Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1578
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Appropriations
Archives
Armed Forces and National Security
Biological diversity
Capital investments
Chemicals
Climate
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Communication in science
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Demography
Developing countries
Ecological research
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy development
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Environmental assessment
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Environmental technology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Geography and mapping
Glaciers
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
International Affairs
International agencies
International cooperation in science
International environmental cooperation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear reactors
Policy sciences
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Remote sensing
Renewable natural resources
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Sea level
Solar energy
Space activities
Sustainable development
Technical assistance
Transportation and Public Works
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2003 - Directs the President to establish an interagency committee to ensure cooperation and coordination of Federal research activities pertaining to processes of global change.
Directs the President to establish an interagency United States Global Change Research Program to improve understanding of global change and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to global change.
Directs the President to develop a National Global Change Research Plan to implement the Program, including recommendations for global change research.
Requires the Plan to set research goals and priorities, including global measurements of physical processes contributing to changes in the Earth system as well as economic and demographic trends and how these processes and trends interact.
Directs the President to establish an interagency climate and other global change data management working group.
Requires the President to direct the Secretary of State to initiate discussions with other nations leading toward international protocols and other agreements to coordinate global climate change research activities.
Directs the President to establish an Office of Global Change Research Information.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Motion to Report Measure Defeated by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 23.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and International Relations, 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: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and International Relations, 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: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and International Relations, 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: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and International Relations, 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: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E643-644)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in House