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Prescription Drug Tampering Prevention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2936
Sponsor: Rep. Deutsch, Peter [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug adulteration
Drugs
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Labeling
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Prescription Drug Tampering Prevention Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for fines or imprisonment, or both, for an individual for knowingly violating certain provisions by selling or trading adulterated or misbranded prescription drugs. Punishes an individual also for buying or trading for a prescription drug while knowing or having reason to know that the drug was knowingly caused to be adulterated or misbranded. States that in either instance an individual shall be fined in accordance with Federal law relating to crimes and criminal procedure, imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both.
 
Modifies provisions pertaining to criminal penalties for committing certain prohibited acts involving food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics. Makes a violation punishable by a fine in accordance with Federal law relating to crimes and criminal procedure, imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. (Current law prescribes a fine of up to $1,000 and/or imprisonment for not more than one year). Makes a second violation, or a violation committed with intent to defraud or mislead, punishable by a fine in accordance with Federal law, imprisonment for not more than three years, or both. (Current law prescribes a fine of up to $10,000 and/or imprisonment for not more than three years.) Makes a violation of provisions pertaining to prescription drug marketing punishable by a fine in accordance with Federal law, imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both. (Current law prescribes a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment for not more than ten years.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 48 South Broadway in Nyack, New York, as the "John G. Dow Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-2937
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Names
New York State
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 48 South Broadway in Nyack, New York, as the John G. Dow Post Office Building.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that the provisions relating to countervailing duties apply to nonmarket economy countries.

Bill: 108-hr-2938
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Communist countries
Countervailing duties
Dumping
Economics and Public Finance
Free enterprise
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to apply its countervailing duty provisions to nonmarket economy countries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Growing Smarter Through Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2940
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Highway planning
Infrastructure
Land use
Metropolitan areas
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Regional planning
State-local relations
Transportation planning
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Growing Smarter Through Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2003 - Amends Federal highway and transportation law to instruct the pertinent metropolitan planning organizations to coordinate development of long-range highway and transit plans with affected units of general purpose local government in order to ensure consistency with local land use plans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Environmental Terrorism Reduction Act

Bill: 108-hr-2942
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commerce
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
EBB Terrorism
Environmental Protection
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
International cooperation
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Environmental Terrorism Reduction Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a national clearinghouse for information on incidents of crime and terrorism committed or directed against any commercial activity (or connected person) because of its perceived effect on the environment.
Establishes in the Department of Justice the Environmental Terrorism Reduction Program. Authorizes the Attorney General to designate high intensity environmental terrorism areas qualifying for Federal assistance. Sets forth criteria for such designation, including the extent to which: (1) the area is a center of crimes committed in the name of the environment; and (2) a significant increase in Federal resources is necessary to respond adequately to environmental terrorism activities in the area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1650-1651)
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
First Responders Enhancement Act

Bill: 108-hr-2943
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Community policing
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law enforcement officers
Police
Recruiting of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
First Responders Enhancement Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to make certain matching fund requirements and the maximum grant limit inapplicable to a COPS (public safety and community policing; &quot;cops on the beat&quot;) grant awarded in FY 2004 or 2005. Limits funding for hiring or rehiring a career law enforcement officer to $150,000 (currently, $75,000) in the absence of a waiver by the Attorney General. Repeals a requirement that the grant application specify plans for the assumption by the applicant of a progressively larger share of the cost over time.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1644)
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Military Retiree Survivor Comfort Act

Bill: 108-hr-2944
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Bank accounts
Collection of accounts
Death
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic funds transfers
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Labor and Employment
Military pay
Military pensions
Science, Technology, Communications
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Military Retiree Survivor Comfort Act - Requires the United States to forgive any overpayment of military retired or retainer pay for any period after the date of death of the recipient through the last day of the month in which such death occurs if such payment is electronically deposited in an accredited financial institution to a joint account bearing the name of the decedent and the decedent's designated beneficiary.
 
Makes the effective date of annuity payments under the Survivor Benefit Plan the first day of the first month beginning after the death of the person for whom an overpayment is forgiven.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-08-15
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1642)
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Head Start Assessment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2945
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Child development
Child health
Congress
Congressional hearings
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Language arts
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Mental health
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Public meetings
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Head Start Assessment Act of 2003 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from proceeding with the full-scale implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System on Child Outcomes, as described in a specified project proposal, until the Secretary certifies to Congress that: (1) congressional oversight hearings have been concluded concerning the development and implementation of the System; (2) the Secretary has concluded public forums in different regions of the United States, and provided an opportunity for written public comments, concerning early childhood assessment proposals; (3) the Secretary has reported to Congress a study by the National Academy of Sciences of early childhood assessments focusing on improving accountability, instruction, and the delivery of services; and (4) sufficient funds are available to develop and implement any new Head Start assessments, and deliver necessary additional technical assistance and professional development required to successfully implement these assessments.
 
Prescribes requirements for participants in such public forums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Making Health Care Available for Low Income Workers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2947
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medical economics
Social Welfare
Subsidies
Welfare eligibility
Working poor

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Making Health Care Available for Low-Income Workers Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to States for demonstration programs to reduce the premiums for health benefits coverage under group health plans for individuals: (1) who are eligible for benefits under a State's Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) program (or, at the State's option, who would be so eligible but for their eligibility or coverage under a group health plan); and (2) whose income does not exceed 185 percent of the income official poverty line applicable to a family of the size involved. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Comptroller General to enter into arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences and the Librarian of Congress for conducting a study on the feasibility and costs of implementing an emergency electronic communications system for Congress to ensure the continuity of the operations of Congress during an emergency, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2948
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Citizen participation
Computer security measures
Congressional agencies
Congressional information resources
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Constitutional law
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Government Operations and Politics
House rules and procedure
Law
Library of Congress
Public meetings
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Directs the Comptroller General to arrange with: (1) the National Academy of Sciences to study the feasibility of, and the costs associated with, the implementation of an emergency electronic communications system for Congress which would ensure the continuity of congressional operations during an emergency (including an emergency under which Congress would be unable to assemble at a single location); and (2) the Librarian of Congress to identify any constitutional and procedural issues which may arise under the implementation of such a system. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the rate of tax on distilled spirits to its pre-1985 level.

Bill: 108-hr-2950
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcohol tax
Budget surpluses
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
Government trust funds
Social Welfare
Social security finance
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the tax rate on distilled spirits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Accountability Act

Bill: 108-hr-2951
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: County politics and government
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Nuclear power plants
Planning
Public health
Radiation safety
Radioactive pollution

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Nuclear Accountability Act - Prohibits operation of any nuclear utilization facility unless the Nuclear Regulatory Commission finds that the State in which the facility is located, as well as each affected county or county equivalent located within a ten-mile radius, has certified within the last year a radiological emergency response plan which provides reasonable assurance that public health and safety are not endangered by the operation of the facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2952
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Abortion
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Economic assistance
Family planning and birth control
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health counseling
Lobbying
Nongovernmental organizations
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2003 - Declares that foreign nongovernmental organizations: (1) shall not be ineligible for assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 solely on the basis of health or medical services (including counseling and referral services) provided by them with non-U.S. Government funds if such services do not violate the laws of the country in which they are being provided, and would not violate U.S. Federal law if provided in the United States; and (2) shall not be subject to requirements relating to the use of non-U.S. Government funds for advocacy and lobbying activities other than those that apply to U.S. nongovernmental organizations receiving such assistance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Holocaust Education Assistance Act

Bill: 108-hr-2953
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
History
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Holocaust Education Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to educational organizations to carry out educational programs about the Holocaust.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that the courts of the United States may provide an impartial forum for claims brought by United States citizens and others against any railroad organized as a separate legal entity, arising from the deportation of United States citizens and others to Nazi concentration camps on trains owned or operated by such railroad, and by the heirs and survivors of such persons.

Bill: 108-hr-2954
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Claims
Commerce
Compensation for victims of crime
Concentration camps
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
District courts
History
International Affairs
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Jurisdiction
Limitation of actions
Railroads
Transportation and Public Works
War crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Grants U.S. district courts original jurisdiction over any civil action for damages for personal injury or death that: (1) arose from the deportation of persons to Nazi concentration camps between January 1, 1942, and December 31, 1944; and (2) is brought by or on behalf of such person against a railroad that owned or operated the trains on which the persons were deported and that was organized as a separate legal entity.
 
Provides that: (1) no law limiting the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts shall preclude any such action; and (2) no such action shall be barred because a statute of limitations has expired. Makes this Act applicable to any action pending on or commenced after January 1, 2000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Rio Grande Outstanding Natural Area Act

Bill: 108-hr-2955
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2003-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Colorado
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dams
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Historic sites
History
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Land use
Landowners
Landscape protection
Law
Licenses
Motor vehicles
Natural areas
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Research natural areas
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Roads and highways
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water rights
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: 
Rio Grande Outstanding Natural Area Act - Establishes the Rio Grande Outstanding Natural Area, which shall consist of specified land along the Rio Grande River in southern Colorado from the southern boundary of the Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge to the Colorado-New Mexico State line, encompassing the River and its adjacent riparian areas.
 
Establishes the Rio Grande Outstanding Natural Area Commission to assist Federal, State, and local authorities in the development and implementation of an integrated resource management plan for the Area, which shall coordinate existing Federal, State, and local plans. Directs the Commission, upon approval of the plan by the Secretary of the Interior, to assist the Secretary in implementing the plan by taking steps to preserve and interpret the natural resources of the Area and its surrounding area. Provides that the plan will be binding on private lands within the Area only if the landowner agrees. Permits the Secretary to acquire land within the Area from willing sellers only.
 
Terminates the Commission ten years and six months after the enactment of this Act.
 

 

 
Prohibits the Secretary or any other Federal agency from approving or issuing any permit or providing any assistance for construction of any new dam, reservoir, or impoundment on any segment of the Rio Grande River or its tributaries within the Area's exterior boundaries.
 
Revokes all reservations of public lands within the Area for Federal purposes that have been made by an Act of Congress or executive order and restores such lands to public land status. Withdraws all public lands within the Area from settlement, sale, location, entry, or disposal under public land laws. 
 
Prohibits any Area land or water from being designated as a wild, scenic, or recreational river.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Introduced in House