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Military Family Peace-of-Mind Act

Bill: 108-hr-2016
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accidents
Death
Emergency Management
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Labor and Employment
Military communications
Military dependents
Military personnel
Military training
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Military Family Peace-of-Mind Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from publicly releasing the name or any other personally identifying information of any member of the armed forces who while on active duty or performing inactive duty for training is killed or injured, whose duty status becomes unknown, or who is otherwise considered a casualty, until 24 hours has elapsed after notification of the next-of-kin of such member.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E889)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Sunshine in Iraq Reconstruction Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2017
Sponsor: Rep. Kleczka, Gerald D. [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Classified defense information
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Government contractors
Government publicity
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Maintenance and repair
Middle East and North Africa

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Sunshine in Iraq Reconstruction Act of 2003 - Directs the head of an executive agency that enters into a contract for the repair, maintenance, or construction of infrastructure in Iraq without full and open competition to publish in the Federal Register or Commerce Business Daily and otherwise make available to the public: (1) the amount of the contract and a brief description of its scope; (2) a discussion of how the agency identified, and solicited offers from, contractors, together with a list of the contractors solicited; and (3) the justification for using procedures other than those that provide for full and open competition.
Allows an agency head to withhold from publication and disclosure certain classified documents and to redact classified parts of a document before publication and disclosure, but requires the full information to be made available to specified congressional committees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
To extend the existing temporary duty suspension on certain chemical compounds.

Bill: 108-hr-2019
Sponsor: Rep. McNulty, Michael R. [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the existing temporary duty suspension, through December 31, 2005, on certain chemical compounds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Leave No Securities Behind Act

Bill: 108-hr-2022
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative fees
Brokers
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Law
Secondary mortgage market
Securities regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Leave No Securities Behind Act - Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to extend Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) authority to mortgage-backed and subordinate obligations, and corporate securities (with an exemption for approved sellers) of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).
Amends the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to extend SEC authority to corporate securities (with an exception for approved sellers) of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac).
Amends the Securities Act of 1933 to limit specified SEC registration fees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Obesity Treatment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2024
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Medicaid
Obesity
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Medicaid Obesity Treatment Act of 2003 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require Medicaid drug coverage of agents prescribed for treatment of obesity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E887)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Subway Cell Access Act

Bill: 108-hr-2025
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Antennas
Commerce
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Law
Subways
Telecommunication industry
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Wireless communication
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Subway Cell Access Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to require that each commercial mobile (wireless) service provider provide service for the universal emergency telephone number (911) within each subway boarding station in any geographic area in which such provider provides service at ground level.
Requires such providers to: (1) make available to other wireless providers appropriate infrastructure, technology, and facilities to provide such service; and (2) facilitate the sharing of such infrastructure, technology, and facilities.
Includes such emergency number service within Federal provisions limiting State regulation of the placement of wireless facilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
SMART Research and Development Compact

Bill: 108-hr-2026
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commercialization
Communication in science
Congress
Congressional oversight
Delaware
Fund raising
Interstate compacts
Maryland
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: SMART Research and Development Compact - Grants the consent of the Congress to the SMART Research and Development Compact (to promote the contribution of the Mid-Atlantic region to the Nation's research and development in science and technology and to create multi-State organization for strengthening the Mid-Atlantic region for tomorrow (SMART)) if it is entered into by two or more of the following States: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Zdanko Lisak.

Bill: 108-hr-2027
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Prohibits Zdanko Lisak from being removed from, or denied admission to, the United States by reason of any act of his which is grounds for such removal or denial that is reflected in the records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service or the Visa Office.
Directs the Attorney General to rescind any outstanding order of removal or deportation or any finding of deportability that has been entered against Zdanko Lisak by reason of any such act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Tax Fairness for County Fairs Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2029
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Exhibitions
Income tax
Motor vehicles
Parking facilities
Storage
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation and Public Works
Unrelated business income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Tax Fairness for County Fairs Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that long-term vehicle storage by tax-exempt organizations which conduct county and similar fairs shall not be treated as an unrelated trade or business.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans and to increase the maximum amount of the exclusion.

Bill: 108-hr-2031
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefit plans
Group insurance
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal services
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to (restore) increase and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Community-Based Attendant Services and Supports Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2032
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Commerce
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer protection
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health services administration
Home care services
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental care facilities
Nursing
Nursing homes
Paramedical personnel
Patient satisfaction
Patients' rights
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Small business
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Medicaid Community-Based Attendant Services and Supports Act of 2003 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to mandate State Medicaid plan coverage of community-based attendant services and supports for certain Medicaid-eligible individuals.
Outlines provisions for: (1) an enhanced Federal medical assistance percentage for ongoing activities of early coverage States that enhance and promote the use of community-based attendant services and supports; and (2) increased Federal financial participation for certain expenditures incurred by the State for the provision of community-based attendant services and supports.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) award grants to eligible States which have established a Consumer Task Force to assist the State in its development of real choice systems change initiatives; and (2) conduct a demonstration project for the purpose of evaluating service coordination and cost-sharing approaches with respect to the provision of community-based services and supports to non-elderly dually eligible individuals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1150)
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Tip Tax Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2034
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Labor and Employment
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax administration
Tipping

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Tip Tax Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from issuing a notice and demand to an employer for Social Security taxes with respect to tips received by an employee until the Secretary has determined the amount of tips received by the employee.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E905)
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Identity Theft and Financial Privacy Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2035
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bank records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Consumer complaints
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Credit cards
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Debit cards
Driver licenses
Federal Trade Commission
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Independent regulatory commissions
Larceny
Law
Printing
Right of privacy
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: 
Identity Theft and Financial Privacy Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prescribe duties imposed upon: (1) a card issuer with respect to confirmation of a consumer's changes of address; and (2) a consumer reporting agency with respect to notice of potential fraud.
 
Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prescribe duties imposed upon a consumer reporting agency with respect to notice of potential fraud.
 
Exempts from such requirements: (1) certain consumer reporting agencies acting as resellers of information; (2) certain check services companies; and (3) certain demand deposit account information service companies.
 
Mandates truncation of credit card and debit card account numbers.
 
Requires a consumer reporting agency to furnish, upon consumer request, a free annual disclosure of the information in the consumer's file.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Paul Coverdell Homestead Open Space Preservation and Conservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2036
Sponsor: Rep. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Conservation easements
Environmental Protection
Environmental protection groups
Farm lands
Forest conservation
Habitat conservation
Income tax
Land transfers
Nature conservation
Open space lands
Partnerships
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations
Unrelated business income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Paul Coverdell Homestead Open Space Preservation and Conservation Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited tax credit, in the case of a qualified conservation organization, in the amount of the taxpayer's qualified conservation expenditures.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act

Bill: 108-hr-2037
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional Record
Congressional reporting requirements
Conscientious objectors
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Estate tax
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Income tax
Peace
Religion
Religious liberty
Tax administration
Tax returns
War and religion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish in the Treasury the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund for the deposit of income, gift, and estate taxes paid by or on behalf of taxpayers: (1) who are designated conscientious objectors opposed to participation in war in any form based upon the taxpayer's deeply held moral, ethical, or religious beliefs or training (within the meaning of the Military Selective Service Act); and (2) who have certified these beliefs in writing.
Requires that funds in the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund be allocated annually to any appropriation not for a military purpose.
Declares the sense of Congress that any Treasury increase resulting from the creation of the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund shall be allocated in a manner consistent with the purposes of the Fund.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 376 of title 28, United States Code, to allow a period of open enrollment for certain individuals who are elevated to the position of chief judge of a district.

Bill: 108-hr-2039
Sponsor: Rep. McCrery, Jim [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Annuities
District courts
Families
Judges
Judicial compensation
Labor and Employment
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Amends the Federal judicial code to include a chief judge of a district as a "judicial official" who may provide for survivor annuities. Allows six months for an individual who became such a chief judge between January 1, 2002, and the date of this Act's enactment, but who has not filed a written notification of his or her intention to provide for survivor annuities, to file such notification.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Safe Playgrounds Act

Bill: 108-hr-2041
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Child safety
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Playgrounds
Product safety
Sports and Recreation
Standards
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Safe Playgrounds Act - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to provide grants to any State that has enacted a statewide law regulating public playgrounds consistent with guidelines in the CPSC Handbook for Public Playground Safety, or any other similar CPSC guidelines.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Clean Smokestacks Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2042
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Acid rain
Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Carbon dioxide
Electric power production
Emissions trading
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy demand
Energy efficiency
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Mercury
Nitrogen oxides
Standards
Sulphur dioxide

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Clean Smokestacks Act of 2003 - Amends the Clean Air Act (CAA) to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate regulations to achieve specified reductions in emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon dioxide, and mercury from powerplants (electric generation facilities with a nameplate capacity of 15 megawatts or more that use a combustion device to generate electricity for sale) by January 1, 2009.
Requires powerplants, on the later of the date 30 years after the powerplant commenced operation or five years after this Act's enactment, to comply with the most recent new source performance standards under CAA provisions regarding air quality and emissions limitations and with specified requirements for modified sources.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E903-904)
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in House