hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Tobacco Equity Elimination Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-245
Sponsor: Rep. Fletcher, Ernie [R-KY-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative fees
Advice and consent of the Senate
Agricultural estimating and reporting
Agricultural production
Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture in foreign trade
Auditing
Business records
Cigarettes
Commerce
Community development
Compensation (Law)
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Diversification in industry
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Farm production quotas
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Imports
Law
Licenses
Marketing of farm produce
Nonprofit organizations
Presidential appointments
Rural economic development
Smokeless tobacco
Social Welfare
Tobacco
Tobacco exports
Tobacco industry
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Tobacco Equity Elimination Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) make payments to qualifying tobacco quota holders as compensation for the loss of tobacco quota asset value; (2) make transition payments to active tobacco producers, including producers who forgo obtaining a tobacco production license; and (3) assess an annual user fee on tobacco manufacturers and importers who sell in domestic U.S. commerce.
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to tobacco price supports to: (1) revise such provisions to reflect annual production costs for each type of tobacco; (2) eliminate references to quota tobacco in no net cost provisions; and (3) eliminate tobacco from the definition of "basic agricultural commodity."
Directs the Secretary and cigarette and other tobacco-product manufacturers, respectively, to estimate annual export and domestic quantity and industry purchase requirements. Directs the Secretary to issue to each historic tobacco producer a tobacco production license in order to harmonize annual purchase intentions and production.
Assesses tobacco producers for administrative costs.
Repeals the Tobacco Control Act and specified related provisions ( thus terminating marketing quota program provisions).
Authorizes the establishment of a nonprofit Center for Tobacco-Dependent Communities which shall provide economic and community development assistance to tobacco communities in transition to non-tobacco economies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Public Health Service Act and the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to strike unrelated provisions concerning changes to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and liability for vaccine manufacturers.

Bill: 108-hr-248
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Families
Law
Liability (Law)
Vaccination
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal provisions of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 amending the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program under the Act. Repeals modifications to the definitions of manufacturer and vaccine-related injury or death and an added definition of vaccine. States that this Act shall be deemed to have taken effect instantly upon the enactment of the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Declares that this Act and the repealed provisions of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 may not be construed as having any legal effect on any court proceeding or decision involving any issue with which such provisions were concerned.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide an exception to the nine-month duration of marriage requirement for widows and widowers in cases in which the marriage was postponed by legal impediments to the marriage caused by State restrictions on divorce from a prior spouse institutionalized due to mental incompetence or similar incapacity.

Bill: 108-hr-249
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disabled
Divorce
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Marriage
Mentally disabled
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
State laws
Survivors' benefits
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with respect to the nine-month minimum duration of a marriage required to qualify a surviving spouse for OASDI benefits. Allows a less than nine-month duration of a marriage in the case of widows or widowers whose marriage was postponed by legal impediments to the marriage caused by State restrictions on divorce from a prior spouse institutionalized due to mental incompetence or similar incapacity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To protect small businesses from increased tariffs and other retaliatory actions taken by the United States during a trade dispute.

Bill: 108-hr-251
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Economic warfare
Import restrictions
International Affairs
Small business
Tariff
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Exempts an importer with under 100 employees during the two preceding calendar quarters from increased tariffs and retaliatory actions imposed by the United States with respect to the goods of a foreign country with which the United States is in a trade dispute under a trade agreement, where the imposition of such increased tariffs and retaliatory actions is due to such country's failure to comply with the trade agreement's terms. Applies such exemption to that quantity of goods which does not exceed 125 percent of the quantity of the same goods that are products of the country and were imported by that importer in the preceding calendar year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Tax Refund Statute of Limitation Extension Act

Bill: 108-hr-252
Sponsor: Rep. Baker, Richard H. [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Tax Refund Statute of Limitation Extension Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend to seven years the filing period for individual income tax refunds or credits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Coverage Assistance for the Unemployed Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-256
Sponsor: Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Social Welfare
Unemployment
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Health Care Coverage Assistance for the Unemployed Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish an emergency health coverage assistance program to provide premium assistance for qualified individuals for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) continuation coverage under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Allows a State to elect to provide temporary Medicaid coverage under title XIX of the Social Security Act for individuals who are: (1) eligible for unemployment benefits; (2) not eligible for COBRA continuation coverage; and (3) not covered under a group health plan, health insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-257
Sponsor: Rep. Burns, Max [R-GA-12]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Crop insurance
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Farm produce
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Law
Livestock
Losses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide: (1) emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2002 crop losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2001 and 2002 losses in an emergency-designated county.
Permits livestock producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years.
Makes producers ineligible for crop disaster assistance if they did not: (1) get Federal crop insurance for insurable commodities; and (2) file required paperwork and pay related fees for noninsurable commodities. Sets forth waiver provisions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Civic Participation and Rehabilitation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-259
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Building construction
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Congress
Congressional elections
Correctional institutions
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-offenders
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Injunctions
Law
Maintenance and repair
Political rights
Presidential elections
Prisoners
Prisons
State laws
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Civic Participation and Rehabilitation Act of 2003 - Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for Federal office shall not be denied or abridged because that individual has been convicted of a criminal offense, unless the individual is serving a felony sentence in a correctional institution or facility at the time of the election.
Authorizes the Attorney General, in a civil action, to obtain any declaratory or injunctive relief necessary to remedy a violation of this Act. Creates a private right of action, subject to specified requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E40-41)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Gun Show Background Check Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-260
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Criminal justice information
Department of the Treasury
Economics and Public Finance
Exhibitions
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms control
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Law
Licenses
Recidivists
Retail trade
Right of privacy
Searches and seizures

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Gun Show Background Check Act of 2003 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to require registration of gun show promoters and to set forth the responsibilities of promoters, licensees, and other transferors.
Provides that if any part of a firearm transaction takes place at a gun show, each licensed importer, manufacturer, and dealer who transfers one or more firearms to a person who is not licensed shall, within ten days after the transfer, submit a report of the transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury. Sets forth penalties for violations.
Grants the Secretary authority to enter the place of business of any gun show promoter and any place where a gun show is held, during business hours and without a showing of reasonable cause or a warrant, for purposes of examining records and the inventory of licensees conducting business to determine compliance with this Act.
Increases penalties for: (1) serious record-keeping violations by licensees; and (2) violations of criminal background check requirements.
Modifies provisions regarding the national instant criminal background check system and the destruction of records in cases where receipt of a firearm would not violate the Brady Act or State law to provide for such destruction as soon as possible, consistent with the Attorney General's responsibility to ensure privacy and security of the system and to prevent system fraud and abuse, but in no event later than 90 days after the licensee first contacts the system.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E36)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Stop Discrimination Against Seven States Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-261
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Local taxation
Sales tax
State taxation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Stop Discrimination Against Seven States Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the deduction of State and local sales taxes by residents of States which do not impose income taxes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E59)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Child Support Enforcement Act

Bill: 108-hr-262
Sponsor: Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child support
Custody of children
Debt
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Social Welfare
Tax auditing
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Child Support Enforcement Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (relating to the deduction for bad debts) to allow a custodial parent to claim unpaid child support payments as a deduction.
Bars a delinquent debtor from filing an amended return in any subsequent year to reflect the subsequent payment of unpaid child support.
Includes unpaid child support in the gross income of the delinquent debtor.
Prohibits any discrepancy between the tax returns of a custodial parent and a delinquent debtor concerning whether a child support payment has been made from serving as a basis for selecting an individual's tax return for general audit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Outpatient Care Access Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-263
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Clinics
Health
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Veterans Outpatient Care Access Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide needed medical services from sources outside the Department of Veterans Affairs when veterans are informed that the waiting period for such services in a Department outpatient clinic will be six months or longer.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for payment of lump-sum death payments upon the death of a spouse.

Bill: 108-hr-264
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Families
Labor and Employment
Married people
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for lump-sum death payments to the surviving spouse of an individual who died as a fully or currently insured individual. Extends such payments to the surviving spouse of the spouse of such an individual (that is, to the fully or currently insured individual if that person's spouse dies). Specifies a formula for determination of the applicable primary insurance amount used in the determination of a lump-sum death benefit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
National Invasive Species Council Act

Bill: 108-hr-266
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Ecological research
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Electronic government information
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental education
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Executive orders
Executive reorganization
Exotic animals
Exotic plants
Export controls
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Habitat conservation
Health
Import restrictions
International Affairs
International cooperation
International environmental cooperation
Internet
Minorities
Non-native species
Pest control
Planning
Regional planning
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: National Invasive Species Council Act - Declares that no Federal agency may authorize, fund, or carry out any action that would likely cause or promote the introduction or spread of an invasive species in the United States or any other location, unless the agency head determines that: (1) the benefits outweigh the potential harm to the environment, economy, or human health; and (2) all feasible and prudent measures to minimize the risk or harm will be taken. Requires the Council for Environmental Quality, in conjunction with the National Invasive Species Council, to develop guidelines for such measures.
Establishes within the executive branch the National Invasive Species Council to ensure that Federal agency efforts concerning invasive species are coordinated, effective, complementary, and cost-efficient.
Requires the Council to develop a National Invasive Species Management Plan that details and recommends performance-oriented goals.
Requires the Council to create the Invasive Species Advisory Committee to provide information and advice for consideration by the Council.
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to prepare and submit to Congress and the Council a yearly budget analysis and summary of all Federal programs relating to invasive species.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior, Commerce, USDA.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E42)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House