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American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act

Bill: 108-hr-857
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Arrest
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Euthanasia
Export controls
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Forfeiture
Grants-in-aid
Health
Horses
Import restrictions
Law
Meat
Meat packing industry
Protection of animals
Searches and seizures
Surety and fidelity
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Veterinary medicine
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act - Prohibits a person from: (1) slaughtering a horse for human consumption; (2) importing to, or exporting from, the United States horseflesh or horses for human consumption; (3) selling, bartering, transferring, receiving, or distributing horseflesh or horses for human consumption; or (4) soliciting or knowingly causing any such actions.
Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) criminal and civil penalties; (2) enforcement authority of the Secretary of Agriculture; (3) placement of confiscated horses; (4) euthanasia of unplaceable or severely injured or diseased horses; (4) funding of animal rescue facilities; and (5) exemptions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, and 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: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, and 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: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, and 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: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, and 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: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act

Bill: 108-hr-858
Sponsor: Rep. Tanner, John S. [D-TN-8]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ammunition
Bank fraud
Bank records
Citizenship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Counterfeiting
Deportation
EBB Terrorism
Embezzlement
Employee benefit plans
Finance and Financial Sector
Firearms
Firearms control
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health care fraud
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigration
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Larceny
Medicaid
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Passports
Pension funds
Probation
Right of privacy
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Terrorism
Visas
Welfare fraud

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for aggravated identity theft.
Prescribes sentences of two years' imprisonment for knowingly transferring, possessing, or using, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person during and in relation to specified felony violations (including felonies relating to theft from employee benefit plans and various fraud and immigration offenses), and five years' imprisonment for knowingly taking such action during and in relation to specified felony violations pertaining to terrorist acts, in addition to the punishments provided for such felonies.
Prohibits a court from: (1) placing any person convicted of such a violation on probation; (2) reducing any sentence for the related felony to take into account the sentence imposed for such a violation; or (3) providing for concurrent terms of imprisonment for a violation of this Act and any other violation, except, in the court's discretion, an additional violation of this section.
Expands the existing identify theft prohibition to: (1) cover possession of a means of identification of another with intent to commit specified unlawful activity; (2) increase penalties for violations; and (3) include acts of domestic terrorism within the scope of a prohibition against facilitating an act of international terrorism.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Business Checking Freedom Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-859
Sponsor: Rep. Toomey, Patrick J. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts
Bank deposits
Commerce
Dividends
Housing and Community Development
Interest
Real estate business
Savings and loan associations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Business Checking Freedom Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Reserve Act, the Home Owners' Loan Act, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to repeal the prohibition against the payment of interest on demand deposits.
States that specified actions and benefits relating to an escrow account maintained at a depository institution in connection with a real estate transaction shall not be treated as the payment or receipt of interest for purposes of this Act and the other named Acts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 increase in income taxes on Social Security benefits.

Bill: 108-hr-860
Sponsor: Rep. Toomey, Patrick J. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal, effective January 1, 2003, the 1993 increase in income taxes on Social Security benefits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Permanent Income Tax Rate Reduction Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-861
Sponsor: Rep. Toomey, Patrick J. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Permanent Income Tax Rate Reduction Act of 2003 - Makes the sunset provisions in Title IX of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 inapplicable to Title I of such Act (relating to individual income tax rate reductions), thus making Title I permanent.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-862
Sponsor: Rep. Toomey, Patrick J. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congress
Congressional voting
Cost of living adjustments
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Legislative resolutions
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Social Security Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any legislation that would reduce Social Security benefits to Social Security beneficiaries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Legislative and Budget Process.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Classroom Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-863
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Juvenile delinquency
Public schools
School discipline
School districts
Secondary education
Special education
State laws
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Classroom Safety Act of 2003 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to authorize school personnel to discipline (including expel or suspend), in the same manner in which such personnel may discipline a child without a disability, any child with a disability who commits specified school-related weapon or drug offenses. (Thus provides an exception to current IDEA procedural safeguards that require placement in an alternative educational setting.)
Authorizes such personnel to modify the disciplinary action on a case-by-case basis. Permits assertion of a defense that the offense was committed unintentionally or innocently.
Allows the local educational agency (LEA) responsible for providing educational services to a child with a disability who is expelled or suspended under this Act to choose to continue to provide educational services to such child; but specifies that an LEA that so chooses to continue to provide services: (1) is not required by IDEA to provide such child with a free appropriate public education, or any particular level of service; and (2) has discretion as to the location where it provides the services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
IDEA Keeping Our Commitment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-864
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: IDEA Keeping Our Commitment Act of 2003 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to authorize appropriations in specified amounts for FY 2004 and 2005 to reach the Federal Government's goal of providing 40 percent of the national average per pupil expenditure for the purpose of educating all children with disabilities in those fiscal years.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Youth Exchange Support Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-869
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational exchanges
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Foreign students
Households
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Secondary education
Students
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Youth Exchange Support Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase, from $50 to $200 per month, the deduction allowed for host families of foreign exchange and other students; and (2) provide an inflation adjustment for such amount.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the treatment of certain motor vehicle dealer transitional assistance.

Bill: 108-hr-870
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Automobile industry
Automobile repair
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Contracts
Income tax
Law
Limitation of actions
Retail trade
Tax exclusion
Tax returns
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment of motor vehicle dealer transitional assistance with respect to a motor vehicle dealer who was a party to a motor vehicle sales and service agreement with a motor vehicle manufacturer who announced in December 2000 that it would phase-out the motor vehicle brand to which such agreement relates.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 concerning the applicability of hours of service requirements to drivers operating commercial motor vehicles transporting agricultural commodities and farm supplies.

Bill: 108-hr-871
Sponsor: Rep. Bereuter, Doug [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Farm produce
Hours of labor
Labor and Employment
Traffic accidents and safety
Truck drivers
Trucking

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Amends the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 to remove from the Secretary of Transportation's authority to determine by rule whether an exemption is not in the public interest the current exemption of certain commercial motor vehicles transporting agricultural commodities and farm supplies from maximum hours of service requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Equity in Education Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-872
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charities
Churches
Clergy
Education
Higher education
Income tax
Religion
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Equity in Education Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify that church employees and persons treated as church employees under the Code are eligible for the exclusion for qualified tuition reduction programs of charitable educational organizations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Eating Disorders Awareness, Prevention, and Education Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-873
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Agriculture and Food
Child development
Child health
Child nutrition
Communication in medicine
Eating disorders
Economics and Public Finance
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health education
Higher education
Medical research
Medical statistics
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
School health programs
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Vital statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Eating Disorders Awareness, Prevention, and Education Act of 2003 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the use of innovative assistance funds for programs to: (1) improve identification of students with eating disorders; (2) increase awareness of such disorders among parents and students; and (3) train educators with respect to effective eating disorder prevention and assistance methods.
Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a program to broadcast public service announcements to improve public awareness, and to promote the identification and prevention, of eating disorders.
Requires the National Center for Education Statistics and the National Center for Health Statistics to: (1) study the impact eating disorders have on educational advancement and achievement; (2) report on current State and local programs to educate youth on the dangers of eating disorders; and (3) recommend Federal, State, and local measures that could be undertaken.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1299)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Local Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-876
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Maintenance and repair
Railroads
Tax administration
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Local Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2003- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a railroad track maintenance credit for qualified railroad track maintenance expenditures with respect to which the expenditures were paid or incurred by the taxpayer for the taxable year for Class II or Class III railroads.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Montgomery GI Bill Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-879
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Military discharges
Military pay
Military pensions
Military personnel
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Montgomery GI Bill Enhancement Act of 2003 - Authorizes an individual, during the year following enactment of this Act, to make an irrevocable election for entitlement to basic educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill if such individual: (1) first became a member of the armed forces or entered active duty before July 1, 1985; (2) has served on active duty without a break in service and continues to serve for some or all of the year before enactment of this Act; (3) has completed requirements of a secondary school diploma or the equivalent of 12 semester hours in a program leading to a standard college degree; and (4) is discharged or released from active duty honorably.
Requires such individual's basic pay to be reduced, over an 18-month period, until the total reduction is $2,700, as a contribution toward such educational assistance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E280)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House