hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service, located at 315 Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, as the "James E. Davis Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-3012
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Local officials
Names
New York City
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 315 Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, as the James E. Davis Post Office Building. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a public hearing before establishing or relocating any Quick Response Team that works with State and local law enforcement officers to take illegal and criminal aliens into custody and remove them from the United States.

Bill: 108-hr-3013
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
EBB Terrorism
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Public meetings

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a public hearing within the affected community before establishing or relocating any Quick Response Team to coordinate with State and local law enforcement officers to increase efforts to take into custody and remove from the United States illegal and criminal aliens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
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
To amend title 49, United States Code, to clarify certain Buy America provisions.

Bill: 108-hr-3017
Sponsor: Rep. Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Buy American
Commerce
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Infrastructure
Iron
Iron and steel industry
Law
Manufacturing industries
Mass rapid transit
Microprocessors
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Steel

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Revises Buy America requirements applicable to Federal mass transportation assistance to define &quot;manufactured goods&quot; to mean each individual item specified in each line item of a procurement.
 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to publish a detailed written justification in the Federal Register when issuing a waiver from Buy America provisions as to why the waiver is in the public interest. Authorizes the Secretary to grant a waiver from Buy America provisions for a microprocessor, but not for microcomputer equipment. 
 
Allows any party adversely affected by an agency action related to Buy America provisions to seek administrative review under the Administrative Procedure Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit members of the Selected Reserve the use of Reserve Montgomery GI Bill education benefits for payment for licensing or certification tests.

Bill: 108-hr-3018
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Education
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Fees
Higher education
Law
Licenses
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Permits members of the Selected Reserve to use up to $2,000 of Reserve Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance benefits for payment for licensing or certification tests. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the military death gratuity from $6,000 to $12,000 and to provide that such death gratuity shall be excluded from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

Bill: 108-hr-3019
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Survivors' benefits
Tax exclusion
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Increases from $6,000 to $12,000 the death gratuity paid upon the active-duty death of a member of the armed forces.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude any such death gratuity from gross income. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
To authorize construction of a new (replacement) medical center for the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico at a site to be selected pursuant to a study by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Secretary of Defense as suitable for a new Federal medical center in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico that would best serve the needs of both veterans and Department of Defense medical beneficiaries in Puerto Rico.

Bill: 108-hr-3020
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Acevedo-Vila, Anibal [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Governmental investigations
Health
Puerto Rico
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a major medical facility project for the construction of a new (replacement) medical center in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Defense to conduct a joint study to determine which of two of the following locations would be preferable for the center: (1) Sabana Seca; or (2) Fort Buchanan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
To authorize a major medical facility project at the San Juan, Puerto Rico, Department of Veterans Affairs medical center.

Bill: 108-hr-3021
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Acevedo-Vila, Anibal [D-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to health facilities
Health
Hurricanes
Puerto Rico
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a major medical facility project at the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in order to bring that facility into compliance with the Department directive designated as the CD-54 Natural Disasters Directive.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
School Nutrition Antibiotic Safety Act

Bill: 108-hr-3022
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Antibiotics
Commerce
Elementary and secondary education
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Health
Medicated feeds
Poultry
School lunch program
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
School Nutrition Antibiotic Safety Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to require school lunch and breakfast programs to ensure that chickens and chicken products purchased for them have not been fed or administered a fluoroquinolone.
 
Requires the establishment of procedures which will ensure that chickens and chicken products purchased for summer food service programs for children have not been fed or administered a fluoroquinolone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
Gasoline Availability Stabilization (GAS) Reserves Act

Bill: 108-hr-3023
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
California
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy prices
Energy shortages
Federal-state relations
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Midwest (U.S.)
Northeastern States
Petroleum reserves
Retail trade
Security measures
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation planning

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
 Gasoline Availablity Stabilization (GAS) Reserves Act - Directs the Secretary [of Energy] to: (1) establish a Gasoline Availability Stabilization Reserve (GAS Reserve) system with a total capacity of 20 million barrels of regular unleaded gasoline; and (2) determine a site for one GAS Reserve each in the Northeast and Midwest regions and one in California, to be operational within two years after the date of enactment of this Act. 
 
Instructs the Secretary to: (1) transmit to Congress, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Governor of each State in which a reserve will be sited a plan for the transportation of the contents of the GAS Reserve to consumers in the event of an emergency sale; and (2) complete the process of filling the GAS Reserve by March 1, 2006.
 
Prescribes procedural guidelines for emergency sales by the Secretary from the GAS Reserve upon written request from the Governor of a State for GAS Reserve emergency sales assistance owing to a physical disruption in the gasoline supplies that is likely to result in price volatility for retail gasoline in the Governor's State.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to conduct purchases and sales of gasoline at wholesale for maintenance of the GAS Reserve system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to provide protections to servicemembers who terminate motor vehicle or residential leases entered into before permanent change of station or deployment orders or motor vehicle leases entered into before military service.

Bill: 108-hr-3024
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Landlord and tenant
Lease and rental services
Leases
Military dependents
Military personnel
Motor vehicles
Recruiting and enlistment
Rent
Rental housing
Surety and fidelity
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Amends the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to allow a lessee to terminate a residential or motor vehicle lease which was entered into before military service or before receiving permanent change of station or deployment orders at any time after: (1) entry into military service; or (2) the date of the lessee's station or deployment orders. (Currently, a lessee may terminate only a residential lease and only after entry into military service.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-19
text: See Public Law 108-189.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: -Provision incorporated. See H. R. 100, Title III, Section 305.
action_date: 2003-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Tax Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3025
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Computers
Costs
Education
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Income tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Tax deductions
Teachers
Teaching materials
Textbooks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Teacher Tax Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend, through 2008, the deduction from gross income for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, and chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, to provide that any health benefits plan which provides obstetrical benefits shall be required also to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility.

Bill: 108-hr-3026
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Martin T. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Accreditation (Medical care)
Armed Forces and National Security
Artificial insemination
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
In vitro fertilization
Medical economics
Medical laboratories
Military medicine
Obstetrics
Physicians
Religion
Religious liberty
Reproduction

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Amends Federal laws concerning civilian and military health care to require any health benefits plan under the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program or TRICARE (a Department of Defense managed health care program) that provides obstetrical benefits to also provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility, including nonexperimental assisted reproductive technology procedures.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
National Minority Media Opportunities Act

Bill: 108-hr-3027
Sponsor: Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alaska
Asian American ethnic groups
Commerce
Competition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic concentration
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Hispanic Americans
Independent regulatory commissions
Indigenous peoples
Language and languages
Law
Licenses
Minorities
Native Americans
Radio broadcasting
Radio programs
Radio stations
Television broadcasting
Television programs
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
National Minority Media Opportunities Act - Amends the Telecommunications Authorization Act of 1992 to require Federal Communications Commission (FCC) review of the assignment or transfer of a broadcast license used primarily to serve a language minority (persons of American Indian, Asian American, Alaskan Native, or Spanish heritage).
 
Amends the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to require the FCC, after notice and comment, to report to Congress regarding the ownership and control of broadcast stations (including AM, FM, and television) used to serve language minorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1728)
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to expand the authority of non-Federal interests to levy harbor fees.

Bill: 108-hr-3028
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Construction costs
Containerization
Economics and Public Finance
Fees
Harbors
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Marine terminals
Marine transportation
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to expand the authority of non-Federal interests to levy harbor fees to permit such fees to finance the cost of construction and operation and maintenance of any infrastructure project for a harbor, including an infrastructure project outside the boundaries of the harbor if the project is for transportation to, from, or through the harbor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
To provide a 10 percent increase in the rate of basic pay for members of the uniformed services, effective January 1, 2004, to pay a one-time bonus to members of the Armed Forces who served or serve in a combat zone designated for Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3031
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Air force
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Army
Coast guard
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Marines
Middle East and North Africa
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel
Navy
South Asia
Terrorism
War

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Waives any FY 2004 military pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by ten percent, effective January 1, 2004, the rates of basic pay for military personnel.
 
Requires the payment of a one-time bonus of $1,500 to each active-duty and reserve member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard who served or serves for any period of time in a combat zone designated in connection with Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Global Affairs Institute Act

Bill: 108-hr-3032
Sponsor: Rep. Walsh, James T. [R-NY-25]
Introduced: 2003-09-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Congress
Congressional tributes
Developing countries
Economics and Public Finance
Educational exchanges
Ex-Members of Congress
Federal aid to education
Foreign leaders
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
International Affairs
International education
Names
New York State
Policy sciences
Scholarships
Senate
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: 
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Global Affairs Institute Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a grant to Syracuse University to establish an endowment fund to support a Daniel Patrick Moynihan Global Affairs Institute.
 
Requires the University, to be eligible for such grant, to designate the global affairs institute within the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Global Affairs Institute.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-05
text: Introduced in House