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A bill to increase the Federal Housing Administration mortgage commitment level to carry out the purposes of section 203(b) of the National Housing Act.

Bill: 108-s-1571
Sponsor: Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL]
Introduced: 2003-09-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Home ownership
Insurance premiums
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Settlement costs
Single family housing

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: 
Increases the Federal Housing Administration FY 2003 mortgage insurance commitment level under the National Housing Act. 

action_date: 2003-09-02
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Increases the Federal Housing Administration FY 2003 mortgage insurance commitment level under the National Housing Act to $185 billion (currently $165 billion).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10987; text as passed Senate: CR S10987)
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10987; text as passed Senate: CR S10987)
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the expansion of the pilot program of the Department of Veterans Affairs on assisted living for veterans to include three additional health care regions of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 108-s-1572
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-09-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Life care communities
Long-term care
Social Welfare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: 
Amends the Veterans Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act to authorize three additional health care regions for the Department of Veterans Affairs assisted living for veterans pilot program. (Limits service in such additional areas to three years.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10973)
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10972-10973)
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Theodore Roosevelt-Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1573
Sponsor: Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-09-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Animals
Government Operations and Politics
Louisiana
Names
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Riparian ecology
Roosevelt (Theodore) Administration
Water Resources Development
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: 
Theodore Roosevelt-Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge Act of 2003 - Designates the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in Tensas, Franklin, and Madison Parishes, Louisiana, as the Theodore Roosevelt-Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to replace the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the Federal agency responsible for the administration, protection and preservation of the Midway Atoll within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-1574
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2003-09-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Department of the Interior
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
History
Islands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Military history
Monuments and memorials
Pacific area
Wildlife refuges
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) review and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the administration of Midway Atoll and the designation of the Atoll as a National Memorial; and (2) designate another agency to replace the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as administrator of Midway Atoll and developer of the Memorial.
 
Declares the intention of Congress that: (1) the National Memorial on Midway Atoll be given equal consideration with concerns over the preservation of wildlife in all matters related to the administration, development and preservation of the Atoll; (2) Midway's airport remain in use as an alternative emergency site in order to ensure the safety of civilian and military aircraft in the northern Pacific region; and (3) the public continue to have meaningful access to the Atoll so as to experience and benefit from its status as both a National Memorial to the Battle of Midway and a National Wildlife Refuge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-09-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Nevada National Forest Land Disposal Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1575
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2003-09-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Land transfers
National forests
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Nevada National Forest Land Disposal Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell any right, title, or interest of the United States in and to certain parcels of National Forest System lands in Carson City and Douglas County, Nevada. Declares that the Secretary and the relevant unit of local government shall jointly decide whether land is to be offered for sale under this Act. Sets forth percentages of the gross proceeds from sales under this Act that shall be earmarked for: (1) the State of Nevada general education program; (2) the Carson Water Subconservancy District in Nevada; (3) the fund established in the Sisk Act, to be used for land sales costs and for the development and maintenance of parks, trails, and natural areas in specified Nevada counties; and (4) the Minden Interagency Dispatch Center in Minden, Nevada. 
Declares that the lands authorized to be sold under this Act shall not be subject to specified Federal law pertaining to property management.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-490.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project in the State of Wyoming.

Bill: 108-s-1577
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2003-09-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Hydroelectric power
Law
Licenses
Water Resources Development
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to extend, at the request of the project licensee, the deadline for commencement of construction of hydroelectric project number 1651 in the State of Wyoming for three consecutive two-year periods from the expiration of the extension originally issued by the Commission.
action_date: 2004-03-09
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to extend, at the request of the project licensee, the deadline for commencement of construction of hydroelectric project number 1651 in the State of Wyoming for three consecutive two-year periods from the expiration of the extension originally issued by the Commission. 

action_date: 2004-05-19
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on March 9, 2004. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to extend, at the request of the project licensee, the deadline for commencement of construction of hydroelectric project number 1651 in the State of Wyoming for three consecutive two-year periods from the expiration of the extension originally issued by the Commission. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5845-5846; text as passed Senate: CR S5845-5846)
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5845-5846; text as passed Senate: CR S5845-5846)
action_date: 2004-03-09
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 447.
action_date: 2004-03-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 108-237.
action_date: 2004-03-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 108-237.
action_date: 2004-02-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-271.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to classify qualified rental office furniture as 5-year property for purposes of depreciation.

Bill: 108-s-1578
Sponsor: Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-09-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Office equipment and supplies
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to classify as five-year property for depreciation purposes any qualified rental office furniture held by an office furniture rental dealer primarily for leasing to customers by means of a short-term rental contract. States that options to renew such a contract at the same or greater price shall not be taken into account in determining a lease term for such purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the continuation of the Pediatric Research Initiative.

Bill: 108-s-1579
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-09-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Clinical trials
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Medical education
Medical research
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the Pediatric Research Initiative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11034)
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Religious Workers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1580
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-09-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Aliens
Citizenship
Clergy
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Entrepreneurs
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign investments
Immigrants
Investors
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Religion
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: 
Religious Workers Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the religious worker program.

action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
Religious Workers Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the religious worker program to cover persons entering the United States before October 1, 2008 (currently October 1, 2003).
 
Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993, with respect to the immigrant investor regional center pilot program, to: (1) extend such program for five years; (2) replace existing references to the Attorney General with the Secretary of Homeland Security; and (3) authorize employment creation immigrant visa priority to be given to aliens seeking entry under such program.
 
Directs the General Accounting Office to conduct a study of such program, which shall include information concerning: (1) number, locality of settlement, and country of origin of immigrant investors, and the number of such individuals who have sought U.S. citizenship; and (2) types of commercial enterprises and types and numbers of created jobs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 303.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11034)
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11034)
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize appropriate action if the negotiations with the People's Republic of China regarding China's undervalued currency and currency manipulations are not successful.

Bill: 108-s-1586
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Balance of payments
China
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Countervailing duties
Currency devaluation
East Asia
Foreign exchange
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
International competitiveness
President and foreign policy
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Imposes an additional duty of 27.5 percent on Chinese goods imported into the United States unless the President submits a certification to Congress that the People's Republic of China (PRC) is no longer manipulating the rate of exchange and is complying with accepted market-based trading policies.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate with the PRC to ensure a process that leads to a market-based system of currency valuation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Environmental Health Research Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1588
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Animals
Chemicals
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Continuing education
Department of Health and Human Services
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmental estrogens
Environmental research
Environmentally induced diseases
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Hormones
International cooperation
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical screening
Medical technology
Medical tests
Nursing education
Preventive medicine
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Wildlife conservation
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Environmental Health Research Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of not more than six centers to conduct multidisciplinary research on environmental factors that may be related to the development of women's health conditions. Requires each center to conduct basic and clinical research, develop training protocols, conduct training, develop model continuing education programs, and disseminate information to professionals and the public, with priority to prevention activities. Requires each center to: (1) collaborate with community organizations; and (2) use the facilities of a single institution or be formed from a consortium of institutions. Limits support to five years but allows extensions under specified circumstances. Authorizes appropriations.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish a comprehensive research program on the impact and occurrence of hormone disrupting chemicals as they affect human, ecological, and wildlife health.
 
Requires the program to: (1) compile scientifically valid information, with an emphasis on the effect of low doses during critical life stages and the extent of human and wildlife exposure; (2) research the mechanisms by which such chemicals interact with biological systems as well as their screening and tracking; and (3) include the participation of the U.S. Geological Survey.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Hormone Disruption Research Interagency Commission.
 
Establishes a Hormone Disruption Research Panel within the Institute. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11167-11169)
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11167)
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Head Start Act to improve provisions relating to updating population data.

Bill: 108-s-1593
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2003-09-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Poor children
Population
Preschool education
Social Welfare
Statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: 
Amends the Head Start Act to require, for purposes of certain allotments of funds to States, the Secretary of Health and Human Services to use data that is not more than two years old with respect to the number of children in a State who are less than five years of age and who are from families below the poverty line. (Current law requires use of the most recent data available.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11247)
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11247)
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require a report on reconstruction efforts in Iraq.

Bill: 108-s-1594
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-09-09 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Building construction
Clinics
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Defense budgets
Democracy
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Energy
Federal budgets
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Infrastructure
International military forces
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Peacekeeping forces
President and foreign policy
Road construction
Transportation and Public Works
United Nations
War casualties
War relief
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: 
Requires a report from the President setting forth: (1) the economic, political and military situation in Iraq; (2) measures taken to protect the U.S. troops serving in Iraq; (3) a detailed plan for establishing civil, economic, and political security in Iraq; (4) the monetary costs currently incurred and projected to be incurred by the United States, United Nations, Iraq, and the international community; (5) the actions taken and to be taken by the President to secure increased international participation in peacekeeping efforts and in the economic and political reconstruction of Iraq; (6) a detailed schedule for restoring self-government to the Iraqi people; and (7) U.S. and international military and civilian personnel requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11248)
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11247-11248)
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Military Reservist Tax Credit Act

Bill: 108-s-1595
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-09-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Manufacturing industries
Replacement workers
Self-employed
Small business
Tax credits
Temporary employment
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: 
Small Business Military Reservist Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish, with respect to individuals participating in qualified military reserve component duty, a tax credit equal to the sum of: (1) in the case of a small business employer, the employment credit with respect to all qualified employees and qualified replacement employees of the taxpayer; and (2) the self-employment credit of a qualified self-employed taxpayer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11248-11249)
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Introduced in Senate