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Leave No Child Behind Tax Credit Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-385
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Income tax
Scholarships
Secondary education
Tax credits
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Leave No Child Behind Tax Credit Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a maximum $250 ($500 for joint filers) annual credit for contributions to charitable organizations that provide elementary and secondary student scholarships.
States that the Constitutional authority upon which this Act is based is the power of Congress to lay and collect taxes and to regulate commerce with foreign nations and the Indian tribes and among the States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Tribal Government Tax-Exempt Bond Authority Amendments Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-386
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Gambling
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Minority employment
Securities regulation
Sports and Recreation
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Tribal Government Tax-Exempt Bond Authority Amendments Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the issuance of tax-exempt bonds by an Indian tribal government if at least 95 percent of the net proceeds are used to finance tribal facilities. Provides for the tax-exempt treatment of any private activity bond issued by an Indian tribal government or subdivision as a qualified bond. Prescribes specific ownership restrictions and an employment test. Exempts from the exclusion any bond issued by such tribal government or subdivision unless it is federally guaranteed.
Amends the Securities Act of 1933 to exempt obligations issued by an Indian tribal government or subdivision from registration requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Wildfire Prevention and Forest Health Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-387
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Agriculture
Ecosystem management
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Fire prevention
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest health
Forest management
Government Operations and Politics
Judicial review
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Wildfire Prevention and Forest Health Protection Act - Authorizes Regional Foresters to exempt certain wildfire prevention tree-thinning projects on National Forest System lands from any laws that give rise to legal causes of action seeking to delay or prevent such actions. Exempts such projects from: (1) judicial review; or (2) notice, comment, and appeals under the Appeals Reform Act.
Sets forth the Constitutional authority for this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Indian Reservation Jobs and Investment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-388
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Indian economic development
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Investment tax credit
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Minorities
Minority employment
Real estate business
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Indian Reservation Jobs and Investment Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an Indian reservation investment credit based on specified amounts. Includes qualified personal property and qualified real property used or located outside an Indian reservation which is connected to existing tribal infrastructure in the reservation, including roads, power lines, water systems, railroad spurs, and communication facilities as a reservation infrastructure investment. Limits the credit based on the Indian unemployment rate. Provides for recapture of the credit in certain cases.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Africa Famine Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-390
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2003-01-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Africa
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Agricultural assistance
Agriculture and Food
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Child health
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
European Union
Executive reorganization
Families
Famines
Food relief
Food supply
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
International agencies
International cooperation
International relief
Legislation
Malnutrition
Maternal and infant welfare
Maternal health services
Nongovernmental organizations
Parents
President and foreign policy
Preventive medicine
Public corruption
Supplemental appropriations
United Nations
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Africa Famine Relief Act of 2003 - Authorizes emergency appropriations to the emergency assistance program under title II of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to provide humanitarian assistance for sub-Saharan Africa.
Urges the President to establish a task force responsible for designing a comprehensive strategy to deal with the immediate needs of the humanitarian crisis in sub-Saharan Africa and addressing the long-term causes of food insecurity in the region, including corruption within certain governments of sub-Saharan Africa. Directs the President to instruct the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, the World Food Programme, international organizations, and other appropriate international organizations to use the U.S. vote to support additional food aid and other humanitarian assistance for sub-Saharan Africa.
Authorizes emergency appropriations for: (1) international disaster assistance for relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance for sub-Saharan Africa; and (2) the award of grants to eligible administrative organizations to award subgrants to nongovernmental organizations to expand activities to prevent the mother-to-child transmission of HIV by providing treatment, medical care, and support services to HIV-infected parents and their children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
National Right-to-Work Act

Bill: 108-hr-391
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2003-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Commerce
Construction industries
Construction workers
Employee rights
Labor unions
Payroll deductions
Railroad employees
Railroads
Transportation and Public Works
Unfair labor practices
Union dues
Union security

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: National Right-to-Work Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to repeal those provisions that permit employers, pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement that is a union security agreement, to require employees to join a union as a condition of employment (including provisions permitting railroad carriers to require, pursuant to such an agreement, payroll deduction of union dues or fees as a condition of employment).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Natasha Oligovna Russo and Anya Oligovna.

Bill: 108-hr-392
Sponsor: Rep. Bachus, Spencer [R-AL-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Declares two named individuals (Natasha Oligovna Russo and Anya Oligovna) each to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act, upon payment of the required visa fees. Denies preferential immigration treatment for certain relatives of the named individuals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Alejandra Arias Garcia.

Bill: 108-hr-393
Sponsor: Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2003-01-27 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Prohibits Alejandra Arias Garcia from being removed from the United States, denied admission to the United States, or considered ineligible for lawful permanent residence by reason of any ground for removal or denial of admission that is reflected in the records of specified agencies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-27
text: Introduced in House
Violence Against Women Civil Rights Restoration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-394
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2003-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation
Damages
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Hate crimes
Injunctions
Interstate commerce
Law
Liability (Law)
Prosecution
Punitive damages
Sex discrimination
Transportation and Public Works
Violence
Weapons
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Violence Against Women Civil Rights Restoration Act of 2003 - Rewrites provisions of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 regarding remedies for civil rights violations. Makes a person who commits a crime of violence motivated by gender and thus deprives another of a prescribed right liable to the injured party where: (1) in connection with the offense, the defendant or the victim travels in interstate or foreign commerce, the defendant or the victim uses a facility or instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce, or the defendant employs a weapon, a narcotic or drug listed under the Controlled Substances Act, or other noxious or dangerous substances that have traveled in interstate or foreign commerce; (2) the offense interferes with commercial or other economic activity in which the victim is engaged; or (3) the offense was committed with intent to interfere with the victim's commercial or other economic activity.
Authorizes the Attorney General, whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that any State, political subdivision, official, employee, or agent thereof has discriminated on the basis of gender in the investigation or prosecution of gender-based crimes and that discrimination is pursuant to a pattern or practice of resistance to investigating or prosecuting gender-based crimes, to institute a civil action in U.S. district court for appropriate equitable relief.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Auto Safety Assurance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-400
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Automobile theft
Automobiles
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Department of Transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Motor vehicle safety
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Auto Safety Assurance Act of 2003 - Amends Federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe an amendment to the Federal Motor Vehicle Standard 206 issued under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 requiring all passenger cars manufactured after December 31, 2005, to be fitted with equipment which automatically locks the vehicle's doors when the vehicle transmission is engaged or the vehicle reaches a specified rate of speed, and vehicle trunk lock mechanisms that permit unlatching from inside the trunk.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Koby Mandell Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-401
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advertising
Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Arts, Culture, Religion
Books
Commemorations
Commerce
Commercial blacklisting
Compensation for victims of crime
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal justice information
Department of Justice
Diplomacy
EBB Terrorism
Economic assistance
Electronic government information
Executive reorganization
Extradition
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability (International law)
Government publicity
Identification of criminals
Immigration
Indictments
Informers
International Affairs
Internet
Israel
Law enforcement officers
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
Military personnel
Motion pictures
Murder
Names
Negotiations
Palestinians
Photography
Police
Profit
Prosecution
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism
Visas
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Koby Mandell Act of 2003 - Directs the President to establish within the Department of Justice an office which shall assume responsibility for administration of the Rewards for Justice program and its website to ensure that rewards are offered to capture all terrorists involved in harming American citizens overseas, regardless of the terrorists' country of origin or residence.
Directs the office to take specified steps, including: (1) establishing a program which will update American victims of overseas terrorism or their families on the status of efforts to capture the terrorists; (2) undertaking a comprehensive assessment to determine the reasons for the absence of indictments of terrorists residing in some regions; (3) monitoring public actions pertaining to terrorists by governments and regimes overseas, such as naming schools, streets, or other public institutions or sites after terrorists who have harmed American citizens; (4) initiating negotiations to secure financial compensation for American citizens (or their families) who were harmed by terrorist acts overseas by an organization that subsequently became part of a governing regime with which the U.S. Government maintains diplomatic or official contacts; and (5) coordinating with other Government agencies to seek the transfer to the United States of terrorists released from incarceration abroad who are eligible for further prosecution in the United States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Brownfield Cleanup Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-402
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Brownfields
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government securities
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Local finance
Property tax
Refuse and refuse disposal
State finance
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Brownfield Cleanup Enhancement Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited credit to holders of qualified brownfields cleanup bonds. Sets a national limit on the amount of such bonds and provides for allocation among the States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Child Support Reserve Trust Act

Bill: 108-hr-403
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Child support
Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Law
Liens
Mortgages
State laws
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Child Support Reserve Trust Act - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require a State plan for child and spousal support to provide that, as of January 1, 2001, the State agency will have in effect a State reserve trust system that requires: (1) the use of certain procedures; and (2) establishes a State reserve trust unit to implement them. 
Requires a State reserve unit to: (1) withhold the net proceeds from the sale or refinancing of real property in the State against which a lien exists for overdue child support by the seller or refinancer, without regard to whether such lien has ever been extinguished; (2) hold a certain amount of such proceeds (anticipated future child support) in trust for the benefit of the child or children for whom the person has a support obligation; and (3) apply such amounts to satisfy such overdue child support, if all other available remedies are insufficient to do so.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Open Air Drug Market Penalty Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-404
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Mandatory sentences
Probation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Open Air Drug Market Penalty Act of 2003 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose an additional five years' imprisonment for knowingly committing a Federal offense, of which an element is the distribution of a controlled substance and for which the maximum term of imprisonment equals or exceeds five years, within 500 feet of the place where such an offense was committed within the preceding 48 hours.
Prohibits: (1) the court from placing on probation or suspending the sentence of anyone convicted for such a violation; and (2) the term of imprisonment imposed from running concurrently with any other term of imprisonment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House