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Social Security Savings Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3177
Sponsor: Rep. DeMint, Jim [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2003-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative fees
Advice and consent of the Senate
Alimony
Annuities
Auditing
Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Child support
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Death
Divorce
Economics and Public Finance
Estates (Law)
Executive reorganization
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Garnishment
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government securities
Government trust funds
Investments
Labor and Employment
Law
Liability insurance
Marriage
Married people
Mutual funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Presidential appointments
Privatization
Saving and investment
Separation (Law)
Social security beneficiaries
Social security eligibility
Social security finance
Social security numbers
Social security taxes
Stocks
Surveys
Survivors' benefits
Tax exemption
Taxation
Trusts and trustees
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: 
Social Security Savings Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish in the executive branch a Personal Savings Board, headed by an Executive Director, to administer the individual social security account program created by this Act. Establishes in the Treasury a Social Security Personal Savings Fund. Directs the Executive Director to establish in the Savings Fund an individual social security account for each eligible individual who elects to participate. Prescribes social security deposits for investments in common stock and government obligations. Provides for distribution of Savings Fund amounts in monthly annuity payments, with optional cash distribution, along with cost-of-living adjustments. Ensures maintenance of adequate balances in the social security trust funds.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exempt the Savings Fund, and each individual social security account, from income taxation; and (2) tax distributions as social security benefits.
 
Directs the Social Security Advisory Board to study the manner and extent to which, upon attainment of balances in individual social security accounts sufficient to minimize the administrative costs involved, investment of amounts held in such accounts may be managed in the private sector by approved account managers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Health and Education Access for Students with Diabetes Act

Bill: 108-hr-3178
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2003-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Access to health care
Child health
Diabetes
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Health
Insulin
School health programs
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: 
Health and Education Access for Students with Diabetes Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to prohibit a State or public or private entity from receiving funds under ESEA title IV part A, also known as the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, unless it has a policy in effect against hindering or restricting a student from engaging in diabetes treatment prescribed or recommended by a physician.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Depositary Services Efficiency and Cost Reduction Act

Bill: 108-hr-3183
Sponsor: Rep. Oxley, Michael G. [R-OH-4]
Introduced: 2003-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting
Appropriations
Bank deposits
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
Fees
Financial services
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: 
Depositary Services Efficiency and Cost Reduction Act - Authorizes appropriations to reimburse financial institutions in their capacity as depositaries and financial agents of the United States for all services required or directed by the Secretary of the Treasury to be performed by them on behalf of a Federal agency.
 

 
 Amends the Federal Reserve Act to make technical amendments to reflect this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Act

Bill: 108-hr-3184
Sponsor: Rep. Istook, Ernest J., Jr. [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2003-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Auditing
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Computer software
Consumer protection
Debt
Electronic commerce
Electronic data interchange
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate compacts
Judicial review
Law
Liability (Law)
Local taxation
Retail trade
Right of privacy
Sales tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
State taxation
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax simplification
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: 
Streamlined Sales and Use Tax - Grants the consent of Congress to the November 12, 2002, Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that such Agreement provides sufficient simplification and uniformity to warrant Federal authorization to States that are parties to the Agreement to require remote sellers to collect and remit the sales and use taxes of such States and of local taxing jurisdictions of such States. States that the purpose of this Act is to effectuate that limited authority, and not to grant additional authority unrelated to the accomplishment of that purpose.
 
States that once 10 States comprising at least 20 percent of the total population of all States imposing a sales tax have petitioned for membership under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, have been found to be in compliance with the Agreement pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, have become Member States under the Agreement, and the necessary operational aspects of the Agreement have been implemented, any Member State under the Agreement is authorized, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to require all sellers not qualifying for the small business exception provided by this Act to collect and remit sales and use taxes with respect to remote sales to purchasers located in such State.
 
Establishes minimum simplification requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Geospatial Preparedness Act

Bill: 108-hr-3186
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2003-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Computer security measures
Computer software
Computers
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Emergency communication systems
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Science, Technology, Communications
Security classification (Government documents)
Social Welfare
Standards
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: 
Geospatial Preparedness Act - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to direct the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Department of Homeland Security to work with the Departments of the Interior and Justice, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, other appropriate Federal agencies, and members of the Federal Geographic Data Committee to use and enhance the National Spatial Data Infrastructure for homeland security purposes.
 
Directs the CIO to establish security and policy guidelines for the acquisition, processing, and dissemination of geospatial data depicting critical infrastructure and strategic assets in the United States.
 
Requires the: (1) Secretary to establish the Office of Geospatial Management within the Office of the CIO; and (2) Geospatial Manager to work with the CIO to design, manage, coordinate, and implement comprehensive geospatial initiatives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
To require a temporary moratorium on leasing, exploration, and development on lands of the Outer Continental Shelf off the State of California, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3187
Sponsor: Rep. Cunningham, Randy (Duke) [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2003-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: California
Coastal zone
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Continental shelf
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Gas in submerged lands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Submarine oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from conducting a lease sale or issuing a lease for oil or gas in the Southern, Central, and Northern California Panning Areas until the later of January 1, 2011, or 45 days of continuous session of Congress after issuance of the final environmental impact statement relating to the second five-year oil and gas leasing program prepared under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act after enactment of this Act.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from approving any exploration plan, development and production plan, or application for permit to drill, or from permitting any drilling, for oil and gas in such Planning Areas until 45 days of continuous session of Congress after submission to Congress of certain completed and peer-reviewed environmental studies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Safeguarding Our Religious Liberties Act

Bill: 108-hr-3190
Sponsor: Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2003-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Allegiance
Appellate courts
Church and state
Congressional-judicial relations
Constitutional amendments
District courts
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Jurisdiction
Law
Oaths
Religion
Religious liberty
Signs and symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: 
Safeguarding Our Religious Liberties Act - Declares that among those powers reserved to the States and their political subdivisions are the powers to display the Ten Commandments, to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and to recite the national motto on or within property owned or administered by them.
 
Declares that: (1) the Pledge of Allegiance shall be, &quot;I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and justice for all.&quot;; and (2) the national motto shall be, &quot;In God we trust.&quot;
 
 Excepts from the jurisdiction of Federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court the display of the Ten Commandments and the use of the word &quot;God&quot; in the Pledge of Allegiance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
To prescribe the oath of renunciation and allegiance for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Bill: 108-hr-3191
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2003-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Allegiance
Government Operations and Politics
Oaths

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prescribe the oath of renunciation and allegiance for purposes of such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-10-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9286)
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid/SCHIP Optional Coverage for Young Adults Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3192
Sponsor: Rep. Snyder, Vic [D-AR-2]
Introduced: 2003-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Housing and Community Development
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Rural health
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: 
Medicaid/SCHIP Optional Coverage for Young Adults Act of 2003 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to give States the option of providing SCHIP and Medicaid coverage, with an enhanced matching rate, to low-income youth up to age 23.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide for grants to small and rural States in order to enable them to implement expansions of eligibility for children and young adults under SSA titles XIX and XXI.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3194
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2003-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Accreditation (Medical care)
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Diabetes
Health education
Housing and Community Development
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: 
Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for the recognition of certified diabetes educators as Medicare providers for purposes of diabetes outpatient self-management training services.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on: (1) the barriers, if any, that exist in rural areas to successfully becoming a recognized diabetes education program, including the difficulty of rural health care professionals in becoming certified diabetes educators; and (2) whether individuals with diabetes who live in rural areas have barriers to accessing diabetes self-management training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-09-25
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: 2003-09-25
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: 2003-09-25
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: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Introduced in House
To extend normal trade relations treatment to the products of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Bill: 108-hr-3195
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2003-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: East Asia
International Affairs
Laos
Most favored nation principle
Normal trade relations
Reciprocity
Tariff
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-29
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations) to the products of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the reimbursement of air fare costs incurred by members of the United States Armed Forces for domestic travel while on leave from deployment overseas in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Bill: 108-hr-3197
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2003-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Airline passenger traffic
Armed forces abroad
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military leave
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel
South Asia
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to reimburse air fare costs incurred by members of the armed forces in connection with travel within the United States while such members are on leave from deployment overseas in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-10
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Introduced in House
To expand the Rest and Recuperation Leave program for members of the Armed Forces serving in the Iraqi theater of operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom to include travel and transportation to the members' permanent station or home.

Bill: 108-hr-3199
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2003-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military leave
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel
National Guard
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to expand the Central Command Rest and Recuperation Leave program (for certain military personnel serving in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom) to provide travel and transportation allowances to each participant for travel from an original airport of debarkation to the permanent duty station or home of such member.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-10
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Introduced in House
To expand the travel and transportation allowances available to members of the Armed Forces granted leave under the Rest and Recuperation Leave program for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom to cover travel and transportation to the members' permanent station or home of record.

Bill: 108-hr-3200
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2003-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military leave
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel
National Guard
South Asia
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) expand the Central Command Rest and Recuperation Leave program for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom to provide travel and transportation allowances to permit each member of the armed forces granted leave under the program to travel between the deployment location and the member's permanent station or home; and (2) report to Congress evaluating the feasibility and cost of permanently so expanding travel and transportation allowances available to members under future rest and recuperation leave programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-10
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Introduced in House
Cold War Medal Act

Bill: 108-hr-3201
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cold War
Commemorations
History
International Affairs
Military medals, decorations, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Cold War Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned, upon application, to issue Cold War service medals to military personnel who served honorably during the Cold War era (September 2, 1945, through December 26, 1991).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-10
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Introduced in House