hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Liberty Bill Act

Bill: 108-hr-1785
Sponsor: Rep. Cantor, Eric [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Constitutional amendments
Law
Money

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Liberty Bill Act - Amends Federal law to require that the design of the reverse side of all Federal reserve notes incorporate: (1) the preamble to the Constitution; (2) a list describing the Articles of the Constitution; and (3) a list describing the Articles of Amendment. Prescribes the design format. 
States that such requirements do not limit the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) include other inscriptions or material on the reverse side of such notes; or (2) adopt other design features to deter counterfeiting of currency.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Young Witness Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1786
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault
Child welfare
Child witnesses
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Witnesses
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Young Witness Assistance Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to State and local prosecutors and law enforcement agencies in support of juvenile (17 years of age or younger) and young adult (between 18 and 21 years of age) witness assistance programs. Authorizes grant funds to be used, among other things, for: (1) counseling services to young witnesses of a violent crime; and (2) protective services for young witnesses and their families when a serious threat of harm is made from perpetrators or their associates.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the minimum Medicare deadlines for filing claims to take into account delay in processing adjustments from secondary payor status to primary payor status.

Bill: 108-hr-1788
Sponsor: Rep. Costello, Jerry F. [D-IL-12]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to extend the minimum Medicare claims filing deadlines to account for any delay in processing adjustments from secondary to primary payor status.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Crane Tithe Tax Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1789
Sponsor: Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-8]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Cost of living adjustments
Dividends
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Estate tax
Flat-rate tax
Fringe benefits
Gift tax
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Inheritance tax
Labor and Employment
Tax amnesty
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax rates
Tax simplification
Tipping

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Crane Tithe Tax Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the tax on corporations; (2) repeal the current tax rates for individuals and replace such rates with a ten percent tax on earned income; (3) provide amnesty for any tax liability prior to January 1, 2002; (4) repeal all specific exclusions from gross income, all deductions, and all credits; and (5) repeal subtitle B relating to estate, gift, and generation-skipping taxes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Rural Disaster Assistance Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1790
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Animals
Demography
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Housing and Community Development
Income statistics
Law
Rural conditions
Rural health
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 
Rural Disaster Assistance Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to revise the declaration that no geographic area shall be precluded from receiving assistance under such Act solely by virtue of an arithmetic formula or sliding scale based on income or population.
 
Directs the President to establish in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) an Office of Rural Advocacy headed by a Director who shall be an advocate for the fair treatment of rural communities in the provision of assistance under such Act. Requires the Director to: (1) participate in the disaster and the emergency declaration processes to ensure that the needs of rural communities are being addressed; (2) assist small population States in the preparation of requests for major disaster or emergency declarations; and (3) review all rules and regulations relating to the provision of assistance under such Act to ensure that rural communities receive fair and equitable treatment.
 
Requires the Director of FEMA to promulgate a rule to ensure that the factors used to review a Governor's request for a major disaster or an emergency declaration under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act adequately address the needs of States with a population of less than one million individuals and the rural communities in those States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E766)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an election for a special tax treatment of certain S corporation conversions.

Bill: 108-hr-1791
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporate reorganizations
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Partnerships
Small business
Tax exclusion
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize a qualified S corporation to make a one-time corporate conversion under special tax treatment which shall: (1) in the case of a transfer to partnership form result in no shareholder gain or loss recognition on transferred money or property; and (2) treat other money or property transfers as payment for such corporation's stock.
Requires the partnership to maintain a five-year continuity of business in order to avoid a conversion recapture tax.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E768)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 37, United States Code, to alleviate delay in the payment of the Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus to members of Selected Reserve who are mobilized.

Bill: 108-hr-1792
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Military pay
Recruiting and enlistment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Requires payment of an awarded Selected Reserve reenlistment bonus to a member during a period of active duty to which such member is called or ordered, notwithstanding such active-duty service.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E777-778)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E756-757)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Employment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1793
Sponsor: Rep. DeMint, Jim [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cats
Employee selection
Unfair labor practices

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Truth in Employment Act of 2003 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that nothing in specified prohibitions against unfair labor practices by employers shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any person who seeks or has sought employment with the employer in furtherance of other employment or agency status.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct and rehabilitate Federal water supply lines associated with Folsom Dam in California, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1794
Sponsor: Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Infrastructure
Water districts
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to carry out separate projects to: (1) design and construct a parallel water supply line connecting the Folsom Dam pumping facility to the Hinkle Wye in California serving the City of Roseville and the San Juan Water District in California; and (2) rehabilitate the existing water supply line connecting such facilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-04-21
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To provide that the income tax shall not apply for taxable years during which the taxpayer, or either spouse of a married couple, is serving in the war in Iraq.

Bill: 108-hr-1795
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Families
Income tax
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Married people
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military personnel
Tax exemption
War

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Exempts an individual, or either spouse of a married couple, from income tax in a year in which the individual serves for any portion of such year on active armed forces service in the Iraq-designated combat zone.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1796
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Arid regions
Commemorations
Energy
Environmental Protection
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Grazing
Land transfers
Landforms
Maps
Mineral reserves
Mines and mineral resources
Mining leases
Mountains
National monuments
Natural monuments
Nature conservation
Roads and highways
Transportation and Public Works
Utah
Water Resources Development
Water rights
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2003 - Designates specified lands in the following areas of Utah as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Great Basin; (2) Zion and Mojave Desert; (3) the Grand Staircase and the Escalante Canyons; (4) Moab-La Sal Canyons; (5) Henry Mountains; (6) Glen Canyon; (7) San Juan-Anasazi; (8) Canyonlands Basin; (9) San Rafael Swell; and (10) Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin.
Sets forth administrative provisions regarding: (1) filing by the Secretary of the Interior of a map and a legal description of each designated wilderness area with appropriate congressional committees; (2) the exchange of State-owned lands within such areas; (3) Federal reservation of water rights; (4) measurement of setbacks for roads with wilderness; (5) authorized livestock grazing; and (6) withdrawal of such lands from disposition under certain public land laws.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that exports of Alaskan North Slope crude oil are prohibited.

Bill: 108-hr-1797
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Export controls
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Petroleum

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to repeal the authorization for the export of Alaskan North Slope crude oil. Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to reimpose a prohibition against the export of such oil.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Fallen Heroes Immigrant Spouse Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1799
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Armed Forces and National Security
Citizenship
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Law
Marriage
Married people
Military dependents
Military personnel
Survivors' benefits
Visas
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Fallen Heroes Immigrant Spouse Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive the two-year marriage requirement for an alien spouse to self-petition for immediate relative status in the case of a spouse of a citizen who dies while on active service in the armed forces.
Prohibits any fees relating to posthumous citizenship for aliens killed while on active duty service during periods of military hostilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4904-4905)
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E775-776)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Terrorist Victim Citizenship Relief Act

Bill: 108-hr-1801
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Citizenship
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Families
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Terrorist Victim Citizenship Relief Act - Deems aliens who died as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States to be honorary U.S. citizens if they held lawful immigration status. Entitles the spouses and children of such victims to naturalization as U.S. citizens upon being administered the oath of renunciation and allegiance in an appropriate ceremony pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), without regard to their current status, if they apply to the Secretary of Homeland Security for naturalization within two years. Directs the Secretary to record the date of naturalization of any such person as being September 10, 2001. Prohibits naturalization of, or affording honorary citizenship to, any alien (or family member) who is inadmissible or deportable under the INA, including any perpetrator of such attacks.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E772)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Budget Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1804
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Minimum tax
Tax rates
War

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Domestic Budget Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a surtax on corporations with aggregate gross assets that exceed $10 million to fund war in Iraq.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9018)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5660)
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3933)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Teaching Fellows Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1805
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Collection of accounts
College costs
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Law
Leadership
Licenses
Paraprofessional school personnel
Public schools
Revolving funds
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Teaching Fellows Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make competitive matching grants to States for Teaching and Partnership Fellows programs of scholarships for prospective public school teachers.
Provides for scholarships: (1) under the Teaching program for high school seniors and second-year college students to encourage them to enter the teaching field and become career educators; and (2) under the Partnership program for individuals, such as teaching assistants and others currently in the education field, to complete a bachelor's degree with a State license or certification in education through partnerships among associate-and-bachelor-degree-granting institutions.
Requires scholarship recipients to repay specified amounts if they do not fulfill certain obligations to teach in their State's public elementary or secondary schools, under such Federal Teaching and Partnership Fellows program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E771)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House