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Meat and Poultry Products Traceability and Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3546
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural estimating and reporting
Animals
Business records
Cattle
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Food industry
Food safety
Fraud
Goats
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Horses
Identification devices
Livestock
Meat inspection
Meat packing industry
Poultry
Produce trade
Sheep
Swine

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Meat and Poultry Products Traceability and Safety Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to direct that cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules and other equines, and poultry presented for slaughter for human consumption, and the carcasses or parts of carcasses and the meat and food products of those animals, shipped in interstate commerce be identified in a manner that enables the Secretary of Agriculture to trace: (1) each animal to any location at which the animal was held at any time before slaughter; and (2) each carcass or part of a carcass and food product forward from slaughter through processing and distribution to the ultimate consumer.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to prohibit or restrict entry to a slaughtering establishment of an animal not so identified.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a traceability system for all stages of production, processing, and distribution of meat and meat food products and poultry and poultry food products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
SAFER Meat, Poultry, and Food Act

Bill: 108-hr-3547
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Animals
Business records
Cattle
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Consumer education
Defective products
Department of Agriculture
Fines (Penalties)
Food industry
Food safety
Goats
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Horses
Judicial review
Labeling
Law
Livestock
Meat inspection
Meat packing industry
Poultry
Produce trade
Sheep
Swine

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Safe and Fair Enforcement and Recall for Meat, Poultry and Food Act or SAFER Meat, Poultry and Food Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to: (1) require a person, other than a household consumer, who has reason to believe meat, poultry, or food products to be adulterated or misbranded to so notify the Secretary of Agriculture; and (2) provide the Secretary with authority for voluntary and mandatory nondistribution and recall, withdrawal of inspectors from violating facilities, and civil penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-12-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to exclude civilian personnel at naval shipyards from the national security personnel system.

Bill: 108-hr-3548
Sponsor: Rep. Dicks, Norman D. [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Department of Defense
Federal employees
Military bases
Personnel management
Shipbuilding
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Excludes civilian personnel at naval shipyards from the national security personnel system. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 108-hr-3553
Sponsor: Rep. LaHood, Ray [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Authors and authorship
Cemeteries and funerals
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colleges
Commerce
Courthouses
Cultural property
Education
Environmental Protection
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governors
Higher education
Historic sites
History
Illinois
Land use
Landowners
Law
Lincoln Administration
Monuments and memorials
Museums
Nature conservation
Office buildings
Planning
Poetry
Presidential debates
Presidential libraries
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Recreation
Right of property
School buildings
Signs and signboards
Sports and Recreation
Supreme Court justices
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area in Illinois.
 
Designates the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition as the management entity for the Area.
 
Allows the Coalition, using funds made available under this Act, to prepare a management plan for the Area and reports, studies, interpretive exhibits and programs, historic preservation projects, and other activities recommended in the plan.
 
Prohibits the Coalition from using Federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property.
 
Directs the Coalition to submit to the Secretary of the Interior a management plan reviewed by participating units of government within the Area's boundaries which shall, among other things: (1) contain a comprehensive program for conservation, interpretation, funding, management, and development and historical, cultural, and natural resources and recreational and educational opportunities of the Area; and (2) include a business plan detailing the functions of the local coordinating entity and of activities included in recommendations contained in the plan. Requires the Secretary to approve or disapprove the proposed plan not later than 90 days after receiving it. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical and financial assistance to the Coalition for the development and implementation of the management plan.
 
Requires the Coalition to provide assistance and encouragement to State and local governments, private organizations, and persons to protect and promote the Area's resources and values.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-12-02
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
TEUC and EB Amendments Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3554
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Unemployment
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
TEUC and EB Amendments Act of 2003 - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 and the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to provide alternative triggers and temporarily allow States to waive certain requirements in determining eligibility for: (1) TEUC second-tier benefits (also known as TEUC-X, limited to high-unemployment States); and (2) extended unemployment benefits (EB).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit stationary sources located in ozone nonattainment areas from purchasing nitrogen oxide emission credits under the Environmental Protection Agency's nitrogen oxide trading program without the consent of the State in which such source is located, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3555
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air pollution control
Emissions trading
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate relations
Nitrogen oxides
Ozone

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Amends interstate pollution abatement provisions of the Clean Air Act to prohibit a stationary source of oxides of nitrogen located in an ozone nonattainment area from purchasing nitrogen oxide (NOX) emission credits under any emissions trading program established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or use any other authority provided by EPA rules that would permit emissions from the source in excess of emission limits for that pollutant otherwise applicable under the State implementation plan and the Act's NOX emission reduction program provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2377)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
September 11th Tax Correction Act

Bill: 108-hr-3556
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Block grants
Commerce
Community development
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Infrastructure
International Affairs
New York City
September 11, 2001
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Terrorism
Urban affairs
Urban economic development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
September 11th Tax Correction Act - Excludes from gross income, and exempts from reporting requirements, retention grants paid from Federal community development block grant funds for assistance for properties or businesses damaged by, or for economic revitalization related to, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
To designate the United States courthouse located at 95 Seventh Street in San Francisco, California, as the "James R. Browning United States Courthouse".

Bill: 108-hr-3557
Sponsor: Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-8]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: California
Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Judges
Law
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 95 Seventh Street in San Francisco, California, as the James R. Browning United States Courthouse.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2381)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Wireless 411 Privacy Act

Bill: 108-hr-3558
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Affiliated corporations
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contracts
Data banks
Directories
Fees
Identification devices
Right of privacy
Telecommunication industry
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Wireless 411 Privacy Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit a provider of commercial mobile services, or any affiliate or agent of such provider (provider), from including the wireless telephone number of any current subscriber in any wireless directory assistance service (WDAS) database unless the provider: (1) provides a conspicuous, separate notice to the subscriber of the right not be listed in any WDAS; and (2) obtains express prior listing authorization from such subscriber, and that authorization has not been withdrawn.
 
Allows a provider to include the wireless telephone information of any new subscriber in a WDAS only if the provider provides: (1) a conspicuous, separate notice to the subscriber, at the time of entering into a service agreement and at least once a year thereafter, of the right not to be listed in any WDAS; and (2) the subscriber with convenient mechanisms to decline or refuse to participate in any WDAS.
 
Allows a provider to connect a calling party from a WDAS to a commercial mobile service subscriber only if: (1) the subscriber is provided prior notice of the calling party's identity and is permitted to accept or reject each call; (2) the subscriber's wireless telephone number information is not disclosed to the calling party; and (3) the subscriber is not an unlisted commercial mobile service subscriber.
 
Prohibits a provider from charging a subscriber for the exercise of any rights under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Business Links Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3560
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aid to dependent children
Case management
Cash welfare block grants
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Employee rights
Employee training
Employment subsidies
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grievance procedures
Health
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Law
Leave of absence
Temporary employment
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment
Vocational rehabilitation
Wages
Welfare work participation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Business Links Act of 2003 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to replace bonus grants to reward high performance States with innovative business link partnership grants. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Labor, under such program, to jointly award grants to eligible applicants for programs to enable eligible individuals with limited English proficiency or other barriers to employment to: (1) increase their wages, especially by providing supports and services at or near work sites and to identify and strengthen career pathways by expanding and linking work and training opportunities for such individuals in collaboration with employers (to promote business linkages); or (2) provide for transitional jobs programs which combine publicly subsidized time-limited employment in the public or nonprofit private sector with skill development and activities to remove barriers to employment. Adds antidisplacement protections for workers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-12-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2384-2385)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain improvements to retail space.

Bill: 108-hr-3561
Sponsor: Rep. Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [R-FL-22]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Capital investments
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Retail trade
Shopping centers
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a ten year recovery period for qualified retail improvement property. Defines such property as any improvement to an interior portion of a building which is nonresidential real property, if: (1) such portion is open to the general public and is used in the trade or business of selling tangible personal property or services to the general public; and (2) such improvement is placed in service more than three years after the date the building was first placed in service. Excludes specified improvements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Prevent Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3562
Sponsor: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Closed-circuit television
Commerce
Computer networks
Computer security measures
Computer software
Computers
Costs
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Electronics
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Equipment and supplies
Fire prevention
Identification devices
Income tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Tax credits
Terrorism
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Prevent Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a building security credit for the purchase of a qualified building security device used to provide security for any building used by the taxpayer in any trade or business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Economic Sovereignty and Job Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3564
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Countervailing duties
Department of State
Dispute settlement
Economics and Public Finance
Fees
Free trade
Government Operations and Politics
Import relief
International Affairs
International agencies
President and foreign policy
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Economic Sovereignty and Job Security Act of 2003 - Prohibits the use of federal funds to make a contribution to the World Trade Organization. Provides that such prohibition shall not apply if the President determines and certifies to Congress that the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes does not apply with respect to the United States involving a dispute under the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994, the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and the Agreement on Safeguards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
Law Enforcement Officers' Health Act

Bill: 108-hr-3565
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Block grants
Cardiovascular diseases
Civil service retirement
Disability evaluation
Disability retirement
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Evidence (Law)
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Lung diseases
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Physical examinations
Police
Respiratory diseases
Survivors' benefits
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Law Enforcement Officers' Health Act - Provides for a ten percent reduction in funds under the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Program for any entity that fails to have in effect throughout its jurisdiction the policy that: (1) there shall be a rebuttable presumption of service connection for any heart, lung, or respiratory disease resulting in the death or permanent incapacity of a public safety officer employed in that jurisdiction for at least five years who passed a physical exam prior to initial employment that revealed no evidence of such diseases; and (2) the officer shall be entitled to all benefits provided to other public employees in the jurisdiction for service-connected heart, lung, or respiratory disease, including retirement, disability, or workers compensation benefits. Directs that any funds not allocated for failure to comply be reallocated to entities in compliance with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in House