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Depleted Uranium Munitions Study Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1483
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child health
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense industries
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Epidemiology
Families
Fires
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Hazardous wastes
Health
Maps
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Military bases
Military medicine
Military personnel
Ordnance
Planning
Pollution measurement
Radioactive wastes
Refuse and refuse disposal
Science, Technology, Communications
Smoke
Soil pollution
Uranium

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: 
 Depleted Uranium Munitions Study Act of 2003 - Requires the Director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct jointly and report to Congress on: (1) a comprehensive study of the health effects of exposure to depleted uranium munitions upon uranium-exposed veterans and upon their children born after such exposure; and (2) a public health assessment of persons who are thought to have an epidemiological link to any U.S. military installation or production facility at which depleted uranium munitions have either been, or currently are being used or produced.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct and report to certain congressional committees on a comprehensive environmental evaluation of possible contamination of the soil, air, water, and vegetation by depleted uranium at sites listed by the Secretary of Defense where depleted uranium munitions have been used or produced.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) develop and implement a plan for the mitigation and cleanup of depleted uranium at the pertinent sites; and (2) submit annual progress reports to the Administrator and such congressional committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Southern Ute and Colorado Intergovernmental Agreement Implementation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1484
Sponsor: Rep. McInnis, Scott [R-CO-3]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Civil actions and liability
Colorado
Crime and Law Enforcement
Delegation of powers
Environmental law enforcement
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Injunctions
Judicial review
Law
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Southern Ute and Colorado Intergovernmental Agreement Implementation Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to treat the Southern Ute Indian Tribe as a State for purposes of implementing and enforcing air quality control programs for their Reservation, as developed in the Intergovernmental Agreement.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Mother-to-Child Transmission Plus Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1485
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Africa
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Appropriations
Asia
Central Asia
Child health
Colleges
Continuum of care
Developing countries
East Asia
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Foundations
Health
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Maternal health services
Medical education
Middle East and North Africa
Mothers
New York City
Social Welfare
South Asia
United Nations
Women
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Mother-to-Child Transmission Plus Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2003 - Appropriates additional funds for FY 2003 to Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health for its (Mother-to-Child Transmission) MTCT-Plus Initiative for the first major multi-country, family-centered AIDS treatment program for developing countries in Africa and Asia.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Education to conduct a study of the rate at which Native Americans and students who reside in American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam drop out of secondary schools in the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1486
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: American Samoa
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Guam
Hawaiians
Indian children
Indian education
Minorities
Native Americans
Northern Mariana Islands
Secondary education
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Directs the Secretary of Education to study and report to Congress on the rate at which Native Americans (including Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians) and students who reside in American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam drop out of secondary schools in the United States. Requires recommendations for increasing the numbers of such students who graduate from secondary school.
Directs the Secretary of Labor to report to Congress three years after enactment of this Act on the Federal programs funded during such period which were designed to decrease or otherwise address the rate at which students cease attending secondary schools in the United States before they have graduated.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Equal Pay Improvement Report Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1487
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Discrimination in employment
Government Operations and Politics
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Labor statistics
Legislation
Minorities
Pay equity
Racial discrimination
Sex discrimination
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Equal Pay Improvement Report Act of 2003 - Directs the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to report to Congress on how the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 has been used by public and private sector employers to foster or exacerbate pay inequity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Technical Workers Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1488
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Computer programming
Engineers
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Science, Technology, Communications
Skilled labor
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Systems analysis
Tax administration
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Technical Workers Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Revenue Act of 1978, as amended by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, to repeal the prohibition on treating certain technical service providers as independent contractors.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Parental Notification and Intervention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1489
Sponsor: Rep. Musgrave, Marilyn N. [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Child abuse
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Evidence (Law)
Families
Family violence
Fines (Penalties)
Health
Injunctions
Law
Minors
Parent and child
Physicians

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Parental Notification and Intervention Act of 2003 - Prohibits any person or organization from performing, permitting facilities to be used to perform, or assisting in the performance of an abortion on an unemancipated minor under age 18, without: (1) clear and convincing evidence of physical abuse of the minor by the parent and the provision of written notification to the parents; (2) compliance with a 96-hour waiting period after notice has been received by the parents; and (3) compliance with judicial intervention procedures. Prescribes penalties of up to ten years' imprisonment and/or a $1 million fine for violating such prohibition.
Provides for an exception where a physician without principal responsibility for making the decision to perform the abortion determines that: (1) a medical emergency exists due to a grave, physical disorder or disease that would cause the minor's death if an abortion is not performed; (2) parental notification is not possible as a result of the emergency; and (3) certifications and determinations to that effect have been entered in the minor's medical records.
Requires parental notification through certified mail or personal delivery.
Authorizes a notified parent to bring an action in Federal district court which shall enjoin the abortion: (1) until the court's judgment is final; or (2) permanently unless the court determines that granting such relief would be unlawful.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the per-State limitation applicable to grants made by the National Endowment for the Arts from funds made available for fiscal year 2003.

Bill: 108-hr-1490
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to the arts and humanities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 (Public Law 108-7, div. F) to repeal a limitation on the portion of National Endowment for the Arts grant funds which may be made available to any single State.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Expanded Access to Financial Services Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1492
Sponsor: Rep. Ose, Doug [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Checks
Credit unions
Fees
Financial services
Negotiable instruments

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: 
Expanded Access to Financial Services Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Credit Union Act to authorize a Federal credit union to: (1) sell to persons in the field of membership negotiable checks (including travelers checks), money orders, and similar money transfer instruments; and (2) cash checks and money orders for such persons for a fee. (Current law authorizes such services to members only.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E600)
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
To revoke an Executive Order relating to procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records.

Bill: 108-hr-1493
Sponsor: Rep. Ose, Doug [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Archives
Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional veto
Congressional-executive relations
Ex-presidents
Executive orders
Freedom of information
Government paperwork
History
Law
National Archives and Records Administration
Presidential privileges and immunities
Presidential records

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Provides that : (1) Executive Order 13233 of November 1, 2001 (relating to restrictions on access to presidential records with respect to constitutionally based privileges) shall have no force or effect; and (2) Executive Order 12667 of January 18, 1989 (relating to the assertion of executive privilege in connection with the release of presidential records) shall apply by its terms.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E597-598)
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
To provide for certain deposits and countervailing duties to be imposed on imports of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) semiconductors produced by Hynix Semiconductor if certain affirmative determinations are made under subtitle A of title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930.

Bill: 108-hr-1494
Sponsor: Rep. Otter, C. L. (Butch) [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Commerce
Computer industry
Countervailing duties
East Asia
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Imports
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Semiconductors
South Korea
Surety and fidelity
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Requires the imposition of a cash deposit of estimated countervailing duties in the amount of 80 percent ad valorem on all imports of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) semiconductors produced by Hynix Semiconductor, South Korea, whenever the administering authority makes an affirmative determination with respect to a countervailing duty investigation or issues a countervailing duty order.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
National Uniform Food Safety Labeling Act

Bill: 108-hr-1495
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture in foreign trade
Beverages
Child safety
Commerce
Dairy products
Deceptive advertising
Department of Health and Human Services
Families
Farm produce
Food industry
Food prices
Food safety
Foodborne diseases
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Frozen food
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Grading (Agricultural products)
Health
Health warnings
Imports
Jews
Labeling
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Milk
Natural foods
Nutrition
Pregnant women
Religion
Seafood
Shellfish
Social Welfare
Vegetables
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: National Uniform Food Safety Labeling Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem food to be misbranded unless certain labeling information is provided concerning: (1) raw or partially cooked eggs, fish and shellfish, dairy products, or unpasteurized juice in ready-to-eat form; (2) frozen fish and shellfish other than smoked, cured, cooked, or commercially sterilized; (3) raw eggs; (4) country of origin for perishable agricultural commodities or derived products ; (5) freshness dates; (6) food labeled as natural; (7) kosher and kosher-style foods; (8) unit pricing; and (9) grades (where customary) for farm products.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Opportunity and Growth Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1498
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital investments
Commerce
Corporate debt
Corporation taxes
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Interest
Small business
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Small Business Opportunity and Growth Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the tax imposed on the recognition of built-in gain by an S corporation shall not apply to the extent such gain is reinvested in the business.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Reconstructive Surgery Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1499
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Plastic surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Reconstructive Surgery Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage in connection with a plan providing surgical coverage to provide coverage for reconstructive surgery.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide similar coverage for reconstructive surgery offered by a health insurance issuer in the individual market. Sets forth related provisions with respect to collective bargaining agreements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Appraiser Choice Act

Bill: 108-hr-1500
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9]
Introduced: 2003-03-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Mortgages
Real estate appraisal
Veterans' loans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Veterans' Appraiser Choice Act - Authorizes a veteran to select an appraiser prior to the purchase of housing under a loan guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. (Currently, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs is required to select such appraiser from a pre-approved appraiser list.) Requires the Secretary to make a selection, if the veteran declines to do so, from the list on a rotating basis.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Introduced in House