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Thurgood Marshall Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 108-hr-1015
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Black history
Blacks
Coins and coinage
Copper
Finance and Financial Sector
History
Law
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Silver
Social Welfare
Supreme Court
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Thurgood Marshall Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 500,000 one dollar coins which shall be emblematic of the tenure of Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Requires all surcharges from the sale of such coins to be paid to the Historical Preservation Committee of the Supreme Court Historical Society for the purpose of collecting and preserving the physical history of the Supreme Court.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1 Dollar Coin Act

Bill: 108-hr-1016
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Black history
Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Coins and coinage
Finance and Financial Sector
History
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1 Dollar Coin Act - Requires the obverse and reverse sides, respectively, of the one dollar coin to have the likeness of, and a design emblematic of, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. in recognition of his outstanding and enduring contributions to the Nation.

Bill: 108-hr-1017
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Clergy
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Minorities
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of Congress, a gold medal to Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., in recognition of his outstanding and enduring contributions to the Nation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Freedom of Information in Vietnam Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1019
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-40]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Capital investments
Censorship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
East Asia
Economics and Public Finance
Freedom of information
Freedom of the press
Government Operations and Politics
Human rights
International broadcasting
Internet
Political persecution
Radio broadcasting
Science, Technology, Communications
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Freedom of Information in Vietnam Act of 2003 - Declares that it is the policy of the United States to take necessary measures to overcome the jamming of Radio Free Asia by the Government of Vietnam.
Authorizes appropriations for Broadcasting Capital Improvements and for International Broadcasting Operations to: (1) carry out such policy; and (2) support surrogate radio broadcasting to Vietnam by Radio Free Asia.
Establishes in the International Broadcasting Bureau a pilot project to develop and implement a strategy to combat State-sponsored Internet jamming and persecution of persons who use the Internet by the Government of Vietnam.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act requirements relating to gasoline to prevent future supply shortages and price spikes in the gasoline market, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1020
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Commerce
Energy
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection Agency
Farm manure
Fibers
Fines (Penalties)
Fossil fuels
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Lumber trade
Motor vehicle pollution control
Municipal solid waste
Oxygen
Oxygenates
Ozone
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Plants
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reformulated gasoline
Refuse as fuel
Transportation and Public Works
Trees
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Amends the Clean Air Act to allow the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to approve a provision in a State implementation plan controlling or prohibiting the use of a motor vehicle fuel or additive only if such control requires the use of either Federal clean burning gasoline (regarding which the Administrator is directed to establish requirements under this Act, replacing those for fuel currently called "reformulated gasoline") or low Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) gasoline (as defined in this Act) for use during the high ozone season. Permits previously approved plan provisions effecting such controls to remain in effect for four years after enactment of this Act only if the State reevaluates the provisions and establishes that their benefits in terms of air quality improvement, consistent supply, production costs, and stable prices exceed the benefits of modifying them to require the use of Federal clean burning fuel or low RVP gasoline.
Repeals reformulated gasoline oxygen content requirements.
Prohibits, effective January 1, 2007, the introduction into commerce of any fuel containing methyl tertiary butyl ether.
Requires that, beginning in 2004, gasoline sold in the United States be comprised of a specified percentage of renewable fuel (ethanol or biomass-derived fuel or other fuel used to reduce the quantity of fossil fuel present in gasoline). Provides for adjustment of such percentage in a State and a program of credits for use and exchange by refiners, blenders, and importers. Expresses the sense of Congress in support of the promotion of ethanol as the primary renewable fuel.
Directs the Administrator to conduct a study of emissions and air quality changes attributable to this Act's amendments.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Senior Nutrition Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1021
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Dairy products
Food relief
Food stamps
Milk
Nutrition
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Senior Nutrition Act of 2003 - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to make a person who is at least 60 years old eligible for the commodity supplemental food program if such person: (1) is eligible for the food stamp program; or (2) has a household income that is not more than185 percent of Federal poverty income guidelines.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Urban and Rural Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1022
Sponsor: Rep. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Building construction
Construction industries
Construction workers
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Health education
Labor and Employment
Medical screening
Medical tests
Minimum wages
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
Preventive medicine
Recreation
Revolving funds
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Urban and Rural Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants and loans for the development of indoor centers for disease prevention and health promotion, specifically, indoor recreational facilities.
Makes State and local government agencies and community development public authorities eligible for such grants and loans.
Allocates funds according to population. Requires matching funds for grants. Requires compliance with the prevailing wage in the locality.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1381-1382)
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit, through the period ending on December 31, 2007, any Department of Defense participation in any international aviation trade exhibition (known as an "air show") to be held in France.

Bill: 108-hr-1023
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aircraft industry
Commerce
Defense contracts
Defense industries
Europe
Foreign Trade and International Finance
France
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
International Affairs
Military aircraft
Military aviation
Trade associations
Trade fairs
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Prohibits the Secretary of Defense, through December 31, 2007, from authorizing or permitting participation by any element of the Department of Defense in any international aviation trade exhibition (air show) held in France. Includes under such prohibition any support to a defense contractor, industrial association, or other entity participating in any such exhibition.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
To establish in the National Marine Fisheries Service a pelagic longline highly migratory species bycatch and mortality reduction research program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1024
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Atlantic Ocean
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Commerce
Equipment and supplies
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Fishery management
Fishes
Fishing boats
Government Operations and Politics
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Research
Science, Technology, Communications
Tuna

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Creates within the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) a pelagic longline highly migratory species bycatch and mortality reduction research program, to be developed by a design team established by the Secretary of Commerce.
Requires the program to determine the impact of existing time and area closures designed to reduce bycatch of longline vessels. Authorizes the NMFS to grant permits for vessels with NMFS-provided observers to fish in closed areas of the Atlantic Ocean in furtherance of the research program.
Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to close to pelagic longline fishing the lower mid-Atlantic Conservation Zone between August 15 and October 1 and the upper mid-Atlantic Conservation Zone between July 15 and October 1 of each year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E311)
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
National Estuarine Reserve System Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1025
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Authorization
Biological diversity
Coastal zone
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Commerce
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Environmental technology
Estuaries
Federal aid to research
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fishery management
Fishes
Fund raising
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Islands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine parks and reserves
Marine resources conservation
Nonprofit organizations
Plant protection
Research natural areas
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Technology transfer
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: National Estuarine Reserve System Act of 2003 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to rename the National Estuarine Research Reserve System the National Estuarine Reserve System, and designates existing sanctuaries as part of the System.
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to designate additional areas as part of the System and specifies requirements for such.
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) contract with an organization to solicit donations to carry out projects; and (2) accept such donations of funds and services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Coastal Services and Performance Evaluation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1026
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Authorization
Awards, medals, prizes
Coastal zone
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Commerce
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental education
Environmental monitoring
Environmental technology
Estuaries
Federal aid to research
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Islands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine parks and reserves
Marine resources conservation
Performance measurement
Port authorities
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology transfer
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Coastal Services and Performance Evaluation Act of 2003 - Amends Federal law to make loan repayments deposited in the Coastal Zone Management Fund available to offset costs of implementing coastal zone management programs.
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to provide training, education, and technical assistance for coastal zone management. Authorizes Federal agencies and instrumentalities to assist the Secretary on a reimbursable basis.
Revises review requirements for coastal State management programs to change the frequency of review from continuing to every five years.
Makes the Walter B. Jones Excellence in Coastal Zone Management Awards program discretionary instead of mandatory.
Requires the Secretary to establish a national coastal zone management outcome indicators monitoring and performance evaluation system that provides for public comment and participation and uses a common set of measurable outcome indicators to evaluate the performance of State coastal zone management programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-14
text: Executive Comment Requested from Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Recreational Waters Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-1027
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Boats and boating
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental technology
Equipment and supplies
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage disposal
Sewage treatment
Ships
Sports and Recreation
Standards
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc.
Waste disposal in the ocean
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Recreational Waters Protection Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish a revised standard for new Type I marine sanitation devices ("Type IA" devices).
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make State authority to prohibit the discharge of sewage (whether treated or not) inapplicable to vessels that operate a Type IA device that meets the standards revised pursuant to this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E313)
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Coastal Zone Management Act Reauthorization of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1028
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Authorization
Coastal zone
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Marine resources conservation
Nonpoint source pollution
Overhead costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Coastal Zone Management Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to reauthorize administrative matching grants to coastal States for the purpose of administering, amending, or modifying States' coastal zone management programs.
Requires the Secretary to allocate funds to coastal States in an equitable manner which ensures that eligible coastal States receive increased funding for each fiscal year for which total program appropriations have increased.
Earmarks certain funds to implement State coastal nonpoint pollution control programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Executive Comment Requested from Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House