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Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act

Bill: 108-hr-1726
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Collection of accounts
Families
Labor and Employment
Married people
Military pay
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act - Repeals, as of the later of October 1, 2003, or the date of enactment of this Act, certain provisions which require the offset of amounts paid in dependency and indemnity compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities for the surviving spouses of former military personnel who are entitled to military pay or who would be entitled to retired pay except for being under 60 years of age.
Provides for the recoupment of certain amounts previously paid to SBP recipients in the form of a retired pay refund.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the dollar limitation on contributions to funeral trusts.

Bill: 108-hr-1727
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Commerce
Funeral industry
Income tax
Law
Tax deductions
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the $7,000 dollar limitation on contributions to funeral trusts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 37, United States Code, to ensure equal treatment for members of reserve components who perform inactive-duty training in determining their entitlement for aviation incentive pay and hazardous duty pay.

Bill: 108-hr-1728
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Flight crews
Flight training
Labor and Employment
Military aviation
Military pay
Military training
National Guard
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Authorizes members of the reserves and National Guard, while performing inactive-duty training, to receive hazardous duty incentive pay, officer aviation career incentive pay, and career enlisted flyers incentive pay.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-04-28
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Negative Credit Notification Act

Bill: 108-hr-1729
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Julia [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: 
Negative Credit Notification Act - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require a consumer reporting agency to notify the consumer that it is including information in the consumer's file that is, or may be construed as being, adverse to the consumer's interests, together with a brief description sufficient to allow the consumer to determine the accuracy, completeness, and source of such information.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Solid Waste Interstate Transportation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1730
Sponsor: Rep. Greenwood, James C. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Aluminum
Beverage containers
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Contracts
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental monitoring
Environmental technology
Fines (Penalties)
Gifts
Glass and glass industry
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Groundwater
Health
Incineration
Interstate commerce
Interstate relations
Landfills
Law
Licenses
Maps
Medical wastes
Methane
Minorities
Municipal solid waste
Native Americans
Paper recycling
Plastics recycling
Pollution measurement
Potable water
Public meetings
Radioactive wastes
Recycling of waste products
Refuse and refuse disposal
Road construction
State laws
State-local relations
Steel
Subsidies
Transboundary pollution
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Trucking
Trucks
User charges
Waste disposal sites
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Solid Waste Interstate Transportation Act of 2003 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit a landfill or incinerator (facility) from receiving out-of-State municipal solid waste (MSW) for disposal or incineration unless the waste is received pursuant to a new or existing host community agreement or an exemption from this prohibition (which may be limited by the State). Establishes conditions for exemptions.
Authorizes States to establish limits on the amount of out-of-State waste received annually for disposal at each facility. Allows a State to limit the amount of out-of-State MSW received annually at each facility to the amount received during 1995 if the State has enacted a comprehensive, statewide recycling program. Prohibits State limits from conflicting with permits or host community agreements that set higher (or no) limits. Sets the limitation amount for any facility that began receiving documented out-of-State waste before enactment of this Act at the amount received during 1993. Prohibits discrimination against shipments of such waste on the basis of State of origin.
Allows States to require that a permit issued for a new facility or an expansion include an annual limitation of not less than 20 percent on the total quantity of out-of-State MSW relative to the total waste received by the facility. Requires percentage limitations to be uniform for all facilities and not discriminate against out-of-State waste according to the State of origin.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-23
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
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
Men's Health Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1734
Sponsor: Rep. Cunningham, Randy (Duke) [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Men

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Men's Health Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Department of Health and Human Services an office to be known as the Office of Men's Health. Requires a report.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum amount of a home loan guarantee available to a veteran.

Bill: 108-hr-1735
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' loans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Increases from $60,000 to $81,000 the maximum amount of a home loan guarantee available to a veteran from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9770)
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Similar provision incorporated. See H. R. 1716, Title III, Section 301.
action_date: 2004-04-29
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Sickle Cell Treatment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1736
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Blood transfusions
Case management
Child health
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Continuum of care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Genetic counseling
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health insurance
Higher education
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Nursing education
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Sickle cell anemia
Social Welfare
Stroke

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sickle Cell Treatment Act of 2003 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to include primary and secondary preventative medical strategies, treatment, and services, including genetic counseling and testing, for individuals who have Sickle Cell Disease as medical assistance under the Medicaid program.
Directs the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration to conduct a demonstration program for the development and establishment of systemic mechanisms, including a National Coordinating Center, to improve the prevention and treatment of Sickle Cell Disease.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9003)
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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
Asbestos Victims' Compensation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1737
Sponsor: Rep. Dooley, Calvin M. [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Asbestos
Bankruptcy
Cancer
Civil actions and liability
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Court records
District courts
Drug abuse
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Labor and Employment
Limitation of actions
Lung cancer
Lung diseases
Medical records
Medical tests
Occupational health and safety
Personnel records
Physical examinations
Physicians
Pretrial procedure
Respiratory diseases
Smoking
Standards
Torts
Wrongful death
X-rays

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Asbestos Victims' Compensation Act of 2003 - Declares physical impairment of the asbestos-exposed person to be an essential element of an asbestos claim. States that cancer satisfies that requirement.
Requires civil actions involving an asbestos claim to include the filing of a doctor-signed narrative medical report and diagnosis which: (1) delineates an employment and exposure history; (2) delineates a medical and smoking history; (3) certifies that 15 years have elapsed from first exposure to diagnosis; (4) certifies a certain level of opacity or pleural thickening on a chest x-ray or pathological evidence of a certain grade of asbestosis; (5) certifies a certain level of asbestos-related pulmonary impairment; and (6) contains other reports and statements as required.
Sets forth required technical standards as well as rules governing consolidation, venue, removal, and the statute of limitations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To require payments to State and local governments for infrastructure and social services needs in the same amount as the amount of relief and reconstruction funds provided to Iraq.

Bill: 108-hr-1738
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Block grants
Building construction
Capital investments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to the aged
Federal aid to transportation
Federal aid to water resources development
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Higher education
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
International Affairs
Iraq
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Medical laboratories
Middle East and North Africa
Poverty
Public health
Road construction
School buildings
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment
War relief
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to States and local governments to coordinate their budget-related actions with Federal Government efforts to stimulate the economy. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2003 for such payments in an amount equal to the total amount appropriated for for FY 2003 for the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund in the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003, and subsequent appropriations Acts.Requires not less than one-third of such amount to be made available to local governments. 
Requires the Secretary to establish a formula for determining the allocation of payments, with priority consideration to the relative unemployment rate, median income, population, and poverty rate. Permits the use of funds received by States and local governments only for: (1) ordinary and necessary maintenance and operating expenses for education; public safety; public health; social services; roads, transportation, and water infrastructure; and housing; and (2) ordinary and necessary capital expenditures authorized by law.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9256)
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9003-9004)
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
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
Medicare Puerto Rico Hospital Payment Parity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1739
Sponsor: Rep. Greenwood, James C. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Hospital care
Hospital rates
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Medicare Puerto Rico Hospital Payment Parity Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise: (1) the payment formula to increase payment amounts to Puerto Rico hospitals that are based on the discharge-weighted average of the nationally adjusted DRG (diagnostically-related group) prospective payment rate for hospitals located in urban and rural areas for discharges beginning in FY 2004; and (2) the calculation of Medicare disproportionate share payments for prospective payment system hospitals in Puerto Rico.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the position of the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Bill: 108-hr-1741
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Marines
Names
Navy

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Redesignates the position of the Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the eligibility of veterans for mortgage bond financing, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1742
Sponsor: Rep. Kleczka, Gerald D. [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
California
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Mortgages
Oregon
Tax-exempt securities
Texas
Veterans' loans
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the additional requirements for qualified veterans mortgage bonds to: (1) revise the definition of a qualified veteran to mean any veteran who served on active duty (removes the limitation of service before January 1, 1977) and who applied for financing before 30 years after leaving service (removes the additional proviso of, or before January 31, 1985); (2) revise the State veterans limit; and (3) permit a State to elect to carry forward any of such unused limitation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Iowa Medicare PPO Demonstration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1743
Sponsor: Rep. Leach, James A. [R-IA-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Higher education
Hospital rates
Illinois
Iowa
Managed care
Medical education
Medical fees
Medicare
Preferred provider organizations (Medical care)
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Iowa Medicare PPO Demonstration Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allow the receipt and approval of applications for a demonstration project conducted under the Social Security Amendments of 1967 for participation of preferred provider organizations under the Medicare+Choice program under part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act, with the understanding that the demonstration program could cause Medicare reimbursement in Iowa to rise to a level more in line with the average national Medicare reimbursement rate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-10
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: 2003-04-10
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: 2003-04-10
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: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
Welfare to Work Health Care Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1744
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Welfare to Work Health Care Act of 2003 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to revise the program commonly referred to as the transitional medical assistance (TMA) program. Authorizes States to: (1) extend the eligibility for TMA of low-income individuals for up to 12 additional months; and (2) allow another six months of eligibility, in certain circumstances, in the case of a family eligible for or receiving Medicaid for less than three of the previous six months. Repeals the sunset date for TMA (thus making the program permanent).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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 express the sense of the Congress that funding should be made available from the Highway Trust Fund to encourage States to require law enforcement officers to impound motor vehicles of those charged with driving while intoxicated, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-1745
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Highway finance
Police
Searches and seizures
State laws
Traffic accidents and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: 
Declares the sense of Congress that funding should be made available from the Highway Trust Fund to encourage States to require law enforcement officers to: (1) impound motor vehicles of individuals charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI); and (2) issue responsibility warnings to individuals who take custody of DWI suspects.
 
Directs the National Transportation Safety Board to study and report to Congress on: (1) the number of States that have adopted laws to impound the motor vehicles of individuals charged with DWI; (2) the number and severity of traffic accidents caused by individuals who were released by State and local police hours after being charged with DWI; and (3) the need for States to enact vehicle impoundment laws for those charged with DWI, and the effectiveness of such laws in States which have already enacted them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E763)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in House