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Veterans National Heritage Preservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1762
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: California
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Illinois
Kansas
Leases
Maine
New York State
Ohio
Public-private partnerships
Rent
Soldiers' homes
South Dakota
Tennessee
Tourism
Virginia
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Veterans National Heritage Preservation Act of 2003 - Makes it a mission and responsibility of the Department of Veterans Affairs to maintain its most significant historic buildings and to preserve them for future generations. Expresses the sense of Congress calling for the preservation and reuse of such buildings.
Establishes in the Department an Office of Historic Preservation, headed by a Director with specified duties relating to the preservation of the Department's historic buildings.
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish the Veterans Heritage Preservation Fund for the preservation, renovation, and restoration of such buildings.
Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements and leases, including enhanced-use leases, for restoring, rehabilitating, maintaining, interpreting, and promoting historic buildings.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a National Historic Landmark theme study at specified locations to identify sites, structures, and landscapes that best illustrate or commemorate key events at facilities managed by the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the United States Veterans Bureau between 1865 and 1930.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Competition in Radio and Concert Industries Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1763
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Advertising
Affiliated corporations
Antitrust law
Arts, Culture, Religion
Cable television
Commerce
Competition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contracts
Corporate mergers
Direct broadcast satellites
Entertainers
Families
Family enterprises
Federal Communications Commission
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Loans
Management
Marketing
Music
Radio broadcasting
Radio programs
Radio stations
Restrictive trade practices
Sound recording and reproducing
Space activities
Subsidiary corporations
Surveys
Telecommunication industry

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Competition in Radio and Concert Industries Act of 2003 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revoke any broadcast station license or construction permit for: (1) willful and repeated unfair or deceptive acts or practices that significantly hinder or prevent the broadcast of programming or content produced, promoted, or created by a person independent of the licensee or permittee; or (2) conviction or final adjudication of an antitrust unfair trade practice violation regarding concert venues or promotion.
Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations which address: (1) improperly influencing the sale of satellite cable programming or content to any other radio station or unaffiliated concert venue, or of any song, work, or sound recording, programming, concert performance, or concert promotion to persons not affiliated with the licensee, permittee, or affiliate thereof; (2) discrimination against unaffiliated musicians or content providers; and (3) the making of exclusive contracts with musicians or providers which prevent other licensees or permittees from obtaining programming or content from such musicians or providers.
Requires the FCC to: (1) designate for hearing any radio broadcasting application that would result in the applicant owning, operating, or controlling radio stations having a national audience reach exceeding 60 percent; (2) review the use of privately-controlled audience measurement systems for the determination of local markets of radio stations; (3) modify its rules concerning attributable interests in radio stations and limitations on local marketing agreements; and (4) prohibit the licensee of any radio station from using its control over broadcasting matter to extract or receive money or other valuable consideration from a record company, artist, concert promoter, or related entity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for appropriate overtime pay for National Weather Service employees who perform essential services during severe weather events.

Bill: 108-hr-1764
Sponsor: Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Aviation safety
Department of Commerce
Federal employees
Hours of labor
Labor and Employment
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Salaries
Transportation and Public Works
Weather
Weather forecasting

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Provides an overtime hourly rate of pay of one and one-half times the hourly rate of basic pay and provides that all such pay is premium pay for an employee of the National Weather Service who occupies a nonmanagerial position in GS-14 or under: (1) the duties of which are critical to the immediate daily operation of the forecast and warning responsibilities of the Service and directly affect public and aviation safety; (2) in which overtime work is usually unscheduled due to the vicissitudes of severe weather; and (3) in which overtime work is therefore unusually taxing.
Exempts such an employee from the limitation on aggregate pay, including premium pay, for a pay period.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
National Uniform Privacy Standards Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1766
Sponsor: Rep. Tiberi, Patrick J. [R-OH-12]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Local laws
Right of privacy
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 
National Uniform Privacy Standards Act of 2003 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to extend Federal preemption over State consumer protection laws enacted after January 1, 2004, that declare their intent is to give greater protection to consumers than is provided under Federal law. (Thus denies the protection from Federal preemption currently granted to State consumer protection laws that provide greater protection than Federal law). 
Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to prohibit the States from imposing any requirement or prohibition with respect to consumer financial privacy that is currently regulated by such Act's privacy guidelines, including disclosure by a financial institution of a consumer's nonpublic personal information. (Thus establishes Federal preemption over State consumer protection laws that provide greater protection than Federal law).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Freeing Alternatives for Speedy Transportation (FAST) Act

Bill: 108-hr-1767
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Auditing
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Electronics
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Highway planning
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Metropolitan areas
Privatization
Road construction
Science, Technology, Communications
State finance
State-local relations
Toll roads
Traffic congestion
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 
Freeing Alternatives for Speedy Transportation (FAST) Act - Amends Federal highway law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish and implement an Interstate System FAST Lanes program under which the Secretary shall permit a State, or a public or private entity designated by the State, to collect fees to finance the expansion of a highway by constructing additional lanes on the Interstate System for the purpose of reducing traffic congestion.
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct a study for a project with an estimated total cost of $50 million or more to determine: (1) if a toll facility for such project is feasible; and (2) if privatizing the construction, operation, and maintenance of the facility is financially advisable (while retaining legal and administrative control of the portion of the Interstate route).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Job Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1769
Sponsor: Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-8]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Affiliated corporations
Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Computer software
Corporation taxes
Export subsidies
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Manufacturing industries
Minimum tax
Motion pictures
Partnerships
Science, Technology, Communications
Sound recording and reproducing
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Job Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the foreign sales corporation/extraterritorial income (FSC/ETI) exclusion, with an exemption for certain binding contracts in effect before the date of enactment of this Act.
Permits a foreign corporation that elected to be treated as a domestic corporation to revoke such election and be treated as a domestic corporation transferring its property to a foreign corporation with no gain recognized on such transfer.
Provides: (1) a transitional 2004 through 2008 sliding-scale deduction for an FSC/ETI beneficiary based on the corporation's 2001 FSC/ETI benefit; and (2) special rules for 2003 and for fiscal year taxpayers. Defines "FSC/ETI benefit."
Allows a deduction for income attributable to U.S. production activities equal to ten percent of qualified production activities. Provides a 2006 through 2009 phase-in period. Defines "qualified production activities" as: (1) the portion of the modified taxable income attributable to domestic activities; and (2) the domestic/foreign fraction.
Sets forth related provisions with respect to: (1) determination of income attributable to domestic production activities; (2) domestic production gross receipts; (3) qualifying production property; (4) domestic/foreign fraction; and (5) special rules.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E773-774)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit knowingly misinforming the relative of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States that such member is deceased, injured, or missing due to an event associated with their military service.

Bill: 108-hr-1771
Sponsor: Rep. McCotter, Thaddeus G. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Military communications
Military dependents
Military personnel
Missing in action
Telephone
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit making a telephone call or initiating a communication with a telecommunications device in interstate or foreign commerce to knowingly misinform the relative of a member of the armed forces that such member is deceased, injured, or missing due to an event associated with his or her military service.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 36, United States Code, to designate the oak tree as the national tree of the United States.

Bill: 108-hr-1775
Sponsor: Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Emblems
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Trees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Designates the tree genus Quercus (commonly known as the oak tree) as the national tree.
action_date: 2004-09-17
text: 

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

 
Designates the tree genus Quercus (commonly known as the oak tree) as the national tree. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1750-1751)
action_date: 2004-09-17
text: Placed on the House Calendar, Calendar No. 223.
action_date: 2004-09-17
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-689.
action_date: 2004-09-17
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-689.
action_date: 2004-09-08
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-09-08
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Employee Ownership for the Twenty-First Century Act

Bill: 108-hr-1778
Sponsor: Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Employee ownership
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government regulation
Presidential commissions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Directs the President to establish a Presidential Commission on Employee Ownership to study and report on all issues that affect ownership of businesses in the United States, with a primary focus on the issues that affect employee ownership of such businesses.
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on Federal regulations and policies that might impact the creation and operation of an employee-owned corporation, identifying those regulations and policies that are barriers to employee ownership.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the tax on the net capital gain of taxpayers other than corporations, to exclude interest and dividends from gross income, and to repeal the 1993 income tax increase on Social Security benefits.

Bill: 108-hr-1780
Sponsor: Rep. Beauprez, Bob [R-CO-7]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Aliens
Capital gains tax
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dividends
Economics and Public Finance
Employee ownership
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Immigration
Income tax
Interest
Labor and Employment
Mutual funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Real estate investment
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from individual gross income: (1) net capital gains; and (2) interest and dividends, not including dividends from farmers' cooperative associations, regulated investment companies and real estate investment trusts, and employee stock ownership plans.
Repeals the 85 percent (second tier) taxation of Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits. Transfers from the general fund in the Treasury to the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund amounts equal to the resultant reduction in revenues.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction for certain expenses in connection with the determination, collection, or refund of any tax.

Bill: 108-hr-1781
Sponsor: Rep. Beauprez, Bob [R-CO-7]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Tax deductions
Tax preparers
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a deduction from adjusted gross income of up to $500, whether a taxpayer itemizes or not, for certain expenses in connection with the determination, collection, or refund of any tax.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to change the calculation and simplify the administration of the earned income tax credit.

Bill: 108-hr-1782
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Dividends
Earned income tax credit
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Households
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest
Investments
Married people
Rent
Social Welfare
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) revise the calculation of the earned income credit; (2) revise the credit's application to married individuals; and (3) repeal provisions denying the credit to individuals having excessive investment income.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E778)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Freedom Flat Tax Act

Bill: 108-hr-1783
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Commerce
Families
Federal employees
Flat-rate tax
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Married people
State employees
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt organizations
Unemployment insurance
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Freedom Flat Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize an individual and a person engaged in business activity to make an irrevocable election to be subject to a flat tax (in lieu of the existing tax provisions) of 19 percent for the first two years, and 17 percent thereafter.
Defines individual and business "taxable income."
Imposes an employer tax on the value of excludable compensation provided to employees not engaged in business activity of 19 percent through 2004, and 17 percent thereafter.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2166-2167)
action_date: 2003-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E781)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Renal Dialysis Payment Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1784
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Home care services
Kidney diseases
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical technology
Medicare
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Medicare Renal Dialysis Payment Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for an update in the renal dialysis composite rate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-11
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: 2003-04-11
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: 2003-04-11
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: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House