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International U.S. Seniors Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1880
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aliens
Americans in foreign countries
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Finance and Financial Sector
Immigration
Insurance premiums
International Affairs
Medical economics
Medicare
Medigap
Social Welfare
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: International U.S. Seniors Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for a special enrollment period under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for certain individuals residing abroad during which the late enrollment penalty is waived.
Prohibits an issuer of a Medicare supplemental (Medigap) policy from discriminating in any way against an individual residing abroad who seeks to enroll in a Medigap policy during the six-month special Medicare part B open enrollment period.
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should enter into an international convention with respect to individuals aged 65 or older who live abroad under which the nation of which the individual is a citizen agrees to reimburse another nation in which the individual lawfully resides for the costs of health care furnished to the individual while residing in that nation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-30
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: 2003-04-30
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: 2003-04-30
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: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Pay for Performance Act

Bill: 108-hr-1881
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Michael [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional salaries
Economics and Public Finance
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Congressional Pay for Performance Act - Provides that, if the Congress has not passed all general appropriation bills before the beginning of a fiscal year, then the permanent appropriation for the compensation of Members of Congress shall not be effective for such fiscal year.
Makes it out of order for either the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider the legislative branch appropriation bill for any fiscal year until other general appropriation bills for such fiscal year have been presented to the President.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain individuals under contract to perform fire fighting services for a local government shall be treated as employees of such government for pension plan purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1884
Sponsor: Rep. Burr, Richard [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Emergency Management
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Income tax
Labor and Employment
State laws
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat certain full-time firefighters under contract with a local political subdivision who elect to participate in a qualifying governmental pension plan as employees (rather than self-employed individuals) of such subdivision for pension plan purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Military Pay Comparability Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1885
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business cycles
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Military pay
Recruiting and enlistment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Military Pay Comparability Act of 2003 - Requires the monthly rates of basic military pay to be adjusted effective January 1 of each year. (Currently, such rates are adjusted whenever the General Schedule (GS) of Compensation for Federal employees is adjusted.)
Requires equal annual pay percentage increases for all military personnel to be based on percentage increases in the Employment Cost Index (currently on GS adjustments). Increases percentage adjustments by one-half percent for FY 2004 through 2006.
Requires new annual rates of pay to be published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations.
Authorizes the President, upon determining that annual pay adjustments would be inappropriate because of national emergency or serious economic conditions, to prepare and transmit to Congress a plan for an alternative pay adjustment. Requires the President to consider under such plan the impact that the alternative adjustment would have on the Government's ability to recruit and retain well-qualified members of the armed forces.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E830-831)
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1886
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Breast cancer
Commerce
Consumer education
Employee health benefits
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Hospital care
Labor and Employment
Mastectomy
Rebates
Standards
State laws
Surgery
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to prohibit group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group health insurance coverage, with regard to hospital stays in connection with breast cancer treatment, from: (1) covering less than 48 hours after mastectomies or less than 24 hours after lymph node dissections; or (2) requiring plan or issuer authorization for prescribing any length of stay. Prohibits: (1) denying eligibility, enrollment, or renewal to avoid these requirements; (2) providing payments or rebates to women; or (3) penalizing or providing incentives to providers. Applies the same requirements to issuers in the individual market.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1887
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Commercial arbitration
Consumer protection
Contracts
Law
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: 
Consumer Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to treat as an unfair and deceptive trade act or practice under Federal or State law any written provision in a consumer transaction or contract which requires binding arbitration to resolve a controversy arising out of or related to the transaction or contract, or the failure to perform any part.
 
Declares such a provision unenforceable.
 
Permits a written agreement to determine an existing controversy by binding arbitration if the parties agree after the controversy has arisen.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To require public disclosure of noncompetitive contracting for the reconstruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1888
Sponsor: Rep. Kleczka, Gerald D. [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Classified defense information
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Government contractors
Government publicity
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Maintenance and repair
Middle East and North Africa

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: 
Requires the head of a U.S. executive agency that enters into a contract for the repair, maintenance, or construction of infrastructure in Iraq without full and open competition to publish in the Federal Register or Commerce Business Daily and otherwise make available to the public within 30 days after the contract is entered into: (1) the amount of the contract; (2) a brief description of its scope; (3) a discussion of how the agency identified, and solicited offers from, potential contractors to perform the contract, together with a list of the potential contractors that were issued solicitations for the offers; and (4) the justification and approval documents on which was based the determination to use procedures other than procedures that provide for full and open competition.
 
Authorizes an agency head to: (1) withhold from such publication and disclosure any document classified for restricted access in accordance with an Executive order in the interest of national defense or foreign policy; and (2) redact any part so classified in a document not so classified before publication and disclosure of the document. Requires the agency head to make available an unredacted version of such a document to the chairman and ranking member of specified congressional committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Flight Attendant Certification Act

Bill: 108-hr-1889
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Airline employees
Aviation safety
Department of Transportation
Emergency Management
Employee training
Flight crews
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: 
Flight Attendant Certification Act - Amends Federal taransportation law to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe standards for cabin crew training and certification for individuals working in an aircraft cabin on board a transport category aircraft with twenty or more seats.
 
Requires all new and existing cabin crew members to be certified by the Administrator after successful completion of an air carrier's training program consisting of: (1) initial, indoctrination, and emergency training; (2) air carrier specific training related to aircraft types and operator's certificate; and (3) submission by the air carrier to the Administrator confirming such completion.
 
Declares that the Administrator shall be prohibited from granting an air carrier a waiver of cabin crew training requirements or an exemption from any part of such requirements.
 
Requires a cabin crew member, to qualify for a cabin crew certificate, to successfully: (1) complete the training requirements established by the Administrator, including all initial, indoctrination, emergency, transition, differences, recurrent, and requalification training; (2) complete the cabin security and self-defense training requirements established by the Transportation Security Administrator; and (3) perform the assigned duties of a cabin crew member and complete the approved proficiency check, under the supervision of a certified instructor or supervisor, for not less than five hours of initial operating experience.
 
Requires air carrier training programs to receive the Administrator's approval.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Real Estate Investment Trust Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1890
Sponsor: Rep. McCrery, Jim [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aliens
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Corporations
Debt
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Futures trading
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government securities
Income tax
Interest
Land transfers
Leases
Loan defaults
Loans
Lumber trade
Partnerships
Real estate investment
Rent
Securities
Stockholders
Stocks
Subsidiary corporations
Tax administration
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Real Estate Investment Trust Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise real estate investment trust (REIT) provisions respecting: (1) straight debt safe harbor; (2) limited rental exception; (3) customary services exception; (4) hedging instruments; (5) prohibited transaction safe harbor; (6) distributions attributable to gain from sales or exchanges of U.S. real property interests; and (7) rules of application for asset requirements and limitations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit liability for the effects of emissions, and emission byproducts, resulting from or caused by an act of nature, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1891
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accidents
Air pollution control
Armed Forces and National Security
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Fires
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Minorities
Native Americans
Storms
Terrorism
Transboundary pollution
Volcanoes
War

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Amends the Clean Air Act to preclude liability for emissions resulting from an act of nature, accident, war, terrorism, or certain fires.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Ending Polio in Our Time Act

Bill: 108-hr-1892
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Health and Human Services
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Poliomyelitis
Vaccination
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Ending Polio in Our Time Act - Authorizes appropriations of $275 million for each of FY's 2004 and 2005 to carry out global polio eradication activities through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1893
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Age discrimination
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Defined benefit pension plans
Early retirement
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Fringe benefits
Health
Higher education
Medicare
Pension funds
Retiree health benefits
School personnel
Social Welfare
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Teacher Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Act of 2003 - Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to provide that, subject to specified conditions, such Act is not violated if: (1) voluntary early retirement incentive plans (VERIPs), for employees of local educational agencies (LEAs) or institutions of higher education, reduce or eliminate supplemental benefits on the basis of the employee's age at retirement under certain conditions; or (2) retiree medical benefits of an employee benefit plan (including an LEA VERIP) are coordinated with Medicare or State employee benefit plans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the implementation of discriminatory precertification requirements for the earned income tax credit.

Bill: 108-hr-1894
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional-executive relations
Department of the Treasury
Earned income tax credit
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Law
Legislation
Social Welfare
Tax administration
Tax refunds
Taxpayers
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: States that the Internal Revenue Service shall not implement any system of earned income tax credit precertification for taxpayers who have not made prior improper claims unless such a system is specifically authorized by law.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in House