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Citizenship Reform Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1567
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Citizenship
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Mothers
Nonmarital births
Parents
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Citizenship Reform Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit automatic citizenship at birth to a child born in the United States who: (1) was born in wedlock to a parent either of whom is a U.S. citizen or national, or is an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence who maintains such residence; or (2) was born out of wedlock to a mother who is a U.S. citizen or national, or is an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence who maintains such residence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located on Kinderkamack Road in Emerson, New Jersey, as the "Gary Albero Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-1569
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Names
New Jersey
Postal facilities
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located on Kinderkamack Road in Emerson, New Jersey, as the Gary Albero Post Office Building.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Outer Continental Shelf Shallow Water Deep Gas Royalty Relief Act

Bill: 108-hr-1570
Sponsor: Rep. John, Christopher [D-LA-7]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Continental shelf
Energy prices
Gas in submerged lands
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural gas
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: 
Outer Continental Shelf Shallow Water Deep Gas Royalty Relief Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to suspend royalties under certain leases issued prior to January 1, 2001, for natural gas produced from deep wells on oil and gas lease tracts in certain shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
 
Prescribes the amount of royalty relief for specified suspension volumes of production.
 
 Prohibits the Secretary from granting the royalty incentives if the average annual NYMEX natural gas price exceeds for one full calendar year the threshold price of $5 per million Btu, adjusted from the year 2000 for inflation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide that the term of office of the Director of the Census shall be 5 years; to provide that the Director of the Census report directly to the Secretary of Commerce, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1571
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Census
Department of Commerce
Federal officials
Law
Term limits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Amends provisions relating to the Director of the Bureau of the Census to: (1) require the Director to report directly to the Secretary of Commerce; and (2) provide that the term of office of the Director shall be five years.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E653)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Credit Card Consumer Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1573
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Credit cards
Fees
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Postal service

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: 
Credit Card Consumer Protection Act of 2003 - Amends Truth in Lending Act with respect to open-end consumer credit card plan disclosures to require: (1) a 30-day posting deadline for the mailing of credit card account statements; (2) prominent type face disclosure of the date by which a late fee will be charged to the account; and (3) recordkeeping by the credit card issuer of the pertinent dates for the mailing of bills and receipt of bill payments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Rice Farmer Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1574
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural production
Agricultural subsidies
Farm tenancy
Farmers
Government Operations and Politics
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Rice
Sharecropping
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Rice Farmer Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require, as a condition on the receipt of direct or counter-cyclical payments for rice produced in Texas by tenants or sharecroppers, that the producers on the farm agree to retain the rice cropland in production or cropping rotation for the next year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E648)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Help and Opportunities for Parents of Exceptional Children Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1575
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Costs
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Secondary education
Special education
Tax credits
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Help and Opportunities for Parents of Exceptional Children Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an annual tax credit of up to $3,000 (with adjustments for inflation) per year for the qualified elementary or secondary education expenses of a dependent child with a disability.
Includes private, parochial, religious, or home schools among qualified educational institutions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Realizing the Spirit of IDEA Act

Bill: 108-hr-1576
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Appropriations
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Department of Education
Disabled
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational research
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Educational television
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Infants
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Research and development
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher education
Teaching materials
Technological innovations
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Realizing the Spirit of IDEA Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to establish a method to provide outcome-based funding increases to States.
Modifies and increases IDEA funding for: (1) assistance for education of children with disabilities; (2) preschool grants; (3) infants and toddlers with disabilities; (4) State program improvement grants for children with disabilities; (5) research and innovation to improve services and results for children with disabilities; (6) personnel preparation to improve services and results for children with disabilities; (7) improved early intervention, educational, and transitional services; (8) technology development, demonstration, and utilization; and (9) media services.
Directs the Secretary of Education to provide, in addition to such funding assistance for education of children with disabilities, outcome-based bonus payments to States for their use for special education and other educational services for children with disabilities, including subgrants to local educational agencies. Includes among outcome-indicators for such children: (1) academic achievement, as measured on adequate yearly progress assessments; and (2) rates of attendance, not-dropping-out, graduation, and postsecondary employment and education.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1571-1572)
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E644-645)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the vessel STAD AMSTERDAM to carry certain persons who are not directly and substantially connected with the operation, navigation, ownership, or business of the vessel.

Bill: 108-hr-1579
Sponsor: Rep. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Ships

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Authorizes the vessel Stad Amsterdam to carry within United States waters and between ports or places in the United States individuals not directly and substantially connected with the operation, navigation, ownership, or business of the vessel. Declares that this Act does not authorize such vessel to carry individuals for a fare or to be chartered on a for-hire basis in the coastwise trade.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Area Wage Index and Standardized Rate Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1580
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Hospital care
Hospital personnel
Hospital rates
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Social Welfare
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Medicare Area Wage Index and Standardized Rate Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to mandate a single national average standardized payment amount for inpatient hospital services furnished, regardless of whether in an urban or non-urban area, under the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for discharges occurring in FY 2004 and thereafter.
Provides for an exception from current requirements for adjustment of the proportion of the diagnostic-related group (DRG) PPS rates representing hospital costs attributable to wages and wage-related costs. Declares that, for adjustments made for different area wage levels for discharges occurring in FY 2004 and thereafter for disproportionate share hospitals for which the adjustment factor established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the fiscal year is less than 1.0, the Secretary shall substitute for the proportion of hospital costs otherwise estimated a proportion of 62 percent.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
United States Forces Korea Quality of Life Act

Bill: 108-hr-1581
Sponsor: Rep. Knollenberg, Joe [R-MI-9]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
East Asia
Income tax
Military pay
South Korea
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: United States Forces Korea Quality of Life Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income so much of combat zone compensation as does not exceed the maximum enlisted amount received for active service as a member of the armed forces serving in South Korea.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E664-665)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
Universal Service Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1582
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Telecommunication industry
Telecommunication rates
Telephone
Telephone rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Universal Service Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in calculating Federal universal service support for eligible telecommunications carriers that serve rural, insular, and high cost areas, to revise its support mechanism for high cost areas to provide support to each wire center in which the incumbent local exchange carrier's average cost per line for such center exceeds 3.75 times the national average cost per line. Requires the FCC to provide support for each State equal to the greater of the amount calculated under the FCC's current support mechanism for high cost areas or the amount calculated above. Limits per State support and total support for all States.
Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the need to reform the high cost support mechanism for rural, insular, and high cost areas.
States that nothing in this Act shall affect the support provided to rural telephone companies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
Occupational Safety and Health-Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1583
Sponsor: Rep. Norwood, Charles W. [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Delegation of powers
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Judicial review
Law
Legal fees
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Occupational health and safety
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Occupational Safety and Health Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to revise requirements relating to enforcing, contesting, reviewing, and adjudicating citations, failures to correct violations, and assessments of penalties.
Exempts employers from a 15-day deadline for notifying the Secretary of Labor of their intent to contest OSHA citations, notices of uncorrected violations, and proposed penalties, if their failure to meet such deadline results from mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.
Limits what may be considered willful violations under OSHA.
Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) to give de novo consideration to evidence of the penalty's appropriateness with respect to these factors: (1) size and financial condition of the business of the employer; (2) gravity of the violation, considering probability of harm, nature and extent of the harm, number of affected employees, and other relevant factors; (3) employer's good faith, including efforts to comply or abate; (4) history and recentness of substantially similar previous violations of the cited employer at the same nonconstruction worksite and construction worksites in the same State; and (5) the employer's, employees', or other persons' degree of responsibility or culpability for the violation.
Increases OSHRC membership from three to five.
Awards attorney's fees and costs to a prevailing employer in an administrative adversary adjudication, or a judicial review of an action, instituted under OSHA, if at the time such adjudication was initiated or such action filed the employer had not more than: (1) 100 employees; and (2) $1,500,000 net worth.
Revises judicial review provisions to require deference to be given to reasonable OSHRC conclusions with respect to all questions of law.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
To establish an office to oversee research compliance and assurance within the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 108-hr-1585
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Animals
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Human experimentation in medicine
Laboratories
Laboratory animals
Law
Licenses
Medical ethics
Medical research
Protection of animals
Research ethics
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Establishes within the Veterans Health Administration an independent office to oversee Department of Veterans Affairs research compliance and assurance, promote responsible research, and ensure the ethical treatment and safety of research subjects. Establishes a Director of such office, whose duties shall include the conduct of periodic inspections and evaluations of research integrity at research facilities, the observation of external accreditation site visits for human subjects and animal welfare, and investigations of allegations of research improprieties, misconduct, and non-compliance with policies and regulations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: See Public Law 108-170.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Provision incorporated. See S. 1156, Title IV, Section 401.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 1720, Section 11.
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E667-668)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
Asbestos Compensation Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1586
Sponsor: Rep. Cannon, Chris [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Asbestos
Bankruptcy
Cancer
Civil actions and liability
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Colon cancer
Commerce
Court records
Damages
District courts
Drug abuse
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Labor and Employment
Lease and rental services
Liability (Law)
Limitation of actions
Lung cancer
Lung diseases
Medical records
Medical tests
Occupational health and safety
Personnel records
Physical examinations
Physicians
Pretrial procedure
Products liability
Punitive damages
Respiratory diseases
Smoking
Standards
State courts
Stomach diseases
Torts
Warranties
X-rays

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Asbestos Compensation Fairness Act of 2003 - Requires as an essential element of a nonmalignant asbestos claim that there be physical impairment to which asbestos exposure was a substantial contributing factor. Sets forth prima facie evidence of that impairment, including as a minimum, that the exposed person have: (1) both a detailed occupational and exposure history and a medical and smoking history; (2) at least a Class 2 permanent respiratory impairment rating; (3) asbestosis or diffuse pleural thickening; and (4) total lung capacity below the lower limit of normal along with either a determination of exposure at or above specified levels concerning ratios of FEV1 to FVS or a chest x-ray showing opacities graded at or above specified levels on the ILO scale.
Prohibits any civil action alleging an asbestos claim based upon lung cancer without prima facie evidence which shall include specified minimum requirements. Prohibits claims involving other cancers without prima facie evidence which shall include specified minimum requirements. Declares that no prima facie evidence is necessary in a civil action alleging an asbestos claim based upon mesothelioma.
Requires the use of AMA guidelines or other authoritative standards.
Sets forth requirements concerning claim consolidation (with consent only if not members of the same household), venue, preliminary proceedings, and removal.
Delineates the statute of limitations for claims for asbestos conditions.
Sets forth certain requirements for the scope of liability and damages involving civil actions under this Act, including that: (1) a defendant shall be liable only for that portion of a judgment that the defendant has responsibility for; and (2) no punitive damages may be awarded.
Sets forth liability rules applicable to product sellers, renters, and lessors.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House