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Access to Diabetes Screening Services Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2236
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Diabetes
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Preventive medicine
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Access to Diabetes Screening Services Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for coverage of diabetes screening tests and services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-22
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: 2003-05-22
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: 2003-05-22
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: 2003-05-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1056)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemoration Act

Bill: 108-hr-2237
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: American Revolution
Anniversaries
Arts, Culture, Religion
Books
Canada
Civics education
Electronic government information
Europe
France
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Historic sites
History
International Affairs
International cooperation
Maps
National parks
Netherlands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research
Signs and symbols
Spain
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemoration Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to be known as the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemoration. Requires the Secretary to: (1) produce and disseminate educational materials related to the Anniversary; (2) enter into appropriate cooperative agreements and memoranda of understanding to provide technical assistance to other Federal agencies, States, local governments, private entities, and the governments of the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Canada; (3) assist in the protection of resources associated with the American Revolution; (4) enhance communications, connections, and collaboration among the National Park Service (NPS) units and programs related to the Revolutionary War; (5) expand the research base for American Revolution interpretation and education; and (6) create and adopt an official symbol or device for the theme "Lighting Freedom's Flame: American Revolution, 225th Anniversary." Requires the program to encompass: (1) all NPS units and programs determined to pertain to the American Revolution; (2) other governmental and nongovernmental sites, facilities, and programs of an educational, research, or interpretive nature directly related to the American Revolution; and (3) the participation of such foreign governments.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Next Generation Hispanic Serving Institutions

Bill: 108-hr-2238
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction
Community and school
Curricula
Distance education
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational technology
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Internet
Junior colleges
Laboratories
Mentoring
Minorities
Minority education
Scholarships
School buildings
School libraries
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientific instruments and apparatus
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Next Generation Hispanic Serving Institutions - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise provisions for Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) under title V (Developing Institutions).
 
Establishes a program of competitive grants to eligible HSIs that offer postbaccalaureate certifications or degrees (part B grants). Limits a part B grant award's duration to not more than five years. Prohibits the Secretary of Education from awarding more than one part B grant to an HSI in any one fiscal year.
 
Authorizes appropriations for FY 2005 through FY 2009 for: (1) the current part A program of grants to HSIs that offer baccalaureate degrees or are junior or community colleges; and (2) the new part B program of grants to HSIs that offer postbaccalaureate certifications or degrees.
 
Eliminates the requirement that an eligible HSI provide assurances that at least 50 percent of its Hispanic students are low-income students.
 
Includes, among authorized activities under part A grants, articulation agreements and student support programs to help transfers from two-year to four-year institutions.
 
Eliminates the two-year wait-out period between any two five-year part A grants to an HSI.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Catch-Up Lost Retirement Savings Act

Bill: 108-hr-2240
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Commerce
Corporate corruption
Crime and Law Enforcement
Employee ownership
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indictments
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Catch-Up Lost Retirement Savings Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, until December 31, 2007, an individual who participated in a retirement plan under which the employer matched at least 50 percent of the employee's contribution with the employer's stock and whose employer filed for bankruptcy and was subject to a related prosecution resulting from business transactions to make three times the otherwise applicable deductible retirement contributions and to receive a credit for 50 percent for such contributions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Positive Aging Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2241
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Alcoholism
Block grants
Caregivers
Community health services
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and the aged
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Health planning
Higher education
Medical education
Medical research
Medication abuse
Mental health services
Mental illness
Physicians
Preventive medicine
Psychologists
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Positive Aging Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Center for Mental Health Services, to make grants for evidence-based demonstration projects to integrate mental health services for older patients into primary care settings. Requires the inclusion of collaborative care, screening services, referrals, and protocols for prevalent mental health disorders, such as depression, anxiety, dementia, and substance abuse.
Requires the Director to make grants to community-based providers of geriatric mental health services for multi-disciplinary health outreach teams. Authorizes cooperative agreements with senior centers, adult day care programs, assisted living facilities, and other places providing services to senior citizens under the Older Americans Act.
Requires the Director to designate a Deputy Director for Geriatric Mental Health Services to develop and implement research programs, demonstration projects, models, and model training programs.
Revises the membership of the Advisory Council for the Center for Mental Health Services to include representatives of older Americans, their families, and geriatric mental health specialists.
Revises the criteria for State plans under Community Mental Health Services Block Grants to include goals and initiatives for improving access to services for older adult patients.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1059-1060)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing oil and gas leases on portions of the Outer Continental Shelf located off the coast of New Jersey.

Bill: 108-hr-2244
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Coastal zone
Continental shelf
Gas in submerged lands
Law
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
New Jersey
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Submarine oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease, permit, or license for the exploration or extraction of oil or gas from specified submerged Outer Continental Shelf lands located off the coast of New Jersey.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Community Beaches Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-2245
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Shore protection

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Community Beaches Protection Act - Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from soliciting contributions from non-Federal interests for costs of constructing projects or measures for shore protection in excess of the non-Federal share assigned to flood control, nonstructural flood control measures, and certain other project purposes. Provides that such prohibition shall not limit the Secretary's authority to require non-Federal interests to pay the full cost of work performed outside the authorized scope of a project.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to modify treatment categories for qualification as a rehabilitation hospital or unit for purposes of reimbursement under the Medicare prospective payment system for inpatient rehabilitation facilities.

Bill: 108-hr-2246
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Case mix (Medical care)
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Law
Medicare
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise the definitions under Medicare regulations of "rehabilitation hospital" and "rehabilitation unit" for purposes of determining the applicable payment methodology under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
Requires the Secretary, in determining whether a rehabilitation hospital or unit is eligible for reimbursement for services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries under the prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient rehabilitation facilities, to modify the list of treatment categories otherwise applicable (commonly referred to as the "75 Percent Rule") to include all rehabilitation impairment categories (except miscellaneous) established by the Secretary for purposes of such prospective payment system.
(The "75 Percent Rule" requires that a rehabilitation hospital or unit show that during its most recent 12-month cost reporting period it served an inpatient population of whom at least 75 percent required intensive rehabilitative services for treatment of one or more of specified conditions.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Motherhood Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2247
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Armed Forces and National Security
Assault
Crimes against women
Families
Fetus
Fines (Penalties)
Health
Homicide
Life imprisonment
Maternal and infant welfare
Military and naval offenses
Pregnant women
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Violence
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Motherhood Protection Act of 2003 - Subjects any person who engages in violent or assaultive conduct against a pregnant woman resulting in that person's conviction of any of specified offenses, and thereby causes an interruption to the normal course of the pregnancy resulting in prenatal injury (including termination of the pregnancy), to specified penalties (including life imprisonment) in addition to any penalty imposed for the violation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-05-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To expand coverage under the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act.

Bill: 108-hr-2248
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Art
Books
Cultural property
Damages
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Indemnity
International Affairs
Law
Losses
Motion pictures
Photography
Sound recording and reproducing
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Amends the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act to increase maximum limits on liability amounts in the aggregate and for single exhibitions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat as a qualified use for purposes of section 2032A land rented on a net cash basis to any member of the decedent's family.

Bill: 108-hr-2251
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Estate tax
Families
Family farms
Farm tenancy
Finance and Financial Sector
Limitation of actions
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to estate and gift tax provisions, to treat land rented on a net cash basis to a member of a decedent's family as a qualified use for alternative farm valuation purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Alcohol Tax Equalization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2252
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcohol tax
Alcoholism
Appropriations
Beer
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Transportation
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Health
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax rates
Transportation and Public Works
Wine

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Alcohol Tax Equalization Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the rates of tax on wine and beer and indexes such rates to the cost-of-living.
Establishes the Substance Abuse Prevention Trust Fund. Appropriates amounts to the Fund equivalent to the amounts received as a result of this Act. Makes amounts in the Fund available to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for alcohol abuse prevention programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1064-1065)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 211 of the Clean Air Act to prohibit the use of certain fuel additives.

Bill: 108-hr-2253
Sponsor: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Oxygenates
Reformulated gasoline
Transportation and Public Works
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) amend certain regulations regarding motor vehicle fuels to prohibit the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether as a fuel additive; and (2) prohibit any additive in gasoline registered under fuel regulation provisions unless it has been determined, through scientific testing and peer review, not to have adverse effects on the public.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of certain payments to be made by noncommercial webcasters under sections 112 and 114 of title 17, United States Code, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2255
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Contracts
Copyright
Intellectual property
Internet
Radio broadcasting
Radio stations
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Sound recording and reproducing

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Amends the Small Webcaster Settlement Act of 2002 to extend from June 20, 2003, until June 20, 2004, suspension of all payments by noncommercial webcasters under Federal copyright law which have not already been paid for the digital performance of sound recordings and the making of ephemeral phonorecords during the period from October 28, 1998, to May 31, 2003.
 
Amends Federal copyright law to extend from May 31, 2003, until May 31, 2004, the authority of noncommercial webcasters to enter into settlement agreements (including royalty terms) for the reproduction and performance of sound recordings during the period from October 28, 1998, to December 31, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House