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General Aviation Small Business Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2499
Sponsor: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2003-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Aircraft industry
Airports
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Flight training
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government lending
Interest
Interest rates
International Affairs
Lease and rental services
Losses
September 11, 2001
Small business
Subsidies
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: General Aviation Small Business Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Small Business Administration to make grants to general aviation small business concerns in amounts equal to direct losses sustained since September 11, 2001, as a result of any Federal ground stop order(s) related to the terrorist attacks. Authorizes loans to assist such a business that has suffered, as a result of such attacks, substantial economic injury that is not incidental to the business's revenue and that is not compensated for by insurance or otherwise. 
Extends the due date for excise tax deposits for general aviation small business concerns.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Migratory Bird Research and Management Act

Bill: 108-hr-2500
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Birds
Canada
Fisheries
Fishery management
Fishing
Great Lakes
International Affairs
International agencies
Law
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Research
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
Treaties
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Great Lakes Migratory Bird Research and Management Act - Amends the Great Lakes Fishery Act of 1956 to authorize the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to carry out activities relating to the investigation of migratory bird depredation on commercial and sport fisheries in the Great Lakes. 
Amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to require the Secretary of the Interior to issue permits to cooperating State, Provincial, Tribal, First Nation, and U.S. and Canadian Federal agencies with migratory bird management authority, and signatory to a Memorandum of Understanding with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, to manage and take migratory birds, for the purpose of control of depredation by such birds on commercial and sport fisheries in the Great Lakes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the boundaries of Coastal Barrier Resources System Cape Fear Unit NC-07P.

Bill: 108-hr-2501
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Barrier islands
Coastal zone
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
North Carolina
Reefs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Replaces two specified maps relating to the Coastal Barrier Resources System Cape Fear Unit NC-07P.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Estate Tax Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2502
Sponsor: Rep. Bereuter, Doug [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Estate tax
Families
Family enterprises
Gift tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Estate Tax Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce the estate and gift tax rate; (2) increase the unified credit exclusion to $10 million; and (3) repeal the estate tax benefit for family-owned business interests provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Asbestos Claims Tax Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2503
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Asbestos
Bankruptcy
Capital gains tax
Claims
Commerce
Corporate debt
Corporate reorganizations
Corporation taxes
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Law
Losses
Products liability
Tax administration
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Asbestos Claims Tax Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the preservation of tax attributes in asbestos company bankruptcy cases and provide an exemption for asbestos related settlement funds to ensure the availability of a company's assets to pay asbestos claims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1298)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Fairness Consolidation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2504
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Interest
Interest rates
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Student Loan Fairness Consolidation Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise student aid requirements for Federal consolidation loans under the Federal Family Education Loan program, and establish parallel requirements under a Federal Direct Consolidation Loan program, to: (1) allow borrowers to refinance existing consolidation loans; and (2) make available variable interest rate consolidation loans. Excludes consolidation loans for repaying Federal PLUS loans (taken out by parents of students) from such provisions for refinancing and variable interest rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
College Loan Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2505
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative fees
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Interest rates
Law
Scholarships
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
College Loan Assistance Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise student aid requirements for student loans and Pell Grants.
 
Allows refinancing of student consolidation loans under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program. Reduces the amount of a cap on interest rate under the FFEL program.
 
Extends authority for the Pell Grant program. Increases the maximum amount of an individual Pell Grant award to $7,000 for each of academic years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006.
 
Prohibits eligible lenders or the Secretary of Education from collecting origination fees from borrowers, under the FFEL or the Federal direct loan program, for any loan made on or after the first July 1 after the date of enactment of the Student Loan Relief Act of 2003 (sic).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Kosovar-American Enterprise Fund Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2506
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: American investments
Business insurance
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Government Operations and Politics
Kosovo
Nonprofit organizations
President and foreign policy
Serbia
Small business
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Kosovar-American Enterprise Fund Act of 2003 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to designate one private, nonprofit organization (to be known as the Kosovar-American Enterprise Fund) as eligible to receive grant funds from the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development for the development of small- and medium-sized businesses in Kosovo. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Safe Disposal of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Act

Bill: 108-hr-2508
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Energy
Environmental assessment
Environmental monitoring
Government Operations and Politics
Groundwater
Landfills
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear ships
Pollution measurement
Radioactive pollution
Radioactive wastes
Safety measures
Soil pollution
Standards
State laws
Warships
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Safe Disposal of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit the Department of Energy (DOE) from disposing any low-level radioactive waste in a landfill that does not meet all requirements and standards applicable to landfills containing hazardous waste under either Federal law, or under a State regulatory program, with respect to landfill lining, leachate collection systems, and groundwater and soil column monitoring systems. 
 
Declares such prohibition inapplicable to DOE disposal of certain sealed reactor compartments and reactor components from Naval nuclear-powered warships and prototypes where a performance assessment or analysis in an environmental impact statement demonstrates that the sealed nature of the metal compartment or reactor component will significantly outlast and exceed performance standards for a liner system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Fair Tax Treatment for Insurance Agents Termination Payments Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2509
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Competition
Contracts
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Insurance agents
Labor and Employment
Severance pay

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Fair Tax Treatment for Insurance Agents' Termination Payments Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to consider a qualified termination payment received from an insurance company by a former insurance salesman for such company as a sale or exchange of a capital asset held for more than 12 months. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 Allston Way in Berkeley, California, as the "Maudelle Shirek Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-2510
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: California
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Local officials
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 2000 Alston Way in Berkeley, California, as the Maudelle Shirek Post Office Building.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to provide veterans who have a 100 percent service-connected disability with space-available travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces.

Bill: 108-hr-2511
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Military aircraft
Military transportation
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to permit a former member of the armed forces who is entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability rated as total to travel on unscheduled military flights within the continental United States and on scheduled overseas flights operated by the Air Mobility Command to the same extent as retired members of the armed forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
First Responders Funding Reform Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2512
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Equipment and supplies
Fire fighters
Grants-in-aid
Health
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Medical personnel
Nuclear terrorism
Paramedical personnel
Police
Police training
Terrorism
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
First Responders Funding Reform Act of 2003 - Amends the USA PATRIOT Act to require: (1) that each State be allocated in each fiscal year not less than .5 percent (currently, .75 percent) of the total amount appropriated for domestic preparedness grants; (2) such grants to be awarded based on a quantitative risk assessment for threat, vulnerability, and consequences; and (3) the Office for State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support of the Office of Justice Programs, by March 1 of each year, to submit that assessment to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Estate Tax Repeal for Family-Owned Farms and Businesses Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2513
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Estate tax
Family enterprises
Family farms
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Estate Tax Repeal for Family-Owned Farms and Businesses Act of 2003 - Amends estate tax provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to repeal section 2057 (Family-Owned Business Interests). Allows for purposes of such tax, in the case of an electing estate of a decedent with specified family-owned business interests, the taxable estate value to be determined by deducting from the value of the gross estate the adjusted value of such qualified family-owned business interests of the decedent. Provides for the treatment of family-owned business interests and spousal property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
Honor Thy Parents Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2514
Sponsor: Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Advertising
Ambulatory care
Antibiotics
Auditing
Business records
Coinsurance
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Consumer complaints
Consumer discounts
Consumer education
Cost accounting
Cost control
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug abuse
Drug industry
Drug interactions
Drug therapy
Drug utilization
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee health benefits
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-territorial relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Health education
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Health maintenance organizations
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insulin
Insurance premiums
Internet
Labor and Employment
Law
Managed care
Marketing
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical records
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Medigap
Patient satisfaction
Performance measurement
Pharmaceutical research
Pharmacies
Pharmacists
Prescription pricing
Quality of care
Rebates
Retiree health benefits
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Smoking
Social Welfare
Standards
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax rates
Taxation
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Honor Thy Parents Act of 2003 - Suspends any tax reduction and any tax deduction, limitation, or credit made by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 scheduled to take effect after 2003.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) to add a new part which establishes a voluntary outpatient prescription medicine benefit. Sets premium, deductible, and coinsurance limits, with an annual out-of-pocket limit of $2,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-18
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: 2003-06-18
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: 2003-06-18
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: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to clarify that Christmas tree farming is agriculture under that Act.

Bill: 108-hr-2516
Sponsor: Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Commemorations
Holidays
Hours of labor
Minimum wages
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Religion
Trees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: 
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to include Christmas tree farming as agriculture under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Affairs Reorganization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2518
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Labor
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Military personnel
Missouri
National Archives and Records Administration
Personnel records
Social Welfare
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' employment
Vocational guidance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: 
Veterans Affairs Reorganization Act of 2003 - Establishes in the Department of Veterans Affairs an Office of Homeless Veterans Assistance Programs. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, through the Office Director, to carry out all Department homeless veterans assistance functions and programs.
 
Transfers to the Secretary all functions of the Secretary of Labor under the homeless veterans reintegration program and requires the Secretary to carry out such functions through the Office.
 
Directs the Archivist of the United States to transfer to the Secretary operational responsibility for the Military Personnel Records facility of the National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Missouri.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1318)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House