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Indian School Bus Route Safety Reauthorization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1107
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Indian education
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Minorities
Road construction
School buses
State-local relations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Indian School Bus Route Safety Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Makes funds appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) available for each fiscal year to States that have within their boundaries all or a part of an Indian reservation having a land area of ten million acres or more. Makes counties eligible to apply to a State for all or a portion of such funds for maintenance of public roads that are within the county that: (1) provide access to the Indian reservation; (2) are used by a school bus to transport children to or from a school or Head start program; and (3) are maintained by the county in which the public road is located. Provides that such funding shall supplement, and not supplant, any obligation of funds by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for road maintenance programs on Indian reservations, and any funding provided by a State to a county for road maintenance programs in the county.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Access to Capital for Haiti's Development Act

Bill: 108-hr-1108
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Caribbean area
Debt relief
Development credit institutions
Economic assistance
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Haiti
Haiti compilation
Latin America
Loan defaults

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Access to Capital for Haiti's Development Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to direct the U.S. Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States to urge the Bank to: (1) immediately resume lending to Haiti, and disburse all loans to Haiti that the Bank has approved; and (2) assist Haiti with the payment of its arrears, and consider providing debt relief to Haiti.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
State High Risk Pool Funding Extension Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1110
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government insurance
Grants-in-aid
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Medically uninsured
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: State High Risk Pool Funding Extension Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to modify provisions relating to Federal matching grants for the operation of State high risk health insurance pools. Provides matching grants to States that have established pools that provide premium rates and covered benefits consistent with standards included in the NAIC Model Health Plan for Uninsured Individuals. (Currently, the law specifies other characteristics pools must have for States to receive matching funds, including that premiums charged under a pool are restricted to no more than 150 percent of the premium for applicable standard risk rates.)
Amends the formula for appropriating funds such that funds will be allotted to States based on the number of enrollees in qualified high risk pools. (Currently, funds are allotted based upon the number of uninsured individuals in States.)
Authorizes appropriations for the matching grants program through FY 2009.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1112
Sponsor: Rep. Kingston, Jack [R-GA-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Arkansas
Bankruptcy courts
Delaware
Finance and Financial Sector
Florida
Georgia
Judges
Judicial districts
Judicial tenure
Michigan
Mississippi
Nevada
New Jersey
New York State
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
South Carolina
Tennessee
Utah
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal judicial code to: (1) authorize the appointment of additional permanent and temporary bankruptcy judges in various States and Puerto Rico; and (2) extend certain temporary office of bankruptcy judges previously authorized for Alabama and Tennessee.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Asbestos Compensation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1114
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative law judges
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Advice and consent of the Senate
Alternative dispute resolution
Asbestos
Business records
Cancer
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Claims
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Court records
Damages
Data banks
Department of Justice
District courts
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Health
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Labor and Employment
Legal fees
Legal services
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Limitation of actions
Lung cancer
Lung diseases
Medical fees
Medical laboratories
Medical records
Medical tests
Personnel records
Physicians
Presidential appointments
Products liability
Punitive damages
Right to counsel
Science, Technology, Communications
Smoking
Stomach diseases
Subpoena
Trusts and trustees
X-rays

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Asbestos Compensation Act of 2003 - Establishes in the Department of Justice the Office of Asbestos Compensation (OAC) with exclusive jurisdiction over proceedings to determine if a claimant is entitled to compensation for an asbestos claim and the amount of such compensation. Excludes any claim brought under any workers' compensation law or veterans' benefits program.
Establishes within OAC: (1) an Asbestos Compensation Fund to make payments to claimants under this Act; and (2) an Office of Administrative Law Judges for expedited administrative adjudication of asbestos claims..
Requires the OAC to implement a legal assistance program to provide legal representation to claimants.
Prescribes guidelines governing: (1) medical eligibility; (2) damages; (3) come back rights; (4) class actions; (5) core claims; (6) eligible medical categories; (7) fiscal and financial management of the Asbestos Compensation Fund; and (8) transitional civil actions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5459)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Freedom of Choice Act

Bill: 108-hr-1117
Sponsor: Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health
Income tax
Medical economics
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Health Care Freedom of Choice Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow as a deduction any medical expenses not compensated by insurance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1118
Sponsor: Rep. Boehlert, Sherwood [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Auditing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to Indians
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Fire prevention
Grants-in-aid
Minorities
Minority employment
Recruiting of employees
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Volunteer workers
Women
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to require the establishment of an office within the United States Fire Administration to administer the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Firefighter grant program under this Act.
Authorizes the U.S. Fire Administrator to make direct four-year grants to State career, volunteer, and combination fire departments for staff increases in order to provide protection from terrorism and hazards. Specifies Federal grant contribution levels. Requires grantees to retain hired career firefighters for at least one year after grant termination. Terminates program authority ten years after enactment of this Act.
Authorizes the Administrator to: (1) give preferential hiring to career firefighters where non-federal contributions exceed the minimums provided for by this Act; and (2) provide technical assistance to States, local governments, Indian tribes, and other public entities.
Requires project evaluations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Antitrust Improvements Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1120
Sponsor: Rep. Bachus, Spencer [R-AL-6]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Antitrust law
Commerce
Competition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contracts
Damages
Department of Justice
Employee health benefits
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health care industry
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Interest
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Legal fees
Managed care
Medical personnel
Physicians
Professional associations
Quality of care
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Health Care Antitrust Improvements Act of 2003 - Delineates the relationship between the antitrust laws and negotiations between groups of health care professionals and health plans and health care insurance issuers.
Applies the rule of reason standard to negotiations between a health plan and two or more physicians.
Awards attorneys' fees to a substantially prevailing plaintiff in certain actions only when the defendant's conduct was unreasonable or in bad faith.
Authorizes health care cooperative ventures negotiating with a health plan to file notification with the Attorney General, thereby limiting any potential recovery from conduct within the scope of such notification to actual damages (not punitive or treble).
Prohibits tying arrangements (linking the participation in one product line to participation in another) between a health plan and health care professional, except as specified.
Directs the Attorney General to establish: (1) at least six demonstration projects where health care professionals in project site States may act together to jointly negotiate contracts and agreements with health plans to provide health care items and services for which benefits are provided under such health plans; and (2) an Advisory Committee on Health Plan Negotiations.
Excludes from this Act any negotiations or agreements between health care professionals and health plans pertaining to the provision of benefits under Federal programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP (State children's health insurance program), uniformed services' or veterans' medical care, Federal employees' health benefits, and Indian health care.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Drivers' License Integrity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1121
Sponsor: Rep. Cantor, Eric [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Crime and Law Enforcement
Driver licenses
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Identification devices
Transportation and Public Works
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Drivers' License Integrity Act of 2003 - States that: (1) a valid nonimmigrant visa is required for an alien to obtain a driver's license or State identification card in the United States; and (2) such license or card shall be valid only during the validity period of the alien's nonimmigrant visa.
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) enter into discussions with appropriate State and local officials to ensure compliance; and (2) provide grants to assist States in issuing licenses and cards consistent with such requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide funding for the clean up of MTBE contamination from underground storage tanks, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1122
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental monitoring
Federal aid to water pollution control
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Groundwater
Labor and Employment
Oxygenates
Petroleum storage
Pollution measurement
Reformulated gasoline
Underground storage
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize appropriations from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund to address issues concerning methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) contamination in underground storage tank systems.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
State Waste Empowerment and Enforcement Provision Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1123
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental health
Environmental law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Incineration
Interstate commerce
Landfills
Municipal solid waste
Referendum
Refuse and refuse disposal
State-local relations
Transboundary pollution
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
User charges
Waste disposal sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: State Waste Empowerment and Enforcement Provision Act of 2003 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize a State to limit, place restrictions on, or otherwise regulate out-of-State municipal solid waste received or disposed of annually at each landfill or incinerator in the State, except, until two years after enactment of this Act, to the extent that a host community agreement (between an owner or operator of a landfill or incinerator and an affected local government) specifically authorizes such receipt.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1125
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Medical fees
Medicare
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy caps.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Tax Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1126
Sponsor: Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Computer software
Cost of living adjustments
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Franchises (Retail trade)
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Restaurants
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Small Business Tax Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the amount of section 179 property which may be expensed and permit the expensing of computer software; and (2) classify restaurants and franchise operations as 15-year property.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of the Army to establish a combat artillery medal.

Bill: 108-hr-1127
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Army
Artillery
Commemorations
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Directs the Secretary of the Army to issue a combat artillery medal to each person who, while a member of the Army artillery branch, participated in combat after April 5, 1917.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Horsham, Pennsylvania, as the "Victor J. Saracini Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".

Bill: 108-hr-1128
Sponsor: Rep. Greenwood, James C. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Aircraft pilots
Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Clinics
Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Health
Names
Pennsylvania
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' hospitals
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Horsham, Pennsylvania, as the Victor J. Saracini Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Installment Sale Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1129
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Intangible property
Service industries
Tax administration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Installment Sale Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make eligible for installment reporting any intangibles recapture gain from certain sales of an interest in a service business.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E404-405)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Yellowstone Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-1130
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aircraft
Department of the Interior
Government Operations and Politics
Idaho
Law
Limited access highways
Montana
National parks
Snowmobiles
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Yellowstone Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement the final rule to phase out snowplane use in Grand Teton National Park and snowmobile use in Yellowstone National Park, the John. D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park. Prohibits the Secretary from modifying or superseding any provisions of that final rule.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House