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American Homebuyers Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-3414
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Building construction
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Consumer education
Contracts
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Law
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
American Homebuyers Protection Act - Prohibits a person engaged in the construction of new homes from: (1) requiring a home purchaser to enter into a mandatory arbitration agreement as a condition precedent to entering into a purchase contract; and (2) offering a home purchaser a contract which includes a mandatory arbitration agreement unless such agreement is a separate agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
State Assistance Accountability Act

Bill: 108-hr-3415
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Auditing
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Interest
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Public debt
State budgets
State finance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: State Assistance Accountability Act - Amends title VI (Temporary State Fiscal Relief) of the Social Security Act to revise the provision concerning the limitation on temporary State fiscal relief, to permit the use of such funds only for types of expenditure authorized under: (1) the budget of the State for the fiscal year for which the funds are to be expended that, as of May 28, 2003, was most recently approved by the State legislature; or (2) in the absence of such a budget, the budget of the State for the fiscal year for which the funds are to be expended that, as of May 28, 2003, was at the furthest stage of development by the State legislature. Requires the Secretary to: (1) audit a State's use of such funds; and (2) require remittance of all inappropriately expended funds, plus a penalty and interest. 
Defines an &quot;essential government service&quot; as reduction in the amount of debt held or planned to be held by a State, and not any activity that was not funded by a State in its previous fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Aircraft Noise Reduction Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3417
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airports
Environmental Protection
Metropolitan areas
Noise
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
Aircraft Noise Reduction Act of 2003 - Prohibits a person from operating any civil subsonic turbojet that fails to comply with stage three noise levels to or from an airport located in any of the 20 most populated U.S. metropolitan areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Local Participation in Railroad Operations Act

Bill: 108-hr-3418
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bridges
Citizen participation
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental assessment
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Infrastructure
Law
Local laws
New Jersey
Noise
Public meetings
Quality of life
Railroad engineering
Railroad mergers
Railroad safety
Railroad terminals
Railroads
State laws
Traffic accidents and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
Local Participation in Railroad Operations Act - Amends Federal transportation law to prohibit rail carriers from constructing, developing, or expanding railroad maintenance facilities, intermodal rail transfer facilities, railroad sidings, railroad bridges, railroad yards, or other railroad facilities unless the Surface Transportation Board determines that the carrier has: (1) provided affected local communities with notice and an opportunity to be heard with respect to such activities; and (2) conducted an assessment of negative environmental impacts and appropriate mitigation actions pursuant to State or local law.
 
Prohibits a rail carrier from constructing an at-grade crossing over a public road without first obtaining approval from the local governmental entity with jurisdiction over the location of the proposed grade crossing. 
Prohibits the Board from approving the consolidation, merger, and acquisition of control of a rail carrier by one or more rail carriers unless it has received assurances that the rail carriers have addressed adequately and will continue to address adequately problems identified with respect to the quality of life and safety of persons who live, work, or are for any other reason near railroad tracks. 
Repeals a section of the Noise Control Act of 1972 regarding railroad noise emission standards upon the issuance of the final regulations under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 30 West Bel Air Avenue in Aberdeen, Maryland, as the "Ripken Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-3421
Sponsor: Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Athletes
Baseball
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Maryland
Names
Postal facilities
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 30 West Bel Air Avenue in Aberdeen, Maryland, as the Ripken Post Office Building. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2196)
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Violence Courts Assistance Act

Bill: 108-hr-3424
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Court records
Courthouses
Courts of special jurisdiction
Crime prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Judges
Judicial officers
Judicial review
Law
Lawyers
Legal education
Public prosecutors
Security measures
Social Welfare
State courts
Translating and interpreting
Wife abuse
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
Domestic Violence Courts Assistance Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (relating to grants to combat violent crimes against women) to allow such grants to be used to provide the resources to establish and maintain a court system dedicated to the adjudication of domestic violence cases.
 
Requires a State to certify that at least five percent of grant funds shall be allocated for specialized domestic violence courts. 
Amends the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 to allow funds available pursuant to grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts awarded under the Act to be used to: (1) implement and evaluate court-based approaches to adjudicating domestic violence cases in State courts; and (2) provide technical assistance to State courts to facilitate the development and adoption of improved practices in such adjudication.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2186-2187)
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10134)
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Violence Prevention, Education, and Awareness Act

Bill: 108-hr-3425
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Family violence
Federal aid to Indians
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Immigrants
Immigration
Minorities
Public service advertising
Victims of crimes
Wife abuse
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
Domestic Violence Prevention, Education, and Awareness Act - Requires the Attorney General, acting through the Violence Against Women Office, to make grants to public or private nonprofit entities, States, and Indian tribes and tribal organizations to carry out public information campaigns to educate racial and ethnic minority communities and immigrant communities about domestic violence, including its effects, methods of preventing or reducing it, and available services to such victims.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10134)
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Truthfulness, Responsibility, and Accountability in Contracting Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3426
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Blind
Commerce
Competition
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Cost control
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Defense contracts
Disabled
Electronic government information
Employee health benefits
Employee-management relations in government
Federal employees
Fringe benefits
Government and business
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government service contracts
Health
Internet
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Military medicine
Military personnel
Minimum wages
Performance measurement
Privatization
Productivity in government
Quality control
Science, Technology, Communications
Service industries
Sheltered workshops
Small business
Standards
Terrorism
Veterans' medical care
Wages
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
Truthfulness, Responsibility, and Accountability in Contracting Act of 2003 - Requires the head of each Federal agency to submit to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget a certification that a contracting function decision was based on a public-private competition and that the agency: (1) has established a centralized reporting system; (2) is not managing Federal employees by any arbitrary limitations; and (3) is reviewing work performed by contractors, recompeting or contracting in work when appropriate, and subjecting to public-private competition a certain number of Federal employee and contractor positions.
 
Prohibits the head of an agency from entering into any contract for the performance of services until the Director, after reviewing the certification required, determines that the agency is making substantial progress toward meeting requirements under this Act. Allows the Director to waive the applicability of this Act for national security and other specified reasons. 
 
Requires that any decision by an agency to either transfer the performance of a function from Federal employees to a contractor or to assign to a contractor the performance of a function not currently performed by Federal employees to be based on the results of a public-private competition process that formally compares the costs of Federal employee versus contractor performance.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to monitor agency compliance with this Act. Authorizes: (1) the Secretaries of Defense and of Homeland Security to waive the application of the public-private competition requirements under specified circumstances; and (2) the Director to carry out a limited pilot program regarding the use of alternative public-private competition processes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Waste Financing Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3429
Sponsor: Rep. Shimkus, John [R-IL-19]
Introduced: 2003-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Interest
Radioactive wastes
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: 
Nuclear Waste Financing Act of 2003 - Requires that, beginning in FY 2005, and through the end of FY 2010, the receipts, proceeds, and recoveries realized by the Secretary of Energy relating to contracts for transportation and disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel shall be credited to the Nuclear Waste Fund as offsetting collections.
 
Prescribes implementation procedures, including adjustments to the levels of budgetary resources from offsetting collections and preservation of the corpus of the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 28, United States Code, to divide New Jersey in 2 judicial districts.

Bill: 108-hr-3430
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Bankruptcy courts
Congress
Crime and Law Enforcement
District courts
Federal law enforcement officers
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
Judicial districts
Judicial officers
Magistrates
New Jersey
Presidential appointments
Public debt
Public prosecutors

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Amends the Federal judicial code to establish two judicial districts in New Jersey (currently, one), the Northern and Southern Districts of New Jersey. Sets forth provisions regarding the allocation of judgeships, including bankruptcy judgeships, among those districts.
Provides for the transfer of district judges, bankruptcy judges, and magistrate judges to the Northern and Southern Districts of New Jersey.
Transfers U.S. attorneys, U.S. marshals, and Federal public defenders for the District of New Jersey to the Northern District of New Jersey. Directs the President to appoint, by and with the advice of the Senate, a U.S. attorney and a U.S. marshal for the Southern District of New Jersey.
Specifies that neither pending cases nor juries shall be affected.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Firefighters Medical Monitoring Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3431
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2003-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular diseases
Disasters
Emergency Management
Fire fighters
Forest fires
Health
Lung diseases
Medical research
Medical tests
Nervous system diseases
Occupational health and safety
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: 
Firefighters Medical Monitoring Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, to monitor the long-term medical health of firefighters who have fought fires in any area for which the President has declared a major disaster under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Post Office Community Partnership Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3432
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2003-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Building construction
Building laws
Citizen participation
Commemorations
Commerce
Community development
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Federal-local relations
Government and business
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Historic sites
History
Infrastructure
Land use
Law
Local laws
Newspapers
Postal facilities
Postal service
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Relocation
United States Postal Service
Urban affairs
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: 
Post Office Community Partnership Act of 2003 - Modifies Federal postal law to revise requirements for the closing or consolidation of a post office and apply them, as well, to its proposed closing, consolidation, relocation, or construction. Requires a 60-day notice, under certain conditions, to persons (including local government officials) who are (or would be) served by the post office involved to allow such individuals an opportunity to present their views before such proposed action. Requires the notice: (1) by the deadline, to be hand delivered or delivered by mail and published once a week for at least four weeks in one or more newspapers regularly issued and of general circulation within the zip code areas which are (or would be) served by the post office involved; and (2) to include a description of the proposed action, a summary of the reasons for it, and the date on which the action is to be taken (or, in the case of the construction of a post office, the proposed timetable). 
 
Revises the factors to be considered in deciding whether or not to take such proposed actions.
Requires the Postal Service to follow a community's public participation procedures to address the relocation, closing, consolidation, or construction of buildings in the community if such procedures are more stringent than those provided in this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10240)
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
To transfer federal lands between the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior.

Bill: 108-hr-3433
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2003-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Families
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Licenses
Maps
Missouri
Transfer of employees
Wildlife refuges
Youth employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: 
Transfers (with a reversionary interest for non-Job Corps use) administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands in Stoddard County, Missouri, from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Agriculture for continued operation of the Mingo Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center. Maintains Department of Labor agreements with respect to such Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-11-07
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.
action_date: 2003-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2003-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and 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: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House