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Alternative Minimum Tax Repeal Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-43
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Alternative Minimum Tax Repeal Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit the imposition of the alternative minimum tax on: (1) corporations beginning January 1, 2003; and (2) individuals beginning January 1, 2013.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E31)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Investment Tax Incentive Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-44
Sponsor: Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-26]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Investment Tax Incentive Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for reduced capital gain rates for qualified economic stimulus gain. Defines "qualified economic stimulus gain" as the aggregate long-term capital gain (with specified exceptions) from property the holding period for which begins during the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment.
Provides for the indexing of assets (certain stocks and tangible property) for purposes of determining gain or loss.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the double taxation of corporate profits.

Bill: 108-hr-45
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Aliens
Dividends
Employee ownership
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Mutual funds
Real estate investment
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude dividends from gross income.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E31)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to submit a study of tax depreciation recovery periods.

Bill: 108-hr-46
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Depreciation and amortization
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Governmental investigations
Income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a study of the differences between the depreciation recovery periods used for computing taxable income or loss under the Internal Revenue Code and for computing net income or loss for financial statement purposes. Requires the study to include such recommendations as the Secretary may have for adjusting the recovery periods used for tax purposes to make them closer to the periods used for financial statement purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E31)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Global Internet Freedom Act

Bill: 108-hr-48
Sponsor: Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Censorship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer security measures
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of State
Executive reorganization
Freedom of association
Freedom of speech
Freedom of the press
Government Operations and Politics
Human rights
Information technology
Internet
Political persecution
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Global Internet Freedom Act - Establishes in the International Broadcasting Bureau the Office of Global Internet Freedom to develop and implement a comprehensive global strategy to combat state-sponsored and state-directed Internet jamming and persecution of those who use the Internet. Requires an annual report from the Office to Congress on the status of state interference with Internet use and of U.S. efforts to counter such interference.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should: (1) denounce governments that restrict, censor, ban, and block access to information on the Internet; (2) direct the U.S. Representative to the United Nations to submit a resolution condemning such actions; and (3) deploy technologies aimed at defeating state-directed Internet censorship and the persecution of those who use the Internet.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Investor Protection, Market Stabilization, and Tax Fairness Restoration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-50
Sponsor: Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aliens
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Immigration
Income tax
Minimum tax
Stocks
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Investor Protection, Market Stabilization, and Tax Fairness Restoration Act of 2002 (sic) - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for a taxpayer other than a corporation in an amount equal to the shareholder credits determined with respect to dividends received from domestic corporations. Sets a maximum amount for the credit. Prohibits the allotting of credit in certain instances to nonresident aliens.
Provides criteria for calculating a shareholder credit for a dividend. Classifies any shareholder credit determined under this Act as a tax paid by the relevant corporation.
Includes a taxpayer's shareholder credits in gross income.
Permits a corporation to deduct 100 percent of the amount received as dividends from a domestic corporation (presently the Code allows a deduction of 70 percent or 100 percent, depending on the type of dividend). Increases, from 70 to 100 percent, the amount a corporation is allowed to deduct with respect to dividends on certain preferred stock.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Family Heritage Preservation Act

Bill: 108-hr-51
Sponsor: Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Estate tax
Gift tax
Inheritance tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Family Heritage Preservation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the estate tax, gift tax, and tax on generation-skipping transfers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the "luxury tax" on beer, enacted in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, which doubled previous excise levels.

Bill: 108-hr-52
Sponsor: Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcohol tax
Beer
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to decrease the excise tax on beer.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Freedom of Choice Act

Bill: 108-hr-53
Sponsor: Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health
Income tax
Medical economics
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Health Care Freedom of Choice Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow as a deduction any medical expenses not compensated by insurance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Project Exile Safe Streets and Neighborhoods Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-54
Sponsor: Rep. Crenshaw, Ander [R-FL-4]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administration of justice
Assault
Citizen participation
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Correctional institutions
Correctional personnel
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-state relations
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Homicide
Juvenile delinquency
Larceny
Mandatory sentences
Murder
Parole
Prosecution
Rape
Recidivists
State laws
Violence
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Project Exile Safe Streets and Neighborhoods Act of 2003- Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to direct the Attorney General to provide firearms sentencing incentive grants to eligible States that: (1) demonstrate that they have implemented laws requiring that any person who uses or carries a firearm in any violent crime or serious drug trafficking crime be sentenced to not less than five years in prison (without the possibility of parole) in addition to the punishment provided for such crime, or requiring that any person who possesses a firearm, having at least one prior conviction for a violent crime, be sentenced to five years' imprisonment (without the possibility of parole); or (2) can demonstrate that they have in effect an equivalent Federal prosecution agreement; and (3) demonstrate that they have or will implement a public awareness and community support program that seeks to build support for, and warns potential violators of, such firearms sentencing laws; and (4) provide assurances that they will coordinate with Federal prosecutors and Federal law enforcement agencies and will allocate resources to reduce crime in high-crime areas.
Sets forth allowable uses for such grants, including to: (1) support law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, courts, probation officers, correctional officers, the juvenile justice system, the improvement of criminal history records, or case management programs involving the sharing of information about serious offenders; (2) carry out such a public awareness and community support program; and (3) build or expand correctional facilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To make the Federal employees health benefits program available to individuals age 55 to 65 who would not otherwise have health insurance, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-56
Sponsor: Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-26]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government trust funds
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medical savings accounts
Medically uninsured
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends provisions relating to Federal employees' health insurance to permit any qualified individual (an individual who is age 55 to 65 and has not been covered under any health insurance policy for at least the preceding 30 days) to enroll in an approved health benefits plan for self alone, so long as such individual pays currently into the Employees Health Benefits Fund, under arrangements acceptable to the Office of Personnel Management, the full amount of the subscription charges required.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Death Tax Permanency Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-57
Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Jennifer [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Estate tax
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Inheritance tax
Sunset legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Death Tax Permanency Act of 2003 - Amends title IX (Compliance with Congressional Budget Act) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-16) to repeal the sunset provisions applicable to title V (Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes) of such Act. (Makes estate tax repeal permanent.)
States that such amendments shall take effect as if included in section 901 of such Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act

Bill: 108-hr-58
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Chet [D-TX-11]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Divorce
Families
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health
Labor and Employment
Married people
Military dependents
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Retired military personnel
Retiree health benefits
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' medical care
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act - Includes as an employee, for purposes of Federal provisions authorizing enrollment under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program: (1) a member of the armed forces who began service before June 7, 1956, and retired after a minimum of 20 years of such service or by reason of a service-connected disability; and (2) the surviving widow or widower of such member.
Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into an agreement with the Office of Personnel Management to provide FEHB coverage to the following eligible beneficiaries: (1) a member or former member entitled to military retired or retainer pay; (2) an unremarried former spouse who was married to a member for at least 20 years, during which such member performed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable military service; (3) a dependent of a deceased qualifying member or former member; (4) a dependent of a living member or former member; and (5) a family member.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Hunters Help the Hungry Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-59
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural surpluses
Animals
Charitable contributions
Food relief
Game and game birds
Hunting
Meat
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Hunters Help the Hungry Act of 2003 - Amends the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to permit States to use a portion of emergency food assistance program administrative funds for the processing, transporting, and distributing of donated wild game.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to require Federal agencies to impose certain requirements on recipients of awards for scientific and engineering research.

Bill: 108-hr-60
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Engineering
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Law
Liability (Law)
Metric system
Research grants
Weights and measures

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to require guidelines on government use of the metric system of measurement to require any Federal agency transaction providing for a person to perform scientific or engineering research with Federal funding to include provisions: (1) clearly identifying the extent to which such system or other systems of measurement will be used under the transaction and requiring such use; and (2) assigning such person the financial responsibility for failure to follow such requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the percentage of completion method of accounting shall be required to be used with respect to contracts for the manufacture of property if no payments are required to be made before the completion of the manufacture of such property.

Bill: 108-hr-61
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Contracts
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Manufacturing industries
Tax administration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the rules of the Internal Revenue Code concerning the required use of the percentage completion method of accounting for long-term contracts (Section 460) with respect to the special rule for manufacturing contracts to revise such special rule to require that a contract for the manufacture of property shall not be treated as a long-term contract unless: (1) such contract involves the manufacture of any unique item of a type which is not normally included in the finished goods inventory of the taxpayer or any item which normally requires more than 12 calendar months to complete (without regard to the period of the contract); and (2) any payment for the manufacture of such item is required to be made before the manufacture of such item is completed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Military Retiree Health Care Task Force Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-62
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health insurance continuation
Medicare
Military dependents
Retired military personnel
Retiree health benefits
Social Welfare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Military Retiree Health Care Task Force Act of 2003 - Establishes the Medicare Eligible Military Retiree Health Care Consensus Task Force to study and report to the Congress on matters relating to health care coverage of retired military personnel and their families, Federal sharing agreements relating to such care, and proposals to provide a full continuum of such coverage to Medicare-eligible military retirees and their dependents.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E3-4)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Notch Baby Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-63
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Notch Baby Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act with respect to the benefit computation formula for individuals affected by the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977 who reached age 65 during the ten year period after 1981 and before 1992.
Sets forth a schedule of additional benefit increases for such beneficiaries (and related beneficiaries), with percentages declining from 60 percent to ten percent keyed to the year an individual became eligible for such benefits between 1979 and 1989.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House