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To provide for the conveyance of certain National Forest System lands to the towns of Laona and Wabeno, Wisconsin.

Bill: 108-hr-2586
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2003-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commerce
Industrial parks
Land transfers
National forests
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain National Forest System lands to the towns of Laona and Wabeno, Wisconsin.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to establish a combat badge for helicopter medical evacuation ambulance (Medevac) pilots and crews.

Bill: 108-hr-2587
Sponsor: Rep. Holden, Tim [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2003-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Air force
Aircraft pilots
Ambulances
Army
Commemorations
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Flight crews
Health
Marines
Medical personnel
Military helicopters
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Military medicine
Military personnel
Navy
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to issue a Combat Medevac Badge to each person who served in combat on or after June 25, 1950, as a pilot or crew member of a helicopter medical evacuation ambulance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Value and Quality Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2588
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2003-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cost control
Cost effectiveness
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Medical economics
Medicare
Performance measurement
Quality of care
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Medicare Value and Quality Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a mechanism for providing economic incentives to providers of inpatient hospital services that deliver high-quality health care at low costs to encourage the provision of high-quality cost-effective health care to beneficiaries under the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act. Requires the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to establish a value and quality ranking methodology for the award of bonus payments to such providers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 40, United States Code, to add Nicholas and Robertson Counties, Kentucky, to the Appalachian region.

Bill: 108-hr-2589
Sponsor: Rep. Lucas, Ken [D-KY-4]
Introduced: 2003-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appalachia
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Kentucky
Regional economic development
Rural economic development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Amends Federal law to add Nicholas and Robertson Counties, Kentucky, to the Appalachian region.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the admission to the United States of nonimmigrant students and visitors who are the spouses and children of United States permanent resident aliens, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2590
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2003-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Foreign students
Higher education
Married people
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the nonimmigrant U.S. entry of an alien on a tourist or business visa (B visa) or student visa (F visa) who: (1) is the spouse or child of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States; and (2) seeks admission for purposes of visiting the permanent resident spouse or parent or for studying in the United States.
States that the fact that a petition has been filed on such nonimmigrant alien's behalf for classification as an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence shall not constitute evidence of intention to abandon a foreign residence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2591
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Jon C. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Excise tax
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Law
Small business
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: 
Small Business Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction, of up to 50 percent of net profit, for contributions to a Small Business Protection Account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Combat Merchant Mariners Veterans Benefits Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2593
Sponsor: Rep. Radanovich, George [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2003-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Merchant marine
Merchant seamen
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' benefits
War

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Combat Merchant Mariners Veterans Benefits Act of 2003 - Provides that: (1) qualifying service in the U.S. merchant marine during a period of war for a total period equal to at least 12 months shall be considered active duty in determining eligibility for veterans' benefits; and (2) such service may be verified by entries in a continuous discharge book, a certificate of discharge to merchant seamen, a certificate of substantially continuous service, or other documentation available from the Secretary of Transportation or the head of any other Federal agency.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Adult Job Corps Demonstration Program Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2594
Sponsor: Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2003-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Arizona
Boundaries
California
Dislocated workers
Employment agencies
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Free trade
International Affairs
Job hunting
Mexico
New Mexico
North America
Occupational retraining
Texas
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: 
Adult Job Corps Demonstration Program Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish an Adult Job Corps demonstration program for the U.S.-Mexico border area for adults adversely affected by the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
 
Requires such program to be: (1) within the Department of Labor under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998; and (2) in the United States, within 100 miles of the Mexican border, with two centers in Texas and one center each in Arizona, California, and New Mexico.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Rachel Granger Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2598
Sponsor: Rep. Bradley, Jeb [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Families
Health
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
Terminally ill
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Rachel Granger Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to authorize waivers by the Commissioner of Social Security of the five-month waiting period for entitlement to benefits based on disability in cases in which the Commissioner determines that such waiting period would cause undue hardship to terminally ill beneficiaries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to quitclaim to Yuba River Properties certain land in Yuba County, California, so as to extinguish a claim of title asserted by the Department of the Interior.

Bill: 108-hr-2599
Sponsor: Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2003-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to quitclaim to Yuba River Properties, a California partnership, specified lands in California.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-01
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to simplify the requirements for United States nationals to become citizens.

Bill: 108-hr-2600
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Allegiance
Citizenship
Government Operations and Politics
Naturalization
Oaths
Residence requirements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise the requirements for naturalization of U.S. nationals to provide that such an individual shall become a citizen upon: (1) establishing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Homeland Security that the individual is a U.S. national; and (2) taking before an immigration officer within the United States the required oath of allegiance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Public Domain Enhancement Act

Bill: 108-hr-2601
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2003-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Advertising
Congress
Congressional agencies
Copyright
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Intellectual property
Law
Library of Congress
Sales promotion
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: 
Public Domain Enhancement Act - Amends Federal copyright law to require the Register of Copyrights to charge a fee of $1 for maintaining in force the copyright in any published U.S. work. Requires the fee to be due 50 years after the date of first publication or on December 31, 2004, whichever occurs later, and every ten years thereafter until the end of the copyright term. Terminates the copyright unless payment of the applicable maintenance fee is received in the Copyright Office on or before its due date or within a grace period of six months thereafter. 
 
Deems any ancillary or promotional work used in connection with the maintained work, such as an advertisement for a motion picture, also to be maintained in force.
 
Requires the: (1) maintenance fee to be accompanied by a form prescribed by the Register of Copyrights; and (2) the Register to establish procedures to minimize the burden of submitting the form, including procedures to allow the electronic submission of the form to the Office, and to make the information contained in such forms easily accessible to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Scientifically Identifying the Need for Critical Habitat Act

Bill: 108-hr-2602
Sponsor: Rep. Otter, C. L. (Butch) [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Biological research
Conflict of interests
Decision making
Department of the Interior
Ecological research
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Habitat conservation
Landowners
Law
Planning
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: 
Scientifically Identifying the Need for Critical Habitat Act - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to change from mandatory to discretionary the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to designate critical habitat of an endangered or threatened species.
 
Directs the Secretary, when required by the Act to use the best scientific and commercial data available, in evaluating comparable data to give greater weight to such data that is empirical or has been field-tested or peer-reviewed.
 
Specifies requirements for the use of sound science in the listing of endangered or threatened species such as: (1) the establishment of criteria for scientific studies to support the listing; (2) use of data obtained by observation of the species in the field; and (3) use of data from landowners who have observed such species on their land. Requires the use of sound science in the preparation of a recovery plan for an endangered or threatened species.
 
Sets forth requirements for: (1) peer review before certain action can become final with respect to endangered or threatened species; and (2) use of information provided by States affected by such species or their habitat for recovery plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-01
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To impose limitations on the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to claim title or other rights to water absent specific direction of law or to abrogate, injure, or otherwise impair any right to the use of any quantity of water.

Bill: 108-hr-2603
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Contracts
Department of the Interior
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Interstate compacts
Irrigation
Law
Supreme Court decisions
Water allocation (Policy)
Water rights
Water storage
Water supply
Water use

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from claiming title or other rights to water in a State, other than for Indian reservation lands, absent specific direction of law, or from exercising authority so as to abrogate, injure, or otherwise impair any right to the use of any quantity of water: (1) that has been allocated in accordance with provisions of the Department of Justice Appropriations Act relating to suits for the adjudication of water rights by or pursuant to interstate compact and by a decision of the United States Supreme Court; (2) by requiring a change in the nature of use or the transfer of any right to use water or creating a limitation on the exercise of any right to use water; or (3) by modifying the delivery, diversion, nondiversion, allocation, or storage of any water to be delivered by contract.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-07-01
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives to encourage diversity of ownership of telecommunications businesses, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2604
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2003-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporate divestiture
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Forfeiture
Income tax
Law
Licenses
Liens
Loan defaults
Mortgages
Radio stations
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Telecommunication industry
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat as an involuntary conversion, and to not recognize gain of up to $75 million, qualified communications sales. Limits such sales to, among other limitations, businesses owning a qualified interest in 20 or fewer broadcast stations and with specified asset limitations.
 
Authorizes Small Business Administration loan guarantees for such sales.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1357)
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To nullify the effect of section 4 of Executive Order 13279.

Bill: 108-hr-2605
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Church and social problems
Churches
Discrimination in employment
Executive orders
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Labor and Employment
Religion
Religious liberty
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: 
Nullifies certain provisions of Executive Order 13279, dated December 12, 2002 (relating to equal protection of the laws for faith-based and community organizations) authorizing exemptions from specified Federal procurement contracting requirements with respect to contractors that are religious entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Introduced in House