Sec. 104) Declares that nothing in the prohibition against the use of funds for abortions shall remove the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to receive an abortion outside of a Federal facility. (Sec. 105) Declares that authorities contained in the 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act (Public Law 107-273) shall remain in effect until the effective date of a subsequent Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act.  (Sec. 107) Continues in effect during FY 2005, the requirement that the Attorney General award posthumous citizenship to individuals with pending naturalization applications who died of injuries related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. (Sec. 108) Authorizes the Attorney General to extend through FY 2006, the Personnel Management Demonstration Project for certain positions of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. (Sec. 109) Prohibits the use of funds by the DEA establish a procurement quota following approval of a new drug application or an abbreviated new drug application for a controlled substance. (Sec. 110) Declares that the foregoing prohibition shall not apply to any new drug application or abbreviated new drug application for which the DEA has reviewed and provided public comments on labeling, promotion, risk management plans, and any other documents.  (Sec. 111) Authorizes the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to delay the mandatory retirement age for an FBI agent until the agent reaches age 65. (Currently the mandatory retirement age is 57 and the Director has authority to delay the age of retirement to 60.) (Sec. 112) Authorizes the Director of the FBI to pay retention and relocation bonuses to FBI employees. Terminates such authority after calendar 2009. (Sec. 113) Authorizes the Director of the FBI to establish a Federal Bureau of Investigation Reserve Service for temporary reemployment of employees in the FBI during periods of emergency. (Sec. 114) Authorizes the FBI to designate certain intelligence-related positions as critical and to compensate them at level I of the Executive Schedule.   Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies - Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for FY 2005 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) international trade activities; (4) export administration and national security activities; (5) economic development assistance programs; (6) minority business development; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) information infrastructure grants; (12) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (13) the Under Secretary for Technology, Office of Technology Policy; (14) the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including amounts for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and for construction of new research facilities; (15) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including an amount for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets; (16) restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (17) the fisheries finance program account; and (18) departmental management, including the Office of Inspector General.  Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.  (Sec. 205) Prohibits the use of funds to reimburse the Unemployment Trust Fund or any other account of the U.S. Treasury to pay unemployment compensation for temporary census workers.  Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for: (1) the Supreme Court, including for care of the court building and grounds; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services , including for defender services, fees of jurors and commissioners and court security; (5) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (6) the Federal Judicial Center; (7) judicial retirement funds; and (8) the U.S. Sentencing Commission.  Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the uses of funds appropriated by this Act.  Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 2005 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs, including funds for the Bureau of Democracy to publish a list of foreign government officials engaged in torture; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation allowances; (6) protection of foreign missions and officials; (7) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (8) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) international organizations, conferences, peacekeeping, and commissions; (13) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico; (14) plan preparation and construction of authorized projects; (15) the International Joint Commission and the International Boundary Commission, (16) international fisheries commissions; (17) the Asia Foundation; (18) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (19) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (20) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West; and (21) the National Endowment for Democracy. Makes appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for FY 2005 for international broadcasting operations and capital improvements. Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.  (Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds under in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. (Sec. 404) Directs the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in Persons to coordinate policies related to international trafficking in persons and victims of severe forms of trafficking. (Sec. 405) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary of State to pay a reward to any individual who furnishes information which leads to the disruption of financial mechanisms of a foreign terrorist organization, including the organization's use of illicit narcotics production or international narcotics trafficking. Increases the maximum amount of such award from $5 million to $25 million. Allows an increased award for information leading to the capture of the leader of a foreign terrorist organization.  Authorizes the Secretary to conduct media surveys in countries associated with acts of international terrorism and to disseminate information about the reward program. Directs the Secretary to submit a plan to specified congressional committees to maximize awareness of the reward program for information leading to the capture of a leader of a foreign terrorist organization who may be in Pakistan or Afghanistan. Title V: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 for: (1) the Antitrust Modernization Commission; (2) the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (3) the Commission on Civil Rights; (4) the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; (5) the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6) the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (7) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; (8) the Federal Communications Commission; (9) the Federal Trade Commission; (10) the Helping Enhance the Livelihood of People (HELP) Around the Globe Commission; (11) the Legal Services Corporation, with specified restrictions; (12) the Marine Mammal Commission; (13) the National Veterans Business Development Corporation; (14) the Securities and Exchange Commission; (15) the Small Business Administration, including an earmark for microloan technical assistance, as well as for the Office of Inspector General, the Surety Bond Guarantees Revolving Fund, the Business Loans Program Account, and the Disaster Loan Program Account; (16) the State Justice Institute; (17) the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission; and (18) the U.S. Institute of Peace. Title VI: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. (Sec. 601) Prohibits the use of funds for: (1) publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress; (2) construction, repair (other than emergency repair), overhaul, conversion, or modernization of vessels for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in shipyards outside the United States: (3) the use of any guidelines similar to certain Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines published in 1993 covering harassment based on religion; (4) the funding of United Nation peacekeeping missions involving U.S. armed forces under the command of a foreign national unless sanctioned by the President; (5) the use of Department of Justice funds to discriminate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of students participating in certain programs, or their parents or legal guardians; (6) opening, operating, or expanding any U.S. diplomatic or consular post in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was not operating on July 11, 1995 or increasing the number of personnel assigned in that country; (7) promotion of the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products; (8) the issuance of visas to any individuals named or implicated in certain killings or murders in Haiti; (9) any tax or fee for the implementation of the national instant criminal background check system for firearms or any background check system that does not require the destruction of identifying information of any person who has been determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm; (10) the granting of visas to citizens of countries that deny or unreasonably delay accepting the return of their citizens under the Immigration and Nationality Act; (11) transportation of a high security prisoner to a place other than a prison certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure; (12) the purchase by Federal prisons of audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational purposes; (13) the issuance of patents on claims directed to or encompassing a human organism; or (14) payment of expenses for any U.S. delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Commission if such Commission is chaired or presided over by a country that has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.  (Sec. 603) Limits expenditures for any consulting service through procurement contract to those contracts where expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, with specified exceptions. (Sec. 605) Prohibits the availability of funds, without advance notice to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, for obligation or expenditure in FY 2005, through a reprogramming of funds that (1) creates new programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorganizes offices, programs or activities; or (6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities presently performed by Federal employees.  Prohibits, without prior notification to Congress, the availability of funds for obligation or expenditure in FY 2005, for activities, programs, and projects through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $500,000 or ten percent, whichever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by ten percent funding for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel as approved by Congress;or (3) results from any general savings, including savings from a reduction in personnel, which would result in a change is existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress. (Sec. 609) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Small Business Administration to provide the House and Senate Appropriations Committees with a quarterly accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated funds received by such agencies during any previous fiscal year.  (Sec. 615) Provides that amounts deposited or available in the Crime Victims Fund in any fiscal year in excess of $650 million shall not be available for obligation until the following fiscal year. (Sec. 621) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and the Small Business Administration to certify that telecommuting opportunities are available to 100 percent of their eligible workforce, to make quarterly reports on the status of telecommuting programs, and to designate a Telework Coordinator. (Sec. 622) Requires the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to include disclaimers in data releases on the limitations of data in tracing studies of firearms-related crime. (Sec. 625) Amends the Secure Embassy Construction and Counterterrorism Act of 1999 to require all agencies with personnel overseas to participate and provide funding in advance for their share of the costs for providing new, safe, secure diplomatic facilities. (Sec. 626) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should, at the most immediate opportunity, make a determination whether the recent events in the Darfur region of Sudan constitute genocide, and support the investigation and prosecution of war crimes in that region. Title VII: Rescissions - Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to the Office of Justice Programs in the Department of Justice for: (1) State and local law enforcement assistance; and (2) community oriented policing services. Title VIII: Additional General Provisions - (Sec. 801) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to implement, administer, or enforce specified amendments to Department of Commerce regulations restricting gift parcels and humanitarian donations to Cuba, and restrictions on baggage taken by individuals for travel to Cuba. (The amendments prohibit: (1) the sending of gifts of clothing, personal hygiene items, seeds, fishing equipment, soap-making equipment, and veterinary medicine and supplies; (2) more than one gift parcel of certain permitted items a month per household (previously, one a month per individual); and (3) more than 44 pounds of luggage.) (Sec. 802) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to contravene certain requirements for listing Israel as the place of birth of a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem on the birth and nationality records, and passport of such citizen. (Sec. 803) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to contravene certain provisions of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 prohibiting: (1) promotion or advocacy of the legalization or practice of prostitution or sex trafficking; or (2) assistance to any group or organization that does not have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking.", "2023-01-14T22:48:14Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4754"], ["108-hr-4739", 108, "hr", 4739, "Northeast Regional Development Commission Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-25", "2004-08-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.", "House", "Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]", "ME", "D", "M001149", 5, "Northeast Regional Development Commission Act of 2004 - Establishes the Northeast Regional Development Commission, composed of a Federal member appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate and the Governors of each State in the region covered by the Commission (economically distressed areas and counties) who elect to participate. Requires the Commission to: (1) establish priorities and approve grants for economic development; (2) assess the region's needs and capital assets; (3) support local development districts or foster the creation of such districts; (4) encourage private investment; and (5) initiate a special resource study of the north woods of Maine. Authorizes the Commission to give grants to States, local development districts, and public and nonprofit entities for approved projects. Lists eligible projects. Requires each State member of the Commission to submit a development plan for the area they represent. Requires the Commission and applicable State and local development districts to encourage public participation. Sets forth program development criteria and procedures for the approval of development plans and projects. Provides that nothing in this Act requires any State to engage in or accept any program under this Act without the State's consent. Requires the Commission and recipients of Federal assistance to maintain accurate and complete records and to make such records available for audit.  Directs the Commission to submit annual reports to the President and Congress. Renders ineligible for assistance from the Commission those counties or other political subdivisions that are eligible for assistance from the Appalachian Regional Commission.", "2023-01-15T04:49:18Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4739"], ["108-hr-4698", 108, "hr", 4698, "To establish a grant program to support cluster-based economic development efforts.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-24", "2004-08-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.", "House", "Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]", "NY", "R", "M000472", 0, "Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to make grants in support of cluster-based economic development efforts in regions with low per capita income, high unemployment, or economic adjustment problems. Limits the maximum assistance for any one region to $1 million. Sets Federal cost sharing for projects carried out using funds authorized by this Act at 50 percent. Authorizes in-kind contributions for the non-Federal share of project costs.", "2023-01-15T04:49:16Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4698"], ["108-hr-4699", 108, "hr", 4699, "To establish a grant program to support broadband-based economic development efforts.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-24", "2004-08-03", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.", "House", "Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]", "NY", "R", "M000472", 0, "Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to make grants supporting the advancement of high-speed telecommunications in regions with low per capita income, high unemployment, or economic adjustment problems that have populations of no more than one million. Limits the maximum assistance for any one region to $1 million. Sets Federal cost sharing for projects carried out using funds authorized by this Act at 50 percent. Authorizes in-kind contributions for the non-Federal share of project costs.", "2023-01-15T04:49:16Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4699"], ["108-s-2581", 108, "s", 2581, "A bill to establish a grant program to support cluster-based economic development efforts.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-24", "2004-06-24", "Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.", "Senate", "Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]", "NY", "D", "C001041", 0, "Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to make grants in support of cluster-based economic development efforts in regions with low per capita income, high unemployment, or economic adjustment problems. Limits the maximum assistance for any one region to $1 million. Sets Federal cost sharing for projects carried out using funds authorized by this Act at 50 percent. Authorizes in-kind contributions for the non-Federal share of project costs.", "2023-01-15T04:49:22Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2581"], ["108-s-2582", 108, "s", 2582, "A bill to establish a grant program to support broadband-based economic development efforts.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-24", "2004-06-24", "Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.", "Senate", "Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]", "NY", "D", "C001041", 0, "Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to make grants supporting the advancement of high-speed telecommunications in regions with low per capita income, high unemployment, or economic adjustment problems that have populations of no more than one million. Limits the maximum assistance for any one region to $1 million. Sets Federal cost sharing for projects carried out using funds authorized by this Act at 50 percent. Authorizes in-kind contributions for the non-Federal share of project costs.", "2023-01-15T04:49:22Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2582"], ["108-hr-4663", 108, "hr", 4663, "Spending Control Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-23", "2004-06-25", "On passage Failed by recorded vote: 146 - 268 (Roll no. 318).", "House", "Rep. Nussle, Jim [R-IA-1]", "IA", "R", "N000172", 0, "Spending Control Act of 2004 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to: (1) revise for FY 2004 discretionary spending limits (spending caps) for the highway and mass transit categories; (2) set forth for FY 2005 and 2006 new budget authority and outlays for the general purpose discretionary category, outlays for the highway category and new budget authority and outlays for the mass transit category; and (3) set forth for FY 2007 through 2009 outlays for the highway category and new budget authority and outlays for the mass transit category. Revises the requirement that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) make adjustments to the highway category to conform to estimated levels of highway receipts. Sets forth the level of obligation limitations (sum of budget authority and obligation limitations) for the highway and mass transit categories for FY 2004 through 2009. Provides that, in any of FY 2005 through 2006, discretionary advance appropriations provided in appropriation Acts in excess of $23,558 billion shall be counted against the discretionary spending limits for the fiscal year for which the appropriation Act containing the advance appropriation is enacted. Extends PAY-AS-YOU-GO requirements through FY 2009 to provide for an offsetting sequestration for direct spending (currently, direct spending and receipts) legislation that is enacted before October 1, 2009, that causes a net increase in direct spending (currently, net deficit increase).  Provides, under specified conditions, for additional new budget authority in FY 2005 or 2006 for fire suppression and for an adjustment in the discretionary spending limit for FY 2005 for appropriations for the global war on terrorism. Excludes from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and OMB estimates certain extending provisions in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. Requires the estimates set forth in the discretionary sequestration preview and final reports issued by OMB and CBO to include the current year and each subsequent year through FY 2006 (or FY 2009 solely to enforce the discretionary spending limits for the highway and mass transit categories). Extends: (1) certain budget enforcement requirements through FY 2006 (or 2009 for enforcement of spending caps for highway and mass transit categories); and (2) PAY-AS-YOU-GO requirements through FY 2013.", "2023-01-15T04:49:15Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4663"], ["108-hr-4648", 108, "hr", 4648, "Mandatory Spending Control Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-22", "2004-06-22", "Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.", "House", "Rep. Nussle, Jim [R-IA-1]", "IA", "R", "N000172", 0, "Mandatory Spending Control Act of 2004 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to extend PAY-AS-YOU-GO requirements through FY 2009 to provide for an offsetting sequestration for direct spending (currently, direct spending and receipts) legislation that is enacted before October 1, 2009, that causes a net increase in direct spending (currently, net deficit increase). Excludes from Congressional Budget Office and Office of Management and Budget estimates certain extending provisions in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. Extends PAY-AS-YOU-GO requirements through FY 2013.", "2023-01-15T04:49:15Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4648"], ["108-hr-4649", 108, "hr", 4649, "Discretionary Spending Control Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-22", "2004-06-22", "Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.", "House", "Rep. Nussle, Jim [R-IA-1]", "IA", "R", "N000172", 0, "Discretionary Spending Control Act of 2004 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to: (1) revise for FY 2004 discretionary spending limits (spending caps) for the highway and mass transit categories; (2) set forth for FY 2005 and 2006 new budget authority and outlays for the general purpose discretionary category, outlays for the highway category and new budget authority and outlays for the mass transit category; and (3) set forth for FY 2007 through 2009 outlays for the highway category and new budget authority and outlays for the mass transit category. Revises the requirement that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) make adjustments to the highway category to conform to estimated levels of highway receipts.  Sets forth the level of obligation limitations (sum of budget authority and obligation limitations) for the highway and mass transit categories for FY 2004 through 2009. Provides that, in any of FY 2005 through 2006, discretionary advance appropriations provided in appropriation Acts in excess of $23,558 billion shall be counted against the discretionary spending limits for the fiscal year for which the appropriation Act containing the advance appropriation is enacted.  Provides, under specified conditions, for additional new budget authority in FY 2005 or 2005 for fire suppression and for an adjustment in the discretionary spending limit for FY 2005 for supplemental appropriations for the global war on terrorism.  Requires the estimates set forth in the discretionary sequestration preview and final reports issued by OMB and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to include the current year and each subsequent year through FY 2006 (or FY 2009 solely to enforce the discretionary spending limits for the highway and mass transit categories).  Extends certain budget enforcement requirements through FY 2006 (or 2009 for enforcing the spending caps for the highway and mass transit categories).", "2023-01-15T04:49:15Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4649"], ["108-hres-685", 108, "hres", 685, "Revising the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2005 as it applies in the House of Representatives.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-22", "2004-06-24", "Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.", "House", "Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7]", "WI", "D", "O000007", 0, "Modifies the conference report on S.Con.Res. 95 (congressional budget) and the accompanying joint explanatory statement, as made applicable to the House of Representatives by H.Res. 649 (providing for the consideration of the conference report), with respect to: (1) recommended levels and amounts; (2) major functional categories; (3) allocations made to the House Committee on Appropriations; and (4) additional reconciliation instructions to the House Committee on Ways and Means to change tax laws to increase revenues by a specified amount through reduction or offsetting of tax reductions received during tax year 2005 by taxpayers filing joint returns with adjusted gross income above $1 million and comparable amounts for taxpayers with other filing statuses. Provides that such modifications shall have force and effect in the House as though they were included in the conference report and accompanying statement.", "2023-01-15T04:49:20Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-resolution/685"], ["108-hr-4614", 108, "hr", 4614, "Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-18", "2004-07-06", "Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.", "House", "Rep. Hobson, David L. [R-OH-7]", "OH", "R", "H000666", 0, "Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2005 - Title I: Department of Defense - Civil - Makes FY 2005 appropriations for: (1) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (civil functions of the Department of the Army pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood control, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restoration); (2) general investigations (collection and study of basic information pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood control, shore protection, storm damage reduction, and related projects); (3) construction (river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, storm damage reduction, and related projects); (4) flood damage reduction for the Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri; (5) operation and maintenance of existing river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related projects; (6) administration of laws pertaining to regulation of navigable waters and wetlands; (7) clean up of contamination at U.S. sites resulting from work performed as part of the Nation's early atomic energy program; (8) general administration and related civil works functions in the headquarters of the Corps, the offices of the Division Engineers, the Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity, the Institute for Water Resources, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, and the Corps Finance Center; and (9) the Office of Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works). (Sec. 101) Limits funds for agreements proposed for execution by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works or the Corps under specified project authorities to credits and reimbursements per project not to exceed $10 million in each fiscal year, and total credits and reimbursements for all applicable projects not to exceed $50 million in each fiscal year.   (Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds by the Corps to support activities related to the proposed Ridge Landfill in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. (Sec. 103) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to demonstrate or implement any plans divesting or transferring any Civil Works responsibilities of the Corps to other Government agencies without specific direction in a subsequent Act of Congress. (Sec. 104) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds by the Corps to support activities related to the proposed Indian Run Sanitary Landfill in Sandy Township, Stark County, Ohio.  Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes FY 2005 appropriations for: (1) activities authorized by the Central Utah Project Completion Act, with specified funds deposited into the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation; (3) management, development, and restoration of water and related natural resources and related activities, including participation in fulfilling related Federal responsibilities to Native Americans; (4) programs, plans, habitat restoration, and acquisition provisions of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act; and (5) policy and administration in the Office of the Commissioner, the Denver office, and offices in the five regions of the Bureau.  (Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California have developed a plan which conforms to California water quality standards approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in order to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. Declares that the costs of the Keterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program shall be classified as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected until fully repaid. Makes any future obligations by the United States relating to drainage for that Unit fully reimbursable by Unit beneficiaries pursuant to Federal reclamation law.  (Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless such purchase or lease complies with specified statutory purchase requirements. Title III: Department of Energy - Makes FY 2005 appropriations for: (1) the Department of Energy (DOE) for the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment, and other expenses necessary for energy supply activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act, including the acquisition or condemnation of real property and the purchase of up to nine passenger motor vehicles for replacement and one ambulance; (2) the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment and other expenses necessary for non-defense environmental management site acceleration completion activities; (3) uranium enrichment facility decontamination and decommissioning, remedial actions, and other specified activities; (4) non-defense environmental services activities that indirectly support the accelerated cleanup and closure mission at environmental management sites; (5) science activities; (6) salaries and expenses for departmental administration, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles and official reception and representation expenses, subject to specified limitations; and (7) the Office of Inspector General. Makes FY 2005 appropriations for: (1) the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment and other incidental expenses necessary for atomic energy defense weapons activities; (2) such expenses for atomic energy defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (3) naval reactors; (4) the Office of the Administrator in the National Nuclear Security Administration; (5) atomic energy defense site acceleration completion activities; (6) defense-related environmental services activities; (7) atomic energy defense, other defense activities, and classified activities; and (8) nuclear waste disposal activities, including the acquisition of real property or facility construction or expansion (i.e., the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository). Makes FY 2005 appropriations for: (1) the Bonneville Power Administration Fund; (2) operation and maintenance of power transmission facilities and marketing electric power and energy, subject to specified funding for the Southeastern, Southwestern, and Western Area Power Administrations; (3) operation, maintenance, and emergency costs for the hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams; and (4) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.    (Sec. 301) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated for FY 2005 or any previous fiscal year to make payments for a "noncompetitive management and operating contract" (i.e., a contract that was awarded more than 50 years ago without competition for the management and operation of Ames Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory) unless the Secretary of Energy has published in the Federal Register and submitted to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees a written notification, with respect to each such contract, of the Secretary's decision to use competitive procedures for the award of the contract, or to not renew the contract, when the term of the contract expires. Makes this provision inapplicable to an extension for up to two years of a noncompetitive management and operating contract, if the extension is for purposes of allowing time to award competitively a new contract, to provide continuity of service between contracts, or to complete a contract that will not be renewed. Prohibits, for all management and operating contracts other than those listed above, the use of appropriated funds to award a management and operating contract, or a significant extension or expansion to an existing management and operating contract, unless such contract is awarded using competitive procedures or the Secretary of Energy grants a waiver (on a case-by-case basis) to allow for such a deviation. Prohibits the Secretary from delegating the authority to grant such a waiver. Requires the Secretary to report to the congressional Appropriations Committees at least 60 days before a contract award for which the Secretary intends to grant such a waiver, notifying them of the waiver and setting forth, in specificity, the substantive reasons why the Secretary believes the requirement for competition should be waived for this particular award. (Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to: (1) develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan that covers DOE employees; or (2) provide enhanced severance payments or other benefits for DOE employees under the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1993 (NDAA). (Sec. 303) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to augment the funds made available for obligation by this or any other appropriations Act for FY 2005 or any previous fiscal year for severance payments and other benefits and community assistance grants under NDAA unless DOE submits a reprogramming request subject to approval by the appropriate congressional committees. (Sec. 304) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to prepare or initiate Requests For Proposals for a program that has not been funded by Congress. (Sec. 305) Allows: (1) the unexpended balances of prior appropriations provided for activities in this Act to be transferred to appropriation accounts for such activities established pursuant to this title; and (2) balances so transferred to be merged with funds in the applicable established accounts and thereafter accounted for as one fund for the same time period as originally enacted. (Sec. 306) Denies the use of any funds for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the Bonneville service territory without certification that such services are not available from private sector businesses (except services provided internationally).  (Sec. 307) Directs DOE to ensure broad public notice of the availability of a user facility, and to employ open competition in selecting a partner for such a facility.    (Sec. 308) Permits the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration to authorize the manager of a covered nuclear weapons research, development, testing, or production facility to engage in research, development, and demonstration activities with respect to the engineering and manufacturing capabilities at such facility, to maintain and enhance its capabilities. Provides that no more than two percent of the amount allocated each fiscal year for national security programs to a "covered nuclear weapons facility" (i.e., the Kansas City Plant, Kansas City, Missouri; the Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; the Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas; the Savannah River Plant, South Carolina; and the Nevada Test Site) may be used for these activities. (Sec. 309) Deems funds appropriated by this or any other Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress for purposes of the National Security Act of 1947 during FY 2005 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2005. (Sec. 310) Prohibits the use of funds to select a site for a Modern Pit Facility during FY 2005. (Sec. 311) Prohibits the use of funds to finance laboratory directed research and development activities at DOE laboratories on behalf of other Federal agencies. (Sec. 312) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to use any license, approval, or authorization for the export, re-export, transfer, or re-transfer of nuclear materials and equipment or sensitive nuclear technology, and nuclear-related items on the Commerce Control List, to any country whose government has been identified by the Secretary of State as engaged in state sponsorship of terrorist activities, with exceptions and subject to waivers under specified circumstances.  Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) Delta Regional Authority; (4) the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (5) the Office of the Inspector General; and (6) the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.  Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 501) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to influence congressional action on legislation or appropriation matters pending before Congress, with exceptions. (Sec. 502) Prohibits the transfer of funds made available in this Act to any instrumentality of the Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this or any other appropriation Act.  (Sec. 503) States that none of the funds made available in this Act may be used to deny requests for the public release of the following documents or evidence obtained through or in the Western Energy Markets: (1) Enron Investigation; (2) the California Refund case; (3) the Anomalous Bidding Investigation, or (4) the Physical Withholding Investigation.", "2023-01-15T04:49:14Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4614"], ["108-s-2537", 108, "s", 2537, "Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-17", "2004-09-14", "Senate passed companion measure H.R. 4567 in lieu of this measure by Yea-Nay Vote. 93 - 0. Record Vote Number: 184.", "Senate", "Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS]", "MS", "R", "C000567", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005 - Title I: Departmental Management and Operations - Makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY 2005 for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security and executive management; (2) the Office of the Under Secretary for Management; (3) development and acquisition of information technology equipment, software, services, and for the costs of conversion to narrowband communications; and (4) the Office of Inspector General. Title II: Security, Enforcement, and Investigations - Makes appropriations for: (1) the Office of the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security, including for development of the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology project; (2) enforcement of laws relating to border security, immigration, customs, and agricultural inspections and regulatory activities related to plant and animal imports and for customs and border protection automated systems; (3) immigration and customs law enforcement, including for Federal air marshals, the Federal Protective Service, and immigration and customs enforcement automated systems; (4) the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), including for explosive detection devices; (5) the Coast Guard; and (6) the Secret Service. Title III: Preparedness and Recovery  - Makes appropriations for: (1) the Office for State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness, including for grants to State and local governments for terrorism prevention activities (sets forth specified allocations for formula-based grants, law enforcement terrorism prevention grants, discretionary grants for the use in high-threat, high density urban areas and for rail and transit security, firefighter assistance grants, and emergency management performance grants; (2) reimbursement of Federal agencies for the costs of providing support to counter, investigate, or respond to unexpected threats or acts of terrorism; (3) emergency preparedness and response, including for the Office of the Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response, the Directorate of Emergency Preparedness and Response, countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, the disaster assistance direct loan program, the Flood Map Modernization Fund, the National Flood Insurance Fund, pre-disaster mitigation grants, and an emergency food and shelter program. Limits the aggregate charges assessed during FY 2005 for the Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program. Title IV: Research and Development, Training, Assessments, and Services - Makes appropriations for: (1) expenses for citizenship and immigration services; (2) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (3) the Directorate of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, including the immediate Office of the Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection; and (4) the immediate Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology for management and administration of programs and activities and science and technology research. Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 504) Deems funds made available by this Act for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress during FY 2005 until the enactment of an Act authorizing intelligence activities for FY 2005. (Sec. 505) Directs the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to: (1) establish an accrediting body to establish standards for measuring and assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law enforcement training programs, facilities, and instructors; and (2) schedule basic and advanced law enforcement training at all four training facilities to ensure that all these centers are operated at the highest capacity. (Sec. 512) Directs the Secretary: (1) to research, develop, and procure certified systems to inspect and screen air cargo on passenger aircraft at the earliest date possible; and (2) until such technology is procured and installed, to take actions to prohibit high-risk cargo from being transported on passenger aircraft. (Sec. 514) Prohibits the obligation of funds for deployment or implementation of the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II), on other than a test basis, to screen aviation passengers until the General Accounting Office (GAO) has reported to the Appropriations Committees that: (1) a system of due process exists whereby passengers who are determined to pose a threat and who are either delayed or prohibited from boarding may appeal such decision and correct erroneous information contained in CAPPS II; (2) the error rate of the databases that will be used to establish identity and assign a risk level to a passenger will not produce a large number of false positives; (3) TSA has demonstrated the efficacy and accuracy of all search tools in CAPPS II and has demonstrated that CAPPS II can make an accurate predictive assessment of passengers; (4) the Secretary has established an internal oversight board to monitor the manner in which CAPPS II is being developed and prepared; (5) TSA has built in sufficient operational safeguards to reduce the opportunities for abuse; (6) substantial security measures are in place to protect CAPPS II from unauthorized access; (7) TSA has adopted policies establishing effective oversight of the system's use and operation; and (8) there are no specific privacy concerns with the technological architecture of the system. Prohibits, during the testing phase, any information gathered from passengers, air carriers, or reservation systems from being used to screen passengers or to delay or deny boarding. Requires the report by February 15, 2005.", "2022-02-03T05:37:47Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2537"], ["108-hr-4567", 108, "hr", 4567, "Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-15", "2004-10-18", "Became Public Law No: 108-334.", "House", "Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5]", "KY", "R", "R000395", 193, "(This measure has not been amended since the Conference Report was filed in the House on October 9, 2004. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2005 - Title I: Departmental Management and Operations - Makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY 2005 for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security and executive management; (2) the Office of the Under Secretary for Management; (3) the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; (4) the Office of the Chief Information Officer; and (5) the Office of Inspector General. Title II: Security, Enforcement, and Investigations - Makes appropriations for: (1) the Office of the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security, including for development of the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology project; (2) customs and border protection, including for enforcement of laws relating to border security, immigration, customs, and agricultural inspections and regulatory activities related to plant and animal imports and for customs and border protection automated systems; (3) immigration and customs laws enforcement, including for Federal air marshals, the Federal Protective Service, and immigration and customs enforcement automated systems; (4) the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for civil aviation security services, including for passenger and baggage screening activities (with funds earmarked for procurement and installation of checked baggage explosive detection systems and for airport security direction and enforcement presence), maritime and land transportation security grants and services, and intelligence activities; (5) the Coast Guard; and (6) the Secret Service. Provides for a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of calendar year 2000 cost information for screening air passengers and property and directs the Secretary of DHS to ensure that appropriate fees that were not paid to the TSA by an air carrier or foreign air carrier are collected. Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to Congress, in conjunction with the President's FY 2006 budget, acquisition timelines and justifications for assets in the Deepwater (Coast Guard recapitalization) program. Title III: Preparedness and Recovery - Makes appropriations for: (1) the Office for State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness, including for grants to State and local governments for terrorism prevention activities (sets forth allocations for formula-based grants, law enforcement terrorism prevention grants, discretionary grants for use in high-threat, high density urban areas), firefighter assistance grants, and emergency management performance grants; (2) reimbursement of Federal agencies for the costs of providing support to counter, investigate, or respond to unexpected threats or acts of terrorism; and (3) emergency preparedness and response, including for the Office of the Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response, the Directorate of Emergency Preparedness and Response, countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, disaster relief, the disaster assistance direct loan program, the Flood Map Modernization Fund, the National Flood Insurance Fund, the National Flood Mitigation Fund, the National Pre-Disaster Mitigation Fund, and an emergency food and shelter program. Limits the aggregate charges assessed during FY 2005 for the Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program. Title IV: Research and Development, Training, Assessments, and Services - Makes appropriations for: (1) citizenship and immigration services for backlog reduction activities; (2) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (3) the immediate Office of the Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection and for activities of the Directorate of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection; (4) the immediate Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology; and (5) science and technology research. Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 503) Prohibits certain reprogramming of DHS funds, including for creating or eliminating a program or for contracting out or privatizing activities presently performed by Federal employees, unless the Senate and House Appropriations Committees are notified 15 days in advance. (Sec. 505) Deems funds made available by this Act for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress during FY 2005 until the enactment of an Act authorizing intelligence activities for FY 2005. (Sec. 506) Directs the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to establish an accrediting body to establish standards for measuring and assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law enforcement training programs, facilities, and instructors. (Sec. 513) Directs the Secretary: (1) to research, develop, and procure certified systems to inspect and screen air cargo on passenger aircraft at the earliest date possible; (2) until such technology is procured and installed, to take actions to enhance the known shipper program to prohibit high-risk cargo from being transported on passenger aircraft; (3) to amend Security Directives and programs to triple the percentage of cargo inspected on passenger aircraft. (Sec. 514) Requires the Commandant of the Coast Guard to provide to Congress each year a list of approved by unfunded Coast Guard priorities and the funds needed for such priorities. (Sec. 515) States that unclaimed money recovered at airport security checkpoints shall be retained by the TSA and expended for civil aviation security purposes. (Sec. 518) Transfers authority for conducting background investigations for specified DHS positions from the Office of Personnel Management to the DHS. (Sec. 519) Amends the Homeland Security Act to provide for the termination of the Homeland Security Institute five years after its establishment. (Sec. 522) Prohibits the obligation of funds for deployment or implementation, on other than a test basis, of the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II) or Secure Flight or other successor programs that TSA or any other DHS component plans to utilize to screen aviation passengers until GAO has reported to the Appropriations Committees that specified conditions have been met, including that: (1) a system of due process exists whereby aviation passengers who are delayed or prohibited from boarding their flights may appeal such decision; (2) the Secretary has established an internal oversight board; (3) security measures are in place to protect the system from unauthorized access; and (4) there are no specific privacy concerns with the technological architecture of the system. Prohibits the use of funds provided in this or previous appropriations Acts to develop or test algorithms assigning risk to passengers whose names are not on Government watch lists. Directs GAO to report to Congress by March 28, 2005. (Sec. 523) Modifies provisions of the Homeland Security Act regarding the prohibition on contracts with corporate expatriates to: (1) prohibit the Secretary from entering into any contract with any subsidiary of a foreign incorporated entity which is treated as an inverted domestic corporation; (2) apply such prohibition to entities that converted to an inverted domestic corporation before, on, or after (currently, after) November 25, 2002; and (3) permit the Secretary to waive such prohibition in the interest of national security (currently, in the interest of homeland security). (Sec. 524) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to amend the oath of allegiance required under the Immigration and Nationality Act. (Sec. 527) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to process or approve a competition under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, for services provided as of June 1, 2004, by employees of Citizenship and Immigration Services who are known as Immigration Information Officers, Contact Representatives, or Investigative Assistants. (Sec. 528) Provides that no funds under this Act shall be available to maintain the Secret Service as anything but a distinct entity within the DHS and shall not be used to merge the Secret Service with any other DHS function, cause any personnel and operational elements of the Secret Service to report to an individual other than the Director of the Secret Service, or cause the Director to report directly to any individual other than the Secretary of Homeland Security.", "2023-01-15T04:49:13Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4567"], ["108-hr-4568", 108, "hr", 4568, "Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-15", "2004-06-21", "Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.", "House", "Rep. Taylor, Charles H. [R-NC-11]", "NC", "R", "T000067", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for FY 2005. Title I: Department of the Interior - Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: (1) land and resource management; (2) wildland fire management; (3) remedial action of hazardous waste substances; (4) construction; (5) land acquisition; (6) Oregon and California grant lands; (7) range improvements; (8) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures with respect to public lands; and (9) miscellaneous trust funds. Appropriates funds for FY 2005 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) the Landowner Incentive Program that provides assistance to private landowners for private conservation efforts; (5) the Private Stewardship Grants Program; (6) expenses related to carrying out the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (7) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (8) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (9) financial assistance for projects to promote the conservation of neotropical migratory birds; (10) expenses related to carrying out, through the Multinational Species Conservation Fund, the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, and the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000; and (11) wildlife conservation grants to States, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes. Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the National Park Service (NPS) for: (1) the National Park System; (2) the U.S. Park Police; (3) expenses for national recreation and preservation programs; (4) expenses related to carrying out the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996; (5) construction; and (6) land acquisition and State assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Rescinds specified contract authority to obligate funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY 2005. Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Minerals Management Service for royalty and offshore minerals management and oil spill research; (3) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for operation of Indian programs, construction, Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, and Indian guaranteed loans; (5) assistance to U.S. territories and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to the Marshall Islands and Palau; (6) the Department of the Interior for departmental management (including transfer of funds); (7) make payments in lieu of taxes to local units of government containing certain Federally owned lands; (8) the Offices of the Solicitor and of the Inspector General; (9) trust programs for Indians; (10) a program for consolidation of fractional interests in Indian lands by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement; and (11) the Department of the Interior for natural resource damage assessment and restoration. Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds. (Sec. 128) Allows the transfer from "Departmental Management, Salaries and Expenses," to "United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Resource Management" of funds necessary for operational needs at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge airport. (Sec. 129) Provides that nothing in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 affects the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Sac and Fox Nation v. Norton, 240 F.3d 1250 (2001). Prohibits the conduct of gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act on certain lands described in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, or land that is contiguous to such land, regardless of whether such land has been taken into trust by the Secretary of the Interior. (Sec. 130) Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated for the Department of the Interior to study or implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or reduce the water level of the lake below the range of water levels required for the operation of the Glen Canyon Dam. (Sec. 131) Limits the total amount of all fees imposed by the National Indian Gaming Commission for FY 2006 to $12 million. (Sec. 132) Makes funds appropriated for FY 2005 under this Act available to the tribes within the California Tribal Trust Reform Consortium, the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community, the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, and the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boys Reservation on the same basis as funds were distributed in FY 2004. Requires this Demonstration Project (sic), under specified conditions, to operate separately and apart from the Department of the Interior's trust reform organization. Prohibits the Department from imposing its trust management infrastructure upon or altering existing trust management systems of such tribes which have a self-governance compact and operate in accordance with the Tribal Self-Governance Program. (Sec. 133) Prohibits the use of any funds to permit use of the National Mall for a special event, unless its permit expressly prohibits the erection, placement, or use of structures and signs bearing commercial advertising.  Title II: Related Agencies - Makes FY 2005 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) State and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System; (4) wildland fire management; (5) capital improvement and maintenance; (6) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (7) range rehabilitation protection, and improvement; (8) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; and (9) Federal land management in Alaska. Defers until October 1, 2005, the availability of certain funds otherwise made available for obligation in prior years for clean coal technology, subject to a specified condition. Makes appropriations for the Department of Energy for: (1) fossil energy research and development that includes acquisition of real property, plants or facilities, technological investigations and research targeting mineral substances, and a Clean Coal Power Initiative; (2) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities; (3) installment payments pertaining to the Elk Hills School Lands Fund; (4) implementation of energy conservation activities; (5) implementation of activities of the Energy Information Administration; and (6) the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. Specifies that, unless specifically provided for in an appropriations Act, funds made available to the Department of Energy under this Act may not be used to: (1) finance or implement authorized price support or loan guarantee programs; or (2) issue or process procurement documents for various enterprises. Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to the Department of Health and Human Services for the Indian Health Service and Indian health facilities. Makes appropriations for FY 2005 to: (1) the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; and (2) the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development. Makes appropriations in specified amounts for various purposes to: (1) the Smithsonian Institution (earmarking certain funds for the National Museum of the African American History and Culture, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, and other specified programs); (2) the National Gallery of Art; (3) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (4) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (5) the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities; (6) the Commission of Fine Arts, including expenses for National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs; (7) the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (8) the National Capital Planning Commission; (9) the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, for the Holocaust Memorial Museum; and (10) the Presidio Trust Fund. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act. (Sec. 305) Prohibits any assessments, charges, or billings from being levied against any program, budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by this Act without advance notice to, and approval by, the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 322) Makes permanent the authority of employees of congressional foundations who solicit private sector funds on behalf of Federal land management agencies to qualify for General Service Administration contract airfares. (Sec. 323) Permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior (Secretaries) to make reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished by an agreement to provide fire management services are considered, for tort liability, employees of the foreign country receiving the services when the individuals are fighting fires. Prohibits the Secretaries from making any agreement in which a foreign country does not assume any and all responsibility for acts or omissions of American firefighters who are firefighting in such foreign country. (Sec. 328) Allows the Secretaries, in awarding a Federal contract for any of specified purposes with funds made available by this Act, to give consideration to local contractors who are from economically disadvantaged rural communities and who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers. Allows the Secretaries to award grants or cooperative agreements in certain areas to various entities, including local non-profits and the Youth Conservation Corps. Includes in such areas habitat restoration or management and forest hazardous fuels reduction. (Sec. 330) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from charging or collecting fees for: (1) admission to a National Forest System unit; or (2) use of either singly or in combination of, undesignated parking along roads, overlook sites or scenic pullouts, information offices and centers that only provide general area information and limited services or interpretive exhibits, and dispersed areas for which expenditures in facilities or services are limited. (Sec. 331) Requires the Secretary concerned to report by the end of each calendar year to specified congressional committees on the competitive sourcing studies for the preceding fiscal year conducted by the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service, or the Department of Energy, as appropriate, and the cost and cost savings to U.S. citizens of such studies. Exempts the Forest Service from implementing the Letter of Obligation and post-competition accountability guidelines where a competitive sourcing study involved 65 or fewer full-time equivalents, the performance decision was made in favor of the agency provider, no net savings was achieved by conducting the study, and the study was completed before the date of this Act. Limits the amounts of funds made available by this Act or any other Act to the Departments of Energy or the Interior to initiate or continue competitive sourcing studies in FY 2005 for programs, projects, and activities for which funds are appropriated by this Act until the appropriate Secretary submits a reprogramming proposal to the Committees on Appropriations and it has been processed consistent with certain reprogramming guidelines. Limits funds appropriated by this Act to $2 million in FY 2005 for use by the Forest Service for competitive sourcing studies and related activities.  Prohibits the use of funds to convert to contractor performance an activity or function of the Forest Service, an activity or function of the Departments of the Interior or Agriculture performed under programs, projects, and activities for which funds are appropriated by this Act (except certain commercial or industrial type functions), if such activity or function is performed by more than ten Federal employees, unless: (1) the conversion is based on the result of a public-private competition that includes a more efficient and cost effective organization plan developed by such activity or function; and (2) the Competitive Sourcing Official determines that, over all performance periods stated in the solicitation of offers, the cost of performance of the activity or function by a contractor would be less costly to the Federal Government by an amount that equals or exceeds the lesser of either ten percent of the more efficient organization's personnel-related costs for performance of that activity or function by Federal employees, or $10 million.  Credits the conversion of any activity or function under the authority provided by this Act toward any competitive or outsourcing goal, target, or measurement that may be established.  (Sec. 332) Requires: (1) estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves or holdbacks from programs, projects and activities to support governmentwide, departmental, agency or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central office operations to be presented in annual budget justifications; and (2) changes to such estimates to be presented to the Committees on Appropriations for approval. (Sec. 333) Prohibits the use of funds by the agencies funded in this Act to implement Safecom, Disaster Management, E-Training, and E-Rulemaking. (Sec. 334) Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, under specified conditions, to convey to the Mills Creek Homeowners Association all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to Mill Creek in San Bernardino National Forest, California. Terminates this authority if, within two years from the enactment of this Act, the Secretary and the Association for any reason do not complete the sale. (Sec. 335) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to extend through FY 2009 the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to permit the Colorado State Forest Service to perform watershed restoration and protection services on National Forest System lands in Colorado when similar and complementary services are being performed by the State Forest Service on adjacent State or private lands. Makes this same authority available through FY 2009 to the Secretary of the Interior with respect to public lands in Colorado administered by the Secretary through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).  Title IV: Supplemental Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2004 and 2005 for Urgent Wildland Fire Suppression Activities - Chapter 1: Fiscal Year 2004 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service for wildland fire management. Chapter 2: Fiscal Year 2005 - Appropriates funds for FY 2005 to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service for wildland fire management.", "2023-01-15T04:49:13Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4568"], ["108-hr-4473", 108, "hr", 4473, "Educational Opportunity for the 21st Century Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2005", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-06-01", "2004-06-01", "Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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.", "House", "Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7]", "WI", "D", "O000007", 11, "Educational Opportunity for the 21st Century Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2005 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Education for FY 2005.  Includes specified amounts for various programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998, Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Assistive Technology Act of 1998, Helen Keller National Center Act, Education of the Deaf Act of 1986, and other education laws. Prohibits the Secretary of Education from implementing or enforcing for award year 2005-2006 any annual update to an allowance for State and other taxes in HEA need analysis to determine students' expected family contributions. Provides for additional amounts for specified ESEA programs for disadvantaged students to be available for those local educational agencies that would otherwise receive, under the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2004, smaller allocations for FY 2004 than FY 2003. Reduces by 55.7 percent the tax reduction for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes above $1,000,000 for 2004 resulting from enactment of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.", "2023-01-15T04:49:11Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4473"], ["108-hr-4422", 108, "hr", 4422, "Making appropriations for the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Health and Human Services, and Transportation for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-05-20", "2004-05-20", "Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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.", "House", "Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7]", "WI", "D", "O000007", 0, "Appropriates FY 2005 appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for the: (1) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (2) Rural Community Advancement Program; (3) Rural Housing Service; and (4) Rural Utilities Service (rural telephone bank program account, and distance learning, telemedicine, and broadband program). Appropriates FY 2005 appropriations to the Department of Education for the rural education achievement program. Appropriates FY 2005 appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for rural programs of the Health Resources and Services Administration. Appropriates FY 2005 appropriations to the Department of Transportation for air carrier payments. States that for taxpayers with adjusted gross income in excess of $1 million for calendar year 2004 the amount of the tax reduction resulting from enactment of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 and enactment of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 shall be reduced by 5.1 percent.", "2023-01-15T04:49:03Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4422"], ["108-hr-4462", 108, "hr", 4462, "Making appropriations for homeland security programs within the Departments of Energy, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-05-20", "2004-05-21", "Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E957)", "House", "Rep. Sandlin, Max [D-TX-1]", "TX", "D", "S000044", 1, "Makes appropriations for homeland security programs within the Departments of Energy (DOE), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Homeland Security (DHS) for FY 2005, including to: (1) DOE for atomic energy defense and defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (2) HHS for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, the Strategic National Stockpile, and for activities to ensure a year-round influenza vaccine production capacity and the development and implementation of rapidly expandable influenza vaccine production technologies; and (3) DHS for border and transportation security and customs and border protection, Federal air marshals, air and marine interdiction operations and procurement, the Transportation Security Administration (for civil aviation security and maritime and land transportation security), the Office for Domestic Preparedness (including for State and local government grants for terrorism prevention activities and for firefighter assistance grants), countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations, and emergency management performance grants.", "2023-01-15T04:49:03Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4462"], ["108-s-2366", 108, "s", 2366, "Black Lung Disability Trust Fund Debt Restructuring Act", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-04-29", "2004-04-29", "Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.", "Senate", "Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]", "IA", "R", "G000386", 0, "Black Lung Disability Trust Fund Debt Restructuring Act - Requires the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, on a certain refinancing date, to pay the market value of the outstanding repayable advances, plus accrued interest, by transferring into the general fund of the Treasury specified amounts derived from proceeds from obligations issued to the Secretary of the Treasury and from an appropriation to the Trust Fund under this Act.  Authorizes the Trust Fund to issue additional obligations to the Secretary if it is unable to: (1) repay those obligations issued in such initial repayment; or (2) make benefit payments and other authorized expenditures. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend provisions for a temporary increase in excise tax levels related to the Trust Fund.", "2023-01-15T04:48:54Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2366"], ["108-hconres-401", 108, "hconres", 401, "Revising the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2005.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-30", "2004-03-30", "Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.", "House", "Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7]", "WI", "D", "O000007", 13, "Amends the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 2005 with respect to: (1) recommended levels and amounts; (2) major functional categories; (3) section 302 (a) allocation made to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; and (4) additional reconciliation instructions to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Finance Committee.", "2023-01-15T10:18:08Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/401"], ["108-hr-4074", 108, "hr", 4074, "To amend section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, to require the President to include the estimated unfunded liabilities of all Federal programs in annual budget submissions.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-30", "2004-03-30", "Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.", "House", "Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7]", "MI", "R", "S000597", 17, "Amends Federal law to require the President to include in the annual submission to Congress of a proposed Federal budget a separate statement setting forth the estimated unfunded liability of each program for specified fiscal years, including the next 20-fiscal-year and 75-fiscal-year periods.", "2023-01-15T10:47:56Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/4074"], ["108-hres-583", 108, "hres", 583, "Revising the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2005, as passed the House.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-30", "2004-03-30", "Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.", "House", "Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7]", "WI", "D", "O000007", 13, "Modifies the concurrent resolution on the budget for FY 2005, as passed the House, with respect to: (1) recommended levels and amounts; (2) major functional categories; (3) allocations made to the House Committee on Appropriations; and (4) additional reconciliation instructions to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Provides that such modifications shall have force and effect as though adopted by the House.", "2023-01-15T10:47:54Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-resolution/583"], ["108-hconres-393", 108, "hconres", 393, "Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2005 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2004 and 2006 through 2009.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-19", "2004-03-25", "Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.", "House", "Rep. Nussle, Jim [R-IA-1]", "IA", "R", "N000172", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.) Sets forth the congressional budget for the Government for FY 2005, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY 2004 and for FY 2006 through 2009. Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY 2004 through 2009 with respect to: (1) Federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits (on-budget); (5) debt subject to limit; and (6) debt held by the public. (Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for specified major functional categories for FY 2004 through 2009. Title II: Reconciliation and Report Submission - (Sec. 201) Requires recommendations of changes in law within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce revenues and increase or reduce (as indicated) the total level of outlays by specified amounts to the House Committee on the Budget by the following Committees: (1) Agriculture; (2) Education and the Workforce; (3) Energy and Commerce; (4) Government Reform; and (5) Ways and Means. Requires the House Committee on the Budget to report to the House a reconciliation bill carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revision. Requires the House Committee on Ways and Means to report a budget reconciliation bill that consists of changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce revenues by not more than $13.182 billion for FY 2005 and by not more than $137.580 billion for FY 2005 through 2009. Provides that if such reconciliation bill does not increase the deficit for such fiscal years above the permitted levels, the chairman of the House Committee on the Budget (Chairman) may revise the reconciliation instructions to permit the Committee on Ways and Means to increase the level of direct spending outlays, make conforming adjustments to the revenue instruction to decrease the reduction in revenues, and make conforming changes in allocations to the Committee on Ways and Means and in budget aggregates. (Sec. 202) Requires the House Committee on Armed Services to report to the House Budget Committee on its findings that identify $2 billion in savings from activities determined to be a low priority to the successful execution of current military operations, or to be wasteful or unnecessary to national defense. Requires the identified funds to be reallocated to programs and activities that directly contribute to enhancing the combat capabilities of the U.S. military forces with an emphasis on force protection, munitions, and surveillance capabilities. Directs the Chairman to insert the report by the Committee on Armed Services in the Congressional Record by May 21, 2004. Title III: Reserve Funds and Contingency Procedure - Subtitle A: Reserve Funds for Legislation Assumed in Budget Aggregates - (Sec. 301) Authorizes the Chairman, if the House reports legislation that provides health insurance for the uninsured, to make the appropriate adjustments in allocations and aggregates to the extent such measure is deficit neutral in FY 2005 and for FY 2005 through 2009. (Sec. 302) Authorizes the Chairman, if the Committee on Energy and Commerce reports legislation that provides medicaid coverage for children with special needs (the Family Opportunity Act), to make the appropriate adjustments in allocations and aggregates to the extent such measure is deficit neutral in FY 2005 and for FY 2005 through 2009.  (Sec. 303) Authorizes the Chairman, if the Committee on Armed Services reports legislation that increases survivors' benefits under the Military Survivors' Benefit Plan, to make the appropriate adjustments in allocations and aggregates to the extent such measure is deficit neutral resulting from a change other than to discretionary appropriations in FY 2005 and for FY 2005 through 2009. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the Chairman, for any bill, including a bill that provides for the safe importation of FDA-approved prescription drugs or places limits on medical malpractice litigation, that has passed the House in the first session of the 108th Congress and, after the adoption of this resolution, is acted on by the Senate, enacted by Congress, and presented to the President, to make the appropriate adjustments in the allocations and aggregates to reflect any resulting savings from any such measure. Subtitle B: Contingency Procedure - (Sec. 311) Authorizes the Chairman, if the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure reports legislation that provides new budget authority for accounts in the highway transit categories in specified amounts and the amount of excess is offset by reductions in mandatory outlays from the Highway Trust Fund or an increase in receipts appropriated to such Fund, to revise committee allocations, aggregates, and allocations of budget authority and outlays in this resolution by the amount provided in such legislation. Authorizes the Chairman to increase the allocation of outlays and appropriate aggregates for FY 2004 or 2005 for a House Committee by the amount of outlays corresponding to such obligation limitations if such committee reports legislation establishing obligation limitations in excess of $40.116 billion for FY 2004 or $41.204 billion for FY 2005 but an amount up to such limit was offset under this subtitle for programs, projects, and activities within the highway and transit categories, and if legislation has been enacted that satisfies specified conditions of this subtitle. Title IV: Budget Enforcement - (Sec. 401) Sets forth prohibitions on advance appropriations in the House. Allows advance appropriations for FY 2006 or 2007 for specified accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement accompanying this resolution, but only in an aggregate of up to $23.568 billion in new budget authority. (Sec. 402) States that if legislation is reported that makes supplemental appropriations for FY 2005 for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism, or for any emergency requirements, then the resulting new budget authority, new entitlement authority, outlays, and receipts shall not count for certain purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for the provisions of such measure that are designated as making appropriations for such contingency operations.  Requires the committee report and any accompanying managers' statement, if legislation is designated as an emergency requirement, to explain the manner in which it meets specified emergency criteria, including a threat to life, property, or the national security that is sudden, quick, unforeseen, unpredictable, and temporary in nature. Requires the committee to cause the explanation to be printed in the Congressional Record in advance of floor consideration if such legislation is to be considered by the House without being reported. Deems an emergency that is part of an aggregate level of anticipated emergencies, particularly when normally estimated in advance, as not unforeseen. (Sec. 403) Requires all House budgetary legislation, as well as the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the budget, to include in its estimated levels of new budget authority and total outlays, or allocations, any discretionary amounts provided for the Social Security Administration.   Title V: Sense of the House - (Sec. 501) Expresses the sense of the House that, in order to enact legislation to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse to ensure the efficient use of taxpayer dollars, authorizing committees should actively engage in oversight utilizing: (1) the plans and goals submitted by executive agencies pursuant to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993; and (2) the performance evaluations submitted by such agencies (that are based upon the Program Assessment Rating Tool which is designed to improve agency performance). Expresses the sense of the House that: (1) all Federal programs should be periodically reauthorized and funding for unauthorized programs should be level-funded in FY 2005 unless there is a compelling justification; (2) committees should submit written justifications for earmarks and should consider not funding those most egregiously inconsistent with national policy; (3) the FY 2005 budget resolution should be vigorously enforced and legislation should be enacted establishing statutory limits on appropriations and a PAY-AS-YOU-GO rule for new and expanded entitlement programs; and (4) Congress should make every effort to offset nonwar-related supplemental appropriations. (Sec. 502) Expresses the sense of the House that authorizing committees should: (1) systematically review all means-tested entitlement programs and track beneficiary participation across programs and time; (2) enact legislation to develop common eligibility requirements for such programs, accurately rename them, and coordinate program benefits in order to limit to a reasonable period of time the Government dependency of means-tested entitlement program participants; (3) evaluate the costs of, and justifications for, nonmeans-tested, nonretirement-related entitlement programs; and (4) identify and utilize resources that have conducted cost-benefit analyses of participants in multiple means- and nonmeans-tested entitlement programs to understand their cumulative costs and collective benefits.", "2023-01-15T10:18:08Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/393"], ["108-hr-3995", 108, "hr", 3995, "Assuring Fiscal Honesty and Accountability Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-18", "2004-03-18", "Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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.", "House", "Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]", "IN", "D", "H001030", 27, "Assuring Honesty and Accountability Act of 2004 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to extend through FY 2007 the spending limits (spending caps) for the discretionary categories in new budget authority and outlays. Extends pay-as-you-go requirements through FY 2009. Extends specified budget enforcement mechanisms through FY 2009. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 concerning legislation which: (1) evades specified budget enforcement mechanisms; (2) provides direct spending (to be included in the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis (scoring)); and (3) is unreported by committee (for purposes of budget point of order rules). Requires reports on legislation which provide new budget, spending, or credit authority or otherwise provide an increase or decrease in revenues or tax expenditures to include a projection by CBO of the cost of debt servicing (interest). Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to address issues of emergency spending through: (1) establishing criteria and guidelines; and (2) requiring a separate House vote on an emergency designation. Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives concerning: (1) budget compliance statements (permitting inclusion of budgetary implications); (2) requirements for budget act waivers (inclusion mandatory for bill consideration); and (3) a separate vote to waive a major budget act point of order.", "2023-01-15T10:32:59Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3995"], ["108-hr-3984", 108, "hr", 3984, "To make 1 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2005.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-17", "2004-03-17", "Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.", "House", "Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]", "TN", "R", "B001243", 7, "Makes a one percent rescission in the: (1) budget authority provided (or obligation limitation imposed) for FY 2005 for any non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary account in any FY 2005 appropriation Act; (2) budget authority provided in any advance appropriation for FY 2005 for such account in any prior fiscal year appropriation Act; and (3) contract authority provided in FY 2005 for any program that is subject to a limitation contained in any FY 2005 appropriation Act for the account. Excludes any account: (1) included in a Department of Defense Appropriations Act, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, or Military Construction Appropriations Act; or (2) for Department of Energy defense activities included in an Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act.", "2023-01-15T10:32:59Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3984"], ["108-hr-3985", 108, "hr", 3985, "To make 2 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2005.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-17", "2004-03-17", "Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.", "House", "Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]", "TN", "R", "B001243", 7, "Provides a two-percent rescission in the: (1) budget authority provided (or obligation limitation imposed) for FY 2005 for any non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary account in any FY 2005 appropriation Act; (2) budget authority provided in any advance appropriation for FY 2005 for such account in any prior fiscal year appropriation Act; and (3) contract authority provided in FY 2005 for any program that is subject to a limitation contained in any FY 2005 appropriation Act for the account. Excludes any account: (1) included in a Department of Defense Appropriations Act, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, or Military Construction Appropriations Act; or (2) for Department of Energy defense activities included in an Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act.", "2023-01-15T10:32:59Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3985"], ["108-hr-3986", 108, "hr", 3986, "To make 5 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary spending for fiscal year 2005.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-17", "2004-03-17", "Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.", "House", "Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]", "TN", "R", "B001243", 7, "Provides a five percent rescission in the: (1) budget authority provided (or obligation limitation imposed) for FY 2005 for any non-defense, non-homeland-security discretionary account in any FY 2005 appropriation Act; (2) budget authority provided in any advance appropriation for FY 2005 for such account in any prior fiscal year appropriation Act; and (3) contract authority provided in FY 2005 for any program that is subject to a limitation contained in any FY 2005 appropriation Act for the account. Excludes any account: (1) included in a Department of Defense Appropriations Act, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, or Military Construction Appropriations Act; or (2) for Department of Energy defense activities included in an Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act.", "2023-01-15T10:32:59Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3986"], ["108-hr-3973", 108, "hr", 3973, "Spending Control Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-16", "2004-03-19", "Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 255.", "House", "Rep. Nussle, Jim [R-IA-1]", "IA", "R", "N000172", 0, "Spending Control Act of 2004 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to establish for FY 2005 through 2009 unspecified discretionary spending limits (spending caps) for the general purpose discretionary category in new budget authority and outlays. Provides that, in any of such fiscal years, discretionary advance appropriations provided in appropriation Acts in excess of an unspecified amount shall be counted against the discretionary spending limits for the fiscal year for which the appropriation Act containing the advance appropriation is enacted. Extends PAY-AS-YOU-GO requirements through FY 2009 to provide for an offsetting sequestration for direct spending (currently, direct spending and receipts) legislation that is enacted before October 1, 2009, that causes a net increase in direct spending (currently, net deficit increase). Modifies the formula used to calculate the amount of direct spending (currently, deficit) increase to exclude receipts. Provides that, if supplemental appropriations for discretionary accounts are enacted for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism that the President designates and Congress so designates in statute, the adjustment shall be the total of such appropriations in discretionary accounts so designated and the outlays flowing in all fiscal years from them. States that the general purpose discretionary category shall consist of accounts designated in the joint explanatory statement of managers accompanying the conference report on this Act. Makes revisions to the baseline calculation for discretionary appropriations to prohibit the assumption beyond the fiscal year for which they have been enacted of any new budget resources designated by the President and by Congress in statute for emergency appropriations or for supplemental appropriations for contingency operations related to global war on terrorism. Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) cost estimates on direct spending or receipts legislation to exclude any amount resulting from extending provisions in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 or in the Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 relating to certain individual tax rate reductions, tax benefits to children, and marriage penalty relief. Requires the estimates set forth in the discretionary sequestration preview reports and such final reports issued by OMB and the Congressional Budget Office to include the current year and each subsequent year through FY 2009. Extends: (1) certain budget enforcement requirements through FY 2009; and (2) PAY-AS-YOU-GO requirements through FY 2013.", "2023-01-15T10:32:59Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3973"], ["108-hr-3937", 108, "hr", 3937, "Macroeconomic Budgeting Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-11", "2004-03-11", "Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.", "House", "Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]", "WA", "R", "H000329", 1, "Macroeconomic Budgeting Act of 2004 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to change from mandatory to discretionary specific new budget authority and outlays for each major functional category in the concurrent resolution on the budget (thus limiting the required contents of the resolution to totals of new budget authority and outlays).", "2023-01-15T10:33:00Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3937"], ["108-sjres-29", 108, "sjres", 29, "A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States which requires (except during time of war and subject to suspension by the Congress) that the total amount of money expended by the United States during any fiscal year not exceed the amount of certain revenue received by the United States during such fiscal year and not exceed 20 per centum of the gross national product of the United States during the previous calendar year.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-11", "2004-03-11", "Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR 3/12/2004 S2728)", "Senate", "Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL]", "AL", "R", "S000320", 0, "Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits, except in time of war, Federal fiscal year expenditures from exceeding: (1) Federal revenues for that fiscal year, except revenue received from the issuance of bonds, notes, or other obligations of the United States; and (2) 20 percent of the gross national product for the preceding calendar year. Authorizes suspension of these prohibitions by concurrent resolution approved by a three-fifths vote of each House of Congress.", "2023-01-15T09:32:48Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/29"], ["108-hr-3925", 108, "hr", 3925, "Deficit Control Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-10", "2004-11-22", "House Committee on The Budget Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 10, 2004.", "House", "Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]", "IL", "R", "K000360", 18, "Deficit Control Act of 2004 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require annual joint (currently, concurrent) budget resolutions signed by the President.   Sets forth provisions regarding the establishment of a reserve fund for emergencies. Eliminates inflation adjustments.  Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide spending caps on the growth of entitlements and mandatory budget outlays. Excludes from such limits any benefits payable under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) (as well as old age, survivors, and disability insurance under SSA title II and Tier 1 railroad retirement benefits, as under current law), along with specified Government accounts and activities (including existing exemptions). Revises other existing exceptions, limitations, and special rules with respect to sequestration exemptions, removing Medicare benefits from the current list. Sets limits on discretionary spending programs for FY 2006 through FY 2014, specifying such limits each fiscal year for the nondefense category. Provides for points of order against any increase in such limits. Establishes a procedure for enhanced and expedited consideration by Congress of rescissions proposed by the President. Establishes the Commission to Eliminate Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. Provides for accrual funding of the: (1) Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (2) Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System; (3) Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System; and (4) post-retirement health benefits costs for Federal employees. Establishes in the Treasury: (1) the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Retirement Fund; (2) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Retirement System; and (3) the Coast Guard Military Retirement Fund.  Changes the name of the Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund to Uniformed Services Health Care Fund (thus, providing health care programs for all uniformed service retirees, under certain conditions). (Currently, such programs are for Department of Defense Medicare-eligible beneficiaries). Decreases the limit on the public debt from $7.384 trillion to $4.393 trillion. Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to extend: (1) certain budget enforcement requirements through FY 2014; (2) PAYGO requirements through FY 2018; and (3) PAYGO requirements through FY 2014 to provide for an offsetting sequestration for direct spending and receipts legislation enacted before October 1, 2014, that causes a net deficit increase. Declares that the term "receipts legislation" does not include provisions of a bill or joint resolution amending the Internal Revenue Code that increases the deficit, if the amount of deficit increase does not exceed for any fiscal year covered by such resolution the amount by which the aggregate level of Federal revenues should be decreased under it.", "2023-01-15T10:18:05Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3925"], ["108-sconres-95", 108, "sconres", 95, "An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2005 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2006 through 2009.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-05", "2004-05-20", "Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate.", "Senate", "Sen. Nickles, Don [R-OK]", "OK", "R", "N000102", 646, "Sets forth the congressional budget for the Government for FY 2005, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY 2004 and for FY 2006 through 2009. Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY 2004 through 2009 with respect to: (1) Federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits (on-budget); (5) debt subject to limit; and (6) debt held by the public. (Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for specified major functional categories for FY 2004 through 2009. Title II: Reconciliation and Report Submission - (Sec. 201) Requires recommendations of changes in law within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce revenues and increase or reduce (as indicated) the total level of outlays by specified amounts to the House Committee on the Budget by the following Committees: (1) Agriculture; (2) Education and the Workforce; (3) Energy and Commerce; (4) Government Reform; and (5) Ways and Means. Requires the House Committee on the Budget to report to the House a reconciliation bill carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revision. Requires the House Committee on Ways and Means to report a budget reconciliation bill that consists of changes in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce revenues by not more than $13.182 billion for FY 2005 and by not more than $137.580 billion for FY 2005 through 2009. Provides that if such reconciliation bill does not increase the deficit for such fiscal years above the permitted levels, the chairman of the House Committee on the Budget (Chairman) may revise the reconciliation instructions to permit the Committee on Ways and Means to increase the level of direct spending outlays, make conforming adjustments to the revenue instruction to decrease the reduction in revenues, and make conforming changes in allocations to the Committee on Ways and Means and in budget aggregates. (Sec. 202) Requires the House Committee on Armed Services to report to the House Budget Committee on its findings that identify $2 billion in savings from activities determined to be a low priority to the successful execution of current military operations, or to be wasteful or unnecessary to national defense. Requires the identified funds to be reallocated to programs and activities that directly contribute to enhancing the combat capabilities of the U.S. military forces with an emphasis on force protection, munitions, and surveillance capabilities. Directs the Chairman to insert the report by the Committee on Armed Services in the Congressional Record by May 21, 2004. Title III: Reserve Funds and Contingency Procedure - Subtitle A: Reserve Funds for Legislation Assumed in Budget Aggregates - (Sec. 301) Authorizes the Chairman, if the House reports legislation that provides health insurance for the uninsured, to make the appropriate adjustments in allocations and aggregates to the extent such measure is deficit neutral in FY 2005 and for FY 2005 through 2009. (Sec. 302) Authorizes the Chairman, if the Committee on Energy and Commerce reports legislation that provides medicaid coverage for children with special needs (the Family Opportunity Act), to make the appropriate adjustments in allocations and aggregates to the extent such measure is deficit neutral in FY 2005 and for FY 2005 through 2009.  (Sec. 303) Authorizes the Chairman, if the Committee on Armed Services reports legislation that increases survivors' benefits under the Military Survivors' Benefit Plan, to make the appropriate adjustments in allocations and aggregates to the extent such measure is deficit neutral resulting from a change other than to discretionary appropriations in FY 2005 and for FY 2005 through 2009. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the Chairman, for any bill, including a bill that provides for the safe importation of FDA-approved prescription drugs or places limits on medical malpractice litigation, that has passed the House in the first session of the 108th Congress and, after the adoption of this resolution, is acted on by the Senate, enacted by Congress, and presented to the President, to make the appropriate adjustments in the allocations and aggregates to reflect any resulting savings from any such measure. Subtitle B: Contingency Procedure - (Sec. 311) Authorizes the Chairman, if the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure reports legislation that provides new budget authority for accounts in the highway transit categories in specified amounts and the amount of excess is offset by reductions in mandatory outlays from the Highway Trust Fund or an increase in receipts appropriated to such Fund, to revise committee allocations, aggregates, and allocations of budget authority and outlays in this resolution by the amount provided in such legislation. Authorizes the Chairman to increase the allocation of outlays and appropriate aggregates for FY 2004 or 2005 for a House Committee by the amount of outlays corresponding to such obligation limitations if such committee reports legislation establishing obligation limitations in excess of $40.116 billion for FY 2004 or $41.204 billion for FY 2005 but an amount up to such limit was offset under this subtitle for programs, projects, and activities within the highway and transit categories, and if legislation has been enacted that satisfies specified conditions of this subtitle. Title IV: Budget Enforcement - (Sec. 401) Sets forth prohibitions on advance appropriations in the House. Allows advance appropriations for FY 2006 or 2007 for specified accounts identified in the joint explanatory statement accompanying this resolution, but only in an aggregate of up to $23.568 billion in new budget authority. (Sec. 402) States that if legislation is reported that makes supplemental appropriations for FY 2005 for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism, or for any emergency requirements, then the resulting new budget authority, new entitlement authority, outlays, and receipts shall not count for certain purposes of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for the provisions of such measure that are designated as making appropriations for such contingency operations.  Requires the committee report and any accompanying managers' statement, if legislation is designated as an emergency requirement, to explain the manner in which it meets specified emergency criteria, including a threat to life, property, or the national security that is sudden, quick, unforeseen, unpredictable, and temporary in nature. Requires the committee to cause the explanation to be printed in the Congressional Record in advance of floor consideration if such legislation is to be considered by the House without being reported. Deems an emergency that is part of an aggregate level of anticipated emergencies, particularly when normally estimated in advance, as not unforeseen. (Sec. 403) Requires all House budgetary legislation, as well as the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on any concurrent resolution on the budget, to include in its estimated levels of new budget authority and total outlays, or allocations, any discretionary amounts provided for the Social Security Administration.   Title V: Sense of the House - (Sec. 501) Expresses the sense of the House that, in order to enact legislation to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse to ensure the efficient use of taxpayer dollars, authorizing committees should actively engage in oversight utilizing: (1) the plans and goals submitted by executive agencies pursuant to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993; and (2) the performance evaluations submitted by such agencies (that are based upon the Program Assessment Rating Tool which is designed to improve agency performance). Expresses the sense of the House that: (1) all Federal programs should be periodically reauthorized and funding for unauthorized programs should be level-funded in FY 2005 unless there is a compelling justification; (2) committees should submit written justifications for earmarks and should consider not funding those most egregiously inconsistent with national policy; (3) the FY 2005 budget resolution should be vigorously enforced and legislation should be enacted establishing statutory limits on appropriations and a PAY-AS-YOU-GO rule for new and expanded entitlement programs; and (4) Congress should make every effort to offset nonwar-related supplemental appropriations. (Sec. 502) Expresses the sense of the House that authorizing committees should: (1) systematically review all means-tested entitlement programs and track beneficiary participation across programs and time; (2) enact legislation to develop common eligibility requirements for such programs, accurately rename them, and coordinate program benefits in order to limit to a reasonable period of time the Government dependency of means-tested entitlement program participants; (3) evaluate the costs of, and justifications for, nonmeans-tested, nonretirement-related entitlement programs; and (4) identify and utilize resources that have conducted cost-benefit analyses of participants in multiple means- and nonmeans-tested entitlement programs to understand their cumulative costs and collective benefits.", "2023-01-15T11:03:06Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-concurrent-resolution/95"], ["108-s-2162", 108, "s", 2162, "Inland Northwest Revitalization Act", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-03-03", "2004-03-03", "Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.", "Senate", "Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]", "ID", "R", "C000880", 0, "Inland Northwest Revitalization Act - Establishes an Inland Northwest Regional Partnership to promote, coordinate, implement, and monitor economic and rural development projects and programs for the Inland Northwest Region (all of Idaho and Montana and specified inland counties of Oregon and Washington). Requires the Partnership to meet at least once a year and to include and encourage public participation. Authorizes the Partnership to make grants to qualified Region organizations to implement an Inland Northwest economic adjustment strategy. Authorizes the Partnership to provide technical assistance and grants, enter into contracts, or otherwise provide amounts to persons or entities in the Region for: (1) business cluster development; (2) entrepreneurial development; (3) technology commercialization; (4) community capacity-building; and (5) projects to improve job skills of workers for a specified industry. Provides for administration of Partnership economic and rural development projects, programs, and activities. Encourages each State and tribe to submit to the Partnership a development plan which reflects goals, objectives, and priorities for the regional development of the area. Directs the Partnership to annually designate distressed counties and economically strong counties for purposes of Partnership projects, programs, and activities.", "2023-01-15T10:47:53Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/2162"], ["108-hr-3853", 108, "hr", 3853, "Common Sense Spending Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-02-26", "2004-03-03", "Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H757)", "House", "Rep. Barrett, J. Gresham [R-SC-3]", "SC", "R", "B001239", 3, "Common Sense Spending Act of 2004 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to extend the discretionary spending limits through FY 2009, with adjustments for inflation each year starting FY 2006. Provides that if a bill or joint resolution is enacted that charges Federal agencies for the full cost of accrued Federal retirement and health benefits, and a bill or joint resolution making appropriations is enacted that provides new budget authority to carry out such legislation, the adjustment shall be equal to the reduction in mandatory budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom estimated to result from the legislation. Repeals the exemption of appropriations to cover agricultural crop disaster assistance from the application of mandatory adjustments in discretionary spending limits in a sequestration report and subsequent budgets for emergency appropriations for discretionary accounts. (Thus applies such mandatory adjustments in the total amount of emergency appropriations to appropriations covering agricultural crop disaster assistance.)  Revises PAYGO requirements to remove receipts from the requirement that any legislation enacted before FY 2009 affecting direct spending (currently, direct spending and receipts) that increases the deficit will trigger an offsetting sequestration. Revises the formula for calculating the amount of deficit increase or decrease by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to require OMB, before making such calculations for FY 2005, to assume an automatic deficit increase of $7.4 billion. States that, with respect to eliminating a deficit increase, accounts shall be assumed to be at the level in the baseline for FY 2005 and for FY 2006 through 2009 at the baseline after adjusting for any sequester in FY 2005. Revises the definition of baseline to exclude emergency appropriations and legislation. Prohibits such emergency appropriations from being extended in the baseline. Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to define: (1) "emergency" as an unanticipated situation that requires new budget authority and outlays (or new budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom) for the prevention or mitigation of, or response to, loss of life or property, or a threat to national security; and (2) "unanticipated" as an underlying situation that is sudden, which means quickly coming into being or not building up over time, urgent, which means a pressing and compelling need requiring immediate action, unforeseen, which means not predicted or anticipated as an emerging need, and temporary, which means not of a permanent duration. Outlines the rule for designation of a legislative provision as an emergency.", "2023-01-15T09:47:44Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3853"], ["108-hr-3800", 108, "hr", 3800, "Family Budget Protection Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-02-11", "2004-11-22", "House Committee on The Budget Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 10, 2004.", "House", "Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]", "TX", "R", "H001036", 105, "Family Budget Protection Act of 2004 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to eliminate the May 15 deadline for consideration of annual appropriations measures. Requires annual joint (currently, concurrent) budget resolutions signed by the President. Provides for an amendment to change the statutory limit on the public debt.  Requires consideration of budget-related legislation before the budget resolution becomes law.  Sets forth provisions regarding the establishment of a reserve fund for emergencies. Requires: (1) biennial (currently, annual) budget resolutions; (2) biennial appropriations Acts; and (3) biennial Government strategic and performance plans. Provides spending caps on the growth of entitlements and mandatory budget outlays. Excludes benefits payable under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA), Tier 1 railroad retirement benefits, and benefits payable under part A of title XVIII (relating to part A Medicare hospital insurance benefits) of SSA and part C of such title (relating to the Medicare Advantage program) from required reductions under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, along with specified Government accounts and activities. Provides other exceptions, limitations, and special rules with respect to sequestration exemptions. Directs the Chairman to maintain the Family Budget Protection Mandatory Account and the Family Budget Protection Discretionary Account. Freezes at current levels spending authority for each unearned entitlement, high-cost discretionary spending program, and authorized and unauthorized discretionary spending programs. Establishes the Commission to Eliminate Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. Provides for accrual funding of the: (1) Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (2) Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System; and (3) Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System. Establishes in the Treasury: (1) the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Retirement Fund; (2) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps Retirement System; and (3) the Coast Guard Military Retirement Fund.  Changes the name of the Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund to Uniformed Services Health Care Fund (thus, providing health care programs for all uniformed service retirees, under certain conditions). (Currently, such programs are for Department of Defense Medicare-eligible beneficiaries.) Decreases the limit on the public debt from $6.4 trillion to $4.393 trillion. Prohibits consideration of extraneous appropriations in omnibus appropriations measures.", "2023-01-15T09:47:46Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3800"], ["108-hjres-88", 108, "hjres", 88, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that certain trust funds are outside the budget of the United States.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-01-28", "2004-03-01", "Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.", "House", "Rep. Taylor, Gene [D-MS-4]", "MS", "D", "T000074", 7, "Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the receipts (including attributable interest) and outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance, Disability Insurance, Hospital Insurance, and Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, and the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund from being counted as receipts or outlays of the United States.", "2023-01-15T09:32:51Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/88"], ["108-hjres-86", 108, "hjres", 86, "Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2004-01-21", "2004-03-01", "Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.", "House", "Rep. Jenkins, William L. [R-TN-1]", "TN", "R", "J000082", 0, "Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits Federal expenditures (except those for repayment of debt principal) from exceeding revenues (except those derived from borrowing) for any fiscal year unless three-fifths of the whole number of each House of Congress provides for a specific excess of expenditures over revenues by a rollcall vote.Authorizes Congress to waive such prohibition when a declaration of war is in effect or under other specified circumstances involving military conflict.", "2023-01-15T09:32:51Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/86"], ["108-hjres-82", 108, "hjres", 82, "Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-12-08", "2003-12-16", "Became Public Law No: 108-185.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2004 (the law) to increase from $3.8 billion to $7.667 billion the limitation on new loan guarantee commitments of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), General and Special Risk Insurance Fund, for the period of applicability of the law. Allows such increase only: (1) after a certification by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to the congressional appropriations committees that the use of such authority will not result in loan guarantee commitments for all of FY 2004 at a level in excess of the limitation set forth in the FY 2003 appropriations Act, and that the apportionment of loan commitment authority provided for the Fund and the FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund is in compliance with the terms and conditions set forth in the law; (2) if the authority for such increase applies only to new commitments issued after the enactment of this Act; and (3) if nothing in this Act is construed to pardon or release a Government officer or employee for violations of Federal law prohibiting an officer or employee from expending amounts in excess of appropriated amounts or expending sequestered amounts (the Antideficiency Act) or other applicable laws. Amends the law making continuing appropriations to provide a $141.4 million rate of operations for the Federal Aviation Administration Operations Account Staff Offices line of business.", "2023-01-15T09:17:39Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/82"], ["108-hjres-79", 108, "hjres", 79, "Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-11-21", "2003-11-22", "Became Public Law No: 108-135.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Extends until January 31, 2004: (1) the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2004; and (2) the waiver of certain conditions under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2003 on the planning, design, or construction of a chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia.", "2023-01-15T08:18:17Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/79"], ["108-hr-3640", 108, "hr", 3640, "Cost of Living Measurement and Index Act of 2003", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-11-21", "2004-01-30", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.", "House", "Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6]", "MA", "D", "T000266", 13, "Cost of Living Measurement and Index Act of 2003 - Directs the Commissioner of Labor Statistics to develop a methodology for measuring the cost of living in each State. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study to determine how certain Federal benefits would be increased if such cost-of-living methodology were applied. Requires such study to include determination of increases in benefits under: (1) the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (2) earned income tax credit provisions of the Internal Revenue Code; (3) all Federal housing assistance programs; (4) the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program; (5) the food stamp program; and (6) all other Federal nutrition assistance programs, to the extent they provide vouchers, coupons, cash grants, or cash reimbursements.", "2023-01-15T08:48:08Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3640"], ["108-s-1915", 108, "s", 1915, "Honest Government Accounting Act of 2003", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-11-21", "2003-11-21", "Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on the Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged.", "Senate", "Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]", "CT", "D", "L000304", 0, "Honest Government Accounting Act of 2003 - Requires, in a current annual report from the Secretary of the Treasury to the President and Congress on the overall financial position of the U.S. Government, the preparation of a net present value calculation of all major Government liabilities and commitments, including outstanding debt held by the public and all social insurance entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare. Requires each calculation to: (1) be prepared for both a 75-year horizon and an indefinite time horizon; and (2) include the financial and demographic assumptions and details of the methods used in making the calculations. Mandates that if the total of debt held by the public added to the net present value calculation of the overall liabilities and commitments of the Government exceeds 1.25 percent of the present discounted value of all future payrolls no later than September 15, 2005, the President shall submit to Congress and the Commission on Long-Term Government Liabilities and Commitments (established herein) a plan to reduce that percentage to 1.25 or less. Establishes such Commission to make recommendations to the President and Congress for ensuring that such percentage is no greater than 1.25 percent as of September 11, 2011. Requires the President to report to Congress on any legislative recommendations included in the President's budget which have an adverse impact greater than 0.25 percent of the present discounted value of all future payrolls over 75 years or over an indefinite time horizon, as well as a plan to bring the percentage back to 1.25 by September 11, 2011. Amends the Congressional Budget Act to require budget resolutions to include calculations for the immediately preceding fiscal year of the impact of the resolution on the net present value of the Government's overall liabilities and commitments for both the 75-year and indefinite time horizon. Establishes a point of order against legislation that adversely affects the 1.25 percent by 0.25 percent or more. Directs the Secretary to analyze and report to Congress on the methodology and utility of preparing calculations of the net present value of specific provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that defer tax liability or cause long-term revenue effects that are not captured in a cash flow estimate over five or ten years. Bars the use of expedited procedures to enact legislation which has an adverse impact on the budget deficit or reduces the budget surplus. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to reinstate the "pay-as-you-go" budgetary requirements of such Act.", "2021-09-30T00:43:58Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1915"], ["108-hjres-78", 108, "hjres", 78, "Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-11-19", "2003-11-21", "Message on Senate action sent to the House.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Extends until November 23, 2003: (1) the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2004; and (2) the waiver of certain conditions under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2003 on the planning, design, or construction of a chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia.", "2023-01-15T08:18:17Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/78"], ["108-hr-3533", 108, "hr", 3533, "To amend the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 to require appropriations to cover the estimated subsidy costs of monetary resources provided by the United States Government to the International Monetary Fund, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-11-19", "2004-01-02", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.", "House", "Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]", "NJ", "R", "S000097", 0, "Amends the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 to declare that, beginning with FY 2005, no appropriation may be made for an increase in the quota of the United States in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) unless it includes new budget authority sufficient to cover the estimated costs to the United States of providing direct loans, loan guarantees, other financing mechanisms (and their modifications) made by or through the IMF to IMF borrowing nations at interest rates below the cost to the Government after appropriate adjustments for maturity and credit risk. Requires the expenditures in the President's budget to reflect the costs to the Government of providing credit to IMF borrowing nations at such interest rates.", "2023-01-15T08:33:24Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3533"], ["108-sjres-25", 108, "sjres", 25, "A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the line item veto.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-11-19", "2003-11-19", "Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15192)", "Senate", "Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]", "NC", "R", "D000601", 0, "Constitutional Amendment - Empowers Congress to enact a line-item veto.", "2023-01-15T09:17:40Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/25"], ["108-hjres-76", 108, "hjres", 76, "Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-11-04", "2003-11-07", "Became Public Law No: 108-107.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Extends until November 21, 2003: (1) the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2004; and (2) the waiver of certain conditions under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2003 on the planning, design, or construction of a chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia.", "2023-01-15T08:18:17Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/76"], ["108-hjres-75", 108, "hjres", 75, "Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-10-28", "2003-10-31", "Became Public Law No: 108-104.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced in the House. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Amends the law making continuing appropriations for FY 2004 to: (1) extend such law through November 7, 2003; (2) make available to the Secretary of Transportation out of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund such amounts as may be necessary for administrative expenses of the Grants-in-aid Airports program at the current rate of operations; and (3) repeal the continuing availability of funding for administrative expenses of the Federal Highway Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Federal Transit Administration, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2003 to extend through November 7, 2003, the waiver of certain conditions on the planning, design, or construction of a chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia.", "2023-01-15T07:17:55Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/75"], ["108-hr-3358", 108, "hr", 3358, "Family Budget Protection Act of 2003", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-10-21", "2004-11-22", "House Committee on The Budget Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 10, 2004.", "House", "Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]", "TX", "R", "H001036", 39, "Family Budget Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to require, within 15 days after the end of each congressional session, a sequestration to eliminate any deficit that exceeds the excess margin (maximum permissible deficit). Requires half of the required outlay reductions to come from non-exempt defense accounts and half to come from non-exempt non-defense accounts. Provides decreasing maximum deficit amounts for FY 2005 and thereafter, with a zero balance for FY 2012 and beyond. Requires adjustment of the maximum deficit in the event of negative Federal revenue growth. Provides discretionary spending limits for FY 2005 through 2013. Repeals the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act expiration date. Directs the Chairman of the House Budget Committee to maintain the Family Budget Protection Discretionary Account, to be debited and credited by new budget increases and reductions. Provides spending caps on the growth of entitlements and mandatory budget outlays. Excludes benefits payable under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and Tier 1 railroad retirement benefits from required reductions under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, along with specified Government accounts and activities. Provides other exceptions, limitations, and special rules with respect to sequestration exemptions. Directs the Chairman to maintain the Family Budget Protection Mandatory Account, to be debited and credited by increases or decreases in mandatory budget authority. Freezes at current levels spending authority for each unearned entitlement, high-cost discretionary spending program and authorized and unauthorized discretionary spending programs. Requires: (1) joint (currently, concurrent) and biennial (currently, annual) budget resolutions; (2) biennial appropriations Acts; and (3) biennial Government strategic and performance plans. Requires the appropriation of funds out of any available Treasury amounts to continue in a new fiscal year any previously-authorized Government project or activity in the event that a regular appropriations bill does not become law by the beginning of that fiscal year.", "2021-09-29T23:44:39Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3358"], ["108-hjres-73", 108, "hjres", 73, "Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-10-20", "2003-10-22", "Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 317.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Extends until November 7, 2003: (1) the law making continuning appropriations for FY 2004; and (2) the waiver of certain conditions under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2003 on the planning, design, or construction of a chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia Repeals provisions of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004 authorizing the Secretary of Defense to: (1) transfer specified Army operation and maintenance funds to other activities of the Federal Government; and (2) enter into and carry out contracts for the acquisition of real property, construction, personal services, and operations related to classified projects listed in the Classified Annex accompanying such Act. Enacts into law provisions of the following bills as passed by the House of Representatives: (1) the Agricultural, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004; (2) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004; (3) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2004; (4) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004; (5) the Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004; and (6) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004.", "2023-01-15T07:17:55Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/73"], ["108-hr-3302", 108, "hr", 3302, "Debt Reduction and Fiscal Responsibility Restoration Act of 2003", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-10-15", "2003-10-15", "Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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.", "House", "Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]", "CO", "R", "T000458", 0, "Debt Reduction and Fiscal Responsibility Restoration Act of 2003 - Establishes in the Treasury the Deficit Reduction Account, to be used by the Secretary of the Treasury to pay at maturity, or to redeem or buy before maturity, any obligation of the Government held by the public and included in the public debt. Requires the Secretary to report annually to each House of Congress on the amounts and dates of deposits into the Account and on the public debt redeemed during the previous year. Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide that it shall be in order, during the reading of an appropriation bill for amendment in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union, to consider en bloc amendments proposing only to reduce appropriations among objects in the bill and to appropriate an amount not greater than the amount so reduced to the Account.", "2023-01-15T07:32:53Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3302"], ["108-hr-3289", 108, "hr", 3289, "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-10-14", "2003-11-06", "Became Public Law No: 108-106.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since the conference report was filed in the House on October 30, 2003. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 2004 for military and foreign affairs operations concerning Iraq and Afghanistan, including for Iraqi relief and reconstruction. Title I: National Security - Chapter 1: Department of Defense-Military - Makes appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military personnel; (2) operation and maintenance (O&M); (3) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid; (4) the Iraq Freedom Fund; (5) procurement; (6) research, development, test and evaluation; (7) Defense Working Capital Funds and the National Defense Sealift Fund; (8) the Defense Health Program; (9) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities related to Afghanistan; and (10) the Intelligence Community Management Account. (Sec. 1104) Continues during FY 2004 the increased monthly rates of pay, currently authorized for FY 2003, for imminent danger special pay and the family separation allowance. (Sec. 1106) Allows DOD O&M funds to be used to: (1) provide logistical support to coalition forces supporting military and stability operations in Iraq; and (2) enhance the capability of the New Iraqi Army and the Afghan National Army to combat terrorism and support U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Sec. 1109) Appropriates funds to DOD to be used only for recovery and repair of damage due to natural disasters, including Hurricane Isabel. (Sec. 1110) Earmarks specified O&M funds for the Commander's Emergency Response Program (urgent Iraqi humanitarian and reconstruction relief and assistance for the people of Afghanistan). Requires quarterly reports from the Secretary of Defense to the congressional defense committees regarding the use of such funds. (Sec. 1111) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees describing an Analysis of Alternatives for replacing the capabilities of the existing Air Force fleet of KC-135 tanker aircraft. (Sec. 1112) Makes permanent (currently, applies only during FY 2004) the exemption from the requirement of payment of subsistence charges while hospitalized in a military facility for an enlisted member, former enlisted member, officer, or former officer who is hospitalized in a military facility because of an injury incurred: (1) as a direct result of armed conflict; (2) while engaged in hazardous service; (3) in the performance of duty under conditions simulating war; or (4) through an instrumentality of war. Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004 to make such exemption retroactive with respect to any period of hospitalization on or after September 11, 2001. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to refund any amount paid, or waive recovery of unpaid amounts, for such charges since that date. (Sec. 1114) Allows the administering Secretaries to provide to members of the Ready Reserve called to active duty any medical and dental screening and care necessary to meet applicable standards for deployment. Requires the Secretary concerned to notify such members of their eligibility for such screening and care. Terminates such authority on September 30, 2004. (Sec. 1115) Makes each member of the Selected Reserve and Individual Ready Reserve who is placed in a mobilization category (subject to being ordered to active duty involuntarily) eligible to enroll in TRICARE for self or family coverage and to receive benefits for any period that such member: (1) is an eligible unemployment compensation recipient; or (2) is not eligible for health-care benefits under an employer-sponsored health benefits plan. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for at least one open enrollment period each year; and (2) charge appropriate premiums for such coverage. Prohibits a member from enrolling in the TRICARE program while entitled to DOD transitional health care. (Sec. 1116) Sets forth conditions under which a member of the reserves who is issued a delayed-effective-date active duty order shall be treated as being on active duty for more than 30 days and therefore eligible for medical and dental care for active-duty personnel. Terminates such authority at the end of FY 2004. (Sec. 1117) Increases the benefit period for transitional health care authorized for members separated from active military duty from 60 to 180 days after separation. (Sec. 1118) Requires each member of the reserves who is called or ordered to active duty under a mobilization to be notified in writing of the expected duration of such mobilization. (Sec. 1120) Requires semiannual reports from the Secretary to Congress on the military operations of the armed forces and the reconstruction activities of DOD in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Sec. 1121) Appropriates funds to DOD for securing and destroying conventional munitions in Iraq, including bombs, bomb materials, small arms, rocket-propelled grenades, and shoulder-launched missiles. Chapter 2: Department of Homeland Security - Makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for: (1) the Coast Guard for costs related to Hurricane Isabel damage; and (2) disaster relief. (Sec. 1201) Amends the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2004 to make biodefense countermeasures funding subject to the authorization of the Project Bioshield Act of 2003. Chapter 3: Military Construction - Makes appropriations for military construction and military family housing O&M. (Sec. 1301) Authorizes the Secretary to use O&M funds for military construction projects in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom or the Global War on Terrorism. Limits the total cost of such projects to $150 million in FY 2004. Directs the Secretary to notify the defense committees within 15 days after any such obligation of funds. Requires quarterly reports from the Secretary to the defense committees on the worldwide obligation and expenditure of such funds. Title II: Iraq and Afghanistan Reconstruction and International Assistance - Chapter 1: Department of Justice - Makes appropriations for: (1) the Department of Justice for general legal activities; (2) diplomatic and consular programs and emergencies in the diplomatic consular service; (3) embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (4) contributions for international peacekeeping activities; and (5) international broadcasting operations. Chapter 2: Bilateral Economic Assistance -Makes appropriations for: (1) the United States Agency for International Development, including for the Capital Investment Fund; (2) the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund for security, relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction in Iraq; (3) the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; (4) the Economic Support Fund; (5) international disaster and famine assistance; (6) international narcotics control and law enforcement; (7) nonproliferation, anti-terrorism, demining, and related programs; (8) the Foreign Military Financing Program; and (9) peacekeeping operations to support the global war on terrorism. (Sec. 2201) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act or the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 (Emergency Wartime Act) to repay principal or interest on any loan or guarantee agreement entered into by the Government of Iraq with any private or public sector entity prior to May 1, 2003. (Sec. 2202) Prohibits funds made available from the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund under either this or the Emergency Wartime Act from being used to enter into any Federal contract using other than full and open competition. Allows an exception only upon the written approval of the CPA Administrator and the head of the executive agency awarding and managing such contract. Requires, in any exception, the CPA Administrator or agency head to: (1) notify specified congressional committees at least seven days before such award; and (2) include a justification for the use of other procedures and related information. Prohibits the delegation of such notification. Makes this section: (1) inapplicable to contracts of less than $5 million and contracts authorized by the Small Business Act; and (2) applicable to the amendment, extension, or modification of prior contracts entered into using other than full and open competition. (Sec. 2203) Requires the CPA Administrator or head of any agency entering into a contract for assistance for Iraq using amounts from the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund and using other than competitive procedures to publish and make public certain information with respect to such contract, including justification and approval documents. Makes this section inapplicable to contracts of less than $5 million and contracts authorized by the Small Business Act. (Sec. 2204) Amends the Emergency Wartime Act to extend through FY 2005 the authority of the President to: (1) suspend application of any provision of the Iraq Sanctions Act of 1990; and (2) export to Iraq, under certain circumstances, lethal military equipment designated by the Secretary of State for use by a reconstituted (or interim) Iraqi military or police force and small arms designated by such Secretary for use for private security. (Sec. 2206) Amends the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 to increase from $300 million to $450 million the aggregate value of authorized assistance to the Government of Afghanistan and eligible foreign countries and international organizations to direct the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training. (Sec. 2207) Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to submit to the appropriations committees, prior to the obligation of any funds from the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund, reports on the proposed uses of all such funds for which obligation is anticipated during the three month periods beginning on January 5, 2004. Terminates such requirement on October 1, 2007. (Sec. 2211) Allows the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to undertake in Iraq any program authorized in title IV of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. (Sec. 2213) Extends through FY 2004 an exemption with respect to Pakistan on the prohibition of direct assistance to a country whose duly elected head of government was deposed by decree or military coup. (Sec. 2214) Amends the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 to increase the authorization of appropriations for FY 2004. (Sec. 2215) Requires the CPA Administrator to report monthly until September 30, 2006, to the appropriations committees on Iraqi oil production, revenues, and uses of such revenues. Directs the Secretary of State to report to such committees on: (1) the debt incurred by the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and related matters; (2) U.S. efforts to increase resources contributed by foreign countries and international organizations to the reconstruction, rehabilitation, and peacekeeping efforts in Iraq; (3) addressing the needs of people with disabilities in programs, projects, and activities funded by the U.S. Government in Iraq and Afghanistan; (4) progress toward indicting and trying leaders of the former Iraqi regime for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity; and (5) efforts of Iraqi officials and legal advisors to ensure that a new Iraqi constitution preserves religious freedom. Amends the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of State to submit to specified committees reports on progress made in accomplishing the "Purposes of Assistance" set forth under such Act with respect to assistance provided for Afghanistan. (Sec. 2216) Prohibits funds under this Act from being obligated or expended in contravention of Articles 1 and 4 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict. (Sec. 2217) Requires activities carried out by the United States with respect to: (1) the civilian governance of Afghanistan and Iraq to include advice from women's organizations, to promote the high-level participation of women in future legislative bodies and ministries, and to ensure that human rights for women are upheld; (2) post-conflict stability in those countries to ensure that U.S. organizations that receive funding under this Act provide significant financial resources and assistance to counterpart organizations in such countries, to increase access of women to and ownership by women of productive assets, to provide long-term financial assistance for the education of girls and women, and to integrate education and training programs for former combatants; and (3) training for military and police forces in those countries to include training on the protection, rights, and particular needs of women. Title III: Inspector General of the Coalition Provisional Authority - (Sec. 3001) Establishes the Office of the Inspector General of the CPA. Requires quarterly reports from the Inspector General to the head of the CPA and to the appropriations, defense, and foreign relations committees summarizing activities of the Inspector General and the CPA with respect to obligations, expenditures, and revenues associated with reconstruction and rehabilitation activities in Iraq. Requires all such reports to be made available to the public. Authorizes the President to waive any report requirement for national security reasons. Terminates the Office six months after expiration of the authorities and duties of the CPA. Title IV: General Provisions, This Act - (Sec. 4002) Designates each amount provided in this Act as an emergency requirement pursuant to emergency legislation provisions of the congressional budget resolution for FY 2004 (H.Con.Res. 95). (Sec. 4003) Continues the eligibility of local educational agencies serving the children of military personnel to receive educational assistance payments under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for children enrolled in such schools who lose their enrollment eligibility status due to the military deployment of both parents or legal guardians or of a parent or legal guardian having sole custody, or due to the death of a military parent or legal guardian while on active duty, as long as the child or children continue to attend the same local educational agency.", "2023-01-15T07:32:53Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3289"], ["108-s-1689", 108, "s", 1689, "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan Security and Reconstruction Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-09-30", "2003-10-17", "Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 296.", "Senate", "Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]", "AK", "R", "S000888", 273, "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan Security and Reconstruction Act, 2004 - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 2004 for military and foreign affairs operations concerning Iraq and Afghanistan, including for Iraqi relief and reconstruction. Title I: National Security - Chapter 1: Department of Defense - Makes appropriations for the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military personnel; (2) operation and maintenance (O&M); (3) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid; (4) the Iraq Freedom Fund; (5) procurement; (6) research, development, test and evaluation; (7) the Working Capital Fund and the National Defense Sealift Fund; (8) the Defense Health Program; (9) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities related to Afghanistan; and (10) the Intelligence Community Management Account. Chapter 2: Military Construction - Makes appropriations for military construction for the Army and Air Force. Chapter 3: General Provisions, This Title - (Sec. 301) Amends the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 to increase from $300 million to $450 million the aggregate value of authorized assistance to the Government of Afghanistan and eligible foreign countries and international organizations to direct the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training. (Sec. 306) Increases during FY 2004 the: (1) rates of hostile fire or imminent danger special pay; and (2) family separation allowance for military personnel. (Sec. 308) Requires a report from the Secretary of Defense to the congressional appropriations committees on progress in sending quarterly classified reports required under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004. (Sec. 310) Allows DOD O&M funds to be used to: (1) provide logistical support to coalition forces supporting military and stability operations in Iraq; and (2) enhance the capability of the New Iraqi Army and Afghan National Army to combat terrorism and support U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Sec. 312) Requires a report from the Secretary on the military readiness implications of the participation of U.S. ground combat forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom. (Sec. 313) Exempts from the payment of subsistence charges while being hospitalized in a military medical facility an officer, former officer, an enlisted member, or former enlisted member who is hospitalized because of an injury or disease incurred: (1) as a direct result of armed conflict; (2) while engaged in hazardous service; (3) in the performance of duty under conditions simulating war; or (4) through an instrumentality of war. (Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer up to $150 million of funds appropriated to the contingency construction account to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law, after notifying the appropriate congressional committees that the transfer is necessary to respond to, or protect against, acts or threatened acts of terrorism or to support DOD operations in Iraq. (Sec. 315) Expresses the sense of the Senate recognizing and commending: (1) members of the U.S. armed forces and the allies of the United States and their ground forces who participated in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq; and (2) the military families, employers, defense civilians and contractors, and communities and patriotic organizations that lent their support to the armed forces during such Operations. (Sec. 316) Makes funds from the Iraq Freedom Fund available to reimburse military personnel for costs of air fare incurred for travel within the United States in FY 2003 or 2004 while the member is on rest and recuperation leave from deployment overseas in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, but only for one round trip by air between two locations within the United States. Expresses the sense of Congress that the commercial airline industry should charge such members and their families specially discounted, lowest available air fares for travel in connection with such leave, and that any restrictions and limitations imposed in connection with such fares should be minimal. (Sec. 317) Allows the administering Secretaries, at any time after notifying members of the Ready Reserve that they are to be called or ordered to active duty, to provide to each such member any medical and dental screening and care necessary to meet applicable standards for deployment. Requires the Secretary concerned to promptly notify such members of their eligibility for such screening and care. Terminates such authority on September 30, 2004. (Sec. 318) Makes each member of the Selected Reserve and Individual Ready Reserve who is placed in a mobilization category (subject to being ordered to active duty involuntarily) eligible to enroll in TRICARE and receive benefits for any period that such member: (1) is an eligible unemployment compensation recipient; or (2) is not eligible for health-care benefits under an employer-sponsored health benefits plan. Allows either self alone or self and family TRICARE coverage. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for at least one open enrollment period each year; and (2) charge appropriate premiums for such coverage. Prohibits a member from enrolling in the TRICARE program while entitled to DOD transitional health care. (Sec. 319) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay the applicable premium to continue in force any qualified health plan coverage for a reserve member (and his or her dependents) while the member is serving on active duty pursuant to a call or order issued during a war or national emergency declared by the President or Congress. Limits DOD premium payment amounts and provides a conditional coverage period. Requires the continuation of COBRA coverage during such period. Prohibits simultaneous coverage under both the qualified health plan and TRICARE. (Sec. 320) Sets forth conditions under which a member of the reserves who is issued a delayed-effective-date active duty order shall be treated as being on active duty for more than 30 days and therefore eligible for medical and dental care for active-duty personnel. Terminates such authority at the end of FY 2004. (Sec. 321) Revises transitional health care benefits authorized for members separated from active duty for specified periods (with higher authorized separation periods for those with higher periods of total active-duty service). (Sec. 322) Earmarks specified Iraq Freedom Fund amounts for the procurement of additional Up-Armored High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles. Directs the Secretary of the Army to reevaluate requirements and options for armored security vehicles. (Sec. 323) Earmarks specified Army O&M funds for operating expenses of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). Requires the Office of Inspector General of the CPA to be established within 30 days after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 324) Requires a monthly report from the President or his designee to Congress detailing: (1) the areas of Iraq determined to be largely secure and stable; and (2) the extent to which U.S. troops have been replaced in such areas by non-U.S. coalition forces, United Nations forces, or Iraqi forces. (Sec. 325) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) any U.S. citizen who was a prisoner of war or who was used by the regime of Saddam Hussein and Iraq as a so-called human shield during the First Gulf War (Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm) should have the opportunity to have any claim for damages caused by Saddam Hussein and Iraq fully adjudicated in the appropriate U.S. district court; (2) any judgment obtained therefrom should be fully enforced; and (3) the Attorney General should enter into negotiations with each such citizen or his or her family to develop a method of providing compensation for such damages, including the use of seized assets of the Hussein regime. (Sec. 326) Directs: (1) the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the utilization of the National Guard and reserves in support of contingency operations during FY 2004; and (2) the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to Congress on the effects of the deployments of the National Guard and reserves on law enforcement and homeland security in the United States. (Sec. 327) Requires quarterly reports, through FY 2004, from the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence for Strategy and Iraq to the intelligence committees and specified defense subcommittees on the status of efforts of the Iraq Survey Group to account for the programs of Iraq on weapons of mass destruction and related delivery systems. (Sec. 328) Provides for the determination of the initial deployment date for members called or ordered to active duty and deployed outside the United States. (Sec. 329) Earmarks specified funds appropriated under this title for the Family Readiness Program of the National Guard. (Sec. 330) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on Navy plans for basing aircraft carriers through 2020. (Sec. 331) Authorizes an additional 10,000 Army personnel as of September 30, 2004, to be trained in, and to perform, constabulary duty in such specialties as military police, light infantry, civil affairs, and special forces. Earmarks funds from the Iraq Freedom Fund for the additional personnel costs. (Sec. 332) - Reservists Pay Security Act of 2003 - Entitles a person who is absent from his or her position of Federal employment in order to perform active duty under a call or order to active duty to receive from his or her agency an amount that, when added to the pay and allowances for such service, equals the basic pay which would have been payable to such employee for the period of service for which such employee is not otherwise compensated. Requires the application of Federal reemployment rights for such individuals. Terminates such authority at the end of FY 2004. (Sec. 333) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary should, on an expedited basis, issue necessary regulations to implement the award of the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal (based on deployment abroad for 30 days or more in support of Global War on Terrorism operations on or after September 11, 2001) and to ensure that any person who renders qualifying service with the armed forces, including Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, and Noble Eagle, promptly receives such award. (Sec. 334) Places at 90 percent the Federal share of the cost of any disaster relief payment made under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act for damage caused by Hurricane Isabel. (Sec. 335) Earmarks specified funds appropriated by this Act for repair and replacement of DOD and National Aeronautics and Space Administration infrastructure damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Isabel, related flooding, or other related natural forces. Title II: International Affairs - Chapter 1: Department of State - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for: (1) the administration of foreign affairs; (2) emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service; (3) international narcotics control and law enforcement; and (4) nonproliferation, anti-terrorism, demining, and related programs. Chapter 2: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for the Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Fund for security, rehabilitation, and reconstruction in Iraq. Makes appropriations for: (1) the United States Agency for International Development, including for the Capital Investment Fund ; (2) the Economic Support Fund; (3) the U.S. Emergency Fund for Complex Foreign Crises; (4) the Foreign Military Financing Program; and (5) peacekeeping operations to support the global war on terrorism. Chapter 3: General Provisions, This Title - (Sec. 2304) Amends the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 to extend through FY 2005 the authority of the President to: (1) suspend the application of any provision of the Iraq Sanctions Act of 1990; and (2) export to Iraq, under certain circumstances, lethal military equipment designated by the Secretary of State for use by a reconstituted (or interim) Iraqi military or private security force, other official Iraqi security forces or police forces, or forces from other countries in Iraq that support U.S. efforts there. (Sec. 2306) Extends through FY 2004 an exemption with respect to Pakistan on the prohibition of direct assistance to a country whose duly elected head of government was deposed by decree or military coup. (Sec. 2309) Requires monthly reports from the CPA on Iraqi oil production and revenues. (Sec. 2310) Requires quarterly reports from the CPA Administrator to the appropriations and defense committees on all obligations, expenditures, and revenues associated with reconstruction, rehabilitation, and security activities in Iraq during the preceding 90 days. Directs the Comptroller General (CG) to conduct an ongoing audit of the CPA, and authorizes the CG to conduct additional investigations as appropriate, to evaluate such activities. Requires a report from the CG to the appropriations committees on all audit and investigation results. (Sec. 2311) Prohibits the use of available funds from this Act or the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 for paying any costs associated with debts incurred by the former government of Saddam Hussein. (Sec. 2312) Amends the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of State to submit to specified committees reports on progress made in accomplishing the "Purposes of Assistance" set forth under such Act with respect to assistance provided for Afghanistan. (Sec. 2313) Provides criminal penalties for war profiteering or fraud committed against the United States or Iraq in connection with military action, relief, and reconstruction efforts in Iraq. (Sec. 2314) Requires a report from the President to Congress on U.S. efforts to increase the resources contributed by foreign countries and international organizations to the reconstruction of Iraq and the feasibility of repayment by Iraq of funds contributed for infrastructure projects. (Sec. 2315) Directs the Secretary to certify to Congress the amount that Iraq will pay, or that will be paid on its behalf, during FY 2004 to a foreign country to service a debt incurred by Iraq during the regime of Saddam Hussein. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to reserve, out of certain unobligated funds appropriated under this Act, the amount so certified. Expresses the sense of Congress that each country that is owed such a debt by Iraq should forgive it. (Sec. 2316) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) arbitrary deadlines should not be set for the dissolution of the CPA or the transfer of its authority to an Iraqi governing authority; and (2) no such dissolution or transfer should occur until the ratification of an Iraqi constitution and the establishment of an elected Iraqi government. (Sec. 2317) Directs the CG to: (1) review the effectiveness of relief and reconstruction activities conducted by the CPA with the use of funds made available from the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRR Fund); and (2) report quarterly to specified congressional committees on review results. (Sec. 2318) Prohibits funds under this Act from being obligated or expended for arming, training, or employing individuals under 18 years of age for the Facilities Protection Service or any other security force. (Sec. 2319) Earmarks specified funds from the IRR Fund for: (1) rebuilding Iraq's security services; (2) Iraq purposes other than security; and (3) loans for Iraqi security, rehabilitation, and reconstruction (as long as the President certifies to Congress that at least 90 percent of the bilateral debt incurred by the regime of Saddam Hussein has been forgiven by the countries owed such debt). Directs the President to notify Congress if, out of the first two amounts earmarked, more than $250 million is used for any single purpose in Iraq. Requires the head of the CPA to ensure that amounts appropriated under the IRR Fund are expended for appropriate purposes and in a manner that the head of CPA does not find objectionable. Expresses the sense of Congress that each country owed a bilateral debt by Iraq that was incurred by the regime of Saddam Hussein should: (1) forgive such debt; and (2) provide robust amounts of reconstruction aid to Iraq during the conference of donors scheduled to begin on October 23, 2003, in Madrid, Spain, and during other conferences of donors of foreign aid. (Sec. 2320) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) make every effort to increase the level of financial commitment from other nations to improve the physical, political, economic, and social infrastructure of Iraq; and (2) seek to provide aid from the United States to Iraq in a manner that promotes economic growth in Iraq and limits the long-term cost to U.S. taxpayers. (Sec. 2321) Directs the President to report to Congress every 60 days on U.S. strategy related to post-conflict security, humanitarian assistance, governance, and reconstruction undertaken as a result of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (Sec. 2322) Requires activities carried out by the United States with respect to: (1) the civilian governance of Afghanistan to include advice from women's organizations, promote inclusion of women in future legislative bodiesand encourage the appointment of women to high-level positions; (2) post-conflict stability in those countries to include partnerships with Afghan and Iraqi organizations, access of women to and ownership by women of productive assets, financial assistance for education for women and girls, and education and training programs for former combatants; and (3) training for military and police forces in those countries to include training on the protection, rights, and particular needs of women. Title III: Leave for Military Families - Military Families Leave Act of 2003 - (Sec. 3002) Amends: (1) the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to entitle an eligible employee to 12 work weeks of leave during any 12-month period because a spouse, son, daughter, or parent of the employee is a member of the armed forces who either is on active duty in support of a contingency operation or has been notified of an impending call or order to such status. Allows such leave only for issues relating to or resulting from such family member's military duty; and (2) Federal law to grant such leave, under the same conditions, to civil service employees. Title IV: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes appropriations for medical care and related activities of the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Title V: General Provisions, This Act - (Sec. 5001) Directs the President to submit quarterly reports to each Member of Congress on the projected total costs of U.S. operations in Iraq, including military operations and reconstruction efforts, through FY 2008. (Sec. 5002)Designates each amount provided in this Act as an emergency requirement pursuant to emergency legislation provisions of the congressional budget resolution for FY 2004 (H.Con.Res. 95). (Sec. 5003) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated by this Act by the head of an executive agency for payments under certain contracts or agreements relating to Iraq that are not entered into under full and open competition, unless within 30 days after entering into such a contract or agreement, such official: (1) reports the contract or agreement to specified congressional committees; and (2) publishes such report in the Federal Register and Commerce Business Daily. Makes such requirement applicable to any contract or agreement in excess of $1 million entered into with any public or private sector entity to: (1) build or rebuild physical infrastructure of Iraq; (2) establish or reestablish a political or societal institution of Iraq; (3) provide products or services to the people of Iraq; or (4) perform personnel support services in Iraq. Provides an exception with respect to classified information. Authorizes the Secretary or the Director of Central Intelligence to waive such requirement on a case-by-case basis in the interests of national security (requiring notice and justification to such committees). (Sec. 5004) Expresses the sense of Congress that the removal of the Government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein enhanced the security of Israel and other U.S. allies. (Sec. 5005) Directs the CG to conduct studies on the effectiveness and efficiency of contracts in excess of $40 million performed or to be performed in or relating to Iraq and paid from funds made available in this Act or the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003, with a special emphasis on profits, overhead, management fees, and related expenditures. Requires two reports to the appropriations committees evaluating such studies and recommending improvements of such contracting process. (Sec. 5006) Provides that any U.S. citizen held hostage during the period between 1979 and 1981, and their spouses and children at the time, shall have a claim for money damages against a foreign state for personal injury caused by such state's act of torture or hostage taking. Abrogates any conflicting provisions, including those under the Algiers Accord. (Sec. 5007) Expresses the sense of the Senate that all countries that hold debt from loans to the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein should be urged to forgive such debt. (Sec. 5008) Mandates that when countermeasures against the threat of shoulder-fired missiles are deployed, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation, shall make it a priority to so equip aircraft enrolled in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet.", "2022-02-03T04:58:04Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1689"], ["108-hr-3196", 108, "hr", 3196, "Regional Economic and Infrastructure Development Act of 2003", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-09-29", "2003-10-22", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.", "House", "Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]", "MN", "D", "O000006", 1, "Regional Economic and Infrastructure Development Act of 2003 - Establishes the following regional commissions: (1) Delta Regional Commission; (2) Northern Great Plains Regional Commission; (3) Southeast Crescent Regional Commission; and (4) Southwest Border Regional Commission. Directs each Commission, in its region, to: (1) assess needs and assets; (2) develop comprehensive and coordinated economic infrastructure development strategies to establish and approve grants for economic development; (3) establish priorities in an economic and infrastructure development plan; (4) enhance capacity of and provide support for local development districts; (5) encourage private investment in industrial, commercial, and other economic development projects; (6) assist State governments with the preparation of economic and infrastructure development plans and programs for participating States; and (7) formulate and recommend to the Governors and legislatures of participating States forms of interstate cooperation and, where appropriate, international cooperation.  Sets forth requirements for: (1) economic and infrastructure development grants; (2) comprehensive economic and infrastructure development plans; (3) approval of applications for assistance for projects; (4) grants to local development districts for assistance in payment of development planning and administrative expenses; and (5) supplemental funding for other Federal grant programs (Federal grant programs to provide assistance in carrying out economic and community development activities). Declares that this Act does not require a State to engage in or accept a program under this Act without its consent. Requires each Commission to annually designate: (1) distressed, transitional, and attainment counties; and (2) isolated areas of distress in attainment counties that have high rates of poverty, unemployment, or outmigration. Provides for the appointment of Inspector Generals for the Commissions. Sets forth requirements for counties eligible to receive assistance from more than one Commission, including the Appalachian Regional Commission. Requires biannual meetings of all such Regional Commissions.", "2023-01-15T07:03:02Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3196"], ["108-hjres-69", 108, "hjres", 69, "Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-09-24", "2003-09-30", "Became Public Law No: 108-84.", "House", "Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]", "FL", "R", "Y000031", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on September 25, 2003. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Makes continuing appropriations for FY 2004. Appropriates amounts for continuing, at the current rate of operations, projects or activities which were conducted in FY 2003 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority was made available in the: (1) Agricultural, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003; (2) Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003; (3) District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2003; (4) Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2003; (5) Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2003; (6) Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003; (7) Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003; (8) Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2003; (9) Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003; (10) Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2003; and (11) Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003. (Sec. 106) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 to: (1) increase the amount of funds made available from July 1, 2003, until September 30, 2004, for a program of education for the disabled; and (2) decrease by a corresponding amount funds made available from October 1, 2003, until September 30, 2004, for such program. (Sec. 107) Provides funding under this resolution until the earliest of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this joint resolution; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) October 31, 2003. (Sec. 113) Continues, until the date specified in section 107: (1) increases in military imminent danger special pay and the family separation allowance; (2) specified franchise fund pilot programs; (3) international development investment authority under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (4) the development company debenture and small business investment company programs under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958; and (5) the collection and use of maintenance fees authorized by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (while continuing through such date the prohibition against the collection of other fees under such Act). (Sec. 121) Provides a $3.8 billion limit on new loan guarantee commitments of the Federal Housing Administration, General and Special Risk Insurance Fund, for the period covered by this joint resolution. (Sec. 122) Continues for the period covered by this joint resolution funds made available in accordance with the Compacts of Free Association between the U.S. Government and the Governments of the Marshall Islands and Micronesia. (Sec. 123) Earmarks funds made available herein to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for: (1) a Virgin River water rights and habitat acquisition program; and (2) the Shivwits Band Trust Fund. (Sec. 125) Makes amounts provided in this joint resolution and prior appropriations Acts from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund available for FY 2004 for expenditures to meet Fund obligations. (Sec. 126) Continues the availability of funding for administrative expenses of the: (1) Federal Highway Administration; (2) Bureau of Transportation Statistics; (3) Federal Transit Administration; (4) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; and (5) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. (Sec. 131) Requires amounts to continue to be appropriated or credited to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund after the date of any expenditure pursuant to this Act. (Sec. 132) States that provisions of this Act that would change direct spending or receipts under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) were they included in an Act other than an appropriations Act shall be treated as direct spending or receipts (and therefore not as emergency expenditures) under such Act. (Sec. 133) Authorizes during FY 2004 direct loans under the Arms Export Control Act to be made available to the Czech Republic, with a gross obligation limit of $550 million. (Sec. 134) Continues in effect through the date specified in section 107 certain provisions of the: (1) Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act; and (2) Commodity Distribution Reform Act and WIC Amendments of 1987. (Sec. 135) Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2003 to extend through October 31, 2003, the waiver, after a specified certification from the President, of certain conditions on the planning, design, or construction of a chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia.", "2023-01-15T06:32:51Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/69"], ["108-hr-3164", 108, "hr", 3164, "To provide for reduction of the Federal budget deficit by reducing wasteful government spending.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-09-24", "2003-10-09", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.", "House", "Rep. Carson, Brad [D-OK-2]", "OK", "D", "C001044", 0, "Abolishes the following Federal agencies: (1) the U.S. Travel and Tourism Promotion Advisory Board; (2) The Council on Environmental Quality; and (3) The Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  Directs the President to ensure that the total number of political appointees, as defined by this Act, does not exceed 2,000 after September 30, 2004.", "2023-01-15T06:48:03Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3164"], ["108-hr-3146", 108, "hr", 3146, "To extend the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program, and certain tax and trade programs, and for other purposes.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-09-23", "2003-10-01", "Became Public Law No: 108-89.", "House", "Rep. Thomas, William M. [R-CA-22]", "CA", "R", "T000188", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on September 30, 2003. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Title I: Family Assistance Provisions - (Sec. 101) Extends through March 31, 2004, the TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) program under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA), and related provisions, including those providing for abstinence education and for extending eligibility for medical assistance under Medicaid (SSA title XIX) for six months for former TANF recipients, which were originally set to expire on September 30, 2002. (Sec. 102) Provides for a similar extension with respect to the national random sample study of child welfare under SSA title IV part B (Child and Family Services). Title II: Tax Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the extension through December 31, 2004, of the authority for : (1) disclosure of tax return information to carry out income contingent repayment of student loans; and (2) Internal Revenue Service user fees. Title III: Trade Provisions - Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to provide for an extension though March 31, 2004, of the authority for fees for certain customs services. Title IV: Medicare Cost-Sharing Provisions - (Sec. 401) Amends SSA title XIX to provide for the extension through March 31, 2004, of Medicare cost-sharing for certain low-income individuals. (Sec. 402) Amends the Miscellaneous Appropriations Act, 2003 to extend from September 30, 2003, through March 31, 2004, the requirement that rural standardized payment amounts under the Medicare Inpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System be increased to an amount equal to the standardized amount otherwise applicable for hospitals in a large urban area.", "2023-01-15T06:48:04Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/3146"], ["108-s-1589", 108, "s", 1589, "Transportation, Treasury, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-09-08", "2003-09-08", "Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 277.", "Senate", "Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL]", "AL", "R", "S000320", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for the following agencies: (1) Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary; (2) Office of Civil Rights; (3) the Working Capital Fund; (4) Minority Business Resource Center Program; (5) Federal Aviation Administration; (6) grants-in-aid for airports; (7) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA); (8) Federal-Aid Highways, including Highway Safety Programs; (9) Appalachian Development Highway System; (10) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (11) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (12) National Driver Register; (11) Highway Traffic Safety Grants; (12) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (13) Federal Railroad Administration; (14) Railroad Research and Development; (15) Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Program; (16) Next Generation High-Speed Rail; (17) Alaska Railroad Rehabilitation; (18) Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); (19) Federal Transit Administration (FTA); (20) Formula Grants; (21) University Transportation Research; (22) Transit Planning and Research; (23) Capital Investment Grants; (24) Job Access and Reverse Commute Grants; (25) Utah Transportation Projects; (26) Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (27) Maritime Administration; (28) Research and Special Programs Administration; (29) Pipeline Safety; (30) Emergency Preparedness Grants; (31) Office of the Inspector General; and (32) the Surface Transportation Board. (Sec. 113) Authorizes FY 2004 funding of historic covered bridges eligible for Federal assistance under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) from amounts set aside for the discretionary bridge program. (Sec. 114) Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into an agreement with Nevada, Arizona, or both, to provide a method of funding for construction of a Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge from funds allocated for the Federal Lands Highway Program. (Sec. 130) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement or enforce any provisions of the Final Rule, issued on April 16, 2003 (Docket No. FMCSA-97-2350), with respect to either the operators of utility service vehicles. (Sec. 154) Makes certain funds available to the Colorado Roaring Fork Transportation Authority also available for expenditure on park and ride lots in Carbondale and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, as part of the Roaring Fork Valley Bus Rapid Transit project. (Sec. 156) Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot grant program to determine the benefits of encouraging cooperative procurement of major capital equipment in pilot projects involving urbanized formula grants for mass transit capital projects, capital investment grants and loans for new fixed guideway systems, and mass transportation service projects for areas other than urbanized areas. Sets the Federal share for a grant at 90 percent of the net project cost. (Sec. 157) Makes certain new fixed guideway system funds available for the Yosemite, California, area regional transportation system project also available for obligation for the replacement, rehabilitation, or purchase of buses or related equipment, or the construction of bus related facilities. (Sec. 158) Directs the Secretary, for the purpose of calculating the non-New Starts share of the total project cost of both phases of San Francisco Muni's Third Street Light Rail Transit project for FY 2004, to: (1) include all non-New Starts contributions made towards Phase 1 of the two-phase project for engineering, final design and construction; and (2) also allow non-New Starts funds expended on one element or phase of the project to be used to meet the non-New Starts share requirement of any element or phase of the project. (Sec. 159) Authorizes the use for the Euclid Corridor Transportation Project of certain funds made available for the Cleveland Berea Red Line Extension to the Hopkins International Airport project. Title II: Department of the Treasury - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for the Department of the Treasury, including: (1) department-wide systems and capital investments; (2) the Office of Inspector General; (3) Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; (4) the Air Transportation Stabilization Board; (5) Treasury Building and Annex Repair and Restoration; (6) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; (7) Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau; (8) U.S. Mint; (9) Bureau of the Public Debt; (10) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); (11) tax law enforcement; and (12) health insurance tax credit administration. (Sec. 216) Amends Federal law to extend from five years to six years the authorization for the personnel management demonstration project providing for the compensation and performance management of not more than a combined total of 950 employees who fill critical scientific, technical, engineering, intelligence analyst, language translator, and medical positions in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Title III: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for compensation of the President and salaries and expenses of designated White House agencies, including: (1) the Council of Economic Advisors; (2) National Security Council; (3) Office of Management and Budget (OMB); and (4) various Federal Drug Control Programs. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for independent agencies, including: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; (2) Committee for Purchase from People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled; (3) Federal Election Commission; (4) Election Assistance Commission; (5) Federal Labor Relations Authority; (6) Federal Maritime Administration; (7) General Services Administration (GSA); (8) Merit Systems Protection Board; (9) the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Trust Fund; (10) the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund; (11) the National Archives and Records Administration; (12) the National Historical Publications and Records Commission; (13) the National Transportation Safety Board; (14) the Office of Government Ethics; (15) the Office of Personnel Management (OPM); (16) the Office of Special Counsel; (17) U.S. Postal Service; (18) U.S. Tax Court; and (19) the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance. (Sec. 408) Authorizes the GSA Administrator to: (1) acquire certain land in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a site for the public building needs of the Federal Government; (2) design and construct upon the site a new Federal Office Building to house the Federal agencies presently located in the Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Building. Makes certain funds available for such purposes; and (3) convey without consideration the Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Office Building to the City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for economic development purposes, subject to specified conditions. Title V: General Provisions (This Act) - Sets forth permissions for and restrictions upon the use of funds for designated Department of Transportation activities. (Sec. 504) Declares that none of the funds in this Act shall be available for salaries and expenses of more than 106 political and Presidential appointees in the Department of Transportation. Prohibits the assignment of such appointees on temporary detail outside the Department of Transportation. (Sec. 508) None of the funds in this Act shall be used to establish in the Department of Transportation a National Highway Safety Advisory Committee. (Sec. 511) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to allow the issuer of any preferred stock heretofore sold to the Department of Transportation to redeem or repurchase it upon the payment to the Department of an amount determined by the Secretary. (Sec. 515) Subjects funds appropriated or limited in this Act to the requirements for the safety of cross-border trucking between the United States and Mexico of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002, including an annual report to specified congressional committees on the safety and security of transportation into the United States by Mexico-domiciled motor carriers. (Sec. 517) Reduces funds provided in this Act for the Working Capital Fund by $17.816 million, which limits FY 2004 Working Capital Fund obligational authority for elements of the Department of Transportation funded in this Act to no more than $98.899 million. Requires such reductions from the budget request to be allocated by the Department of Transportation to each appropriations account in proportion to the amount included in each account for the Working  Capital Fund. (Sec. 518) Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) to designate the portion of U.S. 78 from Tupelo, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee, a high priority corridor. (Sec. 519) Makes recovered improper payments by the Department of Transportation to a third party contractor under a financial assistance award available to: (1) reimburse the actual expenses incurred in recovering improper payments; and (2) pay contractors for services provided in recovering them. (Sec. 523) Prohibits payment of the salary from any appropriation under this Act for any person filling a permanent or indefinite position formerly held by an employee who has: (1) left to enter the U.S. Armed Forces; (2) satisfactorily completed his period of active military or naval service;(3) within 90 days after release from such service, or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year, applied for restoration to his former position; and (4) been certified by the Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties of his former position, but not been restored to it. (Sec. 524) Sets forth Buy America requirements, and penalties for their violation. (Sec. 528) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by the Executive Office of the President to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation any official background investigation report on any individual: (1) without the individual's express prior written consent during the same presidential administration; or (2) unless such request is required due to extraordinary circumstances involving national security. (Sec. 529) Makes specified cost accounting standards inapplicable to a contract under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. (Sec. 530) Authorizes OPM, to resolve litigation and implement any settlement agreements regarding the nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program, to accept and use (without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel expenses imposed in an Appropriations Act) funds made available to it pursuant to court approval. (Sec. 532) Makes eligible for certain funds any bridge owned and operated by a State agency: (1) whose toll revenues are administered by a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO); and (2) whose toll revenues provide for subsidizing of non-capital transportation costs. Limits the amount of toll revenues expended for non-capital transportation costs to the cumulative amount of local toll revenues used for Federal interstate and Federal-aid highway construction and improvement projects in the toll bridge corridors. Requires the Secretary of Transportation, before authorizing an expenditure of funds, to determine that the cumulative amount of toll revenues used for such projects is greater than the cumulative amount of toll revenue used for non-capital transportation projects not directly related to the on-going operation and maintenance of the toll bridges. (Sec. 533) Reduces by $128.076 million any amounts appropriated or limited in this Act in specified Object Classes. (Sec. 534) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or limited in title I of this Act to change weight restrictions or prior permission rules at Teterboro Airport (New Jersey). (Sec. 535) Amends Federal postal law to extend through December 31, 2005, the mandate to the U.S. Postal Service for a special first-class mail postage rate as a convenient way for the public to contribute to funding for breast cancer research. (Sec. 536) Amends the Federal Transit Act to direct the FTA and FHWA to work with the Utah Transit Authority and the Utah Department of Transportation to coordinate the development regional commuter rail and the northern segment of I-15 reconstruction located in the Wasatch Front corridor extending from Brigham City to Payson, Utah. Includes in such coordination: (1) integration of preliminary engineering and design; (2) a simplified method for allocating project costs among eligible FTA and FHWA funding sources; and (3) a unified accounting and audit process. States that, for purposes of determining and allocating the nongovernmental and governmental share of costs, the following projects comprise a related program of projects: (1) regional commuter rail; (2) the TRAX light rail system; (3) TRAX extensions to the Medical Center and to the Gateway Intermodal Center; and (4) the northern segment of I-15 reconstruction. Requires the governmental share of project costs appropriated from the Section 5309 New Start program to conform to the share specified in the extension or reauthorization of TEA21.  Title VI: General Provisions (Departments, Agencies, and Corporations) - Sets forth requirements for the use of appropriations by designated departments, agencies and corporations. (Sec. 617) Sets restrictions upon the use of appropriations, including the mandate that any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality administer in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that all workplaces are free from discrimination and sexual harassment and are not in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.  (Sec. 618) Prohibits appropriations from being made available for the salary of any Federal staffer or personnel that restrains other Federal personnel from communication or contact with congressional personnel regarding the employment of such other officer or employee, or pertaining to the department or agency of such other officer or employee. (Sec. 628) Prohibits the use of funds by OPM or any other Federal department or agency to prohibit any agency from using appropriated funds as it sees fit to contract independently with private companies to provide online employment applications and processing services. (Sec. 632) Amends Federal law to extend from October 1, 2003, to October 1, 2004, the authorization for the franchise fund pilot programs in six executive agencies. (Sec. 633) Prohibits, with specified exceptions, including exceptions for law enforcement and supervisory purposes, the use of funds made available in this or any other Act by any Federal agency to collect personally identifiable information relating to an individual's access to or use of Federal or nongovernmental Internet sites. (Sec. 634) Prohibits the use of appropriations under by this Act to enter into a contract providing prescription drug coverage, unless it also provides for contraceptive coverage. Exempts specified religious plans. (Sec. 636) Increases to 4.1 percent the adjustment in rates of basic pay for Federal employees under certain statutory pay systems, including civilian employees in the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. (Sec. 638) Prohibits the expenditure of appropriations under by this Act for FY 2004 for the purchase of a product or service offered by Federal Prison Industries, Inc., unless the purchasing agency determines that such offered product or service provides the best value to the buying agency pursuant to Government-wide procurement regulations. (Sec. 639) Authorizes Federal departments and agencies to use funds appropriated for official travel to participate in the fractional aircraft ownership pilot program, if consistent with OMB Circular A-126 regarding official travel for Government personnel. (Sec. 640) Requires each Federal department and agency to evaluate the creditworthiness of an individual before issuing him or her a Government purchase or travel charge card. Prohibits the department or agency from issuing such a card to an individual who either lacks a credit history or is found to have an unsatisfactory credit history. Prescribes conditions for the issuance of a restricted-use charge, debit, or stored value card made in accordance with specified agency procedures. (Sec. 642) Requires each Federal agency to report annually to Congress on the competitive sourcing (privatizing) activities performed by it during the previous fiscal year.", "2021-09-30T00:40:27Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1589"], ["108-s-1584", 108, "s", 1584, "Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-09-05", "2003-09-05", "Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 273.", "Senate", "Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]", "MO", "R", "B000611", 1, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and of Housing and Urban Development and for sundry independent agencies. Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs for: (1) the Veterans Benefits Administration for veterans' compensation and pensions, readjustment benefits, veterans' insurance and indemnities, and veterans' housing, education, and vocational rehabilitation loan accounts, and Native American and homeless veterans; (2) the Veterans Health Administration for veterans' medical care, and medical and prosthetic research, and medical administration; and (3) departmental administration, including for the National Cemetery Administration, the Office of Inspector General, construction, the parking revolving fund, and grants to States for construction of extended care facilities and cemeteries. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds made available under this title.(Sec. 111) Requires approval by the congressional appropriations committees of any new lease of real property by the Department of Veteran Affairs exceeding $300,000. (Sec. 112) Prohibits the use of funds under this title for hospitalization or treatment of certain veterans unless they disclose current, accurate third-party reimbursement and annual income information. (Se. 113) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to: (1) establish medical emergency preparedness centers; or (2) increase the number of Assistant Secretaries of Veterans Affairs. (Such provisions were authorized by the Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Preparedness Act of 2002.) (Sec. 114) Deposits and transfers receipts that would otherwise be credited to the Veterans Extended Care Revolving Fund, the Medical Facilities Revolving Fund, the Special Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Fund, the Nursing Home Revolving Fund, the Veterans Health Services Improvement Fund, and the Parking Revolving Fund to the Medical Care Collections Fund and to the Medical Care account. Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for: (1) public and Indian housing; (2) the Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds; (3) revitalization of severely distressed public housing (HOPE VI); (4) Native American housing block grants; (5) Indian and Native Hawaiian housing loan guarantees; (6) housing opportunities for persons with AIDS; (7) Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development; (8) empowerment zones and enterprise communities; (9) community development block grants and loan guarantees; (10) brownfields redevelopment; (11) the HOME investment partnerships program; (12) homeless assistance grants; (13) housing for special populations; (14) flexible subsidy fund; (15) manufactured housing fees trust fund; (16) the Federal Housing Administration; (17) the Government National Mortgage Association; (18) housing policy development and research; (19) fair housing activities; (20) the Office of Lead Hazard Control; (21) management and administration; (22) the Office of Inspector General; (23) Working Capital Fund; and (24) the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. Cancels specified amounts from the urban development action program. Rescinds specified amounts: (1) of recaptured rental housing assistance budget authority; and (2) from the consolidated fee fund. (Sec. 201) Rescinds specified amounts from certain State-or locally-financed projects under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988. Authorizes the use of certain amounts of non-rescinded funds for project refinancing. (Sec. 202) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used during FY 2004 to investigate or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activities aimed at achieving or preventing government or court action. (Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to make housing for persons with AIDS grants to any State that previously qualified but does not qualify in FY 2004 due to decreased AIDS cases in non-metropolitan areas of the State. (Sec. 204) Requires HUD to grant awards on a competitive basis. (Sec. 205) Makes HUD funds subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or other restrictions available, without regard to limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services and services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association, Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve banks, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. (Sec. 206) Limits HUD spending to amounts set forth in congressionally-submitted budget estimates. (Sec. 207) Authorizes HUD corporations and agencies subject to the Government Corporation Control Act to make necessary FY 2004 expenditures without regard to fiscal year limitations. Limits the use of collections of these corporations and agencies (with specified exceptions) to new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this Act, unless they are in support of other forms of assistance provided in this or prior appropriations Acts. (Sec. 208) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure by HUD of funds provided in this title for technical assistance, training, or management improvements unless HUD provides to the Committees on Appropriations a description of each proposed activity and detailed budget estimates of the costs associated with each program, project, or activity. (Sec. 209) Directs the Secretary to maintain section 8 housing rental assistance in managing and disposing of multifamily properties that are occupied primarily by elderly or disabled families. Authorizes the Secretary, where such assistance is not feasible, to: (1) contract for project-based rental assistance with an owner or owners of other existing housing properties; or (2) provide other rental assistance. (Sec. 210) Exempts Alaska, Iowa, and Mississippi from the requirement to have a public housing resident on the board of directors of a public housing authority or other administering body. Requires such authorities to establish an advisory board which shall have a specified number of resident members. (Sec. 211) Amends the Housing Act of 1937 to extend the HOPE VI program through September 30, 2006. (Sec. 212) Sets forth reporting requirements respecting: (1) unobligated and excess HUD funds; and (2) section 8 units. (Sec. 214) Directs, beginning in FY 2004: (1) the Secretary to allocate from certain housing funds for persons with AIDS in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (on behalf of the Philadelphia, PA-NJ Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area) to New Jersey based upon the number of AIDS cases reported in the New Jersey-portion of such Area; and (2) New Jersey to use the allocation in such Area. Requires: (1) the Secretary to allocate to Wake County, North Carolina, certain FY 2004 housing for persons with AIDS funds that would otherwise be allocated to Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area; and (2) that the allocation be used in such Area. (Sec. 215) Declares, with respect to FY 2004 assisted living facility section 8 rental payments, that a family residing in an assisted living facility in Oakland, Macomb, Wayne, or Washtenaw Counties, Michigan, may be required to pay rent in an amount exceeding 40 percent of its monthly adjusted gross income. (Sec. 216) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to make supportive housing for persons with disabilities eligible for service coordinators. (Sec. 217) Amends the National Housing Act revise the debenture interest calculation formula for certain mortgage insurance claims paid in cash. (Sec. 218) Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to rename the Interagency Council on the Homeless as the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. (Sec. 219) Amends the National Housing Act to authorize specified mortgage alternatives for single family borrowers with impaired credit, which shall be Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund obligations. (Sec. 220) Amends the Social Security Act to provide for limited information sharing between the National Directory of New Hires and specified housing assistance programs in order to determine the employment and income of housing program participants. (Sec. 221) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize loan guarantees for public housing agency project rehabilitation. (Sec. 222) Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to revise salary levels for the United States Interagency Council in Homelessness. (Sec. 223) States that: (1) Hawaii may elect by July 31, 2004, to distribute community development block grant funds to units of general local government located in nonentitlement areas (Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui Counties); and (2) if Hawaii fails to make such election, the Secretary shall beginning in FY 2005 make grants to such units. (Sec. 224) Directs the Secretary to issue a proposed rulemaking with respect to new requirements for the disposition of HUD-held multifamily housing projects, including dispositions made after a State or municipality has exercised its right of first refusal. (Sec. 225) Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 to permit the Housing Authority of Baltimore City to use certain rehabilitation funds for demolition and new construction purposes. Title III: Independent Agencies - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for: (1) the American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) the Department of the Treasury, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program Account; (4) the Consumer Product Safety Commission; (5) the Corporation for National and Community Service; (6) the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; (7) the Department of Defense-Civil for cemeterial expenses, Army; (8) the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; (9) the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; (10) the Environmental Protection Agency; (11) the Hazardous Substance Superfund, including transfers of funds; (12) the Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Office of Environmental Quality; (13) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General; (14) the General Services Administration, Federal Citizen Information Center Fund; (15) the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness; (16) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); (17) the National Credit Union Administration; (18) the National Science Foundation; (19) the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and (20) the Selective Service System. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds made available under this title. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth conditions and limitations on the obligation and expenditure of funds appropriated or made available under this Act.(Sec. 409) Expresses the sense of Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made.(Sec. 415) Encourages all Departments and agencies funded under this Act, within the limits of existing statutory authorities and funding, to expand their use of \"E-Commerce\" technologies and procedures in the conduct of their business practices and public service activities.", "2021-09-30T00:40:23Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1584"], ["108-s-1585", 108, "s", 1585, "Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-09-05", "2003-09-05", "Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 274.", "Senate", "Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]", "NH", "R", "G000445", 1, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the judiciary, and related agencies. Title I: Department of Justice and Related Agency - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force. Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice (DOJ) for: (1) general administration, including for a Joint Automated Booking System, legal activities office automation, conversion to narrowband communications, administrative review and appeals, the Federal Detention Trustee, and the Office of Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including for antitrust activities, the Offices of U.S. Attorneys, the U.S. Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, the U.S. Marshals Service, fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (4) interagency crime and drug enforcement and law enforcement support; (5) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; (6) the Drug Enforcement Administration; (7) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; (8) the Federal prison system; and (9) Office of Justice programs, including for State and local law enforcement assistance, the Executive Office for Weed and Seed, community oriented policing services, juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers' benefits. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 102) Prohibits funds appropriated by this title from being used to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform an abortion. (Sec. 107) Authorizes the Attorney General to transfer forfeited real or personal property to a State of local government agency to support drug abuse treatment, drug and crime prevention and education, housing, job skills, and other community-based public health and safety programs. (Sec. 109) Limits the use of funds provided in this title for FY 2004 for courts or police for individual tribes in Alaska. (Sec. 110) Authorizes the Attorney General to extend through FY 2004 the Personnel Management Demonstration Project transferred to the Attorney General under the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies - Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations to the Department of Commerce for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration; (4) export administration and national security activities; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) the Minority Business Development Agency; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facililies planning and construction grants; (11) information infrastructure grants; (12) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (13) the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and construction of new research facilities; (14) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets; (15) international fisheries commissions; (16) restoration of Pacific salmon populations and implementation of the 1999 Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement; (17) the Fishermen's Contingency Fund; (18) the Foreign Fishing Observer Fund; (19) the fisheries finance program account; and (20) departmental management, including the Office of Inspector General. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 212) Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to operate a marine laboratory in South Carolina in accordance with a specified memorandum of agreement creating a partnership for collaborative, interdisciplinary marine scientific research. (Sec. 213) Amends the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 to extend through December 31, 2005, the emergency steel loan guaranty program. Title III: The Judiciary - Judicary Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for: (1) the U.S. Supreme Court; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services, including for defender services, fees of jurors and commissioners, and court security; (5) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (6) the Federal Judicial Center; (7) judicial retirement funds; and (8) the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 304) Authorizes a salary adjustment for U.S. justices and judges during FY 2004. (Sec. 305) Increases by 16.5 percent the annual salaries of the Chief and Associate Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. circuit and district judges, and judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade and U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation allowances; (6) protection of foreign missions and officials; (7) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (8) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) international organizations, conferences, peacekeeping, and commissions; (13) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico; (14) American sections of specified international commissions; (15) the International Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue; (16) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program; (17) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (18) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, Hawaii; and (19) the National Endowment for Democracy. Makes appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for FY 2004 for international broadcasting operations (including broadcasting to Cuba) and capital improvements. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 404) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. (Sec. 405) Declares that, for purposes of registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a U.S. citizen born in the city of Jerusalem, the Secretary of State shall, upon the citizen's request, record the place of birth as Israel. (Sec. 406) Limits to: (1) 231 the occupancy of all facilities leased, acquired, or owned by the Department of State in Paris, France; and (2) 179 the occupancy of all facilities leased, acquired, or owned by the Department of State in Berlin, Germany. Requires any increases in current occupancy in either location to be approved in advance by the congressional appropriations committees. (Sec. 408) Requires the Secretary of State to submit to such committees the most recent biennial budget for the operations of the United Nations (UN) and to include such budget in the budget justification materials submitted in support of the Department of State budget for each fiscal year. (Sec. 409) Repeals a provision of the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003, authorizing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to employ individuals to undertake certain international health activities. (Sec. 412) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to carry out a specified directive relating to conditions on assistance for voluntary population planning furnished to foreign nongovernmental organizations. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for salaries and expenses, with restrictions in certain cases, for the: (1) Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (2) Commission on Civil Rights; (3) U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; (4) Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (5) Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (6) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; (7) Federal Communications Commission; (8) Federal Trade Commission; (9) Legal Services Corporation; (10) Marine Mammal Commission; (11) National Veterans Business Development Corporation; (12) Securities and Exchange Commission; (13) Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General; (14) State Justice Institute; and (15) United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Title VI: General Provisions - (Sec. 605) Prohibits funds appropriated under this Act and certain other funds from being made available, without at least 15 days' advance notice to the appropriations committees, for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates new programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities presently performed by Federal employees. Prohibits the availability of such funds, without such advance notice, for activities, programs, and projects through any reprogramming of funds exceeding the lesser of $500,000 or ten percent that: (1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by ten percent funding for an existing program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by ten percent as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress. (Sec. 606) Bans the use of funds in this Act for the construction, non-emergency repair, overhaul, conversion, or modernization of vessels for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in shipyards outside the United States. (Sec. 607) Prohibits the use of funds for this Act for a UN peacekeeping that will involve U.S. military personnel when the President's military advisors have not recommended to the President that such involvement is in the national security interest. (Sec. 608) Prohibits the use of funds from this or any other Act to implement, enforce, or otherwise abide by the Memorandum of Agreement signed by the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice on March 5, 2002. (Sec. 610) Limits to only 90 percent the availability of any award of a Local Law Enforcement Block Grant to an entity employing a public safety officer if the entity does not provide such an officer who retires or is separated from service due to injury suffered as the result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty while responding to an emergency situation or a hot pursuit with the same or better level of health insurance benefits at the time of retirement or separation as that officer received while on duty. (Sec. 611) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products (except for the reduction or removal of restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the same type). (Sec. 612) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to issue visas to certain individuals from Haiti, including those involved in specified extrajudicial and political killings. (Sec. 613) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act for: (1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection with the implementation of the national instant criminal background check system for firearms; or (2) any system to implement such system that does not require and result in the destruction of any identifying information submitted by or on behalf of any person who has been determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm. (Sec. 614) Provides that amounts deposited or available in the Crime Victims Fund in any fiscal year in excess of $675 million shall not be available for obligation until the following fiscal year. (Sec. 615) Prohibits the use of funds made available to DOJ in this Act to transport a maximum or high security prisoner, other than to a prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure. (Sec. 616) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act by Federal prisons to purchase cable television services or audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational purposes (with exceptions for inmate training, religious, or educational programs). (Sec. 617) Allocates funds appropriated for the SBA under this Act among specified educational and research entities, programs, and activities. (Sec. 620) Requires a Deputy Assistant Administrator for non-contiguous States and territories to be established through the Senior Executive Service to administer SBA programs in Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories. Requires that all disaster loans issued in Alaska be administered by the SBA and not be sold. (Sec. 621) Transfers to the International Fisheries Division of the National Marine Fisheries Service of the Department of Commerce the functions performed by the offices of the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs of the Department of State. (Sec. 622) Deems members of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States to be special Government employees without regard to the number of days they perform their duties, as long as they receive per diem compensation for no more than 130 days during any period of 365 consecutive days. (Sec. 623) Extends through FY 2008 certain Department of Commerce coastal and estuarine management grant programs. (Sec. 624) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to grant, transfer, or assign a license for a commercial television broadcast station to any party if such grant, transfer, or assignment would result in such party or any of its stockholders, officers, or other affiliates owning, operating, or controlling an interest in stations which have an aggregate national audience reach exceeding 35 percent. (Sec. 625) Requires any patient, upon the completion of a contact lens fitting, to be provided with a copy of the contact lens prescription. (Sec. 626) Amends the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 to prohibit any license for fixed terrestrial services in the 12.2-12.7 gigahertz band from being used for the provision of mobile satellite terrestrial telephony services. Title VII: Rescissions - Makes specified rescissions from funds appropriated in this Act for: (1) DOJ, with respect to the Counterterrorism Fund, legal activities, and Office of Justice programs; and (2) the Department of Commerce, with respect to the construction of research facilities for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Title VIII: Other Matters - (Sec. 801) Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to establish a Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Program to protect the environmental integrity of coastal and estuarine areas that have significant conservation, recreation, ecological, historical, or aesthetic values and that are threatened by conversion from their natural, undeveloped, or recreational state to other uses. Authorizes the Secretary to make Program grants to coastal States, except ones that have lost less than one percent of their wetlands to development or conversion to other land uses, for the purpose of acquiring property interests. Prohibits more than 75 percent of grant funds from being derived from Federal sources. Authorizes the Secretary to provide up to $5 million for a regional watershed protection demonstration project that: (1) leverages land acquisition funding from other Federal conservation or acquisition programs; (2) involves partnerships with Federal, State, and non-governmental entities; (3) creates conservation corridors; (4) protects habitats under imminent threat of development or conversion; (5) provides water quality protection for areas under the National Estuarine Research Reserve program; and (6) provides a model for future regional watershed protection projects. Reserves 15 percent of Program funds for acquisitions benefitting the National Estuarine Research Reserve. Specifies that when property is acquired under the Program: (1) title will be held by the grant recipient; (2) property will be managed consistent with the purpose of the program; and (3) funds will be returned to the Secretary if the property is sold, exchanged, or divested. Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to allow the Secretary to enter into contracts or other arrangements with other Federal agencies (including interagency financing of Coastal America activities), as well as any qualified person, for carrying out technical assistance and research to support coastal zone management. (Current law allows such arrangements only with a qualified person.) Title IX: Alaskan Fisheries - (Sec. 901) Directs the Secretary to approve and implement the Voluntary Three-Pie Cooperative Program for crab fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, as approved by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. Authorizes, after such implementation, the Council to submit, and the Secretary to implement, changes to or repeal of conservation and management measures for such fisheries. Provides implementation funding. (Sec. 902) Prohibits any funds from this or any subsequent Act from being used for the identification of essential fish habitat with respect to any fisheries under the jurisdiction of the North Pacific Council until the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act is reauthorized. (Sec. 903) Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program that recognizes individual fishing histories for fishing vessels and individual processing histories for fish processors for Pacific ocean perch, northern rockfish, and pelagic shelf rockfish harvested in the Central Gulf of Alaska. (Sec. 904) Requires, beginning January 1, 2004, the directed pollock fishery in the Aleutian Islands Subarea to be allocated to the Aleut Corporation, which shall provide for all polloci harvesting and processing within the allocation. Allows only fishing vessels meeting certain requirements, including length limits, to form partnerships with the Corporation for such harvesting. Prohibits the optimum yield for groundfish in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area from exceeding two million metric tons. (Sec. 905) States that nothing in this Act shall constitute an approval or authorization by Congress of the consideration or issuance of individual processing quotas or processor shares in any U.S. fishery other than the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands crab fishery.", "2022-02-03T04:57:47Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1585"], ["108-s-1583", 108, "s", 1583, "District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-09-04", "2003-09-04", "Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 272.", "Senate", "Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]", "OH", "R", "D000294", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Federal Funds - Makes appropriations to the District of Columbia for FY 2004, including amounts for the Federal payments: (1) for District of Columbia Resident Tuition Support; (2) for emergency planning and security costs in the District; (3) to support hospital bioterrorism preparedness in the District; (4) to District of Columbia Courts; (5) for Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts; (6) to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (including transfer of funds); (7) to the Chief Financial Officer of the District; (8) to the Department of Transportation in the District for a downtown circulator transit system and to offset a portion of the District's allocated operating subsidy payment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; (9) to the DC Water and Sewer Authority; (10) to the Department of Transportation in the District for the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative; (11) for capital development in the District; (12) to Children's National Medical Center; (13) to the St. Coletta of Greater Washington Expansion Project; (14) for foster care improvements in the District; and (15) for school improvement. Title II: DC Student Opportunity Scholarship Act of 2003 - DC Student Opportunity Scholarship Act of 2003 - (Sec. 4) Requires the Secretary of Education to provide five-year grants on a competitive basis to educational entities of the District of Columbia Government, nonprofit organizations, and consortia of nonprofit organizations (eligible entities) with approved applications to carry out activities to provide expanded school choice opportunities to students who are DC residents and who come from households with incomes not exceeding 185 percent of the poverty line (eligible students). Authorizes the Secretary to award a single grant or multiple grants, depending on the quality of applications submitted and the priorities of this title. Requires the Secretary and the Mayor of the District to enter into a memorandum of understanding regarding the design of, selection of eligible entities to receive grants under, and implementation of, a program assisted under this Act. (Sec. 6) Requires the Secretary to give priority to applications from eligible entities who will most effectively: (1) give priority to eligible students who, in the school year preceding the school year for which they are seeking a scholarship, attended an elementary or secondary school identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring; (2) target resources to students and families that lack the financial resources to take advantage of available educational options; and (3) provide students and families with the widest range of educational options. (Sec. 7) Requires a grantee: (1) under specified conditions, to use the grant funds to provide the students with scholarships to pay the tuition, fees, and transportation expenses, if any, to enable them to attend the DC private elementary or secondary school of their choice; and (2) to ensure that the amount of any tuition or fee charged by a participating school in the grantee's program to a participating eligible student does not exceed the amount of tuition or fees that the school customarily charges to a nonparticipating student. Authorizes the Secretary to award scholarships in larger amounts to students with the greatest need. Limits scholarships to $7,500 per student for any academic year.  Allows an eligible entity to award a scholarship for the second time or any succeeding year of an eligible student's participation in a program under this Act, to a student who comes from a household whose income does not exceed 200 percent of the poverty line. (Sec. 8) Prohibits an eligible entity or a school participating in any program under this title from discriminating against program participants or applicants on the basis of race, color, national origin, or sex. Makes the prohibition on sex discrimination inapplicable to a participating school that is operated by, supervised by, controlled by, or connected to a religious organization to the extent that the application is inconsistent with the religious tenets of the school. Allows a parent to choose and a school to offer a single-sex school, class, or activity. Provides that nothing in this title may be construed to alter or modify the provisions of IDEA. Authorizes schools participating in programs under this Act that are operated by, supervised by, controlled by, or connected to, a religious organization to exercise their discretion in matters of employment consistent with title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including the exemptions in such title.  Declares that funds made available under this Act to eligible students that are received by a participating school, as a result of their parents' choice, shall not, consistent with the first amendment of the Constitution: (1) necessitate any change in such school's teaching mission; (2) require the school to remove religious art, icons, scriptures, or other symbols; or (3) preclude them from retaining religious terms in its name, selecting its board members on a religious basis, or including religious references in its mission statements and other chartering or governing documents.  Requires a scholarship (or any other form of support provided to parents of eligible students) under this title to be considered as assistance to the student and not to the school that enrolls the student. Provides that the amount of such scholarship or other form of support shall not be treated as income of the parents for purposes of Federal tax laws or for determining eligibility for any other Federal program. (Sec. 9) Requires the Secretary, directly or by grant, contract, or cooperative agreement, to: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of the voucher program, using the strongest possible design, addressing specified issues; and (2) disseminate information on the impact of the programs in increasing the student academic achievement of participating students, as well as other appropriate measures of student success, and on the impact on DC students and schools. Requires annual interim reports by the Secretary, and a final report within one year after the final year for which a grant is made. Limits expenditures for such evaluation and reporting requirements for any fiscal year to three percent of the total amount appropriated to carry out this title for the fiscal year.  (Sec. 10) Sets forth reporting requirements for: (1) grantees receiving funds under this title; (2) participating schools with respect to parents of participating children; and (3) the Secretary with respect to congressional committees on the findings of such reports. (Sec. 11) Requires each participating school to ensure: (1) that participating eligible students receive comparable academic assessments in the same grade levels as those provided to DC public school students; (2) to the maximum extent possible, that the assessment results are capable of being compared to determine the relative achievement levels between participating eligible students and DC public school students in the same grades; and (3) that academic assessment results containing any personally identifiable information shall be disclosed only to the parents of the student taking the assessment. (Sec. 13) Authorizes appropriations. Title III: District of Columbia Funds - Appropriates specified sums out of the District's general fund and/or other funds for the current fiscal year for: (1) operating expenses (with limitations); (2) governmental direction and support; (3) economic development and regulation; (4) public safety and justice; (5) the public education system (including transfer of funds); (6) human support services (including transfer of funds); (7) public works; (8) the Emergency and Contingency Reserve Fund; (9) repayment of certain loans and interest; (10) payment of interest on short-term borrowing; (11) for principal and interest payments on the District's Certificates of Participation, issued to finance the ground lease underlying the building located at One Judiciary Square; (12) refunds and the payment of legal settlements or judgments that have been entered against the District government; (13) the John A. Wilson Building; (14) workforce investments; (15) certain non-departmental agency costs; (16) emergency planning and security costs; (17) transportation assistance; (18) pay-as-you-go capital in lieu of capital financing; (19) a Tax Increment Financing Program; (20) the Cash Reserve; (21) making refunds associated with disallowed Medicaid funding; (22) the Water and Sewer Authority; (23) the Washington Aqueduct; (24) the Stormwater Permit Compliance Enterprise Fund; (25) the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund; (26) the Sports and Entertainment Commission; (27) the District of Columbia Retirement Board; (28) the Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund; (29) the National Capital Revitalization Corporation; and (30) capital outlay (including rescissions).  Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized or prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act identical or similar to corresponding provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2003.  (Sec. 108) Prohibits funds provided in this Act from being used to carry out lobbying activities on any matter. (Sec. 109) Prohibits the availability of appropriations, without prior approval by the congressional appropriations committees, for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) establishes or changes allocations specifically denied, limited, or increased under this Act; (4) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or responsibility center for which funds have been denied or restricted; (5) reestablishes any program or project previously deferred through reprogramming; (6) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in excess of $1 million or ten percent, whichever is greater; or (7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel assigned to a specific program, project, or responsibility center. (Sec. 115) Authorizes during FY 2004: (1) a District government entity to accept and use a gift or donation with the Mayor's approval; and (2) the District Council, the District of Columbia courts, and the District Board of Education to accept and use gifts without such approval. (Sec. 117) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act for abortions except where the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in cases of rape or incest.  (Sec. 118) Bars the use of funds under this Act to implement or enforce: (1) the District of Columbia Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992 (also known as the District Domestic Partner Act); or (2) any system of registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples for purposes of extending them benefits on the same basis as such benefits are extended to legally married couples. (Sec. 121) Prohibits a District government officer or employee (including any DC independent agency, but excluding the Office of Chief Technology Officer, the Office of the CFO, and the Metropolitan Police Department) from entering into an agreement in excess of $2,500 for the procurement of goods or services on behalf of any District government entity until the individual has conducted an analysis of how the procurement involved under the applicable District government regulations and procedures would differ from the procurement of goods and services involved under the Federal supply schedule and other applicable General Services Administration regulations and procedures, including an analysis of any differences in the costs to be incurred and the time required to obtain them. (Sec. 123) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act by the District of Columbia Corporation Counsel or any other District government officer or entity to provide assistance for any petition drive or civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for voting representation in Congress for the District. (Sec. 124) Prohibits the use of Federal funds contained in this Act for any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug. Requires individuals or entities who do so to account for all funds used for such program separately from any funds contained in this Act. (Sec. 125) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act: (1) 60 days after its enactment to pay the salary of any chief financial officer of any District government office who has not filed a certification with the Mayor and CFO that the officer understands the duties and restrictions applicable, including reports required as a result of this Act or its amendments; or (2) to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act or any tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) derivative. Provides that the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by the electors of the District on November 3, 1998, shall not take effect. (Sec. 127) Provides that nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent the Council or the Mayor of the District of Columbia from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insurance plans. Expresses the intent of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue should include a "conscience clause" which provides exceptions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. (Sec. 128) Requires the Superior Court of the District of Columbia or the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to assess interest on a voucher submitted by a court-appointed attorney for payment if the voucher is not paid within 45 days of its submission.  (Sec. 129) Requires the Mayor to report quarterly to specified congressional committees on the following District issues: (1) crime; (2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treatment; (3) management of parolees and pre-trial violent offenders; (4) education; (5) improvement in basic District services, including rat control and abatement; (6) application for and management of Federal grants; and (7) indicators of child well-being. (Sec. 131) Prohibits the funds contained in this Act from being used to issue, administer, or enforce any order by the District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights relating to docket numbers 93-030-(PA) and 93-031-(PA) (In The Matter Of: Roland D. Pool and Michael S. Geller (Boy Scouts' Policy of Excluding Homosexuals)). (Sec. 132) Prohibits the transfer of any Federal funds to any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. (Sec. 133) Provides that, in addition to any other authority to pay claims and judgments, a District government department, agency, or instrumentality may pay the settlement or judgment of a claim or lawsuit in an amount less than $10,000. (Sec. 134) Requires all funds from the Crime Victims Compensation Fund, established pursuant to the Victims of Violent Crime Compensation Act of 1996, that are designated for outreach activities to be deposited in the Crime Victims Assistance Fund for such activities and to remain available until expended. (Sec. 135) Requires the District of Columbia Courts to transfer to the DC Treasury all fines levied and collected by the Courts in cases charging Driving Under the Influence and Driving While Impaired. Requires the Office of the Corporation Counsel to use such funds for enforcement and prosecution of District traffic alcohol laws. (Sec. 136) Allows any District government agency to transfer local funds to the Office of Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining (OLRCB) to pay for OLRCB representation in third-party cases, grievances, and dispute resolution. (Sec. 137) Prohibits funds contained in this Act from being made available to pay: (1) an attorney's fee who represents a party or defends an action, including an administrative proceeding, brought against the DC Public Schools under IDEA; or (2) an attorney's fee or firm whom the CFO determines to have a pecuniary interest, either through an attorney, officer or employee of the firm, in any special education diagnostic services, schools, or other special education service providers. (Sec. 138) Directs the CFO to require attorneys in special education cases brought under IDEA in the District to certify in writing, along with other specified disclosures, that the attorney or representative rendered any and all services for which they receive awards, including those received under a settlement agreement or as part of an administrative proceeding, under IDEA. (Sec. 139) Amends the District of Columbia Code to allow the Court to appoint an attorney: (1) to represent a parent or guardian in an adoption proceeding if the individual is financially unable to obtain adequate representation when a petition for adoption has been filed and there has been no termination or relinquishment of parental rights with respect to the proposed adoptee or consent to the proposed adoption by the parent or guardian whose consent is required under the Code; and (2) as guardian ad litem to represent the child and the child's best interest in an adoption proceeding.  (Sec. 140) Allows the amount appropriated by this Act as Other Type Funds to be: (1) increased by no more than 25 percent to an account for unanticipated growth in revenue collections; and (2) obligated or expended under specified conditions.  (Sec. 141) Allows the amount appropriated by this Act to be: (1) increased by no more than $15 million from funds identified in the comprehensive annual financial report as the District's fund balance; (2) obligated or expended under specified conditions; and (3) used only for unanticipated one-time expenditures, addressing potential deficits, reducing debt, unanticipated program needs, or covering revenue shortfalls.", "2021-09-30T00:40:21Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1583"], ["108-hr-2989", 108, "hr", 2989, "Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-07-30", "2004-01-22", "See also H. R. 2673.", "House", "Rep. Istook, Ernest J., Jr. [R-OK-5]", "OK", "R", "I000047", 99, "Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for the following agencies: (1) Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary; (2) Office of Civil Rights; (3) the Working Capital Fund; (4) Minority Business Resource Center Program; (5) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (6) grants-in-aid for airports; (7) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA); (8) Federal-Aid Highways, including Highway Safety Programs; (9) Appalachian Development Highway System; (10) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (11) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (12) National Driver Register; (13) Highway Traffic Safety Grants; (14) Federal Railroad Administration; (15) Railroad Research and Development; (16) Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Program; (17) Next Generation High-Speed Rail; (18) Alaska Railroad Rehabilitation; (19) Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); (20) Federal Transit Administration (FTA); (21) Formula Grants; (22) University Transportation Research; (23) Transit Planning and Research; (24) Capital Investment Grants; (25) Job Access and Reverse Commute Grants; (26) Utah Transportation Projects; (27) Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (28) Maritime Administration; (29) Research and Special Programs Administration; (30) Pipeline Safety; (31) Emergency Preparedness Grants; (32) Office of the Inspector General; and (33) the Surface Transportation Board. (Sec. 105) Directs the FAA to give priority consideration to Paulding County, Georgia, Airport improvements for the Airport Improvement Program. (Sec. 106) Prohibits the use of funds to establish or implement a pilot program under which up to ten designated essential air service communities located in proximity to hub airports are required to assume ten percent of their essential air subsidy costs for a four-year period (EAS local participation program). (Sec. 107) Authorizes the FAA Administrator, for airport development purposes, to give priority consideration to a letter of intent application for funding submitted by the City of Gary, Indiana, or the State of Indiana, for the extension of the main runway at the Gary/Chicago Airport. (Sec. 108) Prohibits the use of funds to adopt rules or regulations concerning travel agent service fees unless the Department of Transportation publishes in the Federal Register revisions to the proposed rule and provides at least 60 days for additional public comment. (Sec. 109) Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Transportation must, in connection with the Philadelphia International Airport Capacity Enhancement Program, consider the impact of aircraft noise on northern Delaware: (1) within the scope of the environmental impact statement prepared in connection with the Program; and (2) as part of any study of aircraft noise required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and conducted pursuant to specified regulations. (Sec. 110) Makes certain funds available for air traffic control facilities, John C. Stennis International Airport, Hancock County, Mississippi. (Sec. 113) Authorizes FY 2004 funding of historic covered bridges eligible for Federal assistance under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) from amounts set aside for the discretionary bridge program. (Sec. 114) Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into an agreement with Nevada, Arizona, or both, to provide a method of funding for construction of a Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge from funds allocated for the Federal Lands Highway Program. (Sec. 115) Amends ISTEA to change a specified relocation priority intermodal project for Detroit, Michigan, to one for road improvements and non-motorized enhancements in the Detroit East Riverfront. (Sec. 116) Requires the transfer of certain Transportation and Community and System Preservation Program funds for the Lodge Freeway and Eastern Market pedestrian overpasses, Detroit, Michigan, to such enhancements in the East Riverfront, Detroit, Michigan. (Sec. 118) Makes unexpended balances of the amounts made available by the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 from the Federal-aid highway account for improvements to Council Grove Lake, Kansas, available to make improvements to Richey Cove, Santa Fe Recreation Area, Canning Creek Recreation Area, and other areas in Kansas. (Sec. 119) Earmarks specified Federal-aid highway funds available for Texas Statewide ITS Deployment and Integration for the deployment and implementation of an Intelligent Transportation System project at Port of Galveston, Texas, and of another such project at City of Lubbock, Texas. (Sec. 120) Instructs the FHWA to extend and fund current research projects under title V of TEA-21 through February 29, 2004. (Sec. 121) Earmarks certain Transportation, Planning, and Research funds for: (1) interior air quality demonstration activities at the Bristol, Virginia, control facility to evaluate standard industrial fuel system performance and efficiency with drive-by-wire engine management and emissions systems; and (2) the Market Street enhancement project in Burlington, Vermont. (Sec. 122) Earmarks certain funds for: (1) improvements to Bowman Road and Johnnie Dodds Boulevard, Highway 17, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina; and (2) the Arkwright Connector. But prohibits the availability of any funds for the Northwest Bypass project. (Sec. 131) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement or enforce any provisions of the Final Rule, issued on April 16, 2003 (Docket No. FMCSA-97-2350), with respect to either: (1) the operators of utility service vehicles; or (2) maximum daily hours of service for drivers engaged in the transportation of property or passengers to or from a motion picture or television production site located within a 100-air mile radius of the work reporting location of such drivers. (Sec. 154) Makes certain funds available to the Colorado Roaring Fork Transportation Authority also available for expenditure on park and ride lots in Carbondale and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, as part of the Roaring Fork Valley Bus Rapid Transit project. (Sec. 156) Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot grant program to determine the benefits of encouraging cooperative procurement of major capital equipment in pilot projects involving urbanized formula grants for mass transit capital projects, capital investment grants and loans for new fixed guideway systems, and mass transportation service projects for areas other than urbanized areas. Sets the Federal share for a grant at 90 percent of the net project cost. (Sec. 157) Makes certain new fixed guideway system funds available for the Yosemite, California, area regional transportation system project also available for obligation for the replacement, rehabilitation, or purchase of buses or related equipment, or the construction of bus-related facilities. (Sec. 158) Directs the Secretary, for the purpose of calculating the non-New Starts share of the total project cost of both phases of San Francisco Muni's Third Street Light Rail Transit project for FY 2004, to: (1) include all non-New Starts contributions made towards Phase 1 of the two-phase project for engineering, final design and construction; and (2) also allow non-New Starts funds expended on one element or phase of the project to be used to meet the non-New Starts share requirement of any element or phase of the project. (Sec. 159) Authorizes the use for the Euclid Corridor Transportation Project of certain funds made available for the Cleveland Berea Red Line Extension to the Hopkins International Airport project. Title II: Department of the Treasury - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for the Department of the Treasury, including: (1) department-wide systems and capital investments; (2) the Office of Inspector General; (3) Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; (4) the Air Transportation Stabilization Board; (5) Treasury Building and Annex Repair and Restoration; (6) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; (7) Financial Management Service; (8) Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau; (9) U.S. Mint; (10) Bureau of the Public Debt; (11) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); (12) tax law enforcement; and (13) health insurance tax credit administration. (Sec. 205) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by the Secretary of the Treasury, or his designee, to issue any rule or regulation implementing the proposed amendments to IRS regulations set forth in REG-209500-86 and REG-164464-02, or any amendments reaching results similar to such proposed amendments. (Sec. 206) Directs the IRS to study and report to Congress on any program that requires certification (including pre-certification) in order to claim the earned income tax credit. (Sec. 216) Amends Federal law to extend from five years to six years the authorization for the personnel management demonstration project providing for the compensation and performance management of not more than a combined total of 950 employees who fill critical scientific, technical, engineering, intelligence analyst, language translator, and medical positions in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Title III: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for compensation of the President and salaries and expenses of designated White House agencies, including: (1) the Council of Economic Advisers; (2) National Security Council; (3) Office of Management and Budget (OMB); and (4) various Federal Drug Control Programs. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for independent agencies, including: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; (2) Committee for Purchases from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled; (3) Federal Election Commission; (4) Election Assistance Commission; (5) Federal Labor Relations Authority; (6) Federal Maritime Administration; (7) General Services Administration (GSA); (8) Merit Systems Protection Board; (9) the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Trust Fund; (10) the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund; (11) the National Archives and Records Administration; (12) the National Historical Publications and Records Commission; (13) the National Transportation Safety Board; (14) the Office of Government Ethics; (15) the Office of Personnel Management (OPM); (16) the Office of Special Counsel; (17) U.S. Postal Service; (18) U.S. Tax Court; and (19) the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance. (Sec. 408) Authorizes the GSA Administrator to: (1) acquire certain land in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a site for the public building needs of the Federal Government; (2) design and construct upon the site a new Federal Office Building to house the Federal agencies presently located in the Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Building. Makes certain funds available for such purposes; and (3) convey without consideration the Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Office Building to the City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for economic development purposes, subject to specified conditions. Title V: General Provisions (This Act) - Sets forth permissions for and restrictions upon the use of funds for designated Department of Transportation activities. (Sec. 504) Declares that none of the funds in this Act shall be available for salaries and expenses of more than 106 political and Presidential appointees in the Department of Transportation. Prohibits the assignment of such appointees on temporary detail outside the Department of Transportation. (Sec. 508) Prohibits the use of funds to establish in the Department of Transportation a National Highway Safety Advisory Committee. (Sec. 511) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to allow the issuer of any preferred stock heretofore sold to the Department of Transportation to redeem or repurchase it upon the payment to the Department of an amount determined by the Secretary. (Sec. 515) Subjects funds appropriated or limited in this Act to the requirements for the safety of cross-border trucking between the United States and Mexico of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002, including an annual report to specified congressional committees on the safety and security of transportation into the United States by Mexico-domiciled motor carriers. (Sec. 517) Reduces funds provided in this Act for the Working Capital Fund by $17.816 million, which limits FY 2004 Working Capital Fund obligational authority for elements of the Department of Transportation funded in this Act to no more than $98.899 million. Requires such reductions from the budget request to be allocated by the Department of Transportation to each appropriations account in proportion to the amount included in each account for the Working Capital Fund. (Sec. 518) Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) to designate the portion of U.S. 78 from Tupelo, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee, a high priority corridor named Interstate Route I-22. (Sec. 519) Makes recovered improper payments by the Department of Transportation to a third party contractor under a financial assistance award available to: (1) reimburse the actual expenses incurred in recovering improper payments; and (2) pay contractors for services provided in recovering them. (Sec. 522) Requires the Department of Transportation, in conducting a mandated rulemaking establishing standards for waiver of restrictions imposed under specified FAA Notices to Airmen, and any other agencies involved in the rulemaking, to ensure that the proposed rules fully and accurately reflect the findings by the General Accounting Office about the adequacy of the Department's procedures used before the passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 in order to ensure the security of events, stadiums, or other venues beneath restricted airspace. (Sec. 523) Prohibits payment of the salary from any appropriation under this Act for any person filling a permanent or indefinite position formerly held by an employee who has: (1) left to enter the U.S. Armed Forces; (2) satisfactorily completed his period of active military or naval service; (3) within 90 days after release from such service, or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year, applied for restoration to his former position; and (4) been certified by OPM as still qualified to perform the duties of his former position, but not been restored to it. (Sec. 524) Sets forth Buy America requirements, and penalties for their violation. (Sec. 532) Makes eligible for certain funds any bridge owned and operated by a State agency: (1) whose toll revenues are administered by a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO); and (2) whose toll revenues provide for subsidizing of non-capital transportation costs. Limits the amount of toll revenues expended for non-capital transportation costs to the cumulative amount of local toll revenues used for Federal interstate and Federal-aid highway construction and improvement projects in the toll bridge corridors. Requires the Secretary of Transportation, before authorizing an expenditure of funds, to determine that the cumulative amount of toll revenues used for such projects is greater than the cumulative amount of toll revenue used for non-capital transportation projects not directly related to the ongoing operation and maintenance of the toll bridges. (Sec. 533) Reduces by $128.076 million any amounts appropriated or limited in this Act in specified Object Classes. (Sec. 534) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated or limited in title I of this Act to change weight restrictions or prior permission rules at Teterboro Airport (New Jersey). (Sec. 535) Amends Federal postal law to extend through December 31, 2005, the mandate to the U.S. Postal Service for a special first-class mail postage rate as a convenient way for the public to contribute to funding for breast cancer research. (Sec. 536) Amends the Federal Transit Act to direct the FTA and FHWA to work with the Utah Transit Authority and the Utah Department of Transportation to coordinate the development regional commuter rail and the northern segment of I-15 reconstruction located in the Wasatch Front corridor extending from Brigham City to Payson, Utah. Includes in such coordination: (1) integration of preliminary engineering and design; (2) a simplified method for allocating project costs among eligible FTA and FHWA funding sources; and (3) a unified accounting and audit process. States that, for purposes of determining and allocating the nongovernmental and governmental share of costs, the following projects comprise a related program of projects: (1) regional commuter rail; (2) the TRAX light rail system; (3) TRAX extensions to the Medical Center and to the Gateway Intermodal Center; and (4) the northern segment of I-15 reconstruction. Requires the governmental share of project costs appropriated from the Section 5309 New Start program to conform to the share specified in the extension or reauthorization of TEA21. (Sec. 537) Authorizes the use of certain mass transit capital project formula grant funds apportioned to the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority to to lease land, equipment, or facilities used in public transportation from another governmental authority in the same geographic area. Allows the non-Federal share of such a capital project to include revenues from the sale of advertising and concessions. Terminates this authorization on the earlier of September 30, 2004, or the date the Federal interest in the land, equipment, or facilities leased reaches 80 percent of its fair market value at disposition. (Sec. 538) Authorizes the availability of funds otherwise designated to the Pennsylvania Cumberland/Dauphin County Corridor I project in committee reports accompanying this Act for any project activities authorized with respect to urbanized formula grants for mass transit capital projects and capital investment grants and loans for new fixed guideway systems. (Sec. 539) Prohibits the use of funds to implement certain proposed OPM regulations published in the Federal Register on September 9, 2003, relating to the detail of executive branch employees to the legislative branch. (Sec. 540) Requires that: (1) priority consideration be given to the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Airport for an ASR-11 radar unit; or (2) that provisions be made for the acquisition or transfer of a comparable radar unit. (Sec. 541) Makes certain FAA Facilities and Equipment account funds available for the Technical Center Facilities in New Jersey. (Sec. 542) Directs the FTA to permit the Memphis Area Transit Authority to use (until expended) for Memphis Regional Rail Plan planning, engineering, design, construction or acquisition projects all of remaining funds provided for the Memphis Medical Center light rail extension project through the new fixed guideway systems program. (Sec. 543) Amends TEA-21 to make the Memphis-Shelby International Airport intermodal facility eligible for funding. (Sec. 544) Requires that certain funds be provided for a precision instrument approach landing system (ILS) at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport, Gainesville, Georgia. (Sec. 545) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for converting to contractor performance an activity or function of an executive agency that is performed by executive agency employees, unless the conversion is based on the results of a public-private competition process that requires a determination whether the cost of performance of the activity or function by a contractor would be less costly to the executive agency by at least the lesser of $10 million dollars or ten percent of the cost of performing the activity with government personnel (or, if a more efficient organization has been developed, ten percent of its personnel-related performance costs). States that, with respect to the use of any funds under this Act for the Department of Defense, certain reporting and analysis requirements do not apply with respect to the performance of a commercial or industrial type activity or function that: (1) is on the procurement list of commodities produced by a qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or for other severely handicapped; or (2) is planned to be converted to performance by such a qualified nonprofit agency or a commercial business at least 51 percent of which is owned by an Indian tribe. Exempts from the requirements and waiver of requirements of this section depot contracts or contracts for depot maintenance, including Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence. Title VI: General Provisions (Departments, Agencies, and Corporations) - (Sec. 601) Sets forth requirements for the use of appropriations by designated departments, agencies and corporations. (Sec. 617) Sets restrictions upon the use of appropriations, including a requirement that any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality administer in good faith a written policy designed to ensure that all workplaces are free from discrimination and sexual harassment and are not in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.  (Sec. 618) Prohibits appropriations from being made available for the salary of any Federal staffer or personnel that restrains other Federal personnel from communication or contact with congressional personnel regarding the employment of such other officer or employee, or pertaining to the department or agency of such other officer or employee. (Sec. 628) Prohibits the use of funds by OPM or any other Federal department or agency to: (1) operate an online employment information service for the Federal Government under any contract awarded under a specified OPM request for quotations unless OPM complies with the recommendations of the Comptroller General decision of April 29, 2003, referred to as Symplicity Corporation, B-291902; or (2) prohibit any agency from using appropriated funds as it sees fit to contract independently with private companies to provide online employment applications and processing services. (Sec. 632) Amends Federal law to extend from October 1, 2003, to October 1, 2004, the authorization for the franchise fund pilot programs in six executive agencies. (Sec. 633) Prohibits, with specified exceptions, including exceptions for law enforcement and supervisory purposes, the use of funds made available in this or any other Act by any Federal agency to collect personally identifiable information relating to an individual's access to or use of Federal or nongovernmental Internet sites. (Sec. 634) Prohibits the use of appropriations under by this Act to enter into a contract providing prescription drug coverage, unless it also provides for contraceptive coverage. Exempts specified religious plans. (Sec. 636) Increases to 4.1 percent the adjustment in rates of basic pay for Federal employees under certain statutory pay systems, including civilian employees in the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. (Sec. 638) Prohibits the expenditure of appropriations under by this Act for FY 2004 for the purchase of a product or service offered by Federal Prison Industries, Inc., unless the purchasing agency determines that such offered product or service provides the best value to the buying agency pursuant to Government-wide procurement regulations. (Sec. 639) Authorizes Federal departments and agencies to use funds appropriated for official travel to participate in the fractional aircraft ownership pilot program, if consistent with OMB Circular A-126 regarding official travel for Government personnel. (Sec. 640) Requires each Federal department and agency to evaluate the creditworthiness of an individual before issuing him or her a Government purchase or travel charge card. Prohibits the department or agency from issuing such a card to an individual who either lacks a credit history or is found to have an unsatisfactory credit history. Prescribes conditions for the issuance of a restricted-use charge, debit, or stored value card made in accordance with specified agency procedures. (Sec. 642) Requires each Federal agency to report annually to Congress on the competitive sourcing (privatizing) activities performed by it during the previous fiscal year. (Sec. 643) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to administer or enforce the Cuban Assets Control Regulations with respect to any travel or travel-related transaction, with specified exceptions, including the administration of general or specific licenses for travel or travel-related transactions and certain business travel transactions. (Sec. 644) Sets forth additional requirements for reporting by executive agencies on competitive sourcing (privatizing) activities performed during the previous fiscal year, including elements concerning costs, savings, and the effect on the Federal workforce. (Sec. 645) Directs the Secretary of Transportation to amend the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices to include a provision requiring that information be provided to motorists to assist them in locating licensed 24-hour pharmacy services open to the public. (Sec. 646) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to remove any area within a Federal employee locality pay area from coverage under that locality pay area. (Sec. 647) Requires each Federal department or agency head to transfer to or reimburse the FAA an amount of funds (up to a total of $6 million altogether) made available by this or any other Act to ensure the operation of the Midway Atoll Airfield by the FAA pursuant to an operational agreement with the Department of the Interior.", "2023-01-15T06:32:50Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2989"], ["108-hr-2861", 108, "hr", 2861, "Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-07-24", "2004-01-22", "See also H. R. 2673.", "House", "Rep. Walsh, James T. [R-NY-25]", "NY", "R", "W000099", 131, "Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and of Housing and Urban Development and for sundry independent agencies.  Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs for: (1) the Veterans Benefits Administration for veterans' compensation and pensions, readjustment benefits, veterans' insurance and indemnities, and veterans' housing, education, and vocational rehabilitation loan accounts, and Native American and homeless veterans; (2) the Veterans Health Administration for veterans' medical care, and medical and prosthetic research, and medical administration; and (3) departmental administration, including for the National Cemetery Administration, the Office of Inspector General, construction, and grants to States for construction of extended care facilities and cemeteries. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds made available under this title. (Sec. 111) Requires approval by the congressional appropriations committees of any new lease of real property by the Department of Veteran Affairs exceeding $300,000. (Sec. 112) Prohibits the use of funds under this title for hospitalization or treatment of certain veterans unless they disclose current, accurate third-party reimbursement and annual income information. (Sec. 113) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to: (1) establish medical emergency preparedness centers; or (2) increase the number of Assistant Secretaries of Veterans Affairs. (Such provisions were authorized by the Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Preparedness Act of 2002.) (Sec. 114) Deposits and transfers receipts that would otherwise be credited to the Veterans Extended Care Revolving Fund, the Medical Facilities Revolving Fund, the Special Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Fund, the Nursing Home Revolving Fund, the Veterans Health Services Improvement Fund, and the Parking Revolving Fund to the Medical Care Collections Fund and to the Medical Care account. (Sec. 115) Permits proceeds from the Enhanced Use Leasing Activities to be used for planing and construction of major and minor projects. (Sec. 116) Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into an enhanced-use lease with the Medical University Hospital Authority, a public authority of the State of South Carolina, for property at the Charleston Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina. (Sec. 117) Directs the Secretary to make the North Chicago VA Medical Center available to the Navy to the maximum extent feasible. (Sec. 118) Authorizes the Secretary to treat the Pioneer Homes in Alaska (located in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Ketchikan, Palmer, and Sitka) as a State veterans home. (Sec. 119) Sets forth findings respecting veterans' access to primary health care in rural areas and the CARES Commission. (Sec. 120) Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to develop and evaluate epidemiological studies on Vietnam veterans in accordance with the recommendations of the 2003 National Academy of Sciences report entitled "Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam: Interim Findings and Recommendations." (Sec. 121) Prohibits fund use to prevent the Veterans Integrated Service Networks from conducting outreach or marketing to enroll new veterans within their Networks. Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for: (1) public and Indian housing; (2) the Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds; (3) revitalization of severely distressed public housing (HOPE VI); (4) Native American housing block grants; (5) Indian and Native Hawaiian housing loan guarantees; (6) housing opportunities for persons with AIDS; (7) Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development; (8) community development fund; (9) community development loan guarantees; (10) brownfields redevelopment; (11) the HOME investment partnerships program; (12) homeless assistance grants; (13) housing for special populations; (14) flexible subsidy fund; (15) manufactured housing fees trust fund; (16) the Federal Housing Administration; (17) the Government National Mortgage Association; (18) housing policy development and research; (19) fair housing activities; (20) the Office of Lead Hazard Control; (21) management and administration; (22) the Office of Inspector General; (23) Working Capital Fund; and (24) the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. Cancels specified amounts from the urban development action program. Rescinds specified amounts: (1) of recaptured rental housing assistance budget authority; and (2) from the consolidated fee fund. (Sec. 201) Rescinds specified amounts from certain State- or locally-financed projects under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988. Authorizes the use of certain amounts of non-rescinded funds for project refinancing. (Sec. 202) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used during FY 2004 to investigate or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activities aimed at achieving or preventing government or court action. (Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make housing for persons with AIDS grants to any State that previously qualified but does not qualify in FY 2004 due to decreased AIDS cases in non-metropolitan areas of the State. (Sec. 204) Requires HUD to grant awards on a competitive basis. (Sec. 205) Makes HUD funds subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or other restrictions available, without regard to limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services and services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association, Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve banks, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. (Sec. 206) Limits HUD spending to amounts set forth in congressionally-submitted budget estimates. (Sec. 207) Authorizes HUD corporations and agencies subject to the Government Corporation Control Act to make necessary FY 2004 expenditures without regard to fiscal year limitations. Limits the use of collections of these corporations and agencies (with specified exceptions) to new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this Act, unless they are in support of other forms of assistance provided in this or prior appropriations Acts. (Sec. 208) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure by HUD of funds provided in this title for technical assistance, training, or management improvements unless HUD provides to the Committees on Appropriations a description of each proposed activity and detailed budget estimates of the costs associated with each program, project, or activity. (Sec. 209) Directs the Secretary to maintain section 8 housing rental assistance in managing and disposing of multifamily properties that are occupied primarily by elderly or disabled families. Authorizes the Secretary, where such assistance is not feasible, to: (1) contract for project-based rental assistance with an owner or owners of other existing housing properties; or (2) provide other rental assistance. (Sec. 210) Exempts Alaska, Iowa, and Mississippi from the requirement to have a public housing resident on the board of directors of a public housing authority or other administering body. Requires such authorities to establish an advisory board which shall have a specified number of resident members. (Sec. 211) Amends the Housing Act of 1937 to extend the HOPE VI program through September 30, 2006. (Sec. 212) Sets forth reporting requirements respecting: (1) unobligated and excess HUD funds; and (2) section 8 units. (Sec. 214) Directs, beginning in FY 2004: (1) the Secretary to allocate from certain housing funds for persons with AIDS in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (on behalf of the Philadelphia, PA-NJ Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area), to New Jersey based upon the number of AIDS cases reported in the New Jersey portion of such Area; and (2) New Jersey to use the allocation in such Area. Requires: (1) the Secretary to allocate to Wake County, North Carolina, certain FY 2004 housing for persons with AIDS funds that would otherwise be allocated to Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area; and (2) that the allocation be used in such Area. (Sec. 215) Declares, with respect to FY 2004 assisted living facility section 8 rental payments, that a family residing in an assisted living facility in Oakland, Macomb, Wayne, or Washtenaw Counties, Michigan, may be required to pay rent in an amount exceeding 40 percent of its monthly adjusted gross income. (Sec. 216) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to make supportive housing for persons with disabilities eligible for service coordinators. (Sec. 217) Amends the National Housing Act revise the debenture interest calculation formula for certain mortgage insurance claims paid in cash. (Sec. 218) Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to rename the Interagency Council on the Homeless as the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. (Sec. 219) Amends the National Housing Act to authorize specified mortgage alternatives for single family borrowers with impaired credit, which shall be Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund obligations. (Sec. 220) Amends the Social Security Act to provide for limited information sharing between the National Directory of New Hires and specified housing assistance programs in order to determine the employment and income of housing program participants. (Sec. 221) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize loan guarantees for public housing agency project rehabilitation. (Sec. 222) Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to revise salary levels for the Interagency Council on Homelessness. (Sec. 223) States that: (1) Hawaii may elect by July 31, 2004, to distribute community development block grant funds to units of general local government located in nonentitlement areas (Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui Counties); and (2) if Hawaii fails to make such election, the Secretary shall beginning in FY 2005 make grants to such units. (Sec. 224) Directs the Secretary to issue a proposed rulemaking with respect to new requirements for the disposition of HUD-held multifamily housing projects, including dispositions made after a State or municipality has exercised its right of first refusal. (Sec. 225) Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 to permit the Housing Authority of Baltimore City to use certain rehabilitation funds for demolition and new construction purposes. (Sec. 226) Makes the same percentage of Native American housing assistance available to a FY 2004 grantee as was available to such grantee in FY 2003. (Sec. 227) Amends the Denali Commission Act of 1998 to authorize the Commission to make grants and loans to public school districts serving remote incorporated cities and unincorporated communities in Alaska (including Alaska Native Villages) with a population of 6,500 or less for construction, purchase, lease, and rehabilitation of housing for teachers, school administrators, and other school staff (including members of their households). (Sec. 228) Directs the Secretary to conduct negotiated rulemaking with interested parties respecting any changes to the Public Housing Operating Fund formula. Title III: Independent Agencies - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for: (1) the American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) the Department of the Treasury, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program Account; (4) the Consumer Product Safety Commission; (5) the Corporation for National and Community Service; (6) the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; (7) the Department of Defense-Civil for cemeterial expenses, Army; (8) the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; (9) the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; (10) the Environmental Protection Agency; (11) the Hazardous Substance Superfund, including transfers of funds; (12) the Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Office of Environmental Quality; (13) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General; (14) the General Services Administration, Federal Citizen Information Center Fund; (15) the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness; (16) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); (17) the National Credit Union Administration; (18) the National Science Foundation; (19) the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and (20) the Selective Service System. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds made available under this title. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth conditions and limitations on the obligation and expenditure of funds appropriated or made available under this Act.(Sec. 409) Expresses the sense of Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made. (Sec. 415) Encourages all Departments and agencies funded under this Act, within the limits of existing statutory authorities and funding, to expand their use of \"E-Commerce\" technologies and procedures in the conduct of their business practices and public service activities. (Sec. 418) Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) housing vouchers are a critical resource in ensuring that American families can afford safe, decent, and adequate housing; (2) public housing agencies must retain the ability to use 100 percent of their authorized vouchers to help low-income families; and (3) HUD should take all necessary actions to encourage full voucher utilization, and should use all available resources to support full voucher funding for FY 2004. (Sec. 419) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to increase State reimbursements for community development block grant technical and administrative costs in nonentitlement areas. (Sec. 420) Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for sewer overflow control grants through FY 2006. (Sec. 421) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) a U.S. citizen who was a prisoner of war or who was used by the regime of Saddam Hussein and by Iraq as a human shield during the First Gulf War should have the opportunity to have any claim for damages incurred by such citizen fully adjudicated in the appropriate U.S. district court; (2) any damage award should be fully enforced; and (3) the Attorney General should enter into negotiations with each such citizen, or the family of each such citizen, to develop a method of providing compensation for such damages, including using assets of the regime of Saddam Hussein held by the U.S. Government or any other appropriate sources. (Sec. 422) States that none of the funds provided in this Act may be expended to apply, in a numerical estimate of the benefits of an agency action prepared pursuant to Executive Order 12866 or section 812 of the Clean Air Act, monetary values for adult premature mortality that differ based on the adult's age. (Sec. 423) Directs the Secretary to extend the term of certain public housing/section 8 Moving to Work demonstration agreements. (Sec. 424) Directs the General Accounting Office to conduct a study of the Moving to Work demonstration program. (Sec. 425) Revises provisions respecting a certain National Academy of Sciences study. (Sec. 426) Makes funds available for a specified grant under the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building Act. Title V: Pesticide Products and Fees - Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003 - (Sec. 501) Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to revise registration and maintenance fee requirements for pesticides. Modifies certain timing requirements concerning the submission of product-specific data and other regulatory action. Increases and then decreases the maximum amount of maintenance fees payable by registrants, including small businesses, through FY 2008. Extends the EPA authority to collect maintenance, but not tolerance, fees through FY 2008. (Maintenance fees are assessed on already registered or reregistered pesticides; tolerance fees are assessed on pesticides used on food or animal feed which are subject to more stringent regulatory requirements.) Directs the Administrator of EPA to assess and collect covered pesticide registration service fees for applications submitted from FY 2004 onward. (Registration fees would apply to new pesticide applications only.) Sets forth the Administrator's responsibilities concerning the publication and revision of the schedule of registration service fees, including a mandatory increase by FY 2006. Permits the waiver or reduction of these fees for minor uses or small businesses. Provides for partial fee refunds when an application is withdrawn or at the Administrator's discretion. Establishes the Pesticide Registration Fund in the Treasury to collect registration fees. Limits the use of these funds to associated regulatory costs, except for limited earmarks for worker protection and the review of new inert ingredients. Prohibits the assessment of registration fees if the amount appropriated for the Office of Pesticide Programs is less than the amount appropriated for that Office for FY 2002.  Provides for judicial review if the Administrator fails to make a determination on an application before the expiration of the applicable decision time review period. Terminates the registration service fee after FY 2010, with a phase out occurring during the final two years. (Sec. 502) Expresses the sense of the Senate that human dosing studies of pesticides raise ethical and health questions.", "2023-01-15T05:47:33Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2861"], ["108-hr-2799", 108, "hr", 2799, "Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-07-21", "2004-01-22", "See also H. R. 2673.", "House", "Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]", "VA", "R", "W000672", 1, "Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice (DOJ) for FY 2004 for: (1) general administration, including for a Joint Automated Booking System, an automated fingerprint identification system, conversion to narrowband communications, counterterrorism activities, administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, and expenses of the Federal Detention Trustee and the Office of Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including for antitrust activities, the Offices of U.S. Attorneys, the U.S. Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, the U.S. Marshals Service (including amounts for courthouse security equipment), fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (4) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (5) the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force; (6) the Drug Enforcement Administration; (7) interagency drug enforcement; (8) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; (9) the Federal prison system; and (10) Office of Justice programs, including for domestic preparedness and State and local law enforcement assistance (including for a prescription drug monitoring program, and prison rape prevention and prosecution programs), the Weed and Seed Program Fund, community oriented policing services, violence against women prevention and prosecution programs, juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers' benefits. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for abortions, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. (Sec. 105) Makes funds available to establish and publicize an extraordinary rewards program. (Sec. 107) Continues during FY 2004 the requirement of the Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2002 requirement that the Attorney General provide for the granting of posthumous citizenship to certain non-citizens who died as the result of injuries incurred in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.     Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies - Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for FY 2004 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration; (4) the Bureau of Industry and Security for export administration and national security activities; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) the Minority Business Development Agency; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) information infrastructure grants; (12) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (13) the Under Secretary for Technology/Office of Technology Policy; (14) the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including amounts for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and for construction of new research facilities; (15) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including an amount for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets; (16) restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (17) the fisheries finance program account; and (18) departmental management, including for the Office of Inspector General. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 201) Allows the use, during the current fiscal year, of advanced payments not otherwise authorized only upon the certification of officials designated by the Secretary of Commerce that such payments are in the public interest. (Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act or any other Act for NOAA to support hurricane reconnaissance aircraft and activities that are under the control of the U.S. Air Force or Air Force Reserve.        Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for: (1) the Supreme Court, including an amount for care of the building and grounds; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services, including for defender services, fees of jurors and commissioners and court security; (5) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (6) the Federal Judicial Center; (7) judicial retirement funds; and (8) the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 304) Requires the Supreme Court establish a pilot program under which the Court may repay (by direct payment on behalf of the employee) any student loan previously taken out by an employee serving as a full-time judicial law clerk for the Court. Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 2004 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation allowances; (6) protection of foreign missions and officials; (7) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (8) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) international organizations, peacekeeping, and commissions; (13) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico; (14) the International Joint Commission, the International Boundary Commission, United States and Canada, and the Border Environment Cooperation Commission; (15) international fisheries commissions; (16) the Asia Foundation; (17) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (18) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; and (19) the National Endowment for Democracy. Makes appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for FY 2004 for international broadcasting operations (including broadcasting to Cuba) and capital improvements.  Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation.   Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates FY 2004 funds for the Antitrust Modernization Commission. Appropriates FY 2004 funds for salaries and specified expenses, with restrictions in certain cases, for: (1) the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad for salaries and expenses; (2) the Commission on Civil Rights; (3) the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; (4) the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (5) the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (6) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (7) the Federal Communications Commission; (8) the Federal Trade Commission; (9) the Legal Services Corporation; (10) the Marine Mammal Commission; (11) the National Veterans Business Development Corporation; (12) the Securities and Exchange Commission; (13) the Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General; and (14) the State Justice Institute. Title VI: General Provisions - (Sec. 601) Prohibits the use of appropriations for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress. (Sec. 603) Limits expenditures for any consulting service through procurement contract to contracts where expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, with exceptions. (Sec. 605) Prohibits the availability of funds, without advance notice to the congressional appropriations committees, for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates new programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees, reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or (5) contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities currently performed by Federal employees. Prohibits, without such advance notification, the availability of funds for obligation or expenditure for activities, programs, and projects through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $500,000 or ten percent, whichever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by ten percent funding for any existing program, project, or activity or numbers of personnel as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress. (Sec. 606) Bans the use of funds in this Act for the construction, repair (other than emergency repair), overhaul, conversion, or modernization of vessels for the NOAA in shipyards outside the United States. (Sec. 607) Makes ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds in this Act, pursuant to current debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures, any person determined to have intentionally affixed a fraudulent "Made in America" label to any product sold or shipped to the United States. (Sec. 608) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to implement, administer, or enforce any EEOC guidelines covering harassment based on religion when it is made known to the Federal entity or official to which such funds are made available that such guidelines do not differ in any respect from certain proposed guidelines. (Sec. 609) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for any United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission that will involve U.S. armed forces under the command or operational control of a foreign national if the President's military advisors have not recommended such involvement in the national security interests and the President has not made such recommendation to Congress. (Sec. 610) Prohibits the expenditure of funds, unless certain conditions of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 are met, for: (1) opening or operating any U.S. diplomatic or consular post in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was not operating on July 11, 1995; (2) expanding any U.S. diplomatic or consular post in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was operating on July 11, 1995; or (3) increasing the total number of personnel assigned to U.S. diplomatic or consular posts in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam above the levels existing on July 11, 1995. (Sec. 612) Limits to only 90 percent of the amount to be awarded under the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant the amount of any such grant to an entity that does not provide health insurance benefits to a public safety officer who retires or is separated from service due to injury suffered directly and proximately in the line of duty while responding to an emergency situation or a hot pursuit that are the same or better than the benefits such officer received while on duty. (Sec. 613) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products, except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the same type. (Sec. 614) Prohibits the expenditure of funds for the issuance of visas to any individuals named or implicated in certain killings or murders in Haiti by the related prohibition of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999. (Sec. 615) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act for: (1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection with the implementation of the national instant criminal background check system for firearms; and (2) any system to implement such background check system that does not require and result in the destruction of any identifying information submitted by or on behalf of any person who has been determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm. (Sec. 616) Provides that amounts deposited or available in the Crime Victims Fund in any fiscal year in excess of $625 million shall not be available for obligation until the following fiscal year, except for certain emergency appropriations. (Sec. 617) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to DOJ to discriminate against, or to denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of, students who participate in programs for which financial assistance is provided from those funds or their parents or legal guardians. (Sec. 618) Makes funds under this Act unavailable for the purpose of granting immigrant or nonimmigrant visas to citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents of countries that the Attorney General has determined deny or unreasonably delay accepting the return of citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Requires the Attorney General to notify the Secretary of State whenever a foreign country denies or unreasonably delays accepting an alien who is a citizen, subject, national, or resident of that country after the Attorney General asks whether the Government will accept the alien under INA. (Sec. 619) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to DOJ to transport a maximum or high security prisoner to a place other than a prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure. (Sec. 620) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by Federal prisons to purchase audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational purposes. (Sec. 622) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and the SBA to each establish a policy under which employees may participate in telecommuting to the maximum extent possible without diminishing employee performance. Makes funds available to implement telecommuting programs. Directs each Department or agency to designate a Telework Coordinator. (Sec. 624) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to grant, transfer or assign a license for a commercial TV broadcast station if it would result in the party or its stockholder, partners, members, officers, or directors having a cognizable interest in stations which have an aggregate national audience reach exceeding 35 percent. (Sec. 625) Requires the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to include disclaimers regarding the limitations of data in tracing studies. Title VII: Rescissions - Rescinds specified prior year appropriation amounts from the Office of Justice Programs (State and local law enforcement assistance and community oriented policing services). Title VIII: Additional General Provisions - (Sec. 801) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act: (1) to issue patents on claims directed to or encompassing a human organism; (2) by the Department of Justice or the Department of State to file a motion in any court opposing a civil action against any Japanese person or corporation for compensation or reparations in which the plaintiff alleges that, as an American prisoner of war during World War II, he or she was used as slave or forced labor; (3) to enforce the judgment in Newdow v. U.S. Congress (9th Cir. 2002) (holding unconstitutional, as a violation of the First amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a California school district's policy requiring teacher-led recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance and a statute inserting the words \"under God\" into the Pledge); or (4) to seek a delay with respect to the issuance of a warrant or court order for search and seizures. (Sec. 805) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for a contribution to any United Nations commission, organization, or affiliated agency that is chaired or presided over by a country that the Secretary of State has determined to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism. (Sec. 806) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to destroy or conceal physical and electronic records and documents related to any use of Federal agency resources in any task or action involving or relating to members of the Texas Legislature for the period beginning May 11, 2003, and ending May 16, 2003. (Sec. 807) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the issuance of visas to aliens supporting international child abductors and to relatives of such abductors in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act.  (Sec. 808) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to enforce the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Glassroth v. Moore, decided July 1, 2003 (holding unconstitutional, as a violation of the First amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the placement of a granite monument of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the Alabama State judicial building in Montgomery, Alabama).", "2023-01-15T05:47:35Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2799"], ["108-hr-2765", 108, "hr", 2765, "District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-07-17", "2004-01-22", "See also H. R. 2673.", "House", "Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]", "NJ", "R", "F000372", 38, "District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Federal Funds - Makes appropriations to the District of Columbia for FY 2004, including amounts for the Federal payments: (1) for District of Columbia Resident Tuition Support; (2) for emergency planning and security costs in the District; (3) to support hospital bioterrorism preparedness in the District; (4) to District of Columbia Courts; (5) for Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts; (6) to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (including transfer of funds); (7) to the Chief Financial Officer of the District; (8) to the Department of Transportation in the District for a downtown circulator transit system and to offset a portion of the District's allocated operating subsidy payment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; (9) to the DC Water and Sewer Authority; (10) to the Department of Transportation in the District for the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative; (11) for capital development in the District; (12) to Children's National Medical Center; (13) to the St. Coletta of Greater Washington Expansion Project; (14) for foster care improvements in the District; and (15) for school improvement. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: District of Columbia Funds - Appropriates specified sums out of the District's general fund and/or other funds for the current fiscal year for: (1) operating expenses (with limitations); (2) governmental direction and support; (3) economic development and regulation; (4) public safety and justice; (5) the public education system (including transfer of funds); (6) human support services (including transfer of funds); (7) public works; (8) the Emergency and Contingency Reserve Fund; (9) repayment of certain loans and interest; (10) payment of interest on short-term borrowing; (11) for principal and interest payments on the District's Certificates of Participation, issued to finance the ground lease underlying the building located at One Judiciary Square; (12) refunds and the payment of legal settlements or judgments that have been entered against the District government; (13) the John A. Wilson Building; (14) workforce investments; (15) certain non-departmental agency costs; (16) emergency planning and security costs; (17) transportation assistance; (18) pay-as-you-go capital in lieu of capital financing; (19) a Tax Increment Financing Program; (20) the Cash Reserve; (21) making refunds associated with disallowed Medicaid funding; (22) the Water and Sewer Authority; (23) the Washington Aqueduct; (24) the Stormwater Permit Compliance Enterprise Fund; (25) the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund; (26) the Sports and Entertainment Commission; (27) the District of Columbia Retirement Board; (28) the Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund; (29) the National Capital Revitalization Corporation; and (30) capital outlay (including rescissions).  Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized or prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act identical or similar to corresponding provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2003.  (Sec. 308) Prohibits funds provided in this Act from being used to carry out lobbying activities on any matter. (Sec. 309) Prohibits the availability of appropriations, without prior approval by the congressional appropriations committees, for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) establishes or changes allocations specifically denied, limited, or increased under this Act; (4) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, or responsibility center for which funds have been denied or restricted; (5) reestablishes any program or project previously deferred through reprogramming; (6) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in excess of $1 million or ten percent, whichever is greater; or (7) increases by 20 percent or more personnel assigned to a specific program, project, or responsibility center.  (Sec. 315) Authorizes during FY 2004: (1) a District government entity to accept and use a gift or donation with the Mayor's approval; and (2) the District Council, the District of Columbia courts, and the District Board of Education to accept and use gifts without such approval. (Sec. 317) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act for abortions except where the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in cases of rape or incest.  (Sec. 318) Bars the use of funds under this Act to implement or enforce: (1) the District of Columbia Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992 (also known as the District Domestic Partner Act); or (2) any system of registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples for purposes of extending them benefits on the same basis as such benefits are extended to legally married couples. (Sec. 321) Prohibits a District government officer or employee (including any DC independent agency, but excluding the Office of Chief Technology Officer, the Office of the CFO, and the Metropolitan Police Department) from entering into an agreement in excess of $2,500 for the procurement of goods or services on behalf of any District government entity until the individual has conducted an analysis of how the procurement involved under the applicable District government regulations and procedures would differ from the procurement of goods and services involved under the Federal supply schedule and other applicable General Services Administration regulations and procedures, including an analysis of any differences in the costs to be incurred and the time required to obtain them. (Sec. 323) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act by the District of Columbia Corporation Counsel or any other District government officer or entity to provide assistance for any petition drive or civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for voting representation in Congress for the District. (Sec. 324) Prohibits the use of Federal funds contained in this Act for any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug. Requires individuals or entities who do so to account for all funds used for such program separately from any funds contained in this Act. (Sec. 325) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act: (1) 60 days after its enactment to pay the salary of any chief financial officer of any District government office who has not filed a certification with the Mayor and CFO that the officer understands the duties and restrictions applicable, including reports required as a result of this Act or its amendments; or (2) to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act or any tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) derivative. Provides that the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by the electors of the District on November 3, 1998, shall not take effect. (Sec. 327) Provides that nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent the Council or the Mayor of the District of Columbia from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insurance plans. Expresses the intent of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue should include a "conscience clause" which provides exceptions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. (Sec. 328) Requires the Superior Court of the District of Columbia or the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to assess interest on a voucher submitted by a court-appointed attorney for payment if the voucher is not paid within 45 days of its submission.  (Sec. 329) Requires the Mayor to report quarterly to specified congressional committees on the following District issues: (1) crime; (2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treatment; (3) management of parolees and pre-trial violent offenders; (4) education; (5) improvement in basic District services, including rat control and abatement; (6) application for and management of Federal grants; and (7) indicators of child well-being. (Sec. 331) Prohibits the funds contained in this Act from being used to issue, administer, or enforce any order by the District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights relating to docket numbers 93-030-(PA) and 93-031-(PA) (In The Matter Of: Roland D. Pool and Michael S. Geller (Boy Scouts' Policy of Excluding Homosexuals)). (Sec. 332) Prohibits the transfer of any Federal funds to any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. (Sec. 333) Provides that, in addition to any other authority to pay claims and judgments, a District government department, agency, or instrumentality may pay the settlement or judgment of a claim or lawsuit in an amount less than $10,000. (Sec. 334) Requires all funds from the Crime Victims Compensation Fund, established pursuant to the Victims of Violent Crime Compensation Act of 1996, that are designated for outreach activities to be deposited in the Crime Victims Assistance Fund for such activities and to remain available until expended. (Sec. 335) Requires the District of Columbia Courts to transfer to the DC Treasury all fines levied and collected by the Courts in cases charging Driving Under the Influence and Driving While Impaired. Requires the Office of the Corporation Counsel to use such funds for enforcement and prosecution of District traffic alcohol laws. (Sec. 336) Allows any District government agency to transfer local funds to the Office of Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining (OLRCB) to pay for OLRCB representation in third-party cases, grievances, and dispute resolution. (Sec. 337) Prohibits funds contained in this Act from being made available to pay: (1) an attorney's fee who represents a party or defends an action, including an administrative proceeding, brought against the DC Public Schools under IDEA; or (2) an attorney's fee or firm whom the CFO determines to have a pecuniary interest, either through an attorney, officer or employee of the firm, in any special education diagnostic services, schools, or other special education service providers. (Sec. 338) Directs the CFO to require attorneys in special education cases brought under IDEA in the District to certify in writing, along with other specified disclosures, that the attorney or representative rendered any and all services for which they receive awards, including those received under a settlement agreement or as part of an administrative proceeding, under IDEA. (Sec. 339) Amends the District of Columbia Code to allow the Court to appoint an attorney: (1) to represent a parent or guardian in an adoption proceeding if the individual is financially unable to obtain adequate representation when a petition for adoption has been filed and there has been no termination or relinquishment of parental rights with respect to the proposed adoptee or consent to the proposed adoption by the parent or guardian whose consent is required under the Code; and (2) as guardian ad litem to represent the child and the child's best interest in an adoption proceeding.  (Sec. 340) Allows the amount appropriated by this Act as Other Type Funds to be: (1) increased by no more than 25 percent to an account for unanticipated growth in revenue collections; and (2) obligated or expended under specified conditions.  (Sec. 341) Allows the amount appropriated by this Act to be: (1) increased by no more than $15 million from funds identified in the comprehensive annual financial report as the District's fund balance; (2) obligated or expended under specified conditions; and (3) used only for unanticipated one-time expenditures, addressing potential deficits, reducing debt, unanticipated program needs, or covering revenue shortfalls.", "2023-01-15T06:32:50Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2765"], ["108-s-1424", 108, "s", 1424, "Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-07-17", "2003-09-16", "See also H. R. 2754.", "Senate", "Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]", "NM", "R", "D000407", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Department of Defense-Civil - Makes FY 2004 appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for: (1) civil functions relating to rivers and harbors, flood control, and shore protection; (2) certain flood control projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee; (3) flood control and coastal emergencies; (4) the navigable waters and wetlands regulatory program; (5) formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (6) general expenses of the Office of Chief of Engineers. (Sec. 101) Limits Agreements proposed for execution after the date of the enactment of this Act by either the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to credits and reimbursements per project not to exceed $10 million in each fiscal year, and total credits and reimbursements for all applicable projects not to exceed $50 million in each fiscal year. (Sec.102) Bars funds from being used to demonstrate or implement any plans that divest or transfer any Civil Works missions, functions, or responsibilities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to other government agencies without specific direction in a subsequent Act of Congress. (Sec.103) Directs Secretary of the Army to construct a flood detention basin to protect the north side of the City of Alamogordo, New Mexico. Requires such basin to provide protection from a 100-year flood event. (Sec.105) Amends specified law to increase Federal funds earmarked for Kake Dam Replacement, Kake, Alaska. (Sec.106) Deauthorizes specified projects, including portions of a navigation project, Pawtuxet Cove, Rhode Island. (Sec. 108) Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical, planning, design, and construction assistance to non-Federal interests to remedy adverse environmental and human health impacts in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. (Sec. 109) Requires that certain funds previously provided under specified law be used to provide technical assistance at full Federal expense to Alaskan communities to address the serious impacts of coastal erosion. (Sec. 110) Modifies a flood control project for the American and Sacramento Rivers, California, to authorize the Secretary to construct it at a total cost of $205 million with an estimated Federal share of $153.84 million and an estimated non-Federal share of $51.16 million. (Sec. 111) Prohibits funds in this Act from being made available to implement activities regarding closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Delaware and Maryland, including any related environmental impact statement. (Sec. 112) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to extend through FY 2005 the authority of the Secretary of the Army to accept and expend funds contributed by non-Federal public entities to expedite the evaluation of hydroelectric project permits under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army. (Sec. 113) Requires the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to direct construction of Alternative 1 (Northeast Corner) authorized in Sec. 353 of Public Law 105-227 (sic).  (Sec. 114) Authorizes the Secretary to undertake at full Federal expense the planning, design, and construction for wildfire prevention and restoration in the Middle Rio Grande bosque in and around the City of Albuquerque. (Sec. 115) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to extend to Utah and New Mexico the current program for providing environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in rural areas of such States (as well as Nevada, Montana, and Idaho). (Sec. 116) Directs the Secretary of Energy to make certain funds available to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for specified projects.  Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes FY 2004 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Central Utah Project Completion Account; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation for water and related resources; and (3) the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund.  (Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of funds to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California develop a plan, conforming to California water quality standards approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. States that: (1) the costs of both the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program shall be collected until fully repaid pursuant to specified plans; and (2) future Federal funding for drainage service or drainage studies for the San Luis Unit shall be fully reimbursable by San Luis Unit service or study beneficiaries. (Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless such purchase or lease is in compliance with specified statutory purchase requirements. (Sec. 204) States that Drought Emergency Assistance funds under this title shall be made available primarily for leasing water from willing lessors for specified drought-related purposes to be administered under State water priority allocation. (Sec. 205) Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from either obligating funds or using discretion to reduce or reallocate water to be delivered pursuant to San Juan-Chama Project contracts in order to meet the requirements of the Endangered Species Act, (including execution of said contracts facilitated by the Middle Rio Grande Project), unless such water is acquired or otherwise made available from a willing seller or lessor and its use is in compliance with the laws of the State of New Mexico, including but not limited to permitting requirements.  (Sec. 206) Instructs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, to establish an executive committee for purposes of improving the efficiency and expediting the efforts of the Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program Workgroup. (Sec. 207) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) arrange for the design, construction, testing and operation of the Tularosa Basin National Desalination Research Facility, with a Federal share of 100 percent; (2) undertake feasibility studies for Sites Reservoir, Los Vaqueros Reservoir Enlargement, and Upper San Joaquin Storage projects in carrying out CALFED-related activities; and (3) (acting through the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation) enter into agreements with irrigation or water districts to fund up to 50 percent of the cost of water improvements at existing water supply projects within specified States. (Sec. 210) Amends the Hawaii Water Resources Act of 2000 to increase the authorization of appropriations for the Hawaii Water Resources Study, and repeal the deadline for the report on it. (Sec. 211) Declares that contributions of the Western Area Power Administration to the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account shall: (1) expire ten fiscal years from the date of enactment of this Act; and (2) be from an account established by the Western Area Power Administration for this purpose. Title III: Department of Energy - Makes FY 2004 appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for: (1) energy supply programs; (2) non-defense site acceleration completion; (3) uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning; (4) non-defense environmental services; (5) general DOE science activities; (6) nuclear waste disposal; (7) DOE administration and its Office of the Inspector General; (8) atomic energy defense weapons activities; (9) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (10) naval reactors activities; (11) Office of the Administrator in the National Nuclear Security Administration; (12) defense site acceleration completion; (13) defense environmental services; (14) defense nuclear waste disposal; (15) geographical power marketing administrations of DOE (including hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams); and (16) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Rescinds specified unexpended funds previously appropriated, requiring that specified amounts be derived from the Paducah Disposal Facility Privatization and from the Portsmouth Disposal Facility Privatization.   (Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of appropriations under this Act to: (1) either develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan for DOE employees, or to provide them with enhanced severance payments or other benefits; (2) augment specified amounts made available by this Act for severance payments and other benefits and community assistance grants under specified law unless the Department of Energy submits a reprogramming request subject to congressional approval; or (3) prepare or initiate Requests for Proposals for a program that has not been funded by Congress.  (Sec. 306) Prohibits the use of funds earmarked for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the legally defined Bonneville service territory (except services provided internationally, including those provided on a reimbursable basis), unless the Administrator certifies in advance that such services are not available from private sector businesses. (Sec. 307) Permits the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration to authorize the plant manager of a covered nuclear weapons production plant to engage in research, development, and demonstration activities in order to maintain and enhance plant engineering and manufacturing capabilities. (Sec. 309) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to dispose of transuranic waste in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant containing concentrations of plutonium exceeding 20 percent by weight. (Sec. 310) Instructs the Secretary of Energy to file a permit modification to the Waste Analysis Plan and associated provisions contained in the Hazardous Waste Facility Permit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.  (Sec. 311) Declares that the material in the concrete silos at the Fernald uranium processing facility currently managed by DOE shall be considered "byproduct material" as defined by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and shall be regulated accordingly. (Sec. 312) Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) collect certain fees as offsetting collections, pursuant to specified acts which authorize the Southeastern Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, and the Western Power Administration to collect revenues for power provided; and (2) make such collection available to the Secretary of the Army for use for Construction, General. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes FY 2004 appropriations to the: (1) Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) Delta Regional Authority; (4) Denali Commission; (5) Nuclear Regulatory Commission and its Office of the Inspector General; and (6) Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 502) Expresses the sense of Congress that all equipment and products bought with funds under this Act should be American-made. Requires each Federal agency to give notice of this policy to any entity to which it provides financial assistance or contracts. Bars contracts funded under this Act from being awarded to any person determined by a court or Federal agency to have labeled products falsely as made in America.", "2021-09-30T00:38:37Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1424"], ["108-s-1427", 108, "s", 1427, "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-07-17", "2003-07-17", "Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 216.", "Senate", "Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]", "UT", "R", "B000382", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for the following Department of Agriculture programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary); (2) executive operations; (3) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (4) Office of the Chief Financial Officer; (5) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; (6) Office of Civil Rights; (7) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (8) agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments; (9) hazardous materials management; (10) departmental administration; (11) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations; (12) Office of Communications; (13) Office of the Inspector General; (14) Office of the General Counsel; (15) Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics; (16) Economic Research Service; (17) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (18) Agricultural Research Service; (19) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; (20) Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; (21) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (22) Agricultural Marketing Service; (23) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; (24) Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety; (25) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (26) Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; (27) Farm Service Agency; (28) Risk Management Agency; (29) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; and (30) Commodity Credit Corporation Fund. Title II: Conservation Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment; and (2) Natural Resources Conservation Service. Title III: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development; (2) Rural Housing Service; (3) Rural Business-Cooperative Service; and (4) Rural Utilities Service. Title IV: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services; and (2) Food and Nutrition Service. Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) Public Law 480 program account, title I ocean freight differential grants, and title II grants; (3) McGovern-Dole international food for education and child nutrition program grants; and (4) Commodity Credit Corporation export loans program account. Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration- Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Food and Drug Administration (FDA); (2) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) Farm Credit Administration.Title VII: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. (Sec. 721) Prohibits FDA fund use to reduce the FDA District Office in Detroit, Michigan, below specified staffing levels. Stipulates that such provision shall not apply to FDA field laboratory facilities in Detroit, except that such personnel shall be assigned to Detroit-vicinity facilities. (Sec. 723) Prohibits fund use to relocate a State Rural Development office unless cost and operation effective. (Sec. 724) Obligates specified amounts of agricultural commodities to assist foreign countries mitigate the effects of HIV and AIDS. (Sec. 725) Makes additional appropriations for Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships. (Sec. 727) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase the funding level for the national sheep industry improvement center. (Sec. 729) Prohibits FDA fund use to close or relocate the FDA Division of Drug Analysis, St. Louis, Missouri, outside the city or county limits of St. Louis, Missouri. (Sec. 731) Directs the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide assistance for the Upper Tygart Valley Watershed project, West Virginia. (Sec. 732) Authorizes Department agencies and office to use unobligated salaries and expense funds to reimburse the Office of General Counsel for representing them in employee complaints before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, or the Merit Systems Protection Board without prior approval of the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 733) Prohibits fund use for older dam rehabilitation under the Watershed Protection and and Flood Prevention Act. (Sec. 734) Prohibits fund use to for the rural strategic investment program under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act. (Sec. 735) Prohibits fund use for the rural firefighters and emergency personnel grant program. (Sec. 736) Authorizes the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance through the Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations program for the: (1) Kuhn Bayou and Ditch 26 Improvement projects in Arkansas; (2) Matanuska River erosion control project in Alaska; (3) DuPage County Sawmill Creek Watershed project in Illinois; and (4) Coal Creek project in Utah. (Sec. 737) Limits Commodity Credit Corporation reimbursement for commodity releases under the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act to $20 million for fiscal years up to and including 2004. Requires that such funds be used to replenish the trust through producer or market commodity purchases. (Sec. 738) Authorizes the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance to the Dry Creek project, Utah. (Sec. 739) Authorizes the Secretary to permit Department employees to carry firearms for personal protection when on duty in remote field locations. (Sec. 740) Prohibits fund use under this Act for a review of the Agricultural Research Service, as provided for by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. (Sec. 741) Authorizes the Secretary to use up to $10 million of food stamp funds for commodity distribution costs. (Sec. 742) Limits wetlands reserve program enrollment acreage for 2004. (Sec. 743) Directs the Secretary, with respect to rural electric and telephone loan guarantees, and with lender consent, to structure the annual fee not to exceed an average of 30 basis points per year in order to ensure the availability of funds to pay guarantee costs. (Sec. 744) Limits funds for the following programs under the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002: (1) ground and surface water conservation program; (2) grazing, wildlife habitat incentive, and Great Lakes Basin programs; and (3) farmland protection program. (Sec. 747) Appropriates $3 million for the Northern Great Plains Regional Authority. States that the FY 2004 Federal share of the Authority's administrative expenses shall be 100 percent. (Sec. 748) Prohibits fund use for the following programs under the the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002: (1) rural business investment (other than application review and promulgation of regulations); (2) rural broadband access; and (3) loans for renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements. (Sec. 751) Authorizes Department agencies and offices to use discretionary funds for preparing for final agency decisions regarding discrimination complaints. (Sec. 752) States that in the case of a high cost isolated rural area that is not connected to a road system in Alaska, the maximum level for the single family housing assistance shall be 150 percent of the average income level in the metropolitan areas of the State and 115 percent of all other eligible areas of the State. (Sec. 753) Rescinds any unobligated balances in the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Revolving Fund. (Sec. 754) Appropriates $2 million for the Denali Commission to address deficiencies in solid waste disposal sites which threaten to contaminate rural drinking water supplies. (Sec. 755) Considers, until receipt of the 2010 census, Vicksburg, Mississippi; Aberdeen, South Dakota; and Starkville, Mississippi to be eligible for rural housing programs under the Housing Act of 1949. (Sec. 756) Considers, until receipt of the 2010 census, Berlin, New Hampshire to be eligible for rural community advancement program loans and grants. (Sec. 757) Prohibits, without specific congressional authorization, fund use to study or enter into a contract with a private party for competitive sourcing activities relating to rural development or farm loan programs, animal disease research, or grant review or management activities. (Sec. 759) Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to make the educational management assistance program a program under which a State receives grants and then provides financial assistance to producers rather than a direct financial assistance to producer program. (Sec. 760) Amends the the Trade Sanctions Reform And Export Enhancement Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate regulations authorizing certain travel-related transactions for travel to, from, or within Cuba relating to the commercial export sale of agricultural and medical goods.", "2021-09-30T00:38:39Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1427"], ["108-hr-2754", 108, "hr", 2754, "Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-07-16", "2003-12-01", "Became Public Law No: 108-137.", "House", "Rep. Hobson, David L. [R-OH-7]", "OH", "R", "H000666", 51, "Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Department of Defense-Civil - Department of the Army - Makes FY 2004 appropriations to the Department of the Army and its Corps of Engineers for: (1) civil functions relating to rivers and harbors, flood control, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restoration; (2) certain flood damage reduction program control projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee; (3) flood control and coastal emergencies; (4) the navigable waters and wetlands regulatory program; (4) formerly utilized sites remedial action program; and (5) general expenses of the Office of Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers.  (Sec. 101) Limits Agreements proposed for execution after the date of the enactment of this Act by either the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to credits and reimbursements per project not to exceed $10 million in each fiscal year, and total credits and reimbursements for all applicable projects not to exceed $50 million in each fiscal year. (Sec. 102) Bars the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from using appropriations to support activities related to the proposed: (1) Ridge Landfill in Tuscarawas County, Ohio; and (2) Indian Run Sanitary Landfill in Sandy Township, Stark County, Ohio.  (Sec. 103) Bars funds from being used to demonstrate or implement any plans divesting or transferring any Civil Works missions, functions, or responsibilities from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to other government agencies without specific direction in a subsequent Act of Congress.  (Sec. 105) Directs Secretary of the Army (Secretary) to construct a flood detention basin to protect the north side of the City of Alamogordo, New Mexico, from flooding. Requires the basin to provide protection from a 100-year flood event. (Sec. 106) Designates lock and dam numbered 3 on the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania, as the ``C.W. Bill Young Lock and Dam''. (Sec. 108) Authorizes the Secretary to design, remove, and dispose of at full Federal expense oil bollards and associated debris in Burlington Harbor, Vermont.  (Sec. 109) Amends specified law to increase Federal funds earmarked for Kake Dam Replacement, Kake, Alaska.  (Sec. 110) Deauthorizes designated projects, including portions of a navigation project, Pawtuxet Cove, Rhode Island.  (Sec. 111) Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical, planning, design, and construction assistance to non-Federal interests to remedy adverse environmental and human health impacts in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. (Sec. 112) Requires certain funds previously provided under specified law to be used at full Federal expense for technical assistance to Alaskan communities to address serious impacts of coastal erosion.  (Sec. 113) Prohibits funds from being made available in this Act to implement activities, including any related environmental impact statement, regarding closure or removal of the St. Georges Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Delaware, and Maryland. (Sec. 114) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to extend through FY 2005 the authority of the Secretary to accept and expend funds contributed by non-Federal public entities to expedite the evaluation of hydroelectric project permits under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army. (Sec. 115) Requires the Secretary to direct construction of Alternative 1 (Northeast Corner) authorized in specified law. (Sec. 116) Authorizes the Secretary to undertake at full Federal expense planning, design, and construction measures for wildfire prevention and restoration in the Middle Rio Grande bosque in and around the City of Albuquerque.  (Sec. 117) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to extend to New Mexico and Rural Utah the current program for providing environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in rural areas of such States (as well as Nevada, Montana, and Idaho).  (Sec. 118) Directs the Secretary to authorize increased appropriations for abandoned and inactive noncoal mine restoration projects. (Sec. 119) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations for wastewater infrastructure, Coronado, California. (Sec. 120) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to increase the authorization of appropriations for a specified pilot program in Mississippi.  (Sec. 121) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to increase the authorization of appropriations for flood control in Park River, Grafton, North Dakota. (Sec. 122) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical, planning, design, and construction assistance for Schuylkill River Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at a Federal share of 50 percent; (2) implement the project for ecosystem restoration, Gwynns Falls, Maryland; and (3) implement a project to plan, design, construct, furnish, and landscape a federally owned and operated Collocated Civil Works Administrative Building and Snake River Confluence Interpretative Center, Clarkston, Washington. (Sec. 125) Instructs the Secretary to complete the General Reevaluation Report on the Mill Creek, Ohio, project at 100 percent Federal cost within 15 months of enactment of this Act. (Sec. 126) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize: (1) increased appropriations for Lakes Marion and Moultrie, South Carolina, including wastewater treatment; and (2) appropriations for wastewater infrastructure and wastewater collection systems, Charleston, South Carolina. (Sec. 128) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) implement, in accordance with a specified Report, the project for flood damage reduction and environmental restoration, American River Watershed, California; and (2) immediately commence studies and design for a permanent bridge. (Sec. 129) Directs the Secretary to implement, at a specified cost, a certain project for flood damage reduction, American and Sacramento Rivers, California. (Sec. 130) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program providing non-Federal interests in Placer and El Dorado Counties, California with environmental assistance, including design and construction assistance to improve the efficiency and use of existing water supplies through publicly-owned water and wastewater projects, programs, and infrastructure. (Sec. 131) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize increased appropriations for regional conservation water and recycling projects in the Sacramento Area, California (Placer and El Dorado Counties, and the San Juan Suburban Water District). (Sec. 132) Authorizes the Secretary to provide design and construction assistance to non-Federal interests to improve the efficiency and use of existing water supplies in the Upper Klamath Basin (redefined as the counties of Klamath, Oregon, and Siskiyou and Modoc, California) through publicly-owned water and wastewater and ecosystem restoration projects, programs, and infrastructure. (Sec. 133) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize additional assistance for California wastewater infrastructure projects in: (1) Placer and El Dorado Counties; and (2) Lassen, Plumas, Butte, Sierra, and Nevada Counties. (Sec. 134) Authorizes appropriations for construction of a permanent bridge, American River Watershed, California. (Sec. 136) Modifies the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River navigation project to authorize a project depth of 12 feet. (Sec. 137) Instructs the Secretary to provide credit to the non-Federal sponsor for preconstruction engineering and design work for the environmental dredging project at Ashtabula River, Ohio, prior to execution of a Project Cooperation Agreement. (Sec. 138) Instructs the Secretary to review the shoreline stabilization, recreation, and public access components of the feasibility report for specified waterfront development at Gateway Point, North Tonawanda, New York. Authorizes implementation of such components at Federal cost upon a determination that they are feasible and meet Corps of Engineers evaluation and design standards. (Sec. 139) Deauthorizes after the date of enactment of this Act specified navigation projects, Chicago River and Chicago Harbor, Illinois. (Sec. 140) Instructs the Secretary to establish a centralized office at the office of the district engineer, San Francisco, California, for the use of all Federal and State agencies involved in issuing permits and conducting environmental reviews for the capital improvement project to repair and upgrade the water supply and delivery system for the city of San Francisco. (Sec. 141) Modifies the project for aquatic ecosystem restoration, Wolf Lake, Indiana, to direct the Secretary to credit toward the non-Federal share the planning, design, and construction costs implemented by the non-Federal interest before the date of the project cooperation agreement if the Secretary determines that the work is integral to the project. (Sec. 142) Directs the Secretary to credit up to $80,000 for design work completed by non-Federal interests, prior to and after the signing of the project cooperation agreement, toward the non-Federal share of a specified project for Calumet and Burr Oaks Schools Sewer Improvements, Cook County, Illinois, if the Secretary determines that the work is integral to the project. (Sec. 143) Modifies a specified navigation project, Los Angeles Harbor, Los Angeles, California, to direct the Secretary to credit toward the non-Federal share of project costs the cost of the planning, design, and construction work carried out by the non-Federal interest before the date of the partnership agreement for the project if the Secretary determines the work is integral to the project. (Sec. 144) Modifies the project for flood control, San Lorenzo River, California, to direct the Secretary to credit not more than $2 million toward the non-Federal share of the cost of the project for the cost of the work carried out by the non-Federal interest before the date of the project cooperation agreement if the Secretary determines the work is integral to the project. (Sec. 145) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize increased appropriations for water related infrastructure projects, Calumet Region, Indiana, including the counties of Benton, Newton, and Jasper. (Sec. 146) Authorizes the Secretary to construct a certain flood control for Meramec River Basin, Valley Park Levee, Missouri, at a maximum Federal expenditure of $50 million. (Sec. 147) Modifies the project for flood control, Saw Mill Run, Pennsylvania, to authorize the Secretary to implement it at a total cost of $22 million, with an estimated Federal cost of $16.5 million and an estimated non-Federal cost of $5.5 million. (Sec. 148) Modifies the project for flood control, Roanoke River Upper Basin, Virginia, to authorize the Secretary to construct the project at a total cost of $61.7 million, with an estimated Federal cost of $43 million and an estimated non-Federal cost of $18.7 million. (Sec. 149) Modifies a certain project for harbor deepening, Brunswick Harbor, Georgia, to authorize the Secretary to construct the project at a total cost of $96.276 million with an estimated Federal cost of $61.709 million and an estimated non-Federal cost of $34.567 million. (Sec. 150) Modifies the project for flood control, Lackawanna River at Olyphant, Pennsylvania, to authorize the Secretary to carry out the project at a total cost of $23 million, with an estimated Federal cost of $17.25 million and an estimated non-Federal cost of $5.75 million. (Sec. 151) Modifies the project for flood protection, Perry Creek Flood Control Project, Sioux City, Iowa, to increase the project authorization to $96.87 million (Federal cost of $58.677 million and non-Federal cost of $38.193 million). (Sec. 152) Moves back from September 30, 1999, to May 1, 1997, the date as of which the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, shall not be obligated to make certain annual cash contributions mandated under a specified Local Cooperation Agreement for the navigation project for the southern branch of the Elizabeth River. (Sec. 153) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations for environmental infrastructure, Indianapolis, Indiana. (Sec. 154) Modifies the project for flood control, Mississippi River and Big Muddy River, Illinois, to authorize the Secretary to carry out repair and rehabilitation at specified costs and to perform project operation and maintenance thereafter. (Sec. 155) Authorizes the Secretary to implement a project to restore lake depths at Moss Lake, Louisiana, adjacent to the Calcasieu River and Pass channel at a total project cost of $2.5 million. (Sec. 156) Modifies the project for navigation, Manatee Harbor, Florida, to: (1) include construction of an extension of the south channel at specified costs; (2) direct the Secretary to credit toward the non-Federal share the cost of certain in-kind services, materials and planning, design, and construction work provided by the non-Federal interest; and (3) authorize the Secretary to implement the project as modified at a total cost of $61.5 million. (Sec. 157) Instructs the Secretary to conduct a feasibility study for a flood damage reduction project in the Harris Gully watershed, Harris County, Texas, to provide flood protection for the Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.  Authorizes the Secretary to implement feasible critical flood damage reduction measures that will provide immediate and substantial flood damage reduction benefits in the Harris Gully watershed, at a Federal cost of $7 million. (Sec. 158) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Reach J, Segment 1, element of the project for hurricane and storm damage reduction, Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, in accordance with a specified report, and at a cost of $4 million. Title II: Department of the Interior - Makes FY 2004 appropriations to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Central Utah Project Completion Account; (2) the Bureau of Reclamation for water and related resources; (3) the Bureau of Reclamation Loan Program Account; and (4) the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund.  Rescinds specified unobligated balances from the Working Capital Fund. (Sec. 201) Prohibits the use of funds to determine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain for the San Luis Unit until the Secretary of the Interior and the State of California develop a plan, conforming to California water quality standards approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to minimize any detrimental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. States that: (1) the costs of both the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Program and the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program shall be collected until fully repaid pursuant to specified plans; and (2) future Federal funding for drainage service or drainage studies for the San Luis Unit shall be fully reimbursable by San Luis Unit service or study beneficiaries.  (Sec. 202) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel to purchase or lease water in the Middle Rio Grande or the Carlsbad Projects in New Mexico unless such purchase or lease is in compliance with specified statutory purchase requirements.  (Sec. 203) Amends the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991 to repeal the requirement that municipal and industrial water supply contracts with the Sacramento County Water Agency and the San Juan Suburban Water District (California) include a specified determination of annual water needs. (Sec. 204) Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to amend the Central Valley Project water supply contracts to reflect such repeal. (Sec. 205) Prohibits payment of funds from the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund to the general fund of the Treasury until each provision of a specified Stipulation filed in Central Arizona Water Conservation District v. United States is met.  (Sec. 207 ) States that Drought Emergency Assistance funds under this title shall be made available primarily for leasing water from willing lessors for specified drought-related purposes to be administered under State water priority allocation.  (Sec. 208 ) Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from obligating funds or using discretion to reduce or reallocate water stored in Heron Reservoir and delivered pursuant to San Juan-Chama Project contracts, including execution of said contracts facilitated by the Middle Rio Grande Project, to meet the requirements of the Endangered Species Act, unless such water is acquired or otherwise made available from a willing seller or lessor and the use is in compliance with the laws of the State of New Mexico, including permitting requirements.  (Sec. 209 ) Instructs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, to establish an executive committee in order to improve the efficiency and expedite the efforts of the Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program Workgroup.  (Sec. 210 ) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) arrange for the design, construction, testing and operation of the Tularosa Basin National Desalination Research Facility, with a Federal share of up to 100 percent; (2) undertake feasibility studies for Sites Reservoir, Los Vaqueros Reservoir Enlargement, and Upper San Joaquin Storage projects in carrying out CALFED-related activities; and (3) (acting through the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation) enter into agreements with irrigation or water districts to fund up to 50 percent of the cost of water improvements at existing water supply projects within specified States.  (Sec. 213 ) Amends the Hawaii Water Resources Act of 2000 to increase the authorization of appropriations for the Hawaii Water Resources Study, and repeal the deadline for the attendant report. (Sec. 214) States that contributions of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) to the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Account shall: (1) expire ten fiscal years from the date of enactment of this Act; and (2) be from an account established by WAPA for such purpose.  (Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) conduct a specified Tualatin River Basin (Oregon) water supply feasibility study; and (2) extend on an annual basis a certain repayment schedule for debt incurred by irrigation districts to facilitate Indian water rights settlements in the State of Arizona. (Sec. 217) Instructs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to: (1) provide specified funds to the State of Nevada to purchase water rights from willing sellers and make necessary improvements for Carson Lake and Pasture; and (2) provide specified funds to Families in Search of Truth, Fallon, Nevada, for the purchase of bottled water for schoolchildren in Fallon-area schools; (3) provide $1 million to the University of Nevada, Reno's Biodiversity initiative for public education and associated technical assistance and outreach concerning issues affecting restoration of Walker Lake. Directs the Commissioner to expend $270,000 for Nevada's costs associated with the National Environmental Policy Act review of the Humboldt Title Transfer. Requires Nevada to pay any other costs assigned to it as an entity receiving title. (Sec. 218) Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to extend the term of specified Sacramento River Settlement Contracts, for two additional years after the date on which each of the contracts, respectively, would expire but for this section, or until renewal contracts are executed, whichever occurs earlier. (Sec. 219) Amends specified law authorizing construction of temperature control devices at Folsom Dam, California, to: (1) provide that the Federal share of the costs of constructing the temperature control device and associated temperature monitoring facilities shall be 50 percent and shall be nonreimbursable; (2) require such device and facilities to be operated by the non-Federal facility owner at its expense in coordination with the Central Valley Project for the benefit and propagation of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout in the American River,California; and (3) increase authorization of appropriations for the construction from $1million to $3.5 million. (Sec. 220) Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary of the Interior to implement and enter into financial assistance or other agreements to undertake activities in accordance with a specified Pumping/Dam Removal Plan defined in United States District Court Consent Decree "United States, et al., v. Grants Pass Irrigation District". (Sec. 221) Amends the Irrigation Project Contract Extension Act of 1998 to extend certain irrigation project contracts from December 31, 2003, to December 31, 2005. Title III: Department of Energy - Makes FY 2004 appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for: (1) energy supply programs; (2) non-defense site acceleration completion; (3) non-defense environmental services; (4)uranium enrichment decontamination and decommissioning; (5) general DOE science activities; (6) nuclear waste disposal; (7) DOE administration and its Office of the Inspector General; (8) atomic energy defense weapons activities; (9) defense nuclear nonproliferation activities; (10) naval reactors activities; (11) Office of the Administrator in the National Nuclear Security Administration; (12) defense site acceleration completion; (13) defense environmental services; (14) defense nuclear waste disposal; (15) geographical power marketing administrations of DOE (including hydroelectric facilities at the Falcon and Amistad Dams); and (16) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Rescinds specified unexpended balances previously appropriated. Requires specified amounts of such rescission to be derived from the Paducah Disposal Facility Privatization and from the Portsmouth Disposal Facility Privatization. (Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of appropriations under this Act to: (1) either develop or implement a workforce restructuring plan for DOE employees, or to provide them with enhanced severance payments or other benefits; (2) augment specified amounts made available by this Act for severance payments and other benefits and community assistance grants under specified law unless DOE submits a reprogramming request subject to approval by the appropriate congressional committees; and (3) prepare or initiate Requests for Proposals for a program that has not been funded by Congress. (Sec. 306) Bars funds earmarked for the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration from being used to enter into any agreement to perform energy efficiency services outside the legally defined Bonneville service territory (except those provided internationally) without advance certification that such services are not available from private sector businesses. (Sec. 308 ) Permits the Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration to authorize the plant manager of a covered nuclear weapons production plant to engage in research, development, and demonstration activities in order to maintain and enhance plant engineering and manufacturing capabilities. Limits to two percent of the total allocation to such a plant the percentage of funds that may be expended for such activities. (Sec. 309 ) Declares that funds appropriated by this or any other Act, or made available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the Congress under the National Security Act of 1947 during FY 2004 until the enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2004.  (Sec. 310 ) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to dispose of transuranic waste containing concentrations of plutonium exceeding 20 percent by weight in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.  (Sec. 311 ) Instructs the Secretary of Energy to file a permit modification to the Waste Analysis Plan and associated provisions contained in the Hazardous Waste Facility Permit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.  (Sec. 312 ) States that material in concrete silos at the Fernald uranium processing facility currently managed by DOE shall be considered "byproduct material" and regulated accordingly. (Sec. 313 ) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds earmarked by this Act for Atomic Energy Defense Activities for any additional and exploratory studies under the Advanced Concepts Initiative until 30 days after the Administrator for Nuclear Security submits to Congress a detailed report on the planned activities for additional and exploratory studies under the initiative for FY 2004.  (Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with the Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, to lease, for a term of 25 years, approximately 940 acres of Federal lands in Natrona County, Wyoming ("Martin's Cove"). Prescribes lease terms limiting use of the site to public education, ecologic, scenic, and historical or archaeological preservation purposes. (Sec. 315 ) Instructs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to (1) reinstate the license for Project No. 2696; and (2) transfer it to the town of Stuyvesant, New York, the holder of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Preliminary Permit No. 11787. Entitles such Project to the full benefit of any Federal law that promotes hydroelectric development enacted within two years before or after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 316) Declares that of the funds made available in this Act for Defense Environmental Services, $1 million shall be provided to the State of Nevada solely for expenditures to conduct scientific oversight responsibilities and participate in licensing activities pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (other than salaries and expenses of State employees). Title IV: Independent Agencies - Makes FY 2004 appropriations to the: (1) Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; (3) Delta Regional Authority; (4) Denali Commission; (5) Nuclear Regulatory Commission and its Office of the Inspector General; and (6) Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.  Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 502) Expresses the sense of Congress that all equipment and products bought with funds under this Act should be American-made.  Requires each Federal agency to give notice of this policy to any entity to which it provides financial assistance or contracts.  Bars contracts funded under this Act from being awarded to any person determined by a court or Federal agency to have falsely labeled products as made in America.  (Sec. 504) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 with respect to indemnification of any person or entity acquiring ownership or control for economic development purposes of real property at DOE defense nuclear facilities against any claim for injury resulting from the release or threatened release of a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant as a result of DOE activities at the facility. Extends such indemnification rights to any successor, assignee, transferee, lender, or lessee of such a person or entity.", "2023-01-15T05:47:36Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2754"], ["108-hr-2691", 108, "hr", 2691, "Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-07-10", "2003-11-10", "Became Public Law No: 108-108.", "House", "Rep. Taylor, Charles H. [R-NC-11]", "NC", "R", "T000067", 43, "Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for FY 2004. Title I: Department of the Interior - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: (1) land and resource management; (2) wildland fire management (including funds to repay prior year advances from other appropriations for wildfire suppression and emergency rehabilitation activities); (3) remedial action of hazardous waste substances; (4) construction; (5) land acquisition; (6) Oregon and California grant lands; (7) range improvements; (8) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures with respect to public lands; and (9) miscellaneous trust funds. Appropriates funds for FY 2004 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) the establishment of a Landowner Incentive Program that provides assistance to private landowners for private conservation efforts; (5) the establishment of a Private Stewardship Grants Program; (6) expenses related to carrying out the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (7) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (8) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (9) financial assistance for projects to promote the conservation of neotropical migratory birds; (10) expenses related to carrying out the African Elephant Conservation Act, the Asian Elephant Conservation Act of 1997, the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, and the Great Ape Conservation Act of 2000; and (11) wildlife conservation grants to States, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes. Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the National Park Service (NPS) for: (1) the National Park System; (2) the U.S. Park Police; (3) expenses for national recreation and preservation programs; (4) expenses to carry out the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978; (5) expenses related to carrying out the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996; (6) construction; and (7) land acquisition and State assistance from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Prohibits the use of any funds for planning, design, or construction of any underground security screening or visitor contact facility at the Washington Monument until such facility has been approved by the congressional appropriations committees. Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Minerals Management Service for royalty and offshore minerals management and oil spill research; (3) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for operation of Indian programs, construction, Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, and Indian guaranteed loans; (5) assist U.S. territories and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau; (6) the Department of the Interior for departmental management; (7) payments in lieu of taxes to local governments; (8) the Offices of the Solicitor and of the Inspector General; (9) trust programs for Indians; (10) a program for consolidation of fractional interests in Indian lands by direct expenditure or cooperative agreement; and (11) the Department of the Interior for natural resource damage assessment and restoration. Extends the period for the enactment of legislation approving the agreements between the United States, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia regarding certain Federal grants and payments pursuant to the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to report to Congress on the amount of acquisitions of articles, materials, or supplies purchased by the Department of the Interior that were manufactured outside the United States, including an itemized list of all waivers under the Buy American Act.  Earmarks funds for the acquisition of a departmental financial and business management system. Limits the amount of funds available under the heading of Office of Special Trustee for American Indians, Federal trust programs to be available for records collection and indexing, imaging and coding, accounting for per capita and judgment accounts, accounting for tribal accounts, reviewing and distributing funds from special deposit accounts, and program management of the Office of Historical Trust Accounting, including litigation support. States that nothing in the American Indian Trust Management Reform Act of 1994 nor in any other statute and no principle of common law shall be construed to require the Department of the Interior to commence or continue historical accounting activities with respect to the Individual Indian Money Trust until Congress amends such Act to delineate the specific historical accounting obligations of the Interior Department with respect to the Trust or December 31, 2004, whichever occurs first. Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds. (Sec. 112) Declares that appropriations made in this Act under the headings Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of Special Trustee for American Indians and any unobligated balances under the same headings shall be available for expenditure or transfer for Indian trust management and reform activities, except that total funding for historical accounting activities shall not exceed amounts specifically designated for such purpose in this Act. (Sec. 132) Prohibits any funds appropriated for the Department of the Interior by this Act or any other Act from being used to study or implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or reduce the water level of the lake below the range of water levels required for the operation of the Glen Canyon Dam. (Sec. 135) Designates Congaree Swamp National Monument as Congaree National Park. (Sec. 138) Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Land Exchange Act of 2003 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to exchange the Ravensford tract, currently in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway, for the Yellow Face tract adjacent to the Waterrock Knob Visitor Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Requires the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to deed the Yellow Face tract to the United States. Declares the Ravensford tract, upon completion of the exchange, to be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Eastern Band as part of the Cherokee Indian Reservation. Prohibits gaming on the Ravensford tract.  (Sec. 140) Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Act of 2003 - Establishes the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area in North Carolina, to be managed by the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership. (Sec. 145) Bars the use of Federal funds to permit the use of the National Mall for a special event unless the permit expressly prohibits the erection, placement, or use of structures and signs bearing commercial advertising. Authorizes the Secretary to allow for recognition of sponsors of special events. (Sec. 149) Provides for the issuance of permits for the importation of polar bear parts, other than internal organs, taken in sports hunts in Canada before February 18, 1997 (currently, April 30, 1994). (Sec. 150) Directs NPS to issue a special regulation concerning continued hunting at New River Gorge National River. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) State and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System (NFS); (4) wildland fire management (including funds to repay prior year advances from other appropriations for wildfire suppression and emergency rehabilitation activities); (5) capital improvement and maintenance; (6) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (7) range rehabilitation protection, and improvement; (8) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; and (9) Federal land management in Alaska. Defers funds made available in prior years for clean coal technology from being used until October 1, 2004, subject to a specified condition. Makes appropriations for the Department of Energy for: (1) fossil energy research and development that includes acquisition of real property, plants or facilities, technological investigations and research targeting mineral substances, and a Clean Coal Power Initiative; (2) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities; (3) installment payments pertaining to the Elk Hills School Lands Fund; (4) implementation of energy conservation activities; (5) implementation of activities of the Office of Hearings and Appeals, and of the Energy Information Administration; and (6) the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. Specifies that, unless specifically provided for in an appropriations Act, funds made available to the Department of Energy under this Act may not be used to: (1) finance or implement authorized price support or loan guarantee programs; or (2) issue or process procurement documents for various enterprises. Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Indian Health Service (IHS) and Indian health facilities. Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to: (1) the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; and (2) the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development (including to assist with the Institute's efforts to develop a Continuing Education Lifelong Learning Center). Makes appropriations in specified amounts for various purposes to: (1) the Smithsonian Institution (earmarking certain funds for the National Museum of the American Indian, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and other specified programs); (2) the National Gallery of Art; (3) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (4) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (5) the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); (6) the National Endowment for the Humanities; (7) the Challenge America Arts Fund for Challenge America Grants for arts education and public outreach activities to be administered by the NEA; (8) the Commission of Fine Arts; (9) the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (10) the National Capital Planning Commission; (11) the United States Holocaust Memorial Council for the Holocaust Memorial Museum; and (12) the Presidio Trust Fund. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act. (Sec. 305) Prohibits any assessments from being levied against any program, budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by this Act unless the congressional appropriations committees are notified of and approve those assessments. (Sec. 324) Permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to make reciprocal agreements in which the individuals furnished by an agreement to provide wildfire services are considered, for tort liability, employees of the country receiving the services when the individuals are engaged in fire suppression. Prohibits the Secretaries from making any agreement in which a foreign country does not assume any and all responsibility for acts or omissions of American firefighters who are firefighting in such foreign country. (Sec. 330) Allows the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, in awarding a Federal contract for any of specified purposes with funds made available by this Act, to give consideration to local contractors who are from economically disadvantaged rural communities and who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers in such communities. Allows the Secretaries to award grants or cooperative agreements in certain areas to various entities, including local non-profits and the Youth Conservation Corps. Includes in such areas habitat restoration or management and forest hazardous fuels reduction. (Sec. 332) Extends the recreational fee demonstration program to December 31, 2005. (Sec. 338) Sets forth procedures regarding the process of any application for judicial review of a Record of Decision for any timber sale in Region 10 of the Forest Service that had a notice of intent prepared on or before January 1, 2003. (Sec. 339) Allows the Secretary of Agriculture, under specified conditions, to cancel a maximum of 70 contracts for the sale of timber awarded between October 1, 1995, and January 1, 2002, on the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. Makes timber included in a canceled contract available for resale by such Secretary. (Sec. 340) Requires amounts requested to perform competitive sourcing studies (studies on subjecting work performed by Federal employees or private contractors to public-private competition or on converting such employees or their work to private contractor performance) for programs, projects, and activities of the Department of the Interior, Forest Service, and Department of Energy to be set forth separately from other amounts requested in each budget submitted by the President to Congress beginning with FY 2005. Requires each Secretary concerned (Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, or Secretary of Energy), beginning December 31, 2003, to submit annual reports to the congressional appropriations committees on the competitive sourcing studies conducted. Directs such Secretaries to submit competitive sourcing proposals to such congressional committees for FY 2004. Limits the amounts that may be used to initiate or continue competitive sourcing studies in FY 2004 until the Secretary concerned submits a reprogramming proposal to the congressional appropriations committees and such proposal has been processed consistent with the FY 2004 reprogramming guidelines. Bars any funds made available in this or any other Act from being used to covert to contractor performance an activity or function performed by more than ten Federal employees, unless: (1) the conversion is based on public-private competition that includes a more efficient and cost effective organization plan; and (2) the Competitive Sourcing Official determines that the cost of performance by a contractor would be less costly to the Government by the lesser of ten percent or $10 million. Excludes specified commercial and industrial type functions from such prohibition. (Sec. 343) Requires that: (1) estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves, or holdbacks from programs, projects, and activities to support government-wide, departmental, agency, or bureau administrative functions or headquarters, regional or central office operations be presented in annual budget justifications; and (2) changes to such estimates be presented to the congressional appropriations committees for approval. (Sec. 344) Rescinds an amount equal to 0.646 percent of the budget authority provided: (1) for any discretionary account in this Act; and (2) in any advance appropriation for FY 2004 for any discretionary account in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations, Act 2003. Requires any rescission to be applied proportionately to each discretionary account and item of budget authority and, within each such account and item, to each program, project, and activity. Title IV: The Flathead and Kootenai National Forest Rehabilitation Act - Flathead and Kootenai National Forest Rehabilitation Act of 2003 - (Sec. 403) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to conduct projects that are necessary to rehabilitate and restore, and to conduct salvage harvests on, National Forest System lands in the North Fork drainage on the Flathead National Forest. Prohibits the Secretary, if an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement is required for a project, from being required to study, develop, or describe any alternative to the proposed agency action in the assessment or statement. Instructs the Secretary to facilitate collaboration among the State of Montana, local governments, Indian tribes, and interested persons during the preparation of each project in a manner consistent with the Implementation Plan for the ten-year Comprehensive Strategy of a Collaborative Approach for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment (May 2002). (Sec. 405) Directs the Secretary to establish a multiparty monitoring group to monitor the performance and effectiveness of projects. Requires such Group to report to the Secretary annually on the progress of the projects in rehabilitating and restoring the North Fork drainage. (Sec. 406) Terminates the Secretary's authority to issue decisions to carry out projects five years after the date of enactment of this Act. (Sec. 407) Directs the Secretary to: (1) publish new information regarding forest-wide estimates of old growth from the administrative record in the case of Ecology Center v. Castenada for public comment for a 30-day period; and (2) review any comments received during the comment period and decide whether to modify the records of decision for the Pinkham, White Pine, Kelsey-Beaver, Gold/Boulder/Sullivan, and Pink Stone projects on Kootenai National Forest. States that such records shall not be deemed arbitrary and capricious under applicable law as long as each project area retains ten percent designated old growth below 5,500 feet elevation in third order watersheds.", "2023-01-15T05:32:38Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2691"], ["108-s-1391", 108, "s", 1391, "Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-07-10", "2003-07-10", "Committee on Appropriations ordered to be reported an original measure.", "Senate", "Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]", "MT", "R", "B001126", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for FY 2004.  Title I: Department of the Interior- Makes appropriations to the Bureau of Land Management for: (1) land and resource management; (2) wildland fire management; (3) remedial action of hazardous waste substances; (4) construction; (5) land acquisition; (6) Oregon and California grant lands; (7) range improvements; (8) service charges, deposits, and forfeitures; and (9) miscellaneous trust funds. Appropriates funds to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for: (1) resource management; (2) construction; (3) land acquisition; (4) the Landowner Incentive Program; (5) the Stewardship Grants Program; (6) the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund; (7) the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (8) expenses related to carrying out the North American Wetlands Conservation Act; (9) neotropical migratory bird conservation; (10) the Multinational Species Conservation Fund; and (11) wildlife conservation grants. Makes appropriations to the National Park Service for: (1) the National Park System; (2) the U.S. Park Police; (3) national recreation and preservation; (4) carrying out the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978, the Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, and the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965; and (5) construction. Rescinds specified contract authority to obligate funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for FY 2004.  Makes appropriations to: (1) the U.S. Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (2) the Minerals Management Service for royalty and offshore minerals management and oil spill research; (3) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for the operation of Indian programs, construction, Indian land and water claim settlements and miscellaneous payments to Indians, and Indian guaranteed loans; (5) assist U.S. territories and to carry out the Compacts of Free Association with respect to Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau; (6) the Department of the Interior for departmental management and payments in lieu of taxes; (7) the Offices of the Solicitor and of the Inspector General; (8) the Office of Special Trustee for American Indians for Federal trust programs and Indian land consolidation; and (9) the Department of the Interior for natural resource damage assessment and restoration activities. Cancels certain unobligated balances under the heading of the Working Capital Fund. Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of specified funds, including: (1) a prohibition on the use of funds to study or implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or reduce the water level of the lake below the range of water levels required for the operation of the Glen Canyon Dam; (2) a limitation on the total amount of all fees imposed by the National Indian Gaming Commission for FY 2005 to $12 million; and (3) a prohibition on the use of funds for Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units in Alaska.  (Sec. 132) Designates Congaree Swamp National Monument as Congaree National Park.    Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for: (1) forest and rangeland research; (2) State and private forestry; (3) the National Forest System; (4) wildland fire management (including $1.5 billion for forest fire pre-suppression, emergency fire suppression, hazardous fuels reduction, and emergency rehabilitation activities); (5) capital improvement and maintenance; (6) land acquisitions, including specified National Forest areas in Utah, Nevada, and California; (7) range rehabilitation, protection, and improvement; (8) gifts, donations, and bequests for forest and rangeland research; and (9) Federal land management in Alaska.  Makes appropriations for the Department of Energy for: (1) fossil energy research and development activities; (2) naval petroleum and oil shale reserve activities; (3) the Elks Hills Lands Fund; (4) energy conservation activities; (5) activities of the Office of Hearings and Appeals and of the Energy Information Administration; and (6) the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. Specifies that unless specifically provided for in an appropriations Act, funds made available to the Department of Energy under this Act may not be used to: (1) finance or implement authorized price support or loan guarantee programs; or (2) issue or process procurement documents for various enterprises. Makes appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for the Indian Health Service and Indian health facilities. Makes appropriations for: (1) the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; (2) the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (3) the Smithsonian Institution; (4) the National Gallery of Art; (5) the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; (6) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; (7) the National Endowment for the Arts; (8) the National Endowment for the Humanities; (9) the Commission of Fine Arts; (10) the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (11) the National Capital Planning Commission; (12) the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; and (13) the Presidio Trust. Title III: General Provisions- Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act. (Sec. 305) Prohibits any assessments, charges, or billings from being levied against any program, budget activity, subactivity, or project funded by this Act without advance notice to Congress.  (Sec. 323) Permits the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to make reciprocal agreements in which individuals furnished to provide fire management services are considered, for tort liability, employees of the country receiving the services when the individuals are fighting fires. Prohibits the Secretaries from making any agreement in which a foreign country does not assume any and all responsibility for acts or omissions of Americans fighting fires in such country. (Sec. 328) Allows the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, in awarding a Federal contract for any of specified purposes with funds made available by this Act, to give consideration to local contractors who are from economically disadvantaged rural communities and who provide employment and training for dislocated and displaced workers in such communities. Allows the Secretaries to award grants or cooperative agreements in certain areas to various entities, including local non-profits and the Youth Conservation Corps. Includes in such areas habitat restoration or management and forest hazardous fuels reduction.         (Sec. 334) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to cancel, with the consent of the timber purchaser, any contract for the sale of timber in Alaska if: (1) the sale is uneconomical to perform; and (2) the purchaser agrees to terminate its rights under the contract and release the United States from all liability. Prohibits the United States from surrendering any claim against a timber purchaser that arose under a contract before cancellation. Makes timber included in such a contract available for resale.", "2022-02-03T05:36:37Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1391"], ["108-hr-2673", 108, "hr", 2673, "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-07-09", "2004-01-23", "Became Public Law No: 108-199.", "House", "Rep. Bonilla, Henry [R-TX-23]", "TX", "R", "B000617", 77, "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004 - Division A: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations, 2004 - Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for the following Department of Agriculture (Department) programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary); (2) executive operations; (3) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (4) Office of the Chief Financial Officer; (5) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; (6) Office of Civil Rights; (7) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (8) agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments; (9) hazardous materials management; (10) departmental administration; (11) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations; (12) Office of Communications; (13) Office of the Inspector General; (14) Office of the General Counsel; (15) Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics; (16) Economic Research Service; (17) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (18) Agricultural Research Service; (19) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; (20) Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; (21) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (22) Agricultural Marketing Service; (23) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; (24) Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety; (25) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (26) Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; (27) Farm Service Agency; (28) Risk Management Agency; (29) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; and (30) Commodity Credit Corporation Fund.  Title II: Conservation Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment; and (2) Natural Resources Conservation Service.  Title III: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development; (2) rural development salaries and expenses; (3) Rural Housing Service; (4) Rural Business-Cooperative Service; and (5) Rural Utilities Service.  Title IV: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services; and (2) Food and Nutrition Service.  Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) P.L. 480 program account, title I ocean freight differential grants, and title II grants; (3) McGovern-Dole international food for education and child nutrition program grants; and (4) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) export loans program account.  Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration - Appropriates funds for the following: (1) Food and Drug Administration (FDA); (2) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) Farm Credit Administration.  Title VII: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. (Sec. 710) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to pay indirect costs charged against competitive agricultural research, education, or extension grant awards issued by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service that exceed 20 percent of total Federal funds provided under each award. (Sec. 715) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel. (Sec. 720) Prohibits the use of funds for the initiative for future agriculture and food systems, with an exception for administration of prior grants and obligations.  (Sec. 722) Prohibits fund use to relocate a State Rural Development office until cost and operation effectiveness have been determined. (Sec. 723) Makes additional appropriations for Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowships. (Sec. 724) Provides that any balances and recoveries available to carry out title III of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 may be used to carry out title II of such Act.  (Sec. 725) Obligates specified amounts of agricultural commodities to assist foreign countries mitigate the effects of HIV and AIDS. (Sec. 726) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase obligated funding for the national sheep industry improvement center revolving fund.  (Sec. 727) Authorizes the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance through the watershed and flood prevention operations program for: (1) the Kuhn Bayou and Ditch 26 Improvement projects in Arkansas; (2) the Matanuska River erosion control project in Alaska; (3) the DuPage County Sawmill Creek Watershed project in Illinois; (4) the Coal Creek project in Utah; and (4) four flood control structures in Marmaton, Kansas. (Sec. 728) Considers as eligible for rural development mission area assistance: (1) Lawrence County, Ohio; (2) Havelock, North Carolina; (3) Portsmouth, Ohio; (4) Binghamton, New York; (5) Vestal, New York; (6) Ithaca, New York; (7) Casa Grande, Arizona; (8) Clarksdale, Mississippi; (9) Coachella, California; (10) Salinas, California; (11) Watsonville, California; (12) Hollister, California; (13) Carolina, Puerto Rico; and (14) Kinston, North Carolina. (Sec. 729) Directs the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance through the watershed and flood prevention operations program to: (1) the DuPage County, Illinois, Kress Creek Watershed Plan; and (2) the Rockhouse Creek Watershed, Leslie County, Kentucky. (Sec. 730) Prohibits funds under this Act from being transferred to any Federal entity unless authorized by an appropriations Act.  (Sec. 731) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to close or relocate the FDA Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis in Saint Louis, Missouri, outside the city or county limits.  (Sec. 732) Authorizes the Department to use any unobligated salaries and expense funds to reimburse the Office of General Counsel for representing its agencies and offices in employee complaints before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, or the Merit Systems Protection Board. (Sec. 733) Authorizes the Secretary to use up to 20 percent of competitive research funds under this Act for a competitive grants program similar to the initiative for future agriculture and food systems.  (Sec. 734) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to carry out CCC-funded rehabilitation of certain dams. (Sec. 735) Directs the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance through the watershed and flood prevention operations program for the Upper Tygart Valley Watershed project, West Virginia. (Sec. 736) Prohibits fund use to carry out the rural strategic investment program under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.  (Sec. 737) Prohibits fund use to carry out the rural firefighters and emergency personnel grant program.  (Sec. 738) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to carry out a review of the Agricultural Research Service, as provided for by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002.  (Sec. 739) States that the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration shall not be required to establish obligations and outlays for purchases of interest bearing investments outside of the Treasury under specified circumstances.  (Sec. 740) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified food stamp funds for commodity processing, storage, transporting, and distribution.  (Sec. 741) Limits wetlands reserve program enrollment acreage for 2004.  (Sec. 742) Limits funds made available in FY 2004 or preceding fiscal years under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to reimburse CCC for the release of certain commodities under the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act. (Sec. 743) Limits funds for the environmental quality incentives program.  (Sec. 744) Authorizes the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide from appropriations financial and technical assistance to the Dry Creek project, Utah.  (Sec. 745) Authorizes the Secretary to permit Department employees to carry and use firearms for personal protection in remote locations in the performance of their official duties.  (Sec. 746) Prohibits fund use for renewable energy system and energy efficiency improvements assistance. (Sec. 747) Prohibits FY 2004 fund use for access to broadband telecommunications in rural areas.  (Sec. 748) Prohibits fund use for the agricultural marketing resource center pilot program. (Sec. 749) Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to make country-of-origin notice requirements applicable to retail sales of farm-raised and wild fish as of September 30, 2004, and other covered commodities as of September 30, 2006. (Sec. 750) Directs the Secretary, with lender consent, to structure the annual fee payment schedule for rural electrification and telephone bond and loan guarantees so as not to exceed an average of 30 basis points per year for the term of the loan in order to ensure fund availability to pay related subsidy costs.  (Sec. 751) Rescinds unobligated balances in the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Revolving Fund. (Sec. 752) Limits FY 2004 fund use for the conservation security program. (Sec. 753) Limits fund use for the ground and surface water conservation program. (Sec. 754) Limits fund use for the grazing, wildlife habitat incentive, source water protection, and Great Lakes Basin programs. (Sec. 755) Limits fund use for the farmland protection program. (Sec. 756) Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to: (1) commercial tree-fruit growers in a federally declared disaster area in New York who suffered tree losses from a 2003 icestorm; and (2) commercial citrus and lime growers in Florida for tree replacement and for lost production for certain trees removed to control citrus canker, and for certified citrus nursery stocks within the citrus canker quarantine areas. (Sec. 757) Appropriates funds for the Northern Great Plains Regional Authority. (Sec. 758) Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to revise certain committee reporting requirements.  (Sec. 759) Prohibits fund use for the rural business investment program other than for promulgation of regulations or application review. (Sec. 760) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act in violation of PL 105-264 (Travel and Transportation Reform Act of 1998). (Sec. 761) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to revise a proposed rule (July 8, 2003) respecting cost-sharing for animal and plant health emergency programs of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. (Sec. 762) Authorizes Department agencies and offices to use available discretionary funds to prepare for final employment discrimination decisions.  (Sec. 763) States that in the case of a high cost isolated rural area that is not connected to a road system in Alaska, the maximum level for the single family housing assistance shall be 150 percent of the average income level in the metropolitan areas of the State and 115 percent of all other eligible areas of the State.  (Sec. 764) Appropriates funds to the Denali Commission to address solid waste disposal problems which threaten to contaminate rural drinking water supplies.  (Sec. 765) Considers, until receipt of the 2010 census, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Aberdeen, South Dakota, and Starkville, Mississippi, to be eligible for rural housing programs under the Housing Act of 1949.  (Sec. 766) Considers, until receipt of the 2010 census, Berlin, New Hampshire, Guymon, Oklahoma, Shawnee, Oklahoma, and Altus, Oklahoma, to be eligible for rural community advancement program loans and grants.  (Sec. 767) Prohibits, without specific congressional authorization, fund use to study or enter into a contract with a private party for competitive sourcing activities relating to rural development or farm loan programs. (Sec. 768) Amends the Housing Act of 1949 respecting rural farm housing to make the income exemption for dividends from the Alaska Permanent Fund to a person under 18 years old permanent. (Sec. 769) Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to revise FY 2004 through 2007 CCC funding provisions for the agricultural management assistance program, including the addition of specified funding obligations. (Sec. 770) Prohibits fund use to promote Foreign Agricultural Service sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products. (Sec. 771) Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to maintain FY 2003 food stamp benefit levels in Alaska and Hawaii. (Sec. 772) Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to define "eligible rural community" as any area of the United States that is not contained in an incorporated city or town with a population in excess of 20,000 inhabitants. (Sec. 773) States that for all rural development mission area programs in Honolulu County, Hawaii, the Secretary may designate any portion of the county as a rural area or eligible rural community, except for any area included in the Honolulu Census Designated Place as determined by the Secretary of Commerce.  (Sec. 775) Authorizes community facility program borrowers and grantees to enter into service contracts with not-for-profit third parties.  (Sec. 776) Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative aircraft lease agreements under the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. (Sec. 777) Amends the Agricultural Assistance Act of 2003 to include tree replacement under the citrus canker assistance program. (Sec. 778) Sun Grant Research Initiative Act of 2003 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary to make grants to university-based sun grant centers which shall: (1) establish centers of excellence to pursue research, extension, and educational programs to implement biobased energy technologies, products, and economic diversification in rural areas; and (2) make grants to land-grant colleges and universities for related multiinstitutional and multistate programs. Establishes: (1) a north-central sun grant center at South Dakota State University for Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming; (2) a southeastern sun grant center at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands; (3) a south-central sun grant center at Oklahoma State University for Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas; (4) a western sun grant center at Oregon State University for Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and other U.S. territories and possessions; and (5) a northeastern sun grant center at Cornell University for Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia.  Requires the centers to maintain a Sun Grant Information Analysis Center for analysis and data management support.  Authorizes FY 2005 through 2010 appropriations. (Sec. 779) Authorizes the Secretary to use any unobligated Rural Utilities Service funds in FY 2004 to improve rural area 911 access and emergency communications systems.  (Sec. 780) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to allocate the rate of price support between the purchase prices for nonfat dry milk and butter in a manner that does not support the price of milk in accordance with the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. (Sec. 781) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make funding and other assistance available through the emergency watershed protection program to repair and prevent damage to nonfederal land in watersheds that have been impaired by fires initiated by the Federal Government; and (2) waive related cost sharing requirements. (Sec. 782) Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain small and emerging rural business requirements respecting a lease for the Oakridge Oregon Industrial Park. (Sec. 783) States that the Alaska Department of Community and Economic Development shall be: (1) eligible to receive a water and waste disposal grant for up to 75 percent of the cost of providing water and sewer service to the proposed hospital in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska; and (2) allowed to pass the grant funds to the local government entity that will provide such service. (Sec. 784) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to make certain previously-enrolled land planted to hardwood trees ineligible for the conservation reserve program.  (Sec. 785) Makes Postville, Iowa, eligible for a water and waste disposal grant for up to 75 percent of the cost of providing water and sewer service to the city. (Sec. 786) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a reorganization of regional conservationists and/or regional offices of the Natural Resources Conservation Service without the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations.  (Sec. 787) Rescinds specified funds for the Food Safety and Inspection Service's field automation and information management project. (Sec. 788) Amends the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations, 2003 respecting international science and education grants. (Sec. 789) Considers Great Falls, Montana, to be eligible for rural business and industry guaranteed loans. Division B: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies. Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 the Department of Justice (DOJ) for: (1) general administration, including for a Joint Automated Booking System, an integrated automated fingerprint identification system, office automation expenses of specified organizations, conversion to narrowband communications, a Counterterrorism Fund, administrative review and appeals, the Federal Detention Trustee, and the Office of the Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including antitrust activities, the Offices of U.S. Attorneys, the U.S. Trustee Program, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, the U.S. Marshals Service (including for Federal prisoner detention), fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (4) the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force/Terrorist Threat Integration Center; (5) the Drug Enforcement Administration, including interagency drug enforcement; (6) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; (7) the Federal Prison System; and (8) the Office of Justice Programs, including State and local law enforcement assistance, the Executive Office for Weed and Seed, community oriented policing services, violence against women prevention and prosecution programs, juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers' benefits. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for abortions, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. (Sec. 104) Declares that nothing in the prohibition on the use of funds for abortions shall remove the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to receive an abortion outside the Federal facility. (Sec. 105) Makes funds available to establish and publicize an extraordinary rewards program. (Sec. 107) Provides for the continuation during FY 2004 of provisions of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and  State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 directing the Attorney General to provide for the granting of posthumous citizenship for certain non-citizens who died as the result of injuries incurred in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (Sec. 108) Authorizes the Attorney General to transfer forfeited real or personal property of limited or marginal value to a State or local government agency, or its designated contractor or transferee, for use to support drug abuse treatment, drug and crime prevention and education, housing, job skills, and other community-based public health and safety programs. (Sec. 109) Declares that authorities contained in the 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act (Public Law 107-273) shall remain in effect until the effective date of a subsequent Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act. (Sec. 110) Prohibits the expenditure of funds for the purpose of reimbursement or direct payments for the legal fees of an individual employed as an DOJ attorney for a matter in which the individual is the subject of a disciplinary recommendation for ethical misconduct by the Counsel for Professional Responsibility. (Sec. 111) Earmarks certain additional funds for Project Seahawk, to remain available until expended. (Sec. 112) States that none of the funds provided in this Act or hereafter may be used for courts or law enforcement officers for a tribe or village: (1) in which fewer than 25 Native members live in the village year round; or (2) that is located within the boundaries of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the Matanuska Susitna Borough, the Municipality of Anchorage, the Kenai Peninsula Borough, the City and Borough of Juneau, the Sitka Borough, or the Ketchikan Borough. Establishes an Alaska Rural Justice and Law Enforcement Commission to be appointed by the Attorney General to review Federal, State, local, and tribal jurisdiction over civil and criminal matters in Alaska but outside the Municipality of Anchorage, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the Kenai Peninsula Borough, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, the City and Borough of Juneau, the Sitka Borough, and the Ketchikan Borough. Requires the Commission to make recommendations to Congress and the Alaska State Legislature by May 1, 2004, on options which shall include: (1) creating a unified law enforcement system, court system, and system of local laws or ordinances for Alaska Native villages and communities of varying sizes including the possibility of first, second, and third class villages with different powers; (2) meeting the law enforcement and judicial personnel needs in rural Alaska including the possible use of cross deputization in a way that maximizes the existing resources of Federal, State, local, and tribal governments; and (3) addressing the needs to regulate alcoholic beverages including the prohibition of the sale, importation, use, or possession of alcoholic beverages, and provide restorative justice for persons who violate such laws, including treatment, and addressing the problem of domestic violence and child abuse, including treatment options and restorative justice. Requires the General Accounting Office (GAO) to begin immediately a review of Federal programs benefiting rural communities in Alaska, including the name of each program and the administering department or agency, the amount of funds provided to Alaska through each program, a list of the statutes and regulations governing use of funds for each program, and any data demonstrating the performance of each program. Requires a report to specified congressional committees and to the Alaska Federation of Natives. Authorizes the Federation to review the delivery of Federal programs in Alaska and make recommendations to Congress to reduce duplication, improve and consolidate delivery of services, streamline application and administrative procedures, improve accountability, mandate performance measures, and otherwise reduce costs and improve efficiency. Amends the Denali Commission Act (title III of Public Law 105-277) to require the Federal Co-chairman of the Denali Commission to appoint an Economic Development Committee (EDC), chaired by the President of the Federation of Natives, to consider and approve applications from Regional Advisory Committees for grants (including mini-grants to individuals) and loans to promote economic development and promote private sector investment to reduce poverty in economically distressed rural villages. Requires the State Co-chairman of the Commission to appoint a Regional Advisory Committee for each region to develop a regional economic development plan for EDC consideration. Authorizes the EDC to develop rural development performance measures (including economic, educational, social, and cultural indicators) linking economic growth to poverty reduction to measure the success of its program.  Allows the Commission to make a grant to the First Alaskans Foundation to assist Alaska Natives and other rural residents in acquiring the skills and training necessary to participate fully in private sector business and economic and development opportunities through fellowships, scholarships, internships, public service programs, and other leadership initiatives. Requires the EDC to sponsor a statewide economic development summit in consultation with the World Bank to evaluate the best practices for economic development worldwide and how they can be incorporated into regional economic development plans. Authorizes appropriations to specified agencies, which shall be transferred to the Denali Commission as a direct lump sum payment to implement this Act. (Sec. 113) Specifies an additional amount for the "Local Law Enforcement Block Grant" program to be provided to the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Sec. 114) Rescinds $100 million of DOJ unobligated balances available from prior year appropriations, with the exception of funds provided for counterterrorism activities, counterintelligence activities, white collar crime enforcement, organized crime enforcement, and drug enforcement. Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies - Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for FY 2004 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration; (4) the Bureau of Industry and Security for export administration and national security activities; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) the Minority Business Development Agency; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) information infrastructure grants; (12) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (13) the Under Secretary for Technology/Office of Technology Policy; (14) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), including amounts for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and for construction of new research facilities; (15) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including transfer of funds and an amount for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets; (16) restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (17) the fisheries finance program account; and (18) departmental management, including the Office of Inspector General. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.  (Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act or any other Act for NOAA to support hurricane reconnaissance aircraft and activities that are under the control of the U.S. Air Force or Air Force Reserve. (Sec. 207) Appropriates specified amounts of funds available to NIST for Construction of Research Facilities to: (1) fund a cooperative agreement with the Medical University of South Carolina; (2) the Thayer School of Engineering for research relating to intelligent control of distributed systems, a small laser beam project, and for research relating to nanomagnetics; (3) the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection at the Institute for Security and Technology Studies; and (4) for the Institute for Politics and the Coastal Conservation Center. (Sec. 208) Appropriates specified amounts of funds available from the fund entitled "Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries," under certain conditions, to: (1) the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board; (2) the Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries Foundation; (3) the South Carolina Seafood Alliance; (4) the Oregon Trawl Commission; and (5) the Oregon State University Seafood Laboratory. Requires the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board to be nonprofit and non-Federal. (Sec. 209) Requires: (1) the Economic Development Administration (EDA) to approve the sale, transfer, or conveyance, without compensation to the Agency, of certain land on the former Charleston Naval Base; and (2) funds obligated but not yet disbursed in connection with EDA project number 04-49-04347 to remain available until expended and, as of September 30, 2003, to be exempt from the application of Federal procedure for appropriation accounts available for definite periods. Requires the Secretary to approve, without compensation to the Agency, a lease to be entered into by the City of Florence, Alabama, and Alabama Real Estate Holdings, Inc., for use of the parcel of land (including improvements) located in Florence that was improved using assistance from EDA project number 04-01-03963. (Sec. 210) Authorizes the Secretary to operate a marine laboratory in South Carolina in accordance with a memorandum of agreement among NOAA, NIST, the State of South Carolina, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the College of Charleston as a partnership for collaborative, interdisciplinary marine scientific research.  (Sec. 211) Amends the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 to extend the Emergency Loan Guarantee Board's authority from December 31, 2003, until December 31, 2005. Earmarks certain funds for salaries and administrative expenses to administer the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program. (Sec. 212) Earmarks certain additional NOAA procurement, acquisition, and construction funds for: (1) the Western Carolina University; (2) the South Florida Museum; (3) the French and Indian War Foundation; (4) the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee; (5) the University of Mississippi; (6) the City of Charlotte, North Carolina; and (7) a public safety marine docking facility for Hampton, New Hampshire. (Sec. 213) Provides additional amounts, until expended, for the Federal Credit Reform Act cost of a fisheries financing and capacity reduction loan under the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 of up to $50 million in principal. Limits such amounts to loans that: (1) have a term of at least 30 years; (2) carry out a New England lobster fishing capacity reduction program which may include fewer than all management areas of the fishery; (3) permanently revoke all fishery licenses, fishery permits, area and species endorsements, and any other fishery privileges issued to a vessel or vessels (or to persons on the basis of their vessel operation or ownership) removed under the program; and (4) ensure that all vessels removed from the fishery under the program are made permanently ineligible to participate in any fishery worldwide, and that the owners of such vessels will operate only under the U.S. flag or such vessels shall be scrapped as a reduction vessel.  (Sec. 214) Specifies the same provisions with respect to a fisheries financing and capacity reduction loan that carries out a Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands non-pollock groundfish capacity reduction program which may include fewer than all management areas of the fishery. (Sec. 215) Rescinds, under specified conditions, $100 million of Department of Commerce unobligated balances available from prior year appropriations, with the exception of funds provided for coral reef activities, fisheries enforcement, the Ocean Health Initiative, land acquisition, and lab construction. Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for: (1) the U.S. Supreme Court; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services, including defender services, fees of jurors and commissioners, and court security; (5) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (6) the Federal Judicial Center; (7) judicial retirement funds; and (8) the U.S. Sentencing Commission.  Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds.  Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 2004 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs, including up to 69 permanent positions for the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, the establishment and operations of an Office on Right-Sizing the United States Government Overseas Presence, a Federal Government interagency task force to examine, coordinate and oversee U.S. participation in the UN headquarters renovation project, establishment of the Center for Antiterrorism and Security Training, and the costs of worldwide OpenNet and classified connectivity infrastructure; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation allowances; (6) protection of foreign missions and officials; (7) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (8) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) international organizations, peacekeeping, and commissions; (13) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico; (14) the International Joint Commission and the International Boundary Commission, United States and Canada; (15) the Asia Foundation; (16) the International Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund; (17) the International Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue; (18) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (19) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (20) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, Hawaii; and (21) the National Endowment for Democracy. Makes appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for FY 2004 for international broadcasting operations (including broadcasting to Cuba) and capital improvements. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. (Sec. 404) Directs the Secretary of State, for purposes of registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem, to record the place of birth as Israel. (Sec. 405) Repeals the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 with respect to: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services' authority to carry out international health activities, including HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during FY 2003; (2) amending the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 to make additional appropriations to the Department of Education for specified school improvement programs; and (3) specified funds appropriated for certain higher education programs.  (Sec. 406) Requires denial of an application for a visa without prejudice under the Immigration and Nationality Act if the application is delayed for a period of more than 60 days from the application date due to administrative processing by any agency in making a determination of inadmissibility under such Act. (Sec. 407) Authorizes the obligation and expenditure of funds appropriated by this Act for the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Department of State, notwithstanding specified Federal law. (Sec. 408) Requires the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in Persons, established under Public Law 108-7 to coordinate agency activities regarding policies (including grants and grant policies) involving the international trafficking in persons, to coordinate all such policies related to the activities of traffickers and victims of severe forms of trafficking. Prohibits funds provided in this or any other Act from being expended to perform functions that duplicate coordinating responsibilities of the Operating Group. Requires the Operating Group to continue to report only to the authorities that appointed them. (Sec. 409) Requires the Secretary of State to provide to a member of the congressional appropriations committees a copy of each cable sent to or by a Department of State employee that pertains to any topic specified by the requesting member, regardless of the cable's level of classification, within 15 days after the date on which the member makes such written or verbal request. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates FY 2004 funds for salaries and specified expenses, with restrictions in certain cases, for: (1) the Antitrust Modernization Commission; (2) the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (3) the Commission on Civil Rights; (4) the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; (5) the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6) the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (7) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (8) the Federal Communications Commission;(9) the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (10) the Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People (Help) Around the Globe Commission; (11) the Legal Services Corporation; (12) the Marine Mammal Commission; (13) the National Veterans Business Development Corporation; (14) the Securities and Exchange Commission; (15) the Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General, business loans program account, and the disaster loans program account; (16) the State Justice Institute; and (17) the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Title VI: General Provisions - (Sec. 601) Prohibits the use of appropriations for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress. (Sec. 603) Limits expenditures for any consulting service through procurement contract to contracts whose expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, with exceptions. (Sec. 606) Bars the use of funds in this Act for the construction, repair (other than emergency repair), overhaul, conversion, or modernization of NOAA vessels in shipyards outside the United States. (Sec. 607) Makes ineligible to receive a contract or subcontract made with funds in this Act any person determined to have intentionally affixed a fraudulent "Made in America" label to any product sold or shipped to the United States. (Sec. 608) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to implement, administer, or enforce any EEOC guidelines covering harassment based on religion when it is made known to the Federal entity or official to which such funds are made available that such guidelines do not differ in any respect from certain proposed guidelines published on October 1, 1993. (Sec. 609) Prohibits the use of funds to implement, enforce, or otherwise abide by the Memorandum of Agreement signed by FTC and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice on March 5, 2002. (Sec. 610) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for any United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission that will involve U.S. armed forces under the command or operational control of a foreign national if the President's military advisors have not recommended such involvement in the national security interests and the President has not made such recommendation to Congress. (Sec. 611) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and SBA to make a quarterly accounting to the congressional appropriations committees of the cumulative balances of any unobligated funds that were received by such agency during any previous fiscal year. (Sec. 612) Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being expended to pay for costs incurred in operating certain diplomatic or consular posts in Vietnam or increasing the number of personnel assigned to such posts unless the President certifies that the Vietnamese Government is cooperating in specified activities regarding resolution of sightings of, and accounting for, prisoners-of-war and individuals missing in action, recovery and analysis of American remains, and investigations in Laos, pursuant to such prohibition in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999. Applies such requirements during FY 2004. (Sec. 613) Requires any costs incurred by a department or agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel actions taken in response to funding reductions included in this Act to be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available to such department or agency, with reprogramming in specified circumstances. (Sec. 614) Limits to only 90 percent of the amount to be awarded under the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant the amount of any such grant to an entity that does not provide health insurance benefits to a public safety officer who retires or is separated from service due to injury suffered directly and proximately in the line of duty while responding to an emergency situation or a hot pursuit that are the same or better than the benefits such officer received while on duty. (Sec. 615) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products, except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the same type. (Sec. 616) Prohibits expenditure of funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act to issue visas to certain individuals from Haiti, including those involved in specified extrajudicial and political killings pursuant to such prohibition in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999. Continues provisions of such Act during FY 2004 with respect to: (1) exemption of certain individuals from the prohibition; and (2) certain reporting requirements.  (Sec. 617) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act for: (1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection with the implementation of the national instant criminal background check system for firearms; and (2) any system to implement such background check system that does not require and result in the destruction of any identifying information submitted by or on behalf of any person who has been determined not to be prohibited from possessing or receiving a firearm within 24 hours after the system advises a Federal firearms licensee that possession or receipt of a firearm by the prospective transferee would not violate the Federal Criminal Code or State law. (Sec. 618) Provides that amounts deposited or available in the Crime Victims Fund in any fiscal year in excess of $625 million shall not be available for obligation until the following fiscal year. (Sec. 619) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to DOJ to discriminate against, or to denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of, students who participate in programs for which financial assistance is provided from those funds or their parents or legal guardians. (Sec. 620) Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act for the purpose of granting immigrant or nonimmigrant visas to citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents of countries that the Secretary of Homeland Security has determined deny or unreasonably delay accepting the return of citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). (Sec. 621) Appropriates additional amounts under the heading "Small Business Administration, Salaries, and Expenses," for specified entities. (Sec. 622) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to DOJ to transport a maximum or high security prisoner to a place other than a prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure. (Sec. 623) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by Federal prisons to purchase audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational purposes. (Sec. 624) Requires a Deputy Assistant Administrator for non-contiguous States and territories, through the Senior Executive Service, to administer SBA programs in Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories, including disaster loans to fishermen, programs benefiting Alaska Native Corporations and Native Hawaiians, including but not limited to section 8(a) and Historically Underutilized Business Zones, and all other programs serving Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians. Requires disaster loans issued in Alaska to be administered by SBA. Prohibits their sale during FY 2004. (Sec. 626) Directs the Secretary to negotiate or reevaluate, with the consent of the President, international agreements affecting international ocean policy. (Sec. 627) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and SBA, under specified conditions, each to establish a policy under which eligible employees may participate in telecommuting to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance. (Sec. 628) Amends Public Law 107-117 to provide that funds appropriated in it for the SBA Disaster Loans Program Account shall also be used for SBA deferred participation loans to finance the planning, design, or installation of pollution control facilities. (Sec. 629) Amends the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to modify its rules for multiple ownership to increase the national audience reach limitation for television stations to 39 (currently, 35) percent. Requires a person or entity that exceeds such limitation through grant, transfer, or assignment of an additional license for a commercial television broadcast station, but not through population growth, to comply with the limitation within two years after exceeding it. Declares that mandatory FCC forbearance from applying regulations to telecommunications carriers or services meeting certain requirements shall not apply to persons or entities that exceed the 39 percent limitation. Changes from biennial to quadrennial the mandatory review by the FCC of its adopted rules concerning broadcast ownership and all of its ownership rules as part of its regulatory reform review. Makes such requirement inapplicable to any rules relating to the 39 percent national audience reach limitation. (Sec. 630) Requires Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) data releases to include specified language that would make clear that trace data cannot be used to draw broad conclusions about firearms-related crime. (Sec. 631) Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to extend from October 1, 2003, to March 15, 2004, the termination of the authority to apply certain fees to SBA-approved financingof development company debentures. (Sec. 632) Makes unobligated balances previously made available for loan guarantees under the Defense Loan and Technical Assistance program (DELTA) available until expended for SBA general business loans for plant acquisition, construction, conversion, or expansion. (Sec. 633) Establishes in the Treasury the International Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund. Requires the income from the Fund to be used for operations of the International Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue to promote dialogue and scholarship in the Middle East. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year from the Fund for the operations of the Dialogue as well as its permanent endowment. Requires the United States, through the Department of State, to retain ownership of the Palazzo Corpi building in Istanbul, Turkey. Makes the Secretary of State responsible for maintaining the Dialogue at such location. Amends Federal law with respect to the budget process and the classification of trust funds to include in the list the International Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund. (Sec. 634) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) to issue patents on claims directed to or encompassing a human organism; (2) to pay expenses for any U.S. delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission if the Commission is chaired or presided over by a country, the government of which the Secretary of State has determined has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism; or (3) in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act regarding inadmissibility into the United States of aliens engaged in international child abduction. (Sec. 637) HELP Commission Act - Establishes the Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People (HELP) Around the Globe Commission. Specifies the duties of the Commission, including but not limited to: (1) identifying the past and present objectives of U.S. development assistance, successful cases, beneficiaries, and the percentage of the funds that actually reached the intended beneficiaries; (2) studying ways to expand educational opportunities and investments in people, and assess infrastructure needs; (3) analyzing ways in which the United States can coordinate its development assistance programs with those of other donor countries and international organizations, and ways in which the safety of development assistance workers can be ensured, particularly in the midst of conflicts; and (4) comparing the effectiveness of increased and open trade with development assistance, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of such trade and whether it could be a more effective alternative to U.S. development assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the President to report triennially to Congress an analysis of the impact and effectiveness of U.S. economic assistance furnished to each country during the preceding three fiscal years, identifying those receiving at least $5 million of U.S. economic assistance in which it has been most successful and least successful. (Sec. 638) Rescinds an amount equal to 0.465 percent of the budget authority provided for FY 2004 for any discretionary account in this Act. Title VII: Rescissions - Rescinds specified prior year appropriation amounts from: (1) DOJ for the Working Capital Fund, the Counterterrorism Fund, the Assets Forfeiture Fund, the Federal Prison System, and the Office of Justice Programs, including for State and local law assistance, community oriented policing services, and for juvenile justice programs; and (2) the Department of Commerce for the International Trade Administration for operations and administration and for NOAA coastal and ocean activities. Title VIII: Alaskan Fisheries - (Sec. 801) Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to direct the Secretary of Commerce to approve and implement the Voluntary Three-Pie Cooperative Program for crab fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, as approved by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. Authorizes the Council, after such implementation, to submit, and the Secretary to implement, changes to or repeal of conservation and management measures for such fisheries. States that this section shall not preclude the Secretary from approving by January 1, 2005, and implementing any subsequent program amendments approved by the Council. Provides implementation funding. Declares that an individual processing quota shall be considered a permit for civil and criminal penalty purposes, and may be revoked or limited at any time. (Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program that recognizes the historic participation of fishing vessels and of fish processors for Pacific ocean perch, northern rockfish, and pelagic shelf rockfish harvested in the Central Gulf of Alaska. Requires such program to: (1) provide for a set-aside of up to five percent for the total allowable catch of such fisheries for catcher vessels not eligible to participate in the pilot program, which shall be delivered to shore-based fish processors also ineligible to participate; and (2) establish catch limits for non-rockfish species and non-target rockfish species currently harvested with Pacific Ocean perch, northern rockfish, and pelagic shelf rockfish, which shall be based on historical harvesting of such bycatch species. States that the pilot program will sunset when a Gulf of Alaska Groundfish comprehensive rationalization plan is authorized by the Council and implemented by the Secretary, or two years from date of implementation, whichever is earlier.  (Sec. 803) Requires the directed pollock fishery in the Aleutian Islands Subarea to be allocated to the Aleut Corporation, which shall provide for all pollock harvesting and processing within the allocation. Allows only fishing vessels meeting certain requirements, including length limits, to form partnerships with the Corporation for such harvesting. Prohibits the optimum yield for groundfish in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area from exceeding two million metric tons. Requires the Council to recommend and the Secretary to approve an allocation to the Corporation for economic development in Adak, Alaska. (Sec. 804) Prohibits a Council or the Secretary from considering or establishing any program to allocate or issue an individual processing quota or processor share in any U.S. fishery other than the crab fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Division C: District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2004 - District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Federal Funds - Makes appropriations to the District of Columbia for FY 2004, including amounts for the Federal payments: (1) for District of Columbia Resident Tuition Support; (2) for emergency planning and security costs in the District; (3) to District of Columbia Courts; (4) for Defender Services in District of Columbia Courts; (5) to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (including transfer of funds); (6) the DC Water and Sewer Authority; (7) to support hospital bioterrorism preparedness in the District; (8) to the DC Department of Transportation for the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative; (9) to the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; (10) for capital development in the District; (11) for DC Public School facilities; (12) for the Family Literacy Program; (13) to the DC Department of Transportation for a downtown circulator transit system and to offset a portion of the District's allocated operating subsidy payment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; (14) for foster care improvements in the District; (15) to the Chief Financial Officer of the District (CFO); (16) for emergency personnel cross training; and (17) for a DC School Improvement Program. Title II: District of Columbia Funds - Appropriates specified sums out of the District's general fund and/or other funds for the current fiscal year for: (1) operating expenses (with limitations); (2) governmental direction and support; (3) economic development and regulation; (4) public safety and justice; (5) the public education system (including transfers of funds); (6) human support services (including transfer of funds); (7) public works; (8) the Cash Reserve; (9) the Emergency and Contingency Reserve Fund; (10) repayment of certain loans and interest; (11) payment of interest on short-term borrowing; (12) for principal and interest payments on the District's Certificates of Participation, issued to finance the ground lease underlying the building located at One Judiciary Square; (13) refunds and the payment of legal settlements or judgments that have been entered against the District government; (14) the John A. Wilson Building; (15) workforce investments; (16) certain non-departmental agency costs; (17) pay-as-you-go capital in lieu of capital financing; (18) a Tax Increment Financing Program; (19) making refunds associated with disallowed Medicaid funding; (20) the Water and Sewer Authority; (21) the Washington Aqueduct; (22) the Stormwater Permit Compliance Enterprise Fund; (23) the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund; (24) the Sports and Entertainment Commission; (25) the District of Columbia Retirement Board; (26) the Washington Convention Center Enterprise Fund; (27) the National Capital Revitalization Corporation; and (28) capital outlay (including rescissions). Title III: DC School Choice Incentive Act of 2003 - DC School Choice Incentive Act of 2003 - (Sec. 304) Requires the Secretary of Education to award five-year grants on a competitive basis to educational entities of the District government, nonprofit organizations, and consortia of nonprofit organizations (eligible entities) with approved applications to carry out activities to provide expanded school choice opportunities to students who are DC residents and who come from households with incomes not exceeding 185 percent of the poverty line (eligible students). Authorizes the Secretary to award a single grant or multiple grants, depending on the quality of applications submitted and the priorities of this title. Requires the Secretary and the Mayor of the District to enter into a memorandum of understanding regarding the design of, selection of eligible entities to receive grants under, and implementation of, a program assisted under this Act. (Sec. 306) Requires the Secretary to give priority to applications from eligible entities who will most effectively: (1) give priority to eligible students who, in the school year preceding the school year for which they are seeking a scholarship, attended an elementary or secondary school identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring; (2) target resources to students and families that lack the financial resources to take advantage of available educational options; and (3) provide students and families with the widest range of educational options. (Sec. 307) Requires a grantee: (1) under specified conditions, to use the grant funds to provide the students with scholarships to pay the tuition, fees, and transportation expenses, if any, to enable them to attend the DC private elementary or secondary school of their choice; and (2) to ensure that the amount of any tuition or fee charged by a participating school in the grantee's program to a participating eligible student does not exceed the amount of tuition or fees that the school customarily charges to a nonparticipating student. Authorizes the Secretary to award scholarships in larger amounts to students with the greatest need. Limits scholarships to $7,500 per student for any academic year.  Allows an eligible entity to award a scholarship, for the second or any succeeding year of an eligible student's participation in a program under this Act, to a student who comes from a household whose income does not exceed 200 percent of the poverty line. (Sec. 308) Prohibits an eligible entity or a school participating in any program under this title from discriminating against program participants or applicants on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, or sex. Makes the prohibition on sex discrimination inapplicable to a participating school that is operated by, supervised by, controlled by, or connected to a religious organization to the extent that the application is inconsistent with the religious tenets of the school. Allows a parent to choose and a school to offer a single-sex school, class, or activity. Applies the abortion neutrality provision of the Education Amendments of 1972 to this title. Provides that nothing in this title may be construed to alter or modify the Individuals with Disabilities Act. Authorizes schools participating in programs under this Act that are operated by, supervised by, controlled by, or connected to, a religious organization to exercise their discretion in matters of employment consistent with title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including the exemptions in such title.  Declares that funds made available under this Act to eligible students that are received by a participating school, as a result of their parents' choice, shall not, consistent with the first amendment of the Constitution: (1) necessitate any change in such school's teaching mission; (2) require the school to remove religious art, icons, scriptures, or other symbols; or (3) preclude such school from retaining religious terms in its name, selecting its board members on a religious basis, or including religious references in its mission statements and other chartering or governing documents.  Requires a scholarship (or any other form of support provided to parents of eligible students) under this title to be considered as assistance to the student and not to the school that enrolls the student. Provides that the amount of such scholarship or other form of support shall not be treated as income of the parents for purposes of Federal tax laws or for determining eligibility for any other Federal program. (Sec. 309) Requires the Secretary and the Mayor jointly to select an independent entity to evaluate annually the performance of students who received scholarships under the five-year program, and to make such evaluations public. Requires the Secretary, through a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement, to: (1) ensure that the evaluation is conducted using the strongest possible research design for determining the effectiveness of the programs funded under this title that addresses the specified issues; and (2) disseminate information on the impact of the programs in increasing the student academic achievement of participating students, and on the impact of the programs on students and schools in the District. Requires the independent entity to: (1) measure the academic achievement of all participating eligible students; (2) use the same grade appropriate measurement every school year to assess participating eligible students as the measurement used by DC Public Schools to assess its students in the first year of the program; and (3) work with the eligible entities to ensure that the parents of each student who applies for a scholarship (regardless of whether the student receives one) and the parents of each student participating in the scholarship program, agree that the student will participate in the annual measurements. Requires annual interim reports by the Secretary, and a final report within one year after the final year for which a grant is made. Limits expenditures for such evaluation and reporting requirements for any fiscal year to three percent of the total amount appropriated to carry out this title. (Sec. 310) Sets forth reporting requirements for: (1) grantees to the Secretary; (2) participating schools to parents of participating children; and (3) the Secretary to congressional committees on the findings of such reports. (Sec. 311) Requires each participating school to comply with all requests for data and information regarding such evaluations. Authorizes such school to require eligible students to abide by any rule of conduct and other requirements applicable to all other students at the school. (Sec. 313) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized or prohibited uses of funds appropriated by this Act identical or similar to corresponding provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2003.  (Sec. 407) Allows the use of local funds provided in this Act to carry out lobbying activities on any issue other than: (1) the promotion or support of any boycott; or (2) statehood for the District or voting representation in Congress for the District. States that nothing in this title may be construed to prohibit any elected official from advocating with respect to any of such issues. (Sec. 415) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act for abortions except where the mother's life would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or in cases of rape or incest.  (Sec. 416) Bars the use of funds under this Act to implement or enforce: (1) the District of Columbia Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992 (also known as the District Domestic Partner Act); or (2) any system of registration of unmarried, cohabiting couples for purposes of extending them benefits on the same basis as such benefits are extended to legally married couples. (Sec. 420) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act by the District's Corporation Counsel or any other District government officer or entity to provide assistance for any petition drive or civil action which seeks to require Congress to provide for voting representation in Congress for the District. (Sec. 421) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act for any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug. Requires individuals or entities who do so to account for all funds used for such program separately from any funds contained in this Act. (Sec. 422) Prohibits the use of funds contained in this Act: (1) 60 days after its enactment to pay the salary of any chief financial officer of any District government office who has not filed a certification with the Mayor and CFO that the officer understands the duties and restrictions applicable, including reports required as a result of this Act or its amendments; or (2) to enact or carry out any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act or any tetrahydrocannabinols derivative. (Sec. 423) Provides that the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1998, also known as Initiative 59, approved by the electors of the District on November 3, 1998, shall not take effect. (Sec. 424) Provides that nothing in this Act may be construed to prevent the District's Council or the Mayor from addressing the issue of the provision of contraceptive coverage by health insurance plans. Expresses the intent of Congress that any legislation enacted on such issue should include a "conscience clause" which provides exceptions for religious beliefs and moral convictions. (Sec. 425) Requires the Mayor to report quarterly to specified congressional committees on the following District issues: (1) crime; (2) access to substance and alcohol abuse treatment; (3) management of parolees and pretrial violent offenders; (4) education; (5) improvement in basic District services, including rat control and abatement; (6) application for and management of Federal grants; and (7) indicators of child well-being. (Sec. 427) Prohibits the funds contained in this Act from being used to issue, administer, or enforce any order by the District of Columbia Commission on Human Rights relating to docket numbers 93-030-(PA) and 93-031-(PA) (In The Matter Of: Roland D. Pool and Michael S. Geller (Boy Scouts' Policy of Excluding Homosexuals)). (Sec. 428) Prohibits the transfer of any Federal funds to any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. (Sec. 429) Provides that, in addition to any other authority to pay claims and judgments, a District government department, agency, or instrumentality may pay the settlement or judgment of a claim or lawsuit in an amount less than $10,000. (Sec. 430) Requires the District of Columbia Courts to transfer to the DC Treasury all fines levied and collected by the Courts in cases charging Driving Under the Influence and Driving While Impaired. Requires the Office of the Corporation Counsel to use such funds for enforcement and prosecution of District traffic alcohol laws. (Sec. 431) Allows any District government agency to transfer local funds to the Office of Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining (OLRCB) to pay for OLRCB representation in third-party cases, grievances, and dispute resolution. (Sec. 432) Prohibits funds contained in this Act from being made available to pay: (1) the fees in excess of $4,000 of an attorney who represents a party or defends an action, including an administrative proceeding, brought against the DC Public Schools under IDEA; or (2) the fees of an attorney or firm whom the CFO determines to have a pecuniary interest, either through an attorney, officer or employee of the firm, in any special education diagnostic services, schools, or other special education service providers.  (Sec. 433) Directs the CFO to require attorneys in special education cases brought under IDEA in the District to certify in writing, along with other specified disclosures, that the attorney or representative rendered any and all services for which they receive awards, including those received under a settlement agreement or as part of an administrative proceeding, under IDEA. (Sec. 434) Amends the Student Loan Marketing Association Reorganization Act of 1996 regarding the credit enhancement revolving fund for public charter schools in the District to remove the indefinite status on the five percent cap on administrative costs of making grants from the fund to limit the cap to five percent of the costs of any particular fiscal year. (Sec. 435) Amends the District of Columbia Code to allow the Court to appoint an attorney: (1) to represent a parent or guardian in an adoption proceeding if the individual is financially unable to obtain adequate representation when a petition for adoption has been filed and there has been no termination or relinquishment of parental rights with respect to the proposed adoptee or consent to the proposed adoption by the parent or guardian whose consent is required under the Code; and (2) as guardian ad litem to represent the child and the child's best interest in an adoption proceeding.  (Sec. 436) Allows the amount appropriated by this Act to be: (1) increased by no more than $15 million from funds identified in the comprehensive annual financial report as the District's FY 2003 unexpended general fund surplus; (2) obligated or expended under specified conditions; and (3) used only for unanticipated one-time expenditures, avoiding deficit spending, reducing debt, unanticipated program needs, or avoiding revenue shortfalls.  Division D: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004 - Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Export and Investment Assistance - Makes 2004 appropriations for: (1) Export-Import Bank direct and guaranteed loan and insurance programs, including administrative expenses; (2) Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) credit and insurance programs, including administrative expenses, and for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans; and (3) the Trade and Development Agency. Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for: (1) expenses of the President in carrying out certain programs under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) for child survival and disease programs, including HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, and family planning/reproductive health programs; (3) specified development assistance; (4) international disaster assistance including famine prevention and relief, and democracy transition and long-term development of countries in crisis; (5) direct loans and guaranteed loans for micro and small enterprise development and urban programs; (6) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (7) operating expenses of AID, including the transfer of certain funds to support its mission in Iraq, and the AID Office of Inspector General; (8) the Capital Investment Fund; (9) Economic Support Fund (ESF) assistance, including amounts for Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Ruwanda, Burundi, and the Middle East Partnership Initiative; (10) the International Fund for Ireland; (11) the global HIV/AIDS initiative; (12) assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States; (13) assistance for the new independent states of the former Soviet Union, including restrictions on assistance to Russia until compliance with specified actions in Chechnya and Iran; (14) the Inter-American Foundation, the African Development Foundation, the Peace Corps,with a prohibition on fund use for abortions, and the Millennium Challenge Account; (15) international narcotics control and law enforcement; (16) counterdrug activities in the Andean region of South America including restrictions on Peruvian air interdiction assistance and assistance to Colombia to support a unified campaign against terrorist organizations such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army (ELN), and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC); (17) migration and refugee assistance; (18) the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund; (19) nonproliferation, anti-terrorism, demining, and related programs and activities, including U.S. contributions to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory Commission; (20) the Department of the Treasury for international affairs technical assistance activities; and (21) debt restructuring of concessional loans, guarantees, and credits made to, and the canceling of amounts owed to, the United States by eligible foreign countries (but barring such assistance to Sudan or Burma unless the Secretary of the Treasury notifies the Committees on Appropriations that a democratically elected government has taken office). Title III: Military Assistance - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for: (1) expanded international military education and training (IMET), including provisions respecting Algeria, Cambodia, Nigeria, and Guatemala; (2) foreign military financing grants, including amounts for Israel and Egypt; and (3) international peacekeeping operations. Prohibits foreign military financing for Indonesia, Guatemala, Sudan, and Liberia. Title IV: Multilateral Economic Assistance - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for the U.S. contribution to: (1) the Global Environment Facility of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank); (2) International Development Association (IDA); (3) the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency; (4) the Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund; (5) the Asian Development Fund; (6) the African Development Bank; (7) the African Development Fund; (8) the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and (9) the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Makes FY 2004 appropriations for international programs and organizations. Sets certain restrictions on international organization funding. Prohibits the use of funds for the International Atomic Energy Association. Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 501) Prohibits payments to any international financial institution while the U.S. Executive Director to the institution is compensated at a rate in excess of that for Level IV of the Executive Schedule, or any alternate U.S. Director is compensated at a rate in excess of that for Level V of such Schedule. (Sec. 503) Sets forth limits on the use of appropriations, including specified maximums for official residence expenses, entertainment expenses, and representation allowances for AID, and for entertainment and representation allowances for the Inter-American Foundation and the Trade and Development Agency. Limits funds for entertainment expenses of the Peace Corps and entertainment allowances under IMET, and for entertainment and representation allowances under the Foreign Military Financing Program. (Sec. 506) Prohibits the use of funds for: (1) assistance for a foreign country under a new bilateral agreement unless such agreement provides that such assistance shall be exempt from taxation, or reimbursed, by the foreign government; (2) direct assistance or reparations to Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Iran, or Syria; (3) assistance to any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree; (4) certain transfers between U.S. agencies except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act, or between appropriations accounts without prior presidential consultation with Congress; (5) assistance to any country in default in excess of a year on payments on a U.S. loan (unless the President determines such assistance is in the national interest); and (6) assistance (except in certain circumstances) for production of any export commodity by a foreign country if the commodity is likely to be in surplus on world markets and if the assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a similar commodity. (Sec. 510) Authorizes the commercial leasing of defense articles (instead of the government-to-government sale) to Israel, Egypt, NATO, and major non-NATO allies if the President determines that there are compelling foreign policy or national security reasons. (Sec. 514) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose any assistance for the production or extraction of any commodity or mineral for export if it is in surplus on world markets and such assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a similar commodity. (Sec. 516) Declares that funds appropriated for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs, that are returned or not made available for international organizations and programs shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 2005. (Sec. 517) Prohibits the availability of assistance for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union to a government of such an Independent State: (1) unless it is making progress in implementing economic reforms based on market principles, private ownership, respect for commercial contracts, and equitable treatment of foreign private investment; (2) if it applies or transfers U.S. assistance to any entity for the purpose of expropriating or seizing ownership of assets, investments, or ventures (unless the President determines such assistance is in the national interest); (3) if it directs action in violation of the territorial integrity or national sovereignty of any other Independent State; or (4) to enhance its military capability (except for demilitarization, demining, or nonproliferation programs). Subjects such assistance for the Russian Federation, Armenia, Georgia, and the Ukraine to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 518) Prohibits the use of development assistance funds for abortions or involuntary sterilizations as methods of family planning, to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions, or to provide any financial incentive to undergo sterilization. (Sec. 519) Limits the amount of export financing funds (other than for administrative expenses) that can be transferred from one appropriation to another to not more than five percent, with no appropriation being increased by more than 25 percent by such transfer. (Sec. 520) Prohibits the use of funds for Liberia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Cambodia except through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 522) Makes funds available to AID for child survival and disease prevention programs in developing countries. (Sec. 523) Earmarks certain funds for Afghanistan for humanitarian, reconstruction, and related assistance. (Sec. 524) Requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to notify the Committees on Appropriations before providing excess DOD articles to certain NATO and major non-NATO countries. (Sec. 525) Makes certain foreign assistance funds available to employ on a limited appointment basis not more than 85 individuals for each of FY 2004 through 2006 under the AID overseas program. (Sec. 526) Earmarks certain funds for activities to support democracy and human rights in: (1) the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong; (2) countries with a significant Muslim population where such activities would be important to U.S. efforts to deter international terrorism, with obligated amounts for Egypt and Iran; and (3) sub-Saharan Africa. (Sec. 527) Prohibits bilateral assistance funds to any country which the President determines grants sanctuary from prosecution to any individual or group which has committed an act of international terrorism or otherwise supports such activities. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition for national security and humanitarian reasons. (Sec. 528) Authorizes nongovernmental organizations which are AID grantees or contractors to place funds made available to them under this Act in interest bearing accounts in order to enhance their participation in debt-for-development and debt-for-nature exchanges. (Sec. 529) Directs the Administrator of AID to require foreign countries that receive foreign assistance which results in the generation of local currencies to deposit such currencies in a separate account to be used to finance foreign assistance activities. (Sec. 530) Requires the President to submit to specified congressional committees a plan for the distribution of the assets of an Enterprise Fund before any distribution resulting from liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Fund. (Sec. 531) Makes ESF assistance available to support democracy activities in Burma and along the Burma-Thailand border and for activities of Burmese student groups and other organizations located outside Burma, including support for humanitarian assistance to displaced Burmese along Burma's borders. Earmarks an amount to support newspapers, publications, and other media activities promoting democracy inside Burma. States that is the sense of Congress that the United Nations Security Council should consider sanctions against Burma because of the threat to regional peace posed by the rule of the State Peace and Development Council. (Sec. 532) Declares that provisions under this or any other Act authorizing appropriations for foreign operations or export financing shall not be construed to prohibit activities authorized by the Peace Corps Act, the Inter-American Foundation Act, or the African Development Foundation Act. Requires an agency to report to the Committees on Appropriations whenever it is conducting or proposing activities in a country for which such assistance is prohibited. (Sec. 533) Prohibits the use of funds to provide: (1) any financial incentive to a business for purposes of inducing it to relocate outside the United States if it will reduce the number of U.S. employees; or (2) assistance for any program that contributes to the violation of internationally recognized workers rights in the recipient country. (Sec. 534) Allows funds appropriated under this Act for Afghanistan to be made available notwithstanding: (1) restrictions on assistance to countries in default in payment to the United States; and (2) restrictions contained in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 on law enforcement assistance. Allows funds appropriated under the trade and economic assistance titles of this Act to be made available to Lebanon, Montenegro, Pakistan, and for war victims, displaced children, and displaced Burmese, and to assist victims of trafficking in persons and to combat such trafficking. Authorizes the use of foreign assistance funds to support tropical forestry and biodiversity conservation programs and energy programs aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Authorizes AID to employ up to 25 personal services contractors in the United States to provide support for specified new or expanded overseas programs until permanent direct hire personnel are hired and trained.  Makes specified AID funds for FY 2004 and each fiscal year thereafter available to nongovernmental organizations for administrative costs necessary to implement a program to obtain available donated space on commercial ships for the shipment of humanitarian assistance overseas. Expands authorities under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 providing assistance to reconstitute post-conflict civilian police authority in an emerging nation to authorize such assistance for a regional, district, municipal, or other sub-national entity emerging from instability. Obligates specified funds: (1) managed by the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance of AID as a general contribution to the World Food Program; and (2) under Middle East regional programs for the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies and for the Center for Human Dignity Museum of Tolerance, Israel. (Sec. 535) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Arab League boycott of Israel (reinstated in 1997), and the secondary boycott of American firms that have commercial ties with Israel, is an impediment to regional peace and to U.S. investment and trade in the Middle East and North Africa and should be terminated; and (2) the President should report annually to Congress on specific steps taken by the United States to encourage Arab League states to normalize their relations with Israel to bring an end to the boycott. (Sec. 536) Authorizes the use of ESF funds to strengthen the administration of justice in countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and in other regions. (Sec. 537) Declares that restrictions on assistance to foreign countries contained in this Act or any other Act (except those relating to international terrorism or human rights violations) shall not be construed to restrict assistance: (1) in support of certain programs of nongovernmental organizations; or (2) under specified provisions of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. (Sec. 538) Authorizes the reprogramming of earmarked appropriations for other programs within the same account, provided certain requirements are met. Sets forth certain other requirements with respect to ceilings and earmarks of appropriations under this Act. (Sec. 540) Prohibits the use of funds for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States that were not authorized before the enactment of this Act. Earmarks amounts for private and voluntary organizations to deal with world hunger problems abroad. (Sec. 541) Prohibits the use of funds to pay any assessments, arrearages, or dues of any UN member (including costs for attendance of another country's delegation at international conferences held under the auspices of multilateral or international organizations). (Sec. 542) Prohibits the provision of funds to a nongovernmental organization that fails to provide any document, file, or record necessary for AID auditing requirements. (Sec. 543) Prohibits the provision of funds to any foreign government that provides lethal military equipment to a country that the Secretary of State (Secretary) has determined has a terrorist government, unless the President determines that such assistance is in the U.S. national interest. (Sec. 544) Withholds assistance to a foreign country in an amount equal to 110 percent of the total unpaid parking fines and penalties owed by the country to the District of Columbia and New York City, New York, as of September 30, 2003. (Sec. 545) Prohibits the obligation of any appropriations for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for the West Bank and Gaza unless the President has exercised certain authorities to suspend prohibitions on assistance to the PLO. (Sec. 546) Permits the President to provide up to a specified amount of commodities and services to the UN War Crimes Tribunal if doing so will contribute to a just resolution of charges regarding genocide or other violations of international law in the former Yugoslavia. (Sec. 547) Authorizes disposal on a grant basis in foreign countries of demining equipment used in support of the clearance of land mines and unexploded ordnance for humanitarian purposes. (Sec. 548) Prohibits, with an exception for acquisition of additional space for the Consulate General in Jerusalem, the obligation of appropriations to create in Jerusalem a new U.S. agency office for the purpose of conducting U.S. business with the Palestinian Authority over Gaza and Jericho (or any successor Palestinian governing entity) provided for in the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles. (Sec. 549) Prohibits the obligation of certain funds to pay for: (1) alcoholic beverages; or (2) entertainment expenses for recreational activities. (Sec. 550) Prohibits the United States from paying any voluntary contribution to the UN (including the UN Development Program) if the UN implements or imposes any taxation on U.S. persons. (Sec. 551) Makes the Government of Haiti eligible to purchase U.S. defense articles and services for its Coast Guard. (Sec. 552) Prohibits the obligation of any appropriations for the PLO unless the President certifies to Congress that it is in the U.S. national security interests. Limits the duration of any such waiver and requires a report to the Committees on Appropriations when it is exercised. (Sec. 553) Prohibits the use of funds for the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary believes they have committed gross violations of human rights, unless the Secretary reports to the Committees on Appropriations that such country is taking steps to bring the responsible persons to justice. (Sec. 554) Requires a specified annual foreign military training report to be submitted by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary to the Committees on Appropriations by a certain date. (Sec. 555) Earmarks specified funds for biodiversity (and forest) programs in developing countries, and for improving the capacity of indigenous groups and local environmental organizations and law enforcement agencies to protect the biodiversity of indigenous reserves in the Amazon Basin region of Brazil. Directs: (1) the Secretary to submit to the Committees on Appropriations a strategy for biodiversity conservation in the Amazon Basin region of South America; and (2) the President to report to such Committees on Federal agency FY 2004 obligations for climate change programs. (Sec. 556) Makes specified funds requested for Regional Democracy assistance for East Asia and the Pacific available for the Human Rights and Democracy Fund of the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Department of State. (Sec. 557) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive director to each international financial institution to: (1) vote against any loan extension to the Government of Zimbabwe, except to meet basic human needs or to promote democracy, unless the Secretary of State certifies to the Committees on Appropriations that the rule of law has been restored in Zimbabwe; (2) oppose loans to Cambodia, except loans for basic human needs; and (3) support projects in Tibet if such projects do not provide incentives for the migration and settlement of non-Tibetans into Tibet or facilitate the transfer of ownership of Tibetan land and natural resources to non-Tibetans. Earmarks specified funds for nongovernmental organizations to support activities which preserve cultural traditions and promote sustainable development and environmental conservation in Tibetan communities in the Tibetan Autonomous Region and in other Tibetan communities in China. (Sec. 560) Prohibits International Military Education and Training and Foreign Military Financing Program funds for Nigeria until the President certifies to the Committees on Appropriations that the Nigerian Minister of Defense, the Chief of the Army Staff, and the Minister of State for Defense/Army are suspending those armed forces members against whom there is credible evidence of gross violations of human rights in Benue State in October 2001. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition if in the U.S. national security interest. (Sec. 562) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to support a Palestinian state unless the Secretary certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that: (1) a new leadership of a Palestinian governing entity has been democratically elected; (2) such entity has demonstrated a commitment to peaceful coexistence with Israel and is taking measures to counter terrorism; and (3) the Palestinian Authority is working to establish a lasting peace in the Middle East. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition if in the U.S. national security interest.  Expresses the sense of Congress that the newly elected governing entity should enact a constitution assuring the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and respect for human rights, and should enact other laws and regulations assuring transparent and accountable governance. (Sec. 563) Makes up to 12.5 percent of the funds appropriated by this Act for assistance for the Colombian Armed Forces available only if the Secretary has certified to the appropriate congressional committees that such armed forces are cooperating in bringing to justice those members of the armed forces who have committed gross violations of human rights, including extrajudicial killings. (Sec. 564) Prohibits the Secretary from issuing a visa to any alien who has willfully provided (or conspired to provide) support to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army (ELN), or the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). Provides for waiver of such prohibition on a case-by-case basis for humanitarian reasons or to support the peace process. (Sec. 565) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act to provide equipment, technical support, consulting services, or any other assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. (Sec. 566) Requires the Secretary, 30 days prior to ESF fund obligation for the bilateral West Bank and Gaza Program, to certify to the appropriate congressional committees that procedures have been established to ensure the Comptroller General's access to appropriate U.S. financial information in order to review the uses of Program funds. Requires the Secretary to take all appropriate steps to ensure such assistance is not provided to or through any individual or entity that advocates or engages in terrorist activity. (Sec. 567) Earmarks a specified amount of international organizations and program funds for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) (except for any country program in China). Conditions the availability of such funds to UNFPA on specified requirements, including that it does not fund abortions. Earmarks specified UNFPA funds for: (1) family planning, and maternal and reproductive health activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Haiti, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Albania, Romania, and Kazakhstan; and (2) young women, mothers and children who are victims of trafficking in persons. (Sec. 568) States that funds appropriated by this Act may be made available for: (1) the Government of Uzbekistan only if the Secretary determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that the Government of Uzbekistan is making substantial progress in meeting its commitments under the Declaration on the Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Framework Between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the United States of America, including respect for human rights, establishing a genuine multiparty system, and ensuring free and fair elections, freedom of expression, and the independence of the media; and (2) the Government of Kazakhstan only if the Secretary determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that the Government of Kazakhstan has made significant human rights improvements during the preceding six-month period. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such requirements if in the U.S. national security interest. Directs the Secretary to make specified defense-related reports respecting the countries of Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan). (Sec. 569) Prohibits funds appropriated under this Act for the Government of the Russian Federation unless the President certifies to the Committees on Appropriations that the Government of the Russian Federation has implemented no statute or similar government action that would discriminate against religious groups or religious communities in the Russian Federation. (Sec. 570) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for assistance (except humanitarian assistance and assistance for democratization), and requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors to the international financial institutions to vote against the extension of assistance to any country (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia) or entity (Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and the Republika Srpska) that has failed to take necessary steps to implement its international legal obligations to apprehend and transfer to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia all persons in their territory who have been indicted by the Tribunal. (Sec. 571) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors at specified international financial institutions to oppose any loan, grant, strategy, or policy that would require user fees or service charges on poor people for primary education or primary health care, including prevention and treatment efforts for HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and infant, child, and maternal well-being, in connection with the institution's lending programs. (Sec. 572) Makes funds appropriated by this Act available for assistance for Serbia if the President certifies to the Committees on Appropriations that the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is: (1) cooperating with the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, including regarding the surrender and transfer of indictees or assistance in their apprehension; (2) taking steps consistent with the Dayton Accords to end Serbian financial, political, security and other support which has served to maintain separate Republika Srpska institutions; and (3) taking steps to implement policies which reflect a respect for minority rights and the rule of law, including the release of political prisoners from Serbian prisons. States that such requirements shall not apply to Montenegro, Kosovo, humanitarian assistance, or assistance to promote democracy in municipalities. (Sec. 573) Authorizes the use of foreign assistance funds to enhance the effectiveness and accountability of civilian police authority in Jamaica and El Salvador through human rights training, and through the promotion of civilian police roles that support democratic governance, including programs on conflict prevention and police relations with the community. (Sec. 574) Authorizes the President to reduce amounts owed to the United States by eligible countries as a result of: (1) housing guarantees made pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) credits extended or guarantees issued under the Arms Export Control Act; and (3) certain export guarantees for U.S. agricultural commodities. Permits exercise of such authority only: (1) to implement multilateral official debt relief and referendum agreements known as the Paris Club Agreed Minutes; and (2) with respect to countries with heavy debt burdens that are eligible to borrow from the International Development Association (but not from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) (IDA-only countries). Prescribes additional conditions for the exercise of such authority. (Sec. 575) Authorizes the President to engage in certain debt buybacks or sales. Authorizes sale, reduction, or cancellation of certain loans to foreign governments upon payment from an eligible purchaser that plans to use such loans only for debt-for-equity swaps, debt-for-development swaps, or debt-for-nature swaps. Limits such authority to funds appropriated by this Act under the heading of debt restructuring. (Sec. 576) Authorizes the use of certain foreign assistance funds for the cost of individuals detailed to or employed by AID whose primary responsibility is to carry out programs to address natural or man-made disasters or programs under certain Transition Initiatives. (Sec. 577) Authorizes a U.S. contribution to the sixth replenishment of the resources of the International Fund for Agricultural Development. (Sec. 578) Earmarks a specified amount of ESF assistance for the Philippines only for upgrading education and health infrastructure in the Sulu Archipelago. (Sec. 579) Earmarks specified amounts of bilateral economic assistance funds and ESF funds for basic education. Requires the Secretary to submit a report for the use of basic education funds in Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, the Near East, South Asia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States). (Sec. 580) Amends the International Development Association Act to authorize a U.S. contribution to the thirteenth replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA). (Sec. 581) Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury: (1) to instruct the U.S. executive director at each multilateral development institution to inform the institution of certain U.S. policy goals regarding institution meetings and public records and work toward achieving them before June 30, 2005; and (2) not later than 60 days after a meeting of the Board of Directors of a multilateral development institution to provide for publication on the Department of the Treasury's website of any written statement presented by the U.S. executive director concerning inspection mechanism cases. (Sec. 582) Amends the Asian Development Bank Act to authorize a U.S. contribution to the seventh replenishment of the Asian Development Fund. (Sec. 583) Amends the African Development Fund Act to authorize a U.S. contribution to the ninth replenishment of the African Development Fund. (Sec. 584) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by the OPIC to insure, reinsure, guarantee, or finance any investment in connection with a project involving the mining, polishing or other processing, or sale of diamonds in a country that fails to meet the requirements developed by the Kimberley Process on conflict diamonds. Imposes similar requirements on the U.S. Import-Export Bank with respect to credit. (Sec. 585) Earmarks specified funds for reconciliation programs. (Sec. 586) Earmarks specified Child Survival and Development Assistance funds for Nicaragua. (Sec. 587) Requires the Administrator of AID to develop and implement AID project access standards for people with disabilities. (Sec. 588) Earmarks certain funds appropriated by this Act for trade capacity building assistance. (Sec. 589) States that Congress recognizes: (1) the important contribution of the Government of Nigeria in fostering stability in West Africa, including reaching an agreement with the Government of Liberia to provide relief and promote reconciliation in that nation; and (2) the important contributions of other African nations and supports continued assistance in resolving the destabilizing conflicts in West Africa and the Great Lakes region. States that Congress reaffirms its support for the efforts of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) to bring to justice individuals responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity States that funds appropriated by this Act, including funds for debt restructuring, may be made available to the central government of a country in which individuals indicted by ICTR and SCSL are credibly alleged to be living if the Secretary determines and reports to the Committees on Appropriations that such government is cooperating with ICTR and SCSL. Authorizes the President to waive such requirements if in the U.S. national security interest. Earmarks specified funds for the Special Court of Sierra Leone. (Sec. 590) Directs the Secretary to: (1) use private voluntary organizations with the relevant expertise in the processing, identification, and referral of refugees; (2) develop a system for accepting referrals from local private, voluntary organizations, and outlines categories of special consideration for admission; and (3) report to the Committees on Appropriations respecting such provisions' implementation. (Sec. 591) Amends Federal law to increase post differentials and danger pay allowances for AID employees, subject to the provision of similar pay allowances for Department of State employees. (Makes such increase available immediately for AID personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq.) (Sec. 592) Directs the Secretary to report to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives on the murder investigation of U.S. democracy worker John Alvis. (Sec. 593) Amends the International Organizations Immunities Act to authorize extension of such Act to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) in the same manner as may be extended to a public international organization in which the United States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress. (Sec. 594) Prohibits specified funds under this Act for refugees or internally displaced persons to be provided to an organization that has failed to adopt a code of conduct consistent with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Task Force on Protection From Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Crises six core principles for the protection of beneficiaries of humanitarian assistance. States that in administering such funds the Secretary and the Administrator of AID shall incorporate policies and programs to identify the specific needs of women and children at the various stages of humanitarian emergencies. Directs the Secretary to report to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Appropriations on activities of the Government of the United States to protect women and children affected by humanitarian emergencies. (Sec. 595) Amends the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 to: (1) define "funds contributed to the Global Fund from all sources" for purposes of the U.S. one-third matching limitation; (2) allow certain withheld funds to be used for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria programs; and (3) exempt the Global Fund, the World Health Organization, the International AIDS Vaccine Fund, and United Nations agencies from the funding ban for any entity that does not have an explicit policy opposing prostitution and sex trafficking. (Sec. 597) States that Foreign Military Financing Program funds under this Act may be made available for assistance for Indonesia, and licenses may be issued for the export of lethal defense articles for the Indonesian Armed Forces, only if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that: (1) the Indonesia Minister of Defense is suspending and prosecuting those armed forces members who have been credibly alleged to have committed gross human rights violations or to have aided militia groups; and (2) the Indonesian Armed Forces are cooperating with civilian prosecutors and judicial authorities in Indonesia and with the joint United Nations-East Timor Serious Crimes Unit. States that IMET assistance may be made available for Indonesia if the Secretary determines and reports that the Indonesian Government and armed forces are cooperating with the FBI's investigation of the August 31, 2002, murders of two American citizens and one Indonesian citizen in Timika, Indonesia. (Sec. 598) States that assessment and description of violations of religious freedom contained in the report required by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 shall include a description of persecution targeted at specific religions, including acts of anti-Semitism, by terrorist individuals or organizations. (Sec. 599A) Directs the Secretary and the Administrator of AID to provide charter air service in regions where scheduled air service is grossly inadequate. (Sec. 599B) Modifies certain Plan Columbia reporting requirements. (Sec. 599C) Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to report on the number of individuals detailed from each executive agency to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq by February 1, 2004. Requires such plan's quarterly updating until May 2005. Title VI: Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 - Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 - (Sec. 602) Declares that the purposes of this title are to provide U.S. assistance for global development through the Millennium Challenge Corporation in a manner that promotes economic growth and the elimination of extreme poverty, and strengthens good governance, economic freedom, and investments in people. (Sec. 604) Establishes in the executive branch the Millennium Challenge Corporation which shall provide assistance (grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts) to each eligible country that enters into a Millennium Challenge Compact with the United States to support policies and programs that advance its progress in achieving economic growth and poverty reduction. (Sec. 605) Defines "eligible entity" as: (1) the national government or regional or local governmental units of an eligible country; or (2) a nongovernmental organization or a private entity. Prohibits assistance: (1) for military purposes; (2) that is likely to adversely affect U.S. jobs or production; (3) that is likely to adversely affect health, safety, or the environment; and (4) for abortions or involuntary sterilizations. (Sec. 606) Sets forth eligibility conditions for low-income and lower middle income countries. (Sec. 607) Defines \"eligible country\" in terms of a country's commitment to democratic governance, economic freedom, and investment in its people (including educational opportunities and health care). (Sec. 609) Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) Compact elements; (2) congressional and public notification; (3) suspension and termination of assistance; (4) disclosure; and (5) reporting. (Sec. 619) Authorizes FY 2004 and 2005 appropriations. [NOTE: This Public Law version of H.R. 2673 does NOT include provisions prohibiting funds for the Department of Labor from being used to promulgate or implement any regulation that would have taken away eligibility for overtime pay from any worker currently entitled to such overtime pay. Such provisions were in a Senate-passed version of H.R. 2660 for Labor-HHS-Education appropriations.]  Division E: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations, 2004 - Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies.  Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration, training and employment services; (2) community service employment for older Americans; (3) Federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (4) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (5) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (6) employment and training program administration; (7) the Employee Benefits Security Administration; (8) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (9) the Employment Standards Administration; (10) certain special benefits, including ones for disabled coal miners; (11) the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund; (12) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (13) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (14) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (15) the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (16) the Office of Disability Employment Policy; (17) departmental management; (18) veterans employment and training; (19) the Office of Inspector General; and (20) a working capital fund for a new core accounting system. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 101) Prohibits use of Job Corps funds under this title to pay individual compensation at a rate in excess of Executive Level II. (Sec. 102) Allows not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between appropriations. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer. (Sec. 103) Prohibits, in accordance with a specified executive order, funds under this Act from being obligated or expended for procuring goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested, or services rendered, whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations to the Denali Commission, through the Department of Labor, to conduct job training of the local workforce where Denali Commission projects will be constructed.  (Sec. 105) Rescinds a specified amount of the funds appropriated for FY 1999 that were allotted as welfare-to-work formula grants to States under certain Social Security Act provisions. Directs the Secretary of Labor to recapture unexpended funds from States that have received such allotments, on the basis of each State's relative portion of the total unexpended amount in all States.  (Sec. 106) Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) re-propose a rule on respirable coal dust which incorporates the use of Personal Dust Monitors (PDMs), following the successful demonstration of PDM technology, if the Secretary determines that PDMs can be effectively applied in a regulatory scheme; and (2) if such rule is re-proposed, comply with the regular procedures applicable to Federal rulemaking.  (Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary of Labor to transfer, without charge or consideration, to Hamilton County, Ohio, all rights, title, and interest (including all Federal equity) the United States holds in the real property located at 1916 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio, to the extent such rights, title, or interest were acquired through grants to the State of Ohio under title III of the Social Security Act or the Wagner-Peyser Act or acquired through funds distributed to the State of Ohio under specified provisions of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 108) Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from certain child labor restrictions the employment, inside or outside of businesses where machinery is used to process wood products, of individuals between ages 14 and 18 who are exempt, by statute or judicial order, from compulsory school attendance beyond the eighth grade. Permits such youth employment if the individual: (1) is supervised by an adult relative or by an adult member of the same religious sect or division; (2) does not operate or assist in the operation of power-driven woodworking machines; (3) is protected from wood particles or other flying debris within the workplace by a barrier appropriate to such potential hazard or by maintaining a sufficient distance from machinery in operation; and (4) is required to use personal protective equipment to prevent exposure to excessive levels of noise and sawdust.  Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration, for specified health resources and services activities; (2) health education assistance loans; (3) the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund; (4) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), for disease control, research, and training; (5) the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the John E. Fogarty International Center, the National Library of Medicine, and the Office of the Director; (6) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, for substance abuse and mental health services; (7) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, reserving a specified amount for the conduct of research on the comparative effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and safety of drugs, biological products and devices; (8) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for grants to States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, program management, and the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (9) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to States for child support enforcement and family support programs; (10) low income home energy assistance; (11) refugee and entrant assistance; (12) payments to States for the child care and development block grant; (13) the social services block grant; (14) children and families services programs; (15) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (16) payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance; (17) the Administration on Aging; (18) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (19) the Office of Inspector General; (20) the Office for Civil Rights; (21) policy research; (22) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (23) the public health and social services emergency fund, for expenses related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available through assignment not more than 60 employees of the Public Health Service to assist in child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs through and with funds provided by the Agency for International Development, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization. (Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a certain mandatory breast cancer study under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) or to construct regional centers for primate research under the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993. (Sec. 204) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to pay an individual's salary, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I. (Sec. 205) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act pursuant to specified evaluation provisions of PHSA, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of HHS, prior to a report by the Secretary of HHS to specified congressional committees detailing the planned uses of such funds. (Sec. 206) Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine a portion, up to 2.2 percent, of appropriations for PHSA programs to be made available for evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of such programs. (Sec. 207) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds in this Act for the current fiscal year for the Department of HHS. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional two percent subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 208) Authorizes the Directors of the NIH and of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) jointly to transfer up to three percent among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). (Sec. 209) Requires the amount for research related to HIV (of amounts made available for NIH in this Act), as jointly determined by the Directors of NIH and of OAR, to be made available to the OAR account. Requires the Director of OAR to transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out certain provisions of PHSA. (Sec. 210) Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA, unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to coerce them into engaging in sexual activities. (Sec. 211) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to carry out the Medicare+Choice program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions. (Sec. 212) Declares that no provider of services under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.  (Sec. 213) Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 to extend through FY 2004 the authority and deadline for aliens to apply for refugee admission into the United States. Directs the Attorney General to establish one or more refugee categories for members of religious minorities who are or were targets of persecution in Iran.  (Sec. 214) Prohibits funds under by this Act from being used to withhold substance abuse funding from a State pursuant to specified PHSA provisions, if such State certifies to the Secretary of HHS that the State will commit additional State funds to ensure compliance with State laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 18 years of age. Requires the amount of such funds to be committed by a State to equal one percent of its substance abuse block grant allocation for each percentage point by which the State misses the retailer compliance rate goal established by the Secretary of HHS. Requires the State to maintain its expenditures in FY 2004 for tobacco prevention programs and for compliance activities at least at its FY 2003 level, and to add to that level such required additional funds for tobacco compliance activities. Provides that no funds under this Act may be used to withhold such substance abuse funding from a territory that receives less than $1 million of such funding.  (Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, in order for the CDCP to carry out international health activities, including those relating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during FY 2004, to: (1) exercise authority equivalent to that available to the Secretary of State under specified provisions of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956; and (2) provide funds to the Secretary of State to acquire, lease, alter, renovate, or manage facilities outside the United States for use by the Department of HHS to carry out such programs.  (Sec. 216) Authorizes the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ occupational health professionals and professionals in management and administration. (Sec. 217) Authorizes the Director of the NIH to use funds under this Act to award Core Center Grants to encourage the development of innovative multidisciplinary research and provide training concerning Parkinson's disease. Requires each such center to be designated as a Morris K. Udall Center for Research on Parkinson's Disease.   (Sec. 218) Requires the NIH Director, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to report to the appropriate congressional committees, including: (1) the Director's recommendations on the NIH role in promoting affordability of inventions and products developed with Federal funds; and (2) a description of any existing circumstances that prevent the Director from doing such promotion.  (Sec. 219) Authorizes use of certain funds to continue operating the Council on Graduate Medical Education.  (Sec. 220) Designates the NIH Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers program as the Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers.  (Sec. 221) Authorizes the NIH Director to use certain available funds to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research in support of the NIH Roadmap Initiative of the Director. Authorizes the Director, in entering such transactions, to determine and use appropriate peer review procedures in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under PHSA. (Sec. 222) Amends the Denali Commission Act of 1998 to replace certain grant authority with the authority to make interagency transfers. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Education for: (1) education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) Indian education; (5) innovation and improvement activities; (6) safe schools and citizenship education, including the Project School Emergency Response to violence program; (7) English language acquisition and language enhancement; (8) special education; (9) rehabilitation services and disability research; (10) special institutions for persons with disabilities, including the American Printing House for the Blind, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University; (11) vocational and adult education; (12) certain student financial assistance programs, as well as Federal administrative expenses for such programs (and sets a maximum individual Pell Grant amount); (13) specified higher education programs; (14) Howard University; (15) the college housing and academic facilities loans program; (16) the historically Black college and university capital financing program account; (17) the Institute of Education Sciences; (18) departmental management and program administration; (19) the Office for Civil Rights; and (20) the Office of the Inspector General. Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,050 during award year 2004-2005. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 301) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan. (Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds under in this Act to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition. (Sec. 303) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools. (Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer. (Sec. 305) Directs the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance to study and report to the Secretary of Education and specified congressional committees on the feasibility of simplifying: (1) the needs analysis methodology for all Federal student assistance programs; and (2) the process of applying for such assistance. Directs the Secretary of Education to consult with such congressional committees and subsequently initiate a redesign of the free Federal form for applying for student assistance, which is required under specified provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Requires such redesign to include the testing of alternative simplified versions of the free Federal form. Prohibits the Secretary of Education from implementing or enforcing for the award year 2004-2005 the annual update to the allowances for State and other taxes in the tables used in the Federal needs analysis methodology as prescribed in the Federal Register on Friday, May 30, 2003. (Sec. 306) Directs the Secretary of Education to treat as timely filed an application under specified provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 from the local educational agency for Hydaburg, Alaska, for a payment for FY 2004, and process such application for payment, if it is received not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the: (1) Armed Forces Retirement Home; (2) Corporation for National and Community Service, for domestic volunteer service programs and operating expenses; (3) Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (5) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6) Institute of Museum and Library Services; (7) Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; (8) National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (9) National Council on Disability; (10) National Labor Relations Board; (11) National Mediation Board; (12) Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (13) Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account, Federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts, administration, and the Office of Inspector General; (14) Social Security Administration for payments to the Social Security trust funds, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, administrative expenses, and the Office of Inspector General; and (15) U.S. Institute of Peace. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act. (Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs. (Sec. 506) Sets forth Buy American requirements. (Sec. 508) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act, or in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion, with exceptions specified in section 509 of this Act. (Sec. 509) Provides that the prohibition in section 508 shall not apply to an abortion: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Provides that nothing in section 508 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, entity, or private person of State, local, or private funds (other than a State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a State or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with State funds (other than a State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds). (Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under specified Federal regulations and the Public Health Service Act. Defines \"human embryo or embryos\" to include any organism, not protected as a human subject under specified Federal regulations as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells. (Sec. 511) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine such advantage. (Sec. 513) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a final standard under the Social Security Act providing for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard. (Sec. 515) Requires a pro rata reduction of $50,000,000 from amounts made available under this Act for departmental management of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. (Sec. 516) Prohibits funds made available by this Act to carry out the Library Services and Technology Act from being made available for assistance to purchase computers or Internet access for any covered library (under specified provisions of such Act as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act) unless the library has certified its compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety. (Sec. 517) Prohibits funds made available by this Act to carry out the Enhancing Education Through Technology Act of 2001 (part D of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Children's Internet Protections Act and the No Child Left Behind Act) from being made available to any covered elementary or secondary school, unless its local educational agency has certified the school's compliance with certain requirements for Internet safety. Division F: Departments of Transportation, and Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 -Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for the following agencies: (1) Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary; (2) Office of Civil Rights; (3) the Working Capital Fund; (4) Minority Business Resource Center Program; (5) Federal Aviation Administration; (6) grants-in-aid for airports; (7) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA); (8) Federal-Aid Highways, including Highway Safety Programs; (9) Appalachian Development Highway System; (10) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (11) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (12) National Driver Register; (11) Highway Traffic Safety Grants; (12) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (13) Federal Railroad Administration; (14) Railroad Research and Development; (15) Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Program; (16) Next Generation High-Speed Rail; (17) Alaska Railroad Rehabilitation; (18) Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); (19) Federal Transit Administration (FTA); (20) Formula Grants; (21) University Transportation Research; (22) Transit Planning and Research; (23) Capital Investment Grants; (24) Job Access and Reverse Commute Grants; (25) Utah Transportation Projects; (26) Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (27) Maritime Administration; (28) Research and Special Programs Administration; (29) Pipeline Safety; (30) Emergency Preparedness Grants; (31) Office of the Inspector General; and (32) the Surface Transportation Board. (Sec. 106) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) change weight restrictions or prior permission rules at Teterboro Airport in Teterboro, New Jersey; or (2) establish or implement a pilot program under which up to ten designated essential air service communities located in proximity to hub airports are required to assume ten percent of their essential air subsidy costs for a four-year period, (EAS local participation program)  (Sec. 108) Declares that the costs of construction of terminal and hangar buildings are allowable for an airport development project at Somerset-Pulaski County Airport-J.T. Wilson Field, Kentucky, and at Pryor Field Regional Airport, Decatur, Alabama. (Sec. 111) Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) to designate as Interstate I-22 a specified segment of the high priority U.S. Route 78 Corridor from Memphis, Tennessee, through Mississippi to near Birmingham, Alabama. (Sec. 112) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) to revise requirements for specified high priority projects in New York, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana. (Sec. 114) Declares that certain Intelligent Transportation Systems appropriations made to the State of Wisconsin shall not be subject to specified TEA-21 funding limitations. (Sec. 116) Makes Intelligent Transportation Systems appropriations for specified places in Wisconsin available for use in certain counties and the City of Superior and northern Wisconsin.  (Sec. 117) Directs the Secretary of Transportation to enter into an agreement with Nevada, Arizona, or both, to provide a method of funding for construction of a Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge from funds allocated for the Federal Lands Highway Program. (Sec. 118) Amends ISTEA to change a specified relocation priority intermodal project for Detroit, Michigan, to one for road improvements and non-motorized enhancements in the Detroit East Riverfront. (Sec. 119) Requires the transfer of certain Transportation and Community and System Preservation Program funds for the Lodge Freeway and Eastern Market pedestrian overpasses, Detroit, Michigan, to such enhancements in the East Riverfront, Detroit, Michigan.  (Sec. 121) Makes unexpended balances of the amounts made available by the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 from the Federal-aid highway account for improvements to Council Grove Lake, Kansas, available to make improvements to Richey Cove, Santa Fe Recreation Area, Canning Creek Recreation Area, and other areas in Kansas. (Sec. 122) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 to make certain funds available to the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for surface transportation projects.  (Sec. 123) Amends Federal transportation law with respect to the Appalachian development highway system to increase authorized construction on the system from 3,025 miles to 3,090 miles. Designates a certain addition to the system in Alabama as Corridor X-1, which shall be developed as a multi-lane freeway. (Sec. 124) Directs the Secretary of Transportation to amend the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices to permit provision of information, including by means of a logo panel within three miles of an interchange on the Federal-aid system, to assist motorists in locating licensed 24-hour pharmacy services open to the public.  (Sec. 125) Makes funds obligated for pre-implementation costs, project design, and implementation costs of the I-15 Congestion Pricing Project (also known as the I-15 FasTrack project) in the city of San Diego eligible for funding costs incurred under such project. Sets the Federal share of the total cost of the project at up to 80  percent.  (Sec. 126) Makes the Kentucky Highlands, Freight Enhancement Revolving Loan Fund, Kentucky, eligible for specified funding to assist in financing freight enhancement projects.  (Sec. 127) States that a specified amount made available for obligation in FY 2003 for the project Kannapolis Parkway & Interstate 85 Interchange-Kannapolis, North Carolina, shall be reprogrammed, transferred, and made available for obligation for Kannapolis Industrial Park Access Road-Kannapolis, North Carolina. (Sec. 128) Amends the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 to revise the specifications for specified improvements to US 73 in Wyandotte County, Kansas. (Sec. 129) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 to make the unobligated share of certain funds for the Pennsylvania State Route 711 Bypass (Ligonier), the unobligated share shall be available for construction of a connector road between the newly relocated State Route 1045 and Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA.  (Sec. 130) Subjects funds appropriated or limited in this Act to the requirements for the safety of cross-border trucking between the United States and Mexico of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002, including an annual report to specified congressional committees on the safety and security of transportation into the United States by Mexico-domiciled motor carriers.  (Sec. 131) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement or enforce any provisions of the Final Rule, issued on April 16, 2003 (Docket No. FMCSA-97-2350), with respect to either: (1) the operators of utility service vehicles; or (2) maximum daily hours of service for drivers engaged in the transportation of property or passengers to or from a motion picture or television production site located within a 100-air mile radius of the work reporting location of such drivers. (Sec. 150) Amends Federal transportation law to authorize the Surface Transportation Board to direct the continued operation of certain existing freight or commuter rail passenger transportation operations in the case of a failure of such operations caused by a cessation of service by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak). States that the Board may not direct a rail carrier to undertake such operations unless: (1) the rail carrier is operationally capable of conducting the directed service in a safe and efficient manner; and (2) the funding for such directed service is provided in advance in appropriations Acts. Requires the Board, in such an emergency, to: (1) provide funding to fully reimburse the directed service provider for its associated costs, including the payment of increased insurance premiums; and (2) order complete indemnification against any and all claims associated with the provision of service to which the directed rail carrier may be exposed. (Sec. 151) Directs the Secretary of Transportation, working with affected States, to develop and implement a procedure for fair competitive bidding by Amtrak and non-Amtrak operators for State-supported routes. Provides for agreements between States and Amtrak for use of Amtrak facilities and equipment in the event a State desires to select or selects a non-Amtrak operator for a route. (Sec. 164) Makes certain funds available to the Colorado Roaring Fork Transportation Authority also available for expenditure on park and ride lots in Carbondale and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, as part of the Roaring Fork Valley Bus Rapid Transit project. (Sec. 166) Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot grant program to determine the benefits of encouraging cooperative procurement of major capital equipment in pilot projects involving urbanized formula grants for mass transit capital projects, capital investment grants and loans for new fixed guideway systems, and mass transportation service projects for areas other than urbanized areas. Sets the Federal share for a grant at 90 percent of the net project cost.  (Sec. 167) Makes certain new fixed guideway system funds available for the Yosemite, California, area regional transportation system project also available for obligation for the replacement, rehabilitation, or purchase of buses or related equipment, or the  construction of bus related facilities.  (Sec. 168) Directs the Secretary, for the purpose of calculating the non-New Starts share of the total project cost of both phases of San Francisco Muni's Third Street Light Rail Transit project for FY 2004, to: (1) include all non-New Starts contributions made towards Phase 1 of the two-phase project for engineering, final design and construction; and (2) also allow non-New Starts funds expended on one element or phase of the project to be used to meet the non-New Starts share requirement of any element or phase of the project. Prohibits the obligation of the funds provided in this Act for the San Francisco Muni Third Street Light Rail Transit Project, however, if the FTA determines that the project is ``not recommended'' after evaluation and computation of revised transportation system user benefit data. (Sec. 169) Authorizes the use for the Euclid Corridor Transportation Project of certain funds made available for the Cleveland Berea Red Line Extension to the Hopkins International Airport project. (Sec. 170) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds designated to the Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA) on pages 1305 through 1307 of the Joint Explanatory Statement of the Committee of Conference for Public Law 108-7 may be available to CTAA for any project or activity authorized under section 3037 of Public Law 105-178 upon receipt of an application. (Sec. 171) Amends the Federal Transit Act to direct the FTA and FHWA to work with the Utah Transit Authority and the Utah Department of Transportation to coordinate the development regional commuter rail and the northern segment of I-15 reconstruction located in the Wasatch Front corridor extending from Brigham City to Payson, Utah. (Sec. 172) Authorizes the use of certain mass transit capital project formula grant funds apportioned to the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority to to lease land, equipment, or facilities used in public transportation from another governmental authority in the same geographic area. Allows the non-Federal share of such a capital project to include revenues from the sale of advertising and concessions. Terminates this authorization on the earlier of September 30, 2004, or the date the Federal interest in the land, equipment or facilities leased reaches 80 percent of its fair market value at disposition.  (Sec. 173) Authorizes the availability of funds otherwise designated to the Pennsylvania Cumberland/Dauphin County Corridor I project in committee reports accompanying this Act for any project activities authorized with respect to urbanized formula grants for mass transit capital projects and capital investment grants and loans for new fixed guideway systems. (Sec. 174) Directs the FTA to permit the Memphis Area Transit Authority to use (until expended) for Memphis Regional Rail Plan planning, engineering, design, construction or acquisition projects all of remaining funds provided for the Memphis Medical Center light rail extension project through the new fixed guideway systems program.  (Sec. 175) Amends TEA-21 to: (1) make the Memphis-Shelby International Airport intermodal facility eligible for funding; and (2) authorize the Secretary, for FY 2004, to make urbanized formula mass transit capital project grant assistance (up to $10 million annually to all such providers) available to a transit provider that operates 25 or fewer vehicles in an urbanized area with a population of at least 200,000 to finance operating costs in providing mass transportation services to elderly and persons with disabilities. Title II: Department of the Treasury - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for the Department of the Treasury, including: (1) department-wide systems and capital investments; (2) the Office of Inspector General; (3) Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; (4) the Air Transportation Stabilization Board; (5) Treasury Building and Annex Repair and Restoration; (6) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; (7) Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau; (8) U.S. Mint; (9) Bureau of the Public Debt; (10) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); (11) tax law enforcement; and (12) health insurance tax credit administration. (Sec. 205) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to propose to Congress legislation which would provide transition relief for older and longer-service participants affected by conversions of their employers' traditional pension plans to cash balance pension plans. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by the Secretary, or his designee, to issue any rule or regulation implementing the proposed amendments to IRS regulations set forth in REG-209500-86 and REG-164464-02, or any amendments reaching results similar to such proposed amendments.  (Sec. 206) Directs the IRS to study and report to Congress on any program that requires certification (including pre-certification) in order to claim the earned income tax credit. (Sec. 216) Amends Federal law to extend from five years to six years the authorization for the personnel management demonstration project providing for the compensation and performance management of not more than a combined total of 950 employees who fill critical scientific, technical, engineering, intelligence analyst, language translator, and medical positions in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.  Title III: Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for compensation of the President and salaries and expenses of designated White House agencies, including: (1) the Council of Economic Advisors; (2) National Security Council; (3) Office of Management and Budget (OMB); and (4) various Federal Drug Control Programs. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for independent agencies, including: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; (2) the National Transportation Safety Board; (3) Committee for Purchase from People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled; (4) Federal Election Commission; (5) Election Assistance Commission; (6) Federal Labor Relations Authority; (7) Federal Maritime Administration; (8) General Services Administration (GSA); (9) Merit Systems Protection Board; (10) the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Trust Fund; (11) the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund; (12) the National Archives and Records Administration; (13) the National Historical Publications and Records Commission; (14) the Office of Government Ethics; (15) the Office of Personnel Management; (16) the Office of Special Counsel; (17) U.S. Postal Service; (18) U.S. Tax Court; and (19) the White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance. (Sec. 408) Authorizes the GSA Administrator to: (1) acquire certain land in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a site for the public building needs of the Federal Government; (2) design and construct upon the site a new Federal Office Building to house the Federal agencies presently located in the Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Building. Makes certain funds available for such purposes; and (3) convey without consideration the Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Office Building to the City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for economic development purposes, subject to specified conditions. (Sec. 409) Directs the GSA Administrator to carry out the authority of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to make election assistance payments under the Help America Vote Act of 2002, including the authority to receive statements and applications from entities seeking such payments and reports from entities receiving such payments. Terminates this authority on June 30, 2004, or the end of the three-month period beginning when all EAC members are appointed, whichever is earlier. (Sec. 410) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by GSA to establish a quick response team processing center on East Brainerd Road in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Sec. 411) Amends the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 , as amended by the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, to revise requirements for the conveyance to San Joaquin County, California, of certain land currently administered by the Federal Bureau of Prisons of the Department of Justice. Replaces the Attorney General as the conveyer with the GSA Administrator acting on the Attorney General's behalf. Extends the date for completion of the conveyance from August 21, 1999, to an indefinite date as soon as practicable. Revises the mandatory purposes of the conveyance to replace specific use as a joint secondary and postsecondary educational facility or as a public park with generic educational or recreational purposes.  Title V: General Provisions (This Act) - Sets forth permissions for and restrictions upon the use of funds for designated Department of Transportation activities. (Sec. 504) Declares that none of the funds in this Act shall be available for salaries and expenses of more than 106 political and Presidential appointees in the Department of Transportation. Prohibits the assignment of such appointees on temporary detail outside the Department of Transportation. (Sec. 508) None of the funds in this Act shall be used to establish in the Department of Transportation a National Highway Safety Advisory Committee. (Sec. 511) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to allow the issuer of any preferred stock heretofore sold to the Department of Transportation to redeem or repurchase it upon the payment to the Department of an amount determined by the Secretary. (Sec. 513) Declares that , for the purpose of any applicable law, for FY 2004, the City of Norman, Oklahoma, shall be considered part of the Oklahoma City Transportation Management Area. (Sec. 517) Reduces funds provided in this Act for the Working Capital Fund by $17.816 million, which limits FY 2004 Working Capital Fund obligational authority for elements of the Department of Transportation funded in this Act to no more than $98.899 million. Requires such reductions from the budget request to be allocated by the Department of Transportation to each appropriations account in proportion to the amount included in each account for the Working  Capital Fund. (Sec. 518) Makes recovered improper payments by the Department of Transportation to a third party contractor under a financial assistance award available to: (1) reimburse the actual expenses incurred in recovering improper payments; and (2) pay contractors for services provided in recovering them. (Sec. 520) Prohibits the availability of the funds under this Act for any activity or for paying the salary of any Government employee where it would result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, or policy that would prohibit the enforcement of the prohibition under the Tariff Act of 1930 against the importation of convict-made or forced labor-made goods from a foreign country. (Sec. 521)Directs the Secretary of Transportation to maintain in full force and effect the restrictions imposed under specified FAA Notices to Airmen. Prohibits the Secretary from granting any waivers or exemptions from such restrictions, except: (1) as authorized by air traffic control for operational or safety purposes; (2) for specified purposes with respect to an event, stadium, or other venue; and (3) allow the operation of an aircraft in restricted airspace to the extent necessary to arrive at or depart from an airport using standard air traffic control procedures. (Sec. 522) Prohibits payment of the salary from any appropriation under this Act for any person filling a permanent or indefinite position formerly held by an employee who has: (1) left to enter the U.S. Armed Forces; (2) satisfactorily completed his period of active military or naval service;(3) within 90 days after release from such service, or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year, applied for restoration to his former position; and (4) been certified by the Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties of his former position, but not been restored to it. (Sec. 523) Sets forth Buy America requirements, and penalties for their violation. (Sec. 531) Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being made available to pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection with any health plan under the Federal employees health benefits program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions. ( Sec. 532) Declares such proscription inapplicable where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest. (Sec. 533) Prohibits the availability of appropriations, without prior approval by the congressional appropriations committees, for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds for any program, project, or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Congress; (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity by either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations for a different purpose; (5) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in excess of $5 million or ten percent, whichever is greater; or (6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activities by one or the other such amount. (Sec. 535) Declares that the Buy American Act restriction on purchasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies shall not apply to the acquisition by the Federal Government of commercial information technology, including equipment or the interconnected system or subsystem of equipment used in the automatic analysis or evaluation of data or information, imaging peripherals, input, output, and storage devices necessary for security and surveillance, and peripheral equipment. (Sec. 536) Declares the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) empowerment zones within cities should have the necessary flexibility to expand to include relevant communities so that empowerment zone benefits are equitably distributed; and (2) all census tracts contained in an empowerment zone, either fully or partially, should be equitably accorded the same benefits. (Sec. 539) Expresses the sense of Congress that, after proper documentation, justification, and review, the Department of Transportation should consider programs to reimburse general aviation ground support services at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and airports located within fifteen miles of such airport, for their financial losses due to Government actions after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. (Sec. 540) Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) public private partnerships (PPPs) could help eliminate some of the cost drivers behind complex, capital-intensive highway and transit projects; and (2) the Secretary of Transportation is encouraged to apply available funds to select projects that are in the development phase, eligible under specified highway transportation laws, and that employ a PPP strategy. (Sec. 541) Amends Federal postal law to extend through December 31, 2005, the mandate to the U.S. Postal Service for a special first-class mail postage rate as a convenient way for the public to contribute to funding for breast cancer research. (Sec. 544) Oklahoma City National Memorial Act Amendments of 2003 - Amends the Oklahoma City National Memorial Act of 1997 to prescribe guidelines for the administration of the Memorial by the Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation. Dissolves the Oklahoma City National Memorial Trust. Authorizes appropriations.  Title VI: General Provisions (Departments, Agencies, and Corporations) - Sets forth requirements for the use of appropriations by designated departments, agencies and corporations. (Sec. 617) Sets restrictions upon the use of appropriations, including the mandate that any Federal department, agency, or instrumentality administer in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that all workplaces are free from discrimination and sexual harassment and are not in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.  (Sec. 618) Prohibits appropriations from being made available for the salary of any Federal staffer or personnel that restrains other Federal personnel from communication or contact with congressional personnel regarding the employment of such other officer or employee, or pertaining to the department or agency of such other officer or employee. (Sec. 628) Prohibits the use of funds by OPM or any other Federal department or agency to prohibit any agency from using appropriated funds as it sees fit to contract independently with private companies to provide online employment applications and processing services. (Sec. 632) Amends Federal law to extend from October 1, 2003, to October 1, 2004, the authorization for the franchise fund pilot programs in six executive agencies. (Sec. 633) Prohibits, with specified exceptions, including exceptions for law enforcement and supervisory purposes, the use of funds made available in this or any other Act by any Federal agency to collect personally identifiable information relating to an individual's access to or use of Federal or nongovernmental Internet sites.  (Sec. 634) Prohibits the use of appropriations under by this Act to enter into a contract providing prescription drug coverage, unless it also provides for contraceptive coverage. Exempts specified religious plans. (Sec. 637) Prohibits the expenditure of appropriations under by this Act for FY 2004 for the purchase of a product or service offered by Federal Prison Industries, Inc., unless the purchasing agency determines that such offered product or service provides the best value to the buying agency pursuant to Government-wide procurement regulations. (Sec. 638) Requires each Federal department and agency to evaluate the creditworthiness of an individual before issuing him or her a Government purchase or travel charge card. Prohibits the department or agency from issuing such a card to an individual who either lacks a credit history or is found to have an unsatisfactory credit history. Prescribes conditions for the issuance of a restricted-use charge, debit, or stored value card made in accordance with specified agency procedures. (Sec. 639) Amends the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2000, as amended by the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2002 to extend from December 31, 2003, until December 31, 2005, the authority under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), in the case of any violation of any requirement for the reporting of receipts and disbursements by treasurers of political committees, to: (1) find (after written notice and an opportunity for a hearing on the record) that a person committed such a violation on the basis of information obtained pursuant to specified procedures; and (2) based on such finding (subject to judicial review), require the person to pay a civil money penalty in an amount determined under a schedule of penalties the FEC establishes and publishes, which takes into account the amount of the violation involved, the existence of previous violations by the person, and such other factors as the FEC considers appropriate.  (Sec. 640) Increases to 4.1 percent the adjustment in rates of basic pay for Federal employees under certain statutory pay systems, including civilian employees in the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. (Sec. 641) Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to allow certain political committee reports and statements to be posted by priority or express mail having a delivery confirmation or delivered to an overnight delivery service with an on-line tracking system, if posted or delivered no later than the 15th day before an election. Makes the date on the proof of delivery to the delivery service the equivalent of a U.S. postmark and therefore of the filing date. (Sec. 642) Authorizes Federal departments and agencies to use funds appropriated for official travel to participate in the fractional aircraft ownership pilot program, if consistent with OMB Circular A-126 regarding official travel for Government personnel. (Sec. 646) Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce restrictions or limitations on the Coast Guard Congressional Fellowship Program, or to implement certain proposed or final OPM regulations relating to the detail of executive branch employees to the legislative branch. (Sec. 647) Prohibits funds appropriated under this Act from being used to convert to contractor performance an activity or function of an executive agency that is performed by more than ten Federal employees unless specified conditions have been met. (Sec. 648) Requires each Federal department or agency head to transfer to or reimburse the FAA an amount of funds (up to a total of $6 million altogether) made available by this or any other Act to ensure the operation of the Midway Atoll Airfield by the FAA pursuant to an operational agreement with the Department of the Interior. Division G: Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations, 2004 - Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes FY 2004 appropriations to the Department of Veterans Affairs (Department) for: (1) veterans' compensation, pensions, and readjustment benefits; (2) veterans' insurance and indemnities; (3) veterans' housing, education, and vocational rehabilitation loan accounts, including Native American and homeless veterans; (4) veterans' medical care; (5) medical and prosthetic research; (6) medical administration; (7) departmental administration; (8) the National Cemetery Administration; (9) the Office of Inspector General; (10) construction; (11) the parking revolving fund; and (12) grants to States for construction of extended care facilities and State veterans cemeteries.  Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds made available under this title.  (Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to reimburse the \"General operating expenses\" account from the National Service Life Insurance Fund, the Veterans' Special Life Insurance Fund, and the United States Government Life Insurance Fund for the cost of administration of the insurance programs financed through those accounts.  (Sec. 108) Directs the Department to continue until October 1, 2004, the Franchise Fund pilot program for providing administrative support services to designated Federal agencies. Extends program funding through such date.  (Sec. 110) Requires for FY 2004 that funds available in any Department appropriation or fund for salaries and other administrative expenses shall be available to reimburse specified service costs provided by the Offices of Resolution Management and Employment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication.  (Sec. 111) Prohibits the use of appropriations made by this title for: (1) entering into any new lease of real property with an estimated annual rental of over $300,000, unless the Secretary submits a report which the congressional appropriations committees approve within 30 days after submission; or (2) hospitalization or treatment for non-service-connected disability or illness unless the individual provides accurate insurance and annual income information.  (Sec. 113) Obligates funds appropriated under this title for information technology initiatives to support the Department's enterprise architecture.  (Sec. 114) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to implement specified provisions of the Department of Veterans Affairs Emergency Preparedness Act of 2002 that: (1) establish medical emergency preparedness centers at Department medical centers; and (2) add an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Operations, Preparedness, Security, and Law Enforcement Functions.  (Sec. 115) Deposits and transfers receipts that would otherwise be credited to the Veterans Extended Care Revolving Fund, the Medical Facilities Revolving Fund, the Special Therapeutic and Rehabilitation Fund, the Nursing Home Revolving Fund, the Veterans Health Services Improvement Fund, and the Parking Revolving Fund to the Medical Care Collections Fund and to the Medical Care account.  (Sec. 116) Directs the Secretary to conduct a program of recovery audits for the fee basis and other hospital-related service contracts.  (Sec. 117) Authorizes enhanced-use leasing proceeds in the Medical Care Collection Fund to be transferred to construction accounts and used for Department medical facility construction or improvements. (Sec. 118) Makes "medical services" amounts available for: (1) recreational facilities; and (2) funeral expenses for beneficiaries receiving Department care.  (Sec. 119) Authorizes and specifies medical account transfers. (Sec. 122) Rescinds specified medical care unobligated balances. Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for: (1) public and Indian housing; (2) the Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds; (3) revitalization of severely distressed public housing (HOPE VI); (4) Native American housing block grants; (5) Indian and Native Hawaiian housing loan guarantees; (6) housing opportunities for persons with AIDS; (7) the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development; (8) empowerment zones and enterprise communities; (9) community development block grants and loan guarantees; (10) urban development action grants; (11) brownfields redevelopment; (12) the HOME investment partnerships program; (13) homeless assistance grants; (14) housing for the elderly and for persons with disabilities; (15) flexible subsidy fund; (16) manufactured housing fees trust fund; (17) the Federal Housing Administration; (18) the Government National Mortgage Association; (19) housing policy development and research; (20) fair housing activities; (21) the Office of Lead Hazard Control; (22) management and administration; (23) the Working Capital Fund; (24) the Office of Inspector General; and (25) the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.  Rescinds specified amounts: (1) of recaptured rental housing assistance budget authority; and (2) from the consolidated fee fund.  (Sec. 201) States that 50 percent of budget authority amounts, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured from certain \"qualified projects\" under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 shall be rescinded, or in the case of cash, remitted to the Treasury, and such non-rescinded or non-remitted amounts shall be used by State housing finance agencies or local governments or local housing agencies for certain approved projects. Authorizes the Secretary to use up to 15 percent of such non-rescinded or non-remitted amounts as refinancing incentives for project owners.  (Sec. 202) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used during FY 2004 to investigate or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activities aimed at achieving or preventing government or court action.  (Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make housing for persons with AIDS grants to any State that qualified in a prior fiscal year but does not qualify in FY 2004 due to decreased AIDS cases in non-metropolitan areas of the State.  (Sec. 204) Declares, with respect to FY 2004 assisted living facility section 8 rental payments, that a family residing in an assisted living facility in Oakland, Macomb, Wayne, or Washtenaw Counties, Michigan, may be required to pay rent in an amount exceeding 40 percent of its monthly adjusted gross income. (Sec. 205) Requires HUD to grant awards on a competitive basis.  (Sec. 206) Makes HUD funds subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or other restrictions available, without regard to limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services and services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association, Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve banks, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.  (Sec. 207) Limits HUD spending to amounts set forth in budget estimates submitted to Congress.  (Sec. 208) Authorizes HUD corporations and agencies subject to the Government Corporation Control Act to make necessary FY 2003 expenditures without regard to fiscal year limitations. Limits the use of collections of these corporations and agencies (with specified exceptions) to new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this Act, unless they are in support of other forms of assistance provided in this or prior appropriations Acts.  (Sec. 209) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure by HUD of funds provided in this title for technical assistance, training, or management improvements unless HUD provides the appropriations committees with a description of each proposed activity and budget estimates of the associated costs (by January 15, 2004, for FY 2004).  (Sec. 210) Exempts public housing agencies in Alaska, Iowa, or Mississippi from the requirement of having a public housing resident or section 8 recipient on the board of directors. Requires such public housing agencies to establish advisory boards that include public housing tenants and section 8 recipients.  (Sec. 211) Directs the Secretary to: (1) report quarterly regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, and excess funds in each HUD program; and (2) report annually regarding the number of federally assisted units under lease and the per unit cost of these units to HUD. (Sec. 212) Directs the Secretary, in managing and disposing of any HUD-held multifamily property that is occupied primarily by elderly or disabled families in FY 2004, to maintain any section 8 rental assistance payments that are attached to such dwelling units. Authorizes the Secretary, if such payments are not feasible, to contract for project-based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners of other existing housing properties or provide other rental assistance. (Sec. 214) Allocates certain FY 2004 housing funds for persons with AIDS from: (1) Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the Wilmington, Delaware-Maryland-New Jersey Metropolitan Division of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metropolitan Statistical Area, to New Jersey based on the number of AIDS cases in the New Jersey portion of the metropolitan area or division; and (2) from Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of the Raleigh-Carey, North Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area, to Wake County, North Carolina. Requires that the allocations be used in such Areas.  (Sec. 215) Amends the National Housing Act revise the debenture interest calculation formula for certain mortgage insurance claims paid in cash.  (Sec. 216) Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to rename the Interagency Council on the Homeless as the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.  (Sec. 217) Amends part C (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV (Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children and for Child-Welfare Services) of the Social Security Act to provide for limited information sharing between the National Directory of New Hires and specified housing assistance programs in order to determine the employment and income of housing program participants.  (Sec. 218) States that: (1) Hawaii may elect by July 31, 2004, to distribute community development block grant funds to units of general local government located in nonentitlement areas (Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui Counties); and (2) if Hawaii fails to make such election, the Secretary shall beginning in FY 2005 make grants to such units.  (Sec. 219) Directs the Secretary to issue a proposed rulemaking with respect to new requirements for the disposition of HUD-held multifamily housing projects, including dispositions made after a State or municipality has exercised its right of first refusal.  (Sec. 220) Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 to permit the Housing Authority of Baltimore City to use certain rehabilitation funds for demolition and new construction purposes.  (Sec. 221) Makes certain funds for housing for the elderly and for supportive housing for persons with disabilities available for maintaining and disposing of HUD properties. (Sec. 222) Directs the Secretary to conduct negotiated rulemaking with representatives from interested parties for purposes of any changes to the formula governing the Public Housing Operating Fund. Requires final rule issuance by July 1, 2004.  (Sec. 223) Requires HUD to submit its FY 2005 congressional budget justifications to the appropriations committees using the identical structure provided under this Act and in accordance with the direction included in the joint explanatory statement of the managers accompanying this Act.  Title III: Independent Agencies - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for: (1) the American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) the Department of the Treasury, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program Account; (4) the Consumer Product Safety Commission; (5) the Corporation for National and Community Service; (6) the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; (7) the Department of Defense-Civil for cemeterial expenses, Army; (8) the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; (9) the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; (10) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); (11) the Hazardous Substance Superfund, including transfers of funds; (12 ) the Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Office of Environmental Quality; (13) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General; (14) the General Services Administration, Federal Citizen Information Center Fund; (15) the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness; (16) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); (17) the National Credit Union Administration; (18) the National Science Foundation; (19) the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and (20) the Selective Service System.  Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth conditions and limitations on the obligation and expenditure of funds appropriated or made available under this Act. (Sec. 410) Expresses the sense of Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made.  (Sec. 411) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for any program, project, or activity, when it is made known to the Federal entity or official to which the funds are made available that the program, project, or activity is not in compliance with any Federal law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private property rights, or unfunded mandates.  (Sec. 414) Encourages all Departments and agencies funded under this Act, within the limits of existing statutory authorities and funding, to expand their use of \"E-Commerce\" technologies and procedures in the conduct of their business practices and public service activities. (Sec. 417) Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Act of 1958 with respect to FY 2004 appropriations to: (1) replace the "human space flight" category with a "space flight capabilities" category; and (2) provide for full cost accounting. (Sec. 418) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement any policy prohibiting the Directors of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks from conducting outreach or marketing to enroll new veterans within their respective Networks.  (Sec. 419) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to apply, in a numerical estimate of the benefits of an agency action prepared pursuant to Executive Order No. 12866 or section 312 of the Clean Air Act, monetary values for adult premature mortality that differ based on the age of the adult.  (Sec. 420) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) no veteran should wait more than 30 days for an initial doctor's appointment; and (2) human dosing studies of pesticides raises ethical and health questions.  (Sec. 422) Prohibits funds under this Act for NASA to be used for voluntary separation incentives that would result in the loss of skills related to the safety of the Space Shuttle or the International Space Station, or independent safety oversight.  (Sec. 423) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to increase State reimbursements for community development block grant technical and administrative costs in nonentitlement areas. (Sec. 424) Revises provisions respecting a certain National Academy of Sciences study. (Sec. 425) Amends the Clean Air Act with respect to designations of areas for PM 2.5 and submission of implementation plans for regional haze to require: (1) the Governor of each State to submit designations for the July 1997 PM 2.5 national ambient air quality standards for each area within the State by February 15, 2004; (2) EPA to promulgate such designations by December 31, 2004; and (3) the State to submit required implementation plan revisions within three years of the EPA promulgation. States that such provisions shall not preclude implementation of regional haze agreements and recommendations stemming from the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission Report (June 1996), including the submission of State implementation plan revisions by Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, or Wyoming by December 31, 2003. (Sec. 426) Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to treat the Pioneer Homes in Alaska (located in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Ketchikan, Palmer, and Sitka) as a State veterans home. (Sec. 427) Makes specified NASA funds available to the families of the astronauts who died on the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003. (Sec. 428) Sets forth provisions respecting EPA emissions regulation of non-road engines under 50 horsepower, with specified exceptions for California and other States.  Title V: Pesticide Products and Fees - Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to revise registration and maintenance fee requirements for pesticides. Modifies certain timing requirements concerning the submission of product-specific data and other regulatory action.  Increases and then decreases the maximum amount of maintenance fees payable by registrants, including small businesses, through FY 2008.  Extends the EPA authority to collect maintenance, but not tolerance, fees throughFY 2008. (Maintenance fees are assessed on already registered or reregistered pesticides; tolerance fees are assessed on pesticides used on food or animal feed which are subject to more stringent regulatory requirements.)  Directs the Administrator of EPA to assess and collect covered pesticide registration service fees for applications submitted from FY 2004 onward. (Registration fees would apply to new pesticide applications only.)  Sets forth the Administrator's responsibilities concerning the publication and revision of the schedule of registration service fees, including a mandatory increase by FY 2006.  Permits the waiver or reduction of these fees for minor uses or small businesses. Provides for partial fee refunds when an application is withdrawn or at the Administrator's discretion.  Establishes the Pesticide Registration Fund in the Treasury to collect registration fees. Limits the use of these funds to associated regulatory costs, except for limited earmarks for worker protection and the review of new inert ingredients.  Prohibits the assessment of registration fees in FY 2004 through 2006 if the amount appropriated for the Office of Pesticide Programs is less than the amount appropriated for that Office for FY 2002.  Provides for judicial review if the Administrator fails to make a determination on an application before the expiration of the applicable decision time review period.  Terminates the registration service fee after FY 2010, with a phase out occurring during the final two years. Division H: Miscellaneous Appropriations and Offsets - Miscellaneous Appropriations and Offsets Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004, including rescissions and transfers of funds. (Sec. 101) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to eliminate the limit on the amount of Commodity Credit Corporation funds the Secretary of Agriculture is required to use for the conservation security program for FY 2003 through 2013. (Sec. 102) Rescinds specified funds for FY 2004 for "Emergency Preparedness and Response, Disaster Relief." Appropriates additional funds in specified Federal law for: (1) Forest Service, Wildland Management for hazardous fuels reduction, hazard mitigation, and rehabilitation activities of the Forest service in southern California; (2) Forest Service, State and Private Forestry for hazard mitigation, fuels reduction, and forest health protection and mitigation activities on State and private lands in southern California; (3) the Department of Agriculture, Emergency Watershed Protection Program to carry out additional activities in response to the recent wildfires in southern California, including the provision of technical and financial assistance to respond to the tree mortality emergency in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego and San Bernardino Counties, California; (4) the tree assistance program in southern California; (5) the emergency conservation program in southern California; and (6) the Commodity Credit Corporation Fund for the livestock indemnity program in southern California. Designates such funds as an emergency requirement pursuant to H. Con. Res. 95 (108th Congress), the budget resolution for FY 2004. (Sec. 103) Appropriates additional funds to remain available through FY 2005 for the Office of Justice Programs - State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance for discretionary grants under the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Programs for reimbursement to State and local law enforcement entities for security and related costs, including overtime, associated with the 2004 Presidential Candidate Nominating Conventions. (Sec. 104) Appropriates funds to establish and fund a bipartisan Commission on the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program. Requires the Commission to recommend to the appropriate congressional committees and the President a program to greatly expand the opportunity for students at institutions of higher education in the United States to study abroad, with special emphasis on studying in developing nations. Requires the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Defense to develop such a program that assists a diverse group of students and meets the growing need of the United States to become more sensitive to the cultures of other countries. (Sec. 105) Prohibits funds made available under this Act from being obligated or expended to implement any measures to reduce overfishing and promote rebuilding of fish stocks managed under the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan other than such measures set out in a specified final NOAA rule. (Sec. 106) Appropriates additional funds for the: (1) Supreme Court of the United States for care of the building and grounds; and (2) State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, for the University of Southern Mississippi Rural Law Enforcement Training Initiative, the Mississippi University for Women Institutional Security Program, and the City of Jackson, Mississippi, Public Safety Automated Technologies Program. (Sec. 108) Requires the Secretary of Defense to make certain transfers of funds. (Sec. 109) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997, effective immediately after the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, with respect to the medical care program for members of the armed forces and their dependents, to allow designated providers to market health care services to, and enroll, covered beneficiaries who do not have other primary health insurance coverage (other than Medicare coverage) covering basic primary care and inpatient and outpatient services. (Sec. 110) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 to require the Department of Defense (DOD) contracts entered into under the demonstration project for contractors employing persons with disabilities, and related subcontracts, to be credited toward the attainment of goals established under the Small Business Act regarding the extent of the participation of disadvantaged small business concerns in DOD contracts and subcontracts. (Sec. 111) Provides that the prohibition against the use of appropriated funds in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004 for certain cost studies exceeding 30 months duration shall not apply to a cost study of a multifunction activity for which DOD had solicited proposals as of the enactment of such Act. (Sec. 112) Makes certain amounts available to DOD for the Defense Health Program for: (1) acquisition of Linear Accelerator Radiation Therapy equipment and associated operating software for Walter Reed Army Medical Center; and (2) the Defense and Veterans Head Injury Program. (Sec. 113) Requires: (1) the Secretary of Defense to study and report to Congress by June 1, 2004, on issues related to the consolidation of the storage of mercury contained in the National Defense Stockpile; and (2) a decision to consolidate the storage of mercury to a site that currently does not store mercury contained in the National Defense Stockpile to occur no earlier than 180 days after the date of the report. (Sec. 114) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer specified funds available in the Iraq Freedom Fund to carry out the classified project described in the classified annex accompanying Public Law 107-206 and acquire such interests in real property as he deems necessary to carry out such project. (Sec. 115) Makes specified funds provided for the National Defense Sealift Fund for construction of additional sealift capacity available for the construction of a Port of Philadelphia marine cargo terminal for high-speed military sealift and other military purposes. (Sec. 116) Provides that the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in St. Petersburg, Florida, shall, after the end of the service of C. W. Bill Young as a Member of Congress, be designated as the C. W. Bill Young Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. (Sec. 117) Requires the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to proceed with the construction of the False Pass, Alaska, project, in accordance with the Report of the Chief of Engineers, dated December 29, 2000. (Sec. 118) Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to: (1) design the Central Riverfront Park project on the Ohio Riverfront in Cincinnati, Ohio; (2) use any remaining available funds from specified appropriations for the Hamlet City Lake, North Carolina, project to provide assistance in carrying out any authorized water-related infrastructure projects in Richmond County, North Carolina; and (3) snag and clear existing debris including trees in Deep River, near Lake Station, Indiana. (Sec. 121) Amends the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004 to increase funds to provide environmental assistance to nonfederal interests in rural Nevada. (Sec. 122) Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to: (1) use any funds remaining available from the Savannah Harbor Deepening Project, Savannah, Georgia, for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project; (2) proceed with the construction of the Columbia River Channel Improvements Oregon and Washington project in accordance with a specified Report of the Chief of Engineers; and (3) use previously appropriated funds to proceed with design of and initiate construction to complete the Stillwater, Minnesota, Levee and Flood Control project. (Sec. 125) States that out of funds made available in the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004, to the Western Area Power Administration, up to a certain amount collected by the Administration to recover purchase p ower and wheeling expenses shall be credited to the Construction, Rehabilitation, Operation and Maintenance, Western Area Power Administration account as offsetting collections. (Sec. 126) States that out of funds provided for the development of the new molecular imaging probes in the statement of managers to accompany H.R. 2754, a certain amount shall be provided to the University of California, Los Angeles for the continued efforts for PET imaging, systems biology, and nanotechnology. (Sec. 127) Prohibits the obligation of appropriations to pay, on behalf of the United States or any U.S. contractor or subcontractor, to post a bond or fulfill any other financial responsibility requirement relating to closure or post-closure care and monitoring of Sandia National Laboratories and properties held or managed by such Laboratories before implementation of closure or post-cloture monitoring. Bars the State of New Mexico or any other entity from enforcing against the United States or any U.S. contractor or subcontractor a requirement to post bond or any other financial responsibility requirement relating to such closure or post-closure care and monitoring of such Laboratories in New Mexico and properties held or managed by them. (Sec. 128) Prohibits until January 1, 2005, the Federal commission (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) with the authority to regulate the material designated as 11e.(2) byproduct material by the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004 or by the Energy Policy Act of 2003 from allowing or otherwise permitting any facility to receive or dispose of such material if the facility is located in a State that has an application pending under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to regulate such material. (11e.(2) byproduct material is defined by the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004 as the material in the concrete silos at the Fernald uranium processing facility currently managed by the Department of Energy and the ore processing residual materials in the Niagara Falls Storage Site subsurface waste containment structure managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program. Regulation of such byproduct material is vested in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or an Agreement State, as appropriate, for the purpose of disposition of the material in an NRC-regulated or Agreement State-regulated facility.) (Sec. 129) Revises the conference report on H.R. 6 (the Energy Policy Act) to change the Universities of Mississippi and of Oklahoma to Mississippi State University and Oklahoma State University as the Centers for Biomass-Based Energy for which certain appropriations are authorized for a resource center to further develop bioconversion technology using low-cost biomass for the production of ethanol for FY 2004 through 2006.  (Sec. 130) Appropriates additional funds for the Department of Energy for: (1) the Coralville, Iowa, project, which is to utilize alternative renewable energy sources; (2) Biological Sciences at DePaul University; (3) the Cedars-Sinai Gene Therapy Research Program; (4) the Hartford Hospital Interventional Electrophysiology Project; (5) the Energy Center of Wisconsin Renewable Fuels Project; (6) the Wind Energy Transmission Study; (7) the White Pine County, Nevada, Public School System biomass conversion heating project; (8) the Lead Animal Shelter Animal Campus renewable energy demonstration project; (9) establishment of a Hawaii Hydrogen Center for Development and Deployment of Distributed Energy Systems; and (10) the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition for biomass restoration and science-based restoration. (Sec. 133) Provides an additional amount to remain available until expended for: (1) the Construction, General account of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2004; and (2) the Millennium Challenge Corporation. (Sec. 135) Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to extend from December 31, 2003, through December 31, 2004, the President's discretionary program to provide certain technical and financial assistance to States and local governments to assist in the implementation of predisaster hazard mitigation measures.  (Sec. 136) Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to extend the National Flood Insurance Program from December 31, 2003, through June 30, 2004.  (Sec. 137) Amends the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 to deem that a fishing agreement between the owner, charterer, or managing operator (or a representative) of a fishing vessel and each seaman employed on it that complies with specified requirements of such Act is in compliance with such requirements as they existed before November 25, 2002. Repeals the condition that such a fishing agreement not have been subject to an action before June 20, 2002, alleging a breach of such requirements (thereby deeming such an agreement to be in compliance even if it were subject to such an action). (Sec. 139) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 to provide that acquisition of additional land to be included in the Congaree Swamp National Park shall not affect the classification of the Park under the Clean Air Act. Amends the Expansion and Wilderness Act to rename the Congaree Swamp National Monument Wilderness as the Congaree National Park Wilderness.  (Sec. 140) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 regarding the use of funds for Federal land acquisition by the National Park Service for Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District, the New Jersey Pinelands Preserve, and the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. Allows the use of such funds for a grant to any land management entity (currently, only to a governmental land management entity) for the acquisition of lands without regard to any restriction on the use of funds provided through the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. (Sec. 141) Amends the Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal National Heritage Corridor Act of 1988 to extend the Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission through November 18, 2007. (Sec. 143) Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 to reallocate funds under the heading "Indian Health Service, Indian Health Services" for the Alaska Federation of Natives sobriety and wellness program for competitive merit-based grants. Reallocates such funds for use by RuralCap for alcohol treatment and related transitional housing for homeless chronic inebriates in Anchorage, Alaska. (Sec. 144) Amends such Act with respect to: (1) across-the-board rescissions to provide that such requirements shall not apply to amounts in such Act designated as emergency requirements by H. Con. Res. 95 (108th Congress) budget resolution for FY 2004 (and so exempt from enforcement of such resolution with respect to the resulting new budget authority, outlays, and receipts); and (2) appropriations for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian Land and Water Claim Settlements and Miscellaneous Payments to Indians, to apply such across-the-board rescission, and any subsequent one for FY 2004, only to the first dollar amount in the paragraph. Makes the distribution of the latter rescission at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall report on it and the rationale for it to the congressional appropriations committees.  (Sec. 145) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge consisting of certain acres of land that: (1) as of the enactment of this Act is owned by the United States; (2) was formerly in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's inventory; and (3) is located in Leflore, Holmes, Humphreys, Sharkey, Warren, and Washington counties, Mississippi. Requires the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to design and construct a multiagency wildlife and environmental interpretive and education center at a location in the South Delta area of Mississippi to be determined by the Secretary's site selection and feasibility study. Designates: (1) the Bogue Phalia Unit of the Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge as the Holt Collier National Wildlife Refuge; and (2) the Central Mississippi National Wildlife Refuge Complex as the Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Authorizes appropriations. Earmarks appropriations for the center.  (Sec. 146) Authorizes appropriations for purposes of the authority of the Secretary of Energy under the Energy Policy Act of 2003 (EPA) to enter into agreements with one or more holders of a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued under such Act or the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act of 1976 to issue Federal guarantee instruments with respect to loans and other debt obligations for a qualified infrastructure project. Amends EPA, upon its becoming law, to: (1) allow the Secretary of Energy to enter into agreements with an entity the Secretary determines is qualified to construct and operate a liquefied natural gas project to transport liquefied natural gas from Southcentral Alaska to West Coast States; and (2) modify the conditions under which the Secretary may issue a Federal guarantee instrument for such project to require the Secretary to certify that there exists a qualified entity to perform such construction and operation. Limits the loan guarantees to one qualified project. Provides that the total amount of principal that may be guaranteed for such project may not exceed a principal amount in which the cost of loan guarantees exceeds $2 billion. Redefines qualified infrastructure project to include liquification plants and liquified natural gas tankers for transportation of liquefied natural gas from Southcentral Alaska to the West Coast. (Sec. 147) Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to define "immediate family member" as a person related to a deceased employee that was a member of the employee's household at the time of death. Provides that if an employee appointed under the local hire program established by such Act dies in the performance of any assigned duties on or after October 1, 2002, the Secretary of the Interior may pay or reimburse reasonable expenses, regardless of when those expenses are incurred, for: (1) the preparation and transportation of the employee's remains to a location in Alaska selected by the surviving head of household; or (2) transporting immediate family members and their baggage and household goods to a community in Alaska selected by the surviving head of household. (Sec. 148) Makes appropriations for the establishment of the Office of Native Hawaiian Relations within the Office of the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) effectuate and implement the special legal relationship between the Native Hawaiian people and the United States; (2) continue the process of reconciliation with them; and (3) fully integrate the principle and practice of meaningful, regular, and appropriate consultation with the Native Hawaiian people by assuring timely notification of and prior consultation with them before any Federal agency takes any actions that may have the potential to significantly affect Native Hawaiian resources, rights, or lands. (Sec. 149) Amends Federal law to authorize, commencing during FY 2011 and under other specified conditions, the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation to lease (for an initial 25-year term with an option for an additional 25-year term) to the Northern Border Pipeline Company tribally-owned land on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation for one or more interstate gas pipelines. (Sec. 150) Fern Lake Conservation and Recreation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to acquire for addition to the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park specified lands which contain Fern Lake and its surrounding watershed located in Bell County, Kentucky, and Claiborne County, Tennessee. Requires the Secretary, upon making such acquisition, to convey the Lake, along with the dam and appurtenances associated with the withdrawal and delivery of water from the Lake, to the City of Middlesboro, Kentucky.  (Sec. 151) Vests authority and responsibility in the Attending Physician to Congress for overseeing and coordinating the use of medical assets in response to a bioterrorism event and other medical contingencies or public health emergencies occurring within the Capitol Buildings or the U.S. Capitol Grounds, including the authority to enact quarantine and to declare death. Requires such actions to be carried out in close cooperation and communication with the Commissioner of Public Health, Chief Medical Examiner, and other Public Health Officials of the District of Columbia government. (Sec. 152) Authorizes the Architect of the Capitol to enter into an agreement to acquire by lease any portion of the real property located at 499 South Capitol Street Southwest in the District for the use of the U.S. Capitol Police. (Sec. 153) Provides for up to 12 Senators to be appointed to meet annually with representatives of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China for discussion of common problems in the interest of relations between the United States and China. Refers to the appointed Senators as the "United States group" of the United States Senate-China Interparliamentary Group. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) each fiscal year to assist in meeting the expenses of the United States group; and (2) FY 2004 to assist in meeting the official expenses of the United States Senate-China Interparliamentary Group, including conference room, hospitality, and food and food-related expenses.  Makes appropriations for FY 2004 for the United States Senate-China Interparliamentary Group. (Sec. 154) Provides for up to 12 Senators to be appointed to meet annually with representatives of the Federation Council of Russia for discussion of common problems in the interest of relations between the United States and Russia. Refers to the appointed Senators as the "United States group" of the United States Senate-Russia Interparliamentary Group. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) each fiscal year to assist in meeting the expenses of the United States group; and (2) FY 2004 to assist in meeting the official expenses of the United States Senate-Russia Interparliamentary Group, including conference room, hospitality, and food and food-related expenses.  Makes appropriations for FY 2004 for the United States Senate-Russia Interparliamentary Group. (Sec. 155) Authorizes for each fiscal year to be expended from the Senate contingent fund a limited amount for the Chaplain of the Senate, under specified conditions. Repeals authority under the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996 for the Office of the Chaplain Revolving Fund. Remits any remaining amounts in such Fund to the general fund of the Treasury. (Sec. 156) Establishes in the House of Representatives the House of Representatives Revolving Fund. (Sec. 157) Requires the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to recompute the liability for monthly benefits guaranteed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) which are payable (without regard to this section) with respect to each participant and beneficiary under the Republic Steel Retirement Plan in connection with its termination on September 30, 1986. Requires the Corporation, in recomputing such liability and by December 31, 2003, to increase it by: (1) the amount of the liability for nonguaranteed benefits under the LTV Steel Supplemental Pension Plan, as in effect with respect to such participant or beneficiary on January 1, 2001; and (2) the amount of the liability for nonguaranteed benefits payable through the trust established in connection with the Republic Steel Plan under ERISA as in effect to such individual on that date. Specifies certain benefits to be disregarded in making the recalculations. (Sec. 158) Appropriates funds to the Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund for certain family housing initiatives, under certain conditions. Rescinds specified funds available in the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Construction, Defense account. (Sec. 159) Appropriates an additional amount to carry out the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Limits the allocation to any territory to no more than one/tenth of one percent of funds available for requirements payments to States under the Act. (Sec. 160) Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 333 Lomas Blvd. N.W. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the Pete V. Domenici United States Courthouse. (Sec. 161) Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to consult with Alaska Native corporations on the same basis as Indian tribes under Executive Order No. 13175. (Sec. 162) Earmarks specified FY 2004 Highway Trust Fund amounts for: (1) reconstruction of the Treasure Island Bridge in Treasure Island, Florida; and (2) necessary road improvements and design of a plaza at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. (Sec. 163) Amends the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act of 2000 to extend the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group from December 27, 2003, through December 27, 2004. (Sec. 164) Requires allocation of the funds made available for Alaska Natives for Native American Housing Block Grants in title II of Division G of this Act to the same Native Alaskan Indian housing block grant recipients that received the funds in FY 2003. (Sec. 165) Appropriates additional funds for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Community Development Fund to remain available until expended for a grant to the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska, for facilities construction. (Sec. 166) Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to use Federal leasing authority to lease military family housing in the National Capital Region to key and essential personnel for continuity of government purposes.  (Sec. 167) Appropriates additional funds for FY 2004 for specified purposes to the Departments of Energy, of Transportation, of Veterans Affairs, of Education, of Housing and Urban Development, of Labor, and of Health and Human Services, as well as the Small Business Administration, the President (for Bilateral Economic Assistance, Independent States of the Former Soviet Union), the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. (Sec. 168) Rescinds specified funds from unobligated balances of amounts made available in Public Law 107-38, Public Law 107-117, and in appropriations Acts for the DOD. Requires the OMB Director to determine the amounts to be rescinded from each account to be reduced, and so notify the congressional appropriations committees. Exempts from such rescission any amounts appropriated or otherwise made available in Public Law 107-38 for certain disaster recovery activities and assistance related to the terrorist acts in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. Rescinds across-the-board an amount equal to 0.59 percent of: (1) the budget authority provided (or obligation limitation imposed) for FY 2004 for any discretionary account in Divisions A through H of this Act and in any other FY 2004 appropriations Act (except any FY 2004 supplemental appropriations Act, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004, or the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2004); (2) the budget authority provided in any advance appropriation for FY 2004 for any discretionary account in any prior fiscal year appropriation Act; and (3) the contract authority provided in FY 2004 for any program subject to limitation contained in any division or appropriations Act subject to such budget authority. Provides that such rescission shall be applied proportionately, according to certain specifications. Requires the OMB Director to report to the congressional appropriations committees on the account and amount of each such rescission.", "2023-01-15T05:32:38Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2673"], ["108-hr-2660", 108, "hr", 2660, "Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-07-08", "2004-05-19", "The conferees on the part of the House are discharged and H.R. 2660 is laid on the table pursuant to H. Res. 649", "House", "Rep. Regula, Ralph [R-OH-16]", "OH", "R", "R000141", 380, "Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and related agencies. Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration, training and employment services; (2) community service employment for older Americans; (3) Federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (4) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (5) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (6) employment and training program administration; (7) the Employee Benefits Security Administration; (8) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (9) the Employment Standards Administration; (10) certain special benefits, including ones for disabled coal miners; (11) the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund; (12) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (13) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (14) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (15) the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (16) the Office of Disability Employment Policy; (17) departmental management; (18) veterans employment and training; (19) the Office of Inspector General; and (20) a working capital fund for a new core accounting system.Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title.(Sec. 101) Prohibits use of Job Corps funds under this title to pay individual compensation at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.(Sec. 102) Allows not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between appropriations. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer.(Sec. 103) Prohibits, in accordance with a specified executive order, funds under this Act from being obligated or expended for procuring goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested, or services rendered, whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act.(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations to the Denali Commission, through the Department of Labor, to conduct job training of the local workforce where Denali Commission projects will be constructed. (Sec. 105) Rescinds a specified amount of the funds appropriated for FY 1999 that were allotted as welfare-to-work formula grants to States under certain Social Security Act provisions. Directs the Secretary of Labor to recapture unexpended funds from States that have received such allotments, on the basis of each State's relative portion of the total unexpended amount in all States. (Sec. 106) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to promulgate or implement any regulation that exempts from specified overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) any employee who is not otherwise exempted pursuant to regulations under certain FLSA provisions that were in effect as of September 3, 2003. (Sec. 107) Authorizes the Department of Labor to cease, until the end of FY 2004, implementation of closing procedures for the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration regional office in New York City, New York, and the Employment and Training Administration affiliate offices in Seattle, Washington, Kansas City, Missouri, and Denver, Colorado. (Sec. 108) Directs Secretary of Labor to: (1) re-propose a rule on respirable coal dust which incorporates the use of Personal Dust Monitors (PDMs) following the successful demonstration of PDM technology, and if the Secretary determines that PDMs can be effectively applied in a regulatory scheme; and (2) if such rule is re-proposed, comply with the regular procedures applicable to Federal rulemaking. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration, for specified health resources and services activities; (2) health education assistance loans; (3) the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund; (4) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), for disease control, research, and training; (5) the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the John E. Fogarty International Center, the National Library of Medicine, and the Office of the Director; (6) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, for substance abuse and mental health services; (7) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (8) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for grants to States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, program management, and the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (9) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to States for child support enforcement and family support programs; (10) low income home energy assistance; (11) refugee and entrant assistance; (12) payments to States for the child care and development block grant; (13) the social services block grant; (14) children and families services programs; (15) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (16) payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance; (17) the Administration on Aging; (18) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (19) the Office of Inspector General; (20) the Office for Civil Rights; (21) policy research; (22) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (23) the public health and social services emergency fund, for expenses related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations.Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available through assignment not more than 60 employees of the Public Health Service to assist in child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs through and with funds provided by the Agency for International Development, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization.(Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a certain mandatory breast cancer study under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) or to construct regional centers for primate research under the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993.(Sec. 204) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to pay an individual's salary, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I.(Sec. 205) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act pursuant to specified evaluation provisions of PHSA, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of HHS, prior to a report by the Secretary of HHS to specified congressional committees detailing the planned uses of such funds.(Sec. 206) Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine a portion, up to 2.2 percent, of appropriations for PHSA programs to be made available for evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of such programs.(Sec. 207) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds in this Act for the current fiscal year for the Department of HHS. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional two percent subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.(Sec. 208) Authorizes the Directors of the NIH and of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) jointly to transfer up to three percent among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).(Sec. 209) Requires the amount for research related to HIV (of amounts made available for NIH in this Act), as jointly determined by the Directors of NIH and of OAR, to be made available to the OAR account. Requires the Director of OAR to transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out certain provisions of PHSA.(Sec. 210) Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA, unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to coerce them into engaging in sexual activities.(Sec. 211) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to carry out the Medicare+Choice program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions.(Sec. 212) Declares that no provider of services under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest. (Sec. 213) Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 to extend through FY 2004 the authority and deadline for aliens to apply for refugee admission into the United States. Directs the Attorney General to establish one or more refugee categories for members of religious minoriites who are or were targets of persecution in Iran. (Sec. 214) Prohibits funds under by this Act from being used to withhold substance abuse funding from a State pursuant to specified PHSA provisions, if such State certifies to the Secretary of HHS that the State will commit additional State funds to ensure compliance with State laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 18 years of age. Requires the amount of such funds to be committed by a State to equal one percent of its substance abuse block grant allocation for each percentage point by which the State misses the retailer compliance rate goal established by the Secretary of HHS. Requires the State to maintain its expenditures in FY 2004 for tobacco prevention programs and for compliance activities at least at its FY 2003 level, and to add to that level such required additional funds for tobacco compliance activities. Provides that no funds under this Act may be used to withhold such substance abuse funding from a territory that receives less than $1 million of such funding. (Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, in order for the CDCP to carry out international health activities, including those relating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during FY 2004, to utilize specified authorities under: (1) the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956; and (2) other Federal laws to lease, alter, or renovate facilities in foreign countries to carry out such programs.(Sec. 216) Authorizes the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ occupational health professionals and professionals in management and administration.(Sec. 217) Authorizes the Director of the NIH to use funds under this Act to award Core Center Grants to encourage the development of innovative multidisciplinary research and provide training concerning Parkinson's disease. Requires each such center to be designated as a Morris K. Udall Center for Research on Parkinson's Disease. (Sec. 218) Prohibits use of funds appropriated in this or any other Act to carry out or administer the Department of HHS Human Resources Consolidation Plan. (Sec. 219) Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress with recommendations on concierge care, to determine the extent to which such care: (1) is used by Medicare beneficiaries; and (2) has impacted upon the access of Medicare beneficiaries to items and services for which reimbursement is provided under the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act. (Sec. 220) Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Director of NIH should continue: (1) the Pediatric Research Initiative (PRI) under PHSA, and emphasize the importance of pediatric research, particularly translational research; and (2) to report, by January 2004, to specified congressional committees on the status of the PRI. (Sec. 221) Makes appropriations to provide funding for poison control centers under the Poison Control Enhancement and Awareness Act, including amounts otherwise made available in this Act for such centers. (Sec. 222) Makes additional appropriations, under the heading of Administration on Aging, to carry out the ombudsman program under the Older Americans Act of 1965. (Sec. 223) Makes additional appropriations for programs and activities under the Nurse Reinvestment Act and for other nursing workforce development programs under title VIII of PHSA. (Sec. 224) Requires the NIH Director, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to report to the appropriate congressional committees, including: (1) the Director's recommendations on the NIH role in promoting affordability of inventions and products developed with Federal funds; and (2) a description of any existing circumstances that prevent the Director from doing such promotion. (Sec. 225) Requires studies and reports to specified congressional committees on mammography standards by: (1) the Comptroller General, evaluating specified aspects of the program established under the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 (MQSA), particularly the factors that contributed to the closing of approximately 700 mammography facilities since 2001; and (2) the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (under an agreement with the Secretary of HHS), recommending various improvements in mammography quality and physicians' interpretations of mammograms, as well as other specified items. (Sec. 226) Authorizes a specified amount of the appropriations for the CDCP under this Act to be made available for the CDCP Director to carry out competitive grant program to strengthen local capacity on Native American reservations to screen for and treat sexually transmitted diseases and to educate local populations about such diseases, the consequences thereof, and how the transmission of such diseases can be prevented. (Sec. 227) Authorizes additional appropriations for the support of the improved newborn and child screening for heritable disorders program under PHSA. (Sec. 228) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 through 2007 for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Bureau of Health Professions of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award up to five four-year grants to higher education institutions to establish summer health career introductory programs for middle and high school students. (Sec. 229) Requires the CDCP Director, within 120 days after enactment of this Act, to prepare a plan to comprehensively address blood safety and injection safety in Africa under the Global AIDS Program. (Sec. 230) Directs the Secretary of HHS to report by May 1, 2004, to the appropriate congressional committees of Congress on the manner in which the Department of HHS expends Federal funds for research, patient care, and other activities relating to Hansen's Disease. (Sec. 231) Makes additional appropriations for the following activities under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: (1) child abuse State grants; (2) community-based resource centers; and (3) child abuse discretionary grants. (Sec. 232) Authorizes additional appropriations to the Director of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) of the Department of HHS for a demonstration project, in appropriate coordination with the heads of specified and other agencies within HHS, to reduce Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) disparity rates, and to provide risk reduction education to African American and Native American populations, including efforts to reduce alcohol use by pregnant women, support for smoking cessation (maternal and secondhand) programs, and education of teenagers on the risk factors for SIDS associated with teenage pregnancy within African American and Native American communities. Expresses the sense of the Senate encouraging the OMH Director, in carrying out such demonstration project, to: (1) expand upon the similar pilot program for Native Americans that was funded by OMH; and (2) coordinate with those other agency heads to support project activities. (Sec. 233) Authorizes appropriations to fund programs on community automatic external defibrillators under PHSA. (Sec. 234) Authorizes an additional amount to be made available to the Health Resources and Services Administration for the purchase of automatic external defibrilators and the training of individuals in cardiac life support in rural areas. (Sec. 235) Authorizes use of certain funds to continue operating the Council on Graduate Medical Education. (Sec. 236) Designates the NIH Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers program as the Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers. (Sec. 237) Requires specified additional amounts to be made available under this Act for mother-to-child as well as non-mother-to-child HIV transmission prevention activities. Offsets such additional amounts by reducing on a pro rata basis amounts for administrative and related expenses for departmental management for the Departments of Labor, of HHS, and of Education. (Sec. 238) Authorizes the NIH Director to use certain available funds to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research in support of the NIH Roadmap Initiative of the Director. Authorizes the Director, in entering such transactions, to determine and use appropriate peer review procedures in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under PHSA. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Education for: (1) education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) Indian education; (5) innovation and improvement activities; (6) safe schools and citizenship education; (7) English language acquisition and language enhancement; (8) special education; (9) rehabilitation services and disability research; (10) special institutions for persons with disabilities, including the American Printing House for the Blind, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University; (11) vocational and adult education; (12) certain student financial assistance programs, as well as Federal administrative expenses for such programs (and sets a maximum individual Pell Grant amount); (13) specified higher education programs; (14) Howard University; (15) the college housing and academic facilities loans program; (16) the historically Black college and university capital financing program account; (17) the Institute of Education Sciences; (18) departmental management and program administration; (19) the Office for Civil Rights; and (20) the Office of the Inspector General.Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,050 during award year 2004-2005.Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.(Sec. 301) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan.(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds under in this Act to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition.(Sec. 303) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools.(Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer. (Sec. 305) Amends the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2003 (title III of Division G of the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003, which is Public Law 108-7) to revise specified provisions for education for the disadvantaged to increase the amount of funds that shall become available on July 1, 2003, and provide a corresponding decrease of funds that shall become available on October 1, 2003. (Sec. 306) Prohibits the use of any funds under this Act to implement or enforce the annual updates to the allowance for State and other taxes in the tables used in the Federal Needs Analysis Methodology to determine a student's expected family contribution for the award year 2004-2005 under student aid provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) published in the Federal Register on Friday, May 30, 2003, to the extent that such implementation or enforcement of the updates will reduce the amount of Federal student financial assistance for which a student is eligible. Postpones the availability for obligation of a specified amount of NIH appropriations in this Act until September 30, 2004. (Sec. 307) Makes additional appropriations for grants to States under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for education of children with disabilities. Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to extend through FY 2004 the authorization for customs users fees. (Sec. 308) Makes additional appropriations to carry out the Excellence in Economic Education Act of 2001 under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). (Sec. 309) Makes specified appropriations for necessary expenses for the Underground Railroad Education and Cultural Program. (Sec. 310) Makes specified appropriations to carry out the grant program for statewide, longitudinal data systems under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002. Offsets the amount of such appropriations by reducing on a pro rata basis all amounts in this Act for management and administration at the Department of Education. (Sec. 311) Makes appropriations up to a specified amount to carry out school dropout prevention activities authorized by part H of title I of ESEA. (Sec. 312) Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary of Education to award a grant to Syracuse University to establish an endowment fund to support a Daniel Patrick Moynihan Global Affairs Institute. Requires the University, to be eligible for such grant, to designate the global affairs institute within the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Global Affairs Institute. (Sec. 313) Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) language instruction under title III of ESEA; (2) Hispanic-serving institutions under part A of title V of HEA; (3) migrant education under part C of title I of ESEA; (4) high school equivalency program activities under title IV of HEA; (5) college assistance migrant program activities under title IV of HEA; and (6) parental assistance and local family information centers under part D of title V of ESEA. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the: (1) Armed Forces Retirement Home; (2) Corporation for National and Community Service, for domestic volunteer service programs and operating expenses; (3) Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (5) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6) Institute of Museum and Library Services; (7) Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; (8) National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (9) National Council on Disability; (10) National Educational Goals Panel; (11) National Labor Relations Board; (12) National Mediation Board; (13) Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (14) Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account, Federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts, administration, and the Office of Inspector General; (15) Social Security Administration for payments to the Social Security trust funds, special benefits for disabled coal miners, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program, administrative expenses, and the Office of Inspector General; and (16) U.S. Institute of Peace.Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act.(Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs, unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs..(Sec. 506) Sets forth Buy American requirements.(Sec. 508) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act, or in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion, with exceptions specified in section 509 of this Act.(Sec. 509) Provides that the prohibition in section 508 shall not apply to an abortion: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Provides that nothing in section 508 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, entity, or private person of State, local, or private funds (other than a State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a State or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with State funds (other than a State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds).(Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under specified Federal regulations and the Public Health Service Act. Defines \"human embryo or embryos\" to include any organism, not protected as a human subject under specified Federal regulations as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.(Sec. 511) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine such advantage. (Sec. 513) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a final standard under the Social Security Act providing for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard. (Sec. 514) Prohibits any funds made available in this Act from being transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the Federal Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. (Sec. 515) Reduces by a specified amount and on a pro rata basis amounts made available under this Act for the administrative and related expenses for departmental management for the Departments of Labor, of HHS, and of Education. Makes such reduction inapplicable to the Food and Drug Administration and the Indian Health Service. (Sec. 516) Authorizes additional appropriations for the Special Volunteers for Homeland Security program.", "2023-01-15T05:32:38Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2660"], ["108-hr-2618", 108, "hr", 2618, "Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-06-26", "2003-06-26", "Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.", "House", "Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7]", "WI", "D", "O000007", 0, "Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and related agencies. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds and transfers of funds. Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration, training and employment services; (2) community service employment for older Americans; (3) Federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (4) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (5) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (6) employment and training program administration; (7) the Employee Benefits Security Administration; (8) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (9) the Employment Standards Administration; (10) certain special benefits, including ones for disabled coal miners; (11) adminisrative expenses for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund; (12) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (13) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (14) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (15) the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (16) the Office of Disability Employment Policy; (17) departmental management; (18) veterans employment and training; (19) the Office of Inspector General; and (20) a working capital fund for a new core accounting system. Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration, for specified health resources and services activities; (2) health education assistance loans; (3) the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund; (4) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), for disease control, research, and training; (5) the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the John E. Fogarty International Center, the National Library of Medicine, and the Office of the Director; (6) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, for substance abuse and mental health services; (7) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (8) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for grants to States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, program management, and the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (9) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to States for child support enforcement and family support programs; (10) low income home energy assistance; (11) refugee and entrant assistance; (12) payments to States for the child care and development block grant; (13) the social services block grant; (14) disabled voter services; (15) children and families services programs; (16) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (17) payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance; (18) the Administration on Aging; (19) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (20) the Office of Inspector General; (21) the Office for Civil Rights; (22) policy research; (23) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, including payments to survivors and medical care of active duty and retired members and dependents and beneficiaries; and (24) the public health and social services emergency fund, for expenses related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations. Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Education for: (1) education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) Indian education; (5) innovation and improvement activities; (6) safe schools and citizenship education; (7) English language acquisition and language enhancement; (8) special education; (9) rehabilitation services and disability research; (10) special institutions for persons with disabilities, including the American Printing House for the Blind, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University; (11) vocational and adult education; (12) certain student financial assistance programs, as well as Federal administrative expenses for such programs (and sets a maximum individual Pell Grant amount); (13) specified higher education programs; (14) Howard University; (15) the college housing and academic facilities loans program; (16) the Historically Black College and University capital financing program account; (17) the Institute of Education Sciences; (18) departmental management and program administration; (19) the Office for Civil Rights; and (20) the Office of the Inspector General. Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the: (1) Armed Forces Retirement Home; (2) Corporation for National and Community Service, for domestic volunteer service programs and operating expenses; (3) Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (5) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6) Institute of Museum and Library Services; (7) Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; (8) National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (9) National Council on Disability; (10) National Educational Goals Panel; (11) National Labor Relations Board; (12) National Mediation Board; (13) Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (14) Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account, Federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts, administration, and the Office of Inspector General; (15) Social Security Administration for payments to the Social Security trust funds, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program, administrative expenses, and the Office of Inspector General; and (16) U.S. Institute of Peace.", "2023-01-15T16:33:39Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2618"], ["108-s-1356", 108, "s", 1356, "Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-06-26", "2003-06-26", "Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 175.", "Senate", "Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]", "PA", "R", "S000709", 0, "(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and related agencies.Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration, training and employment services; (2) community service employment for older Americans; (3) Federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (4) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (5) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (6) employment and training program administration; (7) the Employee Benefits Security Administration; (8) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (9) the Employment Standards Administration; (10) certain special benefits, including ones for disabled coal miners; (11) the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund; (12) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (13) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (14) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (15) the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (16) the Office of Disability Employment Policy; (17) departmental management; (18) veterans employment and training; (19) the Office of Inspector General; and (20) a working capital fund for a new core accounting system.Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds and transfers of funds appropriated under this title.(Sec. 101) Prohibits use of Job Corps funds under this title to pay individual compensation at a rate in excess of Executive Level II.(Sec. 102) Allows not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act to be transferred between appropriations. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer.(Sec. 103) Prohibits, in accordance with a specified executive order, funds under this Act from being obligated or expended for procuring goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested, or services rendered, whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor in industries and host countries already identified by the Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act.(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations to the Denali Commission, through the Department of Labor, to conduct job training of the local workforce where Denali Commission projects will be constructed.(Sec. 105) Rescinds a specified amount of the funds appropriated for FY 1999 that were allotted as welfare-to-work formula grants to States under certain Social Security Act provisions. Directs the Secretary of Labor to recapture unexpended funds from States that have received such allotments, on the basis of each State's relative portion of the total unexpended amount in all States.Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration, for specified health resources and services activities; (2) health education assistance loans; (3) the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund; (4) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), for disease control, research, and training; (5) the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the John E. Fogarty International Center, the National Library of Medicine, and the Office of the Director; (6) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, for substance abuse and mental health services; (7) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (8) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for grants to States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, program management, and the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (9) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to States for child support enforcement and family support programs; (10) low income home energy assistance; (11) refugee and entrant assistance; (12) payments to States for the child care and development block grant; (13) the social services block grant; (14) children and families services programs; (15) promoting safe and stable families, through family preservation and support; (16) payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance; (17) the Administration on Aging; (18) the Office of the Secretary for general departmental management; (19) the Office of Inspector General; (20) the Office for Civil Rights; (21) policy research; (22) retirement pay and medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care of dependents and retired personnel; and (23) the public health and social services emergency fund, for expenses related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations.Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.(Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary of HHS to make available through assignment not more than 60 employees of the Public Health Service to assist in child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs through and with funds provided by the Agency for International Development, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, or the World Health Organization.(Sec. 203) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement a certain mandatory breast cancer study under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) or to construct regional centers for primate research under the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993.(Sec. 204) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to pay an individual's salary, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess of Executive Level I.(Sec. 205) Prohibits the expenditure of funds under this Act pursuant to specified evaluation provisions of PHSA, except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department of HHS, prior to a report by the Secretary of HHS to specified congressional committees detailing the planned uses of such funds.(Sec. 206) Directs the Secretary of HHS to determine a portion, up to 2.2 percent, of appropriations for PHSA programs to be made available for evaluation of implementation and effectiveness of such programs.(Sec. 207) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds in this Act for the current fiscal year for the Department of HHS. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer, but allows that appropriation to be increased by an additional two percent subject to approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.(Sec. 208) Authorizes the Directors of the NIH and of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) jointly to transfer up to three percent among institutes, centers, and divisions from the total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).(Sec. 209) Requires the amount for research related to HIV (of amounts made available for NIH in this Act), as jointly determined by the Directors of NIH and of OAR, to be made available to the OAR account. Requires the Director of OAR to transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out certain provisions of PHSA.(Sec. 210) Prohibits funds under this Act from being made available under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA, unless the award applicant certifies to the Secretary of HHS that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and provides counseling to minors on resisting attempts to coerce them into engaging in sexual activities.(Sec. 211) Prohibits use of funds under this Act to carry out the Medicare+Choice program if the Secretary of HHS denies participation in such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions.(Sec. 212) Declares that no provider of services under title X (population research and voluntary family planning) of PHSA shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.(Sec. 213) Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 to extend through FY 2004 certain provisions relating to establishing categories of aliens for purposes of refugee determinations.(Sec. 214) Prohibits funds under by this Act from being used to withhold substance abuse funding from a State pursuant to specified PHSA provisions, if such State certifies to the Secretary of HHS that the State will commit additional State funds to ensure compliance with State laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to individuals under 18 years of age. Requires the amount of such funds to be committed by a State to equal one percent of its substance abuse block grant allocation for each percentage point by which the State misses the retailer compliance rate goal established by the Secretary of HHS. Requires the State to maintain its expenditures in FY 2004 for tobacco prevention programs and for compliance activities at least at its FY 2003 level, and to add to that level such required additional funds for tobacco compliance activities. Provides that no funds under this Act may be used to withhold such substance abuse funding from a territory that receives less than $1 million of such funding.(Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of HHS, in order for the CDCP to carry out international health activities, including those relating to HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during FY 2004, to utilize specified authorities under: (1) the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956; and (2) other Federal laws to lease, alter, or renovate facilities in foreign countries to carry out such programs.(Sec. 216) Authorizes the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ occupational health professionals and professionals in management and administration.(Sec. 217) Authorizes the Director of the NIH to use funds under this Act to award Core Center Grants to encourage the development of innovative multidisciplinary research and provide training concerning Parkinson's disease. Requires each such center to be designated as a Morris K. Udall Center for Research on Parkinson's Disease.(Sec. 218) Prohibits use of funds appropriated in this or any other Act to carry out or administer the Department of HHS Human Resources Consolidation Plan.Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2004 - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Education for: (1) education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) Indian education; (5) innovation and improvement activities; (6) safe schools and citizenship education; (7) English language acquisition and language enhancement; (8) special education; (9) rehabilitation services and disability research; (10) special institutions for persons with disabilities, including the American Printing House for the Blind, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, and Gallaudet University; (11) vocational and adult education; (12) certain student financial assistance programs, as well as Federal administrative expenses for such programs (and sets a maximum individual Pell Grant amount); (13) specified higher education programs; (14) Howard University; (15) the college housing and academic facilities loans program; (16) the historically Black college and university capital financing program account; (17) the Institute of Education Sciences; (18) departmental management and program administration; (19) the Office for Civil Rights; and (20) the Office of the Inspector General.Sets the maximum individual Pell Grant amount at $4,050 during award year 2004-2005.Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.(Sec. 301) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to transport teachers or students in order to: (1) overcome racial imbalance in any school; or (2) carry out a racial desegregation plan.(Sec. 302) Prohibits the use of funds under in this Act to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student to a school other than the school nearest the student's home, except, for a student requiring special education, to the school offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Declares that such a prohibited indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. Exempts the establishment of magnet schools from such prohibition.(Sec. 303) Prohibits funds under in this Act from being used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in public schools.(Sec. 304) Allows the transfer between appropriations of not more than one percent of discretionary funds for the current fiscal year for the Department of Education in this Act. Prohibits any increase of any such appropriation by more than three percent by any such transfer.(Sec. 305) Amends the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2003 (title III of Division G of the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003, which is Public Law 108-7) to revise specified provisions for education for the disadvantaged to increase the amount of funds that shall become available on July 1, 2003, and provide a corresponding decrease of funds that shall become available on October 1, 2003.Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2004 to the: (1) Armed Forces Retirement Home; (2) Corporation for National and Community Service, for domestic volunteer service programs and operating expenses; (3) Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (5) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6) Institute of Museum and Library Services; (7) Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; (8) National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (9) National Council on Disability; (10) National Educational Goals Panel; (11) National Labor Relations Board; (12) National Mediation Board; (13) Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (14) Railroad Retirement Board for the dual benefits payments account, Federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts, administration, and the Office of Inspector General; (15) Social Security Administration for payments to the Social Security trust funds, special benefits for disabled coal miners, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program, administrative expenses, and the Office of Inspector General; and (16) U.S. Institute of Peace.Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title.Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act.(Sec. 505) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for programs to distribute sterile needles or syringes for the injection of illegal drugs, unless the Secretary of HHS determines that such programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs..(Sec. 506) Sets forth Buy American requirements.(Sec. 508) Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated under this Act, or in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, for abortions or for health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion, with exceptions specified in section 509 of this Act.(Sec. 509) Provides that the prohibition in section 508 shall not apply to an abortion: (1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. Provides that nothing in section 508 shall be construed as: (1) prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, entity, or private person of State, local, or private funds (other than a State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds); or (2) restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering abortion coverage or the ability of a State or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with State funds (other than a State's or locality's contribution of Medicaid matching funds).(Sec. 510) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for: (1) the creation of a human embryo for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo is destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under specified Federal regulations and the Public Health Service Act. Defines \"human embryo or embryos\" to include any organism, not protected as a human subject under specified Federal regulations as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.(Sec. 511) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for activities to promote the legalization of a controlled substance unless there is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use of such substance or that federally-sponsored trials are being conducted to determine such advantage.(Sec. 513) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act to promulgate a final standard under the Social Security Act providing for a unique health identifier for an individual (except in an individual's capacity as an employer or health care provider) until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard.", "2022-02-03T05:36:38Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1356"], ["108-hr-2555", 108, "hr", 2555, "Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-06-23", "2003-10-01", "Became Public Law No: 108-90.", "House", "Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5]", "KY", "R", "R000395", 85, "(This measure has not been amended since the Conference Report was filed in the House on September 23, 2003. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2004 - Title I: Departmental Management and Operations - Makes FY 2004 appropriations to the Department of Homeland Security (Department) for: (1) the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management; (2) the Office of the Under Secretary for Management; (3) Department-Wide Technology Investments; and (4) the Office of the Inspector General. Title II: Security, Enforcement, and Investigations - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for: (1) the Office of the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security (salaries and expenses, and U.S. visitor and immigrant status indicator technology), (2) customs and border protection (salaries and expenses, automation modernization, and construction); (3) immigration and customs enforcement (salaries and expenses, Air and Marine interdiction, operations, maintenance and procurement); (4) Federal air marshals; (5) the Federal Protective Service; (6) the Transportation Security Administration (aviation security, maritime and land security, intelligence, research and development, and administration); (7) the U.S. Coast Guard (including a rescission of funds, operating expenses, environmental compliance and restoration, reserve training, acquisition, construction, and improvements, alteration of bridges, research, development, test, and evaluation, and retired pay); (8) the U.S. Secret Service (salaries and expenses); and (9) acquisition, construction, improvements, and related expenses. Title III: Preparedness and Recovery - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for: (1) the Office for Domestic Preparedness; (2) firefighter assistance grants; (3) the Counterterrorism Fund; (4) the Office of the Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response (including for securing medical countermeasures against biological terror attacks); (5) the Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program; (6) disaster relief; (7) the Disaster Assistance Direct Loan Program Account; (8) the National Pre-Disaster Mitigation Fund; (9) the Flood Map Modernization Fund; (10) the National Flood Insurance Fund; (11) the National Flood Mitigation Fund; (12) emergency management performance grants; (13) emergency food and shelter; and (14) Cerro Grande fire claims. Title IV: Research and Development, Training, Assessments, and Services - Makes FY 2004 appropriations for: (1). citizenship and immigration services; (2) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (salaries and expenses, acquisition, construction, improvements, and related expenses); (3) information analysis and infrastructure protection; and (4) science and technology (research, development, acquisition, and operations). Title V: General Provisions - (Sec. 503) Prohibits the availability of funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies in or transferred to the Department, or from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this Act for obligation or expenditure through a reprogamming of funds that: (1) creates new programs; (2) eliminates programs, projects, or activities; (3) increases funds for programs, projects, or activities that have been denied or restricted by Congress; or (4) proposes to use funds that have been directed for a specific activity by the appropriations committees for a different activity unless such committees are notified 15 days in advance. (Sec. 505) Authorizes the use of appropriated funds for FY 2004 and thereafter for: (1) the purchase of uniforms without regard to the general purchase price limitations for the current fiscal year; (2) the purchase of insurance for official motor vehicles operated in foreign countries; (3) entering into contracts with the Department of State to furnish health and medical services to employees and their dependents serving in foreign countries; (4) the employment of experts and consultants; and (5) the hire and purchase of motor vehicles. (Sec. 508) Deems any funds made available by this Act for intelligence activities to be specifically authorized by Congress under the National Security Act of 1947 during FY 2004 until enactment of an Act authorizing such activities for FY 2004. (Sec. 509) Directs the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center to establish an accrediting body of both Federal and non-Federal law enforcement training experts to establish standards for measuring and assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law enforcement training programs, facilities, and instructors. Requires the Center to ensure that all training centers under its control are operated at optimal capacity throughout the fiscal year. (Sec. 513) Prohibits the use of Department funds: (1) for the production of customs declarations that do not inquire whether the passenger had been in the proximity of livestock; (2) for any activity or Government employee salary that would prohibit the enforcement of the ban of the Tariff Act of 1930 against the importation of goods mined, produced, or manufactured by convict labor; or (3) to allow the importation of goods (or the release of goods on which there is in effect a detention order) mined, produced, or manufactured by forced or indentured child labor. (Sec. 517) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to pursue or adopt regulations requiring airport sponsors to provide, without cost to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), building construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space for services relating to aviation security (excluding space for necessary checkpoints). Permits negotiations of below-market rates for these items. (Sec. 518) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act in contravention of the Buy American Act. (Sec. 519) Prohibits the use of funds provided by this or previous appropriations Acts for deployment or implementation on other than a test basis of the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II) until the General Accounting Office has reported to the Committees on Appropriations that: (1) a system of due process exists by which passengers considered to pose a threat may appeal their delay or prohibition from boarding a flight; (2) the underlying error rate of databases will not produce a large number of false positives that will result in a significant number of passengers being treated mistakenly or security resources being diverted; (3) the TSA has stressed-tested and demonstrated the efficacy and predictive accuracy of all search tools in CAPPS II; and (4) the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) has established an internal oversight board to monitor the manner in which CAPPS II is being developed and prepared. (Sec. 520) Requires the Secretary, for FY 2004 and thereafter, to charge reasonable fees for providing credentialing and background investigations in the field of transportation. (Sec. 521) Directs the Secretary to research, develop, and procure certified systems to inspect and screen air cargo on passenger aircraft at the earliest possible date and to take certain preventive measures in the interim.", "2023-01-15T16:33:41Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2555"], ["108-hr-2535", 108, "hr", 2535, "Economic Development Administration Reauthorization Act of 2003", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-06-19", "2003-10-21", "Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.", "House", "Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]", "OH", "R", "L000553", 6, "Economic Development Administration Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Title I: General Provisions - (Sec. 102) Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to revise the definition of an eligible recipient to: (1) remove reference to the meaning of an eligible recipient as an area having a low per capita income, an unemployment rate that is above the national average, or actual or threatened severe unemployment or economic adjustment problems; and (2) include a special purpose unit of a State or local government engaged in economic or infrastructure development activities under the meaning of a city or other political subdivision of a State. Defines the term "Regional Commissions" to mean the following entities: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Delta Regional Authority; (3) the Denali Commission; and (4) the Northern Great Plains Regional Authority. Defines the term "university centers" to mean an institution of higher education or a consortium of institutions of higher education established as a University Center for Economic Development under the Act. (Sec. 103) Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to provide technical assistance for economic development activities and partnerships to nonprofit entities. Removes reference to adjoining States with respect to authorizing the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with any two or more States, or an organization of any two or more States, in support of effective economic development. (Sec. 104) Provides for the Secretary to: (1) coordinate with Indian tribes on activities related to the preparation and implementation of comprehensive economic development strategies; and (2) convene meetings with Federal agencies, State and local governments, economic development districts, Indian tribes, and other appropriate planning and development organizations to improve coordination between Federal agencies. Title II: Grants for Public Works and Economic Development - (Sec. 201) Requires State plans developed with grants for planning to be developed, to the maximum extent practicable, cooperatively by the State's political subdivisions and economic development districts. Repeals requirements for certification of State plans by the Secretary and replaces them with a requirement instructing the Secretary, before providing assistance for a State plan, to consider the extent to which the State will consider local and economic district plans. Requires any overall State economic development planning assisted as part of a comprehensive planning process to include considering the provision of public works to assist in carrying out a State's workforce investment strategy. (Sec. 202) Revises Federal and non-Federal cost sharing requirements to: (1) direct the Secretary to issue regulations to establish the Federal share of the costs of projects based on the relative needs of the areas in which such projects will be located; (2) limit the Federal share of the cost of any project to 80 percent; (3) allow the Secretary to increase the Federal cost share up to 100 percent for projects for Indian tribes and certain States, political subdivisions, and nonprofit organizations; and (4) limit the Federal share of the costs of planning activities to at least 65 percent and not more than 80 percent. (Sec. 203) Disallows the share of the project cost supported by a supplementary grant from exceeding the applicable Federal share under this Act. Revises requirements regarding the forms in which the Secretary may make supplementary grants.  (Sec. 204) Directs the Secretary, in promulgating rules, regulations, and procedures for assistance, to ensure that grants under the Act will promote job creation and will have a high probability of meeting or exceeding applicable performance requirements.  (Sec. 205) Authorizes the Secretary to make training, research, and technical assistance grants for studies to evaluate the effectiveness of coordinating funded projects with projects funded under other acts. Permits, for an assisted project that is national or regional in scope, the waiver of the provision requiring a nonprofit organization or association to act in cooperation with officials of a political subdivision of a State. (Sec. 206) Repeals current provisions concerning the prevention of unfair competition. (Sec. 207) Directs the Secretary to issue regulations to maintain the proper operation and financial integrity of revolving loan funds established by assistance recipients. Authorizes the Secretary: (1) at a grantee's request, to amend and consolidate grant agreements governing revolving loan funds to provide flexibility with respect to lending areas and borrower criteria; (2) assign or transfer assets of a revolving loan fund to a third party for the purpose of liquidation; and (3) take appropriate actions to enable revolving loan fund operators to sell or securitize loans, except that the actions may not include issuance of a Federal guaranty. Prohibits any securities issued pursuant to such actions from being treated as exempted securities for purposes of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, unless exempted by rule or regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission. (Sec. 208) Revises provisions concerning the use of funds in projects constructed under projected cost to authorize the Secretary to: (1) approve the use of excess funds to increase the Federal share of a project's cost to the maximum percentage allowable or to improve the project; and (2) use any funds remaining following such increase for providing assistance under the Act.  (Sec. 209) Authorizes the Secretary to determine that a grant recipient is unable to comply with comprehensive economic development strategy requirements and designate the area represented by the recipient as a special impact area. Permits the waiver of such requirements with respect to such a special impact area if the Secretary determines that the waiver will carry out the Act's purposes. Requires the Secretary, before issuing a waiver, to transmit a written notice of the waiver, including a justification for it, to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate (the congressional committees). (Sec. 210) Authorizes the Secretary to make performance incentive grants and establish performance measures in connection with project grants. Limits the amount of a performance incentive grant to ten percent of the project grant amount. Permits: (1) a recipient to use a performance incentive grant for any eligible purpose under the Act; and (2) a grant to be used for up to 100 percent of the cost of an eligible project or activity.  Instructs the Secretary to include information regarding performance incentive grants in annual reports to Congress required by the Act.  Requires the Comptroller General to review and transmit annual reports to the congressional committees on the implementation of such performance incentive program each fiscal year. (Sec. 211) Authorizes the Secretary to make planning performance awards in connection with grants made to eligible recipients for projects located in economic development districts. Allows the Secretary to make an award to a recipient for a project if, before closeout of the project, the Secretary has determined that: (1) the recipient actively participated in the economic development activities of the economic development district in which the project is located; (2) the project is consistent with the district's comprehensive economic development strategy; (3) the recipient worked with Federal, State, and local economic development entities throughout the development of the project; and (4) the project was completed in accordance with the district's strategy. Prohibits the amount of a performance planning award from exceeding five percent of the grant amount. Allows an award recipient to use the award to increase the Federal cost share of a project. Permits the amounts of an award to be used for up to 100 percent of a project's cost. (Sec. 212) Allows a grant recipient to directly expend grant funds or redistribute them as subgrants to other eligible recipients, with the exception of for-profit entities, to fund required components of the scope of work approved for the project.  (Sec. 213) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to qualified eligible recipients for projects to expand, redevelop, or reuse brownfield sites. Subjects projects to the limitations on the use of grants and loans for brownfields revitalization under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, except that recipients may use grant funds awarded for the administrative costs of economic development activities. (Sec. 214) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to qualified eligible recipients for a project for the development of brightfield sites if the project will: (1) utilize solar energy technologies to develop abandoned or contaminated sites for commercial use; and (2) improve the commercial and economic opportunities in the area in which the project is located. Authorizes appropriations. Subjects projects to the limitations on the use of grants and loans for brownfields revitalization under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, except that recipients may use grant funds awarded for the administrative costs of economic development activities. Title III: Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies - (Sec. 301) Requires: (1) a comprehensive economic development strategy to address economic problems in an area receiving assistance under the Act in a manner that maximizes effective development and use of the workforce consistent with any applicable State and or local workforce investment strategy; and (2) a comprehensive economic development strategy developed under another federally supported program that the Secretary has accepted for such an area, to the maximum extent practicable, to be consistent and coordinated with any such existing strategy for such area.  Title IV: Economic Development Districts - (Sec. 402) Requires that if any economic development district is in a region covered by one or more of the Regional Commissions, the economic development district shall ensure that a copy of the comprehensive economic development strategy of the district is provided to the affected Regional Commission. (Currently, this requirement is applicable only to the Appalachian Regional Commission.) Title V: Administration - (Sec. 501) Modifies provisions concerning the operation of the economic development information clearinghouse, including specifying that the clearinghouse will be maintained on the Internet and deleting references to political subdivisions and local laws. (Sec. 502) Repeals provisions authorizing providing Federal agency procurement divisions with a list of the names and addresses of businesses that are located in economic distress areas and that seek to obtain Government contracts. (Sec. 504) Requires the criteria for evaluation of a university center to include providing for an assessment of the center's program performance. Title VI: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 602) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should maintain a sufficient number of Economic Development Representatives to ensure that the Economic Development Administration is able to provide effective assistance to distressed communities and foster economic growth and development among the States. Title VII: Funding - (Sec. 701) Authorizes appropriations for: (1) economic development assistance programs for carrying out the Act for FY 2004 through 2008; and (2) for salaries and expenses for administering such Act. Title VIII: Appalachian Regional Development - (Sec. 801) Amends Federal provisions concerning Appalachian regional development to revise the definition of "Appalachian region" to include: (1) Nicholas and Robertson Counties in Kentucky; (2) Ashtabula, Fayette, Mahoning, and Trumbull Counties in Ohio; (3) Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, and Lincoln Counties in Tennessee; and (4) Henry and Patrick Counties in Virginia.  (Sec. 802) Increases the authorizations of appropriations to the Appalachian Regional Commission to carry out such regional development.", "2023-01-15T16:33:42Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2535"], ["108-hr-2547", 108, "hr", 2547, "Price Stability Act of 2003", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-06-19", "2003-07-07", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.", "House", "Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]", "NJ", "R", "S000097", 0, "Price Stability Act of 2003- Declares that the primary and overriding goal of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee with regard to monetary policy shall be the achievement of price stability. Authorizes the Board and the Committee to suspend such goal if the Committee, by a majority vote, and the President jointly determine such suspension necessary due to an emergency. Instructs the Board and the Committee to establish a definition of the goal of price stability using prescribed criteria.", "2023-01-15T16:33:41Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2547"], ["108-hjres-60", 108, "hjres", 60, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to authorize the line item veto.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-06-16", "2003-06-25", "Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.", "House", "Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]", "NJ", "D", "A000210", 7, "Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes the President, in the case of any bill, order, resolution, or vote presented to the President by the House of Representatives and the Senate, to decline to approve in whole any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, any item of new direct spending, or any tax benefit.", "2023-01-15T16:03:43Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-joint-resolution/60"], ["108-hr-2454", 108, "hr", 2454, "Economic Development Administration Reauthorization Act of 2003", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-06-12", "2003-06-23", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.", "House", "Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]", "OH", "R", "L000553", 3, "Economic Development Administration Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Reauthorizes programs under the Public Works and Economic Development Reauthorization Act of 1965 (PWEDA). Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) provide technical assistance to nonprofit organizations in establishing economic development partnerships; and (2) enter into cooperative agreements with any two or more States in support of effective economic development. Amends PWEDA provisions concerning grants for planning and administrative expenses to: (1) require State plans developed with such assistance to consider regional economic development strategies; (2) repeal requirements for certification by the Secretary of State plans; and (3) provide for a State's comprehensive planning process to consider the provision of public works to assist in carrying out the State's workforce investment strategy. Amends provisions concerning cost sharing provisions to: (1) require the Secretary to establish grant rates for projects based on the relative needs of the project areas; and (2) allow the Secretary to increase the Federal share to up to 100 percent of the cost of projects for Indian tribes and certain States, political subdivisions, and nonprofit organizations and to assist certain eligible recipients through supplementary grants through designated Federal grant programs. Directs the Secretary to ensure that: (1) allocations of assistance promote job creation through increased innovation, productivity, and entrepreneurship; and (2) financial assistance extended pursuant to such allocations will have a high probability of meeting performance requirements. Permits grants for training, research, and technical assistance to be used for studies that evaluate the effectiveness of collaborations between projects funded under PWEDA with projects funded under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to ensure proper operation and financial integrity of revolving loan funds established by eligible recipients. Revises requirements for the use of grant funds for projects constructed under projected costs. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make grants, enter into contracts, and provide technical assistance for projects and programs in special impact areas; and (2) award transferable performance credits that do not exceed ten percent of the grant amount awarded for certain projects. Requires comprehensive economic development strategies to maximize effective development and use of the workforce consistent with any applicable State and local workforce investment strategy. Requires: (1) the Secretary alone to approve comprehensive economic development strategies of proposed economic development districts; and (2) copies of such strategies to be provided to districts in regions covered by the Delta Regional Authority, Denali Commission, or Northern Great Plains Regional Authority. Requires the Secretary to maintain the central information clearinghouse on the Internet, with links to State economic development organizations and economic development resources. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 through 2008 for: (1) economic development assistance programs; and (2) salaries and administrative expenses.", "2023-01-15T16:18:30Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2454"], ["108-s-1134", 108, "s", 1134, "Economic Development Administration Reauthorization Act of 2004", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-05-22", "2004-10-27", "Became Public Law No: 108-373.", "Senate", "Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]", "MO", "R", "B000611", 6, "(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on October 6, 2004. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Economic Development Administration Reauthorization Act of 2004 - Title I: General Provisions - (Sec. 102) Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 (PWEDA) to revise the definition of an eligible recipient to: (1) remove the reference to an eligible recipient as an area having a low per capita income, an unemployment rate that is above the national average, or actual or threatened severe unemployment or economic adjustment problems; and (2) include as a city or other political subdivision of a State a special purpose unit of a State or local government engaged in economic or infrastructure development activities. Defines "Regional Commissions" to mean: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Delta Regional Authority; (3) the Denali Commission; and (4) the Northern Great Plains Regional Authority. Defines "university centers" to mean an institution of higher education or a consortium of institutions of higher education established as a University Center for Economic Development. (Sec. 103) Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to provide technical assistance for economic development activities and partnerships to nonprofit entities. Removes the reference to adjoining States with respect to authorizing the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with any two or more States, or an organization of any two or more States, in support of effective economic development. (Sec. 104) Provides for the Secretary to: (1) coordinate with Indian tribes on activities related to the preparation and implementation of comprehensive economic development strategies; and (2) convene meetings with Federal agencies, State and local governments, economic development districts, Indian tribes, and other appropriate planning and development organizations to improve coordination between Federal agencies. Title II: Grants for Public Works and Economic Development - (Sec. 201) Requires State plans developed with grants for planning to be developed, to the maximum extent practicable, cooperatively by the State's political subdivisions and economic development districts. Replaces requirements for certification of State plans by the Secretary with a requirement instructing the Secretary, before providing assistance for a State plan, to consider the extent to which the State will consider local and economic district plans. Requires any overall State economic development planning assisted as part of a comprehensive planning process to include consideration of the provision of public works to: (1) assist in carrying out a State's workforce investment strategy; and (2) promote the use of technology in economic development, including access to high-speed telecommunications. (Sec. 202) Revises cost sharing requirements to limit the Federal share of the cost of any project to 50 percent plus an additional amount that shall not exceed 30 percent based on the relative needs of the area in which the project will be located. Allows the Secretary to increase the Federal cost share up to 100 percent for projects: (1) for Indian tribes and certain States, political subdivisions, and nonprofit organizations; and (2) that (in the case of grants for training, research, and technical assistance) the Secretary determines merit, and are not feasible without, such an increase. (Sec. 203) Disallows the share of the project cost supported by a supplementary grant from exceeding the applicable Federal share under this Act. Revises requirements regarding the forms of supplementary grants.  (Sec. 204) Directs the Secretary, in promulgating rules, regulations, and procedures for assistance, to ensure that: (1) rural and urban economically distressed areas are not harmed by the establishment of a private sector leveraging goal for a project; (2) any such goal does not prohibit or discourage grant applicants from public works in, or economic development of, rural or urban economically distressed areas; (3) the relevant congressional committees are notified prior to making any changes to any such goal; and (4) grants under this title will promote job creation and will have a high probability of meeting or exceeding applicable performance requirements.  (Sec. 205) Authorizes the Secretary to make training, research, and technical assistance grants for: (1) studies to evaluate the effectiveness of coordinating funded projects with projects funded under other Acts; and (2) assessment, marketing, and establishment of business clusters. Permits, for an assisted project that is national or regional in scope, the waiver of the provision requiring a nonprofit organization or association to act in cooperation with officials of a political subdivision. (Sec. 206) Repeals current provisions concerning the prevention of unfair competition. (Sec. 207) Authorizes economic adjustment assistance for reinvesting in and diversifying the economies of communities that are injured by the loss of manufacturing jobs. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to maintain the proper operation and financial integrity of revolving loan funds established by assistance recipients. Authorizes the Secretary: (1) at a grantee's request, to amend and consolidate grant agreements governing revolving loan funds to provide flexibility with respect to lending areas and borrower criteria; (2) assign or transfer assets of a revolving loan fund to a third party for liquidation; and (3) take actions to enable revolving loan fund operators to sell or securitize loans, except that the actions may not include issuance of a Federal guaranty. Prohibits any securities issued pursuant to such actions from being treated as exempted securities for purposes of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, unless exempted by the Securities and Exchange Commission. (Sec. 208) Revises provisions concerning the use of funds in projects constructed under projected cost to authorize the Secretary to: (1) approve the use of excess funds to increase the Federal share of a project's cost to the maximum percentage allowable or to improve the project; and (2) use any funds remaining following such increase for providing assistance under PWEDA. Directs the Comptroller General to regularly review implementation and to report to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate (the congressional committees). (Sec. 209) Authorizes the Secretary, upon the application of a grant recipient that is determined to be unable to comply with comprehensive economic development strategy requirements, to waive requirements and designate the area represented by the recipient as a special impact area. Authorizes the Secretary to make such designation only after determining that the project will fulfill a pressing need of the area and will: (1) be useful in alleviating or preventing conditions of excessive unemployment or underemployment; or (2) assist in providing useful employment opportunities for residents in the area. Directs the Secretary to submit to the congressional committees a written notice of the designation, including its justification. (Sec. 210) Authorizes the Secretary to make performance incentive grants and establish performance measures in connection with project grants. Limits the amount of a performance incentive grant to ten percent of the project grant amount. Permits: (1) a recipient to use a performance incentive grant for any eligible purpose under PWEDA; and (2) a grant to be used for up to 100 percent of the cost of an eligible project or activity. Instructs the Secretary to include information regarding performance incentive grants in required annual reports. Requires the Comptroller General to review and transmit annual reports to the congressional committees on the implementation of such performance incentive program. (Sec. 211) Authorizes the Secretary to make planning performance awards in connection with grants made to eligible recipients for projects located in economic development districts. Allows the Secretary to make an award to a recipient for a project if, before closeout of the project, the Secretary has determined that: (1) the recipient actively participated in the economic development activities of the economic development district in which the project is located; (2) the project is consistent with the district's comprehensive economic development strategy; (3) the recipient worked with Federal, State, and local economic development entities throughout project development; and (4) the project was completed in accordance with the district's strategy. Prohibits the amount of a performance planning award from exceeding five percent of the grant amount. Allows an award recipient to use the award to increase the Federal cost share of a project. Permits the amounts of an award to be used for up to 100 percent of a project's cost. (Sec. 212) Allows a grant recipient to directly expend grant funds or redistribute them: (1) as subgrants to other eligible recipients, with the exception of for-profit entities, to fund required components of the approved scope of work; and (2) to public and private entities in the form of a grant, loan, loan guarantee, or payment to reduce interest on a loan guarantee. (Sec. 213) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to qualified eligible recipients for a project for the development of brightfield sites if the project will: (1) utilize solar energy technologies to develop abandoned or contaminated sites for commercial use; and (2) improve the commercial and economic opportunities in the area in which the project is located. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies - (Sec. 301) Includes Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, and Bureau of Indian Affairs data among the most recent Federal data available for purposes of eligibility determinations. (Sec. 302) Requires a comprehensive economic development strategy to address economic problems in an area receiving assistance under PWEDA in a manner that: (1) maximizes effective development and use of the workforce consistent with any applicable State or local workforce investment strategy; and (2) promotes the use of technology in economic development (including access to high-speed telecommunications). Requires a comprehensive economic development strategy developed under another federally supported program that the Secretary has accepted for such an area to be consistent and coordinated with any such existing strategy.  Title IV: Economic Development Districts - (Sec. 402) Requires any economic development district in a region covered by one or more of the Regional Commissions to ensure that a copy of its comprehensive economic development strategy is provided to the affected Commission. (Currently, this requirement is applicable only to the Appalachian Regional Commission.) Title V: Administration - (Sec. 501) Modifies provisions concerning the operation of the economic development information clearinghouse, including by specifying that the clearinghouse will be maintained on the Internet and by deleting references to political subdivisions and local laws. (Sec. 502) Repeals provisions authorizing providing Federal agency procurement divisions with a list of the names and addresses of businesses that are located in economic distress areas and that seek to obtain Government contracts. (Sec. 504) Requires the criteria for evaluation of a university center to include providing for an assessment of the center's program performance. Title VI: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 601) Requires the Secretary's annual report on activities under PWEDA to include a list of all grant recipients by State (including the projected private sector dollar to Federal dollar investment ratio for each recipient), a discussion of any private sector leveraging goal regarding grants awarded to rural and urban economically distressed areas and highly distressed areas, and the realized private sector dollar to Federal dollar investment ratio for the project. (Sec. 603) Directs the Comptroller General to prepare and submit to Congress a report that evaluates the grants made by the Economic Development Administration (EDA) for the economic development of brownfield sites. (Sec. 604) Provides that to the extent that any portion of grants made under the Act is used for an economic development project that involves remediation, the remediation shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and local laws and standards. (Sec. 605) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should maintain a sufficient number of Economic Development Representatives to ensure that EDA is able to provide effective assistance to distressed communities and foster economic growth and development among the States. Title VII: Funding - (Sec. 701) Authorizes appropriations under PWEDA for: (1) economic development assistance programs for FY 2004 through 2008; and (2) salaries and expenses. (Sec. 702) Makes funds available for grants for planning and administrative expenses.", "2023-01-15T15:48:18Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/1134"], ["108-hr-2156", 108, "hr", 2156, "To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-05-20", "2003-05-20", "Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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.", "House", "Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]", "NY", "D", "R000053", 2, "Provides for a temporary increase in the public debt limit by $375 billion. Requires the President to submit a ten-year plan to Congress that will bring the Federal unified budget into balance by FY 2008 and, thereafter, make uninterrupted progress in reducing the use of Social Security trust fund surpluses to finance the deficit in the non-Social-Security budget.", "2023-01-15T15:33:25Z", "https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2156"], ["108-hr-2153", 108, "hr", 2153, "Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission Act of 2003", "Economics and Public Finance", "2003-05-19", "2003-09-09", "Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and the House.", "House", "Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3]", "MO", "D", "G000132", 17, "Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission Act of 2003 - Establishes an independent Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission to: (1) identify Federal programs and tax laws that provide inequitable Federal subsidies; (2) review such subsidies; (3) conduct public hearings on agency recommendations regarding inequitable subsidies; and (4) report to the President recommendations for termination, modification, or retention of each subsidy reviewed. Requires each Federal agency to include in budget documents submitted in 2004 a list of programs or tax laws within that agency that provide inequitable Federal subsidies, together with recommendations for appropriate action. Requires the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to survey all federally supported international trade programs in all Federal agencies and certify as part of the USTR agency plan only those programs specifically intended and substantially needed to protect U.S. foreign trade interests.  Requires the President to: (1) report to the Commission and Congress on his approval or disapproval of the entire package of Commission recommendations; and (2) certify the recommendations to Congress if the package is approved either initially or after being revised by the Commission after initial disapproval. 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