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Downed Animal Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-2519
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural industries
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Agriculture
Euthanasia
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Livestock
Meat inspection
Meat packing industry
Protection of animals
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Downed Animal Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations to provide for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock by a covered entity, including a requirement that nonambulatory livestock be humanely euthanized.
Provides that an entity shall: (1) not move nonambulatory livestock while such livestock is conscious; and (2) humanely euthanize such livestock.
Prohibits an establishment covered by the Federal Meat Inspection Act to pass nonambulatory livestock through inspection.
Defines "covered entity," and "humanely euthanize."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Union Chapel Fossil Footprint Site Preservation Act

Bill: 108-hr-2520
Sponsor: Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Coal
Commerce
Energy
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Land transfers
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Natural areas
Paleontology
Reclamation of land
Research natural areas
Science, Technology, Communications
Strip mining
Surety and fidelity

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Union Chapel Fossil Footprint Site Preservation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to accept, if willingly donated by the New Acton Coal Mining Company, Inc., Cordova, Alabama, the Union Chapel Paleozoic Footprint Preserve, Union Chapel, Alabama, in order to preserve and protect certain rare paleontological resources. Declares that the requirements of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 shall not apply to the New Acton Mining Company, Inc. regarding further reclamation of the Preserve. Permits the return to the New Acton Coal Mining Company, Inc., of all funds held in escrow pending further reclamation of the Union Chapel Mine by the Director of the Surface Coal Mining Commission of the State of Alabama.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Fair, Transparent, and Competitive Internet Naming Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2521
Sponsor: Rep. Baird, Brian [D-WA-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Competition
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporations
Decision making
Department of Commerce
Directories
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government contractors
Internet
Law
Monopolies
Names
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: 
Fair, Transparent, and Competitive Internet Naming Act of 2003 - Directs the Comptroller General (CG) to conduct a study regarding the business practices, procedures, accountability, and administration of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Requires the CG, in conducting the study, to: (1) provide existing Internet domain registrars a fair opportunity to be heard on the issues studied; and (2) consult with a group of registrar representatives.
 
Provides a moratorium, beginning on June 19, 2003, and ending 30 days after the CG reports study results to Congress, on any action, decision, or determination to alter the system and procedures for the registration of Internet domain names.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Compact Impact Reconciliation Act

Bill: 108-hr-2522
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal-territorial relations
Guam
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Public debt

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: 
Compact Impact Reconciliation Act - Amends the Organic Act of Guam to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reduce, release, or waive all or part of any amounts owed by the Government of Guam to any department, agency, independent agency, office, or instrumentality of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1320-1321)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the Federal building located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest in the District of Columbia as the "Federal Bureau of Investigation Building".

Bill: 108-hr-2524
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Department of Justice
District of Columbia
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Redesignates the Federal building located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest in the District of Columbia, commonly known as the J. Edgar Hoover Federal Building, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation Building.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Visitors Interested in Strengthening America (VISA) Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2525
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Child health
Commemorations
Driver licenses
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Exhibitions
Families
Foreign students
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Identification devices
Latin America
Mexicans
Mexico
Parents
Passports
Secondary education
Student activities
Transportation and Public Works
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Visitors Interested in Strengthening America (VISA) Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize a Department of Homeland Security official to waive certain entry documentary requirements for a nonimmigrant child (unmarried and under the age of 16) who is a citizen or national of Mexico and accompanying parent or adult chaperone in instances of: (1) medical visits; (2) student groups; or (3) special community events.
Sets forth additional requirements for such entries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Restoration of Freedom of Information Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2526
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Freedom of information
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
Law
Public records
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Restoration of Freedom of Information Act of 2003 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prohibit a record pertaining to the vulnerability of and threats to critical infrastructure that is furnished voluntarily to the Department of Homeland Security from being made available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act if: (1) the provider would not customarily make the record available to the public; and (2) the record is designated and certified by the provider as confidential and not customarily made available to the public. Prohibits other Federal agencies in receipt of such a record furnished to the Department from making the record publicly available. Allows a provider to withdraw the confidential designation of a record at any time.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development.
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Infrastructure and Border Security.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security (Select), 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: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act

Bill: 108-hr-2527
Sponsor: Rep. Greenwood, James C. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Communication in medicine
Contraceptives
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Hospitals
Rape
Victims of crimes
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act - Requires hospitals, as a condition of receiving Federal funds, to provide emergency contraception to a woman who is a victim of sexual assault.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Accountability and Transparency in Federal Campaigns Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2529
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Fund raising
Government paperwork
Presidential elections
Residence requirements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Accountability and Transparency in Federal Campaigns Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA), as amended by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, to require: (1) the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to require at least 75 percent of contributions accepted by candidates for the House of Representatives or the Senate to come from in-State residents; and (2) a monthly report to the FEC by each authorized committee of a candidate identifying each contribution of $200 or more received during the month, the contributor, the name of the candidate, and the office sought.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Community Telecommunications Planning Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2530
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Commerce
Community development
Cooperative societies
Depressed areas
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Enterprise zones
Federal aid to Indians
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Planning
Public utilities
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Students
Telecommunication industry
Telecommunication systems
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Community Telecommunications Planning Act of 2003 - Authorizes each of the Secretaries of Commerce, Agriculture, and Education to make grants to a local or tribal government, local non-profit entity, cooperative, public utility, or other public entity for community telecommunications infrastructure planning and market development purposes. Requires, in each case, the development of a telecommunications infrastructure and market development plan. Requires the Secretary concerned to give priority to grants for such planning and development for rural or underserved areas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
American Wetland Restoration Act

Bill: 108-hr-2531
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dredging
Environmental law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Injunctions
Interstate relations
Law
Licenses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Right of property
Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc.
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: American Wetland Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Secretary of the Army to issue mitigation bank (specified wetland resource restoration, creation, or enhancement projects or projects consisting solely of preservation of wetlands chartered by the Secretary for purposes of providing mitigation credits to offset wetland losses authorized by permits allowing activities in U.S. waters) charters.
Authorizes a mitigation bank, upon receipt of its charter, to offer mitigation credits for sale and to provide compensatory mitigation for activities requiring authorization under the Act or provide required injunctive relief in an enforcement action by the Secretary or the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Directs the Secretary and the Administrator to establish standards and criteria applicable to the use of on-site mitigation, in lieu fees, and other off-site mitigation as compensatory mitigation that are similar to those applicable to a mitigation bank.
Allows a State that operates an approved program regulating the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters to administer a wetland mitigation banking program in accordance with State procedures if such banking program is approved by the Administrator as part of the State's dredged or fill material program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Save Social Security First Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2532
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Estate tax
Gift tax
Government trust funds
Inheritance tax
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social Welfare
Social security finance
Tax credits
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: 
Save Social Security First Act of 2003 - Repeals subtitles A (Repeal of Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes) and E (Carryover Basis at Death; Other Changes Taking Effect With Repeal) of title V (Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Provisions) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Makes the sunset provisions of such Act inapplicable to the remainder of title V.
 
Sets the unified estate credit at $3 million and the maximum estate rate at 50 percent.
 
Appropriates, beginning in 2005, estate tax revenues to the Social Security trust funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1347)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Human Rights Information Act

Bill: 108-hr-2534
Sponsor: Rep. Lantos, Tom [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Armed Forces and National Security
Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Confidential communications
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Covert operations
Due process of law
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Freedom of information
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Guatemala
Honduras
Human rights
Informers
Intelligence officers
International Affairs
Latin America
Law
Nongovernmental organizations
Official secrets
President and foreign policy
Presidential appointments
Right of privacy
Security classification (Government documents)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Human Rights Information Act - Requires certain Federal agencies to identify, review, and organize all human rights records, for declassification and public disclosure, if the President determines bona fide a request for them by an individual or entity carrying an official mandate to investigate a pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.
Prescribes guidelines under which the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel shall review agency determinations to postpone disclosure of any human rights record. Authorizes postponement of such public disclosures on specified grounds.
Requires each Federal agency to identify, review, and organize all human rights records regarding activities occurring in Guatemala and Honduras for declassification and public disclosure.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To designate the United States courthouse located at 400 North Miami Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the "Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States Courthouse".

Bill: 108-hr-2538
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Florida
Judges
Law
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 400 North Miami Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States Courthouse.
action_date: 2004-03-25
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 400 North Miami Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. United States Courthouse. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-25
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 159.
action_date: 2004-03-25
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 108-448.
action_date: 2004-03-25
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 108-448.
action_date: 2004-02-25
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-02-25
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-02-25
text: Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Discharged.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Fairness to All Vietnam Veterans Act

Bill: 108-hr-2540
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
District of Columbia
Governmental investigations
History
Military history
Monuments and memorials
Vietnam veterans
Vietnamese Conflict
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Fairness to All Vietnam Veterans Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to study and report to Congress: (1) to identify veterans who died after October 31, 1955, as a result of military operations in southeast Asia whose names are not eligible for inscription on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; and (2) on the feasibility and equitability of revising the eligibility requirements to be more inclusive of such veterans or of creating an alternative means for recognizing them, including alternatives involving an education center at the Memorial.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House