Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2088
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Alaska
Alcohol as fuel
Animals
Appalachia
Arizona
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Authorization
Barges
Bicycles
Boats and boating
Boundaries
Bridges
Brownfields
Business records
California
Canada
Capital investments
Car pools
Carbon monoxide
Civil actions and liability
Claims
Collection of accounts
Commemorations
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Community development
Commuting
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer credit
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Transportation
Diesel motor
Disabled
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drug testing
Drugs and employment
Drunk driving
Easements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic data interchange
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Employee selection
Employee training
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Excise tax
Executive reorganization
Exotic animals
Exotic plants
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Federal preemption
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fishing
Food industry
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Freight
Freight forwarders
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Harbors
Health
Higher education
Highspeed ground transportation
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Highway planning
Highway use tax
Historic sites
History
Household moving
Idaho
Income tax
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Intermodal transportation
International Affairs
International cooperation
Interstate commerce
Interstate highway system
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Latin America
Law
Liability insurance
Licenses
Light rail transit
Local laws
Maine
Marketing
Mass rapid transit
Meat inspection
Medical records
Medical research
Methanol
Metropolitan areas
Mexico
Michigan
Military vehicles
Minnesota
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Montana
Motor buses
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicle safety
National parks
National recreation areas
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New York State
Non-native species
North Dakota
Ozone
Packaging
Parks
Passenger ships
Pedestrians
Performance measurement
Petroleum pipelines
Physical examinations
Postal service
Poultry
Poverty
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Railroad finance
Railroad freight operations
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Recreation areas
Remote sensing
Research and development
Research grants
Restoration ecology
Right-of-way
Risk
Road construction
Scenic byways
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Seat belts
Security measures
Small business
Smog
Social Welfare
Space activities
Sports and Recreation
State laws
Tariff
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax evasion
Tax returns
Tax treaties
Tax-exempt securities
Taxation
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Terminals (Transportation)
Territories (U.S.)
Terrorism
Texas
Toll roads
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic congestion
Traffic engineering
Traffic signs and signals
Trails
Transportation and the aged
Transportation and the disabled
Transportation insurance
Transportation of hazardous substances
Transportation planning
Transportation research
Transportation safety
Transportation workers
Truck drivers
Trucking
Trucks
United States Postal Service
Urban affairs
User charges
Vending machines
Vermont
Volunteer workers
Washington State
Water Resources Development
West (U.S.)
Wetlands
Wildlife refuges
Women
Women in business
Youth employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: 
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2003 - Reauthorizes the Federal-aid surface transportation program through FY 2009.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation (the Secretary) to establish: (1) an Infrastructure Performance and Maintenance Program; (2) a freight transportation gateways program; (3) a National Blue Ribbon Commission on Highway Safety; (4) a highway safety improvement program; and (5) a multi-modal energy and climate change program.
 
Modifies provisions of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century regarding ozone and particulate matter standards, and the regional haze program.
 
Directs: (1) the Secretary to design and implement a discretionary grant program to reduce impaired driving; and (2) the Secretary and the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency Medical Services.
 
Federal Public Transportation Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary to establish a Planning Capacity Building Program.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide grants for new transportation services; and (2) make grants to sub-recipients of State and local governmental authorities in financing specified capital projects.
 
Authorizes appropriations for: (1) major capital investment program grants; and (2) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration administrative expenses.
 

 
Directs: (1) the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator to establish a Medical Review Board; and (2) the Secretary to carry out a motor carrier research, development, and technology (RD&T) program.
 
Authorizes appropriations for: (1) a surface transportation RD&T deployment program; (2) training and education; (3) the Bureau of Transportation Statistics; (4) university transportation research; (5) intelligent transportation systems (ITS) research; and (6) high speed rail.
 

 
Establishes an Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics.
 
Intelligent Transportation Systems Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary to conduct an ongoing ITS program to advance nationwide deployment.
 
Requires: (1) designated metropolitan planning organizations to develop transportation plans for metropolitan planning areas of the State; and (2) each State to develop a statewide transportation improvement program.
 
Directs: (1) the U.S. Postal Service to prescribe regulations for the safe transportation of hazardous material in the mail; (2) the Secretary to monitor public-sector emergency response planning and training for hazardous material incidents; and (3) the Secretary of the Treasury to establish an Emergency Preparedness Fund account.
 
Sanitary Food Transportation Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish sanitary transportation practices to avoid the adulteration of food.
 
Surface Transportation Revenue Act of 2004 - Extends certain highway-related taxes and tax benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, Science, Resources, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, and Rules, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, Science, Resources, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, and Rules, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, Science, Resources, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, and Rules, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, Science, Resources, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, and Rules, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, Science, Resources, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, and Rules, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, Science, Resources, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, and Rules, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, Science, Resources, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, and Rules, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, Science, Resources, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, and Rules, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, Science, Resources, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, and Rules, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Budget, Science, Resources, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, Government Reform, and Rules, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House