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Insurance Competitive Pricing Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-448
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Antitrust law
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Insurance
Insurance companies
Monopolies
Price fixing
Restrictive trade practices
State laws
Territorial arrangements (Antitrust law)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Insurance Competitive Pricing Act of 2003 - Amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to eliminate the antitrust exemption applicable to the business of insurance where the conduct involves: (1) price fixing; (2) allocating with a competitor a geographical area in which, or persons to whom, insurance will be offered for sale; (3) unlawfully tying the sale or purchase of one type of insurance to the sale or purchase of another type of insurance or any other service or product; or (4) monopolizing, or attempting to monopolize, any part of such business.
Retains such exemption for conduct involving the making of a contract, or engaging in a combination or conspiracy, to: (1) collect or disseminate historical loss data; (2) determine a loss development factor applicable to such data; (3) perform actuarial services if such contract, combination, or conspiracy does not involve restraint of trade; or (4) determine a trend factor (an adjustment to reflect a change in inflation or any other change in the estimated loss costs incurred by certain persons engaged in the business of insurance) during a specified transition period.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Children First SCHIP Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-449
Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Jennifer [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Child health
Coinsurance
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Unemployment
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Children First SCHIP Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) extending the availability through FY 2004 of SCHIP allotments for FY 1998 through 2000; and (2) SCHIP coverage of children whose family income exceeds the Medicaid applicable income level for eligible States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-450
Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Jennifer [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Small business
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Small Business Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a limited tax credit for employers of 15 or fewer employees based on premiums paid for health insurance for employees. Denies an employer the credit if the relevant employee earned at least $40,000 or worked less than 400 hours for the year. Provides an adjustment for inflation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the at-risk rules for publicly traded nonrecourse debt.

Bill: 108-hr-451
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Bonds
Debt
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Real property
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Revises, with respect to real property, Internal Revenue Code provisions concerning the treatment under the at-risk rules of publicly traded nonrecourse debt.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to designate New Jersey Task Force 1 as part of the National Urban Search and Rescue System.

Bill: 108-hr-452
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Emergency medicine
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Medical personnel
New Jersey
Paramedical personnel
Rescue work

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to designate New Jersey Task Force 1 as part of the National Urban Search and Rescue System.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Municipal Deposit Insurance Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-453
Sponsor: Rep. Gillmor, Paul E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Deposit insurance
Government Operations and Politics
Local finance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Municipal Deposit Insurance Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to set $2 million as the maximum amount of insurance for in-State municipal depositor accounts held by an insured depository institution.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide to employers a tax credit for compensation paid during the period employees are performing service as members of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard.

Bill: 108-hr-454
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Income tax
Labor and Employment
National Guard
Tax credits
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish for employers a Ready Reserve-National Guard employee tax credit equal to 50 percent of the actual compensation amount for a taxable year. Defines "actual compensation amount" as the amount of compensation paid or incurred by an employer with respect to a Ready Reserve-National Guard employee on any day during a taxable year when the employee was absent from employment for the purpose of performing qualified active duty.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
National Dairy Policy Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-455
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Marketing orders
Milk

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: National Dairy Policy Act of 2003 - Amends Federal law to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to use the Department of Agriculture's preferred Option 1B as the price structure for Class I fluid milk under Federal milk marketing orders.
Directs the Secretary to make emergency market loss payments to dairy producers in the 48 contiguous States, including producers on farms not covered by milk marketing orders, whenever the national average for Class III milk under Federal milk marketing orders for a calendar year quarter is less than a specified target price.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Two Strikes and You're Out Comprehensive Consequences for Child Molesters Act

Bill: 108-hr-456
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Families
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Parole
Prostitution
Recidivists
Sex offenders

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Two Strikes and You're Out Comprehensive Consequences for Child Molesters Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) provide for mandatory life imprisonment (unless a death sentence is imposed) of a person convicted of a Federal sex offense in which a minor is the victim if the person has a prior sex conviction in which a minor was the victim; and (2) make the authorized term of supervised release any term of years or life for the offenses of kidnaping a victim who has not attained age 18 and for sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children, transportation for illegal sexual activity (generally), and sex trafficking of children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Family Farm Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-457
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Capital gains tax
Families
Family farms
Farm income
Farm lands
Income tax
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Family Farm Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any gain on the sale of a qualified family farm interest to a family member of the taxpayer. Requires the taxpayer (or a member of the taxpayer's family) to have participated materially in the farming business operation during the five years preceding the sale, and requires the family member purchasing the interest to participate materially during the five years following the sale. Provides for recapture of tax foregone because of the exclusion if during the five years following the sale: (1) the interest ceases to be used in a farming business; or (2) the purchasing family member fails to participate materially in the farming business.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Gila River Indian Community Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-458
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Economics and Public Finance
Estates (Law)
Federal aid to Indians
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Indian claims
Indian lands
Indian water rights
Law
Minorities
Revolving funds
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Gila River Indian Community Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 2003 - Requires the per capita distribution of funds paid in settlement of claims made in Docket Nos. 236-C and 236-D, Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community v. United States, to enrolled members of the Gila River Indian Community.
Requires the Community to prepare a payment role according to specified criteria.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to disburse funds within 30 days after Community approval of the payment roll. Makes special provision for deceased or legally incompetent individuals and minors.
Permits payments of eligible individuals not on the roll out of residual funds and Community-owned funds, as specified.
Revises the treatment of minors' per capita shares and final disbursement of judgment funds awarded in Dockets 228 and 236-N.
Cancels the balance of all outstanding expert assistance loans to the Gila River Indian Community made by the Department of the Interior.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior, Justice.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Economic Growth Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-459
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital
Capital gains tax
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Losses
Tax deductions
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Economic Growth Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) reduce the net capital gain tax rate; and (2) increase the amount of capital losses which may offset ordinary income.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Amendments Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-461
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Historic sites
History
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Sports and Recreation
Trails
West (U.S.)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Amendments Act of 2003 - Amends the National Trails System Act to extend the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail to include the route traveled by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from the Falls of the Ohio, located in Clarksville, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky, to Wood River, Illinois.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Capital Reinvestment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-462
Sponsor: Rep. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Income tax
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Capital Reinvestment Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude long-term capital gain from gross income for the taxable years beginning in 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Investment in America Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-463
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Investment in America Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the credit for increasing research activities. Increases the alternative incremental credit rates. Provides an alternative credit for qualified research expenses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
IDEA Paperwork Reduction Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-464
Sponsor: Rep. Keller, Ric [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Disabled
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Parent-school relationships
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Special education
Teachers
Teleconferencing

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: IDEA Paperwork Reduction Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Education to report to specified congressional committees, with respect to the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), on advisable regulatory proposals to reduce: (1) the IDEA paperwork burden on teachers, administrators, and related services providers; and (2) the non-instructional time spent by teachers to comply with IDEA requirements.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) identify, develop, and disseminate simplified and streamlined model documents for individualized education programs (IEPs), procedural safeguards notices, and prior written notice reporting requirements incorporating relevant Federal statutory and regulatory requirements under IDEA; and (2) disseminate and provide training and technical assistance on such model IEPs, notices, and requirements to all State and local educational agencies (LEAs), parent training centers, and other appropriate entities.
Allows LEAs receiving funds under IDEA part B to offer parents the option of developing a comprehensive three-year IEP (instead of an annual IEP) for each child with disabilities, including goals coinciding with natural transition points for the child and certain annual goals.
Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program of granting waivers of IDEA paperwork requirements for up to four years for up to ten States, based on State proposals for addressing reduction of paperwork and non-instructional time spent fulfilling statutory and regulatory requirements. Requires the annual report of the Department of Education to Congress to include information on the efficacy and promise of such waivers.
Amends IDEA to provide for flexibility with respect to IEP meetings, by allowing: (1) regular education teachers to be excused from attendance under certain circumstances; and (2) the parents and the LEA to agree to excuse any IEP team member from attending a meeting when such member's attendance is not necessary, as well as to waive, consolidate, or develop alternatives to certain meetings. Limits certain IEP information to what is specifically required. Revises requirements for procedural safeguard notices.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E103-104)
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow allocation of small ethanol producer credit to patrons of cooperative, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-465
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Commerce
Cooperative societies
Energy
Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code respecting the small ethanol producer credit to: (1) authorize credit allocation among a cooperative's patrons; (2) increase the gallon capacity for eligible producers; (3) make the credit a non-passive income credit; and (4) remove the credit from the alcohol fuel credit gross income inclusion.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Law Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990 to adjust the percentage differentials payable to Federal law enforcement officers in certain high-cost areas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-466
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: California
Colorado
Connecticut
Crime and Law Enforcement
Delaware
District of Columbia
Federal law enforcement officers
Florida
Georgia
Hours of labor
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Metropolitan areas
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York City
New York State
Ohio
Oregon
Pay equity
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Salaries
Texas
Urban affairs
Virginia
Washington State
West Virginia
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Amends the Federal Law Enforcement Pay Reform Act of 1990 to revise the special pay adjustments for (percentage differentials payable to) Federal law enforcement officers in specified consolidated metropolitan statistical areas. Includes Capitol Police as law enforcement officers under such Act.
Eliminates the limitation on the aggregate of basic pay and premium pay with respect to availability pay for Federal criminal investigators.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
Food Ingredient Right to Know Act

Bill: 108-hr-467
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2003-01-29 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Allergies
Animals
Commerce
Food additives
Health
Insects
Labeling
Meat
Poultry
Spices

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Food Ingredient Right to Know Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide that a food shall be deemed to be misbranded if it contains any spice, flavoring, or coloring derived from meat, poultry, any other animal product (including insects), or a known food allergen unless its labeling bears a statement with appropriate prominence on the information panel providing that fact and the name of the meat, poultry, other animal product, or known food allergen.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Introduced in House