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Farm Disaster Emergency Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-307
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Crop insurance
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Farm income
Farm produce
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Law
Livestock
Losses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Farm Disaster Emergency Assistance Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide: (1) emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2001 or 2002 crop losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2001 and 2002 losses in an emergency-designated county, with discretionary set-asides for the American Indian livestock program.
Permits producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years.
Makes producers ineligible for crop disaster assistance if they did not: (1) get Federal crop insurance for insurable commodities; and (2) file required paperwork and pay related fees for noninsurable commodities. Sets forth waiver provisions.
Directs the Secretary to transfer specified Commodity Credit Corporation amounts to a certain account established to encourage domestic consumption and foreign exportation of agricultural commodities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the resolution of certain labor issues relating to the merger of the Metro-North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road.

Bill: 108-hr-308
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Collective bargaining
Connecticut
Industrial arbitration
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Mediation
New Jersey
New York City
New York State
Railroad commuting traffic
Railroad employees
Railroad mergers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Declares that the collective bargaining agreement between the Association of Commuter Rail Employees and the Metro-North Railroad (in New York) shall be extinguished upon the merger of the Metro-North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road. Deems employees of the entity resulting from such merger to be covered under the appropriate collective bargaining agreement of the Long Island Rail Road in compliance with the Railway Labor Act. Subjects all disputes arising from the application of this Act to the jurisdiction of the National Mediation Board.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
San Joaquin River Restoration Act

Bill: 108-hr-309
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Electric power production
Emergency Management
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-local relations
Flood control
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Hydroelectric power
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Irrigation
Reservoirs
Water quality
Water storage
Water supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: San Joaquin River Restoration Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to complete a study of the Upper San Joaquin River Basin in California to determine the feasibility of increasing water storage capacity and power generation and of improving water supply reliability and quality, water management efficiency, and ecosystem function and flood control on the San Joaquin River through the construction of a reservoir at Temperance Flat and other reasonable measures.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E47)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Farmland Capital Gains Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-310
Sponsor: Rep. Osborne, Tom [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Capital gains tax
Families
Family farms
Farm income
Farm lands
Income tax
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Farmland Capital Gains Equity Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale of qualified farm property similar to the exclusion of gain on the sale of a principal residence. Excludes from gross income up to $500,000 ($250,000 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return), reduced by the aggregate amount of gain excluded for all preceding taxable years.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
American Dream Tax Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-311
Sponsor: Rep. Pence, Mike [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Minimum tax
Small business
Stocks
Tax exclusion
Tax preferences
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: American Dream Tax Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a ten percent maximum capital gains rate for individuals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Dividend Payment Incentive Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-312
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Dividend Payment Incentive Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow dividends as a deduction in the case of a C corporation, except in the case of: (1) a regulated investment company; (2) a real estate investment trust; or (3) an exempt corporation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E44)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Coal Accountability and Retired Employee Act for the 21st Century

Bill: 108-hr-313
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coal
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Energy
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Health
Interest
Labor and Employment
Miners
Reclamation of land
Retiree health benefits
Strip mining

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Coal Accountability and Retired Employee Act for the 21st Century - Requires that interest credited to the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund be transferred to the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund up to such amounts as the Fund trustees estimate will offset any deficit in its net assets. 
Prohibits any other amounts in or credited to the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund from being transferred to the Combined Fund.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: 

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

 
Coal Accountability and Retired Employee Act for the 21st Century - Requires that interest credited to the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund be transferred to the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund up to such amounts as the Fund trustees estimate will offset any deficit in its net assets. 
 
Prohibits any other amounts in or credited to the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund from being transferred to the Combined Fund.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 195.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 108-328.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 108-328.
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Discharged.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E38)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove the requirement of a mandatory beginning date for distributions from individual retirement plans.

Bill: 108-hr-315
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Retirement age
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to remove the requirement that individual retirement accounts must be distributed not later than a required beginning date.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To eliminate certain restrictions on the availability of credits under title III of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 for the use of biodiesel fuel, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-316
Sponsor: Rep. Shimkus, John [R-IL-19]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diesel motor
Energy conservation
Energy prices
Legislation
Motor vehicles
Prices
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Renewable natural resources
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 with respect to the allocation of biodiesel fuel use credits to a fleet or covered person for qualifying volumes of the biodiesel component of fuel containing at least 20 percent biodiesel by volume purchased for use by the fleet or covered person in vehicles that weigh more than 8,500 pounds gross vehicle weight rating.
Repeals the limitation of such allocations to a maximum of 50 percent of the alternative fueled vehicle requirements of a fleet or covered person. (Thus makes such credits available for 100 percent of such requirements.)
Repeals the current denial that such a credit may be considered a specified kind of alternative fueled vehicle credit (thus allowing such consideration).
Directs the Secretary of Energy to study and report to Congress on the availability and cost of: (1) light duty motor vehicles that qualify under such Act as alternative fueled vehicles; and (2) fuels that qualify as alternative fuels.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, relating to a rural access project in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.

Bill: 108-hr-317
Sponsor: Rep. Shimkus, John [R-IL-19]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Illinois
Infrastructure
Road construction
Streets

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to authorize a rural access project involving improvements of the Wells Bypass (45th Street) in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Biofuels Air Quality Act

Bill: 108-hr-318
Sponsor: Rep. Shimkus, John [R-IL-19]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Carbon dioxide
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy crops
Federal aid to transportation
Fuel storage
Government vehicles
Grain
Motor vehicle pollution control
Nonprofit organizations
Oilseeds
Social Welfare
Sulphur
Sulphur oxides
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Biofuels Air Quality Act - Amends Federal highway provisions (with respect to the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program) to direct the Secretary of Transportation to consider the extent to which a proposed project or program reduces sulfur or atmospheric carbon emissions.
Allows States receiving minimum apportionments to use funds under the program for renewable fuel projects (specified below).
Modifies provisions regarding renewable fuel projects to expand coverage to include: (1) publicly and nonprofit (currently, limited to privately) owned vehicles or vehicle fleets; and (2) costs of renewable fuel, consisting of any fuel produced from grain, oilseeds, or other biomass (including biodiesel), that is used to replace or reduce the quantity of fossil fuel present in a fuel mixture used to operate motor vehicles, and installation of capital equipment necessary for the conversion of storage and distribution facilities to carry renewable fuels or renewable fuel blends.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 15 percent reduction in payment rates under the prospective payment system for home health services under the Medicare Program.

Bill: 108-hr-319
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Case mix (Medical care)
Home care services
Medical fees
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate a specified 15 percent reduction in cost and per beneficiary limits with respect to payment rates for home health services under the Medicare prospective payment system.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-08
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: 2003-01-08
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: 2003-01-08
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: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Aviation Employee Assistance Relief Act

Bill: 108-hr-320
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aircraft industry
Airline employees
Commerce
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation workers
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Aviation Employee Assistance Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the early withdrawal penalty distributions from qualified retirement plans by individuals separated from employment by air carriers, aircraft manufacturers, or manufacturers of aircraft parts or components.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Legal Immigrant Health Restoration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-322
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aliens
Child health
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health insurance
Immigrant health
Immigration
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Pregnant women
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Legal Immigrant Health Restoration Act of 2003 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to ensure coverage for eligible permanent resident pregnant women and children under the Medicaid and SCHIP programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide for joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans.

Bill: 108-hr-323
Sponsor: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Collective bargaining
Employee rights
Government Operations and Politics
Industrial relations
Labor contracts
Labor unions
Law
Pension funds
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require joint trusteeship of single-employer pension plans, with equal representation of the interests of: (1) the employer or employers maintaining the plan; and (2) the participants and their beneficiaries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Dairy Consumers and Producers Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-324
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture and Food
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Connecticut
Dairy industry
Delaware
Department of Agriculture
Florida
Georgia
Interstate commissions
Interstate compacts
Kansas
Kentucky
Law
Legislation
Louisiana
Maine
Marketing of farm produce
Marketing orders
Maryland
Massachusetts
Milk
Mississippi
Missouri
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York State
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington State
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Dairy Consumers and Producers Protection Act - Amends the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 to include Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania within the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact. Eliminates: (1) the Compact's termination date; and (2) certain restrictive authority respecting non-Compact milk. States that Ohio is the only additional State that may join such Compact. Eliminates and revises specified provisions regarding Compact implementation, duration, restricting authority, and Commodity Credit Corporation compensation.
States that Congress consents to the Southern Dairy Compact entered into by Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. States that Florida, Nebraska, and Texas are the only additional States that may join such Compact. Limits price regulatory authority to Class I fluid milk unless otherwise consented to by the Congress. Provides for Commodity Credit Corporation compensation. Sets forth the Southern Dairy Compact.
States that Congress consents to: (1) the Pacific Northwest Dairy Compact proposed for California, Oregon, and Washington; and (2) the Intermountain Dairy Compact proposed for Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Limits price regulatory authority to Class I fluid milk. Provides for Corporation compensation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Child Safety and Home Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-325
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Evidence (Law)
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Law
Liability (Law)
Negligence
Safety measures
Science, Technology, Communications
Storage
Tax credits
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Child Safety and Home Security Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a nonrefundable tax credit for the purchase of a residential safe storage device that is put into service for the securing of firearms.
Prohibits the creation of a database identifying gun owners using information from tax returns on which credit under this Act is claimed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House