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Disabled Workers Empowerment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1693
Sponsor: Rep. Kleczka, Gerald D. [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuting
Costs
Disabled
Employment of the disabled
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Disabled Workers Empowerment Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) an income-based deduction for the qualified work-related expenses of a handicapped individual; and (2) such deduction to itemizing and nonitemizing taxpayers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E711)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
America Rx Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1694
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative fees
Commerce
Consumer discounts
Disabled
Drug advertising
Drug industry
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Income tax
Medicaid
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Rebates
Social Welfare
Tax deductions
Taxation
Welfare eligibility
Welfare recipients

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: America Rx Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to provide qualified U.S. residents with access to discounted prices for outpatient prescription drugs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
Fair Pay Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1695
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional employees
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Expert witnesses
Federal employees
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Hours of labor
Labor statistics
Labor unions
Law
Legal fees
Minimum wages
Pay equity
Position classification
Punitive damages
Racial discrimination
Right of privacy
Salaries
Sex discrimination
Small business
Wage restitution
Wage surveys
Wages
Whistle blowing
Women
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Fair Pay Act of 2003 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin. (Allows payment of different wages under seniority systems, merit systems, systems that measure earnings by quantity or quality of production, or differentials based on bona fide factors that the employer demonstrates are job-related or further legitimate business interests.)
Prohibits the discharge of or any other discrimination against an individual for opposing any act or practice made unlawful by this Act, or for assisting in an investigation or proceeding under it.
Directs courts, in any action brought under this Act for violation of such prohibition, to allow expert fees as part of the costs awarded to prevailing plaintiffs. Allows any such action to be maintained as a class action.
Directs the EEOC to: (1) undertake studies and provide information and technical assistance to employers, labor organizations, and the general public concerning effective means available to implement this Act; and (2) carry on a continuing program of research, education, and technical assistance with specified components related to the purposes of this Act.
Makes conforming amendments relating to congressional and executive branch employees to the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 and the Presidential and Executive Office Accountability Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E722)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the provision of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

Bill: 108-hr-1696
Sponsor: Rep. Ose, Doug [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional salaries
Cost of living adjustments

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Efficiency and Financial Management.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
COAST Anti-Drilling Act

Bill: 108-hr-1697
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Continental shelf
Gas in submerged lands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mining leases
Ocean mining
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Submarine oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: 
Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act, or the COAST Anti-Drilling Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil, natural gas, or any other mineral in either the Mid-Atlantic planning area or the North Atlantic planning area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-16
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
Patient Privacy Act

Bill: 108-hr-1699
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Data banks
Employee health benefits
Health insurance
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Medical records
Medicare
Patients' rights
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Patient Privacy Act - Amends part C (Administrative Simplification) of title XI of the Social Security Act (SSA) to repeal: (1) the requirement of unique health identifiers for each individual, employer, health plan, and health care provider; and (2) penalties for wrongful disclosure of unique health identifiers.
Amends the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 to repeal provisions for regulations for standards with respect to the privacy of individually identifiable health information.
Prohibits the expenditure of Federal funds to develop or implement any database or other system of records containing personal medical information of any U.S. citizen, or to collect medical records for the purpose of storing them in a database or other system of records, with specified exceptions including part A (Hospital Insurance) or part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program under SSA title XVIII and the Medicaid program under SSA title XIX.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-09
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: 2003-04-09
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: 2003-04-09
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: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
TEACH Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1700
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Autism
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Higher education
Interest
Labor and Employment
Ombudsman
Paraprofessional school personnel
Scholarships
Secondary education
Special education
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Teacher Education for Autistic Children Act of 2003 - TEACH Act of 2003 - Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) training of special education teachers with expertise in autism spectrum disorders (ASD); and (2) improving results for children with ASD, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to carry out a student loan forgiveness program of assuming the obligation to repay up to specified amounts of certain loans under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for borrowers who are employed as full-time special education teachers of children with ASD for three consecutive complete school years. Provides for additional amounts to be repaid at the end of each of the next two additional consecutive years of such employment, up to a total maximum amount.
Amends IDEA to require local educational agencies receiving IDEA assistance to report on autism early intervention activities.
Directs the Secretary: (1) acting through the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to establish and provide administrative support for a task force on ASD; (2) with the Secretary of Labor to study and report to Congress on the effectiveness of Federal vocational training programs in providing appropriate assistance to individuals with ASD; and (3) to make grants to each State that establishes and operates at least one State autism ombudsman office.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 167 East 124th Street in New York, New York, as the "Tito Puente Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-1701
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Artists
Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Music
Names
New York City
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 167 East 124th Street in New York, New York, as the Tito Puente Post Office Building.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Federal building which is to be constructed at 799 First Avenue in New York, New York, as the "Ronald H. Brown United States Mission to the United Nations Building".

Bill: 108-hr-1702
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Cabinet officers
Congress
Congressional tributes
Department of Commerce
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
Names
New York City
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Designates the Federal building which is to be constructed at 799 First Avenue in New York, New York, as the Ronald H. Brown United States Mission to the United Nations Building.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: 

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

 
Designates the Federal building which is to be constructed at 799 First Avenue in New York, New York, as the Ronald H. Brown United States Mission to the United Nations Building. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 109.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 108-315.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 108-315.
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to provide for transitional housing assistance grants for child victims of domestic violence.

Bill: 108-hr-1704
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Case management
Child abuse
Commuting
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency housing
Families
Family services
Family violence
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Homeless
Housing subsidies
Indian housing
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Relocation
Rent
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Victims of crimes
Vocational guidance
Wife abuse
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: 
Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to require the Attorney General to award grants to States, units of local government, Indian tribes, and other organizations to carry out programs to provide short-term housing assistance and related support services to minors, adults, and their dependents: (1) who are homeless, or in need of transitional housing or other housing assistance, as a result of fleeing a situation of domestic violence; and (2) for whom emergency shelter services or other crisis intervention services are unavailable or insufficient.
 
Limits the duration of such assistance to an 18-month period, except that a grant recipient may extend such assistance for an additional six-month period with respect to any minor, adult, or dependent who has been unable to acquire permanent housing despite a good-faith effort to do so.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E726)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
DNA Database Enhancement Act

Bill: 108-hr-1705
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Authorization
Computer matching
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
DNA
Data banks
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Federal aid to law enforcement
Forensic medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Identification devices
Prisoners
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: DNA Database Enhancement Act - Amends the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to direct that the backlog elimination grant application include a certification that the State: (1) has determined those offenses under State law that shall be treated as qualifying State offenses (current law), provided that each violent felony is treated as a qualifying State offense; and (2) does not prohibit or limit the comparison by a law enforcement officer of the results of a DNA analysis carried out on a DNA sample lawfully obtained by such officer with the information in the Combined DNA Index System. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2003 for DNA analyses of samples taken from individuals convicted of a qualifying State offense.
Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to authorize the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to establish an index of: (1) DNA identification records of persons arrested for crimes (currently, limited to those convicted of crimes); and (2) analyses of DNA samples from other persons, as authorized under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the samples were collected.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E724)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
Cybermolesters Enforcement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1706
Sponsor: Rep. Simmons, Rob [R-CT-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Computer crimes
Criminal investigation
Families
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Internet
Interstate commerce
Mandatory sentences
Minors
Prostitution
Science, Technology, Communications
Smuggling
Transportation and Public Works
Warrants (Law)
Wiretapping

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Cybermolesters Enforcement Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for a five-year mandatory minimum sentence for: (1) transportation of a person under age 18 with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity; and (2) travel with intent to engage in a sexual act with a person under age 18.
Authorizes the interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications in the investigation of crimes involving: (1) sex trafficking of children by force, fraud, or coercion; and (2) selling or buying of children, child pornography, child obscenity, production of sexually explicit depictions of a minor for importation into the United States, and transportation for illegal sexual activity and related crimes.
Includes child pornography within the definition of "contraband" the transport, concealment, or possession of which is prohibited.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E725)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-04-09
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in House