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Broadband Internet Access Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-267
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Antennas
Broadband
Commerce
Competition
Cooperative societies
Depressed areas
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Equipment and supplies
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Internet
Investment tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax-exempt organizations
Telecommunication industry
Telephone
Urban affairs
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Broadband Internet Access Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the broadband credit which shall be the sum of: (1) the current generation broadband credit; plus (2) the next generation broadband credit. Defines terms.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
United States Weather Research Program Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-268
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Authorization
Computer simulation
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Commerce
Disasters
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Flood damage prevention
Floods
Geophysical prediction
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Hurricanes
Meteorological research
Meteorological satellites
Planning
Rain and rainfall
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Space activities
Storms
Technology transfer
Tornadoes
Water Resources Development
Weather forecasting

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: United States Weather Research Program Act of 2003 - States that the United States Weather Research Program's priorities shall be in the areas of: (1) hurricanes, to improve landfall location and hurricane strength forecasts; (2) heavy precipitation, to improve winter and rain storm forecasts; (3) floods, to improve flood forecasting and forecasting and warning systems for inland flooding related to tropical cyclones; (4) two-to-fourteen day forecasting, to improve weather predictions and warnings of high-impact weather events, to conduct the Hemispheric Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORpex) to fill observational gaps in the Northern Hemisphere, and to test and evaluate advanced data assimilation techniques in global models; (5) societal and economic impacts, to identify methods of delivering weather information effectively, to recommend ways to improve weather communications, to assess impacts of adverse weather, to evaluate what weather information is most useful, and to perform research on such impacts; and (6) testing research concepts at Program-sponsored test bed centers, to enable technology transfer to operational meteorologists.
Directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop and annually update, and NOAA's Administrator to report to Congress on, a five-year plan: (1) describing how Federal agencies can best team with universities and other research institutions; (2) identifying social, economic, and military needs and requirements for weather information; (3) outlining methods for disseminating information to user communities; and (4) describing best practices for transferring Program research results to forecasting operations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E36-37)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Equal Treatment Act

Bill: 108-hr-270
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Authorization
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Medical economics
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Veterans Equal Treatment Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) discontinue the funding allocation formula for the Department of Veterans Affairs medical care system known as the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation system at the end of the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted; and (2) develop a new formula for the allocation of funds to the national service regions, known as Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), that takes into account specified requirements, including additional costs incurred by a VISN because the age of veterans, or the number of veterans requiring complex care, in that VISN exceeds the median for all VISNs.
Authorizes additional appropriations to be allocated to VISNs that have experienced funding reductions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Equitable Care for All Veterans Act

Bill: 108-hr-271
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Authorization
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Medical economics
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Equitable Care for All Veterans Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to modify the funding allocation formula for the Department of Veterans Affairs medical care system known as the Veterans Resource Allocation (VERA) system to provide for the incorporation of regional differences in the cost of providing health care to veterans as part of the criteria used to determine the national means differential used. Directs the Secretary to evaluate the effects of such modifications on the regional allocation of funds available to the Department of Veterans Affairs for health care and, if the modifications do not result in a substantive shift in such allocations, to terminate VERA.
Directs the Secretary, if required to terminate VERA, to develop a new formula for the allocation of funds to the Department's national service regions, known as Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), that takes into account specified requirements, including additional costs incurred by a VISN because the age of veterans, or the number of veterans requiring complex care, in that VISN exceeds the median for all VISNs.
Authorizes additional appropriations to be allocated to VISNs that have experienced funding reductions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Corporate Charitable Disclosure Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-275
Sponsor: Rep. Gillmor, Paul E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Charities
Commerce
Conflict of interests
Corporate philanthropy
Corporation directors
Executives
Families
Income tax
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Law
Married people
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
Taxation
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Corporate Charitable Disclosure Act of 2003 - Amends the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 to require disclosure of: (1) corporate charitable contributions whose value exceeds what the issuer made during the previous year to any nonprofit organization of which a director, officer, or controlling person of the issuer (or a spouse) was a director or trustee (insider affiliated charity); (2) the name of such nonprofit organization and the value of the contribution; (3) the total value of contributions made by the issuer to nonprofit organizations during its previous fiscal year; and (4) the organization name and the value of contributions if the value to any one organization exceeds the amount designated by Securities and Exchange Commission rule.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
States' Rights and Second and Tenth Amendment Restoration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-276
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ex-offenders
Families
Family violence
Firearms control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: States' Rights and Second and Tenth Amendment Restoration Act of 2003 - Amends the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997 to repeal a specified provision (commonly referred to as the Lautenberg amendment) establishing a gun ban for individuals convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Date Certain Tax Code Replacement Act

Bill: 108-hr-278
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital
Capital investments
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Internal revenue law
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Progressive taxation
Saving and investment
Tax administration
Tax incidence
Tax rates
Tax simplification
Taxpayer compliance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Date Certain Tax Code Replacement Act - Prohibits the imposition of any tax by the Internal Revenue Code: (1) for any taxable year beginning after December 31, 2007; and (2) in the case of any tax not imposed on the basis of a taxable year, on any taxable event or for any period after December 31, 2007. Excepts the: (1) tax on self-employment income (chapter 2 of the Code); (2) Federal Insurance Contributions Act (chapter 21 of the Code); and (3) Railroad Retirement Tax Act (chapter 22 of the Code).
Establishes the National Commission on Tax Reform and Simplification to review: (1) the present structure and provisions of the Code; (2) whether the tax systems of other countries could provide more efficient and fair methods of funding government revenue requirements; (3) whether the income tax should be replaced with a tax imposed in a different manner or on a different base; and (4) whether the Code can be simplified, absent wholesale restructuring or replacement. Requires a Commission report to Congress on review results, with recommendations for Code reform and simplification. Terminates the Commission 90 days after such report.
Authorizes appropriations (with interim funding).
Declares that any new Federal tax system should be approved by Congress in its final form before July 4, 2007, and, if not, Congress should be required to vote to reauthorize the Code.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Drought Relief Act

Bill: 108-hr-279
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Disaster loans
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Small business
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Small Business Drought Relief Act - Amends the Small Business Act to include drought within its definition of disaster (thus qualifying small businesses suffering economic harm from droughts for assistance under such Act).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E53)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Education Freedom Act

Bill: 108-hr-282
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Church and education
Commerce
Corporate philanthropy
Corporation taxes
Education
Education savings accounts
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Home schooling
Income tax
Religion
Scholarships
Secondary education
Tax credits
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Education Freedom Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a tax credit for 50 percent of certain cash contributions by a taxpayer to an education investment organization or to an elementary or secondary school. Sets a maximum credit of $50,000 for corporations and $250 for other taxpayers ($500 for a joint return). Provides other limitations on the amount of the credit in certain specified instances.
Excludes from gross income any amount received as a grant for qualified elementary and secondary expenses from an education investment organization. Defines "qualified elementary and secondary expenses" and "education investment organization." Revises definition of "school" for purposes of defining qualified elementary and secondary education expenses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Advisory Board Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-283
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Biological research
Commerce
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Health
Higher education
Industrial research
Intellectual property
Labor and Employment
Medical innovations
Military research
Military technology
Minorities
Minority education
Nanotechnology
Presidential commissions
Public-private partnerships
Research and development
Research centers
Scientific instruments and apparatus
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Advisory Board Act of 2003 - Establishes the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Advisory Board which shall: (1) operate in coordination with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and (2) provide advice to the President and the National Science and Technology Council on research investment policy, strategy, program goals, and management processes relating to nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Directs the President to establish a National Nanotechnology Coordination Office to provide necessary technical and administrative support to the Advisory Board and to coordinate Federal nanotechnology activities between Federal agencies, private sector industry, and academia.
Requires the Advisory Board to: (1) advise the President and the Council, and inform the Congress, on matters relating to the National Nanotechnology Program; (2) consult with academic industrial entities, State and local governments and agencies, and other appropriate entities conducting research on and using nanotechnology; (3) ensure that such Program considers fully the societal implications of nanoscale science and technology; and (4) transmit an annual report, which shall include a technology transition study, to the President, the head of each agency involved in the Program, and specified congressional committees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Housing Bond and Credit Modernization and Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-284
Sponsor: Rep. Houghton, Amo [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Income
Income tax
Low-income housing
Mortgage interest rates
Mortgages
Rent
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Housing Bond and Credit Modernization and Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the required use of certain principal repayments on mortgage subsidy bond financings to redeem bonds; (2) modify the purchase price limitation under mortgage subsidy bond rules based on median family income; and (3) define the term "area median gross income" for low-income housing credit projects.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E46)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the treatment of incentive stock options and employee stock purchase plans.

Bill: 108-hr-286
Sponsor: Rep. Houghton, Amo [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Employee ownership
Employee stock options
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Stocks
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment insurance
Wages
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude stock options and employee stock purchase plans from the definition of wages for purposes of employment taxes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E51)
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Southern Border Air Quality Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-287
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Air pollution control
Electric power production
Energy
Environmental Protection
Export controls
Latin America
Mexico
Natural gas
Transboundary pollution

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Southern Border Air Quality Protection Act - Prohibits natural gas from being exported to Mexico for the purpose of electric energy generation by certain electric energy generation units: (1) located within 50 miles of the United States; (2) whose generation capacity is greater than 50 megawatts; and (3) that do not comply with specified air quality control requirements.
Directs the President to exercise certain authority granted under the Export Administration Act of 1979 in order to implement this Act.
Establishes penalties for noncompliance with this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Act

Bill: 108-hr-290
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Ambulatory care
Animals
Clinical trials
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive diseases
Drug therapy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmentally induced diseases
Epidemiology
Federal aid to research
Genetic research
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health education
Health insurance
Health surveys
Higher education
Home care services
Laboratory animals
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical research
Medical supplies
Medicare
Nutrition
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Ulcers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Act - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to expand activities addressing inflammatory bowel disease, emphasizing genetic, animal model, and clinical research.
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a national program of prevention and epidemiology concerning such disease, addressing its prevalence and public and professional awareness.
Directs the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science to study public and private insurance standards for coverage of inflammatory bowel therapies.
Directs the General Accounting Office to study problems inflammatory bowel disease patients have applying for disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 18, United States Code, to increase the mandatory minimum penalties provided for possessing, brandishing, or discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime.

Bill: 108-hr-291
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2003-01-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Firearms
Mandatory sentences
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to increase the mandatory minimum penalties for possessing, brandishing, or discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Introduced in House