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U.S. Employee, Family Unity, and Legalization Act

Bill: 108-hr-200
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Aliens
Automobile theft
Bribery
Burglary
Confidential communications
Contempt of court
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Department of Justice
Deportation
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Forgery
Fraud
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Imprisonment
Labor and Employment
Larceny
Law
Married people
Obstruction of justice
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Organized crime
Pardons
Passports
Perjury
Probation
Prosecution
Public records
Residence requirements
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smuggling
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works
Violence
Visas
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: U.S. Employee, Family Unity, and Legalization Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the admission date for permanent residence for certain aliens, including additional one-year extensions during specified time periods. Establishes fines for application-related violations of confidentiality and false statements.
Revises specified restrictions respecting: (1) cancellation of removal; (2) deportability and admissibility; and (3) issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children of lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens.
Establishes a national task force on immigrant exploitation and trafficking, to be chaired by the Secretary of Labor and made up of Federal and State law enforcement officers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E23-24)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To extend the time period prior to the need for workers for the filing of applications for temporary labor certification in the processing of alien labor certification applications.

Bill: 108-hr-201
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alien labor
Employment agencies
Labor and Employment
Law
Temporary employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Allows applications for alien labor certifications for temporary nonagricultural occupations to be filed with appropriate employment agencies up to 180 days before workers are needed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for an inflation adjustment of the base amounts used in determining the amount of Social Security benefits included in gross income.

Bill: 108-hr-202
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amend the Internal Revenue Code to provide, beginning in 2004, for an inflation adjustment of the base amounts used in determining the amount of Social Security benefits included in gross income.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Acid Rain Control Act

Bill: 108-hr-203
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Acid rain
Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Auctions
Chesapeake Bay
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Ecosystem management
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Emissions trading
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Great Lakes
Health
Industrial pollution
Lakes
Law
Long Island Sound
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mercury
Mountains
New York State
Nitrogen oxides
Pollution measurement
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public health
Sulphur dioxide
Vermont
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Acid Rain Control Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to require further reductions in total annual emissions of sulfur dioxide by utility units and nitrogen oxides by facilities with one or more combustion units serving at least one electricity generator with a capacity of at least 25 megawatts. Permits emissions trading and allocation.
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations controlling electric utility and industrial source emissions of mercury. Prohibits mercury emission allowance transfers.
Requires that these emissions regulations prevent localized adverse effects and ensure significant reductions on both coasts.
Directs the Administrator to identify for and report to Congress on scientifically credible environmental indicators sufficient to protect sensitive ecosystems of the Adirondack, mid-Appalachian, Rocky and Southern Blue Ridge Mountains as well as the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, Long Island Sound, and the Chesapeake Bay.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Prohibition on United Nations Taxation Act of 2001

Bill: 108-hr-204
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Air travel
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Development credit institutions
Economics and Public Finance
Fees
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign exchange
Foreign loans
Government Operations and Politics
International agencies
International monetary system
Postal service
President and foreign policy
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
United Nations finances
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Prohibition on United Nations Taxation Act of 2001 (sic) - Prohibits the United States from paying any voluntary or assessed contributions to the United Nations (UN) or any of its agencies if the UN: (1) attempts to impose a tax on any U.S. person; or (2) borrows funds from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), International Monetary Fund, or any other similar or regional international financial institution.
Prohibits the United States from paying any voluntary or assessed contributions to the UN or any of its agencies, including the UN Development Program, unless the President certifies to the Congress 15 days in advance of such payment that the UN or such agency is not engaged in any effort to develop or promote any taxation proposals in order to raise revenue.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Decedent's Family Relief Act of 2001

Bill: 108-hr-206
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Death
Families
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Social Security Decedent's Family Relief Act of 2001 (sic) - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to continue an individual's entitlement to benefits through the month of his or her death, without affecting any other person's entitlement to benefits for that month.
Provides that such individual's benefit shall be payable for such month only in proportion to the number of days preceding the date of such individual's death.
Provides for disregard of such benefits for the individual for the month of death under provisions for determining maximum family benefits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
American Worker Temporary Relief Act

Bill: 108-hr-209
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: American Worker Temporary Relief Act - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA) to extend the TEUC program to weeks of unemployment ending before April 1, 2003.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E13)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accelerate the individual income tax rate cuts made by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and to make permanent all tax cuts made by that Act.

Bill: 108-hr-210
Sponsor: Rep. Tiberi, Patrick J. [R-OH-12]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Congress
Earned income tax credit
Education
Education savings accounts
Elementary and secondary education
Estate tax
Gift tax
Higher education
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Inheritance tax
Labor and Employment
Minimum tax
School buildings
Social Welfare
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax rates
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Tax-exempt securities
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to advance the effective date of individual income tax rate reductions (25%, 28%, 33%, 35%) from 2006 to 2003.
Amends the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to make the provisions and amendments of such Act permanent.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban toys which in size, shape, or overall appearance resemble real handguns.

Bill: 108-hr-211
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Environmental Protection
Families
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Product safety
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a rule declaring as a banned hazardous product under the Consumer Product Safety Act any toy which in size, shape, or overall appearance resembles a real handgun.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny the exemption from income tax for social clubs found to be practicing prohibited discrimination.

Bill: 108-hr-212
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Associations, institutions, etc.
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Judicial opinions
Law
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Racial discrimination
Recreation
Religion
Religious liberty
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Tax exemption
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny tax-exempt status to any social club which has been found, pursuant to a determination by a court or government agency, to have a pattern or practice of prohibited discrimination.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Educational Empowerment Act

Bill: 108-hr-213
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Class size
Commerce
Community and school
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate philanthropy
Cost effectiveness
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Mathematics
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Tax credits
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teenage pregnancy
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Educational Empowerment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for qualified educational empowerment zone contributions. Allows the designation of up to 30 such zones. Bases designations on the degree of poverty.
Establishes a teacher loan forgiveness program for mathematics and science teachers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Civil Rights Amendments Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-214
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Affirmative action programs
Discrimination
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in public facilities
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid programs
Housing and Community Development
Housing discrimination
Labor and Employment
Law
Parties to actions
Right of privacy
Sexual orientation
Statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Civil Rights Amendments Act of 2003 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of affectional or sexual orientation with respect to: (1) public accommodations; (2) public facilities; (3) federally assisted programs; (5) equal employment opportunities; (6) housing sales and rentals; and (7) brokerage services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Flood Insurance for American Homeowners Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-215
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster insurance
Economics and Public Finance
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government securities
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Flood Insurance for American Homeowners Act of 2003 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to extend through 2004: (1) the authority under which the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency may issue notes and other obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of carrying out the national flood insurance program; (2) the authority to enter into new flood insurance contracts; (3) requirements for carrying out emergency implementation of the flood insurance program; and (4) the authorization of appropriations for carrying out studies under the Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Moccasin Bend National Archeological District Act

Bill: 108-hr-216
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil War
Commemorations
Easements
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Law
Military parks
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Moccasin Bend National Archeological District Act - Establishes the Moccasin Bend National Archeological District as a unit of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Tennessee.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) acquire lands within the District's boundaries, and easements between noncontiguous areas of the District, from willing sellers; (2) enter into cooperative agreements with Indian tribes, governmental entities, and interested persons for the restoration, preservation, development, interpretation, and use of the District; and (3) establish and administer a visitor's center in the District.
Requires the Secretary to develop a general management plan for the District which shall describe protection and preservation of resources of, visitor use of, and facility development within the District.
Repeals provisions authorizing the Secretary to accept donations to the Park of specified lands situated generally within the Moccasin Bend of the Tennessee River lying west of the city of Chattanooga.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Reservists Pay Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-217
Sponsor: Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Department of Transportation
Federal employees
Leave of absence
Military pay
Military personnel
National Guard
Salaries
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Reservists Pay Security Act of 2003 - Entitles a person who is absent from his or her position of Federal employment to perform service in the uniformed services or the National Guard to receive from his or her agency an amount that, when added to the pay and allowances for such service, equals the basic pay which would have been payable to such employee for such period of service for which such employee is not otherwise compensated.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Preservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-219
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Bank deposits
Budget surpluses
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Debt limit
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Government trust funds
Investment of public funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Social Security Preservation Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (social security trust funds) to ensure that the annual surplus of the Social Security Trust Funds is invested in: (1) marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States or obligations guaranteed by the United States; or (2) certificates of deposit in insured depository institutions. Outlines provisions for determining the annual surplus of the Trust Funds.
Prohibits disinvestment of Social Security Trust Fund amounts from public debt obligations, any refraining from making such investments, or any delay in making normal deposits in such Trust Funds for public debt limit-related purposes. Authorizes, with certain conditions, the sale of Social Security Trust Fund public debt obligations for the payment of cash benefits and administrative expenses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E77)
action_date: 2003-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House