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Legislative Oversight of Significant Regulations Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1654
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2003-04-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Executive orders
Expedited congressional procedure
Finance and Financial Sector
Government regulation
House rules and procedure
Law
Legislative resolutions
Monetary policy
Right of petition
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: 

 
Legislative Oversight of Significant Regulations Act of 2003 - Revises provisions governing the congressional review of agency rulemaking. Imposes review requirements upon only rules described as &quot;significant&quot; in the authorizing Act. Prohibits a significant rule from taking effect before the enactment of a joint resolution comprising solely of the text of such rule.
 
 Requires the report submitted by a Federal agency proposing a significant rule to include an explanation of the specific statutory interpretation under which a rule is proposed, including an explanation of whether the interpretation is expressly required by the text of the statute or, if not, an explanation that the interpretation is within the permissible range and an explanation of why the interpretation was selected. Provides that if Congress fails to enact a joint resolution approving a proposed significant rule, no court or agency may infer any intent of Congress from any action or inaction with regard to such rule or related statute.
 
 Sets forth: (1) the congressional approval procedure for significant rules (current law sets forth disapproval procedure for rules); and (2) provisions with respect to revising or revoking an existing rule by joint resolution.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and the House.
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2003-04-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Introduced in House
Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1655
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2003-04-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Clinics
Counseling
Families
Family services
Housing and Community Development
Marriage counseling
Medical fees
Medicare
Mental health services
Nursing homes
Psychotherapy
Rural health
Social Welfare
Terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of marriage and family therapist services generally, and particularly such services provided in rural health clinics and in hospice programs. Authorizes marriage and family therapists to develop discharge plans for post-hospital services.
Amends Medicare part C (Miscellaneous) to exclude such services from the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-07
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: 2003-04-07
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: 2003-04-07
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: 2003-04-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Employees Against Violence Act

Bill: 108-hr-1656
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-07 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Dismissal of employees
Government Operations and Politics
Injunctions
Labor unions
Law
National Labor Relations Board
Unfair labor practices
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Protecting Employees Against Violence Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to revise the authority of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with respect to employees and labor organizations engaged in or encouraging violent, coercive, or other potentially injurious actions.
Prohibits the NLRB from ordering reinstatement of any employee who has engaged or is engaging in such actions.
Directs the NLRB to revoke the exclusive bargaining status of any labor organization found to engage directly in or encourage the use of such actions.
Provides for the seeking of injunctive relief if a labor organization is charged with directly engaging in or encouraging the use of violence.
Requires that certain petitions for injunctive relief be sought within seven days after the filing of an unfair labor practice charge.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Introduced in House
Annie Fox Act

Bill: 108-hr-1657
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2003-04-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Breast cancer
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Federal aid to research
Health education
Higher education
Medical education
Medical research
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Annie Fox Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to expand, intensify, and coordinate the activities of the Institute regarding breast cancer in younger women.
Requires that in carrying out this Act, the Director shall provide for: (1) augmented research into various aspects of breast cancer in younger women, including the long-term effects of treatment; and (2) augmented information and education programs regarding breast cancer in younger women.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Introduced in House
Milk Regulatory Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1659
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2003-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Marketing orders
Milk

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Milk Regulatory Equity Act of 2003 - Subjects specified Class I milk handlers (including producer-handlers) to Federal milk marketing order minimum and uniform price requirements applicable to the county in which the plant of the handler is located, at Federal order class prices, if the handler has packaged fluid milk product route dispositions, or sales of packaged fluid milk products to other plants, in a marketing area located in a State that requires handlers to pay minimum prices for raw milk purchases. Exempts from such provision: (1) a handler operating an exempt plant; or (2) a producer-handler for any month during which packaged fluid milk route dispositions and sales to other plants are less than six million pounds of milk.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
Apprenticeship Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1660
Sponsor: Rep. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Apprenticeship
Department of Labor
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Judicial review
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Apprenticeship Enhancement Act of 2003 - Amends the National Apprenticeship Act to direct the Secretary of Labor to ensure that applications relating to apprenticeship programs are processed in a fair and timely manner. Allows aggrieved applicants to file petitions for judicial review of final determinations by the Secretary or applicable designee.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer and Fairness Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1661
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2003-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Auctions
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Confidential communications
Corporate debt
Corporate mergers
Corporation taxes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Treasury
Directories
Dividends
Due process of law
Earned income tax credit
Energy
Excise tax
Families
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fishing
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Income tax
Indian lands
Injunctions
Interest
Investments
Investors
Jurisdiction
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Liens
Limitation of actions
Loans
Losses
Married people
Minorities
Misconduct in office
Partnerships
Profit
Right of privacy
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Stockholders
Stocks
Tax administration
Tax auditing
Tax courts
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Tax preparers
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax shelters
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxpayers
Terrorism
Unemployment insurance
User charges
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Taxpayer and Fairness Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise various abusive tax shelter provisions, including: (1) clarification of the economic substance doctrine; and (2) imposition of new, and revision of existing, tax shelter-related penalties.
Provides for the prevention of corporate expatriation to avoid U.S. income tax.
Revises provisions respecting: (1) the earned income tax credit; (2) specified penalties and interest, including estimated tax penalty and interest; (3) collection procedures; (4) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee misconduct; (5) Tax Court authority and jurisdiction; (6) family business; (6) suspension of tax-exempt status for terrorist organizations; (7) confidentiality and disclosure; and (8) IRS user fees.
Authorizes grants for low-income return preparation clinics.
Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 with respect to the applicability of Federal-State unemployment assistance agreements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
Predatory Mortgage Lending Practices Reduction Act

Bill: 108-hr-1663
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Stephanie Tubbs [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2003-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Community development
Consumer complaints
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contractors
Debtor and creditor
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Discrimination in consumer credit
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Employment tests
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Federally-assisted loans
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Financial services
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Infrastructure
Internet
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Mortgage banks
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgage interest rates
Mortgages
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Subcontractors
Urban affairs
World Wide Web

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Predatory Mortgage Lending Practices Reduction Act - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to prohibit any person, in connection with a subprime federally related mortgage loan, from providing mortgage lending services or mortgage brokerage services unless such person is certified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as having been adequately trained with regard to subprime lending. 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require lenders to establish a best practices plan, meeting certain criteria, to ensure compliance with such Act for high cost mortgages. 
Proscribes unfair or deceptive acts or practices in providing mortgage lending services for either a subprime federally related mortgage loan or for mortgage brokerage services for such a loan. Sets forth civil penalties for violations. 
Consumer Fairness Act - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to declare unenforceable a written provision in any consumer contract or transaction which requires binding arbitration to resolve any controversy arising out of such transaction or contract, or the refusal to perform all or any part of the transaction. (Permits post-controversy arbitration agreements.) 
Amends the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994 to authorize the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund to make grants to nonprofit community development corporations to educate and train borrowers and community groups regarding illegal and inappropriate predatory lending practices.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
Restore the Apalachicola River Ecosystem Act

Bill: 108-hr-1665
Sponsor: Rep. Boyd, Allen [D-FL-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Alabama
Animals
Biological diversity
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dredging
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-state relations
Florida
Georgia
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Habitat conservation
Navigation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Rivers
Transportation and Public Works
Watersheds
Waterways

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Restore the Apalachicola River Ecosystem Act - Modifies the project for navigation, Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, and the project for the West Point Reservoir, Chattahoochee River, Georgia, to: (1) deauthorize the channel between the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near Apalachicola to Jim Woodruff Dam near Chattahoochee; and (2) authorize the Secretary of the Army to develop a comprehensive plan to restore the Apalachicola River basin with the goal of reestablishing the ecological integrity of the Apalachicola River basin ecosystem.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide that discontinuance of veterans' disability compensation upon the death of a veteran shall be effective as of the date of death of the veteran rather than the last day of the month preceding the veteran's death.

Bill: 108-hr-1666
Sponsor: Rep. Boyd, Allen [D-FL-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Makes the day before the death of the payee (currently, the first day of the month in which the payee dies) the date of the discontinuance of veterans' disability compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
Minority Farmers Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1667
Sponsor: Rep. Burns, Max [R-GA-12]
Introduced: 2003-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative law judges
Administrative remedies
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Claims
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Farmers
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Judicial review
Law
Limitation of actions
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Racial discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Minority Farmers Fairness Act of 2003 - Provides an additional opportunity for judicial or administrative relief for those farmers whose petitions or claims against the Department of Agriculture for discriminatory operation of farm benefit programs were denied.
Requires that such request be submitted within one year of the later of the date of: (1) enactment of this Act; or (2) petition or claim denial.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
Investment Competitiveness Act

Bill: 108-hr-1669
Sponsor: Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-8]
Introduced: 2003-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alien property
Aliens
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Dividends
Estate tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign investments
Immigration
Income tax
Interest
Mutual funds
Real estate investment
Stockholders
Stocks
Tax exclusion
Taxation of foreign income
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Investment Competitiveness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt interest-related dividends and short-term capital gain dividends received from a regulated investment company from the 30 percent tax on the income of nonresident aliens and foreign corporations not connected with a U.S. business, subject to exception.
Revises provisions concerning: (1) the estate tax treatment of stock in certain regulated investment companies owned by a nonresident; and (2) the distribution of U.S. property by a qualified investment entity (currently, a real estate investment trust).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
Minnesota MSA Empowerment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1670
Sponsor: Rep. Gutknecht, Gil [R-MN-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee health benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Medical savings accounts
Minnesota
State employees
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Minnesota MSA Empowerment Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for a Minnesota public employee, who is either receiving State of Minnesota retirement benefits or is a State of Minnesota employee, for amounts contributed to the individual's Minnesota public employee medical savings account.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2867-2868)
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
Cooperative Dividend Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1671
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Cooperative societies
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Stocks
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Cooperative Dividend Equity Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the patronage dividends of cooperatives shall not be reduced by stock dividends to the extent the stock dividends are in addition to amounts otherwise payable.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E701)
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Introduced in House