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Domestic Violence Victim Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-1895
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Continuing education
Court records
Criminal justice information
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evidence (Law)
Families
Family courts
Family violence
Federal aid to law enforcement
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Judges
Judicial officers
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal education
Local employees
Local laws
Police questioning
Recruiting of employees
Searches and seizures
Stalking
State employees
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Domestic Violence Victim Protection Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) include among the eligibility criteria for certain Federal grants State laws authorizing gun confiscation by law enforcement officers in certain domestic violence cases; and (2) authorize grants for State hire of additional personnel for entering information relating to protection orders.
Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to: (1) authorize grants for training programs to establish integrated domestic violence courts; (2) include among the eligibility criteria of the National Stalker and Domestic Violence Reduction grant program State certification that its laws relating to the elements of a stalking offense require only that the defendant has on more than one occasion harassed or threatened the victim (thereby excluding any requirement for a specific intent to cause fear); and (3) authorize grants for State hire of additional personnel for entering information relating to stalking and domestic violence data.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Subchapter S Modernization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1896
Sponsor: Rep. Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [R-FL-22]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Aliens
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Commerce
Corporate reorganizations
Corporation directors
Corporation taxes
Debt
Dividends
Divorce
Employee ownership
Excise tax
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial institutions
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign investments
Foreign tax credit
Immigration
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Interest
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Loan defaults
Loans
Losses
Partnerships
Profit
Small business
Stockholders
Stocks
Subsidiary corporations
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax treaties
Trusts and trustees
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Subchapter S Modernization Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise provisions concerning S corporations to, among other things: (1) allow certain members of a family to be treated as one shareholder of an S corporation; (2) prohibit treating qualified preferred stock as a second class of stock and treating a person as a shareholder by reason of holding such stock; (3) permit financial institutions to hold convertible (safe harbor) debt; (4) repeal the characterization of excessive passive investment income as a termination event; (5) permit certain losses on liquidation not exceeding ordinary income basis to be treated as ordinary losses; (6) permit the deductibility of interest expense incurred by an electing small business trust to acquire S corporation stock; (7) provide that shareholder basis is not increased by income derived from cancellation of S corporation's debt; (8) provide for the exclusion of investment securities income from the passive income test for bank S corporations; (9) provide relief from inadvertently invalid qualified subchapter S subsidiary elections and terminations on the same basis as is provided to invalid or terminated S corporation elections; and (10) provide for the elimination of all earnings and profits attributable to pre-1983 years.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act

Bill: 108-hr-1897
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the inclusion of any social security or tier I railroad retirement benefits in gross income.
Appropriates non-appropriated Treasury amounts for the social security and railroad retirement funds to equal the amounts not transferred as a result of such repeal. Expresses the sense of Congress that tax increases will not be used to provide such revenue.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Home Energy Assistance Targeted for Seniors Act

Bill: 108-hr-1898
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy assistance for the aged
Energy assistance for the poor
Families
Households
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: 
Home Energy Assistance Targeted for Seniors Act - Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to rename it the Low-Income and Senior Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981. 
 
Redefines low-income households as households with incomes which do not exceed that of State median income, with at least 50 percent of the household income attributable to persons who are at least 65 years old.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-04-30
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: 2003-04-30
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: 2003-04-30
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: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Sunshine in Iraq Reconstruction Contracting Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1901
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Classified defense information
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Government contractors
Government publicity
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Maintenance and repair
Middle East and North Africa

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Sunshine in Iraq Reconstruction Contracting Act of 2003 - Directs the head of an executive agency that enters into a contract for the repair, maintenance, or construction of infrastructure in Iraq without full and open competition to publish in the Federal Register or Commerce Business Daily and otherwise make available to the public: (1) the amount of the contract and a brief description of its scope; (2) a discussion of how the agency identified, and solicited offers from, contractors, together with a list of the contractors solicited; and (3) the justification for using procedures other than those that provide for full and open competition.
Allows an agency head to withhold from publication and disclosure certain classified documents and to redact classified parts of a document before publication and disclosure, but requires the full information to be made available to specified congressional committees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Vision Rehabilitation Services Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1902
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Eye care
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Medicare Vision Rehabilitation Services Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for coverage of outpatient vision rehabilitation services under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-01
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: 2003-05-01
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: 2003-05-01
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: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to improve the surplus property disposal process for closed or realigned military installations.

Bill: 108-hr-1903
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Community development
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Military base closures
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real estate development
Refuse and refuse disposal
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to: (1) require (currently, authorizes) the transfer to a local redevelopment authority (LRA) by the Secretary of Defense of real and personal property at a closed or realigned military installation, including existing housing units and real property designated for future housing units, to be without consideration (if the LRA takes certain steps); (2) remove the requirement that the Secretary seek to obtain consideration for such transfers with respect to military installations for which the date of approval of closure or realignment is after January 1, 2005; (3) remove the Secretary's authority to recommend that an installation be placed in an inactive status for national security or other U.S. interests; and (4) make the LRA the single community based organization responsible for monitoring Federal environmental remediation activities with respect to the installation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Holocaust Accountability in Insurance Measure

Bill: 108-hr-1905
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Business records
Civil actions and liability
Claims
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Directories
District courts
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
History
Insurance
Insurance companies
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Jurisdiction
Law
Life insurance
Limitation of actions
State laws
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: 
Comprehensive Holocaust Accountability in Insurance Act - Authorizes the States to establish information requirements on insurers as a condition of doing insurance business in the host State.
 
Permits a State to require that an insurer provide specified information regarding Holocaust era insurance policies, including policies sold or held.
 
Permits a State to require that an insurer certify that: (1) proceeds of the policy were paid; (2) the beneficiaries of the policy or heirs could not, after diligent search, be located, and the proceeds were distributed to Holocaust survivors or charities; (3) a court of law has certified a plan for the distribution of the proceeds; or (4) the proceeds have not been distributed.
 
Establishes a Federal cause of action for any covered claim brought under this Act against one of several specified foreign insurance companies that arises out of the insurance coverage involved in an original request for payment made by a listed Holocaust victim or the heirs of beneficiaries of such victim.
 
Requires an action brought under this Act to be filed not later than ten years after its enactment. 
 
Lists covered foreign insurance companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to revise the Transition Assistance Program for persons separating from active duty in the Armed Forces to make that program mandatory for all separating members and to provide for the furnishing to such members of information about homelessness.

Bill: 108-hr-1906
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Married people
Military dependents
Military discharges
Veterans' employment
Vocational guidance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to: (1) require mandatory participation of military personnel separating from active duty in a transitional assistance program furnishing counseling, employment, and job training assistance; and (2) promote maximum spouse participation in such program.
Directs the Secretary of Labor, as part of such program, to provide information concerning homelessness, including risk factors, awareness assessment, and contact information for preventative assistance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E835)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to ensure the availability of funds to provide technical assistance for certain conservation programs of the Department of Agriculture.

Bill: 108-hr-1907
Sponsor: Rep. Lucas, Frank D. [R-OK-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Reprogramming of appropriated funds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to declare that certain funds reserved for technical assistance for the Farmland Protection Program, the Grassland Reserve Program, and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program shall be available only for the conservation program from which the funds were reserved and not for other specified programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-05-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To name the health care facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs located at 820 South Damen Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, as the "Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".

Bill: 108-hr-1908
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Cabinet officers
Congress
Congressional tributes
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Illinois
Names
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs health care facility located at 820 South Damen Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, as the Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: See Public Law 108-170.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Provision incorporated. See S 1156, Title II, Section 201.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 1720, Section 7.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 1562, Section 4.
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Executive Comment Requested from Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide for inflation adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds of the National Labor Relations Board.

Bill: 108-hr-1909
Sponsor: Rep. Istook, Ernest J., Jr. [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Indexing (Economic policy)
Industrial relations
Jurisdiction
Labor disputes
Law
National Labor Relations Board

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide for inflation adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds of the National Labor Relations Board.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the unrelated business taxable income rules.

Bill: 108-hr-1912
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Income tax
Tax-exempt organizations
Unrelated business income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify rules regarding unrelated business taxable income for amounts received from controlled entities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Rural Housing Tax Credit Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1913
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Rural housing
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Rural Housing Tax Credit Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a credit (the lesser of ten percent of the purchase price or $5,000) for the purchase of a principal residence by a first-time rural homebuyer. Establishes credit limitations based upon: (1) adjusted gross income; and (2) tax.
Provides for credit recapture in the event of: (1) certain sales; or (2) failure to use as a principal residence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To waive the limitation on the use of funds appropriated for the Homeland Security Grant Program.

Bill: 108-hr-1915
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Law
Planning
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Requires the Director of the Office of Domestic Preparedness of the Department of Homeland Security to allow any State to request approval to reallocate funds received pursuant to the State Homeland Security Grant Program among the four specified categories of equipment, training, exercises, and planning. Requires the Director to approve such requests in accordance with the State plan and any other relevant factors as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House