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Labor Recruiter Accountability Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3530
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Alien labor
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Contractors
Crime and Law Enforcement
Directories
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee benefit plans
Employee rights
Employee training
Employers' liability
Fees
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Housing and Community Development
Immigration
Industrial relations
Injunctions
Labor disputes
Law
Lockouts
Recidivists
Recruiting of employees
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Wages
Whistle blowing
Witnesses
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: 
Labor Recruiter Accountability Act of 2003 - Requires foreign labor contractors (recruiters) and employers to accurately inform foreign workers of specified terms and conditions of their employment at the time they are recruited. Requires such information to be provided in written form in English or, as necessary and reasonable, in the language of the worker being recruited. 
 
Prohibits charging fees to workers for recruitment.
 
Requires employers to pay such a worker's transportation costs, including subsistence costs during the period of travel: (1) from the place of recruitment to the place of employment; and (2) from the place of employment to the worker's place of permanent residence. 
 
 Requires employers to notify the Secretary of Labor of the identity of: (1) any recruiter involved in any foreign labor contractor activity for or on behalf of the employer; and (2) any such recruiter whose activities do not comply with this Act. Subjects employers to the civil remedies of this Act for violations committed by such recruiters to the same extent as if the employers had committed the violations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain a public list of recruiters whom the Secretary knows or believes have been involved in violations of this Act; and (2) provide a procedure for removal of a recruiter's name from the list upon demonstration that such recruiter has not been in violation in the previous five years.
 
Provides for criminal fines and imprisonment for knowing violations. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) assess civil fines; and (2) seek injunctive relief and specific performance of contractual obligations to assure employer compliance.
 
Provides that rights and remedies under this Act are in addition to any other contractual or statutory rights and remedies of workers who are subject to foreign labor contracting activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2341)
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
Environmental Restoration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3531
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Tim [R-PA-18]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Coal
Commerce
Electric power production
Energy
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Recycling of waste products
Refuse as fuel
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: 
Environmental Restoration Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a waste coal energy production per ton credit equal to $1.50 per million Btu of heat input utilized by the taxpayer to produce energy in an eligible facility from qualified waste coal during the 10-year period beginning on the date the facility was originally placed in service (or, if later, the date of the enactment of this section). Permits transfer of the credit through sale and repurchase agreements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Trails System Act to improve the efficiency and fairness of acquiring railroad rights-of-way for interim use as public trails by applying the procedures that govern other Federal real estate acquisitions.

Bill: 108-hr-3532
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Eminent domain
Land transfers
Landowners
Leases
Railroad abandonments
Right of property
Right-of-way
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: 
Amends the National Trails System Act to provide that, in the case of any donation, transfer, lease, sale, or other conveyance for interim use, such use shall not begin until the right to interim use has been acquired from each of the owners of the land underlying the right-of-way (and payment or deposit of compensation to those owners has been made): (1) in accordance with specified law, including the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970; and (2) consistent with any order of a court of competent jurisdiction in a condemnation proceeding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 to require appropriations to cover the estimated subsidy costs of monetary resources provided by the United States Government to the International Monetary Fund, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3533
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Government lending
Interest rates
International Affairs
International monetary system
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: 
Amends the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 to declare that, beginning with FY 2005, no appropriation may be made for an increase in the quota of the United States in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) unless it includes new budget authority sufficient to cover the estimated costs to the United States of providing direct loans, loan guarantees, other financing mechanisms (and their modifications) made by or through the IMF to IMF borrowing nations at interest rates below the cost to the Government after appropriate adjustments for maturity and credit risk.
 
Requires the expenditures in the President's budget to reflect the costs to the Government of providing credit to IMF borrowing nations at such interest rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
Seniors' Health Care Freedom Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3535
Sponsor: Rep. Toomey, Patrick J. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Contracts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: 
Seniors Health Care Freedom Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the use of private contracts by Medicare beneficiaries with physicians or practitioners for items or services for which no Medicare claims shall be submitted. Repeals the requirement that such a physician or pratitioner file an affidavit promising not to submit any Medicare claims during the two years the affidavit is in effect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
Hepatitis C Epidemic Control and Prevention Act

Bill: 108-hr-3539
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Communicable diseases
Communication in medicine
Confidential communications
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Federal-state relations
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health counseling
Health education
Health information systems
Health planning
Hepatitis
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Indian medical care
Intravenous drug abuse
Liver diseases
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Minorities
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nonprofit organizations
Paramedical personnel
Performance measurement
Police
Preventive medicine
Public health
Quality of life
Research grants
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Vaccination

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: 
Hepatitis C Epidemic Control and Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a plan for the prevention, control, and management of hepatitis C virus (HCV), which shall include strategies for education and training, surveillance and early detection, and research. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a biennial plan assessment; (2) support voluntary State, local, and tribal HCV testing and counseling programs; (3) provide for the vaccination of HCV-infected individuals against hepatitis A and B and other infectious diseases; (4) support the establishment and maintenance of HCV surveillance databases; and (5) establish and support a Hepatitis C Clinical Research Network. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to States, political subdivisions of States, Indian tribes, or nonprofit entities to carry out activities under this Act. 
 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health to establish a Liver Disease Research Advisory Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
To extend for an additional year the period for which chapter 12 of title 11 of the United States Code is reenacted.

Bill: 108-hr-3540
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Bankruptcy
Debtor and creditor
Families
Family farms
Farm income
Farmers
Law
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Amends the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, as amended, to extend until January 1, 2005, the reenactment of chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code (Adjustment of Debts of a Family Farmer with Regular Annual Income) (thereby extending family farmer bankruptcy relief). Makes this Act effective as of January 1, 2004.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Implements of Torture Export Control Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3541
Sponsor: Rep. Lantos, Tom [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Equipment and supplies
Export controls
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Human rights
Law
Licenses
Torture

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Implements of Torture Export Control Act of 2004 - Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from approving crime control and detection instruments and equipment for export (except to any North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member or major non-NATO ally) unless pursuant to an individual export license.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from approving the export of such instruments, and any equipment especially susceptible to abuse as implements of torture, to any country if its government, or any group supported by or acting on behalf of that government, has repeatedly engaged in acts of torture during the 12-month period preceding the date of the application to export the item.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, notwithstanding such prohibitions, to approve the export of any such item if the Secretary of State determines that the end user has not engaged in acts of torture.
 
Prohibits the export to all destinations of: (1) any leg irons, handcuffs, and thumbcuffs with sharp or serrated edges; (2) saps, blackjacks, brass knuckles, and other easily concealed devices designed to administer severe blows to the body; (3) electroshock stun belts; (4) items specially designed as implements of torture; (5) batons or clubs fitted with spikes or other hard protuberances; and (6) components produced for incorporation into these items and the technology used for the development or production of these items.
 
Requires the Secretary shall establish and publish in the Federal Register a list of crime control and detection instruments, and equipment especially susceptible to abuse as implements of torture.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) ensure that all appropriate agency heads are fully consulted before an individual export license for such an item is granted; and (2) approve or deny an export license application for such instruments or equipment only in concurrence with the recommendations of the Secretary of State.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2461)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Protection of Family Farmers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3542
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Bankruptcy
Debtor and creditor
Families
Family farms
Farm income
Farmers
Law
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Protection of Family Farmers Act of 2003 - Amends the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 to extend for six additional months (until July 1, 2004) the period for which chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code (Adjustments of Debts of a Family Farmer) is reenacted. 
 
States that such extension shall take effect on January 1, 2004.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2366-2367)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
To limit liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 for service station dealers with respect to the release or threatened release of recycled oil.

Bill: 108-hr-3543
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Automobile repair
Energy
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Oil pollution
Petroleum recycling
Petroleum storage
Service stations
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Underground storage

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, with respect to abatement actions because of the release of recycled oil and liability for costs or damages resulting from such oil's release in the course of disposal or transport, to limit liability of a service station dealer with respect to any period between November 8, 1986, and the effective date of certain corrective action regulations or standards promulgated under the Solid Waste Disposal Act if the dealer had complied with all applicable laws and regulations relating to such oil's disposal.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
South Maui Coastal Preservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3544
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coastal zone
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Hawaii
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
National monuments
National parks
National recreation areas
National seashores
Natural areas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
South Maui Coastal Preservation Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study the feasibility of designating certain lands on the southern coast of Maui, Hawaii, extending from the Ahihi-Kinau Natural Area Reserve to Kanaloa Point, as a unit of the National Park System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2381-2382)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Southern Sea Otter Recovery and Research Act

Bill: 108-hr-3545
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Census
Coastal zone
Communicable diseases
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Demography
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health planning
Immunology and vaccination
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Marine pollution
Medical research
Medical tests
Nutrition
Otters
Pacific Ocean
Parasitic diseases
Protection of animals
Public meetings
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Tissue banks
Toxicology
Veterinary medicine
Virus diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Southern Sea Otter Recovery and Research Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, to carry out a recovery program for southern sea otter populations along the coast of California.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop a Southern Sea Otter Health Assessment Plan; (2) collect and analyze tissue samples from southern sea otters; and (3) submit the tissue to the Secretary of Commerce for inclusion in the National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank to allow for managed access to such tissues by other researchers.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) award competitive grants to support research regarding southern sea otters; and (2) establish the Southern Sea Otter Recovery Implementation Team to make recommendations on overall southern sea otter recovery program administration and research goals, as well as funding of scientific research, serve as a link between the recovery program and stakeholders, and review the recommendations of the Southern Sea Otter Recovery Scientific Advisory Committee.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish the Southern Sea Otter Recovery Scientific Advisory Committee to evaluate and make recommendations to the Team regarding the scientific merit and quality of southern sea otter research funding proposals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-02
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House