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NICS Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3237
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aliens
Ammunition
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Auditing
Automation
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer networks
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Court records
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Department of Justice
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Due process of law
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Expatriation
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-state relations
Firearms
Firearms control
Fugitives from justice
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Juries
Law
Medical records
Mental illness
Military discharges
Minorities
Pardons
Right of privacy
Right to counsel
Science, Technology, Communications
State courts
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
NICS Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to require: (1) the head of each Federal agency that has records relating to persons for whom receipt of a firearm would violate Federal or State law to provide that information to the Attorney General for inclusion in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS); (2) the agency, upon being made aware that the basis under which a record was made available no longer applies, to correct the record and notify the Attorney General; and (3) the Department of Homeland Security to make available to the Attorney General records relevant to a determination that a person is disqualified from possessing or receiving a firearm and information about a change in such person's status for removal from NICS, where appropriate.
 
Directs the Attorney General to make grants to: (1) States and Indian tribal governments to establish or upgrade information and identification technologies for firearms eligibility determinations; and (2) States for use by the State court system to improve the automation and transmittal to Federal and State record repositories of criminal history dispositions, records relevant to determining whether a person has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, court orders, and mental health adjudications or commitments.
 
Requires: (1) the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics to study and evaluate NICS operations and to report annually to Congress and to specified States regarding best practices; and (2) the Comptroller General to conduct an audit of the expenditure of all funds appropriated for criminal records improvement to determine how the funds were expended.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
HRIFA Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3238
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aliens
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Families
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Guardian and ward
Haiti
Haiti compilation
Haitians
Immigrants
Latin America
Law
Parents
Residence requirements
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
HRIFA Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to: (1) include document fraud among the grounds of inadmissibility which shall not preclude an otherwise qualifying Haitian alien from permanent resident status adjustment; and (2) provide that determinations with respect to children shall be made using the age of an individual as of the date of enactment of this Act. 
 
Permits new status adjustment applications to be filed for a limited time period. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish procedures for reopening status adjustment applications based upon the amendments made by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to delay the termination of the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans.

Bill: 108-hr-3239
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Minorities
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
Extends through 2007 the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to designate the La Entrada al Pacifico Corridor in the State of Texas as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System.

Bill: 108-hr-3240
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Road construction
Roads and highways
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to designate the La Entrada al Pacifico Corridor in Texas as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Lower Republican River Basin Study Act

Bill: 108-hr-3241
Sponsor: Rep. Osborne, Tom [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Colorado
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Irrigation
Kansas
Nebraska
Water conservation
Water storage
Water supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
The Lower Republican River Basin Study Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of implementing a water supply and conservation project that will: (1) improve water supply reliability in the Republican River Basin between Harlan County Lake in Nebraska and Milford Lake in Kansas; (2) increase the capacity of water storage through projects that serve areas in the Republican River Basin; and (3) improve water management efficiency in the Republican River Basin and, where appropriate, evaluate integrated water resource management and supply needs in the Republican River Basin. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Families Together Act

Bill: 108-hr-3243
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Academic performance
Case management
Child health
Child welfare
Community health services
Continuing education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal statistics
Custody of children
Data banks
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Family courts
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Group homes
Health
Health insurance
Health planning
Home care services
Housing and Community Development
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Law
Medicaid
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Patient satisfaction
Performance measurement
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Problem children
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
State finance
State laws
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
Keeping Families Together Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award competitive grants to States to establish systems of individualized mental health treatment and family support services for children who are in custody or in danger of entering the custody of the state for the purpose of receiving mental health services. 
 
Requires eligible States to: (1) have laws or policies in effect that ensure that children receive appropriate mental health services so that parents do not have to relinquish legal custody of such children; (2) provide matching funds; (3) establish infrastructure for interagency cooperation and cross system financing; and (4) expand public health insurance programs to cover these services after the grant expires.
 
Establishes a Federal interagency task force to examine mental health issues in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and the role of their agencies in promoting access by children and youth to mental health services.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to permit the use of the Medicaid home and community-based services waiver to provide mental health services to children and youths as an alternative to care in inpatient psychiatric hospitals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act

Bill: 108-hr-3244
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Job hunting
Labor statistics
Part-time employment
State laws
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA) to: (1) extend the TEUC program; (2) provide for additional weeks of TEUC benefits; (3) revise unemployment rate triggers for TEUC benefit periods; and (4) provide for regular unemployment compensation for certain individuals based on part-time work or an alternative base period.
 
Extends the TEUC program through weeks of unemployment ending before July 1, 2004. Provides a phase-out period for individual payments up to weeks beginning after December 31, 2004.
 
Increases to 26 weeks an eligible individual's TEUC payments. Provides for an additional seven weeks of payments, for a total of 33 weeks, for individuals in high-unemployment States (TEUC-X). (Current law provides 13 weeks of regular TEUC payments, with an additional 13 and total 26 in TEUC-X States.)
 
Revises requirements for determining TEUC-X States, using certain triggers based on insured unemployment rates and on total unemployment rates.
 
Establishes a program of payments to States to provide regular unemployment compensation benefits for individuals who otherwise would be ineligible because: (1) the base period does not count wages earned in the most recently completed calendar quarter; or (2) the individuals seek or are available for less than full-time work. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Commercial Space Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3245
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Astronautics
Astronauts
Authorization
Aviation safety
Claims
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contractors
Delegation of powers
Department of Commerce
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Flight crews
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health
Indemnity
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Launch vehicles
Law
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Manned space flight
Medical tests
Names
Navigation satellites
Remote sensing
Rockets (Aeronautics)
Signs and symbols
Space activities
Space commercialization
Space flight
Spacecraft
Subcontractors
Transportation and Public Works
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
Commercial Space Act of 2003 - Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act (CSLA) to prohibit CSLA license holders from launching or reentering a spaceflight participant unless: (1) the participant has received training and met medical or other standards specified in the license; (2) the participant is informed of the safety record of the launch or reentry vehicle type; and (3) the launch or reentry vehicle is marked to distinguish it from an aircraft in a manner specified by the Secretary of Transportation. 
 
Requires the Secretary to create, and report to Congress on progress in implementing, a streamlined, cost-effective, and enabling regulatory framework for the U.S. commercial human spaceflight industry.
 
Extends current indemnification provisions for commercial space transportation through calendar 2007. 
 
Requires the Secretary to arrange with the National Academy of Public Administration to study and report to Congress on the liability risk-sharing regime for U.S. commercial space transportation.
 
Redesignates the Department of Commerce's Office of Space Commercialization as the Office of Space Commerce (OSC).
 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to delegate to the Director of OSC the Secretary's licensing authority for private remote sensing space systems (satellite photo systems). Amends the Technology Administration Act of 1998 to reflect this delegation of authority and to give the Director of OSC responsibility for serving as Executive Secretary for the Interagency Global Positioning System Executive Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Provisions of H.R.3245 were Incorporated into H.R.3752..
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Mobile Machinery Tax Fairness Act

Bill: 108-hr-3246
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural machinery
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Construction industries
Energy
Equipment and supplies
Highway use tax
Lumber trade
Machinery
Manufacturing industries
Mining equipment
Oil well drilling
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
Mobile Machinery Tax Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit the treatment of certain mobile machinery as a highway vehicle, thereby exempting such machinery from federal highway excise taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1963)
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Arts Education Advancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3248
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Arts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Higher education
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Arts Education Advancement Act of 2003 - Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to require, when appropriations for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) exceed a certain level, that all of the excess funds be used for the arts education program. (Current law requires the use of only half such excess NEA funds for arts education, and allows the NEA to use a greater amount for other purposes before such set-aside for arts education is triggered.) 
Requires half the funds for the arts education program in any fiscal year to be used in formal systems of elementary and secondary education.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in House
Child Nutrition Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3250
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2003-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child nutrition
Dairy products
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Fruit
Gifts
Milk
Packaging
Physical education and training
Planning
School lunch program
Sports and Recreation
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: 
Child Nutrition Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to revise school lunch program requirements relating to fluid milk. Requires school lunches to offer students a variety of flavored and unflavored milk, as determined by the school. Allows schools or institutions participating in the program to offer a la carte fluid milk products to be sold in addition to and, at the school's option, adjacent to fluid milk offered as part of a reimbursable meal. Prohibits program participants from directly or indirectly restricting the sale or marketing of fluid milk products by the school or by a person approved by the school at any time or any place on the school premises or at any school-sponsored event.
 
Establishes a program of increased reimbursement rates for school lunches under NSLA and for school breakfasts under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA), to be provided as an incentive to schools and institutions that increase consumption of fluid milk by children in their meals there.
 
Establishes a program of grants to schools that implement healthy school environment programs with respect to the nutrition, including availability of healthy food choices, and the physical activity of the children there.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Personal Access to Continued Education Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3251
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2003-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Ex-offenders
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Scholarships
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Textbooks
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: 
Personal Access to Continued Education Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the Lifetime Learning Credit; (2) make the Hope Credit refundable; (3) increase the Hope Credit; (4) specify that such credit shall not be reduced by either Pell grants or supplemental educational opportunity grants; and (5) allow additional qualifying expenses for such credit, including job skills courses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey a parcel of real property to Beaver County, Utah.

Bill: 108-hr-3252
Sponsor: Rep. Cannon, Chris [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2003-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Beaver County, Utah for public recreational use all right, title, and interest of the United States in specified real property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-09
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-10-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 120 12th Street in Columbus, Georgia, as the "J. Robert Elliott Federal Building and United States Courthouse".

Bill: 108-hr-3253
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2003-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Federal office buildings
Georgia
Judges
Law
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Designates the Federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 120 12th Street in Columbus, Georgia, as the J. Robert Elliott Federal Building and United States Courthouse.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Introduced in House