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Public Housing Drug Elimination Program Reauthorization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1981
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Authorization
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Housing subsidies
Juvenile delinquency
Low-income housing
Public housing
Residential rehabilitation
School-age child care
Security measures
Social Welfare
Violence
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Public Housing Drug Elimination Program Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations for the assisted housing drug elimination program.
Limits activities for programs designed to reduce drug use in and around assisted low-income housing to: (1) providing drug abuse treatment through rehabilitation or relapse prevention; (2) providing education about the dangers and consequences of drug use or violent crime; (3) identifying drug users, and assisting drug use discontinuance through education or treatment programs; (4) providing after school youth activities; and (5) providing capital improvements and security services to discourage or eliminate drug use or violent crime.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E872)
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title III of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to provide to contracting officers of the civilian agencies the same authorities available to Department of Defense contracting officers to competitively evaluate products offered by Federal Prison Industries, Inc., to assure that such products represent the best value for the taxpayer dollars being expended, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1982
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Classified defense information
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Crime and Law Enforcement
Electric power transmission
Energy
Equipment and supplies
Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
Gas pipelines
Government contractors
Government corporations
Government procurement
Information networks
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Petroleum pipelines
Pipelines
Prices
Prison labor
Prisoners
Public utilities
Quality of products
Real property
Research
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Subcontractors
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require the head of an executive agency: (1) before purchasing a product listed in the latest edition of the Federal Prison Industries (FPI) catalog, to conduct market research to determine whether the Industries' product is comparable to products available from the private sector that best meet the agency's needs in terms of price, quality, and time of delivery; and (2) if an FPI product is not comparable, to use competitive procedures for the procurement of the product or to make an individual purchase under a multiple award contract, considering any timely offer from FPI; and (3) to ensure that FPI performs its contractual obligations to the same extent as any other agency contractor..
Prohibits: (1) a contractor or potential contractor of an agency from being required, by any means, to use FPI as a subcontractor or supplier of products or provider of services for the performance of an agency contract; or (2) an agency head from entering into a contract with FPI under which an inmate worker would have access to specified classified or sensitive information.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
American Asian Justice Act

Bill: 108-hr-1983
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Asian American ethnic groups
Asians
East Asia
Families
Immigrants
Japan
Japanese Americans
Philippines
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: American Asian Justice Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include certain children born in the Philippines or Japan to U.S. fathers among those children given preferential immigration treatment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Filipino Veterans Fairness Act

Bill: 108-hr-1984
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Asians
Clinics
Disabled
East Asia
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Guerrilla warfare
Health
Health counseling
History
Hospital care
Housing and Community Development
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Long-term care
Married people
Mental health services
Minorities
Mortgages
Nursing homes
Philippines
Residence requirements
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' loans
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions
Veterans' rehabilitation
Vocational guidance
Vocational rehabilitation
Widowers
Widows
Women
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Filipino Veterans Fairness Act - Provides the rate of payment of dependency and indemnity compensation for the surviving spouses of former members of the Philippine Commonwealth Army or new Philippine Scouts who served with U.S. armed forces during World War II and became U.S. citizens or lawfully resided in the United States. Makes such veterans eligible for: (1) payment of compensation ($100 per month) for service-connected disability; (2) hospital and nursing home care and medical services in the United States in the same manner as U.S. veterans; (3) veterans' housing loans made or guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs; and (4) vocational rehabilitation as well as job counseling, training, and placement.
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish outpatient health care at the Manila Outpatient Clinic in the Republic of the Philippines for such veterans residing in the Philippines.
Makes spouses of such veterans eligible for veterans' educational assistance. Makes the rate of assistance for such spouses and children residing in the United States equal to the rate for the dependents of U.S. veterans. Makes such spouses and dependents eligible for job counseling, training, and placement benefits.
Requires the Secretary to ensure that at least one member of the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans is a Commonwealth Army veteran or new Philippine Scout.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E878)
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To extend the period for temporary mortgage and rental payments under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act from 18 months to 24 months for victims of the terrorist attacks on the United States that occurred on September 11, 2001.

Bill: 108-hr-1986
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster relief
EBB Terrorism
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing subsidies
International Affairs
Mortgages
Rent
Rental housing
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Extends the period for temporary mortgage and rental payments under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act from 18 months to 24 months for victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To designate the air traffic control tower at Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, as the "William J. `Whitey' Conrad Air Traffic Control Tower".

Bill: 108-hr-1987
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Air traffic
Airports
Congress
Congressional tributes
Names
New Jersey
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Designates the air traffic control tower at Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, as the William J. &quot;Whitey&quot; Conrad Air Traffic Control Tower.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Black Lung Benefits Survivors Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1988
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Black lung
Coal
Energy
Evidence (Law)
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Miners
Social Security Administration
Survivors' benefits
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Black Lung Benefits Survivors Equity Act of 2003 - Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act, with respect to claims filed on or after the effective date of the Black Lung Benefits Amendments of 1981, to eliminate exceptions to: (1) the applicability of certain provisions regarding rebuttable presumptions; and (2) the prohibition against requiring eligible survivors of a miner determined to be eligible for black lung benefits to file a new claim or refile or otherwise revalidate the miner's claim.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E875)
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to defer recognition of reinvested capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies.

Bill: 108-hr-1989
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Mutual funds
Saving and investment
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that, in the case of an electing individual, no gain shall be recognized on the receipt of a capital gain dividend distributed by a regulated investment company if such capital gain dividend is automatically reinvested in additional shares of the company pursuant to a dividend reinvestment plan.
States that such deferral shall not apply to: (1) an individual with respect to whom a personal exemption is allowable to another person; and (2) an estate or trust.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Family Dairy Farmer Preservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1990
Sponsor: Rep. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative fees
Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Child nutrition
Commerce
Dairy industry
Dairy products
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Families
Fees
Food relief
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Law
Marketing orders
Milk

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Family Dairy Farmer Preservation Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out counter-cyclical income support programs for dairy producers in participating States through September 30, 2011. Limits individual or entity payments to 550,000 pounds of milk per month.
Sets forth the following participating States: (1) Alabama; (2) Arkansas; (3) Connecticut; (4) Delaware; (5) Georgia; (6) Kansas; (7) Kentucky; (8) Louisiana; (9) Maine; (10) Maryland; (11) Massachusetts; (12) Mississippi; (13) Missouri, (14) New Hampshire; (15) New Jersey; (16) New York; (17) North Carolina; (18) Oklahoma; (19) Pennsylvania; (20) Rhode Island; (21) South Carolina; (22) Tennessee; (23) Vermont; (24) Virginia; and (25) West Virginia. Provides that the Governor of another State may designate the State as a participating State by notifying the Secretary.
Makes participating producers ineligible for national dairy market loss payments.
Directs the Secretary to establish five Regional Dairy Districts, each of which to be administered by a Regional Dairy Board.
Establishes in the Treasury a National Dairy Producers Trust Fund, to be funded by specified processor payments and counter-cyclical payments from the Secretary.
States that if the Secretary determines that the Commodity Credit Corporation has incurred additional milk price support costs as a result of overproduction in a District due solely to the operation of the counter-cyclical income support program, the Board of that District shall reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for such costs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Military In-State Tuition Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1991
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: College costs
Education
Families
Higher education
Military dependents
Military personnel
Residence requirements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Military In-State Tuition Act of 2003 - Prohibits a member of the armed forces on active duty for a period of more than 30 days whose domicile or permanent duty station is in a State, and the dependents of such a member, from being charged tuition for attendance at a public institution of higher education in that State at a greater rate than that charged for residents of that State. Requires such rate to continue notwithstanding a subsequent change in permanent duty station outside that State.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E874)
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Expand Access to Job Training for English Language Learners Act

Bill: 108-hr-1992
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education
Bilingualism
Civics education
Community organization
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employment agencies
Employment subsidies
Employment tests
English language
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Illiteracy
Immigrant education
Immigration
Language arts
Literacy programs
Performance measurement
Secondary education
Translating and interpreting
Workplace literacy
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Expand Access to Job Training for English Language Learners Act - Amends the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), which is tile II of the Workforce Investment Partnership Act of 1998 (WIPA), and provisions for Workforce Investment Systems (WIS), which are title I of WIPA, to revise and increase access and services for individuals with limited English proficiency under such job training and adult education systems.
Revises the following WIS provisions with respect to individuals with limited English proficiency: (1) intensive and training services; (2) performance measures; (3) demonstration, pilot, multiservice, research, and multistate projects; (4) assessments; (5) State plan contents; and (6) State discretionary funding.
Revises the following AEFLA provisions with respect to individuals with limited English proficiency: (1) adult basic education funding formula; (2) State plan contents; (3) direct and equitable access in grants and contracts; (4) reports on individuals 16 to 18 years of age; and (5) national leadership activities.
Provides for integration of WIS and AEFLA by: (1) emphasizing National Institute for Literacy coordination with the Institute of Education Sciences in the Department of Education and with the Office of Employment and Training in the Department of Labor; and (2) requiring certain uniform indicators of program performance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Office of Correctional Health Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1993
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Correctional institutions
Correctional personnel
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Hepatitis
Medical screening
Medical tests
Prisoners
Public health
Vaccination

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Office of Correctional Health Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Office of Public Health and Science of the Public Health Service the Office of Correctional Health. Requires the Office to carry out public health activities for employees in Federal, State, or local penal or correctional institutions or for persons incarcerated in such institutions (collectively referred to as correctional populations). Includes among such activities disease prevention, health promotion, service delivery, research, and health professions education activities.
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to provide for correctional populations screenings, immunizations, and treatment for hepatitis A, B, and C. Sets forth a matching requirement for such grants. Requires a portion of each grant to be expended to carry out such activities at penal or correctional facilities that are not facilities in which individuals serve terms of imprisonment, including remand facilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E877)
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Public Safety Act

Bill: 108-hr-1994
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2003-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commerce
Correctional institutions
Correctional personnel
Corrections
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Government service contracts
Local employees
Prison administration
Prisons
Privatization
State employees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Public Safety Act - Prohibits funds provided by the Federal Government to a State or local government for the purpose of providing core correctional services from being used to contract with private contractors or vendors to provide such activities. Defines core correctional services as the housing, safeguarding, protecting, and disciplining of persons charged or convicted of an offense.
Amends the Federal criminal code to require the Bureau of Prisons to provide that: (1) any penal or correctional facility or institution, except for nonprofit community correctional confinement (such as halfway houses), confining any person convicted of offenses against the United States shall be under the direction of the Director of the Bureau and shall be managed and maintained by Federal, State, or local government employees; and (2) the housing, safeguarding, protection, and disciplining of any person charged with or convicted of any offense against the United States (with that exception) shall be conducted and carried out by Federal, State, or local government employees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E879)
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Introduced in House