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Building Better Health Centers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1386
Sponsor: Rep. Bonilla, Henry [R-TX-23]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Building construction
Capital investments
Clinics
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Leases
Medical supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Building Better Health Centers Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide loan guarantees or make grants to eligible health centers for expansion, new construction, or equipment purchase or lease.
Makes certain unexpended funds appropriated for FY's 1997 and 1998 under the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Acts of 1997 and 1998, which were made available for loan guarantees for loans made by non-Federal lenders for building costs associated with medical facilities owned and operated by health centers, available for loan guarantees under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Vocational and Technical Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1387
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Robert A. [D-PA-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Entrepreneurs
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Small business
Technical education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Vocational and Technical Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2003 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a program under which the Administrator shall make grants to, or may enter into cooperative agreements with, State small business development centers to provide, on a statewide basis, technical assistance to secondary schools, or to post-secondary vocational or technical schools, for the development and implementation of curricula designed to promote vocational and technical entrepreneurship.
Provides for the minimum amount of a grant to not be less than $200,000.
Directs the association of small business development centers to act as an information clearinghouse regarding vocational and technical entrepreneurship education programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Certified Registered Nurse First Assistant Direct Reimbursement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1388
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Medical fees
Medicare
Nurses
Nursing
Social Welfare
Surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Medicare Certified Registered Nurse First Assistant Direct Reimbursement Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of surgical first assisting services furnished by certified registered nurse first assistants.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-20
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: 2003-03-20
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: 2003-03-20
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: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
National Board-Certified Teachers in Low-Performing Schools Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1390
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Recruiting of employees
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: National Board-Certified Teachers in Low-Performing Schools Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program of stipends for teachers in low-income, low-performing schools who: (1) are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; and (2) serve as resident facilitators at their schools and as liaisons with the Board to help encourage other teachers to become Board-certified. Authorizes base stipends and potential bonuses for up to 100 teachers annually under such five-year program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E547-548)
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
To extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act for commencement of construction of the Mt. Hope Waterpower project (FERC Project No. 9401), and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1391
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Animals
Churches
Commemorations
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Historic sites
History
Hydroelectric power
Law
Licenses
Lighting
Maintenance and repair
New Jersey
Pest control
Refuse and refuse disposal
Religion
Security measures
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: 
Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, upon licensee request, to extend the time period for commencement of construction of the Mt. Hope Waterpower project until December 31, 2005, if the Commission determines that the licensee will take specified actions with regard to the project.
 
 Provides for license reinstatement if the period required for commencement of project construction has expired prior to the date of the enactment of this Act .


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
To require inspection of all cargo on commercial trucks and vessels entering the United States.

Bill: 108-hr-1392
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Border patrols
Canada
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
EBB Terrorism
Freight
International Affairs
Latin America
Merchant ships
Mexico
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Prohibits cargo transported by commercial motor vehicle (including cargo transported by vessel) from entering the United States from Canada or Mexico unless an appropriate officer or employee of the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security or other appropriate U.S. officer or employee has inspected such cargo to ensure that it complies with U.S. laws.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Armed Forces Tax Fairness and Justice Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1393
Sponsor: Rep. Janklow, William J. [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Crime and Law Enforcement
Income tax
International Affairs
International military forces
Israel
Middle East and North Africa
Military intervention
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel
South Asia
Tax exemption
Taxation
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Armed Forces Tax Fairness and Justice Act of 2003 - Includes Israel in the geographic area encompassed by the applicability of benefits afforded as a result of the January, 2003 Operational Deployment Order issued by the President with respect to U.S. personnel participating in Operation Enduring Freedom.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Intermodal Transportation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1394
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Capital investments
Commerce
Commuting
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Intermodal transportation
Light rail transit
Mass rapid transit
Motor buses
Parking facilities
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroads
Security measures
Small towns
Subsidies
Terminals (Transportation)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: 
Intermodal Transportation Act of 2003 - Amends Federal transportation law to establish an intermodal transportation facilities program in which the Secretary of Transportation shall make grants on a competitive basis to public or private entities to finance projects for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, and renovation of facilities designed and operated to promote the intermodal transportation of passengers. Sets forth grant and project eligibility requirements. Sets the Federal share of project costs at no more than 90 percent.
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to promote essential intercity bus and commercial van service by private operators between non-urbanized and small urban areas and primary airports, including intermediate points.
 
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to set forth funding levels for grants to operators of over-the-road buses to increase accessibility for persons with disabilities under the rural transportation accessibility incentive program.
 
Establishes a national public transportation information system to provide for all public and private providers of scheduled passenger transportation service over fixed routes information on service, fares, schedules, and availability of service accessible to persons with disabilities.
 
Makes costs associated with the mass transportation, intercity bus, or intercity rail components of facility projects intended to enhance coordinating mass transportation with other transportation eligible for discretionary mass transportation grants and loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E533-534)
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the establishment of research, development, demonstration, and commercial application programs for fuel cell and hydrogen production, delivery, and storage technologies for transportation and stationary applications.

Bill: 108-hr-1395
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Carbon dioxide
Coal
Commerce
Commercialization
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Electric vehicles
Energy development
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy storage
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Fuel cells
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Hydrogen
Industrial engineering
International Affairs
Manufacturing industries
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Nuclear energy
Propane
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Renewable natural resources
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a research, development, demonstration, and commercial application program for fuel cell and hydrogen production, delivery, and storage technologies for transportation and stationary applications that meet specified goals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E546)
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Employee Benefits Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1397
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Contractors
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee benefit plans
Employee leasing
Employee rights
Injunctions
Labor contracts
Law
Legal fees
Part-time employment
Pension funds
Temporary employment
Wage restitution

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Employee Benefits Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to prohibit employers from disqualifying employees from benefits under their pension and welfare plans by misclassifying or reclassifying employee status.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Achieving Our IDEA Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1398
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Achieving Our IDEA Act of 2003 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to authorize and make appropriations for: (1) each of FY 2004 through 2009 in specified amounts; and (2) each subsequent fiscal year, in amounts necessary to fully fund 40 percent of the average per pupil expenditure for IDEA part B programs of assistance for education of all children with disabilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area Boundary Revision Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1399
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Boundaries
Colorado
Commerce
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Grazing
Irrigation
Land transfers
Law
Leases
Licenses
Maps
National parks
Natural areas
Nature conservation
Partnerships
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area Boundary Revision Act of 2003 - Amends the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area Act of 1999 to revise the boundaries of the Park and the Conservation Area to add specified lands.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer such land to the Park. Provides that, if land authorized for the grazing of livestock is exchanged for private land under this Act, the Secretary shall transfer any grazing privileges to the private land acquired. Permits grazing with respect to permits or leases issued to specified partnerships. Requires acquisitions of land or interest in land acquired under this Act to be made in accordance with such Act.
Provides that the Commissioner of Reclamation shall retain administrative jurisdiction over, and access to Bureau of Reclamation land, facilities, and roads in the East Portal and Crystal Dam areas for the maintenance, construction, replacement, and operation of water delivery facilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-16
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
Prescription Drug Fairness for Seniors Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1400
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Canada
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug industry
Drugs
East Asia
Europe
Foreign Trade and International Finance
France
Germany
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Italy
Japan
Medicare
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Price discrimination
Social Welfare
Terminal care
Terminally ill
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Prescription Drug Fairness for Seniors Act of 2003 - Requires each participating manufacturer of a covered outpatient drug to make it available for purchase by each pharmacy: (1) in an amount equal to the aggregate amount sold or distributed by the pharmacy to Medicare beneficiaries; and (2) at a price no greater than the manufacturer's average foreign price. Sets forth special provisions with respect to hospice programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5698-5699)
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4765-4766)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-20
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: 2003-03-20
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: 2003-03-20
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: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
To designate the United States courthouse located at the corner of Seventh Street and East Jackson Street in Brownsville, Texas, as the 'Reynaldo G. Garza and Filemon B. Vela United States Courthouse'.

Bill: 108-hr-1402
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2003-03-20 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Law
Names
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Designates the U.S. courthouse located at the corner of Seventh Street and East Jackson Street in Brownsville, Texas, as the Garza-Vela United States Courthouse.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Designates the U.S. courthouse located at the corner of Seventh Street and East Jackson Street in Brownsville, Texas, as the Reynaldo G. Garza and Filemon B. Vela United States Courthouse. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7814)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7814)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1402.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7814-7818)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Mr. LaTourette moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-20
text: Introduced in House