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To assure that enrollment in any Medicare prescription drug program is voluntary.

Bill: 108-hr-635
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Collective bargaining
Drugs
Employee health benefits
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Makes enrollment in a prescription drug plan established under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act totally voluntary. Declares that no individual is required to enroll in such a plan as part of any contract with any employer or under any collective bargaining agreement or otherwise.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and 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: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
International Environmental Defense Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-638
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
International relief
Military civic action
Military transportation
Oil pollution
Pollution control
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: International Environmental Defense Act of 2003 - Mandates that the authority of the Secretary of Defense to transport humanitarian relief supplies shall include the authority to transport supplies intended for responding to, or mitigating the effects of, an event or condition, such as an oil spill, that threatens serious harm to the environment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-02-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E158)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Act of March 3, 1875, to permit the State of Colorado to use land held in trust by the State as open space, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-639
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Colorado
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Habitat conservation
Landscape protection
Law
Nature conservation
Open space lands
Public schools
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Amends the Colorado Enabling Act to permit the State of Colorado to use land held in trust by the State for the support of common schools for open space, wildlife habitat, scenic value, or other natural values, with the requirement that any income received from using the land shall be used only for common schools.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-02-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E166-167)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Act

Bill: 108-hr-640
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Colorado River development
Infrastructure
Land use
National parks
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Act- Designates certain lands in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, which shall be known as the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-14
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-02-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E162-163)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Federal Laboratory Educational Partners Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-641
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Higher education
Intellectual property
Inventions
Laboratories
Law
Licenses
Patents
Research and development
Scientific education
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Federal Laboratory Educational Partners Act of 2003 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to add science education assistance to the authorized activities which Federal laboratories may provide through distribution of royalties and cooperative research and development agreements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2003-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2003-02-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E159-160)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
School Bus Driver Tax Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-642
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bus drivers
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
School buses
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: School Bus Driver Tax Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain expenses of school bus owner-operators as an employee-related deduction.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Debt Cancellation for the New Millennium Act

Bill: 108-hr-643
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Bangladesh
Caribbean area
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Debt relief
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Haiti
Haiti compilation
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
International Affairs
International agencies
International monetary system
Latin America
Nigeria
Poverty
Preventive medicine
Secondary education
Social Welfare
South Asia
Technical assistance
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Debt Cancellation for the New Millennium Act - Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to urge the President to commence immediately efforts within the Paris Club of Official Creditors, as well as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other appropriate multilateral development institutions, to accomplish certain modifications in the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, including requiring that: (1) the amount of debt relief provided by the IMF and the World Bank under the Enhanced HIPC Initiative for a HIPC be sufficient to completely cancel 100 percent of the HIPC's debt owed to such institutions; (2) no provision of debt relief under the Initiative be conditioned on any country's implementing a structural adjustment or stabilization program of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility of the IMF or any other such program operated solely or jointly by the IMF or the World Bank; (3) all HIPCs that are working in good faith to develop and implement their Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) pursuant to the Initiative not be required to make service payments on their debts (ensuring that the savings from such debt relief will be invested in HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, health care, education, and poverty reduction programs); and (4) the eligibility requirements of the Initiative be revised to make Bangladesh, Haiti, and Nigeria eligible.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide, upon request, for technical assistance to HIPCs regarding compliance with the conditions for debt relief pursuant to the Initiative, including the development and implementation of their PSRPs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Spaceport Equality Act

Bill: 108-hr-644
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Airports
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Leases
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Space activities
Tax-exempt securities
Terminals (Transportation)
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Spaceport Equality Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide the same treatment for spaceports as is provided for airports under the exempt facility bond rules.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Promenade Act

Bill: 108-hr-645
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Emblems
Music
Social life and customs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Promenade Act - Designates the square dance as the national folk dance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Canceling Loans to Allow School Systems to Attract Classroom Teachers Act

Bill: 108-hr-647
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government lending
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Mathematics
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Special education
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Canceling Loans to Allow School Systems to Attract Classroom Teachers Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for additional amounts of student loan forgiveness and cancellation for certain elementary and secondary school teachers. Directs the Secretary of Education, in making such additional repayments and cancellations, to give priority to teachers of: (1) special education; (2) children with disabilities; or (3) mathematics or science in local educational agencies that have failed to make progress toward meeting annual measurable objectives.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-648
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Damages
Families
Firearms
Firearms control
Government liability
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Limitation of actions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2003 - Declares that a person not prohibited under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act from receiving a firearm shall have the right to obtain firearms for security and to use firearms in defense of: (1) self or family against a reasonably perceived threat of imminent and unlawful infliction of serious bodily injury; (2) self or family in the course of the commission by another person of a violent felony against the person or a member of the person's family; and (3) the person's home in the course of the commission of a felony by another person.
Authorizes persons whose rights under this Act have been violated to bring an action in U.S. district court against the United States, any State, or any person for damages, injunctive relief, and such other relief as the court deems appropriate.
Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the award of attorney's fees; and (2) the statute of limitations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Web's Construction Company, Incorporated.

Bill: 108-hr-649
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Web's Construction Company, Incorporated, a specified sum plus interest for construction work performed for the Army Corps of Engineers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in House
Homeowners' Escrow Payments Assurance Act

Bill: 108-hr-650
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts
Commerce
Consumer protection
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Federally-assisted loans
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fines (Penalties)
Grants-in-aid
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Insurance premiums
Law
Legal services
Liability (Law)
Low-income housing
Mortgage banks
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Property insurance
Property tax
Punitive damages
Social Welfare
Taxation
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Homeowners' Escrow Payments Assurance Act - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to impose: (1) treble damages for noncompliance with statutory requirements pertaining to the servicing of federally related mortgage loans and escrow accounts administration; and (2) a civil penalty for each day of insurance coverage lapse that results from failure of a mortgage servicer to timely make payments from mortgagor's escrow account.
Earmarks the fines thus collected for assistance to: (1) low-income families for the acquisition of a principal residence; and (2) nonprofit organizations that engage in legal advocacy relating to consumer rights' protection.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow married individuals who are legally separated and living apart to exclude from gross income the income from United States savings bonds used to pay higher education tuition and fees.

Bill: 108-hr-651
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Higher education
Income tax
Law
Married people
Savings bonds
Separation (Law)
Tax exclusion
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit certain married individuals filing separate returns to exclude income from United States savings bonds used for higher education tuition and fees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Environmental Priorities Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-653
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Animals
Auditing
Commerce
Competition
Deregulation
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government trust funds
Indexing (Economic policy)
Law
Open space lands
Outdoor recreation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recreation areas
Revolving funds
Rivers
Sewage treatment
Sports and Recreation
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Environmental Priorities Act of 2003 - Requires providers of retail electric services to contribute to the fiscal agent for the Environmental Priorities Board (established by this Act) ten percent of the total consumer savings for the consumer sector for that calendar year.
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a National Environmental Priorities Board to establish regulations governing creation of an Environmental Priorities Program.
Authorizes States in which retail electric service choice has been established for any consumer sector to establish public purpose programs and apply for matching funding to support environmental priorities programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-02-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-02-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2003-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Environmental Justice Act

Bill: 108-hr-654
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Department of the Interior
Environmental Protection
Environmental justice
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Minorities
Racial discrimination
Religion
Religious liberty

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Environmental Justice Act - Requires the head of each Federal agency in the Department of the Interior: (1) before authorizing, funding, or carrying out a action under any Federal law, to consider whether the action will have any disparate impact on any member of a racial, ethnic, or religious minority; and (2) in authorizing, funding, or carrying out a action under any Federal law, to seek to limit disparate impacts to the extent possible consistent with such law. Provides that this Act shall not apply to an agency action to the extent that there is involved a matter relating to agency management or personnel.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-02-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-02-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2003-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-07
text: Introduced in House