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Agricultural Producers Value-Added Investment Tax Credit Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-136
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural machinery
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Families
Family farms
Farmers
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Minimum tax
Partnerships
Small business
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Agricultural Producers Value-Added Investment Tax Credit Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that for purposes of the general business credit, for either an eligible farmer or a farmer-owned entity, the value-added agricultural property investment credit for any taxable year is 50 percent of the basis of any qualified value-added agricultural property placed in service during the taxable year. Provides that, in the case of a farmer-owned entity, such credit shall be allocated on a pro rata basis among eligible persons holding qualified interests in such entity as of the last day of such taxable year. Limits such credit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Permanent Death Tax Repeal Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-139
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Estate tax
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Inheritance tax
Sunset legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Permanent Death Tax Repeal Act of 2003 - Amends title IX (Compliance with Congressional Budget Act) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-16) to repeal the sunset provisions applicable to title V (Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes) of such Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Assault Weapon Ban Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-143
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ammunition
Assault weapons
Firearms
Firearms control
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Import restrictions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Assault Weapon Ban Enhancement Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to direct the Attorney General to prohibit the importation into the United States of any semiautomatic assault weapon (including the frame or receiver of any such weapon) that has been modified and determined not suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting purposes, or that includes certain characteristics such as: (1) having a thumb hole stock that functions as a pistol grip; (2) being able to accept a detachable large capacity ammunition magazine; (3) having a fixed magazine which can be readily modified to accept a large capacity ammunition magazine; and (4) using .22 caliber ammunition.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Ari's Law

Bill: 108-hr-144
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms
Firearms control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Ari's Law - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to revise the definition of "firearm" to include the barrel, stock, and any part of the action of any weapon that will, is designed to, or may readily be converted to, expel a projectile by the action of an explosive.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To eliminate a limitation with respect to the collection of tolls for use of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, New York.

Bill: 108-hr-146
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bridges
Environmental Protection
Motor vehicle pollution control
New York City
Science, Technology, Communications
Smart cards
Standards
Toll roads
Traffic congestion
Traffic engineering

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, with respect to the collection of tolls for the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York, to repeal the limitation on toll collection to motor vehicles exiting the bridge in Staten Island.
Declares it is the sense of Congress that the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the Metropolitan Transit Authority should implement hi-speed EZ-Pass in the collection of tolls on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to ensure air quality standards are met and to reduce congestion at the Bridge.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Artists' Estate Tax Fairness Act

Bill: 108-hr-147
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Art
Artists
Arts, Culture, Religion
Estate tax
Income tax
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Artists' Estate Tax Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the exclusion from the gross estate the value of each qualified work of artistic property held by the decedent at the time of death, if the decedent created such property. Requires the decedent to have held at least 50 qualified works at the time of death. Defines "qualified artistic property."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
September 11th Aid Preservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-148
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Block grants
Commerce
Community development
Compensation (Law)
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
International Affairs
New York City
September 11, 2001
Subsidies
Tax exclusion
Terrorism
Urban affairs
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: September 11th Aid Preservation Act of 2003 - Creates an exclusion from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code for certain community development grant funds received as part of the recovery effort from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Say No to Drug Ads Act

Bill: 108-hr-149
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Costs
Drug advertising
Drug industry
Drugs
Health
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Say No to Drug Ads Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a tax deduction for any amount paid or incurred for a direct-to-consumer advertisement of a prescription drug.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Tax Equity Act

Bill: 108-hr-150
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer price indexes
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Tax Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide regional cost-of-living adjustments in individual income tax rates. Directs the Secretary of Labor to produce a regional cost-of-living index.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To elevate the position of Director of the Indian Health Service within the Department of Health and Human Services to Assist Secretary for Indian Health, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-151
Sponsor: Rep. Nethercutt, George R., Jr. [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Indian medical care
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Health to facilitate advocacy for the development of appropriate Indian health policy, and to promote consultation on matters related to Indian health, in a manner consistent with the government-to-government relationship between the United States and Indian tribes. Elevates the position of Director of the Indian Health Service to such Assistant Secretary position. Prescribes duties.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from HHS.
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Immigration Adjustment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-152
Sponsor: Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Aliens
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Confidential communications
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal justice information
Department of Justice
Deportation
Disabled
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
English language
Evidence (Law)
Ex-offenders
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Law
Married people
Naturalization
Physical examinations
Public records
Residence requirements
Right to travel
Social Welfare
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Immigration Adjustment Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General to adjust to permanent resident the status of certain undocumented aliens who entered the United States before January 1, 2001, and have resided continuously in the United States for at least five years immediately preceding the date of status adjustment eligibility.
Extends the admission date for permanent residence for certain aliens.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Second Amendment Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-153
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Ammunition
Assault weapons
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Computer networks
Constitutional law
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of the Treasury
Drug abuse
Electronic government information
Ex-offenders
Explosives
Families
Family violence
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Firearms control
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
Law
Licenses
Machine guns
Parole
Probation
Public records
Retail trade
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smuggling

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Second Amendment Protection Act of 2003 - Repeals the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act and restores and revives any provisions they amended as if the repealed Acts had not been enacted.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to machine guns, destructive devices, and certain other firearms and the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to revise the definition of "destructive device" and make other changes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To exclude certain properties from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System.

Bill: 108-hr-154
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Barrier islands
Coastal zone
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Reefs
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Excludes any property in the Matagorda Dunes and Bahia de Matagorda subdivisions in Matagorda County, Texas, from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System.
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: 
Corrects a technical error in the original official map of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Matagorda Peninsula Unit T07/T07P, by replacing it with a new official map (that excludes the Matagorda Dunes Homesites Subdivision, in Matagorda County, Texas, from that Unit of the System).
 
 Directs the Secretary of the Interior to keep such replacement map on file and available for inspection in accordance with the Coastal Barrier Resources Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 209.
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 108-359.
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 108-359.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans Discharged.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Push Poll Disclosure Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-156
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Election forecasting
Electronic mail systems
Government paperwork
Political ethics
Presidential elections
Public opinion
Science, Technology, Communications
Surveys
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Push Poll Disclosure Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require any person who conducts a Federal election poll by telephone or electronic device to: (1) disclose to each respondent the identity of the person paying the poll expenses; and (2) report to the Federal Election Commission the poll's total cost and all its funding sources (if not otherwise to be made public), the total number of households contacted, and a copy of the poll questions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E15)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Citizen Involvement in Campaigns Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-157
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Presidential elections
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Citizen Involvement in Campaigns Act of 2003 - Permits an individual a tax credit of up to $200 ($400 in the case of a joint return), equal to the verified amount of certain political contributions the individual made during the taxable year. Denies a deduction for any amount taken into account in determining the credit permitted in this Act.
Allows a deduction of up to $600 ($1200 for a joint return). Allows the deduction whether or not a taxpayer itemizes other deductions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E9)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To make the repeal of the estate tax permanent.

Bill: 108-hr-158
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Estate tax
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Inheritance tax
Sunset legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends title IX (Compliance with Congressional Budget Act) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-16) to repeal the sunset provisions applicable to title V (Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes) of such Act. (Makes estate tax repeal permanent.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Open Space Preservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-159
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Capital gains tax
Conservation easements
Environmental Protection
Farm lands
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Land transfers
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Open Space Preservation Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income the gain from the sale or exchange of farmland if there is a covenant prohibiting any use other than as farmland.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-160
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to Indians
Feeds
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Livestock
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide: (1) emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2001 or 2002 crop losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2001 and 2002 losses in an emergency-designated county, with set-asides for the American Indian livestock program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 10 East Commerce Street in Youngstown, Ohio, as the "Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Building and United States Courthouse".

Bill: 108-hr-161
Sponsor: Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Federal office buildings
Judges
Law
Names
Ohio

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Designates the Federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 10 East Commerce Street in Youngstown, Ohio, as the Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Building and United States Courthouse.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Act of 2002 to provide for additional weeks of benefits to exhaustees, and to provide for a temporary extension of the temporary extended unemployment program.

Bill: 108-hr-162
Sponsor: Rep. Quinn, Jack [R-NY-27]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA) to provide: (1) additional weeks of benefits for those who have exhausted theirs; and (2) a temporary extension of the TEUC program.
Provides another allotment of benefits, equal to their original entitlement, to TEUC recipients who exhaust their first tier benefits (13 weeks in every State) or their second tier benefits (additional 13 weeks in high-unemployment States).
Extends the TEUC program to weeks of unemployment ending before January 1, 2004.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House