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Schools Safely Acquiring Faculty Excellence Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2649
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Jon C. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arrest
Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
Rape
State laws
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Schools Safely Acquiring Faculty Excellence Act of 2003 - Prohibits the Secretary of Education from making any funds available to a State under any program administered by the Department of Education unless the Secretary determines that the State has in place a criminal information sharing system.
 
Directs the Secretary to make such determination with regard to each State within one year after enactment of this Act.
 
Requires such a system to be one under which the State shares with the Federal Government information (including for non-criminal justice purposes) on each arrest, charge, or conviction (including any no contest plea) in such State for specified covered offenses. Requires such information to include the identity of: (1) each individual so arrested, charged, or convicted; and (2) the identity of each individual under suspicion for such an offense. Requires such system to cover any offense that: (1) is a felony or involves violence, a controlled substance, child abuse, statutory rape, rape, molestation, or sexual abuse; and (2) occurs on or after the date that is 15 years before the date of the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Park Professionals Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-2650
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commerce
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
National parks
Park rangers
Privatization
Reprogramming of appropriated funds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Park Professionals Protection Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior (and any person employed by the Secretary in any capacity) from studying or implementing any plan to privatize, divest, or transfer any part of the mission, function, or responsibility of the National Park Service (NPS).
 
Instructs the Secretary to withhold any funds currently dedicated to such prohibited activities and to reallocate those funds to NPS operations and maintenance accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-07-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1378-1379)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
School Safety and Violence Prevention Act

Bill: 108-hr-2651
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Mentoring
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Telephone
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
School Safety and Violence Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to applicant States for antibullying programs that consist of: (1) antibullying educational, counseling, mentoring, and peer programs; (2) a statewide database for schools to report, in real time, school-related crimes, violence, and bullying; (3) a statewide hotline for anonymous reporting by students and staff of information on bullying; and (4) an emergency plan for responding to school-related crimes, violence, and bullying.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Internet Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-2652
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug industry
Drugs
Electronic commerce
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health counseling
Internet
Interstate commerce
Law
Licenses
Pharmacies
Pharmacists
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws
Telephone
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Internet Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit any person from introducing a prescription drug into interstate commerce or delivering such a drug for introduction into commerce pursuant to a sale if: (1) any part of the sales transaction for the drug is conducted through an Internet site; and (2) such site, or any other Internet site used by such person for purposes of sales of a prescription drug, fails to meet specified requirements regarding inclusion of a page (and links thereto) providing the identities of the seller and the persons serving as pharmacists or medical consultants and the States in which the seller and such persons are authorized to dispense drugs or provide consultations.
Provides that a State that has in effect requirements for Internet sites that are no less stringent and that has adequate procedures for their enforcement shall have primary enforcement responsibility for any violation involving such a purchase made from within the State.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Rocky Flats Minerals Acquisition Act

Bill: 108-hr-2653
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Colorado
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Energy
Land transfers
Law
Mining claims
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Sand and gravel industry
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Rocky Flats Minerals Acquisition Act - Amends Federal law to permit the Secretary of the Interior to acquire mineral interests, including interests in sand and gravel, within the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado, by purchase, exchange, issuance of credits, or any combination thereof. Defines credits as legal instruments or other written documentation, or an entry in an account managed by the Secretary, that can be used for: (1) bonus bids for lease sales on the Outer Continental Shelf; or (2) royalty due on any oil or gas production under any lease of an area located in a specified part of the Outer Continental Shelf.
 
Declares that the requirement under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 that lands or interests exchanged under a section of such Act must be located in the same State shall not apply to land or an interest in land in the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge that is acquired by the United States in an exchange under that section.
 
States that any interests acquired by the United States under this Act shall be managed by the Secretary under the standards that apply to the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Declares that no minerals acquired under this Act shall be subject to development or disposal by the United States or any other party under any law related to minerals owned by the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1396)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Rigs to Reefs Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2654
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Aquaculture
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Coral reefs
Costs
Ecological research
Energy
Gas in submerged lands
Income tax
Law
Liability (Law)
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Oceanographic research
Offshore structures
Petroleum in submerged lands
Reefs
Science, Technology, Communications
Submarine oil well drilling
Tax credits
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Rigs to Reefs Act of 2003 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to instruct the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations authorizing the use for culture of marine organisms, an artificial reef, or scientific research of any offshore oil and gas platform decommissioned from service for oil and gas purposes.
 
Denies liability under Federal law of any former owner of an offshore oil and gas platform for costs or damages arising from use of it for culture of marine organisms, an artificial reef, or scientific research, unless such costs or damages arise from: (1) use of the platform by the person for development or production of oil or gas; or (2) another act or omission.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to business-related credits) to establish an income tax credit for costs relating to converting offshore oil and gas platforms for culturing marine organisms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-07-31
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Graton Rancheria Restoration Act to give the Secretary of the Interior discretion regarding taking land into trust.

Bill: 108-hr-2656
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Amends the Graton Rancheria Restoration Act to specify that no land taken into trust for the benefit of the Graton Rancheria Tribe of California shall be construed to satisfy the terms of an exception in the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to the prohibition of gaming on lands acquired by the Secretary of the Interior after October 17, 1988 as: (1) part of a settlement of a land claim; (2) the initial reservation of an Indian tribe acknowledged by the Secretary under the Federal acknowledgment process; or (3) Indian tribe lands that are restored to Federal recognition.
 
Changes from mandatory to discretionary the Secretary's authority to accept real property located in Marin or Sonoma County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Tribe after the property is transferred to the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To require advance notification of Congress regarding any action proposed to be taken by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the implementation of the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services initiative of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2659
Sponsor: Rep. Crenshaw, Ander [R-FL-4]
Introduced: 2003-07-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-07
text: 
 Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from taking any action proposed under the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services initiative of the Department of Veterans Affairs: (1) unless the Secretary has notified Congress of the intention to take such action; and (2) until the later of the expiration of a 60-day period, or 30 days of continuous congressional session, after such notification. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-07-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-07
text: Introduced in House
To name the Capitol Visitor Center after J. Strom Thurmond.

Bill: 108-hr-2661
Sponsor: Rep. Barrett, J. Gresham [R-SC-3]
Introduced: 2003-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Names
Senate
South Carolina
Tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: 
Designates the Capitol Visitor Center as the J. Strom Thurmond Capitol Visitor Center. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that certain limousines are not subject to the gas guzzler tax.

Bill: 108-hr-2662
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2003-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Automobile industry
Automobiles
Commerce
Energy
Excise tax
Fuel consumption
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt limousines over 6,000 pounds from the gas guzzler tax.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Medicare Reimbursement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2664
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2003-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Armed Forces and National Security
Collection of accounts
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Hospital rates
Medicare
Social Welfare
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: 
Veterans Medicare Reimbursement Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the Secretaries of Health and Human Services (HHS) and of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a Medicare subvention project under which the HHS Secretary shall reimburse the VA Secretary for Medicare health care services furnished to Medicare-eligible veterans in VA facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-07-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-07-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-07-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Overtime Compensation Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2665
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2003-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Labor
Government Operations and Politics
Hours of labor
Law
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: 
Overtime Compensation Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to prohibit the Secretary of Labor from promulgating any regulation that has the effect of exempting from FLSA overtime compensation requirements (which limit maximum hours at regular compensation) any employee who is not otherwise exempted under regulations in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. Provides that such prohibition does not bar the Secretary from reducing the number of employees who are exempt from such overtime compensation requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
To authorize funds for fiscal year 2004 for research, development, test, and evaluation for a prototype multi-role, long-range sniper system.

Bill: 108-hr-2666
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2003-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Authorization
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Military research
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: 
Earmarks specified funds authorized for defense-wide research, development, test, and evaluation under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 for a prototype, multi-role, long-range sniper system capable of firing a 30-millimeter projectile to a range of approximately 4,500 yards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Voters' Right to Know Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2667
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Election forecasting
Fund raising
Government paperwork
Political advertising
Presidential elections
Science, Technology, Communications
Social surveys
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Voters' Right to Know Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, to require any person conducting a Federal election phone bank (except through non-political general media facilities) to report to the Federal Election Commission specified information about phone bank costs, funding sources, household contacts, and questions asked or information provided to respondents. Limits such requirement to projects contacting at least 1,500 households during the 25 days before a Federal election.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1410)
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Controlled Data Collection and Monitoring Act

Bill: 108-hr-2668
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Candice S. [R-MI-10]
Introduced: 2003-07-08 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Aquatic ecology
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental monitoring
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to water pollution control
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Great Lakes
Information networks
Pollution measurement
Science, Technology, Communications
Water pollution control
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Great Lakes Controlled Data Collection and Monitoring Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Great Lakes National Program Office of the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and implement a set of science-based indicators of water quality and related environmental factors in the Great Lakes, including accumulated toxic pollutants. 
Requires continued monitoring and data collection to help identify emerging problems.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Introduced in House