[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 137 (Monday, December 6, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H10922-H10924]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      HOUSE BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT

  The President notified the Clerk of the House that on the following 
dates he had approved and signed bills and joint resolutions of the 
House of the following titles:

           September 24, 2004:
       H.R. 361. An Act to designate certain conduct by sports 
     agents relating to the signing of contracts with student 
     athletes as unfair and deceptive acts or practices to be 
     regulated by the Federal Trade Commission.
       H.R. 3908. An Act to provide for the conveyance of the real 
     property located at 1081 West Main Street,in Ravenna, Ohio.
       H.R. 5008. An Act to provide an additional temporary 
     extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the 
     Small Business Investment Act of 1958 through September 30, 
     2004, and for other purposes.
           September 30, 2004:
       H.R. 5149. An Act to reauthorize the Temporary Assistance 
     for Needy Families block grant program through March 31, 
     2005, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 5183. An Act to provide an extension of highway, 
     highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other 
     programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending 
     enactment of a law reauthorizing the Transportation Equity 
     Act for the 21st Century.
       H.J. Res. 107. Joint Resolution making continuing 
     appropriations for the fiscal year 2005, and for other 
     purposes.
           October 4, 2004:
       H.R. 1308. An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to provide tax relief for working families, and for 
     other purposes.
           October 5, 2004:
       H.R. 265. An Act to provide for an adjustment of the 
     boundaries of Mount Rainier National Park, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 1521. An Act to provide for additional lands to be 
     included within the boundary of the Johnstown Flood National 
     Memorial in the State of Pennsylvania, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 1616. An Act to authorize the exchange of certain 
     lands within the Martin Luther King, Junior, National 
     Historic Site for lands owned by the City of Atlanta, 
     Georgia, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 1648. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
     Interior to convey certain water distribution systems of the 
     Cachuma Project, California, to the Carpinteria Valley Water 
     District and the Montecito Water District.
       H.R. 1658. An Act to amend the Railroad Right-of-Way 
     Conveyance Validation Act to validate additional conveyances 
     of certain lands in the State of California that form part of 
     the right-of-way granted by the United States to facilitate 
     the construction of the transcontinental railway, and for 
     other purposes.
       H.R. 1732. An Act to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and 
     Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the 
     Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Williamson 
     County, Texas, Water Recycling and Reuse Project, and for 
     other purposes.
       H.R. 2696. An Act to establish Institutes to demonstrate 
     and promote the use of adaptive ecosystem management to 
     reduce the risk of wildfires, and restore the health of fire-
     adapted forest and woodland ecosystems of the interior West.
       H.R. 3209. An Act to amend the Reclamation Project 
     Authorization Act of 1972 to clarify the acreage for which 
     the North Loup division is authorized to provide irrigation 
     water under the Missouri River Basin project.
       H.R. 3249. An Act to extend the term of the Forest Counties 
     Payments Committee.
       H.R. 3389. An Act to amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technology 
     Innovation Act of 1980 to permit Malcolm Baldrige National 
     Quality Awards to be made to nonprofit organizations.

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       H.R. 3768. An Act to expand the Timucuan Ecological and 
     Historic Preserve, Florida.
           October 6, 2004:
       H.R. 4654. An Act to reauthorize the Tropical Forest 
     Conservation Act of 1998 through fiscal year 2007, and for 
     other purposes.
           October 13, 2004:
       H.R. 4837. An Act making appropriations for military 
     construction, family housing, and base realignment and 
     closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.
           October 16, 2004:
       H.R. 982. An Act to clarify the tax treatment of bonds and 
     other obligations issued by the Government of American Samoa.
       H.R. 2408. An Act to amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 
     1956 to reauthorize volunteer programs and community 
     partnerships for national wildlife refuges and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 2771. An Act to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to 
     reauthorize the New York City Watershed Protection Program.
       H.R. 4115. An Act to amend the Act of November 2, 1966 (80 
     Stat. 1112), to allow binding arbitration clauses to be 
     included in all contracts affecting the land within the Salt 
     River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation.
       H.R. 4259. An Act to amend title 31, United States Code, to 
     improve the financial accountability requirements applicable 
     to the Department of Homeland Security, to establish 
     requirements for the Future Years Homeland Security Program 
     of the Department, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 5105. An Act to authorize the Board of Regents of the 
     Smithsonian Institution to carry out construction and related 
     activities in support of the collaborative Very Energetic 
     Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) project on 
     Kitt Peak near Tucson, Arizona.
           October 18, 2004:
       H.R. 4011. An Act to promote human rights and freedom in 
     the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 4567. An Act making appropriations for the Department 
     of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
     2005, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 4850. An Act making appropriations for the government 
     of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable 
     in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for 
     the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other 
     purposes.
           October 20, 2004:
       H.R. 854. An Act to provide for the promotion of democracy, 
     human rights, and rule of law in the Republic of Belarus and 
     for the consolidation and strengthening of Belarus 
     sovereignty and independence.
           October 21, 2004:
       H.R. 5122. An Act to amend the Congressional Accountability 
     Act of 1995 to permit members of the Board of Directors of 
     the Office of Compliance to serve for 2 terms.
           October 22, 2004:
       H.R. 4520. An Act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986 to remove impediments in such Code and make our 
     manufacturing, service, and high-technology businesses and 
     workers more competitive and productive both at home and 
     abroad.
           October 25, 2004:
       H.R. 1533. An Act to amend the securities laws to permit 
     church pension plans to be invested in collective trusts.
       H.R. 2608. An Act to reauthorize the National Earthquake 
     Hazards Reduction Program, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 2714. An Act to reauthorize the State Justice 
     Institute.
       H.R. 2828. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
     Interior to implement water supply technology and 
     infrastructure programs aimed at increasing and diversifying 
     domestic water resources.
       H.R. 3858. An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     increase the supply of pancreatic islet cells for research, 
     and to provide for better coordination of Federal efforts and 
     information on islet cell transplantation.
       H.R. 4175. An Act to increase, effective as of December 1, 
     2004, the rates of disability compensation for veterans with 
     service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency 
     and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain service-
     connected disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 4278. An Act to amend the Assistive Technology Act of 
     1998 to support programs of grants to States to address the 
     assistive technology needs of individuals with disabilities, 
     and for other purposes.
       H.R. 4555. An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to 
     revise and extend provisions relating to mammography quality 
     standards.
       H.R. 5185. An Act to temporarily extend the programs under 
     the Higher Education Act of 1965.
           October 28, 2004:
       H.R. 4200. An Act to authorize appropriations for the 
     fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of 
     Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
     activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe 
     personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed 
     Forces, and for other purposes.
           October 30, 2004:
       H.R. 712. An Act for the relief of Richi James Lesley.
       H.R. 867. An Act for the relief of Durreshahwar 
     Durreshahwar, Nida Hasan, Asna Hasan, Anum Hasan, and Iqra 
     Hasan.
       H.R. 2010. An Act to protect the voting rights of members 
     of the Armed Services in elections for the Delegate 
     representing American Samoa in the United States House of 
     Representatives, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 2023. An Act to give a preference regarding States 
     that require schools to allow students to self-administer 
     medication to treat that student's asthma or anaphylaxis, and 
     for other purposes.
       H.R. 2400. An Act to amend the Organic Act of Guam for the 
     purposes of clarifying the local judicial structure of Guam.
       H.R. 2984. An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act 
     to remove the requirement that processors be members of an 
     agency administering a marketing order applicable to pears.
       H.R. 3056. An Act to clarify the boundaries of the John H. 
     Chafee Coast Barrier Resources System Cedar Keys Unit P25 on 
     Otherwise Protected Area P25P.
       H.R. 3217. An Act to provide to the conveyance of several 
     small parcels of National Forest System land in the 
     Apalachicola National Forest, Florida, to resolve boundary 
     discrepancies involving the Mt. Trial Primitive Baptist 
     Church of Wakulla County, Florida, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3391. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
     Interior to convey certain lands and facilities of the Provo 
     River Project.
       H.R. 3478. An Act to amend title 44, United States Code, to 
     improve the efficiency of operations by the National Archives 
     and Records Administration and to reauthorize the National 
     Historical Publications and Records Commission.
       H.R. 3479. An Act to provide for the control and 
     eradication of the brown tree snake on the island of Guam and 
     the prevention of the introduction of the brown tree snake to 
     other areas of the United States, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3706. An Act to adjust the boundary of the John Muir 
     National Historic Site, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 3797. An Act to authorize improvements in the 
     operations of the government of the District of Columbia, and 
     for other purposes.
       H.R. 3819. An Act to redesignate Fort Clatsop National 
     Memorial as the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, to 
     include in the park sites in the State of Washington as well 
     as the State of Oregon, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 4046. An Act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 555 West 180th Street in New 
     York, New York, as the `Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda Post 
     Office'.
       H.R. 4066. An Act to provide for the conveyance of certain 
     land to the United States and to revise the boundary of 
     Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Oklahoma, and for other 
     purposes.
       H.R. 4306. An Act to amend section 274A of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act to improve the process for verifying an 
     individual's eligibility for employment.
       H.R. 4381. An Act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 2811 Springdale Avenue in 
     Springdale, Arkansas, as the ``Harvey and Bernice Jones Post 
     Office Building''.
       H.R. 4471. An Act to clarify the loan guarantee authority 
     under title VI of the Native American Housing Assistance and 
     Self-Determination Act of 1996.
       H.R. 4481. An Act to amend Public Law 86-434 establishing 
     Wilson's Creek National Battlefield in the State of Missouri 
     to expand the boundaries of the park, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 4556. An Act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 1115 South Clinton Avenue in 
     Dunn, North Carolina, as the ``General William Carey Lee Post 
     Office Building''.
       H.R. 4579. An Act to modify the boundary of the Harry S 
     Truman National Historic Site in the State of Missouri, and 
     for other purposes.
       H.R. 4618. An Act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 10 West Prospect Street in 
     Nanuet, New York, as the ``Anthony I. Lombardi Memorial Post 
     Office Building''.
       H.R. 4632. An Act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 19504 Linden Boulevard in 
     St. Albans, New York, as the ``Archie Spigner Post Office 
     Building''.
       H.R. 4731. An Act to amend the Federal Water Pollution 
     Control Act to reauthorize the National Estuary Program.
       H.R. 4827. An Act to amend the Colorado Canyons National 
     Conservation Area and Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness Act of 
     2000 to rename the Colorado Canyons National Conservation 
     Area as the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area.
       H.R. 4917. An Act to amend title 5, United States Code, to 
     authorize appropriations for the Administrative Conference of 
     the United States for fiscal years 2005, 2006, and 2007, and 
     for other purposes.
       H.R. 5027. An Act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 411 Midway Avenue in 
     Mascotte, Florida, as the ``Specialist Eric Ramirez Post 
     Office''.
       H.R. 5039. An Act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at United States Route 1 in 
     Ridgeway, North Carolina, as the ``Eva Holtzman Post 
     Office''.
       H.R. 5051. An Act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 1001 Williams Street in 
     Ignacio, Colorado, as the ``Leonard C. Burch Post Office 
     Building''.
       H.R. 5107. An Act to protect crime victims' rights, to 
     eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA samples collected 
     from crime scenes and convicted offenders, to improve and 
     expand the DNA testing capacity of Federal,

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     State, and local crime laboratories, to increase research and 
     development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop new 
     training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA 
     evidence, to provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence 
     to exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of 
     counsel in State capital cases, and for other purposes.
       H.R. 5131. An Act to provide assistance to Special Olympics 
     to support expansion of Special Olympics and development of 
     education programs and a Healthy Athletes Program, and for 
     other purposes.
       H.R. 5133. An Act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 11110 Sunset Hills Road in 
     Reston, Virginia, as the ``Murtha Pennino Post Office 
     Building''.
       H.R. 5147. An Act to designate the facility of the United 
     States Postal Service located at 23055 Sherman Way in West 
     Hills, California, as the ``Evan Asa Ashcraft Post Office 
     Building''.
       H.R. 5186. An Act to reduce certain special allowance 
     payments and provide additional teacher loan forgiveness on 
     Federal student loans.
       H.R. 5294. An Act to amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act 
     to authorize appropriations for the John F. Kennedy Center 
     for the Performing Arts, and for other purposes.
       H.J. Res 57. Joint Resolution expressing the sense of the 
     Congress in recognition of the contributions of the seven 
     Columbia astronauts by supporting the establishment of a 
     Columbia Memorial Space Science Learning Center.
           November 21, 2004:
       H.J. Res. 114. Joint Resolution making further continuing 
     appropriations for the fiscal year 2005, and for other 
     purposes.

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