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Accidental Shooting Prevention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-821
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ammunition
Commerce
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Firearms control
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Import restrictions
Law
Licenses
Manufacturing industries
Recidivists
Retail trade
Safety measures

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Accidental Shooting Prevention Act of 2003 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit any person from manufacturing or importing, or any Federal firearms licensee from transferring possession of or title to, a pistol manufactured on or after January 1, 2006, unless the pistol includes: (1) a plainly visible device in a contrasting color that clearly indicates whether the pistol is loaded; and (2) a mechanism that prevents any semiautomatic pistol that has a detachable ammunition magazine from being fired when the magazine is not attached.
Directs the Attorney General to impose a civil fine for a violation of this Act, to suspend a firearms license for a second offense, and to revoke such license and license eligibility for subsequent violations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E633)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E250)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Wild Sky Wilderness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-822
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Columbia River development
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional tributes
Easements
Ecosystem management
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Ex-Members of Congress
Helicopters
Hydroelectric power
Land transfers
Land use
Law
Metropolitan areas
National forests
Public utilities
Real estate appraisal
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Washington State
Water Resources Development
Watersheds
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Wild Sky Wilderness Act of 2003 - Designates certain lands in the Skykomish River valley, Washington, as the Wild Sky Wilderness, to be managed by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Directs the Secretary to establish a hiking trail plan. Authorizes the use of helicopter access to construct and maintain a joint Forest Service-Snohomish County communication repeater site to provide improved communication for safety, health, and emergency purposes.
Allows the continued use of floatplanes on Lake Isabel in the Wild Sky Wilderness, subject to reasonable restrictions.
Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands in the Wild Sky Wilderness by purchase, donation, or exchange, with priority to be given to specified priority acquisition lands. Requires the boundaries of the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forests and the Wild Sky Wilderness to be adjusted to encompass any lands so acquired. Directs the Secretary to assure adequate access to private in-holdings within the Wild Sky Wilderness. States that valuation of private lands shall be determined without reference to any restrictions on access or use which arise out of designation as a wilderness area.
Requires the Secretary to accept specified lands within the Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington from the Chelan County Public Utility District if the District offers such lands to the Secretary in exchange for a permanent easement, including helicopter access, to maintain an existing snowtel site on land within the Wenatchee National Forest, Washington.
Provides for extinguishment of the easement and reversion of all conveyed rights to the United States if the District no longer needs to maintain a snowtel site.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Full Funding for IDEA Now Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-823
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Full Funding for IDEA Now Act of 2003 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to specify a mandatory minimum level of Federal grant payments to States for assistance for education of all children with disabilities.
Sets such level at 40 percent of the average current per-pupil expenditure in public and secondary schools in the United States multiplied by the number of children with disabilities in the State who are receiving special education and related services: (1) aged three through five if the State is eligible for an IDEA preschool grant; and (2) aged six through 21.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10021)
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E264-265)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Research on High-Performance Networking for Science Education Act

Bill: 108-hr-824
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Computer literacy
Computer networks
Computers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to research
Mathematics
Research and development
Scientific education
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Research on High-Performance Networking for Science Education Act - Authorizes the National Science Foundation: (1) as part of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program, to carry out research projects to develop novel uses and evaluate the effectiveness of high-performance computer networks in science, mathematics, and technology education in elementary and secondary schools; and (2) to identify metrics to assess the educational effectiveness of such projects, put in place procedures to make such an assessment for each project supported, and document and disseminate the findings of such assessments.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Affordable College Education Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-826
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Income tax
Interest
Student loan funds
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Affordable College Education Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the deduction for higher education and related expenses to: (1) revise the definition to make it a deduction for qualified higher education expenses (currently, it is a deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses); (2) repeal the dollar limitations; and (3) repeal the termination of the deduction.
Removes, with respect to the deduction for interest on education loans, the dollar limitations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Mortgage and Rental Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-827
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief
Eviction
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Leases
Liens
Mortgages
Rental housing

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Mortgage and Rental Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide temporary assistance in the form of mortgage or rental payments for individuals and families who, because of financial hardship caused by a major disaster occurring on or after May 30, 2002, certify that they face dispossession or eviction from a residence by reason of a foreclosure of any mortgage or lien, cancellation of any contract of sale, or termination of any lease, entered into prior to such disaster.
Limits assistance to not more than 18 months.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E243)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Pharmaceutical Fiscal Accountability Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-828
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Clinical trials
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Intellectual property
Medical research
Patents
Pharmaceutical research
Prescription pricing
Profit
Research and development
Research grants
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Pharmaceutical Fiscal Accountability Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to treat certain subsequent certified abbreviated new drug applications as if they were the first such application and therefore entitled to a period of 180 day generic drug exclusivity. (Abbreviated new drug applications are filed where the new drugs uses or active ingredient(s) are the same as those for a previously approved drug, also known as a "listed drug.")
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health to support qualifying clinical research on the development of new drugs at designated small public or private entities. Emphasizes drug research which has the potential to make a significant contribution for the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a disease which has not received significant Federal funding. Entitles the Director to five percent of the profits from sales during the patent period.
Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the effects of: (1) Federal funding on the costs of research and the pricing of prescription drugs; and (2) pharmaceutical patent extensions and market exclusivity periods on delays in introducing generic versions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act Amendments of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-829
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Art
Books
Cultural property
Damages
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Indemnity
International Affairs
Law
Losses
Motion pictures
Photography
Sound recording and reproducing
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act Amendments of 2003 - Amends the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act to increase maximum limits on liability amounts in the aggregate and for single exhibitions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Rural Health Care Preservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-830
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Ambulatory care
Authorization
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Housing and Community Development
Managed care
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Rural health
Social Welfare
Standards
Terminal care
Terminally ill

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Medicare Rural Health Care Preservation Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) a five-year continuation of Medicare managed care cost contracts; (2) temporary payment increases for sole community hospitals under the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services; (3) the reinstatement of periodic interim payment (PIP) with respect to the critical access hospital program, among other changes with respect to such program; (4) an extension of the temporary increase for home health services furnished in a rural area; (5) an increase in payments for hospice care furnished in frontier areas; and (6) deemed eligibility based on death in fact with respect to treatment of eligibility for hospice care.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-13
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: 2003-02-13
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: 2003-02-13
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: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To provide for and approve the settlement of certain land claims of the Bay Mills Indian Community.

Bill: 108-hr-831
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Gambling
Indian claims
Indian lands
Law
Michigan
Minorities
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to take specified land into trust for the benefit of the Bay Mills Indian Community of Michigan (the Community), with such land becoming part of the reservation of the Community. States that the Secretary's action shall be considered part of the settlement and extinguishment of the Charlotte Beach land claims of the Community, in accordance with the agreement reached between the Community and the Governor of Michigan on August 23, 2002. Classifies the land taken into trust as land obtained in a settlement of a land claim under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
Approves the Charlotte Beach land claim settlement on behalf of the United States, except for one specified sentence, which this Act hereby deletes. Declares that the provisions contained in such settlement shall not be considered precedent for any future agreement between any tribe and State.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E254)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Permanent Partners Immigration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-832
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Citizenship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Justice
Deportation
Domestic partners
Economics and Public Finance
Entrepreneurs
Evidence (Law)
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Informers
Labor and Employment
Law
Naturalization
Refugees
Repatriation
Right of asylum
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Permanent Partners Immigration Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include permanent partners (as defined by this Act) within the scope of such Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to restore the avenues for relief from removal that existed for aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence prior to the enactment of the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.

Bill: 108-hr-836
Sponsor: Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aliens
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Law
Residence requirements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) admit certain lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens returning to the United States who temporarily proceeded abroad voluntarily and not under an order of deportation or removal (excludes certain felons); and (2) cancel the removal of certain lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens.
Revises provisions respecting judicial review of removal orders.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Higher Education Accrediting Agency Responsibility Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-838
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accreditation (Education)
Black colleges
Building construction
Colleges
Contracts
Department of Education
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign investments
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Private schools
School buildings
Student aid
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Higher Education Accrediting Agency Responsibility Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to remove requirements that institutions of higher education (IHEs) be accredited or preaccredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association in order to receive Federal funds under various HEA programs, including student aid under HEA title IV.
Repeals such accreditation requirements with respect to IHEs, proprietary IHEs, special institutional aid under HEA title III, historically Black college and university capital financing, distance education demonstration programs, and student assistance program participation agreements.
Repeals provisions for: (1) the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity; and (2) recognition of accrediting agencies or associations under HEA.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E245)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
Renewing the Dream Tax Credit Act

Bill: 108-hr-839
Sponsor: Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Community development
Cost of living adjustments
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing authorities
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Indian housing
Infrastructure
Liens
Low-income housing
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Rural housing
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax returns
Tax-exempt organizations
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Renewing the Dream Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a community homeownership tax credit based upon an applicable percentage of each qualified residence's eligible basis.
Makes such credit available to residences located: (1) in a census tract with a median gross income not exceeding 80 percent of the greater area or statewide median gross income; (2) in a rural area; (3) on an Indian reservation; or (4) in an area of chronic economic distress. Prohibits a buyer's income from exceeding 80 percent (70 percent for families of less than three) of the area gross median income and requires owner occupancy.
Specifies that the aggregate homeownership credit dollar amount which a homeownership credit agency (an "agency") may disburse is the portion of the "State homeownership credit ceiling" (the "ceiling") allocated to such agency. Allows "unused homeownership credit carryovers" to be allocated among qualified States. Sets aside at up to 90 percent least ten percent of a State's ceiling for certain housing projects in which a qualified nonprofit organization owns an interest and materially participates in the given project's development and operation throughout the credit period.
Requires allocation of credit to residences to be in accordance with a "qualified allocation plan" of the agency issuing credit. Lists certain specified criteria such a plan must include and specifies that the plan must be approved by the governmental unit of which such agency is a part.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1251)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in House