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Life-Protecting Judicial Limitation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1546
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Abortion
Claims
Congress
Courts of special jurisdiction
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Legislation
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Life-Protecting Judicial Limitation Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal judicial code to deny the district courts of the United States, the District Court of Guam, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction to hear or determine any abortion-related case.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in House
Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Bill: 108-hr-1547
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Church and state
Claims
Congress
Courts of special jurisdiction
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Legislation
Religion
Religious liberty
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Religious Freedom Restoration Act - Amends the Federal judicial code to deny the district courts of the United States, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction to hear or determine any case in which any requirement, prohibition, or other provision relating to religious freedom that is contained in a State or Federal statute is at issue.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E631)
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in House
Freedom of Conscience Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1548
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid programs
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: 
Freedom of Conscience Act of 2003 - Prohibits any Federal official from expending any Federal funds for any population control or population planning program or any family planning activity (including any abortion procedure), irrespective of whether such program or activity is foreign or domestic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-04-01
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-04-01
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans and to increase the maximum amount of the exclusion.

Bill: 108-hr-1549
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2003-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefit plans
Group insurance
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal services
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restore, increase, and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in House
Homeowners' Insurance Availability Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1552
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2003-04-01 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Apartment houses
Auctions
Auditing
Building laws
Commerce
Condominium (Housing)
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cooperative housing
Disaster insurance
Earthquakes
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal advisory bodies
Fires
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Housing and Community Development
Hurricanes
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Law
Property insurance
Reinsurance
Restrictive trade practices
State laws
Tsunamis
Volcanoes
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: 
Homeowners' Insurance Availability Act of 2003 - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a reinsurance coverage program available only through contracts for reinsurance coverage purchased at regional auctions.
 
States that the purpose of the program is to improve: (1) the availability of homeowners' insurance for the purpose of facilitating the pooling, and spreading the risk, of catastrophic financial losses from disasters; and (2) the solvency of the homeowners' insurance markets.
 
Prescribes implementation guidelines that include establishment: (1) in the Treasury of the Disaster Reinsurance Fund; and (2) of a National Commission on Catastrophe Risks and Insurance Loss Costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in House
Air Transportation Employees Assistance Act

Bill: 108-hr-1553
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Airline employees
Airlines
Airports
Armed Forces and National Security
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dislocated workers
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Layoffs
Middle East and North Africa
Security measures
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation workers
Unemployment insurance
War

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Air Transportation Employees Assistance Act - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA) to provide for additional TEUCA benefits for certain individuals separated from employment with air carriers, or at airport facilities that provide transportation to or from an airport, or with upstream producers or suppliers for air carriers, if the Secretary of Labor determines that such separation was due, in whole or part, to: (1) reductions in service by an air carrier as a result of a terrorist action or security measure; (2) a closure of an airport in the United States as a result of a terrorist action or security measure; or (3) a military conflict with Iraq that has been authorized by Congress.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Life Insurance Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1554
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federally-assisted loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Housing and Community Development
Insurance premiums
Interest rates
Labor and Employment
Law
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' loans
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Veterans Life Insurance Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends Federal provisions concerning the National Service Life Insurance and United States Government Life Insurance programs to allow payment of their insurance proceeds to: (1) another beneficiary if the first designated beneficiary has not made a claim to such payment within two years after the death of the insured; and (2) a person designated by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs if no claim has been filed by any designated beneficiary within four years after the insured's death.
Requires service-disabled life insurance premium rates, as well as all policy cash, loan, paid-up, and extended values, for months beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act to be based on the 1980 Commissioners Standard Ordinary Basic Table of Mortality, with five percent annual interest. 
Increases from $90,000 to $200,000 the maximum amount of veterans' mortgage life insurance coverage.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Abusive Tax Shelter Shutdown and Taxpayer Accountability Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1555
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-10]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Affiliated corporations
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate debt
Corporate finance
Corporate mergers
Corporate reorganizations
Corporation directors
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Depreciation and amortization
Dividends
Executives
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Foreign corporations
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Injunctions
Interest
Investments
Investors
Law
Lawyers
Leases
Legal ethics
Limitation of actions
Losses
Partnerships
Profit
Stockholders
Stocks
Subsidiary corporations
Tax administration
Tax consultants
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax liens
Tax penalties
Tax preparers
Tax returns
Tax shelters
Taxation of foreign income
Trusts and trustees
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Abusive Tax Shelter Shutdown and Taxpayer Accountability Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (Code) concerning tax shelters to, among other things: (1) define economic substance; (2) impose a penalty for the failure to include in a return information concerning a reportable transaction, a reportable transaction understatement (including imposing the penalty for certain understatements which were based on unreasonable legal or factual assumptions), a noneconomic substance transaction understatement, and interests in foreign financial accounts; (3) modify rules concerning the failure to furnish information regarding reportable transactions and the penalty for such failure, the failure to maintain lists of investors in potentially abusive tax shelters and the penalty for such failure, the authority to seek an injunction to enjoin promoters of abusive tax shelters; and (4) deny a deduction of interest on underpayments attributable to nondisclosed reportable transactions and noneconomic substance transactions.
Amends other Code provisions to, among other things: (1) place a limit on the transfer or importation by a corporation of built-in losses; (2) provide for the partnership treatment of certain contributed property with a built-in loss; (3) repeal part V (Financial Asset Securitization Investment Trusts) of subchapter M (Regulated Investment Companies and Real Estate Investment Trusts); and (4) modify rules concerning the disallowance of a deduction on certain debt instruments of corporations, passive foreign investment companies, and the reduction in a corporate shareholder's basis in stock by the nontaxed portion of extraordinary dividends.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Corporate Accountability Tax Gap Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1556
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-10]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Affiliated corporations
Business records
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate finance
Corporation taxes
Data banks
Depreciation and amortization
Dividends
Electronic government information
Employee stock options
Energy
Energy industries
Excess profits tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Income
Income tax
Investments
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax amnesty
Tax credits
Tax evasion
Tax returns
Tax shelters
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Corporate Accountability Tax Gap Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for public disclosure of certain information of publicly traded corporations.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a study of corporate tax shelter activity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
IRS Refund Accessibility Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1557
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-10]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Identification devices
Income tax
Mass media
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: IRS Refund Accessibility Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to use any means of mass communication to disclose taxpayer identity information in order to notify individuals entitled to tax refunds.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a married couple conducting an unincorporated trade or business to elect out of partnership status.

Bill: 108-hr-1558
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-10]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Earnings
Families
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Losses
Married people
Partnerships
Self-employed
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a married couple conducting an unincorporated trade or business to elect out of partnership status.
Allocates all related items of income, gain, loss, and credit equally between the spouses, unless they provide for a labor-based allocation.
Includes each spouse's share of income or loss in net earnings from self-employment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Water Quality Financing Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1560
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative fees
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Cost effectiveness
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publications
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Lakes
Land transfers
Landowners
Law
Local finance
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Municipal services
Nonpoint source pollution
Nonprofit organizations
Planning
Potable water
Public utilities
Public utility rates
Revolving funds
Security measures
Sewage disposal
Sewage treatment
Sewerage
Small towns
Social Welfare
State finance
State-local relations
Storm drains
Urban affairs
User charges
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water quality
Water supply
Water treatment plants
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Water Quality Financing Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to nonprofit organizations to provide technical and information assistance for rural and small treatment works. Requires establishment of procedures for the competitive award of grants.
Extends funding for State- and interstate-managed pollution control programs.
Revises eligibility requirements for grants for sewage collection systems to include projects which replace or involve the major rehabilitation of an existing collection system or involve new collection systems.
Extends the pilot program for alternative water source projects.
Shifts the allocation of sewer overflow control grants to States rather than municipalities and States.
Revises State water pollution control revolving fund provisions concerning: (1) agreements for treatment works capitalization grants; (2) project eligibility; (3) loan payments, subsidization , and administrative expenses; (4) technical and planning assistance for small treatment works; (5) funding allotments; (6) priorities and intended use plans; and (7) Federal oversight review procedures.
Increases the limit on amounts authorized for grants for development of management plans and construction of publicly owned treatment works to serve Indians.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E649)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
To require engine coolant and antifreeze to contain a bittering agent so as to render it unpalatable.

Bill: 108-hr-1563
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Automobile engines
Business records
Chemicals
Consumer protection
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Liability (Law)
Manufacturing industries
Packaging
Product safety
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: 
Requires engine coolant or antifreeze sold after January 1, 2004, that is manufactured after July 1, 2003, and that contains more than ten percent ethylene glycol, to include denatonium benzoate at a minimum of 30 parts per million (or other equally effective aversive agent) as a bittering agent so as to render it unpalatable.
 
Requires a manufacturer or packager of such product to maintain records of compliance with this Act.
 
Declares that any manufacturer, distributor, recycler, or seller of an automotive product required by this Act to contain an aversive agent shall not be liable (except for willful or wanton misconduct) for personal injury, death, or property damage that results from compliance with this Act.
 
 Declares this Act inapplicable to: (1) the sale of a motor vehicle that contains engine coolant or antifreeze; or (2) wholesale containers of engine coolant or antifreeze containing 55 gallons or more of engine coolant or antifreeze.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
Local Property Tax Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1564
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Homeless
Immigrant education
Immigration
Impact aid
Income tax
Indian education
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Recruiting of employees
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Tax rates
Taxation
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Local Property Tax Relief Act of 2003 - Makes additional appropriations for FY 2003 to provide for the full funding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLBA, which amended the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965).
Expresses the sense of Congress that the reduction scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2004, in the highest income tax rate should be postponed in order to raise revenues sufficient to offset the appropriations made under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House