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Children's Vision Improvement and Learning Readiness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2173
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Eye care
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health education
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Optometry
Performance measurement
Physical examinations
Poor children
School health programs
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Children's Vision Improvement and Learning Readiness Act of 2003 - Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States for the purposes of: (1) providing comprehensive eye examinations for children identified as being at high risk of vision impairment, with priority to go to children under nine years old; (2) providing subsequent treatment or services necessary to correct vision problems; and (3) developing and disseminating educational materials with regard to the need and benefits of comprehensive eye examinations for children.
Directs the Secretary to develop criteria for the collection of data related to vision assessment and the utilization of followup services.
Directs the Secretary to coordinate the grant program, as appropriate, with other Federal and State programs that provide services to children. Requires a State to submit an application to the Secretary in order to receive a grant, which shall include a plan for the use of the grant.
Requires a State to submit to the Secretary an annual evaluation of the operations and activities carried out under a grant.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Educational Access for America's Soldiers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2174
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2003-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Labor and Employment
Military discharges
Military pay
Military pensions
Military personnel
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Educational Access for America's Soldiers Act of 2003 - Authorizes an individual, during the year following enactment of this Act, to make an irrevocable election for entitlement to basic educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill if such individual: (1) first became a member of the armed forces or entered active duty before, on, or after July 1, 1985; (2) has served on active duty without a break in service and continues to serve for some or all of the year before enactment of this Act; (3) has completed requirements of a secondary school diploma or the equivalent of 12 semester hours in a program leading to a standard college degree; and (4) is discharged or released from active duty honorably.
Requires such individual's basic pay to be reduced, over an 18-month period, until the total reduction is $2,700, as a contribution toward such educational assistance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-18
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Shwa-Chen Chai.

Bill: 108-hr-2177
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2003-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims
Federal employees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Declares that for purposes of any determination of rights under Federal law pertaining to civil service retirement, Dr. An-Ti Chai shall be deemed: (1) to have been retired after being voluntarily separated from the service; and (2) to have made an election of a lump-sum payment for a life-threatening affliction or other critical medical condition.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Professional Employer Organization Workers Benefits Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2178
Sponsor: Rep. Portman, Rob [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Commerce
Department of the Treasury
Economics and Public Finance
Employee benefit plans
Employee health benefits
Employment agencies
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Law
Life insurance
Partnerships
Personnel records
Professions
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Surety and fidelity
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Tipping
Unemployment insurance
User charges
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Professional Employer Organization Workers Benefits Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish provisions concerning certified professional employer organizations, including: (1) defining such organizations; (2) employment taxes and such organizations; and (3) employee benefits of such organizations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Farming Flexibility Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2181
Sponsor: Rep. Pence, Mike [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2003-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Acreage allotments
Agricultural subsidies
Fruit
Oilseeds
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Farming Flexibility Act of 2003 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 with respect to oilseed base acres to: (1) deem the planting, prevented planting, or production of fruits or vegetables to be the same as the planting, prevented planting, or production of oilseeds for purposes of oilseed base acre calculations; and (2) permit fruit or vegetable production on oilseed base acres, except that direct payments and counter-cyclical payments for oilseeds shall be reduced by an acre for each acre planted to a fruit or vegetable.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Medically Necessary Dental Care Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2182
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2003-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Dental care
Leukemia
Medicare
Prosthesis
Social Welfare
Surgery
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Medicare Medically Necessary Dental Care Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of medically necessary dental procedures.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-21
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: 2003-05-21
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: 2003-05-21
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: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Fairness and Accountability in International Taxation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2184
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-10]
Introduced: 2003-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
International Affairs
Partnerships
Prices
Residence requirements
Stockholders
Subsidiary corporations
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax havens
Tax rates
Tax treaties
Taxation of foreign income
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Fairness and Accountability in International Taxation Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny reduced withholding tax treaty benefits to a foreign entity on any deductible foreign payment (deductible payment made by a domestic entity to a related foreign entity) unless such entity is predominantly owned by individuals who are residents of such foreign country. Exempts from such provision: (1) corporations with substantial business activities in a treaty country with specified tax rates; (2) payments received by controlled foreign corporations from U.S. shareholders; and (3) certain conduit payments made by foreign corporations.
Provides a special income and deduction allocation rule for related-party inbound (transfer price increased by deflected tax haven income) and outbound (transfer price increased by deflected tax haven income) transactions. Defines "related-party inbound transaction," "related-party outbound transaction," and "deflected tax haven."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Insular Areas Tax Credit Guarantee Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2186
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: American Samoa
Armed Forces and National Security
Earned income tax credit
Families
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Income tax
Intergovernmental tax relations
Local taxation
Military pay
Military personnel
Northern Mariana Islands
Social Welfare
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Virgin Islands
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Insular Areas Tax Credit Guarantee Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the coordination of United States and certain possession individual income taxes, to direct the United States to pay to: (1) any possession whose income tax laws mirror the Code an amount equal to the refundable portions of the child care and earned income credits paid by such possession; and (2) Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands, the amount of taxes withheld from Federal personnel who are temporarily assigned or deployed in such possession for more that 30 days in a calendar year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
SSI Modernization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2187
Sponsor: Rep. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Blind
College costs
Cost of living adjustments
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Earnings
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Income
Labor and Employment
Scholarships
Secondary education
Students
Supplemental security income program
Technical education
Vocational and technical education
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: SSI Modernization Act of 2003 - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act, with respect to eligibility and income determination requirements, to increase the excluded amount (adjusted for cost-of-living changes) of: (1) income per year other than income paid on the basis of the eligible individual's need; (2) earned income per year for an individual (or the individual's spouse) who is blind and has not attained age 65; (3) total unearned monthly income of such individual (and such spouse, if any) received too infrequently or irregularly to be included; and (4) any grant, scholarship, or fellowship received to pay any cost (including room and board) related to attending an educational (including technical or vocational education) institution.
Increases resource limits under SSA title XVI part A (Determination of Benefits) provisions concerned with the eligibility for and amount of benefits for each aged, blind, or disabled individual who does not have an eligible spouse.
Provides for disability redeterminations for secondary school students who turn age 18.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Safety Net Extension Act

Bill: 108-hr-2188
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Delegation of powers
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Farmers
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Income tax
Interest
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor statistics
State finance
Tax administration
Tax exclusion
Tax returns
Taxation
Trade adjustment assistance
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: 
Safety Net Extension Act - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA) to: (1) extend the TEUCA program through November 30, 2003, with a phaseout period through February 28, 2004; and (2) provide eight additional weeks of TEUC benefits to those who have exhausted theirs before enactment of this Act.
 
Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to revise the formula for the extended benefits trigger.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to require: (1) increases and decreases in the earnings allocated to State accounts when States meet or fail to meet funding goals; and (2) interest-free advances to State accounts in the Unemployment Trust Fund to be restricted to States which meet funding goals.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) suspend the tax on individual unemployment compensation for 2003 and 2004; (2) allow certified States to elect to collect Federal unemployment taxes, under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA); and (3) require States to distribute to unemployed individuals State-specific information packets explaining unemployment insurance eligibility conditions.
 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to: (1) extend the authorizations of appropriations for adjustment assistance for workers, for firms, and for farmers; and (2) require delegation to the International Trade Administration of all functions, powers, and duties to carry out the program of adjustment assistance for firms (with the exception of such program for small firms, which continues to be delegated to the Small Business Administration).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Home Financing Assistance Act

Bill: 108-hr-2189
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2003-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Chemicals
Chronically ill
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes
Health
Housing authorities
Housing finance
Law
Loan defaults
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Oil pollution
Refuse and refuse disposal
Soil pollution
Terminally ill
Underground storage

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Emergency Home Financing Assistance Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to guarantee loans to homeowners with properties contaminated and reduced in value by leaking underground storage tanks.
Permits loans to be used for other residences or to obtain equity in the property.
Requires public housing agencies to physically maintain qualified (entitled to a loan guarantee) property under its jurisdiction.
Requires the Secretary to fix and collect loan guarantee fees. Directs the Secretary to issue a certificate of guarantee for approved loans.
Sets forth loan default procedures, providing for foreclosure, assignment, and forgiveness, as specified.
Establishes in the Treasury a loan guarantee fund to be credited with loan collections, guarantee fees, and appropriations to pay costs of the program to the extent that amounts in the fund are made available by appropriations acts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
United States Maritime Industry Promotion Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2190
Sponsor: Rep. McCrery, Jim [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Barges
Commerce
Fishing boats
Income tax
Inland water transportation
Marine transportation
Shipbuilding
Ships
Subsidies
Tax exclusion
Tugboats

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: 
United States Maritime Industry Promotion Act of 2003 - Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to make a U.S. citizen owning or leasing any vessel in the domestic commerce of the United States eligible to establish a capital construction fund. (Currently only U.S. citizens owning or leasing Great Lakes or noncontiguous domestic trade vessels are eligible).
 
Redefines the term &quot;vessels&quot; to include dry dock or mobile offshore drilling units or production units, but excludes towing vessels or barges operated on the inland waterways of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 8339(p) of title 5, United States Code, to clarify the method for computing certain annuities under the Civil Service Retirement System which are based on part-time service, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2191
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Civil service retirement
Federal employees
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Labor and Employment
Part-time employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Applies provisions governing the computation of an annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) for a Federal employee whose service includes service that was performed on a part-time basis to: (1) service performed before April 7, 1986, with respect to basing average pay on the basic pay for full-time service; and (2) service performed after such date with respect to calculating the benefit by prorating total service to reflect part-time service. Provides for the recomputation of an annuity for any individual who performed any service creditable under CSRS (or under the Federal Employees Retirement System, to the extent of any portion of such annuity which is computed under CSRS) before such date and who was separated from the service on or after such date and before the enactment of this Act. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to inform individuals entitled to have an annuity recomputed under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in House