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To establish a Commission to Educate our Nation's Teachers and Students on Financial Literacy Skills.

Bill: 108-hr-2990
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2003-09-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Personal budgets
Public-private partnerships
Secondary education
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: 
 Directs the President to convene a Commission to Educate our Nation's Teachers and Students on Financial Literacy Skills to examine, identify, and report to the President, the congressional leadership, and the chief executive officers of the States on government policies that promote economic and financial literacy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7798)
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
To modify the calculation of back pay for persons who were approved for promotion as members of the Navy and Marine Corps while interned as prisoners of war during World War II to take into account changes in the Consumer Price Index.

Bill: 108-hr-2992
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2003-09-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Ex-prisoners of war
Families
History
Labor and Employment
Marines
Military dependents
Military pay
Military personnel
Military promotions
Navy
Survivors' benefits
Wage restitution
Widowers
Widows
Women
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Amends the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 to increase the amount of back pay received by members of the Navy and Marine Corps selected for promotion while interned as prisoners of war during World War to reflect increases in the cost of living since basic pay was paid to or for that person.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Small Business Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Small Business Administration from selling loans made by the Administrator under the disaster loan program.

Bill: 108-hr-2994
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2003-09-03 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Disaster loans
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Government securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Amends the Small Business Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) from selling any loan made under its Disaster Loan Program, including by direct sale, by the sale of loan participations, or by including such loans in a pool of assets in the sale of asset-backed securities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Deceased Beneficiary Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2995
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2003-09-03 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Death
Families
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: 
Social Security Deceased Beneficiary Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to continue an individual's entitlement to benefits through the month of his or her death, without affecting any other person's entitlement to benefits for that month. 
 
Provides for disregard of such benefits for the individual for the month of death under provisions for determining maximum family benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to require that certain technical medical employees of the Indian Health Service be compensated for time during which they are required to be on-call.

Bill: 108-hr-2996
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2003-09-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Department of Health and Human Services
Federal employees
Health
Hours of labor
Indian medical care
Minorities
Paramedical personnel
Public health personnel
Salaries

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: 
Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to provide for certain technical medical employees of the Indian Health Service to be paid for such time as they are officially scheduled to be on call outside their regular hours or on a holiday for such time as they may be called back to work.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-09-08
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-09-03
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: 2003-09-03
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: 2003-09-03
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: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, to make service performed as an employee of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality after 1965 and before 1987 creditable for retirement purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2997
Sponsor: Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]
Introduced: 2003-09-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil service retirement
Congress
Congressional pensions
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal employees
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Labor and Employment
Members of Congress
Payroll deductions
Pension funds
Post exchanges
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Credits a Federal employee or Member of Congress who has or acquires five or more years of civilian service for service performed as an employee of a nonappropriated fund instrumentality after December 31, 1965, and before January 1, 1987, for purposes of civil service retirement.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-03
text: Introduced in House
To ensure by law the ability of the military service academies to include the offering of a voluntary, nondenominational prayer as an element of their activities.

Bill: 108-hr-2999
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education
Higher education
Military education
Religion
Religion in the public schools
Service academies

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Authorizes the superintendent of a military service academy to have in effect a policy of offering a voluntary, nondenominational prayer at an authorized academy activity, subject to such limitations as the President may prescribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that a monthly insurance benefit thereunder shall be paid for the month in which the recipient dies.

Bill: 108-hr-3001
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Death
Families
Labor and Employment
Married people
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
Social security eligibility
Survivors' benefits
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to continue an individual's entitlement to benefits through the month of his or her death, without affecting any other person's entitlement to benefits for that month. Disregards monthly benefits received for the month in which the individual dies for purposes of the maximum benefit cap.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
Terrorist Tax Exemption Suspension Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3002
Sponsor: Rep. Beauprez, Bob [R-CO-7]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Charitable contributions
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Treasury
EBB Terrorism
Estate tax
Executive orders
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Holding companies
Income tax
International Affairs
Judicial review
Law
Limitation of actions
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax refunds
Tax-exempt organizations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Terrorist Tax Exemption Suspension Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspends the tax-exempt status of a designated terrorist organization (as defined by this Act). Denies: (1) deductions for contributions made to such an organization; and (2) administrative or judicial challenge to such suspension or denial. Provides for refund or credit in a case of erroneous designation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
Customs Business Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3003
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Debtor and creditor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Surety and fidelity
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Customs Business Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends Federal bankruptcy law governing priority among claims and expenses to place in the tenth order of priority allowed unsecured claims for duties, taxes, or other charges paid to the U.S. Customs Service by customs brokers and sureties on behalf of the debtor arising out of the importation of merchandise entered for consumption within one year before the date of the filing of the petition in bankruptcy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
Electric Reliability Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3004
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Canada
Delegation of powers
Department of Energy
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Energy security
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Independent regulatory commissions
International Affairs
Latin America
Law
Licenses
Mexico
Standards
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Electric Reliability Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Power Act to grant the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) jurisdiction over a FERC-certified Electric Reliability Organization (ERO), established under this Act to enforce, subject to FERC review, reliability standards for the bulk-power system. 
 
Includes within such jurisdiction regional entities and all users, owners, and operators of the bulk-power system for purposes of approving reliability standards and enforcing compliance with this Act.
 
Urges the President to negotiate international agreements with the governments of Canada and Mexico to provide effective compliance with reliability standards and the effectiveness of the ERO in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.
 
Restricts to the bulk-power system only the ERO authority to develop and enforce compliance with reliability standards.
 
Declares that this Act does not authorize the ERO or FERC to order construction of additional generation or transmission capacity, or to set and enforce compliance with standards for adequacy or safety of electric facilities or services. 
 
Directs FERC to establish a regional advisory body on the petition of at least two-thirds of the States within a region that have more than one-half of their electric load served within the region. Authorizes such body to advise the ERO, a regional entity, or FERC.
 
Declares this Act inapplicable to Alaska or Hawaii.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
Pension Security Disclosure Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3005
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-10]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Pension funds
Public records

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Pension Security Disclosure Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to repeal the exemption from public disclosure of the contents of certain records, documents, and other information required to be reported to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation by contributing sponsors, and each member of a contributing sponsor's controlled group, of a single-employer plan.
 
Declares all such information to be public information, except any that the Corporation has identified by regulation as confidential. Requires the Corporation to: (1) make any such public information available for inspection in its principal office; and (2) upon written request, and for a reasonable charge, furnish to any participant or beneficiary a written copy of any such information.
 
Requires the Corporation to provide by regulation for timely disclosure on a Corporation website on the Internet and other appropriate media of a summary of any such information regarding any plan whose funding ratio of assets to liabilities for a reporting period was less than 90 percent. Requires immediate transmittal of a copy of such summary to the plan administrator, and, within 30 days after its receipt, by the plan administrator to each plan participant and beneficiary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
Houseboat Safety Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3006
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Boats and boating
Carbon monoxide
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Defective products
Department of Transportation
Electric power production
Energy
Environmental Protection
Equipment and supplies
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health warnings
Law
Marine engines
Marine safety
Sports and Recreation
Standards
Swimming

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Houseboat Safety Improvement Act of 2003 - Directs the Commandant of the Coast Guard to prescribe rules for houseboat generator exhaust safety that: (1) set a standard that ensures that carbon monoxide from such exhaust is not expelled in a manner that would impair the safety of houseboat occupants or swimmers near the houseboat; (2) require a houseboat manufactured after a date specified by the Commandant to meet such safety standard; (3) require houseboat manufacturers that do not comply with such standard to issue a recall for such a houseboat to retrofit it to comply with the standard; and (4) require any person who commercially rents a houseboat, or commercially sells a used houseboat to another person, to inform such person of the potential hazards of carbon monoxide poisoning from houseboat generator exhaust (particularly for houseboat occupants or nearby swimmers), if the houseboat was manufactured before the date set for compliance with the safety standard under this Act and has not been retrofitted to comply with it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
Universal Prekindergarten Act

Bill: 108-hr-3007
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accreditation (Education)
Child development
Class size
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Day care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Parent-school relationships
Preschool education
Salaries
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Special education
Student aid
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Universal Prekindergarten Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to a designated State agency for development of universal prekindergaten programs for all children three, four, and five years old in the State. 
 
Requires the State to: (1) match Federal funds by at least 20 percent; and (2) submit a State plan to establish, coordinate, and implement a statewide universal prekindergarten program. 
Authorizes State agencies to set aside up to five percent of a grant for ongoing professional development activities for teachers and staff of prekindergarten programs that wish to participate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
No Substitute for Quality Teaching Demonstration Act

Bill: 108-hr-3008
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Public relations
Recruiting of employees
Secondary education
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
No Substitute for Quality Teaching Demonstration Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a competitive demonstration grant program to provide grants for a single academic year directly to between 50 and 100 local educational agencies, or to regional consortia of such agencies acting together, that vary geographically and socioeconomically, to enable them to experiment with ways to alleviate the substitute teacher shortage. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Tribute to Celia Cruz Act

Bill: 108-hr-3009
Sponsor: Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Cuban Americans
Entertainers
Music

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Congressional Tribute to Celia Cruz Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make appropriate arrangements for the posthumous presentation of a congressional gold medal in commemoration of Celia Cruz (a Cuban-born entertainer who became known as the &quot;Queen of Salsa&quot;) in recognition of her contributions to music, Latino culture, and American society.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
Workforce Fairness and Tax Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3010
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dislocated workers
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Occupational retraining
Plant shutdowns
State laws
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Workforce Fairness and Tax Relief Act of 2003 - Authorizes Federal payments to States for certain portions of a State's special unemployment assistance for individuals participating in qualified worker training programs.
 
Provides for payment agreements between the Secretary of Labor and States that: (1) have a State unemployment compensation law approved by the Secretary; and (2) are required by State law to pay such special assistance to such trainees. 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the tax on unemployment compensation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House