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Small Business Federal Contractor Safeguard Act

Bill: 108-hr-2607
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Cost effectiveness
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Marketing
Small business
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Small Business Federal Contractor Safeguard Act - Amends the Small Business Act to modify contract consolidation requirements.
Replaces definitions of "bundled contracts" and "bundling of contract requirements" with definitions of "consolidated contract" and "multiple award contract."
Prohibits a Federal contracting agency from executing a procurement strategy that includes a consolidated contract valued at more than $2 million unless such strategy: (1) identifies benefits anticipated from consolidation and alternative contracting approaches that would involve a lesser degree of consolidation; and (2) includes a determination that the consolidation is necessary and the benefits justify its use. Provides that a procurement strategy that includes a consolidation valued at more than $5 million shall also: (1) be supported by market research demonstrating that such contract will result in cost savings, quality improvements, reduction in acquisition cycle times, or better terms and conditions; (2) include an assessment of impediments to participation by small businesses as prime contractors that result from such consolidation; (3) specify actions designed to maximize small business participation as subcontractors; and (4) not be justified by savings in administrative or personnel costs unless such savings are substantial in relation to the total cost of the procurement.
Allows a small business, if an agency head solicits offers for a consolidated contract, to submit an offer that provides for the use of a particular team of subcontractors. Requires equal evaluation of such an offer.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1367-1368)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Equal Treatment of Pensions and Bankruptcy Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2609
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy courts
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Corporation directors
Debtor and creditor
Estates (Law)
Executives
Labor and Employment
Law
Liens
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Equal Treatment of Pensions and Bankruptcy Act of 2003 - Amends Federal bankruptcy law to authorize the bankruptcy trustee to avoid a transfer of a debtor's interest in property to any trust or similar arrangement to fund supplemental retirement benefits or other deferred compensation for the benefit of an insider or other management employee made on or within one year before the bankruptcy petition filing date.
 
Authorizes the bankruptcy court, upon request of a party in interest or a committee of creditors, to allow such party or committee to commence and prosecute specified proceedings if the trustee either consents, or fails to commence such proceedings, and if the court finds that doing so is in the best interest of the estate and for the benefit of the estate.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1377)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the estate tax and repeal the carryover basis rule, to increase the estate and gift tax unified credit to an exclusion equivalent of $5,000,000, and to reduce the rate of the estate and gifts taxes to the generally applicable capital gains income tax rate.

Bill: 108-hr-2610
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Estate tax
Gift tax
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Repeals subtitles A (Repeal of Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes) and E (Carryover Basis at Death; Other Changes Taking Effect With Repeal) of title V (Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Provisions) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Makes the sunset provisions of such Act inapplicable to the remainder of title V.
 
Reduces estate and gift tax rates to the lesser of 15 percent or the applicable capital gains rate.
 
Sets a unified estate and gift tax credit of $5 million.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Military Retirees Government Employment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2611
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Retired military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to exempt from the windfall elimination requirement of such title individuals who are entitled to retired pay based on at least 20 years of service as a member of a uniformed service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Adapted Housing Expansion Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2612
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Architecture and the disabled
Disabled
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the disabled
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Veterans Adapted Housing Expansion Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide specially adapted housing assistance to veterans with permanent and total service-connected disabilities due to the loss, or loss of use of, both upper extremities so as to preclude use of the arms at or below the elbows.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide such assistance to veterans with permanent and total service-connected disabilities if the disability either: (1) is due to blindness in both eyes with 5/200 visual acuity or less; or (2) includes the anatomical loss, or loss of use of, both hands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-03-24
text: Favorable Executive Comment Received from Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Public Access to Science Act

Bill: 108-hr-2613
Sponsor: Rep. Sabo, Martin Olav [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Copyright
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Government publicity
Health
Intellectual property
Medical research
Physicians
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Public Access to Science Act - Amends Federal copyright law to declare copyright protection unavailable to any work produced pursuant to scientific research substantially funded by the Federal Government to the extent provided in the funding agreement entered into by the relevant Federal agency pursuant to this Act.
 
Requires any Federal department or agency that enters into a funding agreement with any person for the performance of scientific research substantially funded by the Federal Government to include in the agreement a statement that copyright protection is not available for any work produced pursuant to such research under the agreement.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that any Federal department or agency that enters into such funding agreements should make every effort to develop and support mechanisms for making the published results of the research conducted pursuant to the agreements freely and easily available to the scientific community, the private sector, physicians, and the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1380)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Commuter Benefit Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2614
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuting
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Fringe benefits
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Parking facilities
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Commuter Benefit Equity Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase (to $190) and equalize the transportation and parking fringe benefits exclusion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Fishing Quota Standards Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2621
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Animals
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Fines (Penalties)
Fisheries
Fishery management
Foreclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Law
Licenses
Liens
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Overfishing
Public records
Referendum
Sustainable fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Fishing Quota Standards Act of 2003 - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (the Act) to require the Regional Fishery Management Councils and the Secretary of Commerce or the Secretary's designee, when developing a limited access system for fisheries to achieve optimum yield (fishing quota system), to take into account, among other factors: (1) the conservation requirements of the Act with respect to fisheries; and (2) the fair and equitable distribution of a public resource.
 
Authorizes the establishment of a fishing quota system in a fishery management plan or amendment prepared by any Regional Fishery Management Council or the Secretary. Directs the Councils and Secretary to ensure that any such proposed system comply with certain requirements. Prohibits approval or implementation by the Secretary of any plan or amendment establishing such a system unless it has been approved by more than two-thirds of those voting in a referendum among eligible permit holders. 
 
Sets forth requirements for review committees established by Councils and for a Secretarial review committee.
 
Directs the Secretary to issue regulations which establish certain requirements for fishing quota systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-07
text: Executive Comment Requested from Commerce.
action_date: 2003-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1385-1386)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Act

Bill: 108-hr-2623
Sponsor: Rep. Bachus, Spencer [R-AL-6]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Animals
Aquatic ecology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Fishing
Habitat conservation
Hunting
Land transfers
Photography
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Rivers
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Volunteer workers
Water Resources Development
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Act - Expands the boundaries of the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge in Bibb County, Alabama, to include specified lands and waters.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) revise the boundaries of the Refuge to carry out its purposes or to facilitate the acquistion of property within it; and (2) acquire, subject to the availability of appropriations, such lands and waters to be included in the Refuge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Fairness in Reimbursement Act

Bill: 108-hr-2624
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Housing and Community Development
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Medicare Fairness in Reimbursement Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to instruct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a system for making adjustments to payments for items and services provided under the original Medicare fee-for-service program, with specified formulae for States whose average per beneficiary amount is: (1) greater than 105 percent of the national average; or (2) less than 95 percent of the national average. Authorizes the Secretary to make specified related adjustments to geographic indices under the Medicare physician fee schedule in certain circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-26
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: 2003-06-26
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: 2003-06-26
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: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To establish the Independent Commission on Intelligence about Iraq.

Bill: 108-hr-2625
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional investigations
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional-executive relations
Cost effectiveness
EBB Terrorism
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
International agencies
International cooperation
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Nuclear weapons
Security classification (Government documents)
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Creates the Independent Commission on Intelligence about Iraq. Gives the Commission responsibility for: (1) evaluating executive branch intelligence collection, assessment, and representations concerning the threats posed by Iraq; (2) evaluating the effectiveness of collaborative arrangements between the United States and others in assessing such threats; (3) examining the extent to which Congress has imposed restrictions that have hampered the efforts of the intelligence community; (4) reviewing the work of other investigations; and (5) reporting its findings, conclusions, and recommendations to Congress and the President.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1387-1388)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Farm-To-Cafeteria Projects Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2626
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agricultural education
Agriculture and Food
Child nutrition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Farm produce
Federal aid to education
School lunch program
Secondary education
Small farms
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Farm-To-Cafeteria Projects Act of 2003 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make competitive grants to private nonprofit entities and educational institutions to establish and carry out Farm-to-Cafeteria projects to improve access to local foods in schools and institutions receiving funds under NSLA and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) (except the special supplemental program for women, infants, and children (WIC) which already has a WIC Farmers Market Nutrition program). 
 
Requires such projects to be designed to: (1) procure local foods from small and medium-sized farms to provide foods for school meals; (2) support nutrition education activities or curriculum planning incorporating school children's participation in farm and agriculture education projects; and (3) develop a sustained commitment to farm-to-cafeteria projects in the community by linking schools, agricultural producers, parents, and other community stakeholders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E471)
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Dietary Supplement Tax Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2627
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Diet
Dietary supplements
Finance and Financial Sector
Food safety
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Dietary Supplement Tax Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat amounts paid for foods for special dietary use, dietary supplements, and medical foods as medical expenses for purposes of the medical expense deduction. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Living Equitably: Grandparents Aiding Children and Youth Act

Bill: 108-hr-2628
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congregate housing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Families
Family services
Federal aid to housing
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grandparents
Housing discrimination
Housing for the aged
Housing subsidies
Intergenerational relations
Labor and Employment
Low-income housing
Nonprofit organizations
Public housing
Rental housing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Living Equitably: Grandparents Aiding Children and Youth Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out demonstration programs to provide: (1) intergenerational family housing in connection with the supportive housing program; and (2) section 8 rental assistance to grandparent-headed or relative-headed covered families.
Makes such covered families eligible for the following programs: (1) family unification assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937; (2) cottage housing opportunity units under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; and (3) fair housing initiatives program education, and outreach under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987.
Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to provide Department of Housing and Urban Development personnel with training respecting covered family issues.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1391)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House