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Companion Disaster Assistance Program Act of 2002

Bill: 108-hr-92
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural subsidies
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Companion Disaster Assistance Program Act of 2002 (sic) - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2001 or 2002 crop losses due to weather or related conditions. Requires a producer with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years.
States that: (1) a producer may not receive assistance for losses to more than one 2001 crop or 2002 crop on the same acreage unless there is an established practice of planting two or more crops for harvest on such acreage in the same crop year; and (2) the Secretary shall give a producer an opportunity to designate the 2001 or 2002 crop for which the producer requests assistance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
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
Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act of 2002

Bill: 108-hr-93
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Collective bargaining
Industrial arbitration
Labor contracts
Labor disputes
Law
Mediation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act of 2002 (sic) - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require mediation and, if necessary, binding arbitration of initial contract negotiation disputes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Children's Access to Technology Act

Bill: 108-hr-94
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Computers
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Telecommunication rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Children's Access to Technology Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow unexpended universal service funds to be used (within certain monetary limits) by schools in low-income areas to acquire information services, including devices necessary to access and use such services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To make amounts provided under the Operation Safe Home and New Approach Anti-Drug programs available for use for providing law enforcement officers to patrol and provide security for housing assisted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Bill: 108-hr-95
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Housing subsidies
Law enforcement officers
Police
Public housing
Security measures

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: HUD Housing Security and Flexibility Act - Authorizes Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) field offices to use amounts received under the Operation Safe Home or the New Approach Anti-Drug programs for contracts with law enforcement officers or agencies to provide housing security or protective services at HUD-owned or-assisted housing.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E4-5)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Preservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-96
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [D-TX-4]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Bank deposits
Budget surpluses
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Debt limit
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Government trust funds
Investment of public funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Social Security Preservation Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (social security trust funds) to ensure that the annual surplus of the Social Security Trust Funds is invested in: (1) marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States or obligations guaranteed by the United States; or (2) certificates of deposit in insured depository institutions. Outlines provisions for determining the annual surplus of the Trust Funds.
Prohibits disinvestment of Social Security Trust Fund amounts from public debt obligations, any refraining from making such investments, or any delay in making normal deposits in such Trust Funds for public debt limit-related purposes. Authorizes, with certain conditions, the sale of Social Security Trust Fund public debt obligations for the payment of cash benefits and administrative expenses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-21
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: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Notch Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-97
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [D-TX-4]
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 Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for the computation of minimum Old Age Insurance benefits for individuals who reached age 65 in or after 1979 and to whom applies the 15-year transition period for the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977.
Sets forth a schedule of additional benefit increases for such beneficiaries (and related beneficiaries), with percentages declining from 55 percent to five percent and keyed to the year an individual became eligible for such benefits between 1979 and 1988.
Allows such beneficiaries, in the alternative, to receive lump sum payments over four years totaling $5,000.

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: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Low-Income Families Flood Insurance Access Act

Bill: 108-hr-98
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Disaster insurance
Emergency Management
Flood damage prevention
Floods
Housing and Community Development
Insurance premiums
Low-income housing
Social Welfare
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Low-Income Families Flood Insurance Access Act - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act to provide for a 50 percent discount in the chargeable premium flood insurance rates, for a limited period, for specified low-cost properties (principal residences valued at not more than $75,000) that are located within any area not previously designated as an area having special flood hazards that becomes designated as such an area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To designate "God Bless America" as the national hymn of the United States.

Bill: 108-hr-99
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: National anthems

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Designates "God Bless America" as the national hymn of the United States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E8)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Law Enforcement Officers Flag Memorial Act of 2002

Bill: 108-hr-101
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Flags
Law enforcement officers
Monuments and memorials
Police

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Law Enforcement Officers Flag Memorial Act of 2002 (sic) - Allows the family of a deceased law enforcement officer to request, and the Attorney General to provide, a U.S. flag flown over the Capitol in honor of the officer, to be supplied by the Architect of the Capitol. Directs that the family pay the cost of such flag, including shipping.

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
Geriatric Care Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-102
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Caregivers
Case management
Chronically ill
Coinsurance
Continuum of care
Disabled
Drug interactions
Drug utilization
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Geriatrics
Health counseling
Health education
Higher education
Human behavior
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical residents
Medical tests
Medicare
Physicians
Preventive medicine
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Geriatric Care Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to payments to hospitals, rural health clinics, or Federally qualified health centers for direct graduate medical education costs and the limitation on the number of full-time-equivalent residents in allopathic and osteopathic medicine. Provides for the disregard of up to three geriatric residents in applying such limitation.
Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for Medicare coverage of care coordination and assessment services to an individual with a serious and disabling chronic condition.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E11)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
LIHEAP Equity Act of 2002

Bill: 108-hr-103
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Appropriations
Economics and Public Finance
Energy assistance for the poor
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: LIHEAP Equity Act of 2002 (sic) - Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 with respect to State allotments under the low-income energy assistance program to state that not more than 50 percent of amounts appropriated for program implementation shall be earmarked for home heating purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E7)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Disability Eligibility Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-104
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disabled
Hospital care
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Medicare Disability Eligibility Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 24-month waiting period for disabled individuals to become eligible for Medicare benefits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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
Homeland Emergency Responders Organization Act of 2002

Bill: 108-hr-105
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Boundaries
Chemical industries
Chemical warfare
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Energy
Equipment and supplies
Executive reorganization
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Hours of labor
Infrastructure
International Affairs
Interstate relations
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Medical personnel
Military bases
Monuments and memorials
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Paramedical personnel
Performance measurement
Police
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public health personnel
Regional planning
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Terrorism
Weapons of mass destruction
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Homeland Emergency Responders Organization Act of 2002 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to include an incident of terrorism within its definition of "major disaster" for purposes of authorized disaster relief.
Establishes in the Federal Emergency Management Agency the Office of National Preparedness, to be headed by a Deputy Director who shall establish standards for: (1) emergency communications equipment to ensure interoperability, and equipment to be used by personnel responsible for homeland preparedness or security, or both, that are under the jurisdiction of a first responder to respond to incidents of terrorism (including incidents involving weapons of mass destruction incidents); (2) terrorism preparedness and response by State governments to ensure interstate and intrastate response capabilities; and (3) training of such personnel. Directs the Deputy Director to lead a coordinated and integrated effort to build a nationwide viable terrorism preparedness and response capability, including the creation of a Web site for use by States and local first responders to share information on homeland security preparedness.
Directs the Deputy Director to establish a program to make grants to first responders and States to prepare for and respond to incidents of terrorism, including incidents involving weapons of mass destruction. Sets forth grant requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Open Competition and Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-106
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collective bargaining
Discrimination
Government contractors
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Open Competition and Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to prohibit discrimination against any bidder on a prime contract for a federally funded project on the basis of a requirement that such person enter into or adhere to a collective bargaining agreement or any similar agreement as a condition of performing work under the contract.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House