Cost of Living Measurement and Index Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3640
Sponsor: Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer price indexes
Cost of living
Cost of living adjustments
Earned income tax credit
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to housing
Food relief
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Legislation
Social Welfare
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Cost of Living Measurement and Index Act of 2003 - Directs the Commissioner of Labor Statistics to develop a methodology for measuring the cost of living in each State.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study to determine how certain Federal benefits would be increased if such cost-of-living methodology were applied. Requires such study to include determination of increases in benefits under: (1) the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (2) earned income tax credit provisions of the Internal Revenue Code; (3) all Federal housing assistance programs; (4) the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program; (5) the food stamp program; and (6) all other Federal nutrition assistance programs, to the extent they provide vouchers, coupons, cash grants, or cash reimbursements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-12-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-12-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Financial Services, and Agriculture, 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: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House