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Community Rail Line Relocation Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-948
Sponsor: Rep. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 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: 2003-02-26
text: Community Rail Line Relocation Assistance Act of 2003 - Amends Federal highway law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a grant program to provide financial assistance to States for up to 90 percent of the cost of local rail line relocation projects.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit certain transfers or assignments of franchises, and to prohibit certain fixing or maintaining of motor fuel prices, under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act.

Bill: 108-hr-949
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Contracts
Energy
Energy prices
Franchises (Retail trade)
Landlord and tenant
Law
Leases
Legal fees
Motor vehicles
Petroleum industry
Price fixing
Service stations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to prohibit a franchisor from transferring or assigning its interest in the franchise during the term of the franchise unless the franchisor, at least 45 days before the proposed transfer or assignment, has first: (1) made a bona fide offer to the franchisee to sell, transfer, or assign to the franchisee the franchisor's interests in the leased marketing premises; or (2) offered the right of first refusal (of at least 45 days' duration) to the franchisee regarding an offer made by another to acquire the franchisor's interest in the premises.
Declares null, void, and unenforceable a franchise or marketing agreement that, in the event of litigation, calls for payment by either party of the prevailing party's legal expenses.
States that it shall be a violation of the Act for a refiner or distributor to fix or maintain motor fuel retail prices at a retail outlet supplied by that refiner or distributor, unless the refiner or distributor also operates such outlet.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Alaska Federal Lands Management Demonstration Project Act

Bill: 108-hr-950
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Animals
Auditing
Biological research
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal employees
Federal-Indian relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fishing
Government Operations and Politics
Government service contracts
Hunting
Labor and Employment
Land use
Licenses
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority employment
National forests
National monuments
National parks
Native Americans
Planning
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
Tourism
Trails
Transfer of employees
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers
Wilderness areas
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Alaska Federal Lands Management Demonstration Project Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an Alaska Federal Lands Management Demonstration Project.
Requires the Secretary to select no fewer than six eligible, geographically representative tribes or tribal organizations per year (up to a maximum of 12) to perform construction, maintenance, data collection, biological research, and harvest monitoring on conservation system units in Alaska. Requires selected tribes to complete a planning phase before negotiating and contracting with the Secretary.
Excludes revenue-producing visitor services unless agreed to by the Alaska Native corporations most directly affected. Excludes the Denali National Park.
Provides for planning grants.
Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration project with the Koyukuk River Basin Moose Co-Management Team, Inc., for the provision of services at the Koyukuk and Kanuti National Wildlife Refuges.
Authorizes the use of intergovernmental personnel actions to assign Federal employees to the contractor while retaining their Federal employment status.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E300)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act

Bill: 108-hr-951
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
Department of the Interior
Estates (Law)
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Indian claims
Indian lands
Indigenous peoples
Land transfers
Law
Minorities
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Vietnam veterans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) to: (1) provide that the open season during which certain Alaska Native Vietnam veterans are eligible to file for allotments of up to two parcels of Federal land totaling up to160 acres each shall end three years after final regulations are issued under this Act; (2) allow allotments to be selected from vacant Federal lands or lands that have been selected or conveyed to the State of Alaska or a Native Corporation that the State or such an entity voluntarily relinquishes or conveys to the United States for allotment; (3) repeal the prohibition on the conveyance of certain allotments; (4) make eligible for allotments such veterans who served during the period between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975, and who meet other eligibility requirements; and (5) allow an heir, on behalf of the estate of a deceased veteran who would otherwise have been eligible for an allotment, to apply for and receive the allotment.
Allows a Native Corporation to select an equal amount of acres of appropriate Federal land within Alaska to replace lands voluntarily relinquished or conveyed to the United States for allotment.
Prohibits selection of allotments from: (1) lands within the right-of-way granted for the TransAlaska Pipeline; or (2) the inner or outer corridor of that right-of-way withdrawal.
Sets forth requirements for approval of allotment applications.
Permits any person who made an allotment selection under ANCSA before the enactment of this Act to withdraw it and reselect lands if those originally selected were not conveyed to that person before the enactment of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E301-302)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a charitable contribution deduction for certain expenses incurred by whaling captains in support of Native Alaskan subsistence whaling.

Bill: 108-hr-952
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alaska
Animals
Charitable contributions
Eskimos
Income tax
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Minorities
Native Americans
Ships
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Whaling

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a charitable deduction for up to $10,000 of the reasonable and necessary whaling expenses incurred in support of Native Alaskan subsistence bowhead whale hunting activities conducted pursuant to the management plan of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. Limits such deduction to an individual recognized by the Commission as a whaling captain charged with the responsibility of maintaining and carrying out such sanctioned whaling activities.
Lists as whaling expenses those for: (1) the acquisition and maintenance of whaling boats, weapons, and gear; (2) food and other provisions for the crew; and (3) storage and distribution of the catch.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Miami Nation of Indiana Recognition Confirmation Act

Bill: 108-hr-954
Sponsor: Rep. Souder, Mark E. [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Indian lands
Indiana
Land transfers
Law
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sports and Recreation
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Miami Nation of Indiana Recognition Confirmation Act - Confirms Federal recognition of the Miami Nation of Indiana Tribe.
Grants eligibility to the Tribe and its members to all Federal services and benefits furnished to federally recognized Indian tribes residing on a reservation.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to process the Tribe's application for trust status for lands located within the Tribe's service area under the Secretary's regulations for "on-reservation" acquisitions.
Exempts the Tribe from the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, subjecting it to State and local gaming laws.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003, to reinstate the requirement that a farm, in order to be certified as an organic farm with respect to livestock produced on the farm, feed the livestock with organically produced feed.

Bill: 108-hr-955
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Feeds
Livestock
Organic farming

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Amends the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003, to repeal the provision permitting a farm to be certified as organic with respect to livestock produced on such farm if it uses non-organically produced feed under certain cost-based circumstances.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Broker Accountability through Enhanced Transparency Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-957
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Brokers
Data banks
Electronic data interchange
Information services
Investment advisers
Law
Liability (Law)
Professional associations
Science, Technology, Communications
Stock exchanges
Telephone
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Broker Accountability Through Enhanced Transparency Act of 2003 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to revise the requirements a registered securities association must meet for receiving and responding to inquiries regarding disciplinary actions involving its members and their associated persons. Requires such an association to establish and maintain: (1) a system for collecting and retaining registration information, including disciplinary actions, on its members and their associated persons; and (2) a readily accessible electronic or other process (in addition to the currently required toll-free telephone listing) to receive and promptly respond to inquiries pertaining to such information, including registration information that has been reported to the association by any registered national securities exchange involving its members and their associated persons.
Shields such association from liability for actions taken or omitted to implement this Act.
Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to shield from liability for actions taken or omitted by any entity designated by the Securities Exchange Commission as the entity through which an investment adviser may be required to file any required fee, application, report, or notice.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-962
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Congress
Congressional powers
Constitutional law
International Affairs
Lakes
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Navigation
Rivers
Territorial waters
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to replace the term "navigable waters," throughout the Act, with the term "waters of the United States," defined to mean all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting them, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E332)
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2777 Logan Avenue in San Diego, California, as the "Cesar E. Chavez Post Office".

Bill: 108-hr-963
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: California
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility (the Southeastern Post Office) located at 2777 Logan Avenue in San Diego, California, as the Cesar E. Chavez Post Office.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E333)
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Electric Refund Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-964
Sponsor: Rep. Ose, Doug [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Energy
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Rebates
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Electric Refund Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Power Act to make the date of the filing of a complaint the effective date for the refund of rates and charges determined by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to be either unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory or preferential.
Increases criminal and civil penalties for violations of the Act and the rules thereunder.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-965
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Minimum wages
Northern Mariana Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2003 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.90 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after enactment of this Act; and (2) $6.65 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day.
Makes Federal minimum wage requirements applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Sets forth a transition period during which a specified minimum wage there shall be gradually increased to equal the Federal minimum wage.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E333-334)
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans' Return-to-Work Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-966
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Social Welfare
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment
Veterans' pensions
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Disabled Veterans' Return-to-Work Act of 2003 - Establishes a new period of five years from the date of enactment of this Act for a program of vocational training by the Department of Veterans Affairs for low-income, pension-receiving veterans under the age of 45. (The previous period ran from February 1, 1985, through December 31, 1995.) Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide appropriate program outreach.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Provision was dropped when H. R. 2297 passed the Senate with an amendment by unanimous consent.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 2297, Section 9.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E334)
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Beneficiary Skilled Nursing Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-967
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicare
Nursing
Nursing homes
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Medicare Beneficiary Skilled Nursing Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 to extend for three years the temporary increase in the nursing component of the Federal prospective payment rate.
Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999 to extend for three years the increase in the skilled nursing facility adjusted Federal per diem rate under the Social Security Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-27
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: 2003-02-27
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: 2003-02-27
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: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House