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American LIFE Fund for the Medical Treatment of the Uninsured in Honor of the Victims of September 11th, 2001, Act

Bill: 108-hr-1608
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Catastrophic health insurance
Checkoff
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Health
Income tax
Medically uninsured
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: American LIFE Fund for the Medical Treatment of the Uninsured in Honor of the Victims of September 11th, 2001, Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual to designate a portion of any tax overpayment for the Health Coverage for the Uninsured Trust Fund, which shall use such funds to provide injury and catastrophic illness protection to individuals without health coverage.
Establishes in the Treasury the Health Coverage for the Uninsured Trust Fund.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-04-03
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: 2003-04-03
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: 2003-04-03
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: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Mentoring Act

Bill: 108-hr-1611
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Mentoring
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Teacher Mentoring Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize the Secretary of Education to make competitive three-year grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to establish or implement teacher mentoring programs to guide and assist new teachers and improve teacher quality.
Requires such programs to provide: (1) training and stipends for mentors; (2) mentoring programs for teachers in their first year of teaching; and (3) regular and ongoing opportunities for mentors and mentees to observe each other's teaching methods in classroom settings during the school day. Requires such programs to establish: (1) minimum qualifications for mentors; and (2) an evaluation and accountability plan for, and report on, program activities.
Requires LEAs, in using such program grants, to prioritize funding for mentoring activities at elementary and secondary schools which the LEA identifies under ESEA as failing to make adequate yearly progress.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) award at least 50 percent of such grants to low-income LEAs; and (2) report to Congress on program results, including impact on teacher retention rates.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
To make permanent the tax benefits enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.

Bill: 108-hr-1612
Sponsor: Rep. Hulshof, Kenny C. [R-MO-9]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 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: 2003-04-03
text: Repeals the sunset provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-16).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
College Fire Prevention Act

Bill: 108-hr-1613
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Stephanie Tubbs [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Black colleges
Colleges
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Educational statistics
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Evidence (Law)
Federal aid to education
Fire prevention
Fraternal organizations
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Housing and Community Development
Indian education
Law
Minorities
Minority education
Student housing
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: College Fire Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive demonstration grants to private or public colleges or universities, fraternities, or sororities for up to half the cost of installing fire sprinkler systems, or other fire suppression or prevention technologies, in student housing and dormitories owned or controlled by such entities.
Requires grant priority to be given eligible entities that demonstrate the greatest financial need.
Reserves the following portions of grant funds made available for each fiscal year: (1) at least ten percent for eligible entities that are historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, and Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities; and (2) at least ten percent for eligible entities that are social fraternities and sororities.
Provides that any application for assistance under this Act, any negative determination on the part of the Secretary with respect to such application, or any statement of reasons for the determination, shall not be admissible as evidence in any proceeding of any court, agency, board, or other entity (except a proceeding to enforce an agreement entered into between the Secretary and an eligible entity under this Act).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
Ukrainian American Veterans Charter Act

Bill: 108-hr-1615
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Europe
European American ethnic groups
Federal incorporation
Ukraine
Veterans' organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Ukrainian American Veterans Charter Act - Grants a Federal charter to the Ukrainian American Veterans, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
Census of Americans Abroad Act

Bill: 108-hr-1619
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Census
Congress
Congressional districts
Congressional reporting requirements
Families
Federal employees
International Affairs
Military dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Census of Americans Abroad Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce: (1) by September 30, 2004, to take a test census of Americans residing abroad; (2) within nine months after such date, to submit to the President and Congress the final tabulations of such census broken down by Americans residing abroad that are and that are not affiliated with the Federal Government; (3) by June 30, 2005, submit a report containing recommendations on the inclusion of such Americans in future decennial censuses; (4) before the end of 2006, again test methodologies for counting those persons; and (5) provide for inclusion of Americans residing abroad in the decennial censuses of 2010 and thereafter.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E662)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
September 11th Assistance Tax Clarification Act

Bill: 108-hr-1620
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Block grants
Commerce
Community development
Compensation (Law)
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Infrastructure
International Affairs
Law
September 11, 2001
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds
Terrorism
Urban affairs
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: September 11th Assistance Tax Clarification Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income specified funds under Public Laws 107-206, 107-73, 107-38, and 107-117, paid to any person as assistance on account of any property or business damaged by, and for economic revitalization directly related to, the terrorist attacks on the United States that occurred on September 11, 2001.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
Presidential Gifts Accountability Act

Bill: 108-hr-1623
Sponsor: Rep. Ose, Doug [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Archives
Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Freedom of information
Gifts
Government paperwork
History
Inventories
Presidential ethics
Presidential families
Stocks
White House (Washington, D.C.)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Presidential Gifts Accountability Act - Directs the Archivist of the United States to maintain a current inventory of all presidential gifts.
Requires the head of a Federal office or agency to report to the Archivist any information regarding a presidential gift.
Requires the Archivist to: (1) make inventory information available to the public; (2) disclose to the public additional information regarding each gift from any person who makes presidential gifts in a year having a cumulative value of $100 or more; and (3) report to specified congressional committees on each disposition of a gift other than a gift from a relative or a gift having a value of less than $100.
Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to prohibit the President and any spouse from: (1) accepting any gift of stock in a corporation or any gift certificate; (2) accepting gifts from a single source in a year having a cumulative value greater than $1,000, except a personalized, honorific award; (3) accepting any gift beginning on the date of a presidential election occurring during the President's term and ending on the date of the beginning of the next presidential term, unless the President is reelected for that next term; or (4) soliciting or coordinating, or seeking another to solicit or coordinate, the making of any gift to the President or spouse. Requires any gift wrongfully accepted to be returned or to become property of the United States and not deposited in a presidential archival depository. Makes this section inapplicable with respect to gifts from a foreign government or a relative.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E684)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
Local Voices on TV Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1626
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cable television
Child safety
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Families
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Kidnapping
Law
Licenses
Missing children
Police communication systems
Standards
Telecommunication rates
Television frequency allocation
Television in politics
Television programs
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Local Voices on TV Act of 2003 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit a cable television operator (operator) from carrying the signal of a qualified class A television station (a station that provides local and specialized service and meets certain other requirements) in lieu of a full power analog or digital local commercial station. Requires that, if there are not sufficient signals of full power local commercial stations to fill the channels set aside for local programming, an operator with a system capacity of 35 or fewer channels must carry one qualified low power station (current law) or one qualified class A station. Requires: (1) an operator with a system capacity of more than 35 but less than 72 channels to carry two stations that are either class A or low power stations; and (2) an operator with a system capacity of more than 72 channels to carry three that are either type of stations. Grants carriage rights to all qualified class A stations in a designated market area if there are three or fewer commercial full power stations serving that area that do not substantially retransmit the signal of another broadcast station.
Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prescribe regulations to implement provisions for the application and granting of new class A television licenses in accordance with the Community Broadcasters Protection Act of 1999. Directs the FCC to consider whether the treatment of a low-power station as a class A station would meet the public interest, convenience, and necessity.
Requires prompt FCC review and determination with respect to applications of advanced television services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1627
Sponsor: Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Affiliated corporations
Business records
Commerce
Consumer protection
Department of Energy
Electric utility rates
Executive reorganization
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Finance and Financial Sector
Gas companies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Holding companies
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Public utility rates
Public utility regulation
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities regulation
Subsidiary corporations
Trade secrets

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2003 - Repeals the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. 
Prescribes procedural guidelines for both Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and State access to records of a holding company (including subsidiaries, associates, and affiliates) of a public utility or natural gas company. 
Instructs FERC to promulgate a final rule to exempt specified holding companies from such access requirements. Requires FERC to exempt any person or transaction from such access requirements if it finds that regulation of such person or transaction is irrelevant to the jurisdictional rates of a public utility or natural gas company. 
Retains the jurisdiction of FERC and State commissions to determine whether a public utility company or natural gas company may recover in rates any costs of associate company transactions. 
Declares this Act inapplicable to: (1) the United States; (2) a State or its political subdivision; and (3) a foreign governmental authority not operating in the United States. 
Grants FERC certain Federal Power Act enforcement powers. 
Amends the Federal Power Act to repeal its conflict of jurisdiction guidelines.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S664)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
Chief Martin Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 108-hr-1628
Sponsor: Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional gold medals
Minorities
Mississippi
Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Chief Martin Congressional Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to Chief Phillip Martin in recognition of his leadership of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians for over 45 years and for his contributions to the American Indian community, particularly to the native and non-native communities of Mississippi.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
Upper Missouri River Breaks Boundary Clarification Act

Bill: 108-hr-1629
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
Missouri River development
Montana
National monuments
Natural monuments
Right of property
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Upper Missouri River Breaks Boundary Clarification Act - Specifies that the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument shall not include any privately owned property within its boundaries.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 

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

 
Upper Missouri River Breaks Boundary Clarification Act - Specifies that the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument shall not include any privately owned property within its boundaries. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 225.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 108-392.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 108-392.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 24 - 13.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1631
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Alien labor
Earnings
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Self-employed
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: No Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to exclude from creditable wages and self-employment income any wages earned for services by aliens illegally performed in the United States and self-employment income derived from a trade or business illegally conducted in the United States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in House