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United States Financial Policy Committee For Fair Capital Standards Act

Bill: 108-hr-2043
Sponsor: Rep. Bachus, Spencer [R-AL-6]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank capital
Bank examination
Commerce
Competition
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of the Treasury
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Executive reorganization
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Financial institutions
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
International Affairs
International agencies
International banking
Labor and Employment
Negotiations
Real estate business
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: 
United States Financial Policy Committee For Fair Capital Standards Act - Establishes an inter-agency United States Financial Policy Committee to develop uniform U.S. positions on proposals made to, and issues before, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision that, if implemented, may directly or indirectly affect U.S. financial institutions.
 
Prohibits any Federal banking agency from agreeing to any proposed recommendation of the Basel Committee before the agency reports on it to the Congress.
 
Requires such agencies, before reporting to Congress with respect to the New Basel Capital Accord, as revised through the Third Consultative Paper published on April 29, 2003, or any subsequent revisions or final agreement, to evaluate its impact, taking specified factors into account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 42 - 0.
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Telecommunications Ownership Diversification Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2044
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Auditing
Broadband
Cable television
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Direct broadcast satellites
Enterprise zones
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Law
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Partnerships
Radio stations
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Stocks
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Telecommunication industry
Telephone
Television stations
Urban affairs
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Telecommunications Ownership Diversification Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an electing taxpayer to treat a qualified telecommunications business sale to an eligible purchaser as an involuntary conversion. Places limits on the ensuing tax benefit. Defines an eligible purchaser as: (1) an economically and socially disadvantaged business; or (2) a corporation or partnership which, following the purchase, has substantially all of its assets in the telecommunications business and is at least five percent owned by the Telecommunications Development Fund.
Provides a limited tax credit to a local exchange carrier that is not a Bell operating company and is headquartered in an empowerment zone.
Provides for the exclusion from income of 50 percent of the gain on any sale or exchange of stock in an eligible purchaser engaged in a telecommunications business held for more than five years.
Directs the Comptroller General to biennially audit the administration of the provisions of this Act and issue a report.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E917)
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Ten Commandments Defense Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2045
Sponsor: Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Church and state
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Religion
Religious liberty
States' rights

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: 
Ten Commandments Defense Act of 2003 - Declares the following : (1) that the power to display the Ten Commandments on or within property owned or administered by the several States or their political subdivisions is among the powers reserved to the States respectively (under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution); (2) that the expression of religious faith by individual persons on or within property owned or administered by the several States or their political subdivisions is among the rights secured (under the First Amendment) against laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise of religion made or enforced by the Federal Government; and (3) that the expression of religious faith by individual persons on or within property owned or administered by the several States or their political subdivisions is among the liberties of which no State shall deprive any person without due process of law made in pursuance of powers reserved to the States respectively.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Encouraging Work Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2047
Sponsor: Rep. Houghton, Amo [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Age
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Ex-offenders
Families
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Railroad employees
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Vocational rehabilitation
Wages
Welfare recipients

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Encouraging Work Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the work opportunity credit permanent.
Modifies such credit by: (1) repealing the requirement that a "qualified ex-felon" be a member of a low-income (as specified) family; (2) increasing the maximum age for eligibility of food stamp recipients to 40 years; (3) redefining the term "vocational rehabilitation referral"; (4) adding "long-term family assistance recipients" (as defined) to the definition of "targeted groups"; and (5) increasing the maximum allowable credit for employment of long-term family assistance recipients.
Repeals the separate welfare-to-work credit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E921-922)
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Women and Children's HIV Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2049
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Adoption
Child health
Communication in medicine
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Guardian and ward
Health counseling
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Infants
Maternal health services
Medical tests
Mothers
Parents
Pregnant women
State laws
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Women and Children's HIV Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for grants regarding the counseling and testing of pregnant women and newborn infants out of moneys appropriated under the care grant program. Prohibits making a grant to a State unless the State demonstrates that the law or regulations of the State require specified testing and services for pregnant women and newborn infants regarding HIV disease.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Universal Jurisdiction Rejection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2050
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alliances
Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Arrest
Bribery
Classified defense information
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against humanity
Criminal justice information
Detention of persons
East Asia
Europe
Evidence (Law)
Extradition
Extraterritoriality
Federal employees
Foreign agents
Forfeiture
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
Human rights
Imprisonment
International cooperation
International courts
Jurisdiction
Law
Legal services
Military agreements
Military command and control
Military operations
Military personnel
NATO countries
President and foreign policy
Prisoners
Prosecution
Protection of officials
Searches and seizures
Taiwan
Torture
Treaties
United Nations
War crimes
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: 
Universal Jurisdiction Rejection Act of 2003 - Declares that it is the policy of the United States to reject any foreign government's claim of universal jurisdiction and to refuse to assist any such government pursuing an investigation or prosecution under a universal jurisdiction act. Defines &quot;universal jurisdiction act&quot; as a statute of a foreign country that authorizes the investigation, prosecution, and punishment of genocide and other crimes that were not committed by or against citizens of such country, did not occur on the territory of such country, and are otherwise prosecutable by tribunals established by the United Nations Security Council.
 
Prohibits Federal, State and local government agencies, including any courts, from providing assistance to any investigation or prosecution by a foreign government under a universal jurisdiction act. Directs the Federal Government to exercise its rights under mutual legal assistance treaties to deny assistance to any investigation or prosecution under a universal jurisdiction act. Prohibits foreign agents from pursuing any investigation or prosecution under a universal jurisdiction act in the United States.
 
Directs the President to ensure implementation of procedures to prevent the transfer directly or indirectly of classified national security information to foreign governments that is relevant to any investigation or prosecution under a universal jurisdiction act. Allows the President to waive certain prohibitions under this Act. 
 
Authorizes the President to use all means, including legal assistance, but not financial incentives, to secure the release of U.S. citizens and citizens of allies of the United States who are being detained or imprisoned by an investigation or prosecution under a universal jurisdiction act. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the Wolf House, located in Norfolk, Arkansas, as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2051
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arkansas
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Courthouses
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Law
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to: (1) study and report to specified congressional committees on the suitability and feasibility of designating the Wolf House located on Highway 5 in Norfolk, Arkansas, as a unit of the National Park System; and (2) consider management alternatives for the Wolf House.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Preservation of Localism, Program Diversity, and Competition in Television Broadcast Service Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2052
Sponsor: Rep. Burr, Richard [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Competition
Corporate divestiture
Economic concentration
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Television broadcasting
Television frequency allocation
Television industry
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Preservation of Localism, Program Diversity, and Competition in Television Broadcast Service Act of 2003 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from permitting any license for a commercial television broadcast station to be granted, transferred, or assigned to any party if such action would result in that party owning, operating, controlling, or having a cognizable interest in stations which have an aggregate national audience reach exceeding 35 percent. Requires any party currently having licenses in excess of such limit to divest as necessary to comply with such limit within one year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Nurse Education Promotion Act

Bill: 108-hr-2053
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: College teachers
Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Hospitals
Labor and Employment
Nursing education
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Students
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Nurse Education Promotion Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award competitive grants to: (1) associate degree schools of nursing for nursing student recruitment and scholarships and for nursing faculty hiring; and (2) professional nursing organizations, including nursing union chapters, for cooperative programs of continuing education for nurses with associate degrees to pursue baccalaureate degrees or receive training in understaffed and critical specialties.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E917-918)
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act to provide clarification with respect to the period of time for which funds may be held in the trust established under that Act.

Bill: 108-hr-2054
Sponsor: Rep. John, Christopher [D-LA-7]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Corn
Developing countries
Economics and Public Finance
Food relief
Food supply
Government trust funds
International Affairs
Rice
Sorghum
Wheat

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Amends the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust Act to permit funds to be held in the food security commodity trust for such time as the Secretary of Agriculture determines to be appropriate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Strategic Materials Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2056
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Alloys
Aluminum
Chromium
Cobalt
Copper
Developing countries
Imports
Manganese
Metals
Molybdenum
Nickel
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Steel
Tariff
Tariff preferences
Titanium
Tungsten
Vanadium

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: 
Strategic Materials Act of 2003 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include certain specialty metals (certain alloyed steel products, specified metal alloys, titanium and titanium alloys, zirconium and zirconium base, and certain unwrought titanium, including titanium sponge) as import-sensitive articles ineligible for duty-free treatment under the generalized system of preferences program under title V of such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E924)
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide a grant to the State of New Jersey for the construction of a memorial to the New Jersey victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Bill: 108-hr-2058
Sponsor: Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Construction costs
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Monuments and memorials
New Jersey
September 11, 2001
State parks
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide a grant to the State of New Jersey for the construction of a memorial in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, to the New Jersey victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-05-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Federal Law Enforcement Pension Adjustment Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2060
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil service retirement
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Federal law enforcement officers
Labor and Employment
National parks
Police
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Salaries
Secret service

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Federal Law Enforcement Pension Adjustment Equity Act of 2004 - Amends the Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 to repeal a prohibition against treatment as an increase in salary, for purposes of increased annuitant pension benefits, of the conversion of positions and members of the U.S. Park Police and the Secret Service Uniformed Division to a new salary schedule, and the associated initial adjustments in basic pay rates. (Thus permits cost-of-living adjustments in pension benefits for annuitants of the U.S. Park Police and the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Reauthorization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2061
Sponsor: Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Auditing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Fraud
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Law
Mass media
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Public service advertising
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Strategic planning
Surveys
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Drug-Free Media Campaign Act of 1998 to require the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to conduct a national youth anti-drug media campaign, the purposes of which shall include: (1) increasing the awareness of adults of the impact of drug abuse on young people; and (2) encouraging parents and other adults to discuss with young people the dangers associated with drug use (current law requires the Director to conduct a national media campaign to reduce and prevent drug abuse among young people).
States that the Director shall approve the strategy of the campaign and all advertising.
Directs the Director to request that the Partnership for a Drug-Free America: (1) recommend strategies addressing national, regional, and local drug threats; and (2) create all advertising to be used in the media campaign, with certain exceptions.
Modifies provisions pertaining to the use of funds, including to state that no funds other than out-of-pocket production costs and talent reuse payments may be used for the creative development of advertisements except in specified circumstances.
Requires the receipt of no cost matches relating to substance abuse prevention prior to any disbursal of funds for advertising time or space. Declares that any donated advertising material shall not be subject to sponsorship identification provisions in the Communications Act of 1934.
Requires the Director to carry out an examination of campaign records and an audit of the costs of the campaign, in accordance with the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in House