Emergency Anti-Recession Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-396
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2003-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Airports
Appalachia
Arts, Culture, Religion
Bonds
Building construction
Buy American
Capital investments
Civil engineering
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Construction workers
Cultural centers
Depressed areas
District of Columbia
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Environmental Protection
Estate tax
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to transportation
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal office buildings
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government corporations
Government lending
Government securities
Highspeed ground transportation
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Labor and Employment
Local finance
Maintenance and repair
Marine terminals
Marine transportation
Mass rapid transit
Minimum wages
Museums
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Potable water
Railroad engineering
Railroad finance
Railroad passenger traffic
Regional economic development
Revolving funds
Rural economic development
School buildings
Secondary education
Security measures
Sewage treatment
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
State finance
Tax credits
Tax exemption
Tax rates
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
Transportation planning
Unemployment insurance
Wages
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Emergency Anti-Recession Act of 2003 - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 to extend TEUC compensation.
Exempts, for one year, the first $10,000 of remuneration from the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance tax.
Authorizes appropriations to make payments to states to coordinate budget related actions with federal government efforts to stimulate economic recovery.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to allow a limited tax credit to holders of qualified Amtrak bonds.
Authorizes appropriations for Amtrak capital expenditures.
Establishes a program of capital grants to class II and class III railroads to rehabilitate, preserve, or improve certain railroad track.
Sets forth additional requirements with respect to cohorts of direct loans and loan guarantees for certain railroad rehabilitation and improvement projects.
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to remove certain requirements for States with respect to construction of treatment works under capitalization grant agreements.
Provides for assistance to States in establishing simplified procedures for small water systems to obtain assistance.
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to increase the Federal-Aid Highway program obligation ceiling.
Authorizes additional appropriations from the Mass Transit Account and the Highway Trust Fund for certain formula grants for mass transportation projects.
Increases appropriations from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for airport planning and airport development.
Authorizes appropriations for marine transportation system infrastructure.
Authorizes additional appropriations for public works and economic development, Appalachian regional development, and Delta, Mississippi regional development.
Authorizes additional appropriations to: (1) carry out construction, operation, and maintenance activities (including security measures) for Corps of Engineers projects; and (2) enhance the security of General Services Administration properties.
Authorizes additional appropriations to enhance the security of the: (1) John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; and (2) Smithsonian Institution.
Provides for grants to local educational agencies to enable them to make urgent repairs and renovations to public school facilities.
Amends the IRC and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to provide for revenue offsets.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2003-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2003-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House