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Child Safety Lock Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1147
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Accident prevention
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Child safety
Commerce
Consumer education
Defective products
Department of Justice
Emergency Management
Excise tax
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Firearms control
Firearms injuries
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health warnings
Law
Licenses
Product safety
Retail trade
Safety measures
Sales tax
Standards
Storage
Taxation
Warning labels

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Child Safety Lock Act of 2003 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to define a firearm "locking device." Makes it unlawful for a licensed manufacturer, importer, or dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer a handgun without a locking device and specified warnings to any person other than a licensed manufacturer, importer, or dealer, with exceptions for law enforcement officers and governmental entities. Sets forth civil penalties, including suspension or loss of license, for related violations.
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) prescribe such regulations governing the design, manufacture, and performance of trigger lock devices as are necessary to reduce or prevent the unintentional discharge of handguns, including setting a minimum safety standard to prevent children who have not attained age 18 from operating a handgun; and (2) in developing the standard, to consider such devices that are not detachable.
Authorizes the Attorney General to issue an order prohibiting the manufacture, sale, transfer, or delivery of a trigger lock device which the Attorney General finds has been designed, manufactured, transferred, or distributed in violation of this Act. Grants the Attorney General specified authority regarding: (1) recall, repair, replacement, or refund with respect to such devices; and (2) inspections.
Authorizes the Attorney General to: (1) assess a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation; and (2) revoke a Federal firearms license for a violation of this Act. Imposes criminal penalties for knowingly violating this Act.
Directs that a portion of firearms tax revenue be used for public education programs on the safe storage and use of firearms.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Public Transportation Systems Vulnerability Assessment and Reduction Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1148
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bus drivers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Employee training
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Local employees
Mass rapid transit
Regional planning
State employees
Terrorism
Transportation workers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Public Transportation Systems Vulnerability Assessment and Reduction Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to: (1) review all government assessments conducted after September 11, 2001, of terrorist-related threats to all forms of public transportation, including related public gathering areas; (2) conduct, as necessary, additional assessments of vulnerabilities associated with any public transportation system; and (3) determine the percentage of frontline transit employees who have received training in emergency preparedness and response activities.
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible transportation agencies for the training of frontline transit employees in emergency preparedness and response activities and the acquisition of approved equipment and technologies to assist in carrying out such training and activities. Allocates grant amounts among eligible transportation agencies based on their needs for emergency preparedness and response training and equipment, requiring not less than ten percent of such amounts to eligible transportation agencies in non-urban areas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1051)
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to Orange County, California, for intercounty express bus service, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1150
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: California
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Mass rapid transit
Motor buses

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make discretionary grants to Orange County, California, for the purchase of 46 buses and related equipment for intercounty express bus service for specified routes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To provide that transit pass transportation fringe benefits be made available to all qualified Federal employees in the National Capital Region; to allow passenger carriers which are owned or leased by the Government to be used to transport Government employees between their place of employment and mass transit facilities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1151
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Commuting
District of Columbia
Electric vehicles
Energy
Executive orders
Federal employees
Fringe benefits
Government travel
Government vehicles
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Maintenance and repair
Maryland
Mass rapid transit
Natural gas vehicles
Terminals (Transportation)
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Requires each Federal agency in the National Capital Region to implement a program under which all qualified Federal employees serving in or under such agency shall be offered transit pass transportation fringe benefits as required under Executive Order 13150.
Authorizes the use of a passenger carrier to transport a Federal officer or employee between his or her place of employment and a mass transit facility. Requires a Federal agency that provides such service to: (1) absorb the cost; (2) when possible, use alternative fuel vehicles; and (3) coordinate such transportation with other Federal agencies.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Requires each Federal agency in the National Capital Region to implement a program under which all qualified Federal employees serving in or under such agency shall be offered transit pass transportation fringe benefits as required under Executive Order 13150.
 
Authorizes the use of a passenger carrier to transport a Federal officer or employee between his or her place of employment and a mass transit facility. Requires a Federal agency that provides such service to: (1) absorb the cost; (2) when possible, use alternative fuel vehicles; and (3) coordinate such transportation with other Federal agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 412.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Reported by the Committee on Government Reform. H. Rept. 108-673.
action_date: 2004-09-09
text: Reported by the Committee on Government Reform. H. Rept. 108-673.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To increase the cap on qualified small issue bonds.

Bill: 108-hr-1152
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the cap on, and provide an inflation adjustment for, qualified small issue bonds.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
America's Wilderness Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-1153
Sponsor: Rep. Otter, C. L. (Butch) [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Land use
Legislation
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: America's Wilderness Protection Act - Releases all areas with wilderness study area status on this Act's enactment date from such status on the earlier of: (1) the date the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the area is not suitable for wilderness designation; (2) ten years after this Act's enactment; or (3) the date the area is designated as wilderness by Congress.
Releases any area that is given wilderness study area status after this Act's enactment from such status on the earlier of: (1) the date such Secretary determines that the area is not suitable for wilderness designation; (2) ten years after the date the area was given such status; or (3) the date that the area is designated as wilderness by Congress.
Provides for the reversion of any area that is released from wilderness study area status to the land use status such area had immediately before and prohibits it from being studied again regarding wilderness designation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E408)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
American Servicemember and Citizen Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1154
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Aggression
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal courts
Fines (Penalties)
International courts
Law
Military personnel
Prosecution

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: American Servicemember and Citizen Protection Act of 2003 - Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the establishment or operation of the International Criminal Court.
Declares that any action taken by or on behalf of the Court: (1) against any member of the U.S. armed forces shall be considered an act of aggression against the United States; or (2) against any U.S. citizen or national shall be considered an offense against the law of nations. Sets forth both civil and criminal penalties against any person who knowingly violates the requirements of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E394)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Civil Rights Tax Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1155
Sponsor: Rep. Pryce, Deborah [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Age discrimination
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional employees
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against women
Damages
Disabled
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination
Discrimination against the disabled
Discrimination in education
Discrimination in employment
Dislocated workers
Dismissal of employees
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee rights
Employment of the disabled
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Housing discrimination
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Minimum tax
Minorities
Racial discrimination
Sex discrimination
Social Welfare
Tax administration
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Unfair labor practices
Wage restitution
Whistle blowing
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Civil Rights Tax Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income amounts received by a claimant on account of claims based on unlawful discrimination (as defined). Permits income averaging for backpay and frontpay awards received on account of such claims.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S7153-7154)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment for foreign tax credit limitation purposes of certain transfers of intangible property.

Bill: 108-hr-1159
Sponsor: Rep. Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [R-FL-22]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign tax credit
Income tax
Intangible property

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that for purposes of applying the foreign tax credit limitation with respect to amounts attributable to transfers of certain intangible property such amounts shall be treated in the same manner as if such amounts were royalties.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E400)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Milk Import Tariff Equity Act

Bill: 108-hr-1160
Sponsor: Rep. Sherwood, Don [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Dairy products
Import restrictions
International Affairs
Milk
Proteins
Reciprocity
Tariff
Tariff agreements
Tariff preferences
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Milk Import Tariff Equity Act - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to impose tariff-rate quotas (quantitative import limits) and provide various duty rates on certain casein, caseinates, milk protein concentrate, and other casein derivatives and glues imported into the United States (except imports from Mexico).
Authorizes the President to: (1) enter into a trade agreement with a foreign country to grant new concessions as compensation in order to maintain the general level of reciprocal and mutually advantageous concessions; and (2) proclaim any necessary modification or continuance of any existing duty, or continuance of existing duty-free or excise treatment, or any quantitative limitation. Sets forth certain limits on the reduction of duties on such products.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Invest in America Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1162
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Buy American
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign tax credit
Income tax
Investments
Minimum tax
Stockholders
Tax deductions
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Invest in America Act of 2003 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions concerning controlled foreign corporations to allow, during the first taxable year of a U.S. shareholder ending 90 days after enactment, a limited dividend received deduction if the distribution is reinvested pursuant to a plan, approved by the president or chief executive officer of the U.S. shareholder prior to the distribution, under which the distribution is reinvested in the United States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1163
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aliens
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income up to $400 (twice such amount on a joint return) of interest income annually. Provides for an inflation adjustment to such amount.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To extend the deadlines under part I of the Federal Power Act for commencement of construction of two hydro-electric projects in the State of New York.

Bill: 108-hr-1164
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Hydroelectric power
Law
Licenses
New York State
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Instructs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, upon licensee request, to extend the time period to commence the construction of projects numbered 4244 and 10648, for three consecutive two-year periods.
Provides for reinstatement of expired licenses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
National Computer Recycling Act

Bill: 108-hr-1165
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative fees
Commerce
Computer industry
Computers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic commerce
Electronics
Electronics industry
Environmental health
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Hazardous wastes
Health
Internet
Labeling
Landfills
Law
Nonprofit organizations
Packaging
Raw materials
Recycling industry
Recycling of waste products
Refuse and refuse disposal
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Video display terminals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: National Computer Recycling Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, after submitting to Congress a study of waste materials in used computers that may be hazardous to human health or the environment, to require assessment of a fee on the sale to an end-user of any computer, monitor, or other designated electronic devices.
Requires fees collected to be used for administration of this Act and grants for: (1) collecting or processing used computers, monitors, or other devices for recycling; (2) reusing or reselling such articles; and (3) extracting and using, or selling for reuse, raw materials from such articles.
Requires reports to Congress on the status of computer recycling, which shall include descriptions of fee collection and use.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to permit remarried surviving spouses of veterans to be eligible for burial in a national cemetery.

Bill: 108-hr-1167
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Families
Marriage
Married people
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Makes all remarried surviving spouses of veterans eligible for burial in a national cemetery. (Currently, such eligibility is permitted only for remarried former spouses whose subsequent marriage was terminated by death or divorce.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-16
text: See Public Law 108-183.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 2297, as amended, Title V, Section 502.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 2297, Section 7.
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in House
Active Reservists and National Guard Student Loan Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1168
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Timothy J. [D-OH-17]
Introduced: 2003-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Federally-assisted loans
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Interest
National Guard
Student loan funds
War

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Active Reservists and National Guard Student Loan Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for deferments of repayments and for Federal interest subsidy payments on student loans for borrowers who are called to active duty.
Provides such deferments and interest payments for up to three years under the Federal Family Education Loan, direct subsidized loan, and Perkins loan programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1783)
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Introduced in House