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Maggie's Law: National Drowsy Driving Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-968
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Driver education
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to transportation
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health education
Highway finance
Interstate highway system
Labor and Employment
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Police training
Public service advertising
Public-private partnerships
Road construction
Sleep disorders
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation research

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Maggie's Law: National Drowsy Driving Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to enter into agreements with, and make grants to, State highway offices and other driving safety organizations to obtain and distribute national, State, and local drowsy driving education programs and supporting materials.
Directs that grant funds be used to: (1) implement programs designed to prevent deaths and injuries due to drivers who are impaired by fatigue and sleep deprivation; (2) develop a standardized curriculum on the risks and prevention of drowsy driving and fall-asleep motor vehicle crashes; (3) collaborate with national drowsy driving campaigns to distribute information and educational messages and to review existing State model programs; (4) adopt policy statements and work plans for the installation and expansion of continuous shoulder rumble strips for interstate highways; (5) adopt codes on accident report forms to report fatigue-related or fall-asleep crashes; (6) provide training in the detection and reporting of drowsy driving as a factor in motor vehicle crashes; and (7) provide education programs to the police and the courts regarding the sanctions available for drowsy driving accidents.
Directs the Secretary to study the scope of the problem of fatigue-related automobile crashes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Infertility Coverage Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-969
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Artificial insemination
Disabled
Drug therapy
Human embryology
In vitro fertilization
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Reproduction
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Medicare Infertility Coverage Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide coverage under the Medicare program of infertility treatment services for individuals entitled to health insurance benefits under that program by reason of a disability.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-27
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: 2003-02-27
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: 2003-02-27
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: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Training for Realtime Writers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-970
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Closed caption television
Court reporting
Curricula
Disabled
Dislocated workers
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Law
Scholarships
Video tape recording
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Training for Realtime Writers Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to eligible entities to promote training and placement of individuals, including individuals who have completed a court reporting training program, as realtime writers to meet requirements for closed captioning in video programming. Sets forth priorities to be given in the award of such grants. Limits grants to a two-year period and a maximum amount of $1.5 million.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Small Savers Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-971
Sponsor: Rep. Bachus, Spencer [R-AL-6]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Interest
Mutual funds
Real estate investment
Tax exclusion
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Small Savers Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude up to $100 ($200 for joint filers) of interest earned by individuals from gross income.
Provides special rules for: (1) distributions from trusts, regulated investment companies, and real estate investment trusts; and (2) nonresident alien eligibility for such exclusion.
Increases the threshold for reporting interest paid from $10 to $100.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the effective date of the modification of treatment for retirement annuity purposes of part-time service before April 7, 1986, of certain Department of Veterans Affairs health-care professionals.

Bill: 108-hr-972
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Civil service retirement
Dental care
Department of Veterans Affairs
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Nurses
Paramedical personnel
Part-time employment
Physicians' assistants
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Makes January 23, 2002, the effective date of the modification of treatment for retirement annuity purposes of part-time service performed before April 7, 1986, by certain health-care professionals of the Veterans Health Administration pursuant to the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans and to increase the maximum amount of the exclusion.

Bill: 108-hr-973
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefit plans
Group insurance
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal services
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to (restore) increase and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Timber Tax Simplification Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-974
Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Mac [R-GA-8]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Income tax
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Timber sales

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Timber Tax Simplification Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the application of capital gain treatment to outright sales of timber whether or not the owner retains economic interest.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E313-314)
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Terminally Ill Disability Beneficiary Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-976
Sponsor: Rep. Costello, Jerry F. [D-IL-12]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disabled
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
Terminally ill

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Terminally Ill Disability Beneficiary Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to create an exception from the waiting period otherwise required for Social Security disability insurance benefits for beneficiaries suffering from a medically determined terminal illness with not more than six months to live.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that certain Federal annuity computations are adjusted by 1 percentage point relating to periods of receiving disability payments, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-978
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Civil service retirement
Disability retirement
Disabled
Federal employees
Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Provides that the percentage otherwise applicable for a Federal Employees' Retirement System annuity computation that includes, in the aggregate, at least two months of credit for any period of receiving disability compensation benefits shall be increased by one percentage point.
action_date: 2003-10-03
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Provides that the percentage otherwise applicable for a Federal Employees' Retirement System annuity computation that includes, in the aggregate, at least two months of credit for any period of receiving disability compensation benefits shall be increased by one percentage point.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-03
text: Became Public Law No: 108-92.
action_date: 2003-10-03
text: Became Public Law No: 108-92.
action_date: 2003-10-03
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2003-10-03
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2003-09-22
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2003-09-22
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2003-09-12
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: Received in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11424)
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Received in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11424)
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8097)
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8097)
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 978.
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8097-8098)
action_date: 2003-09-10
text: Mrs. Davis, Jo Ann moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 108-92
Alaska Rainforest Conservation Act

Bill: 108-hr-979
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy
Environmental Protection
Forest clearcutting
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest management
Forest roads
Geothermal resources
Lakes
Land use
Maps
Mines and mineral resources
Mining leases
National forests
Restoration ecology
Stream conservation
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water rights
Wild rivers
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Alaska Rainforest Conservation Act - Designates: (1) specified public lands in the Chugach National Forest, Alaska, as National Wilderness Preservation System components; and (2) specified public lands in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska, as wilderness areas or System components.
Provides with respect to specified public lands in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska, for: (1) a wilderness designation study; (2) designation as Land Use Designation II lands; (3) designation as restoration lands; and (4) designation as special management areas.
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate, or study for designation, as wild, scenic, and recreational rivers specified waters in the Chugach and Tongass National Forests, Alaska.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Access to Innovation for Medicare Patients Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-980
Sponsor: Rep. Dunn, Jennifer [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Drugs
Medical innovations
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Access to Innovation for Medicare Patients Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of self-injected biologicals approved by the Food and Drug Administration that are prescribed as a complete replacement for a drug or a biological that otherwise cannot be self-administered.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-27
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: 2003-02-27
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: 2003-02-27
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: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Wild and Scenic Rivers Congressional Involvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-987
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Legislation
State laws
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Wild and Scenic Rivers Congressional Involvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to revise the process of including rivers designated as wild, scenic, or recreational by States in the national wild and scenic rivers system to require authorization for their inclusion by Act of Congress. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to submit a report to Congress regarding whether each State designated river meets the criteria for inclusion.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Ecology Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-989
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Aquatic ecology
Aquatic pests
Citizen participation
Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Great Lakes
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine fouling organisms
Pest control
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Ships
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Great Lakes Ecology Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to: (1) prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic nuisance species within the Great Lakes; and (2) among other things require the use of environmentally sound treatment methods for ballast water and ballast sediments in preventing and controlling infestations of such species.
Requires the Secretary to maximize public participation in proposed rulemaking with respect to such regulations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Secure Access to Firearms Enhancement (SAFE) Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-990
Sponsor: Rep. Hostettler, John N. [R-IN-8]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate relations
Law
Licenses
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Secure Access to Firearms Enhancement (SAFE) Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for reciprocity for the carrying of certain concealed firearms in different States by persons who are not prohibited by Federal law from possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm and who are: (1) carrying a valid State license or permit for carrying a concealed firearm; or (2) otherwise entitled to carry a concealed firearm in their State of residence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Renewable Fuel Equity Act

Bill: 108-hr-991
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Electric power production
Energy
Energy efficiency
Energy facilities
Fruit
Geothermal resources
Grain
Hydroelectric power
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Legumes
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Renewable natural resources
Solar energy
Sugar
Tax credits
Trees
Water Resources Development
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Renewable Fuel Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the renewable resources credit to include geothermal and solar energy, incremental hydropower and biomass (other than closed-loop biomass), and related "qualifying facilities."
Sets forth qualifying dates of service for facilities using such means to produce electricity.
Expands the investment tax credit to include equipment used to produce electricity from certain renewable resources.
Increases, from 10 to 20 percent, the "energy percentage" used to determine the energy credit in the case of energy property having a total installed electrical generating capacity of less than one megawatt that is placed in service before January 1, 2009.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E320)
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
Union Members Right-to-Know Act

Bill: 108-hr-992
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2003-02-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Labor
Employee rights
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labor unions
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Union Members Right-to-Know Act - Amends the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 to require a labor organization to provide information on the Act to: (1) each new member within 90 days after the member has joined the labor organization; and (2) all members periodically in a manner which the Secretary of Labor determines will promote a fuller understanding of the member's rights and judicial remedies under the Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by the Yeas and Nays: 12 - 10.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Introduced in House