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Colonias Gateway Initiative Act

Bill: 108-hr-1088
Sponsor: Rep. Bonilla, Henry [R-TX-23]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Arizona
Boundaries
Business education
California
Colonias
Commerce
Community development
Counseling
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Financial services
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Investments
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Marketing
Mexico
New Mexico
Nonprofit organizations
Potable water
Public-private partnerships
Regional economic development
Regional planning
Rural economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage disposal
Sewage treatment
Sewerage
Social Welfare
Strategic planning
Texas
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Colonias Gateway Initiative Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants through September 30, 2009, to regional organizations to enhance the availability of affordable housing, economic opportunity, and infrastructure in the colonias.
Defines colonia as a recognized community: (1) along the United States-Mexico border region in Arizona, California, New Mexico, or Texas; and (2) lacking such services as potable water, adequate sewage systems, and safe and sanitary housing.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Transportation to offer federally financed, interest-free loans to public schools, municipalities, and local governments for the purchase of hybrid electric or other high-efficiency vehicles, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1089
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Colleges
Economics and Public Finance
Electric vehicles
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Energy efficiency
Finance and Financial Sector
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government procurement
Government vehicles
Higher education
Interest
Natural gas vehicles
Public schools
School buses
Secondary education
Surety and fidelity
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a program to offer federally-financed, interest-free loans to local educational agencies, public institutions of higher education, municipalities, and local governments for the purchase of hybrid electric vehicles (with a fuel-efficient gasoline engine assisted by an electric motor) or high-efficiency vehicles (that use a fuel other than gasoline or diesel fuel).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
To require that ten percent of the motor vehicles purchased by Executive agencies be hybrid electric vehicles or high-efficiency vehicles.

Bill: 108-hr-1090
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Automobile engines
Electric vehicles
Energy
Energy efficiency
Fuel consumption
Government procurement
Government vehicles
Natural gas vehicles
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Requires at least ten percent of the motor vehicles purchased by an Executive agency in any fiscal year to be high-efficiency vehicles (that use fuel other than gasoline or diesel fuel) or hybrid electric vehicles (that have a fuel-efficient gasoline engine assisted by an electric motor).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1993 to make leaf tobacco an eligible commodity for the Market Access Program.

Bill: 108-hr-1091
Sponsor: Rep. Etheridge, Bob [D-NC-2]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture in foreign trade
Export subsidies
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Tobacco

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Amends the Agricultural Reconciliation Act of 1993 to make leaf tobacco eligible for market access program assistance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E380)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Code Talkers Recognition Act

Bill: 108-hr-1093
Sponsor: Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Cryptography
Government Operations and Politics
History
Language and languages
Military history
Minorities
Native Americans
World War I
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Code Talkers Recognition Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to make arrangements for the presentation of a congressional gold medal: (1) to persons, including specified individuals, who served as Sioux or Comanche Code Talkers during World War II; (2) honoring the Choctaw Code Talkers of World War I; and (3) to any other Native American member of the armed forces, identified by the Secretary of Defense, who served as a Code Talker in any foreign conflict in which the United States was involved during the 20th Century.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medals struck under this Act and to deposit the proceeds in the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund to pay for the costs of the medals awarded under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriations for part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to achieve full funding for part B of that Act by 2008.

Bill: 108-hr-1094
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to authorize funding to reach the Federal Government's goal of providing 40 percent of the national average per pupil expenditure to assist States and local educational agencies with the excess costs of educating children with disabilities.
Authorizes appropriations for IDEA part B programs of assistance for education of all children with disabilities, in specified amounts for FY 2004 through 2007, and as necessary thereafter.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reauthorize the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.

Bill: 108-hr-1095
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Boundaries
Canada
Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Imprisonment
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Latin America
Law
Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for the State criminal alien assistance program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Pension Accountability Act

Bill: 108-hr-1098
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional ethics
Congressional pensions
Forfeiture
Labor and Employment
Members of Congress
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Congressional Pension Accountability Act - Provides that: (1) all service as a Member of Congress of an individual who is expelled from Congress shall be noncreditable for purposes of determining eligibility for, or the amount of, any annuity which might otherwise be payable out of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund based on such service; (2) all Government contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan for that individual while that individual was performing Member service (and attributed earnings) shall be forfeited; and (3) the portion of such an individual's lump-sum credit which is attributable to such Member service (less any amount previously refunded or paid as annuity benefits) shall be payable to such individual or, if deceased, to the appropriate beneficiary or beneficiaries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the $25,000 offset for individuals under the passive loss rules to apply to investments in wind energy facilities.

Bill: 108-hr-1099
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Lease and rental services
Tax credits
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Amend s the Internal Revenue Code to allow the $25,000 passive loss offset for individuals without any income-based phaseout for investments in wind energy facilities. Exempts such wind energy facility offset from the active participation requirement.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that certain options offered by tax-exempt organizations are not includible in gross income under section 457(f).

Bill: 108-hr-1100
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Employee stock options
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish that options without a readily ascertainable fair market value offered by State and local governments and tax-exempt organizations are excluded from gross income.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1101
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Animals
Blood diseases
Brain diseases
Breast cancer
Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Colon cancer
Communicable diseases
Digestive diseases
Diphtheria
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Families
Federal employees
Fire fighters
Health
Hepatitis
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Kidney diseases
Labor and Employment
Law
Leukemia
Liver diseases
Lung cancer
Lung diseases
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Prostate cancer
Rabies
Rescue work
Skin cancer
Survivors' benefits
Tuberculosis
Women
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends Federal law to provide that, with regard to an employee in fire protection activities: (1) heart disease, lung disease, specified cancers and infectious diseases shall be presumed to be proximately caused by the employee's employment; (2) the disability or death of an employee in fire protection activities due to such a disease shall be presumed to result from personal injury sustained while in the performance of such employee's duty; and (3) such presumptions may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1102
Sponsor: Rep. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Apartment houses
Block grants
Building construction
Commerce
Community development
Construction costs
Construction industries
Cooperative housing
Day care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Employment of the disadvantaged
Families
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government trust funds
Home ownership
Housing for the aged
Housing for the disabled
Housing subsidies
Income tax
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Low-income housing
Minimum wages
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Rural housing
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax-exempt securities
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Wages
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2003 - Establishes the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund in the Treasury to promote the development, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable and safe low-income housing through grants to States and local jurisdictions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5427)
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Air Cargo Security Act

Bill: 108-hr-1103
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air cargo
Airline employees
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Airports
Aviation safety
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Transportation
EBB Terrorism
Electronic government information
Employee training
Flight crews
Freight forwarders
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Identification of criminals
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Standards
Strategic planning
Terrorism
Transport aircraft
Transportation workers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Air Cargo Security Act - Amends Federal aviation law to require the screening of cargo that is to be transported in passenger aircraft operated by domestic and foreign air carriers in interstate and intrastate air transportation (currently, only those transported by all-cargo aircraft). Directs the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security under the Transportation Security Administration to develop a strategic plan to carry out such screening.
Sets forth certain measures to increase the safety and security of air cargo, including the establishment of systems that: (1) provide for the regular inspection of shipping facilities for cargo shipments; (2) provide an industry-wide pilot program database of known cargo shippers; (3) train persons that handle air cargo to ensure that such cargo is properly handled and safe-guarded from security breaches; and (4) require air carriers operating all-cargo aircraft to have an approved plan for the security of their air operations area, the cargo placed aboard the aircraft, and persons having access to their aircraft on the ground or in flight.
Directs the Under Secretary to conduct random audits, investigations, and inspections of indirect air carrier facilities to determine if the indirect air carriers are meeting the security requirements of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1607)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
Fremont-Madison Conveyance Act

Bill: 108-hr-1106
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Canals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drainage
Droughts
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Fishery management
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Idaho
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Irrigation districts
Land transfers
Law
Licenses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Water districts
Water use
Watersheds
Wells

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Fremont-Madison Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) convey to the Fremont-Madison Irrigation District in Idaho, pursuant to a specified Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the District and the Secretary, the canals, lateral, drains, and other components of the water distribution and drainage system operated or maintained by the District; and (2) condition such conveyance on the District paying the administrative costs of the conveyance and related activities and the lesser of the net present value of the remaining obligations owed to the United States for the facilities conveyed or $280,000.
Requires the Secretary, in conveying the Teton Exchange Wells, to also convey to the District Idaho Department of Water Resources permit number 22-7022, including drilled wells under such permit and all appurtenant equipment.
Extends a specified water service contract between the Secretary and the District until all conditions described in this Act are fulfilled.
Requires the Secretary, prior to conveyance, to complete all environmental reviews and analyses as set forth in the MOA.
Increases the acreage within the District eligible to receive water from the Minidoka and Teton Basin Projects to reflect the number of acres within the District.
Requires the Secretary: (1) in collaboration with stakeholders in the Henry's Fork watershed, to initiate a drought management planning process to address all water uses in the watershed; and (2) report a final plan to Congress.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in House