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Cord Blood Stem Cell Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2852
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Blood
Blood banks
Childbirth
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Communication in medicine
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Directories
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Electronic government information
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Genetic research
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health education
Internet
Licenses
Medical records
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical tests
Patients' rights
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Web sites
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Cord Blood Stem Cell Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to enter into contracts with qualified cord blood stem cell banks to assist in the establishment, provision, and maintenance of a National Network of Cord Blood Stem Cell Banks. Lists the purposes of qualifying donor banks and requirements qualifying donor banks must meet. 
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to establish as part of the Network a National Cord Blood Stem Cell Registry. Sets forth the functions of the Registry, which shall include: (1) operating a system for identifying, acquiring, and distributing donated units or cord blood; and (2) maintaining a database with certain information, including the clinical outcomes of all transplantations related to the Network.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Colombian Temporary Protected Status Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2853
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil War
Colombia
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Latin America
Refugees
Residence requirements
Right to travel

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Columbian Temporary Protected Status Act of 2003 - Expresses the sense of Congress in favor of extending temporary protected status to Columbian nationals in the United States.
 
Designates Columbia under the Immigration and Nationality Act as a country undergoing an ongoing armed conflict in order to make qualifying Columbians living in the United States eligible aliens for temporary protected status. States that such initial designation shall be for a two-year period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 50-percent bonus depreciation added by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.

Bill: 108-hr-2855
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permanently extend the 50 percent bonus depreciation added by section 201 of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-27).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out demonstration projects to increase the supply of organs donated for human transplantation.

Bill: 108-hr-2856
Sponsor: Rep. Greenwood, James C. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Annuities
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Costs
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Finance and Financial Sector
Grants-in-aid
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Life insurance
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to establish or operate demonstration projects for increasing the supply of organs donated for human transplantation.
 
Requires certain professional consultation.
Allows such projects to establish appropriate financial incentives for organ donation, including the payment of travel and subsistence expenses incurred by individuals making living donations. Requires such incentives to include one or more projects to provide payments for the purchase of life insurance policies or annuities, payable to a donor's designee.
Limits evaluation costs to five percent of authorized funds.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Material Support to Terrorism Prohibition Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2858
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: EBB Terrorism
Fines (Penalties)
International Affairs
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Material Support to Terrorism Prohibition Enhancement Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit (in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or while outside the United States and a U.S. national or a legal entity organized under U.S. laws) providing, or concealing or disguising the nature, location, source, or ownership of, material support or resources to be used in carrying out an act of international or domestic terrorism or in concealing or escaping from the commission of any such act. Defines (as components of &quot;material support or resources&quot;) &quot;training&quot; to mean instruction or teaching designed to impart a specific skill and &quot;personnel&quot; to include oneself. Prohibits prosecuting a person in connection with providing &quot;personnel&quot; unless that person has knowingly provided, attempted to provide, or conspired to provide a terrorist organization with one or more individuals (who may be or include himself) to work in concert with the organization or under its direction or control.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income for qualified national service educational awards.

Bill: 108-hr-2860
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Income tax
National service
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any qualified national service educational award. Provides for coordination with the Hope and Lifetime Learning credits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
North Country Access Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2862
Sponsor: Rep. Bradley, Jeb [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Communication satellites
Television broadcasting
Television relay systems
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
North Country Access Act of 2003 - Amends the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999 to include within the definition of a commercial television network station's local market all communities within the geographic borders of the State in which the station is licensed, if such station is the only commercial network station of any network licensed within the State.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Intermodal Equipment Safety and Responsibility Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2863
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Business records
Commerce
Department of Transportation
Equipment and supplies
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Identification devices
Intermodal transportation
Law
Liability (Law)
Maintenance and repair
Motor vehicle safety
Restrictive trade practices
Traffic accidents and safety
Trucking
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Intermodal Equipment Safety and Responsibility Act of 2003 - Subjects an equipment controller to liability for the systematic inspection, maintenance, and repair of equipment interchanged or intended for interchange.
 
 Requires an equipment controller: (1) prior to offering a motor carrier agent the equipment for interchange, to inspect the equipment and perform maintenance and repairs to the equipment to ensure that it complies with all applicable Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations; and (2) to promptly reimburse the motor carrier for actual expenses incurred and time spent by the motor carrier for any repair required to interchanged equipment to comply with the Regulations while in a motor carrier's possession.
 
Makes an equipment controller liable for all violations of the Regulations attributable to the controller's equipment. Directs the controller to pay any applicable fines, penalties, and damages resulting from such violations, except for violations attributable to the controller's equipment that are proximately caused by the motor carrier's negligence or willful misconduct.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to conduct inspections. 
 
Prohibits an equipment controller from: (1) retaliating against a motor carrier who requests maintenance or repair of equipment intended for interchange to comply with the Regulations; and (2) delegating its responsibility to systematically maintain and repair equipment intended for interchange to a motor carrier in an equipment interchange agreement.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Reforming, Accelerating, and Protecting Interstate Design (RAPID) Act

Bill: 108-hr-2864
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bridges
Consultants
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Interstate highway system
Law
Local laws
Road construction
State laws
Toll roads
Tunnels

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Reforming, Accelerating, and Protecting Interstate Design (RAPID) Act - Authorizes a State transportation department or local transportation agency to award a multimodal transportation project that is located within the boundaries of a donor State (a State that receives a percentage of Highway Trust Fund apportionments and allocations that is less than the percentage attributable to tax payments from highway users in that State), that is within a network of interconnected corridors, that is privately financed, and that contains multiple transportation modes (including highway and rail and utility corridors), using any procurement process permitted by applicable State and local law. 
 
Allows a donor State to authorize a consultant under a contract for such a project to prepare an environmental impact assessment relating to a segment of the project of less than independent utility and without logical termini.
 
Increases the Federal cost share of certain activities carried out within a donor State. Makes a limitation on the use of toll revenues inapplicable to a donor State.
 
Allows the total amount of funds paid from the Highway Account to a State for construction of a highway, bridge, or tunnel within the boundaries of that State to be repaid to the Secretary of Transportation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Clean Air Incentive Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2865
Sponsor: Rep. Cardoza, Dennis A. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Electric vehicles
Energy
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied petroleum gas
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas vehicles
Ozone
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Clean Air Incentive Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited credit for qualified ozone attainment vehicle property. Defines such property as any qualified clean-fuel vehicle property, if substantially all of the use of such property is in an area designated as either: (1) a serious ozone nonattainment area; (2) a severe ozone nonattainment area; or (3) an extreme ozone nonattainment area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors Charter Act

Bill: 108-hr-2866
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Aggression
Anniversaries
Archives
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Bombings
Civics education
Commerce
East Asia
Families
Federal incorporation
Fraternal organizations
Hawaii
History
Japan
Military history
Military personnel
Patriotism
War casualties
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors Charter Act - Grants a Federal charter to the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors (a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Florida).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To award a congressional gold medal to Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D.

Bill: 108-hr-2868
Sponsor: Rep. Culberson, John Abney [R-TX-7]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional gold medals
Health
Physicians

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D. (who performed the first successful coronary bypass, pioneered the field of telemedicine, was elected the first President of Baylor College of Medicine, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction and the National Medal of Science) in recognition of his many outstanding contributions to the Nation.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Northern Nevada Rural Economic Development and Land Consolidation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2869
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbons, Jim [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Mines and mineral resources
Mining claims
Mining royalties
Nevada
Real estate appraisal
Reclamation of land
Revenue sharing
Sports and Recreation
Surveying
Tourism
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Northern Nevada Rural Economic Development and Land Consolidation Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, upon the submission of the relevant application or applications by the Placer Dome U.S. Inc., Denver, Co., and Graymont Western U.S. Inc., Murray, Utah (together the Claimant), to sell the Claimant whatever portion is requested of certain public lands subject to mining operations in Eureka, Lander, White Pine, Elko, and Humboldt Counties, Nevada. Directs that the sale of the lands be at market price. States that the value of locatable minerals in such lands shall not be considered or included in the market value of the lands. 
 
Subjects all public lands conveyed under this Act to a royalty payable to the United States on locatable minerals, except for lands subject to unpatented mining claims for which the Claimant demonstrates the discovery of a valuable mineral deposit. Directs the Secretary to accept from the Claimant a conveyance of any of certain specified private lands in northern Nevada, with the Claimant to receive a credit equal to the market value of each such transferred property.
 
Subjects all lands conveyed under this Act to valid existing rights.
 
Directs that the proceeds from the sales of the lands be used: (1) to support the State's general education program; (2) to support a trust fund for the California Trail Interpretative Center in Elko County; (3) for the rehabilitation of lands in Nevada that were subject to historic mining activities; and (4) for the reimbursement of costs incurred by the Nevada State Office and relevant Field Offices of the Bureau of Land Management in conducting the sales.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Antique Firearm Safety Act

Bill: 108-hr-2872
Sponsor: Rep. Hoeffel, Joseph M. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Cultural property
Firearms
Firearms control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Antique Firearm Safety Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to eliminate the exclusion of antique firearms from the definition of a "firearm" subject to Federal firearms provisions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Fighting Abuse of Inhalants Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2873
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Curricula
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health education
Higher education
School health programs
Secondary education
Solvent abuse
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Fighting Abuse of Inhalants Act of 2003 - Amends the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 to include prevention of the abuse of inhalants under its programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Improving Access to Prescription Drug Benefits for Veterans Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2874
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2003-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Coinsurance
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug interactions
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Finance and Financial Sector
Generic drugs
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Health
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medical records
Prescription pricing
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: 
Improving Access to Prescription Drug Benefits for Veterans Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a prescription drug benefit program under which drugs and medicines are furnished to eligible veterans on prescription of a duly licensed physician or other authorized health care professional who is not an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs, subject to the payment of any required premium and copayment. Makes eligible for the program any veteran who: (1) is enrolled in the Department health care system; (2) seeks an initial appointment with a Department physician or other health-care provider to obtain a prescription; and (3) can not obtain such an appointment until more than 30 days later.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish required premiums and copayments; (2) maintain records of the costs of the program; and (3) implement a computerized patient profile system for program participants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-08-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Introduced in House