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Commuter Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2301
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Infrastructure
Railroad commuting traffic
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Railroad terminals
Security measures
Subways
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: 
Commuter Safety Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a program to provide for the installation of chemical and biological detection devices in the enclosed passenger boarding stations of each heavy rail transit system in the United States. Allows the Secretary to make grants to owners and operators of heavy rail transit systems to carry out the program. Establishes the Federal share of the cost of the activities carried out under this program at 70 percent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Protection of Family Farmers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2302
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Bankruptcy
Debtor and creditor
Families
Family farms
Farm income
Farmers
Law
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Protection of Family Farmers Act of 2003 - Amends the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, as amended, to extend until January 1, 2004, the reenactment of chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code (Adjustment of Debts of a Family Farmer with Regular Annual Income) (thereby extending family farmer bankruptcy relief).
Makes this Act effective as of July 1, 2003 (the previous expiration date).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
To limit the United States share of assessments for the United Nations regular budget.

Bill: 108-hr-2303
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: United Nations finances

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: 
Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to bar the use of Department of State funds to pay the U.S. share of assessed contributions for the United Nations regular budget in an amount greater than the largest assessed contribution of any other permanent member country of the United Nations Security Council (currently, an amount greater than 22 percent of the total of all assessed contributions).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Colorado Wilderness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2305
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Armed Forces and National Security
Army
Colorado
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Flight training
Grazing
Labor and Employment
Maps
Military training
National Guard
National forests
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water rights
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Colorado Wilderness Act of 2003 - Designates specified lands in Colorado, administered by the Bureau of Land Management or the U.S. Forest Service, as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides for the reservation and protection of U.S. water rights for such areas.
Continues to allow the Colorado Army National Guard, through the High Altitude ARNG Aviation Training Site, to conduct aerial navigation training maneuver exercises over and upon the lands designated as wilderness and potential wilderness by this Act.
Designates specified lands (proposed as Deep Creek Wilderness and Pisgah Mountain Wilderness) as potential wilderness areas. Requires such lands to be designated as wilderness upon publication of a notice that all nonconforming uses of those lands have ceased.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2003-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Ginseng Labeling Correction Act

Bill: 108-hr-2306
Sponsor: Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Dietary supplements
Health
Labeling
Medicinal plants

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: 
Ginseng Labeling Correction Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, to postpone until 30 days after enactment of this Act the effective date of ginseng labeling requirements that declare misbranded any representation of ginseng unless it is an herb or herbal ingredient derived from a plant classified within the genus Panax.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the establishment of new Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities for veterans in the area of Columbus, Ohio, and in south Texas.

Bill: 108-hr-2307
Sponsor: Rep. Hobson, David L. [R-OH-7]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Health
Land transfers
Ohio
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Texas
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) construct a medical facility on available Federal land at the Defense Supply Center in Columbus, Ohio; and (2) acquire a suitable site in south Texas and construct a medical facility on such site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Provision incorporated. See H.R. 1720, Section 3.
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Communities Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2308
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Business cycles
Commerce
Community development
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional-executive relations
Department of Commerce
Depressed areas
Diversification in industry
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Fisheries
Fishing boats
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Rural economic development
Strategic planning
Trade adjustment assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: 
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Communities Act of 2003 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to revise the program for trade adjustment assistance for communities negatively impacted by trade. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish a Trade Adjustment Assistance for Communities Program at the Department of Commerce; (2) provide for a coordinated Federal response to economic dislocation in communities negatively impacted by trade; and (3) make a determination if a community is negatively impacted by a trade and certify such community for assistance. 
 
Allows communities negatively impacted by trade to develop strategic plans for community economic adjustment and diversification. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to communities that devise such strategic plans and to give preference to rural communities.
 
Directs the Secretary to certify certain communities that were negatively impacted by trade on or after January 1, 1998, for adjustment assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Earnings Limit Repeal Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2311
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Earnings
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Older workers
Retirement income
Social security beneficiaries

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Social Security Earnings Limit Repeal Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal the limitation on the amount of outside income which beneficiaries who have attained age 62 may earn (earnings test) without incurring a reduction in benefits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an additional advance refunding of tax-exempt bonds issued for the purchase or maintenance of electric generation, transmission, or distribution assets.

Bill: 108-hr-2313
Sponsor: Rep. Spratt, John M., Jr. [D-SC-5]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Energy
Equipment and supplies
Finance and Financial Sector
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: 
Permits one additional advance refunding of certain tax-exempt bonds, of which the net proceeds are used to finance the costs of electric generation, transmission, or distribution assets owned by the issuer or by a consortium of State or local governments which includes the issuer. Sets certain conditions the bonds must meet to qualify for the advance refunding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Linking Educators and Developing Entrepreneurs for Reaching Success (LEADERS) Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2314
Sponsor: Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Business education
Capital
Commerce
Commercialization
Community development
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Depressed areas
Diversification in industry
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Educational innovations
Entrepreneurs
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Industry-university relations
Infrastructure
Leases
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Office equipment and supplies
Rural economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
Strategic planning
Urban affairs
Urban economic development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Linking Educators and Developing Entrepreneurs for Reaching Success (LEADERS) Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to support business incubation at institutions of higher education that award associate or baccalaureate degrees. 
Directs the Secretary to make competitive, matching awards to: (1) a non-profit entity that manages or provides technical assistance to a degree-granting institution's affiliated incubator (or to the institution that manages in the absence of such an entity), for helping acquire or renovate space for incubators, and for developing curricula, providing services, or providing programming for entrepreneurs housed in an incubator; and (2) a degree-granting institution or a nonprofit local government or community development organization, for feasibility studies to determine the need for or siting of incubators. Requires the Secretary to reserve certain amounts for research regarding best practices for incubator programs, including the development of a benchmarking system based on uniform measures, and for dissemination of information regarding such practices. Authorizes contracts for such purposes with organizations with expertise in business incubation practices.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Badge Security Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2315
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Counterfeiting
Department of Justice
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Interstate commerce
Law
Police

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: 
Badge Security Enhancement Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) eliminate as a defense to a prosecution for violating prohibitions against transporting, transferring, or possessing a police badge the intention that such a badge is to be used for decorative or recreational purposes; and (2) provide that prohibitions shall not apply to the use of a badge in the fictitious or historical visual depiction of either a public officer or employee.
 
Requires a person to: (1) provide certification of the intended use of a genuine or counterfeit badge in order to receive one in interstate or foreign commerce; and (2) obtain written permission from the agency represented on the badge before knowingly transferring or transporting one in interstate or foreign commerce.
 
Directs the Attorney General to establish additional procedures for the transfer or transportation of genuine and counterfeit police badges to assure that a badge is not acquired under false pretenses to be used for illegal purposes.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2316
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law judges
Annuities
Civil service retirement
Early retirement
Federal employees
Judicial compensation
Labor and Employment
Law
Payroll deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: 
Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2003 - Sets forth separate provisions governing Government and employee contributions, annuity eligibility requirements (ten years of service and age 55), early retirement, and annuity computation (2.5 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively, of average pay for each year of service) for administrative law judges under the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Patricia and Michael Duane, Gregory Hansen, Mary Pimental, Randy Ruiz, Elaine Schlinger, and Gerald Whitaker.

Bill: 108-hr-2317
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-03 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Directs the Attorney General to pay to Patricia and Michael Duane, Gregory Hansen, Mary Pimental, Randy Ruiz, Elaine Schlinger, and Gerald Whitaker of California the sum each would have received if the Justice Department had properly processed his or her claim for restitution out of the funds of the second assets forfeiture sale for the losses resulting from Donald Bickerstaff's illegal acts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Introduced in House
Assured Funding for Veterans Health Care Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2318
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Indexing (Economic policy)
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Assured Funding for Veterans Health Care Act of 2003 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make available to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for programs, functions, and activities of the Veterans Health Administration for FY 2005 130 percent of the amount obligated during FY 2003. Adjusts the amount provided for fiscal years after FY 2005 based on the number of enrolled veterans and the number of other persons eligible but not enrolled who are provided care, multiplied by the per capital baseline amount for FY 2003, as increased by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.
Prohibits the availability of such funds for: (1) construction, acquisition, or alteration of veterans' medical facilities (other than for repairs provided for before the date of enactment of this Act); or (2) grants for the construction of State home facilities for the furnishing of veterans' domiciliary, nursing home, and hospital care.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7208-7210, H7213)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1131-1132)
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To include the Secretary of Homeland Security within the order of Presidential succession which applies in the absence of a qualified President and Vice President, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2319
Sponsor: Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Cabinet officers
Congress
Congressional leadership
Department of Homeland Security
Presidential succession
Resignation from office

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Includes the Secretary of Homeland Security in the line of presidential succession after the Attorney General. 
 
Modifies succession requirements relating to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore to specify, instead, persons holding the office of Speaker or President pro tempore at the time of the need for the succession.
 
Provides that an individual acting as President shall continue to do so until the expiration of the then current Presidential term (as under current law), or until the individual's earlier death, resignation, removal from office, or inability, unless the individual's discharge of the powers and duties of the office is founded in whole or in part on the inability of the President or Vice President, in which case the individual shall act only until the removal of the President's or Vice President's disability.
 
Exempts an acting President from automatic resignation of his or her current office if such person's service as acting President is based in whole or in part on the temporary incapacity of the President or Vice President.
 
Removes acting cabinet officers from the line of presidential succession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require Medicaid coverage of disabled children, and individuals who became disabled as children, without regard to income or assets.

Bill: 108-hr-2320
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Disabled
Families
Income
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicaid coverage of disabled children, and individuals who became disabled as children, without regard to income or assets.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Immediate Access to Medicare for the Disabled Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2322
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disabled
Hospital care
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Immediate Access to Medicare for the Disabled Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to waive the 24-month waiting period for Medicare (SSA title XVIII) coverage of certain disabled individuals who have no health insurance coverage.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House