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Freedom of Choice for Women in the Uniformed Services Act

Bill: 108-hr-2062
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Abortion
Armed forces abroad
Health
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Women
Women soldiers
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Freedom of Choice for Women in the Uniformed Services Act - Limits the prohibition against the use of any medical treatment facility of the Department of Defense to perform an abortion except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to full term or in the case of rape or incest to those facilities in the United States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the use of Cooperative Threat Reduction funds for projects and activities to address proliferation threats outside the states of the former Soviet Union, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2063
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arms control
Arms control agreements
Chemical warfare
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Fissionable materials
Former Soviet states
International Affairs
Military agreements
Military technology
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to obligate and expend specified available Cooperative Threat Reduction funds for proliferation threat reduction projects or activities outside of the states of the former Soviet Union if such projects will: (1) assist the United States in resolution of critical emerging proliferation threats; or (2) permit the United States to take advantage of opportunities to achieve long-standing nonproliferation goals.
 
Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended for a project or activity under this Act until 30 days after the Secretary submits to Congress a report on the purpose and amount of such funds, unless the Secretary determines that a critical emerging proliferation threat warrants immediate obligation or expenditure of such funds. Requires the Secretary to submit a justification within 72 hours after any such immediate expenditure.
 
Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the advisability of establishing new cooperative threat reduction programs to account for projects or activities funded under this Act if the Secretary uses such funds for two consecutive years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E919-920)
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Displaced Worker Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2064
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Severance pay
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Displaced Worker Assistance Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income qualified severance payments of up to $15,000 with respect to any employment separation reduced by the aggregate of prior excluded amounts. Limits exclusions to payments received in the year of separation or in one of the two succeeding taxable years.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt licensed funeral directors and licensed embalmers from the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of that Act.

Bill: 108-hr-2065
Sponsor: Rep. Tiberi, Patrick J. [R-OH-12]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Commerce
Hours of labor
Minimum wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt licensed funeral directors and licensed embalmers from the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of such Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the allowance for burial expenses of certain veterans buried in private or State-owned cemeteries.

Bill: 108-hr-2066
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Cost of living adjustments
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Increases from $300 to $1,000 the burial plot allowance for a veteran who dies in a Department of Veterans Affairs facility or a facility providing Department-contracted care.
Includes such allowance under authorized adjustments tied to increases under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Charitable Deduction Fairness Act

Bill: 108-hr-2067
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Charitable Deduction Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a direct charitable tax deduction for an individual not itemizing deductions equal to the amount that would be allowed for charitable cash contributions if such individual itemized.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2068
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2003-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Antibiotics
Authorization
Clinical trials
Communicable diseases
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health planning
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Immigrant health
Immigration
International Affairs
International cooperation in science
Latin America
Lung diseases
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medical technology
Mexico
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Research centers
Research grants
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Student loan funds
Technological innovations
Tuberculosis
Vaccines
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prescribe composition requirements for the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis, and direct it to make recommendations on: (1) a national plan to eliminate tuberculosis in the United States; and (2) a plan to guide U.S. involvement in global tuberculosis-control activities, with a focus on high incidence countries and on access to a comprehensive package of tuberculosis control measures.
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, directly or through grants, to carry out tuberculosis research, demonstration projects, and public information and education programs.
Authorizes the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to make awards: (1) to faculty of schools of medicine or osteopathic medicine to support the development of high quality curricula to assist interested individuals in learning the principles and practices of preventing, managing, and controlling tuberculosis; and (2) to support the career development of clinically trained professionals committed to pulmonary infection research.
Requires the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of NIH to work to develop a tuberculosis vaccine.
Requires the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences to carry out an international training program regarding tuberculosis.
Requires the Secretary to ensure that a portion of funds appropriated to repay the education loans of qualified health professionals, researchers from disadvantaged backgrounds, and pediatric researchers is reserved for contracts with individuals who research tuberculosis.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Stop Tuberculosis (TB) Now Act

Bill: 108-hr-2069
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2003-05-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Antibiotics
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Developing countries
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
International agencies
International cooperation
International cooperation in science
Medical education
Medical statistics
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Public-private partnerships
Science, Technology, Communications
Tuberculosis
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: 
Stop Tuberculosis (TB) Now Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the President to provide assistance for the prevention, treatment and control of tuberculosis. Requires the President to: (1) coordinate with specified health agencies worldwide to develop and implement a comprehensive tuberculosis control program; (2) set as a goal the detection of at least 70 percent of the cases of infectious tuberculosis, the cure of at least 85 percent of the cases detected, and the reduction of tuberculosis-related deaths by 50 percent by December 31, 2010; (3) give priority to activities that increase Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) coverage (World Health Organization-recommended strategy for treating tuberculosis) and treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis using DOTS-Plus; (4) expend at least 75 percent of the allocated funds on antituberculosis drugs, supplies, direct patient service, and training in diagnosis and treatment of DOTS and DOTS-Plus; (5) expend at least 10 percent of the allocated funds on a U.S. contribution to the Global Tuberculosis Drug Facility.
 
Authorizes appropriations for global tuberculosis activities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Export Freedom to Cuba Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2071
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2003-05-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Aliens
Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cuba
Immigration
Latin America
Right to travel
Travel

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Export Freedom to Cuba Act of 2003 - Prohibits the President from regulating or prohibiting travel to or from Cuba by U.S. citizens or legal residents, or any of specified transactions incident to such travel. 
Declares that: (1) this prohibition does not authorize the importation into the United States of any goods for personal consumption acquired in Cuba; and (2) the restrictions on authority contained in this Act do not apply in a case in which the United States is at war with Cuba, armed hostilities between the two countries are in progress, or there is imminent danger to the public health or the physical safety of U.S. travelers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Marriage Penalty Elimination Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2072
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2003-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Families
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Married people
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad employees
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Social Security Marriage Penalty Elimination Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Act to increase joint return base and adjusted base amount thresholds for purposes of determining the additional amount of social security or railroad retirement benefits includable in gross income.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2437)
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Guaranteeing a United and Resolute Defense Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2073
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbons, Jim [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Defense procurement
Distance education
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Immigration
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Military and naval supplies
Military civic action
Military education
Military pay
Military readiness
Military training
National Guard
Planning
State finance
State laws
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: 
Guaranteeing a United and Resolute Defense Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to the governor of a State who submits, and receives approval of, a plan for the use of personnel and equipment of the State's National Guard in homeland security activities. Provides authorized uses of such funding, including: (1) pay, allowances, and clothing; (2) equipment and facilities operation and maintenance; and (3) procurement of related services. Authorizes State National Guard personnel to perform full-time National Guard duty to carry out homeland security activities under a State plan.
 
Allows a current State drug interdiction and counter-drug activities plan to be included as an annex to a State's homeland security activities plan.
 
Authorizes National Guard personnel, while on orders to support counter-drug activities, to participate in additional military training to promote military readiness, including attendance at schools. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
International Money Transfer Disclosure Act

Bill: 108-hr-2074
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Electronic funds transfers
English language
Fees
Financial institutions
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign exchange
Government Operations and Politics
International banking
Language and languages
Science, Technology, Communications
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: 
International Money Transfer Disclosure Act - Directs certain Federal agencies to jointly prescribe regulations requiring a financial institution or money transmitting business which initiates an international money transfer on behalf of a consumer to make a good faith effort to disclose to the consumer before consummation of the transaction: (1) any fees to be charged to the recipient, including any exchange rate or currency conversion fees; (2) a final itemization of all costs to the consumer for the remittance; and (3) the exact amount of foreign currency to be received by the recipient in the foreign country.
 
Mandates that such disclosures take place in English and in the same language, if other than English, as the language principally used by the financial institution or money transmitting business to advertise, solicit, or negotiate at its office where the international money transfer is initiated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E941-942)
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2076
Sponsor: Rep. John, Christopher [D-LA-7]
Introduced: 2003-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Commemorations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Destruction of property
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Fines (Penalties)
Grants-in-aid
Highway finance
Maintenance and repair
Monuments and memorials
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Veterans' Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act of 2003 -Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit willfully desecrating a monument on public property commemorating the service of any person in the U.S. armed forces where: (1) the defendant travels in, or uses an instrumentality of, interstate or foreign commerce; or (2) the monument is located on Federal property.
Requires that veterans cemeteries be treated as sites permitting supplemental guide signs on Federal-aid highways.
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants to a State or qualified organization for up to 50 percent of the costs of the repair or restoration of a veterans memorial.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
Essential Air Service Modernization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2077
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Authorization
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Law
Subsidies
Transportation rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: 
Essential Air Service Modernization Act of 2003 - Increases the authorization of appropriations to carry out the essential air service program.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) notify an affected community at least 90 days before the basic essential service to that community is terminated: (2) facilitate and assist in negotiations between major and national air carriers and carriers that provide essential air service in order to determine equitable joint fares; (3) establish an alternate essential air service program which would provide compensation directly to local governments, instead of to air carriers, to use to obtain air service, to obtain surface transportation to and from air hubs, or to participate with other local governments in providing regional transportation services to airports; and (4) pay $5,000 to local governments to promote public use of air service or transportation for which compensation is received under the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Introduced in House