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To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the requirements for naturalization to citizenship through service in the Armed Forces of the United States.

Bill: 108-hr-1806
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Citizenship
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Embassies
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Law
Legal fees
Military bases
Military personnel
Naturalization
Personnel records
State courts
State laws
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide for priority consideration of applications for naturalization through service in the armed forces.
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act respecting naturalization through service in the armed forces to: (1) reduce the required service from three years to one year; and (2) prohibit the imposition of a naturalization fee.
Provides for overseas naturalization proceedings for members of the armed forces.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Self-Employment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1807
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Business education
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Entrepreneurs
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Labor and Employment
Self-employed
Subsidies
Trade adjustment assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Self-Employment Act of 2003 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary of Labor to establish an alternative trade adjustment assistance program for workers that provides for self-employment training and funds to pay, in whole or in part, the start up costs attributable to the individual's business enterprise.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide the opportunity for one or more workers in a group of workers on whose behalf a petition is filed for a trade adjustment assistance application eligibility to request that the individual workers be certified for the alternative trade adjustment assistance program. 
 
Requires a worker covered by an group trade adjustment assistance eligibility certification who elects to receive alternative trade adjustment assistance program benefits to: (1) submit a self-employment business plan to the appropriate State agency for approval; (2) be likely to obtain self-employment in accordance with such plan within 26 weeks after separation from the adversely affected employment; (3) be likely to engage in self-employment on a full-time basis; and (4) be likely not to return to the employment from which the worker was separated.
 
Limits the total amount of payments made on behalf of a worker during the two-year eligibility period to: (1) $2,500 per worker for training costs; and (2) $10,000 per worker for start-up costs. Prohibits any other trade adjustment assistance benefits for a worker accepting alternative benefits under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Remove Tax Barriers for Entrepreneurs Act

Bill: 108-hr-1808
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital investments
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Corporations
Depreciation and amortization
Entrepreneurs
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Incorporation
Partnerships
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Remove Tax Barriers for Entrepreneurs Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the 60-month minimum period for capitalization of start-up expenditures and amortization of organizational expenditures, thus allowing the immediate deduction of such expenses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Fern Lake Conservation and Recreation Act

Bill: 108-hr-1809
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Commerce
Conservation easements
Dams
Easements
Environmental Protection
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Infrastructure
Kentucky
Lakes
Land transfers
Landscape protection
Law
National parks
Outdoor recreation
Potable water
Sports and Recreation
Tennessee
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Virginia
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Fern Lake Conservation and Recreation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to acquire for addition to the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park specified lands which contain Fern Lake and its surrounding watershed located in Bell County, Kentucky, and Claiborne County, Tennessee.
Requires the Secretary, upon making such acquisition, to convey the Lake, along with the dam and appurtenances associated with the withdrawal and delivery of water from the Lake, to the City of Middlesboro, Kentucky.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E765-766)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To require door delivery of mail sent to persons residing in senior communities.

Bill: 108-hr-1810
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Housing and Community Development
Housing for the aged
Life care communities
Postal service
Retirement communities
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Requires the Postal Service to take measures to ensure that all individuals residing in senior communities receive their mail through door delivery service, except for persons residing in a structure that consists of or contains four or more dwelling units.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E769)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Dylan Lee James Act

Bill: 108-hr-1811
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Child health
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Family services
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health education
Health information systems
Health insurance
Home care services
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Social Welfare
Supplemental security income program
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Family Opportunity Act of 2003 or Dylan Lee James Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) give States the option of allowing families of disabled children to purchase Medicaid coverage for them; and (2) provide for treatment of inpatient psychiatric hospital services for individuals under age 21 under waivers allowing for payment of part or all of the cost of home or community-based services.
Amends SSA title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) to make appropriations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for special projects of regional and national significance for development and support of family-to-family health information centers.
Amends SSA title XIX to provide for the restoration of Medicaid eligibility to certain Supplemental Security Income (SSA title XVI) beneficiaries under age 21.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Contraception Education Act

Bill: 108-hr-1812
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer organizations
Contraceptives
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Higher education
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Emergency Contraception Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop and disseminate to the public information on emergency contraception.
Requires that the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to develop and disseminate to health care providers information on emergency contraception.
Requires that the information disseminated to health care providers include at a minimum: (1) information describing the use, safety, efficacy, and availability of emergency contraception; (2) a recommendation regarding its use in appropriate cases; and (3) information explaining how to obtain copies of information from the CDC.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Naturalization and Family Protection for Military Members Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1814
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Citizenship
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Embassies
Families
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Marriage
Married people
Military bases
Military dependents
Military personnel
Naturalization
Parents
State courts
State laws
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Visas
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Naturalization and Family Protection for Military Members Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act respecting naturalization through service in the armed forces to: (1) reduce the required service from three years to two years; (2) prohibit the imposition of a naturalization fee; and (3) qualify the Selective Reserve of the Ready Reserve for such benefits.
Provides for overseas naturalization proceedings for members of the armed forces.
Retains immediate relative status for the alien wife, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen who died from injury or disease incurred while serving honorably on active military service. (Requires petition filing within two years of such death.)
States that an application for status adjustment by the alien wife, child, or parent of an alien member of the armed forces who was granted service-related posthumous citizenship may be adjudicated as if the death had not occurred. (Requires application filing prior to such death.)
Treats the spouse, child, or parent of a lawful permanent resident who was granted service-related posthumous citizenship as a valid petitioner for immediate family status. (Requires parent filing within two years of such death.)
Permits such aliens to apply for permanent resident status adjustment.
Waives specified grounds of inadmissibility.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Rail Line Relocation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1815
Sponsor: Rep. Spratt, John M., Jr. [D-SC-5]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cost effectiveness
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Law
Pedestrians
Railroad engineering
Railroad freight operations
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Relocation
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic engineering

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 
Rail Line Relocation Act of 2003 - Amends Federal highway law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a capital grant program to provide financial assistance to States for up to 80 percent of the cost of local rail line relocation projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
National Flood Insurance Program Fairness Act

Bill: 108-hr-1816
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Compensation (Law)
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster insurance
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Finance and Financial Sector
Floodplains
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Insurance premiums
Law
Maps
Water Resources Development
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: National Flood Insurance Program Fairness Act - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to replace requirements for the notification of changes to flood insurance map panels (thus, repealing them) with new requirements for the notification and appeal of such changes.
Allows a community affected by the change to appeal the change.
Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, if an owner of real property affected by a change to panels incurs expense in connection with the services of surveyors, engineers, or similar services (but not legal services) in effecting any request to the Director to remove the property from inclusion within the base flood elevations established under panels, and granted by the Director in whole or in part, to reimburse such individual for such expense.
Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to set forth new requirements (thus, repealing the current requirement) for the publication or notification of proposed flood elevation determinations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E765)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Army to carry out a dredging project to increase the depth of Menominee Harbor, Menomiee River, Michigan and Wisconsin, from 24 feet to 26 feet.

Bill: 108-hr-1817
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Civil engineering
Dredging
Harbors
Infrastructure
Inland water transportation
Michigan
Navigation
Rivers
Water Resources Development
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out the navigation project for the Menominee Harbor and River in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Workforce Health Improvement Program Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1818
Sponsor: Rep. Toomey, Patrick J. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Employee health benefits
Fees
Fringe benefits
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Physical education and training
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Workforce Health Improvement Program Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend nontaxable fringe benefit coverage to qualifying off-premises fitness or athletic club services provided by an employer. Permits an employer deduction for such club dues.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Poison Control Center Enhancement and Awareness Act Amendments of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1819
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Commerce
Consumer goods
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug abuse
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health information systems
Health surveys
Medical records
Poisons
Public service advertising
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone
Toxicology

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Poison Control Center Enhancement and Awareness Act Amendments of 2003 - Amends the Poison Control Enhancement and Awareness Act to authorize appropriations for: (1) the maintenance of a national toll-free number to access regional poison control centers; and (2) the nationwide media campaign to promote poison control center utilization.
Amends provisions pertaining to the poison control center grant program, including to provide funds for: (1) developing standardized poison prevention and poison control centers; and (2) improving national toxic exposure surveillance. Modifies provisions pertaining to the renewal of a waiver of the certification requirements for receiving poison control center grants.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to assist in the implementation and maintenance of continuos national toxicosurveillance of poison control center data to detect new hazards from various sources, including household products.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain coins to be acquired by individual retirement accounts and other individually directed pension plan accounts, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1820
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coins and coinage
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Investments
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the category of "non-collectible" coins eligible for inclusion in individual retirement accounts and other individually directed pension plan accounts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit United States assistance for the Palestinian Authority and for programs, projects, and activities in the West Bank and Gaza.

Bill: 108-hr-1823
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic assistance
Foreign leaders
Gaza Strip
Government Operations and Politics
Israel
Middle East and North Africa
Palestinians
Peace
Political violence
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
West Bank

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 
Prohibits U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority (or to any successor or related entity), or for programs, projects, and activities to the West Bank or Gaza, unless the President certifies to specified congressional committees that: (1) the leadership of the Palestinian Authority has publicly renounced violence as a means of political expression and has taken all actions to bring an end to the violence which commenced in early October 2000 in the West Bank and Gaza; and (2) the violence in the West Bank and Gaza has subsided. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1824
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Fire prevention
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to classify automatic fire sprinkler systems as five-year depreciable property.
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Frank Redendo.

Bill: 108-hr-1825
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Waives a time limitation under the Public Health Service Act with respect to the filing by Frank Redendo of a petition for compensation for vaccine-related injuries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Thomas J. Sansone, Jr.

Bill: 108-hr-1826
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to pay compensation to Thomas J. Sansone, Jr. for an injury deemed to be a vaccine-related injury.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House