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College Opportunity for a Better America Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1306
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Bilingualism
Child care workers
Child nutrition
Child welfare
Depressed areas
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Health
Higher education
Infants
Interest
Mathematics
Minorities
Nurses
Nursing education
Preschool education
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Social work
Special education
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
WIC program

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: College Opportunity for a Better America Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide student loan forgiveness for borrowers who are employed full-time in qualified public service positions.
Requires the Secretary of Education, depending on the duration of such public service employment, to assume certain portions of such borrowers' obligations to repay specified types of Federal student loans.
Makes eligible for such program: (1) highly qualified teachers in low-income communities and of mathematics, science, and bilingual and special education; (2) early childhood educators; (3) nurses; (4) child welfare workers; (5) nutrition professionals; (6) infant and toddler specialists; and (6) other highly-qualified workers who serve low-income or needy communities and who are in public service professions that suffer from a critical lack of qualified personnel.
Revises provisions for income-related repayment. Changes those for guaranteed student loan from income-sensitive to income-contingent, thus making them consistent with those for direct student loan provisions. Releases qualified public service employees from income-contingent repayment obligations after a maximum of 15 years. (Other borrowers must repay over a maximum 25-year period.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E487)
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Reforestation Tax Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1310
Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Jennifer [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Lumber trade
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reforestation
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Timber sales

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Reforestation Tax Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction to a taxpayer who has a qualified timber gain in an amount equal to the qualified percentage of such gain. Allows a deduction, for qualified timber property, for reforestation expenditures and terminates current provisions allowing for the amortization of such expenditures.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Rural Fire Department Equipment Priority Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1311
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Agriculture
Department of Defense
Emergency Management
Federal-local relations
Fire departments
Fire prevention
Forest fires
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Military and naval supplies
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Rural Fire Department Equipment Priority Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Agriculture to utilize the Federal Excess Personal Property program of the Forest Service to facilitate the reutilization of Department of Defense personal property by firefighting agencies in rural areas. Requires the priority given to such transfers by the Department of Defense to be at least equal to that given for transferring such property to military departments and defense agencies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
To make East Kern Airport District in Mojave, California, eligible for airport security improvement assistance from the Transportation Security Administration, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1312
Sponsor: Rep. Thomas, William M. [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airports
California
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Security measures
Terrorism
Transportation workers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Amends the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 to authorize the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security of the Transportation Security Administration to issue a letter of intent for specified amounts of airport security improvement project funds to East Kern Airport District in Mojave, California: (1) to reimburse the airport for airport security costs incurred since September 11, 2001; and (2) for airport security costs for each fiscal year, including the cost of employing airport security personnel.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel.

Bill: 108-hr-1313
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business travel
Commerce
Families
Income tax
Married people
Parent and child
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the restrictions on the tax deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse, dependent, or other individual accompanying the taxpayer on business travel.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Screening Mammography Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1314
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Breast cancer
Commerce
Consumer education
Employee health benefits
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Mammography
Medicaid
Medical screening
Social Welfare
State laws
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Screening Mammography Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require that a group health plan (and a health insurance issuer offering group coverage) that provides coverage for diagnostic mammography for any class of participants or beneficiaries also cover annual screening mammography for that class under terms that are not less favorable. Prohibits: (1) denying screening coverage on the basis that it is not medically necessary or not pursuant to a referral or recommendation; (2) denying eligibility, enrollment, or renewal solely to avoid this requirement; (3) providing monetary incentives to participants or beneficiaries to encourage them to accept less; or (4) penalizing or providing incentives to providers. Allows State laws providing at least these protections.
Amends PHSA to apply such requirements and prohibitions to health coverage in the individual market.
Amends the Social Security Act to revise title XIX (Medicaid) to mandate coverage of annual screening mammographies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Community Streetcar Development and Revitalization Act

Bill: 108-hr-1315
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Commerce
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Mass rapid transit
Public-private partnerships
Railroad finance
Railroads
Urban affairs
Urban economic development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Community Streetcar Development and Revitalization Act - Establishes a five-year pilot grant program to provide Federal assistance to States and local governmental authorities for the capital and startup costs of development and expansion of streetcar transportation, including: (1) streetscaping; (2) signalization modifications, and other modifications to the road system or other public rights-of-way on which the project is to be carried out; and (3) acquisition of streetcars and project construction, design, and engineering. Sets forth program requirements, including a maximum Federal funding limit for any project for each fiscal year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Pulmonary Hypertension Research Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1316
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health information systems
Higher education
Hypertension
Labor and Employment
Lung diseases
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Pulmonary Hypertension Research Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to expand, intensify, and coordinate the activities of the Institute with respect to research on pulmonary hypertension and to coordinate the Director's activities with related activities of other national research institutes and National Institutes of Health agencies. Requires the Director to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or nonprofit private entities for the development and operation of centers to conduct research and programs on pulmonary hypertension, including: (1) basic and clinical research into the cause, diagnosis, early detection, prevention, control, and treatment of the disease; (2) training programs for scientists and health professionals; (3) programs to provide information and continuing education to health professionals; and (4) programs for the dissemination of information to the public. 
Requires the Director to establish: (1) a data system for the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of data derived from patient populations with pulmonary hypertension; and (2) an information clearinghouse to facilitate and enhance knowledge and understanding of pulmonary hypertension by health professionals, patients, industry, and the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the excise tax exemptions for aerial applicators of fertilizers or other substances.

Bill: 108-hr-1317
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural machinery
Agriculture and Food
Aircraft
Aviation fuels
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Farmers
Fertilizers
Forestry
Pest control
Pesticides
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax credits
Tax exemption
Tax refunds
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the waiver requirement by a farm owner, operator, or tenant in order for an aerial applicator of agricultural fertilizer or other substances to qualify for a gasoline-farming use (excise) tax exemption in the case of an applicator who is the ultimate purchaser of the gasoline so used. Includes within such exemption gasoline used between the airfield and farm.
Exempts fixed-wing aircraft used for forestry purposes from the passenger air transportation (excise) tax.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, as the "Thomas P. Noonan, Jr., Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".

Bill: 108-hr-1318
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Clinics
Congress
Congressional tributes
Health
Names
New York City
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, as the Thomas P. Noonan, Jr., Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, as the Thomas P. Noonan, Jr., Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7018)
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7018)
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1318.
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7018-7020)
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Mr. Smith (NJ) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Subcommittee on Health Discharged.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
Second Opinion Coverage Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1319
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Coinsurance
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Consumer education
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Department of the Treasury
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health counseling
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Law
Medical economics
Patients' rights
Physicians
Standards
Surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Second Opinion Coverage Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to provide coverage for second opinions.
Directs the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, of Labor, and of the Treasury to coordinate administration of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-18
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: 2003-03-18
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: 2003-03-18
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: 2003-03-18
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: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the penalty for late enrollment under the Medicare Program to 10 percent and twice the period of no enrollment.

Bill: 108-hr-1321
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2003-03-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to limit the late enrollment penalty to a ten percent increase in the monthly part B premium due over a period equal to twice the number of years that the part B beneficiary could have been but was not enrolled under Medicare part B.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-03-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Introduced in House