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To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund be excluded from the budget of the United States Government.

Bill: 108-hr-2323
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Michael [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Congress
Congressional budget
Disability insurance
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Government spending reductions
Government trust funds
Labor and Employment
Off-budget expenditures

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Excludes the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund from the Federal and congressional budgets and exempts it from any general budget limitation imposed by statute on U.S. budget outlays.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Family Fairness in Taxing Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2324
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Age
Families
Income tax
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Family Fairness in Taxing Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the child care credit to: (1) revise refundability criteria; (2) accelerate the increase to a $1,000 credit; and (3) increase a qualifying child's age to 19 years old.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Working Taxpayer Fairness Restoration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2325
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporate debt
Corporation directors
Corporation taxes
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Interest
Labor and Employment
Law
Losses
Partnerships
Pension funds
Real estate investment
Securities
Stockholders
Stocks
Subsidiary corporations
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax shelters
Taxation of foreign income
Taxpayers
Trusts and trustees
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Working Taxpayer Fairness Restoration Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the refundability of the child tax credit, to accelerate the increase to the 15 percent rate.
 
Limits, to fair market value immediately following a transaction, the importation of net built-in loss by a corporation.
 
Prohibits an allocation of any decrease in the adjusted basis of partnership property to stock in a corporation which is a partner in the partnership.
 
Repeals part V (Financial Asset Securitization Investment Trusts) of subchapter M (Regulated Investment Companies and Real Estate Investment Trusts).
 
Expands the definition of a disqualified debt instrument with respect to deduction disallowance on certain debt instruments of corporations.
 
Expands the authority to disallow deductions, credits, or other allowances under provisions disallowing such benefits due to acquisitions made to evade or avoid income tax.
 
Amends provisions affecting passive foreign investment companies to state that the term "qualified portion" (of a shareholder's holding period) does not include any period if there is only a remote likelihood of an inclusion in gross income under subpart F (Controlled Foreign Income).
 
Adds to the definition of the term "real estate investment trust" by stating that such term includes a corporation, trust, or association which is not a controlled entity.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a program requiring the payment of user fees, until September 30, 2013, for: (1) requests to the Internal Revenue Service for ruling letters, opinion letters, and determination letters; and (2) other similar requests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To require the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management lands in Nye County, Nevada, to Ponderosa Dairy in Amargosa, Nevada.

Bill: 108-hr-2326
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbons, Jim [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Dairy industry
Land transfers
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Ponderosa Dairy, Amargosa, Nevada, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a certain parcel of real property in Nye County, Nevada, that is administered by the Bureau of Land Management in exchange for payment in an amount equal to the fair market value of the property.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Extension Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2327
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Delaware
District of Columbia
Historic sites
History
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Sports and Recreation
Tennessee
Trails
Virginia
West (U.S.)
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Extension Act of 2003 - Extends the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail to include: (1) the route followed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the preparation phase of the expedition, starting at Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, and traveling to Wood River, Illinois, and in the return phase from Saint Louis, Missouri, to Washington, D.C.; and (2) designated Lewis and Clark sites in Virginia, D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Illinois. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to complete a general management plan to include the extended route within three years from the date funds are first made available for that purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Tribal Transportation Program Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2331
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Auditing
Bikeways
Bridges
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Drug abuse
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to transportation
Finance and Financial Sector
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Highway planning
Housing and Community Development
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Mass rapid transit
Minorities
Native Americans
Pedestrians
Railroad safety
Road construction
Seat belts
Sports and Recreation
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic engineering
Trails
Transportation research
Transportation safety

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Tribal Transportation Program Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to authorize appropriations for Indian reservation roads under the Federal Lands Highways Program through FY 2009.
Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from distributing, for years after FY 2003, any amount of obligation authority made available for Indian reservation road bridges and roads.
Authorizes appropriations to carry out the planning, design, engineering, construction, and inspection of certain projects concerning deficient Indian reservation road bridges.
Raises from two percent to four percent the ceiling for the amount of funds made available for Indian reservation roads for each fiscal year that may be allocated to Indian tribal governments applying for transportation planning pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.
Requires the Secretary to establish a Federal lands highway program demonstration project for Indian reservation roads and highway bridges located on Indian reservations.
Requires the Secretary to carry out a program to provide to eligible Indian tribes competitive grants for use in establishing tribal transportation safety programs.
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue grants to Indian tribes to establish rural transit programs on reservations or other land under tribal jurisdiction.
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the maintenance of roads on Indian reservations is a responsibility of the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and (2) Congress should provide annually to the Bureau funding necessary to carry out all maintenance of roads on Indian reservations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to make permanent the treatment of dividend income as capital gains.

Bill: 108-hr-2332
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Congress
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Sunset legislation
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Amends the Jobs Growth and Reconciliation Act of 2003 to repeal the sunset on the provision providing for the treatment of dividend income as capital gains.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia District Attorney Establishment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2334
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
District of Columbia
Indictments
Law
Licenses
Prosecution
Public prosecutors
Residence requirements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
District of Columbia District Attorney Establishment Act of 2003 - Amends the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to establish the Office of the District Attorney for the District of Columbia, to be headed by the District Attorney (DA) for the District.
 
Makes the DA the chief legal officer for the District to: (1) prosecute the District's local criminal laws, including violations committed by both adult and juvenile offenders, and perform any related functions; and (2) perform civil enforcement and other legal functions as provided by local law.
 
Specifies the qualifications for DA, including residence and domicile in the District. Prohibits the DA from engaging directly or indirectly in private practice.
 
Requires the District Attorney to be elected to a four-year term on a partisan basis by the registered qualified electors of the District; except that within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, the Mayor, by resolution, shall appoint a District Attorney to serve until succeeded by an elected District Attorney.
 

 
States that nothing in this Act shall affect the authority of the Attorney General or the U.S. Attorney for the District to exercise jurisdiction concerning violations of Federal laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1141)
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Targeted Revenue Sharing Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2335
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Block grants
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Local finance
Revenue sharing
Secondary education
State finance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Emergency Targeted Revenue Sharing Act of 2003 - Authorizes and makes appropriations for FY 2003 through 2005 for financial assistance to States and their local governments for: (1) assistance for education; and (2) general revenue sharing.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make allotments of such funds to States, with 50 percent of such allotments to be distributed by States among their local governments. Bases the amount of a State's allotment and of a local government's share upon relative: (1) school-age population, in the case of education assistance; and (2) general population, in the case of general revenue sharing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9018)
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5660)
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Higher Education for Freedom Act

Bill: 108-hr-2336
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Curricula
Democracy
Economics and Public Finance
Educational planning
Federal aid to education
Free enterprise
Freedom of speech
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Higher education
History
Religion
Religious liberty
Scholarships
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Higher Education for Freedom Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to eligible institutions to prepare elementary, middle, and secondary school history teachers and to strengthen postsecondary programs in fields related to the founding of the United States, free institutions, and Western civilization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1127)
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a pilot program to determine the effectiveness of contracting for the use of private memory care facilities for veterans with Alzheimer's Disease.

Bill: 108-hr-2337
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government service contracts
Health
Health facilities
Housing and Community Development
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct during fiscal years 2004 and 2005 a pilot program to determine the effectiveness of contracting with private memory care facilities to provide services for veterans suffering from Alzheimer's disease as an alternative to the provision by the Secretary of inpatient or home health care for such veterans. Requires the pilot program to be conducted through five medical centers of the Veterans Health Administration selected by the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To prevent loans for Iraq from the International Monetary Fund or the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development from being used to pay off Iraq's creditors.

Bill: 108-hr-2338
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Debtor and creditor
Development credit institutions
Foreign loans
International Affairs
International monetary system
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Loan defaults
Middle East and North Africa

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund and the Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to oppose any loans by the Fund or the Bank to the Government of Iraq unless the Secretary determines that there are sufficient safeguards to prevent loan proceeds from being used to reimburse any government or individual for losses arising from credit extended to the Government of Iraq.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To require door delivery of mail sent to persons residing in senior communities.

Bill: 108-hr-2339
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Housing and Community Development
Postal service
Retirement communities
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Requires the Postal Service to take measures to ensure that all individuals residing in senior communities receive their mail through door delivery service, except for persons residing in a structure that consists of or contains two or more dwelling units if delivery is made in a manner that allows such persons to receive or retrieve their mail without having to exit such structure.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the required beginning date for distributions from individual retirement plans and for distributions of elective deferrals under qualified cash or deferred arrangements.

Bill: 108-hr-2340
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the current required beginning date for distributions from individual retirement plans and distributions of elective deferrals under qualified cash or deferred arrangements and make the required beginning date the date of the death of the employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Community Savings and Investment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2341
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank loans
Commerce
Community development banking
Corporation taxes
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Small business
Tax exclusion
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: 
Community Savings and Investment Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a separate tax rate for a qualified community lender; and (2) permit the exclusion from gross income of distressed community banking income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House