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To clarify congressional approval of certain State energy production tax practices.

Bill: 108-hr-3336
Sponsor: Rep. Gillmor, Paul E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2003-10-17 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Coal
Commerce
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Solar energy
State laws
State taxation
Tax credits
Tax incentives
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: 
Permits a State to provide tax incentives for production of electricity from: (1) coal mined in the State and used in a facility, if such production meets Federal and State laws and if the facility uses clean coal technology, including scrubbers; (2) a renewable source such as wind, solar, or biomass; or (3) ethanol.
 
Declares that any such State tax incentive shall: (1) be considered to be a reasonable regulation of commerce, and (2) not be considered to impose an undue burden on interstate commerce or to otherwise impair, restrain, or discriminate, against interstate commerce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-10-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: Introduced in House
Arizona Voluntary Grazing Permit Buyout Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3337
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2003-10-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Arizona
Compensation (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Grazing
Land transfers
Law
Leases
Licenses
Livestock
Range management

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: 
Arizona Voluntary Grazing Permit Buyout Act of 2003 - Authorizes a permittee or lessee to waive to the Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Energy, or Secretary of Defense, as appropriate, a valid existing grazing permit or lease authorizing livestock grazing on Federal land in Arizona. Directs the Secretary concerned to cancel and permanently retire from grazing such waived allotments. Sets forth compensation provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-10-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-10-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: Introduced in House
Incentives to Educate American Children (I Teach) Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3338
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-10-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Law
Licenses
Rural education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: Incentives to Educate American Children (I Teach) Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a tax credit of $1,000 for: (1) teachers in public elementary or secondary schools or public kindergartens in rural areas or areas with high poverty; and (2) teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Grants a credit of $2,000 for a teacher meeting both criteria.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: Introduced in House
National Defense Energy Savings Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3339
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2003-10-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Computer software
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Department of Defense
Directories
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government publicity
Law
Maintenance and repair
Performance measurement
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: 
National Defense Energy Savings Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to: (1) enter into an energy savings performance contract (for a period of up to 25 years) for the sole purpose of achieving ancillary energy savings and benefits; and (2) incur obligations under the contract to finance energy conservation measures so long as guaranteed savings exceed the debt service requirements.
 
Directs the Secretary to issue final rules establishing implementation procedures and methods that meet specified requirements.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to implement a pilot program to enter into up to ten energy savings performance contracts in nonbuilding applications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-17
text: Introduced in House
Adequate Yearly Federal Funding Report Act

Bill: 108-hr-3341
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2003-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal mandates
Government Operations and Politics
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: 
Adequate Yearly Federal Funding Report Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require the Comptroller General to report annually to Congress on whether amounts appropriated for the preceding fiscal year to carry out each ESEA grant program are adequate to permit grant recipients to meet conditions imposed by receipt of the grant. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Trails System Act to update the feasibility and suitability study originally prepared for the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and provide for the inclusion of new trail segments for such trail, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3342
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2003-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Arkansas
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Kentucky
Minorities
Missouri
Native Americans
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: 
Amends the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior: (1) to submit to Congress a study regarding the feasibility and suitability of designating the Benge and Belle routes by which southeastern Indian tribes were removed to present-day Oklahoma as additional components of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail; and (2) upon completion of such study, if such routes are a feasible and suitable addition to the Trail, to designate them as components of such Trail.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the highest rate of income tax for corporations.

Bill: 108-hr-3343
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2003-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the highest rate of income tax for corporations to 30 percent (32 percent in the case of taxable years beginning in 2004, 2005, or 2006) of so much of the taxable income as exceeds $75,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2098-2099)
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Hospitalized Veterans Financial Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3344
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2003-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Health
Hospital care
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: 
Hospitalized Veterans Financial Assistance Act of 2003 - Makes the commencement date of the period of payment of a temporary increase in veterans' disability compensation for hospitalization or treatment the day on which such hospitalization or treatment commences. (Currently, such date is the first day of the month in which such hospitalization or treatment commences, when the hospitalization or treatment commences and terminates within the same calendar month.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2097-2098)
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Inadmissibility of National Security Aliens Act

Bill: 108-hr-3345
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2003-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
EBB Terrorism
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: 
Inadmissibility of National Security Aliens Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the entry of an alien who the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security has reason to believe poses a danger to national security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Timber Tax Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3346
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2003-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Close corporations
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Losses
Lumber trade
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: 
Timber Tax Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the application of the passive loss limitations to timber activities by establishing a special rule for closely held timber activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2093)
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
To authorize salary adjustments for Justices and judges of the United States for fiscal year 2004.

Bill: 108-hr-3349
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2003-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Judges
Judicial compensation
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: 
Authorizes salary adjustments for U.S. justices and judges for FY 2004 concurrently with increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Federal employees. 

action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Authorizes salary adjustments for U.S. justices and judges for FY 2004 concurrently with increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Federal employees. 

action_date: 2003-12-06
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Authorizes salary adjustments for U.S. justices and judges for FY 2004 concurrently with increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Federal employees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: Became Public Law No: 108-167.
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: Became Public Law No: 108-167.
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2003-11-26
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2003-11-26
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S15509)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S15509)
action_date: 2003-11-06
text: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 371.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H10348)
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H10348)
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3349.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H10348-10349)
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Mr. Sensenbrenner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 108-167
To amend title 38, Unites States Code, to provide the same type of vocational rehabilitation benefits and services under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for certain children with spina bifida as are currently available to veterans with service-connected disabilities.

Bill: 108-hr-3351
Sponsor: Rep. Walsh, James T. [R-NY-25]
Introduced: 2003-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Birth defects
Child health
Disabled
Families
Health
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Vietnam veterans
Vocational rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide to a child of a Vietnam veteran who is suffering from spina bifida the same vocational training and rehabilitation services currently authorized for veterans with service-connected disabilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-20
text: Introduced in House
To include in St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, the land and facilities comprising St. Marks lighthouse.

Bill: 108-hr-3354
Sponsor: Rep. Boyd, Allen [D-FL-2]
Introduced: 2003-10-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Florida
Land transfers
Lighthouses and lightships
Navigational aids
Transportation and Public Works
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: 
Revokes any reservation of specified public land within the external boundaries of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in Wakulla County, Florida, for lighthouse purposes by the Executive Order dated November 12, 1838, as amended by Public Land Order 5655, dated January 9, 1979.
 
Transfers administrative jurisdiction over such lands, including improvements, structures, and fixtures located thereon from the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to the Secretary of the Interior, without reimbursement.
 
Includes the lands as part of the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.
 
Subjects the transfer and administration of the lands to conditions and restrictions the Secretary of Homeland Security considers necessary to ensure maintenance of specified navigation functions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-10-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-10-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-10-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Introduced in House
Nursing Home Staffing Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3355
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2003-10-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative procedure
Auditing
Business records
Commerce
Consumer education
Department of Health and Human Services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Hospital rates
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Medicaid
Medicare
Nurses
Nursing homes
Social Welfare
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: 
Nursing Home Staffing Act of 2003 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate standards for minimum nurse staffing levels in nursing facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid payments.
 
Reinstitutes (Boren amendment) payment methodology, providing for payment of Medicaid services through the use of rates determined pursuant to the criteria under State Medicaid plan requirements as in effect on August 1, 1997. Establishes safe harbor rates.
 
Provides a permanent 1.50 percent increase of the Medicaid Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for a State beginning with FY 2004. 
 
Authorizes inclusion of: (1) financial accountability requirements in the survey and certification process with respect to facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid payments; and (2) professionals trained in financial accounting and auditing in the multidisciplinary survey teams of professionals under Medicare and Medicaid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-10-21
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: 2003-10-21
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: 2003-10-21
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: 2003-10-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-21
text: Introduced in House