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Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1746
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Breast cancer
Community organization
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Environmental research
Environmentally induced diseases
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Medical research
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Urban affairs
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Services, based on recommendations from the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Advisory Panel (established by this Act), to make grants, after a process of peer review and programmatic review, to public or nonprofit private entities for the development and operation of not more than eight centers for the purpose of conducting multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research on environmental factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Credit Disclosure Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1747
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Credit cards
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Interest
Interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: 
Consumer Credit Disclosure Act of 2003 - Amends the the Truth in Lending Act to require enhanced disclosures under an open end consumer credit plan about repayment information applicable to the outstanding balance, including: (1) the required minimum monthly payment on that balance, represented as both a dollar figure and as a percentage of that balance; (2) the number of months (rounded to the nearest month) that it would take to pay the entire amount of that balance, if the consumer pays only the required minimum monthly payments and if no further advances are made; (3) the total cost to the consumer, including interest and principal payments, of paying that balance in full, if the consumer pays only the required minimum monthly payments and if no further advances are made; and (4) the monthly payment amount that would be required for the consumer to eliminate the outstanding balance in 36 months if no further advances are made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Access and Openness in Small Business Lending Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1748
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank loans
Bank records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights enforcement
Commerce
Discrimination in consumer credit
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Racial discrimination
Right of privacy
Sex discrimination
Small business
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Access and Openness in Small Business Lending Act of 2003 - Amends the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to require a depository institution, in the case of an application for credit made by a small business, to: (1) inquire whether the business is a women- or minority-owned business; and (2) maintain a record of the responses to such inquiry separate from the application and accompanying information. Allows any applicant to refuse to provide such information. Prohibits: (1) access to such information by any loan underwriter, officer, employee, or affiliate of the depository institution; and (2) the depository institution from including personally identifiable information in such record of responses. Requires such information to be made available to Federal enforcement agencies. Exempts from such requirements institutions having total assets equal to or less than the exemption amount determined under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Parity for Legal Transportation and Recreational Activities Act

Bill: 108-hr-1749
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: All terrain vehicles
Animals
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Horses
Labor and Employment
Motorcycles
Recreation
Skiing
Snowmobiles
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Health Care Parity for Legal Transportation and Recreational Activities Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a group health plan or health insurance issuer from denying benefits otherwise provided for the treatment of an injury solely because such injury resulted from the participation of the participant or beneficiary in a legal transportation and recreational activity such as motorcycling or skiing.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for an increase of $250 per month in the rate of monthly dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) payable to a surviving spouse of a member of the Armed Forces who dies on active duty or as a result of a service-connected disability in any case in which there are dependent children.

Bill: 108-hr-1750
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Labor and Employment
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' pensions
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Increases by $250 per month the dependency and indemnity compensation payable to the surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces who dies on active duty or as a result of a service-connected disability in any case in which there are dependent children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E764)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1751
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disabled
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Higher education
Language and languages
Mathematics
Minorities
Minority education
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise and expand student loan forgiveness programs for certain teachers, under the Federal Family Education Loan and Federal Direct Loan programs.
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to repay a higher maximum amount (up to $17, 500) of an eligible individual teacher's aggregate student loan obligation that is outstanding after completion of the first complete school year of qualifying service. Authorizes such repayment from funds authorized under this Act for FY 2003 through 2007. Provides for annual installments of such repayment up to specified maximum amounts after each of five years of eligible teaching service.
Revises and expands eligibility for such programs. Makes inapplicable specified requirements that currently limit participation to: (1) only certain new borrowers; and (2) only teachers who serve at least five consecutive complete school years prior to any eligibility for program benefits. Extends program eligibility to full-time elementary or secondary school teachers: (1) in schools that qualify as high-poverty schools (as in current law, without certain subject area and certification restrictions); (2) of special education; or (3) of mathematics, science, foreign languages, bilingual education, or any other field of expertise where the State educational agency determines there is a shortage of qualified teachers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Building Opportunities for Our Kids Act

Bill: 108-hr-1752
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Gifts
Parent-school relationships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teachers
Textbooks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Building Opportunities for Our Kids Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize additional appropriations to purchase textbooks for use by eligible schools under the schoolwide program of part A (Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies) of title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged).
Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a Textbook Recycling Program to facilitate the donation of textbooks by any local educational agency (LEA) to any other LEA for use by such eligible schools.
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress and the Secretary on the condition of textbooks used in public elementary and secondary schools, separating data for such eligible schools from that for ineligible ones.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act

Bill: 108-hr-1753
Sponsor: Rep. Nethercutt, George R., Jr. [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Auditing
Columbia River development
Damages
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Hydroelectric power
Indian claims
Indian economic development
Indian education
Indian lands
Interest
Law
Minorities
Power marketing administrations
Scholarships
Washington State
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam Equitable Compensation Settlement Act - Establishes in the Treasury the Spokane Tribe of Indians Settlement Fund Account.
Requires the payment of compensation to the Spokane Tribe for the use of their lands for the generation of hydropower from the Grand Coulee Dam project. Bases such payments on the settlement paid to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, pursuant to the Confederated Tribes Act, adjusted for inflation.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make an initial payment in satisfaction of Spokane Tribe claims from June 29, 1940, through November 2, 1994.
Requires the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to make subsequent payments, including one for six years only and annual payments.
Requires the Secretary to transfer settlement funds to the Spokane Business Council, at their request. Requires 75 percent of such funds to be used for programs for resource development, credit, scholarship, and economic development. Subjects such funds to tribal control and audit.
Entitles the Bonneville Power Administration to a deduction from interest otherwise payable to the Secretary for a percentage of payments made to the Spokane Tribe on a comparable basis to that allowed for payments to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation.
States that payments under this Act constitute full satisfaction of Spokane Tribe claims against annual hydropower revenues of the Grand Coulee Dam project.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E759-761)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Agriculture Education Freedom Act

Bill: 108-hr-1754
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural education
Agricultural societies
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Higher education
Income tax
Livestock
Secondary education
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Agriculture Education Freedom Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an individual any gain from the sale of any animal raised and sold by such individual as part of his or her participation in the 4-H program under the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture, the Future Farmers of America, any tax-exempt similar organization, or any program of a tax-exempt educational organization.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E738)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Child Custody Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-1755
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Criminal liability
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Guardian and ward
Interstate commerce
Law
Parent and child
Prosecution
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State courts
State laws
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Child Custody Protection Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit transporting a minor across a State line to obtain an abortion and thereby abridging the right of a parent under a law in force in the State where the minor resides requiring parental involvement in a minor's abortion decision. Makes an exception if the abortion was necessary to save the life of the minor.
Specifies that neither the minor transported nor her parent may be prosecuted or sued for a violation of this Act.
Makes it an affirmative defense to a prosecution for, or to a civil action based on, such a violation that the defendant reasonably believed that before the minor obtained the abortion, the parental consent or notification or judicial authorization that would have been required had the abortion been performed in the State where the minor resides, took place.
Authorizes any parent who suffers harm from a violation to obtain appropriate relief in a civil action. Defines "parent" to include a guardian, legal custodian, or person standing in loco parentis who has care and control of the minor, and with whom the minor regularly resides, who is designated by such law as a person to whom notification, or from whom consent, is required.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-20
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Erroneous Tax Refund Fairness Act

Bill: 108-hr-1756
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Interest
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Erroneous Tax Refund Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the abatement of interest on erroneous tax refunds without regard to the size of the refund unless the taxpayer or related third party has in any way caused such refund.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury not to abate all or any part of such interest if the taxpayer received notice of the erroneous refund before the date of demand and the taxpayer did not attempt to resolve the issue with the Internal Revenue Service within 30 days.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase the personal needs allowance applied to institutionalized individuals under the Medicaid Program.

Bill: 108-hr-1757
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Blind
Disabled
Families
Hospital care
Long-term care
Married people
Medicaid
Nursing homes
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, with respect to the personal needs allowance deducted from monthly income in determining Medicaid payment for the cost of care in an institution, to increase such allowance: (1) from $30 to $50 for institutionalized individuals; and (2) from $60 to $100 for institutionalized couples.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1759
Sponsor: Rep. Taylor, Charles H. [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Exhibitions
Historic sites
History
Mountains
Nature conservation
North Carolina
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Act of 2003 - Establishes the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area in North Carolina and designates the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership as its management entity.
Directs the Partnership to submit for approval by the Secretary of the Interior a management plan, which shall contain recommendations and strategies for the conservation, funding, management, and development of the Area.
Prohibits the Partnership from using Federal funds to acquire real property.
Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance and financial assistance to the Partnership for developing and implementing the management plan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-16
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House