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Law Enforcement Officers Due Process Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2135
Sponsor: Rep. Keller, Ric [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Disciplining of employees
Dismissal of employees
Due process of law
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Local employees
Police
Police brutality
Police corruption
Right to counsel
State employees
Transfer of employees
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Law Enforcement Officers Due Process Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide grants to law enforcement agencies (agencies) that: (1) have in effect an administrative process or an existing procedure that complies with officer rights requirements; or (2) certify that they will establish, within two years, an administrative process that complies with such requirements.
Requires the administrative process to require that an agency that investigates an officer for matters which could reasonably lead to disciplinary action provide recourse for the officer that includes: (1) access to any existing administrative process established by the employing agency prior to disciplinary action; and (2) the right to a hearing before a fair and impartial board or hearing officer, to be represented by an attorney or other officer at such officer's expense, to confront any witness testifying against such officer, and to record all meetings.
Permits the immediate suspension with pay of an officer: (1) whose continued presence on the job is considered to be a substantial and immediate threat; (2) who refuses to obey a direct order issued in conformance with the agency's written and disseminated rules and regulations; or (3) who is accused of committing an illegal act.
Makes this Act inapplicable to an agency if the Attorney General determines that such agency has in effect an established civil service system, agency review board, grievance procedure, or personnel board which meets or exceeds the minimum standards set forth in this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether as a gasoline additive and to repeal the oxygenate requirement for reformulated gasoline, to provide funding for the clean up of underground storage tanks, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-2136
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Emissions trading
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to water pollution control
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Groundwater
Hazardous wastes
Imports
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Oil pollution
Oxygen
Oxygenates
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Petroleum storage
Reformulated gasoline
Refuse and refuse disposal
Standards
Transportation and Public Works
Underground storage
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MBTE) as a motor vehicle fuel additive.
 
Repeals the oxygen content requirement for reformulated gasoline.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulate regulations which continue required toxic air pollutant emissions reductions from reformulated gasoline.
 
Authorizes appropriations from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Immigrant Children Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2137
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Caregivers
Child welfare
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Detention of persons
Disabled
Employee training
Families
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Parent and child
Refugees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Immigrant Children Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide that each accompanied (with written consent of the parent or accompanying adult) or unaccompanied alien child, with specified exceptions, shall be transferred from the Department of Homeland Security to the Office of Refugee Resettlement within 72 hours of apprehension, and shall be released from custody and placed into the community with a qualified relative or caretaker within 15 days of such apprehension.
Includes children with special needs within the Office's responsibilities in the care and placement of unaccompanied alien children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Department of Environmental Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-2138
Sponsor: Rep. Ose, Doug [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Cabinet officers
Chief financial officers
Citizen participation
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Executive compensation
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Health
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Performance measurement
Presidential appointments
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: 
Department of Environmental Protection Act - Redesignates the Environmental Protection Agency as the Department of Environmental Protection, to be headed by a Secretary of Environmental Protection who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. 
 
Provides for other officials, including three under-secretaries for: (1) science and information; (2) policy, planning, and innovation; and (3) implementation, compliance and enforcement.
 
Establishes the Bureau of Environmental Statistics within the Department. Subjects the statistical procedures and methodology of the Bureau to periodic peer review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-06-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held Prior to Referral (June 6, 2003).
action_date: 2003-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E969-970)
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

Bill: 108-hr-2139
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Driver licenses
Motor vehicle registration
Presidential elections
Transportation and Public Works
Voter registration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Repeals the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts received as damages (including punitive damages) on account of age discrimination.

Bill: 108-hr-2140
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Age discrimination
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Damages
Income tax
Law
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income lump-sum or periodic amounts received as damages (including punitive damages) on account of age discrimination.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to repeal the long-term goal for reducing to zero the incidental mortality and serious injury of marine mammals in commercial fishing operations, and to modify the goal of take reduction plans for reducing such takings.

Bill: 108-hr-2142
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Fisheries
Fishery management
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine mammals
Marine resources conservation
Planning
Protection of animals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: 
Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to repeal the long-term goal of reducing to zero the incidental mortality and serious injury of marine mammals in commercial fishing operations. Modifies the long-term goal to reducing such incidental mortality and serious injury (but not to any specified percentage).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Camp Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2145
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Accident prevention
Accidents
Building laws
Business records
Camping
Child health
Child safety
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Death
Department of Labor
Diseases
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Families
Federal employees
Federal preemption
Fire prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health
Identification of criminals
Judicial review
Law
Medical records
Medical statistics
Minimum wages
Recreation
Refuse and refuse disposal
Sports and Recreation
Standards
State laws
Swimming

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: 
Camp Safety Act of 2003 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require organized camps to comply with specified health and safety standards as a condition for their exemption from minimum wage requirements.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to monitor and enforce such compliance. 
Preempts State laws only to the extent that they provide lesser protection for campers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
National Labor Relations Board Ruling Enforcement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2146
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Collective bargaining
Compensation (Law)
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government statistics
Labor contracts
Labor statistics
Law
National Labor Relations Board
Unfair labor practices
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: 
National Labor Relations Board Ruling Enforcement Act of 2003 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to authorize the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to award the employees in a bargaining unit compensation for any delay in bargaining caused by an unlawful refusal by the employer to bargain before entering into the first collective-bargaining contract.
 
Requires compensation for such delay to be measured by a specified formula involving a statistical compilation of bargaining settlements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require States, in awarding subgrants under the State charter school grant program, to give priority to charter schools that will provide a racially integrated educational experience.

Bill: 108-hr-2147
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Charter schools
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Desegregation in education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational equalization
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of Education and State educational agencies, in awarding grants or subgrants for public charter schools, to give priority to eligible applicants planning or implementing a charter school in a jurisdiction of a local educational agency (LEA) based on evidence that: (1) the school will provide a racially integrated educational experience; and (2) the LEA is undertaking outreach to students from diverse backgrounds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to require the allocation of surface transportation program funds for the purchase of recycled materials.

Bill: 108-hr-2148
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Building materials
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Recycling of waste products
Road construction

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Requires that ten percent of the funds apportioned to a State under the surface transportation program for a fiscal year be available for the purchase of recycled materials.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to require the use of recycled materials in the construction of Federal-aid highway projects.

Bill: 108-hr-2149
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Building materials
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Law
Recycling of waste products
Road construction

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations requiring the use of recycled materials in the construction of any Federal-aid highway.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the Hope and Lifetime Learning Credits refundable, and to allow taxpayers to obtain short-term student loans by using the future refund of such credits as collateral for the loans.

Bill: 108-hr-2150
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Income tax
Student loan funds
Surety and fidelity
Tax refunds
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) move the Hope and Lifetime Learning credits from subpart A (Nonrefundable Personal Credits) to subpart C (Refundable Credits); and (2) permit the use of a future refund of such credits as collateral for short-term student loans.
Establishes a three-year limit on the use of a refund as collateral.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Osteoporosis Measurement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2151
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2003-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Estrogen
Imaging systems in medicine
Medical tests
Medicare
Osteoporosis
Radioisotopes in medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Women
Women's health
X-rays

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Medicare Osteoporosis Measurement Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to include coverage of bone mass measurements under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) for all individuals, including estrogen-deficient women, at clinical risk for osteoporosis.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1143)
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent an employer from placing a nonimmigrant who is an intracompany transferee with another employer.

Bill: 108-hr-2154
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2003-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Business records
Commerce
Employers' liability
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Law
Personnel records
Public records
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act prohibit the admission of an intracompany transferee (L visa) nonimmigrant alien unless the employer has filed with the Secretary of Labor an application stating that the employer will not place such alien with another employer where: (1) such alien performs duties in whole or in part at one or more worksites owned, operated, or controlled by such other employer; and (2) there are indicia of an employment relationship between such alien and such other employer.
Sets forth related requirements of the Secretary respecting such aliens.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in House
To allow media coverage of court proceedings.

Bill: 108-hr-2155
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Appellate courts
Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil procedure
Conduct of court proceedings
Court reporting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal procedure
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
Mass media
Photography
Radio broadcasting
Science, Technology, Communications
Sound recording and reproducing
Supreme Court
Television broadcasting
Video tape recording
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Authorizes: (1) the presiding judge of a U.S. appellate or district court to permit the photographing, electronic recording, broadcasting, or televising to the public of court proceedings; and (2) the Judicial Conference of the United States to promulgate advisory guidelines for the management and administration of such coverage. Directs: (1) the district court, upon the request of any witness in a trial proceeding other than a party, to order the witness's face and voice to be disguised or otherwise obscured to the broadcast audience; and (2) the presiding judge to inform each witness of his or her right to make such request.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Introduced in House