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Federal Medical Malpractice Insurance Stabilization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-485
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Insurance premiums
Liability insurance
Medical malpractice
Reinsurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Federal Medical Malpractice Insurance Stabilization Act of 2003 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide a program of automatic reinsurance from a national fund for medical malpractice insurance coverage claims in excess of $250,000.
Directs the Secretary to establish the terms and conditions of such a program, including the premium amount to be charged for such reinsurance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1783-1784)
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
RU-486 Patient Health and Safety Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-486
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Administrative procedure
Continuing education
Contraceptives
Curricula
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drugs
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Imaging systems in medicine
Law
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical tests
Physicians
Pregnancy
Transportation and Public Works
Travel
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: RU-486 Patient Health and Safety Protection Act - Restricts the prescribing of the drug mifepristone (commonly referred to as RU-486, to be marketed as Mifeprex) to physicians who meet specified requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Military Selective Service Act.

Bill: 108-hr-487
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Compulsory military service
Draft registration
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Labor and Employment
Law
Public records
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Selective Service System
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Repeals the Military Selective Service Act.
Prohibits the Office of Selective Service Records from being reestablished upon such repeal. Transfers the assets, property, and records held by the Selective Service System (SSS), as well as unexpended balances, to the Administrator of General Services. Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to assist officers and employees of the SSS to transfer to other positions in the executive branch.
Prohibits any person from being denied a right, privilege, benefit, or employment position under Federal law on the grounds that the person failed to register under the Military Selective Service Act before its repeal.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-26
text: Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from Selective Service Comm.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD, Selective Service Comm.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E91-92)
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Terror Immigration Elimination Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-488
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Education
Higher education
Immigrants
International Affairs
International cooperation
Middle East and North Africa
Saudi Arabia
State-sponsored terrorism
Students
Terrorism
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Terror Immigration Elimination Act of 2003 - Prohibits issuance without presidential review of a student, training, or vocational visa, or diversity visa, to an alien who is a national of: (1) Saudi Arabia; (2) a country that supports terrorism; or (3) a country that is not cooperating fully with United States' antiterrorism efforts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E94-95)
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Social Security for Americans Only Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-489
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aliens
Earnings
Immigration
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Self-employed
Social security eligibility
Treaties
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Social Security for Americans Only Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) prohibit the wages earned, and self-employment income derived, by individuals who are not citizens or nationals of the United States from being credited for coverage under the OASDI program; and (2) provide the President with authority to enter into agreements with other nations taking into account such limitation on crediting of wages and self-employment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H463)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E97)
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Instructional Materials Accessibility Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-490
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arts, Culture, Religion
Blind
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Copyright
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational planning
Educational research
Electronic publishing
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government publicity
Health
Intellectual property
Law
Local laws
Nonprofit organizations
Publishers and publishing
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Standards
State education agencies
State laws
Teachers
Teaching materials
Technological innovations
Textbooks
Translating and interpreting

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Instructional Materials Accessibility Act of 2003 - Directs Secretary of Education to: (1) develop and publish instructional materials accessibility standards for the national electronic file format to be used by publishers of instructional materials in the preparation of electronic files suitable for efficient conversion into specialized formats; (2) establish a National Instructional Materials Accessibility Advisory Committee to provide technical expertise and guidance in creating such national electronic file format; (3) periodically review and amend such standards to reflect technological advances or changes; and (4) establish a National Instructional Materials Access Center.
Requires State educational agencies, as a condition for receiving Federal financial assistance under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, to develop and implement statewide plans and make contracts with publishers to ensure that instructional materials for classroom use in elementary and secondary schools are made available in specialized formats to individuals who are blind or have other print disabilities at the same time such materials are provided to individuals without such disabilities.
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities to provide or improve their capacity to prepare or obtain instructional materials in specialized formats, including the national electronic format.
Provides for enforcement of rights of children and parents under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E109)
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Duty Parity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-491
Sponsor: Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Canada
Countervailing duties
Dumping
Economics and Public Finance
Export subsidies
Exports
Free trade
International Affairs
Latin America
Mexico
Prices
Tariff
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Duty Parity Act of 2003 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to adjustments to the base price used to establish "export price" (at which the subject merchandise is first sold (or agreed to be sold) before the date of its importation by the merchandise producer or exporter outside the United States to an unaffiliated purchaser in the United States (or an unaffiliated purchaser for exportation to the United States)) and "constructed export price" (at which the subject merchandise is first sold (or agreed to be sold) in the United States before or after the date of its importation by or for the account of the merchandise producer or exporter or by a seller affiliated with the producer or exporter, to a purchaser not affiliated with the producer or exporter).
Revises the adjustment formula to reduce the base price by an amount attributable to any countervailing duties imposed under such Act which are incident to bringing the merchandise from the original place of shipment in the exporting country to the place of delivery in the United States.
Applies this Act to goods from Canada and Mexico.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E108)
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the standard mileage rate for charitable purposes to the standard mileage rate established by the Secretary of the Treasury for business purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-492
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Automobiles
Charitable contributions
Income tax
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the standard mileage rate deduction for the charitable use of passenger automobiles from 14 cents per mile to the standard mileage rate prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury for business purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the sunset on the increased assistance pursuant to the dependent care tax credit provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and to make the credit refundable.

Bill: 108-hr-493
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Caregivers
Congress
Costs
Day care
Disabled
Families
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Married people
Social Welfare
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Amends the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to make permanent the increases in assistance pursuant to the dependent care tax credit. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make such credit refundable.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a full deduction for meals and lodging in connection with medical care.

Bill: 108-hr-494
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health
Hotels, motels, etc.
Income tax
Medical economics
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code concerning the medical care deduction to: (1) include meals away from home within the deduction; and (2) eliminate the $50 per individual per night ceiling for medically related meals and lodging.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Zuni Indian Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-495
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Colorado River development
District courts
Easements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Indian claims
Indian lands
Indian water rights
Jurisdiction
Lakes
Land transfers
Law
Minorities
Payments in lieu of taxes
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Right-of-way
Riparian ecology
State government-Indian relations
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Zuni Indian Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2003 - Ratifies the Settlement Agreement concerning Zuni Indian Tribe water rights claims in the Little Colorado River basin, Arizona.
Includes the provision of assistance for acquiring surface water rights and wetland restoration. Names the Tribe, the State of Arizona and specified state agencies, specified neighboring non-Indian communities, and specified water and power companies as parties to the agreement.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to execute the Settlement Agreement and subsequent, mutually agreed upon amendments.
Establishes and authorizes appropriations to the Zuni Indian Tribe Water Rights Development Fund to be allocated among specified activities, including the acquisition of water rights and restoration at the Zuni Heaven Reservation. Includes funds paid to the Tribe as required by the Settlement Agreement. Conditions Zuni expenditures from such Fund upon the approval of a tribal management plan and an expenditure plan.
Directs the Secretary to take title to specified lands in trust for the benefit of the Tribe, including lands to become part of the Reservation. Sets forth the status of such lands with regard to Federal and State water rights and ad valorem taxes.
Extinguishes all claims for water rights in Zuni lands.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to defer recognition of reinvested capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies.

Bill: 108-hr-496
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Dividends
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Mutual funds
Saving and investment
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that, in the case of an electing individual, no gain shall be recognized on the receipt of a capital gain dividend distributed by a regulated investment company if such capital gain dividend is automatically reinvested in additional shares of the company pursuant to a dividend reinvestment plan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E128-129)
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Freedom from Unfair Energy Levy Act

Bill: 108-hr-497
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Aviation fuels
Diesel motor
Energy
Excise tax
Gasoline
Methanol
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Freedom from Unfair Energy Levy Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) suspend, for six months, motor fuels taxes; and (2) repeal the 1993 4.3 cents per gallon increase in motor fuel taxes. Sets forth floor stock provisions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
HELP Teachers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-498
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education
Elementary and secondary education
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Income tax
Local employees
Medical savings accounts
School personnel
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Healthcare Empowerment for Local Personnel and Teachers Act of 2003 or the HELP Teachers Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit employees of county and local governments and of schools to maintain medical savings accounts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Education, Achievement, and Opportunity Act

Bill: 108-hr-499
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Compensatory education
Computer software
Computers
Costs
Disabled
Education
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Income tax
Private schools
Public schools
School buses
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Special education
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Textbooks
Transportation and Public Works
Tuition tax credits
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Education, Achievement, and Opportunity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a limited, income adjusted, elementary and secondary school expenses credit (up to $2,500 for elementary school expenses and $3,500 for secondary school expenses) for each qualifying child attending either a public or private school.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a permanent increase in payment amounts under the Medicare Program for home health services furnished in rural areas.

Bill: 108-hr-500
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Home care services
Housing and Community Development
Medical fees
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for a permanent ten-percent increase for home health services furnished in a rural area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-29
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: 2003-01-29
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: 2003-01-29
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: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Nurse Loan Forgiveness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-501
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government lending
Health
Higher education
Nurses
Nursing education
Scholarships
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Nurse Loan Forgiveness Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to include, under HEA student loan forgiveness and cancellation programs, nurses who serve at least one calendar year in an approved health care facility or setting.
Limits the maximum amount of such loan repayment by the Secretary of Education to not more than $2,000 after the first year of such a nurse's employment, with incremental increases after the second through fourth years, up to $5,000 after the fifth year of such employment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House