Compact-Impact Reimbursement Act

Bill: 108-hr-2716
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-07-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Aliens
American Samoa
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Cholera
Communicable diseases
Crime and Law Enforcement
Debt relief
Department of the Interior
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal mandates
Federal-territorial relations
Food stamps
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Grants-in-aid
Guam
Hawaii
Health
Hospital care
Immigrant education
Immigrant health
Immigration
Impact aid
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Leprosy
Marshall Islands
Medicaid
Medical economics
Micronesia
Military hospitals
Northern Mariana Islands
Oceania
Palau Islands
Preventive medicine
Public health
Public health personnel
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Treaties
Welfare eligibility
Welfare work participation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: 
Compact-Impact Reimbursement Act - Amends the Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 to authorize and appropriate to the Secretary of the Interior specified funds for FY 2004 through 2023 for grants to Guam, Hawaii, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa to aid in defraying costs incurred by their governments as a result of increased demands placed on health, educational, social, or public safety services, or infrastructure related to such services, due to the residence of qualified immigrants. Provides food stamp eligibility for such immigrants and qualified nonimmigrants.
 
Authorizes appropriations for grants to the Governments of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palua, Guam, Hawaii, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa for establishing or continuing programs for the control and prevention of communicable diseases, including cholera and Hansen's Disease.
 
Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Health and Human Services to make medical facilities of the Department of Defense and the National Health Service Corps, respectively, available to the residents of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palua. Requires the United States to make available to the Governments of such States and Republics necessary sums for the payment of obligations incurred for the use of such facilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-08-15
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, and 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: 2003-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, and 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: 2003-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, and 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: 2003-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, and 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: 2003-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, and 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: 2003-07-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on International Relations, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, and 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: 2003-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1475-1476)
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Introduced in House