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To pay a one-time bonus to members of the Armed Forces who served or serve in a combat zone designated for Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3051
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2003-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Air force
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Army
Coast guard
Crime and Law Enforcement
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Marines
Middle East and North Africa
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel
Navy
South Asia
Terrorism
War

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: 
Requires the payment of a one-time bonus of $1,500 to each active-duty and reserve member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard who served or serves for any period of time in a combat zone designated in connection with Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9079-9080)
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8959-8960, H9002-9003)
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Introduced in House
State Accountability and Identity Fraud Elimination Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3052
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2003-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Driver licenses
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigration
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: 
State Accountability and Identity Fraud Elimination Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to withhold specified Federal highway funds in increasing percentages starting in FY 2006 from any State that has enacted a law that allows the issuance of an identification card or a driver's license to an alien who is not legally authorized to be in the United States. Provides that funds withheld from apportionment to any State: (1) on or before September 30, 2005, shall remain available until the end of the third fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the funds are authorized to be appropriated; and (2) after September 30, 2007, shall not be available for apportionment to the State.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8070)
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Sacrifice and Responsibility Act

Bill: 108-hr-3053
Sponsor: Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2003-09-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Afghanistan
Appropriations
Capital gains tax
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Defense
Dividends
EBB Terrorism
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
Income tax
International Affairs
International relief
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Off-budget expenditures
South Asia
Supplemental appropriations
Tax rates
Terrorism
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: 
Sacrifice and Responsibility Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) raise the top two individual income tax rates back to 36 percent and 39.6 percent; and (2) repeal the amendments made by section 302 (Dividends of Individuals Taxed at Capital Gain Rates) of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.
 
Appropriates, as emergency supplemental appropriations, for FY 2004 specified sums for: (1) military operations in Iraq and in support of the global war on terrorism; and (2) the relief and reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-09-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Introduced in House
Space Exploration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3057
Sponsor: Rep. Lampson, Nick [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2003-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Aeronautics
Asteroids
Astronautics
Commerce
Competition
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
International cooperation in astronautics
Moon
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Planets
Space activities
Space exploration
Space flight
Space stations
Spacecraft

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Space Exploration Act of 2003 - Requires the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to set forth as goals for the future activities of NASA's human space flight program, the development and flight demonstration, within 8, 10, 15, and 20 years, respectively, of a reusable space vehicle capable of carrying humans between: (1) low Earth orbit and Earth-Sun and Earth-Moon libration points; (2) low Earth orbit and an Earth-orbit crossing asteroid; (3) lunar orbit and the surface of the moon, as well as deployment of a human-tended facility on the lunar surface; and (4) low Earth orbit and Martian orbit and between Martian orbit and the surface of Mars, as well as deployment of a human-tended facility on the surface of a Martian moon. 
Requires the Administrator to establish: (1) an Office of Exploration to be responsible for planning, budgeting, and managing activities undertaken by NASA to accomplish these goals; (2) a process for conducting competitions for innovative, cost-effective mission concepts to accomplish the goals; and (3) an independent panel to conduct a merit-based competitive review of the proposals submitted under each competition and to submit a rank-ordered evaluation of such proposals to the Administrator.
Requires the Administrator to provide to the Committee on Science of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate for each competitively selected proposal its implementation plan and the results of an independent external review of the initial proposal and of each annually updated implementation plan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
Currency Harmonization Initiative through Neutralization Action Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3058
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2003-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: China
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Countervailing duties
Currency devaluation
East Asia
Foreign exchange
Governmental investigations
Nontariff trade barriers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: 
Currency Harmonization Initiative through Neutralizing Action Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to analyze annually the exchange rate policies of the People's Republic of China, and to impose additional tariffs, if necessary, to equalize any currency manipulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
To authorize major medical facility projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs in connection with the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services initiative and to satisfy Department of Veterans Affairs requirements on natural disasters, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3061
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2003-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Authorization
Building construction
Construction costs
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Florida
Health
Nevada
Puerto Rico
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out the following major medical facility projects, in specified amounts: (1) construction of a health care facility at a location selected by the Secretary in East Central Florida, as part of the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES) initiative; (2) improvements at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to bring that facility into compliance with the CD-54 Natural Disasters Directive; and (3) construction of a health care facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, as part of the CARES initiative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1754)
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
Children's Mental Health Screening and Prevention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3063
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2003-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Case management
Child health
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Demography
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health education
Informed consent (Medical law)
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Mental health services
Mental illness
Parent and child
Parents
Preventive medicine
School health programs
Suicide

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: 
Children's Mental Health Screening and Prevention Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Education, and the Attorney General to jointly make ten three-year demonstration grants to implement evidence-based preventive-screening tools to detect mental illness and suicidal tendencies in school-age youth and to refer those youth in need of assessment or treatment. 
 
Makes eligible to receive such a grant, as a demonstration facility, any facility that serves at-risk youth or performs outreach to school-age youth, including any elementary school, secondary school, school-based health center, juvenile justice facility, foster care setting, homeless shelter, youth drop-in center, youth outreach organization, youth residential treatment center, or State or local mental health organization. Requires applicants to form multidisciplinary project implementation committees and to agree to certain information collecting and reporting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
National Science Education Incentive Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3064
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2003-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Charitable contributions
College costs
Commerce
Community and school
Computer literacy
Corporate philanthropy
Curricula
Educational facilities
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Engineering
Engineers
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Income tax
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Mathematics
School administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax refunds
Taxation
Teacher education
Teachers
Teaching materials
Technical education
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: National Science Education Incentive Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit an eligible science, engineering, math, or technology teacher a limited credit for undergraduate tuition; and (2) permit an elementary and secondary science, mathematics, engineering, and technology credit (SMET) credit for qualified contributions of property or service to qualified elementary and secondary schools.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the extension of the supplemental security income program to American Samoa.

Bill: 108-hr-3065
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative procedure
American Samoa
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Social Security Administration
Supplemental security income program

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: 
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to authorize the Commissioner of Social Security to extend the SSI program to American Samoa.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
Clarifications to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Bill: 108-hr-3066
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2003-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Debtor and creditor
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Lawyers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: 
Clarifications to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act - Amends the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to state that formal pleadings in a civil action shall not be considered the kind of communication (initial or otherwise) required for a validation of debt notice.
 
Prescribes an alternative version of the initial communication debt collectors are required to give consumers, incorporating the three statements currently specified.
 
States that collection activities and communications may continue during the 30 days following a debt collector's initial notice to the debtor.
 
States that, if the consumer's attorney at law fails to respond to a communication from a debt collector within 30 days (currently, a reasonable period of time) after receiving a communication from the collector, such collector may communicate directly with the consumer.
 
Limits to one the number of additional communications a debt collector may make to a consumer after the consumer has notified the collector in writing that the consumer refuses to pay the debt or wishes the collector to cease further communication. Limits the content of any such additional communication to one of the three purposes already specified by the Act.
 
Revises notice of debt guidelines to require one of the debt collector's mandatory statements to specify that a consumer's dispute of the validity of a debt be submitted in writing in order to preclude an assumption by the collector that the debt is valid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
Homestead Preservation Act

Bill: 108-hr-3067
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2003-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Dislocated workers
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Housing and Community Development
Interest rates
Mortgages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: 
Homestead Preservation Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program of low-interest loan (residential) mortgage assistance to eligible persons who are separated from their employment.
 
Limits assistance to 12 months, and requires repayment within five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
Right to Life Act

Bill: 108-hr-3069
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2003-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Constitutional amendments
Equality before the law
Families
Fetus
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: 
Right to Life Act - States that Congress declares that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being.
 
Defines &quot;human person&quot; and &quot;human being&quot; as including each and every member of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, including, but not limited to, the moment of fertilization, cloning, or other moment at which an individual member of the human species comes into being.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriations for the Coastal Heritage Trail Route in New Jersey, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3070
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2003-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Authorization
Citizen participation
Coastal zone
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
New Jersey
Scenic byways
Sports and Recreation
Strategic planning
Trails
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: 
Amends Federal law concerning the Coastal Heritage Trail Route in New Jersey to reauthorize appropriations for the route. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to prepare a strategic plan that describes opportunities to increase participation in the planning, development, and administration of the route and organizational options for sustaining the route. Allows funds appropriated for the route to be used for grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-09-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1760)
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Introduced in House