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To suspend temporarily the duty on Cerium Sulfide.

Bill: 108-hr-928
Sponsor: Rep. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Cerium Sulfide.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 1,8 Dichloroanthraquinone.

Bill: 108-hr-929
Sponsor: Rep. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on 1,8 Dichloroanthraquinone.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
America's Better Classroom Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-930
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Apprenticeship
Building construction
Charitable contributions
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Community and school
Construction costs
Construction industries
Construction workers
Corporate philanthropy
Curricula
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational planning
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee selection
Enterprise zones
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Higher education
Income tax
Indian education
Infrastructure
Interest
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Public schools
School buildings
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Skilled labor
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax returns
Tax-exempt securities
Teacher education
Vocational and technical education
Volunteer workers
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: America's Better Classroom Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide: (1) a limited credit for qualified public school modernization bonds; (2) for qualified school construction bonds and qualified zone academy bonds and establish limits and allocation formulas for such bonds; and (3) corporations, a limited specialized training center credit.
Amends the General Education Provisions Act to provide for the application of certain labor standards to projects financed under this Act.
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to establish provisions concerning employment and training activities related to the construction or reconstruction of public school facilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the impact aid program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve the delivery of payments under the program to local educational agencies.

Bill: 108-hr-932
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Building construction
Construction costs
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Entitlements
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Impact aid
Indian children
Indian education
Military dependents
Minorities
School buildings
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to entitle certain local educational agencies (LEAs) to specified payment amounts under Impact Aid programs: (1) relating to Federal acquisition of real property; and (2) for basic support for eligible federally-connected children. (Current law makes such LEAs eligible for such payments up to specified maximum amounts.)
Revises the formula for calculating additional Impact Aid payments to LEAs for federally-connected children with disabilities who are eligible for services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Extends the authorization of appropriations for: (1) construction and school modernization payments for certain LEAs, including ones with high percentages of children living on Indian lands or children of military parents; and (2) facilities maintenance payments for certain schools located on military bases and serving military dependent children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program Reauthorization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-933
Sponsor: Rep. Kolbe, Jim [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Authorization
Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Imprisonment
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: State Criminal Alien Assistance Program Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for the State criminal alien assistance program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Teacher and Nurse Support Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-934
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Health
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Nurses
Nursing education
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Teacher and Nurse Support Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to increase to a maximum of $17,500 the aggregate student loan obligation eligible for forgiveness or cancellation programs for teachers who serve full-time in certain elementary or secondary schools (which qualify based on enrollment of disadvantaged students).
Includes, under these HEA student loan forgiveness and cancellation programs, nurses who serve in a clinical setting or as a member of the nursing faculty at an accredited school of nursing.
Directs the Secretary of Education to repay such loan obligation in annual installments up to specified maximum amounts after each of five years of such service.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E870-871)
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-935
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee health benefits
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Tax Equity for Health Plan Beneficiaries Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the exclusion from gross income for employer-provided health coverage for spouses ad children to other qualifying employee beneficiaries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Rural Community Hospital Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-937
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulances
Ambulatory care
Coinsurance
Debt
Disabled
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Finance and Financial Sector
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Long-term care
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medicare
Mental health services
Nurses
Physicians' assistants
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Rural Community Hospital Assistance Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) provide for establishment of the rural community hospital (RCH) program; (2) remove certain barriers to establishment of distinct part units by RCH and Medicare critical access hospital (CAH) facilities; (3) revise the CAH program; and (4) provide for coverage of costs for emergency room on-call physician assistants and nurse practitioners.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Human Cloning Prevention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-938
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cloning
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid programs
Federal aid to research
Genetic research
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government contractors
Human embryology
Medical research
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Human Cloning Prevention Act of 2003 - Prohibits any Federal agency from making, or entering into any obligation to make, any grant, contract, or other payment to any individual, business, institution, or organization that: (1) has engaged in human cloning in the past year; or (2) controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with any such individual or entity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Domain Names Act

Bill: 108-hr-939
Sponsor: Rep. Pence, Mike [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Child welfare
Computer crimes
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Internet
Pornography
Science, Technology, Communications
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Truth in Domain Names Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly using a misleading domain name with the intent to attract a minor into viewing a visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct on the Internet.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1363)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Foreign Tax Credit Revenue Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-940
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Foreign tax credit
Income tax
Law
Tax administration
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Foreign Tax Credit Revenue Enhancement Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to state that refunded accrued taxes relating to the foreign tax credit don't need to be redetermined by the Secretary of the Treasury if the refund was a result of a court determination that the imposed tax is unlawful.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Consolidation Student Loan Flexibility Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-942
Sponsor: Rep. Regula, Ralph [R-OH-16]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Debtor and creditor
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Interest rates
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Consolidation Student Loan Flexibility Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow student loan borrowers to choose a lender for loan consolidation. (Eliminates the requirement that: (1) the consolidation loan lender must already hold an outstanding student loan of the borrower; or (2) the borrower must certify to having sought and been unable to obtain a consolidation loan with income-sensitive repayment terms from any holders of the outstanding loans selected for consolidation.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act

Bill: 108-hr-943
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disabled
Hearing aids
Income tax
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable income tax credit of up to $500 for the purchase of a qualified hearing aid for an individual who is either: (1) age 65 or older; or (2) is claimed as a dependent of the taxpayer.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that amounts in the Victims of Crime Fund are fully obligated.

Bill: 108-hr-944
Sponsor: Rep. Simmons, Rob [R-CT-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Compensation for victims of crime
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to require the Director of the Office for Victims of Crime to ensure that all sums in the Victims of Crime Fund in a fiscal year are in fact obligated in the subsequent fiscal year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E307-308)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Jurisdictional Certainty Over Digital Commerce Act

Bill: 108-hr-945
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Commerce
Delegation of powers
Electronic commerce
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Internet
Interstate commerce
Local laws
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Jurisdictional Certainty Over Digital Commerce Act - Reserves solely to the Federal Government the responsibility and authority to regulate digital commercial transactions. Prohibits: (1) any State or political subdivision from enacting or enforcing any provision regulating such transactions; or (2) the delegation of such responsibility or authority to any State. Makes such reservation inapplicable to non-digital commercial transactions, and makes this Act inapplicable to Uniform Commercial Code requirements in effect in any State.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Mass Immigration Reduction Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-946
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Citizenship
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental degradation
Families
Health
Labor and Employment
Legislative resolutions
Married people
Naturalization
Public hospitals
Public schools
Refugees
Visas
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Mass Immigration Reduction Act of 2003 - Provides that during a specified immigration moratorium period: (1) employment-based immigrant visas shall be reduced, and family-sponsored and diversity immigrant visas shall be eliminated; (2) immigrant status shall be granted only to children and spouses of U.S. citizens or priority workers; (3) refugee admissions and asylee adjustments shall be limited to 25,000 per year; and (4) an alien shall be required to renounce citizenship or nationality of any other country in order to be naturalized as a U.S. citizen.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
School Capacity Relief Act

Bill: 108-hr-947
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction
Class size
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Recruiting of employees
School buildings
School choice
School districts
Secondary education
Student transportation
Teacher supply and demand
Teaching materials
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: School Capacity Relief Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to authorize local educational agencies (LEAs) to prohibit the transfer of students from schools identified for school improvement to another school if that school is at or above capacity or if such transfer would increase that school's average class size above what the State prescribes.
Provides that children retain certain rights to remain in schools to which they have already been transferred under ESEA school improvement provisions.
Requires an LEA to enter into a cooperative agreement for school transfers with another LEA in the area, if all of the LEA's public schools are either: (1) identified for school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring; or (2) are determined by the LEA to be at or above capacity or otherwise ineligible for a transfer.
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to eligible LEAs to increase capacity at high-performance schools, through measures that may include renovating or constructing facilities, hiring teachers, or purchasing instructional materials. Makes an LEA eligible for such a grant if it has a high percentage or number of students at schools identified under ESEA for school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring. Provides that a high-performance school is one that is not identified for such school improvement, corrective action, or restructuring.
Authorizes LEAs to establish limits on duration or distance of transportation to be provided or paid for under ESEA school improvement provisions for transferring students.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House