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To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act concerning the use of Federal disaster assistance for hazard mitigation measures.

Bill: 108-hr-3380
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2003-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief
Disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: 
Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to increase the limit of the total of contributions which may be made for hazard mitigation measures for a major disaster from 7.5 to 15 percent of the estimated aggregate amount of grants to be made (less any associated administrative costs) with respect to such disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act to waive certain waiting periods for Social Security disability and Medicare benefits in the case of a terminally ill, disabled individual.

Bill: 108-hr-3382
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3]
Introduced: 2003-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disabled
Families
Health
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
Terminally ill
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to waive the waiting periods for social security disability and Medicare (SSA title XVIII) coverage of certain terminally ill individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-10-28
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: 2003-10-28
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: 2003-10-28
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: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in House
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in the Bronx, New York, as the "James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".

Bill: 108-hr-3383
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2003-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional tributes
Health
Names
New York City
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: 
Names the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in the Bronx, New York, as the James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Interest Full Deductibility Act

Bill: 108-hr-3384
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2003-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Income tax
Interest
Student loan funds
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: 
Student Loan Interest Full Deductibility Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the limitations on the maximum amount of the deduction of interest on education loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in House
No Financial Aid for Sex Offenders Act

Bill: 108-hr-3385
Sponsor: Rep. Keller, Ric [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Scholarships
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex offenders
Student loan funds
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
No Financial Aid for Sex Offenders Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit the award of Pell grants and student loans to individuals subject to an involuntary civil commitment upon completion of a period of incarceration for a sexual offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9986)
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
New Partnership for Haiti Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3386
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Ambulances
Americans in foreign countries
Building construction
Caribbean area
Civil engineering
Clinics
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Engineers
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Haiti
Haiti compilation
Health
Health education
Health facilities
Health planning
Higher education
Hospitals
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International agencies
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Malaria
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical technology
Nongovernmental organizations
Nurse practitioners
Nurses
Pharmacists
Physicians
Preventive medicine
Professional education
Public-private partnerships
Refuse and refuse disposal
Road construction
Scholarships
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage disposal
Sewerage
Strategic planning
Student loan funds
Technical assistance
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
Tuberculosis
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water storage
Water supply
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
New Partnership for Haiti Act of 2003 - Directs the President to work with the Government of Haiti and international organizations to establish a comprehensive and integrated strategy to combat infectious diseases in Haiti, including HIV/AIDS, and to establish a comprehensive health infrastructure in Haiti.
 
Authorizes the President: (1) acting through the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to provide assistance to Haiti to develop its health sector, including by supporting infrastructure and education and prevention activities; and (2) acting through the Secretary of State and the Corps of Engineers, to provide assistance to develop Haiti's basic sanitation and transportation infrastructure.
 
Directs the President to establish a program to recruit U.S. health care professionals and engineers to rebuild the health care and physical infrastructures of Haiti. Authorizes the President to provide financial incentives to encourage such individuals to participate in the program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2173-2174)
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Health Programs Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3387
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child health
Chronically ill
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Environmental Protection
Families
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Gulf War syndrome
Health
Health counseling
Health insurance
Herbicides
Hospital care
Housing and Community Development
Infants
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Leases
Loan defaults
Maternal health services
Mental health services
Mental illness
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing homes
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Psychotherapy
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Rape
Sex crimes
Shelters for the homeless
Social Welfare
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' loans
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation
Vietnam veterans
Women
Women veterans
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Veterans Health Programs Improvement Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish care to a newborn child of a veteran who is receiving maternity care furnished through the Department of Veterans Affairs for up to 14 days after the birth of the child if the veteran delivered the child in a Department facility or a non-Department facility under a Department contract for delivery services.
 
Repeals a provision which excludes certain vocational rehabilitation services from those authorized to be provided to ill or disabled veterans. Authorizes the Secretary to furnish: (1) work skills training and development services; (2) employment support services; and (3) job development and placement services.
 
Extends through 2008 Department authority to provide specialized hospital, medical, and nursing home care to: (1) Vietnam-era herbicide-exposed veterans; and (2) Persian Gulf War veterans.
 
Requires an individual applying for any medical care through the Department to furnish the Secretary with information on any health-plan contract under which such individual is covered. Authorizes the Secretary to deny any application not containing such information.
 
Extends through: (1) 2008 Department authority to lease to nonprofit organizations or States real property on which veterans have defaulted on Department-guaranteed loans; (2) 2009 certain annual reports; and (3) 2008 the provision of readjustment counseling for Vietnam-era veterans.
 
Makes permanent (currently expires December 31, 2004) Department authority to provide sexual trauma counseling to veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: -See Public Law 108-170.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: -Similar provision incorporated. See S. 1156, Title I, Section 104, and Title IV, Sections 404 and 405.
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2158-2159)
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Cold War Victory Medal Act

Bill: 108-hr-3388
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cold War
Commemorations
History
International Affairs
Military medals, decorations, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Cold War Victory Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned, upon application, to issue Cold War Victory service medals to military personnel who served honorably during the Cold War era (September 2, 1945, through December 26, 1991).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, relating to prescription drug benefits for Medicare-eligible enrollees under defense health care plans.

Bill: 108-hr-3390
Sponsor: Rep. Schrock, Edward L. [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Coinsurance
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Medical economics
Medicare
Military medicine
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to prohibit the prescription drug cost-sharing requirements for Medicare-eligible beneficiaries under CHAMPUS from being in excess of the cost-sharing requirements applicable to all other CHAMPUS health care beneficiaries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Claims Procedures Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3392
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Veterans Claims Procedures Improvement Act of 2003 - Prohibits payment or furnishing of veterans' benefits, if the Secretary of Veterans Affairs notifies a benefit claimant that certain information is necessary to complete the claimant's application and such information is not received by the Secretary within one year after such notification.
 
Requires written notification to a claimant by the Secretary of additional information or evidence needed to complete a claim application. (Current law requires notification, but does not specify that the notification must be written.) Requires the claimant to submit to the Secretary such additional information or evidence within the time period specified by the Secretary, which period shall end not less than 60 days after the date of such notification or one year from the date of application, whichever is later. Allows the Secretary to: (1) extend the time limits for good cause; and (2) decide a claim before the end of such limits.
 
Revises appellate review procedures applicable to filing a notice of disagreement with the Board of Veterans Appeals to require a claimant to be notified in writing to provide clarification on whether or not appellate review is desired or what issue or issues are being appealed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 40, United States Code, to add Catawba and Cleveland Counties, North Carolina to the Appalachian region.

Bill: 108-hr-3393
Sponsor: Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appalachia
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
North Carolina
Regional economic development
Rural economic development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Amends Federal provisions concerning Appalachian regional development to revise the definition of &quot;Appalachian region&quot; to include Catawba and Cleveland Counties in North Carolina.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the lands over which Indian tribes shall have jurisdiction or exercise governmental power.

Bill: 108-hr-3394
Sponsor: Rep. Boehlert, Sherwood [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands
Jurisdiction
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
States that no Indian tribe shall have jurisdiction over, or shall exercise governmental power within, any land that is not located in the same State as the reservation, trust lands, or other tribal lands that constituted the principal residence and location of that Indian tribe on the enactment of this Act, unless such land is: (1) contiguous to the lands that constituted the principal residence and location of the Indian tribe as of the enactment; or (2) has been taken into trust.
 
Provides that an Indian tribe that had no such reservation, trust lands, or other tribal lands shall not have jurisdiction over, or exercise governmental power within, any land located outside of the State in which that Indian tribe was principally located as of such enactment, until and unless land has been taken into trust on behalf of that Indian tribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Lower Regulatory Burden for Homeowners Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3395
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Construction costs
Corporation taxes
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Infrastructure
Public utilities
Sewerage
Tax exclusion
Water rates
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Lower Regulatory Burden for Homeowners Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include customer connection fees (including fees to connect a customer's water service line or sewer lateral line to the utility's distribution or collection system or extend a main water or sewer line to provide service to a customer) as an excludable corporate income item within the definition of "contribution in aid of construction."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Inequity Adjustment Act

Bill: 108-hr-3396
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Cost effectiveness
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Hospital rates
Judicial review
Law
Medical fees
Medicare
Quality of care
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Medicare Inequity Adjustment Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a process under which a provider of services or other health care provider under the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act may petition the Secretary for an adjustment of the rate of payment made to that provider under the Medicare program based on a significant inequity between the rate of payment applicable to that provider and the rate of payment applicable to similar providers located in adjoining areas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-10-29
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: 2003-10-29
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: 2003-10-29
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: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Individual Investment Account Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3397
Sponsor: Rep. McCrery, Jim [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Capital gains tax
Economics and Public Finance
Estate tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Law
Tax deductions
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Individual Investment Account Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for amounts contributed to individual investment accounts. Allows tax-free account distributions, limited to $15,000 for all taxable years, for use in the purchase of a principal residence by a first-time homebuyer. Makes such accounts tax-exempt unless the individual engages in prohibited transactions. Allows such deduction in determining adjusted gross income. 
Exempts such accounts from estate tax.
Excludes from gross income gain from the sale or exchange of property if, during the five-year period ending on the date of the sale or exchange, such property has been owned and used by the taxpayer as a principal residence for periods aggregating two years or more. Limits such exclusion to the amount paid to an individual investment account during the one-year period beginning on the date of the sale or exchange.
Provides for basis adjustment of a residence acquired through the use of an individual investment account.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House