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Genetically Engineered Food Safety Act

Bill: 108-hr-2917
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Allergies
Animals
Business records
Citizen lawsuits
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Defective products
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Farm produce
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
Food additives
Food industry
Food safety
Freedom of information
Genetic engineering
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grocery trade
Health
Indexing (Economic policy)
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Livestock
Medical research
Nutrition
Parties to actions
Proteins
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Toxicology
Transgenic animals
Transgenic plants
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Genetically Engineered Food Safety Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to include genetically engineered food and related materials in the definition of "food additive." Requires that a petition to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for a regulation prescribing the conditions of safe use of a genetically engineered food additive include all data collected or developed pursuant to safety investigations, including data that does not support the claim of safety.
 
Authorizes citizen suits concerning food additives against the alleged violator or against the Secretary for failure to perform a mandatory act or duty under this Act.
Mandates a fee from petitioners to cover related costs and to provide for a program of basic and applied research on genetic food additive safety.
Authorizes the detention (seizure) of food as well as devices during an inspection where the appropriate officer or employee of the Department of Health and Human Services has reason to believe such food or device is in violation of this Act. Requires all food retailers to register with the Food and Drug Administration to expedite recalls, embargoes, and seizures.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Genetically Engineered Organism Liability Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2919
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Agricultural industries
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Biotechnology
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Genetic engineering
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Transgenic animals
Transgenic plants

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Genetically Engineered Organism Liability Act of 2003 - States that a biotech company shall be liable, and that the liability may not be waived or avoided, to any party injured by the release of a genetically engineered organism into the environment if the injury results from such genetic engineering.
 
Defines &quot;biotech company&quot; and &quot;injury&quot; for purposes of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Genetically Engineered Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crop Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2921
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Biotechnology
Chemicals
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Drugs
Environmental Protection
Enzymes
Feedstock
Fines (Penalties)
Food safety
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Identification devices
Judicial review
Law
Medicinal plants
Science, Technology, Communications
Seeds
Transgenic plants

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
 Genetically Engineered Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crop Safety Act of 2003 - Prohibits: (1) a pharmaceutical crop or industrial crop to be grown, raised, or otherwise cultivated until the final regulations and tracking system required by this Act are in effect; and (2) cultivation of a pharmaceutical crop or industrial crop in an open air environment, or in a food commonly used for human food or domestic animal feed.
 
Directs: (1) the United States Department of Agriculture to establish a tracking system to regulate the growing, handling, transportation, and disposal of all pharmaceutical and industrial crops and their byproducts to prevent contamination; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture to issue related regulations.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil penalties for violations of such provisions.
 
Directs the National Academy of Sciences to report on alternative methods to produce pharmaceuticals or industrial chemicals that may be conducted in controlled production facilities without the risk of contamination. 
 
Defines: (1) genetically engineered plant; (2) genetically engineered material; (3) genetically engineered seed; (4) pharmaceutical crop; and (5) industrial crop. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Outreach Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2922
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Acevedo-Vila, Anibal [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business education
Community development
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Information services
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Small business
Social Welfare
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Small Business Outreach Act of 2003 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize any applicant funded by the Small Business Administration (SBA) as a small business development center and located in a high unemployment district to apply for an additional grant to be used solely to promote SBA and other Federal programs that promote the growth and development of small businesses. Prohibits any single applicant from receiving more than $100,000 in SBA grants in a fiscal year. Provides a priority for applicants in districts with the highest unemployment rates.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to require periodic testing of the competency of drivers over age 79, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2923
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Driver tests
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Social Welfare
State laws
Transportation and the aged

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold specified apportionments of Federal-aid highway funds (five percent for FY 2006 and ten percent for each fiscal year thereafter under the National Highway System component, the surface transportation program, and Interstate maintenance component) from a State that fails to comply with the requirement that any individual over age 79 successfully complete a test to determine competency to operate a motor vehicle as a condition receiving or renewing a driver's license.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Northeastern North Carolina Heritage Area Study Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2925
Sponsor: Rep. Ballance, Frank W.,  Jr. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Historic sites
History
Landscape protection
Nature conservation
North Carolina
Outdoor recreation
Public-private partnerships
Social life and customs
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Northeastern North Carolina Heritage Area Study Act of 2003 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to study and report on the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Northeastern North Carolina Heritage Study Area in North Carolina (to be comprised of Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-27
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Orphan Highway Restoration Act

Bill: 108-hr-2927
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bikeways
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Highway maintenance
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Minorities
Pedestrians
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public-private partnerships
Road construction
State-local relations
Traffic signs and signals
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Orphan Highway Restoration Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make grants and provide technical assistance to States and local governments to: (1) perform preventive maintenance on or carry out projects for resurfacing, restoration, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of orphan highways; and (2) rehabilitate, repair, or construct sidewalks, medians, bike lanes, traffic-calming devices, signaling, or signage to enhance community livability on or adjacent to such highways.
 
Defines &quot;orphan highway&quot; as one that: (1) is or was formerly a United States numbered highway; (2) is located within the boundaries of a local government (which includes an Indian Tribe); (3) is no longer a principal route for traffic passing through the State after construction of a bypass or Interstate; (4) currently functions as a county, parish, or city arterial or collector route or provides access to or within Federal or tribal lands; and (5) because of decreased importance to statewide transportation has received only routine maintenance, but needs significant resurfacing, restoration, reconstruction, or rehabilitation.
 
Specifies projects to receive funding priority, such as those that include rehabilitation measures that focus on pedestrian safety, that are coordinated with State and local adopted preservation plans, that promote cost-effective and strategic investments in transportation infrastructure that minimizes adverse environmental impacts, or that foster public-private partnerships.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding fund distribution and the Federal cost share.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Consumer's Relocation Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2928
Sponsor: Rep. Boehlert, Sherwood [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Congress
Congressional hearings
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Transportation
Electronic government information
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Freight forwarders
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Household moving
Injunctions
Internet
Inventories
Law
Legal fees
Licenses
Parties to actions
Science, Technology, Communications
Shipping rates
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Consumer's Relocation Protection Act of 2003 - Authorizes States to exercise authority over motor carriers that engage in the intrastate transportation of household goods. Authorizes a State attorney general to bring a civil action against such a carrier in U.S. district court for injunctive relief and for a civil penalty. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) prescribe practices and procedures that ensure the fair and equitable treatment of individual shippers that utilize brokers of household goods; (2) establish a working group of State attorneys general, State consumer protection administrators, and Federal and local law enforcement officials; (3) establish a complaint handling system to log individual shipper informal complaints, an annual complaint database, and a procedure for public access to such data; and (4) require an annual report from each motor carrier and freight forwarder providing household goods transportation.
 
Establishes civil and criminal penalties for holding household goods hostage (defined as refusing to relinquish a shipment upon payment of not more than 100 percent of a binding estimate for shipment plus the charges for additional services performed). Sets additional requirements for registration of motor carriers of household goods.
 
 Requires every motor carrier providing transportation of household goods to: (1) conduct a physical survey of the goods to be transported and provide the shipper with a written estimate of charges; and (2) prepare a written inventory of all articles tendered by an individual shipper and accepted by the carrier. 
 
Sets civil penalties for brokers violating this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the disinterment from the American Ardennes Cemetery at Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium of the remains of Sergeant Roaul R. Prieto, who died in combat in April 1945, and to authorize the transfer of his remains to his next of kin.

Bill: 108-hr-2930
Sponsor: Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Army
Belgium
Cemeteries and funerals
Europe
Families
History
Military personnel
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army and the American Battle Monuments Commission to authorize the next of kin of Sergeant Roaul R. Prieto, U.S. Army, to disinter his remains from the American Ardennes Cemetery, Belgium, and to take custody of such remains. Prohibits the use of Federal funds for such disinterment and transfer of custody.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Orphan Drug Tax Credit Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2931
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Clinical trials
Commerce
Drug industry
Health
Income tax
Orphan drugs
Pharmaceutical research
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Orphan Drug Tax Credit Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to move up the date for which a taxpayer may claim the credit for the clinical testing of drugs for rare diseases or conditions (orphan drugs) from the date a drug is designated an orphan drug to the date the application for such designation is filed. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2932
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animal diseases
Animals
Antibiotics
Business records
Commerce
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Drugs
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Livestock
Medicated feeds
Pharmaceutical research
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for a phased elimination of the nontherapeutic use in food-producing animals of critical antimicrobial animal drugs. Defines &quot;critical antimicrobial animal drug&quot; and &quot;nontherapeutic use.&quot; 
 
Requires manufacturers of a critical antimicrobial animal drug or an animal feed for food-producing animals containing such a drug to report annual sales information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Terrorist Penalties Enhancement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-2934
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Air piracy
Capital punishment
Conspiracy
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Grants-in-aid
Homicide
International Affairs
Law
Licenses
Life imprisonment
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Torture
Transportation and Public Works
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Terrorist Penalties Enhancement Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to require any person who, in the course of committing a terrorist offense, engages in conduct that results in the death of a person, to be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or life.
 
Includes &quot;terrorist offenses resulting in death&quot; among the aggravating factors for homicide which are used in determining whether a death sentence is justified.
 
Denies Federal benefits to any individual who is convicted of a Federal crime of terrorism, for any term of years or for life.

action_date: 2004-07-07
text: 
Terrorist Penalties Enhancement Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal criminal code to apply the death penalty or life imprisonment for a terrorist offense that results in the death of a person.
 
Makes an individual or corporation who is convicted of a terrorist offense ineligible for Federal benefits for any term of years or for life.
 
Includes &quot;terrorist offenses resulting in death&quot; among the aggravating factors for homicide which are used in determining whether a death sentence is justified.
 
Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to make the death penalty available in certain air piracy cases occurring before enactment of the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 but after enactment of the Antihijacking Act of 1974. Narrows the language of &quot;especially heinous, cruel, or depraved&quot; by requiring that the act involved torture or serious physical abuse to the victim.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 353.
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-588.
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-588.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-04-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Constitutional Protection of the Right to Vote Act

Bill: 108-hr-2935
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Ex-offenders
Government publicity
Prisoners
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Constitutional Protection of the Right to Vote Act - Guarantees the right to vote of a citizen convicted of a criminal offense unless such citizen is, at voting time, serving a felony sentence in a correctional institution or facility or is otherwise under the supervision of, or in the custody of, a governmental authority pursuant to that conviction. Requires each such confinement entity to establish and execute a system to notify persons released of their right to vote protected by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House