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To extend the existing temporary duty suspension on 2,4-Dicumylphenol.

Bill: 108-hr-2099
Sponsor: Rep. McNulty, Michael R. [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 2005, the existing temporary duty suspension on 2,4-Dicumylphenol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
To extend the existing temporary duty suspension on o-Cumyl-octylphenol.

Bill: 108-hr-2100
Sponsor: Rep. McNulty, Michael R. [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 2005, the existing temporary duty suspension on o-Cumyl-octylphenol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
To provide a cost-sharing requirement for the construction of the Arkansas Valley Conduit in the State of Colorado.

Bill: 108-hr-2102
Sponsor: Rep. Musgrave, Marilyn N. [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Colorado
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Infrastructure
Pipelines
Transportation and Public Works
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Amends Federal provisions relating to the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Fryingpan-Arkansas project, Colorado, to: (1) authorize appropriations for the nonreimbursable Federal share of costs of constructing the Arkansas Valley Conduit; (2) limit the non-federal share of such costs to 25 percent; and (3) allow up to 100 percent of the non-federal share to be in the form of in-kind contributions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income the value of certain real property tax reduction vouchers received by senior citizens who provide volunteer services under a State program.

Bill: 108-hr-2103
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Older workers
Property tax
Real property
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
State taxation
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Volunteer workers
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude ($500 maximum) from gross income the value of certain real property tax reduction vouchers received by persons 65 years or older who provide qualifying volunteer services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income certain stipends paid as part of a State program under which individuals who have attained age 60 perform essentially volunteer services specified by the program.

Bill: 108-hr-2104
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employment subsidies
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Older workers
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion
Volunteer workers
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income certain stipends paid as part of a State program under which individuals 60 years or older perform qualifying volunteer services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E947)
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that employees of a political subdivision of a State shall not lose their exemption from the hospital insurance tax by reason of the consolidation of the subdivision with the State.

Bill: 108-hr-2105
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Health
Local employees
Medicare
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
State employees
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit an employee of a State political subdivision from being treated as having terminated the employment relationship with the subdivision due to the subdivision's abolition if, as a result of such abolition (or consolidation), the employee becomes a State employee with the same or substantially the same position.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E945-946)
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
To permit Members of the House of Representatives to use funds provided in Member's Representational Allowances to obtain POW/MIA flags and distribute them to constituents.

Bill: 108-hr-2106
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Congressional allowances
Flags
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Missing in action
Prisoners of war

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Authorizes a Member of the House of Representatives to use amounts provided in the Member's Representational Allowance to obtain POW/MIA flags and distribute them to constituents in connection with official and representational duties.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act

Bill: 108-hr-2107
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act - Keep Our PACT Act - Makes appropriations in order to provide for the full funding of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (ESEA-NCLBA), and for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Makes such appropriations for ESEA-NCLBA programs in a specified amount for FY 2003, and in amounts for each of FY 2004 through 2008 which equal the difference between other appropriations and specified amounts for each of those fiscal years.
Amends IDEA to authorize and make appropriations for: (1) each of FY 2004 through 2010 in specified amounts; and (2) each subsequent fiscal year, in amounts necessary to fully fund 40 percent of the average per pupil expenditure for IDEA part B programs of assistance for education of all children with disabilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10021)
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2003-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E954)
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Hispanic-Serving Institution Assistance Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2108
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Minorities
Minority education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Hispanic-Serving Institution Assistance Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand and extend the eligibility of Hispanic-serving institutions for assistance under title V (Developing Institutions), by eliminating the two-year wait-out period between any two five-year grants.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
America's National World War II Museum Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2109
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Foundations
History
Louisiana
Military history
Museums
Names
Social Welfare
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: America's National World War II Museum Act of 2003 - Authorizes the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana (which is managed by the National D-Day Museum Foundation, Inc.) to be referred to as America's National World War II Museum.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
Emergency DNA Backlog Elimination and Self Defense from Serial Killers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2110
Sponsor: Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Authorization
Capital punishment
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation
DNA
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal aid to law enforcement
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Murder
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State laws
Victims of crimes
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Emergency DNA Backlog Elimination and Self Defense from Serial Killers Act of 2003 - Amends the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to authorize appropriations and increase grant amounts for analysis and processing of DNA evidence kit backlogs and of DNA samples from convicted offenders and crime scenes. Directs that priority be provided to those municipalities documented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to possess a serial killer.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 through 2008 for grants to States that are documented by the FBI to possess a serial killer, to eliminate the backlog in carrying out DNA analyses of specified samples. Directs that grant applications include each offense under State law for which a sentence of death or imprisonment at hard labor may be imposed. Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to States documented to possess a serial killer to be used by the State to promote and develop self-defense classes, with not less than 15 percent of the grant amount used for firearms training.
Requires the Director of the FBI to establish a Serial Killer Program within its General Criminal Investigative Division.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
To extend and to provide for an alternative trigger for second-tier benefits under the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002.

Bill: 108-hr-2111
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Labor statistics
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA) to extend the TEUC program through weeks of unemployment ending before September 28, 2003, with a phase-out period through December 27, 2003. 
Sets an alternative trigger, based on total unemployment rate, for TEUC second-tier extended benefit periods for high unemployment States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in House
NATO Peacekeeping in Iraq Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2112
Sponsor: Rep. Lantos, Tom [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Diplomacy
Education
Europe
Higher education
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
Military education
Military training
NATO countries
NATO military forces
Peacekeeping forces

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: 
NATO Peacekeeping in Iraq Act of 2003 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should begin contributing peacekeeping and civil order personnel to promote security and stability in Iraq, and that the President should use diplomatic means to persuade NATO and NATO member nations to undertake a major peacekeeping and civil order mission in Iraq.
 
Authorizes appropriations to: (1) the Secretary of State to support NATO peacekeeping within Iraq; and (2) the President to make available defense articles, defense services, and military education and training to support peacekeeping activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E982)
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Energy Efficiency Investment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2113
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air conditioning
Commerce
Condominium (Housing)
Cooperative housing
Electric appliances
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Energy Efficiency Investment Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited credit for qualified energy property (certain building envelope components or heating or cooling equipment) placed in service or installed in a U.S.-sited principal residence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E974)
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Health Access and Flexibility Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2114
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coinsurance
Commerce
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic funds transfers
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical savings accounts
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Health Access and Flexibility Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to Archer medical savings accounts to: (1) eliminate such accounts' availability to only self-employed individuals and employees of small employers; (2) repeal the 750,000 limitation on the number of such accounts; (3) reduce the permitted minimum deductibles on qualifying high deductible plans to $1,000 (single coverage), and $2,000 (family coverage); (4) increase the monthly (and thus the annual) deduction limitation permitted for account contributions; (5) permit employer and employee contributions to be made to an account; (6) make cost-of-living adjustments applicable to only high deductible plan maximums; and (7) provide for 60-day rollovers from a health flexible spending arrangement to an account.
Amends title XIX of the Social Security Act (Medicaid) to authorize a State to provide alternative medical benefits for eligible population groups which shall consist of at least: (1) coverage for medical expenses in a year after a catastrophic deductible has been met; and (2) contribution into a medical freedom account (as defined by this Act).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Tar Creek Restoration Act

Bill: 108-hr-2116
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Brad [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Environmental health
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Health
Housing and Community Development
Land subsidence
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Mine wastes
Mine water
Oklahoma
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Relocation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Tar Creek Restoration Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide relocation assistance to specified communities, including Picher and Cardin, on the Tar Creek Superfund site, Oklahoma.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2003-05-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
Secondary Mortgage Market Fair Competition Act

Bill: 108-hr-2117
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Local taxation
Secondary mortgage market
State taxation
Tax exemption
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Secondary Mortgage Market Fair Competition Act - Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act (Freddie Mac) to repeal the State and local tax exemption.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E972)
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
To increase the annual salaries of justices and judges of the United States.

Bill: 108-hr-2118
Sponsor: Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Appellate courts
Courts of special jurisdiction
District courts
Judicial compensation
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Increases the annual salaries of the Chief Justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court, U.S. circuit and district judges, and judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade and Court of Federal Claims by 16.5 percent on January 1, 2004.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E979)
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in House