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To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel M/T MISS LINDA.

Bill: 108-hr-1827
Sponsor: Rep. Schrock, Edward L. [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Ships

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Allows the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel M/T MISS LINDA, owned on the date of the enactment of this Act by East Bay Construction Corporation in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Earned Legalization and Family Unification Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1830
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2003-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Border patrols
Boundaries
Coast guard
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Customs administration
Department of Justice
Department of Transportation
Department of the Treasury
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
International cooperation
Planning-programming-budgeting
Presidential appointments
Security measures
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Earned Legalization and Family Unification Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide permanent resident status for certain: (1) long-term resident workers; and (2) children in middle or secondary school.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Introduced in House
To extend the grace period for personal watercraft use in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

Bill: 108-hr-1831
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Boats and boating
National recreation areas
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Extends the grace period for personal watercraft use in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area to October 31, 2003.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Introduced in House
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic located in New London, Connecticut, as the "John P. McGuirk Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".

Bill: 108-hr-1832
Sponsor: Rep. Simmons, Rob [R-CT-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Clinics
Congress
Congressional tributes
Connecticut
Health
Names
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in New London, Connecticut, as the John P. McGuirk Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: See Public Law 108-170.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Provision incorporated. See S. 1156, Title II, Section 245.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 1720, Section 10.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 1562, Section 5.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Introduced in House
To reduce temporarily the duty on certain articles of natural cork.

Bill: 108-hr-1833
Sponsor: Rep. Simmons, Rob [R-CT-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tariff
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2006, the duty on certain articles of natural cork.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E782-783)
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade and fisheries for the vessel TRUE BLUE.

Bill: 108-hr-1834
Sponsor: Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]
Introduced: 2003-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Ships

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation for employment in the coastwise trade and fisheries for the vessel TRUE BLUE.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to revise the presumptions of service-connection relating to diseases and disabilities of former prisoners of war.

Bill: 108-hr-1838
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Anxiety
Bone diseases
Climate
Disabled
Ex-prisoners of war
Health
Liver diseases
Mental depression
Mental illness
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Revises Federal provisions relating to the presumption of service-connection for certain diseases manifest in former prisoners of war to consider the following diseases to have been incurred in or aggravated by military service without any minimum period of internment (currently, internment of at least 30 days is required): psychosis; any of the anxiety states; dysthymic disorder; organic residuals of frostbite when consistent with prisoner conditions; and post-traumatic osteoarthritis.
Adds cirrhosis of the liver to the list of diseases which will be considered as having been incurred in or aggravated by such service if: (1) the veteran was interned for at least 30 days; and (2) the disease becomes manifest to a degree of ten percent or more after active military service.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-16
text: See Public Law 108-183.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 2297, as amended, Title II, Section 201.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 2297, Section 11.
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Executive Comment Requested from Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Youth Smoking Prevention and State Revenue Enforcement Act

Bill: 108-hr-1839
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Cigarettes
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Local laws
Retail trade
Sales tax
State laws
State taxation
Tobacco tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Youth Smoking Prevention and State Revenue Enforcement Act - Amends the Jenkins Act to require each person who engages in an interstate sale or distribution of cigarettes to comply with all the sales and use tax and other laws applicable to cigarette distribution or sale in the State and place in which the cigarettes are delivered.
Authorizes a State Attorney General to bring a civil action to obtain any appropriate relief, including money damages, for a violation of such Act. Eliminates the $1,000 criminal penalty limitation.
Includes within the definitions of: (1) "cigarette" loose rolling tobacco; (2) "person" Indian tribal organizations or tribal governments; (3) "State" U.S. territories or possessions; and (4) "interstate sale or distribution of cigarettes" sales outside Indian lands where the order was processed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize grants for the repair, renovation, alteration, and construction of public elementary and secondary school facilities.

Bill: 108-hr-1840
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction
Charter schools
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Construction industries
Construction workers
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Minimum wages
Population
Public schools
School buildings
School districts
School libraries
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student enrollment
Surveys
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish a new title X, School Facilities Infrastructure Improvement program of grants for repair, renovation, alteration, and construction of public elementary and secondary school facilities.
Directs the Secretary of Education to allocate such grant funds as follows: (1) one-third among States; (2) one-third among largest local educational agencies (LEAs); and (3) one-third among high-growth LEAs.
Makes any public charter school that constitutes an LEA under State law eligible for such assistance under the same terms and conditions as any other LEA.
Provides for prompt payment of contractors performing federally-assisted work under this new title IX of ESEA.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Housing Assistance for Needy Families Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1841
Sponsor: Rep. Ney, Robert W. [R-OH-18]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Affordable housing
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Block grants
Building laws
Civil actions and liability
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Home ownership
Homeless
Housing authorities
Housing for the aged
Housing for the disabled
Housing statistics
Housing subsidies
Law
Low-income housing
Performance measurement
Poverty
Public housing
Relocation
Rent
Rental housing
Social Welfare
Standards
Veterans' benefits
Welfare eligibility
Welfare recipients
Welfare waivers
Working poor

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Housing Assistance for Needy Families Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to States for tenant-based rental and first-time homeownership housing. Directs a recipient State to provide such assistance through block grants.
Bases family eligibility for such assistance upon income and non-receipt of section 8 assistance (under the Housing Act of 1937), with a temporary waiver for a family currently receiving section 8 tenant-based or voucher assistance.
Sets forth program provisions, including assistance portability.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Automobile Insurance Rates Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1842
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Automobile insurance
Business records
Commerce
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Truth in Automobile Insurance Rates Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require that certain information relating to automobile insurance coverage be submitted to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by persons: (1) who are plan administrators of employee pension benefit plans or provide administrative services to such plans; and (2) who also provide automobile insurance coverage or provide persons offering such coverage identifying information relating to plan participants or beneficiaries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Bryan's Law

Bill: 108-hr-1843
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Missing children
Missing persons
Parent-school relationships
Police
School security
State laws
Student aid
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Bryan's Law - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to require institutions of higher education, if they participate in any program under title IV (Student Assistance) of HEA, to notify parents concerning missing person reports about their children.
Requires each such institution, after its campus police or security authority receives a report that a resident student younger than age 21 is missing, to make a preliminary investigation and, if such authority cannot verify that the student is safe within 24 hours of receiving the report, to: (1) notify the student's parents, or if appropriate, any other individual listed as an emergency contact person for the student in its records, and the local police agency; and (2) cooperate with the local police agency regarding the investigation.
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to waive such requirements upon the request of a State that has enacted a law with similar requirements.
Declares that nothing in this Act may be construed to: (1) create a cause of action against any institution of higher education or its employees for any civil liability; or (2) establish any standard of care.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
State Revolving Funds for Schools Act

Bill: 108-hr-1844
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Architecture and the disabled
Asbestos
Auditing
Building construction
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational facilities
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Hazardous wastes
Infrastructure
Interstate compacts
Maintenance and repair
Refuse and refuse disposal
Revolving funds
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
State finance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: State Revolving Funds for Schools Act - Establishes a pilot program of State revolving funds for school construction.
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to enter into cooperative agreements with States for the establishment of State revolving funds and multistate revolving funds for making loans to local political subdivisions or local educational agencies for building or repairing public elementary or secondary schools.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Prekindergarten Access Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1845
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accreditation (Education)
Child development
Class size
Community and school
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
English language
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Language arts
Preschool education
Reading
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Teaching materials
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Prekindergarten Access Act of 2003 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish Prekindergarten Programs.
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide grants to applicant States to establish or expand prekindergarten early learning programs by eligible prekindergarten providers and local educational agencies in partnership with early childhood programs, organizations, or agencies that serve three-, four-, and five-year old children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Credit Availability for Women-Owned Business Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1846
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank loans
Bank records
Commerce
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: 
Credit Availability for Women-Owned Businesses Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 to direct the appropriate Federal banking regulatory agency to prescribe regulations requiring insured depository institutions to submit information annually in their reports of condition on lending to women-owned businesses, defined as any business: (1) more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of which are held by oneor more women; and (2) a majority of the directors on the board of directors of which are women.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
Denial of Passports to Noncustodial Parents in Cases of Nonpayment of Child Support

Bill: 108-hr-1847
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arrest
Child support
Collection of accounts
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Law
Passports
Social Welfare
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Denial of Passports to Noncustodial Parents in Cases of Nonpayment of Child Support - Authorizes the Secretary of State to refuse, revoke, restrict, or limit a passport if the applicant or passport holder is a noncustodial parent who is the subject of an outstanding State arrest warrant for nonpayment of child support, where the amount in controversy is not less than $5,000.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in House