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Campus Care and Counseling Act

Bill: 108-hr-3593
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alcoholism
Anxiety
Chronically ill
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Eating disorders
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health education
Higher education
Medical education
Medical residents
Mental care facilities
Mental depression
Mental health services
Mental illness
Parent-school relationships
Psychiatrists
Psychiatry
Psychologists
Psychology
Psychotherapy
Recruiting of employees
School health programs
School personnel
Suicide
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Campus Care and Counseling Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to campus mental and behavioral health service centers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Protection for Participants in Research Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3594
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative procedure
Clinical trials
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Conflict of interests
Continuing education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Higher education
Human experimentation in medicine
Informed consent (Medical law)
Labor and Employment
Law
Medical ethics
Medical fees
Medical research
Mentally disabled
Minorities
Minority employment
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Pharmaceutical research
Recruiting of employees
Research ethics
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Protection for Participants in Research Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require all human subject research conducted, supported, or otherwise subject to Federal regulation, to be conducted in accordance with the Common Rule and the vulnerable-population rules, as set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations. Defines specified terms.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review and harmonize such regulations. 
 
Requires informed consent before an individual may be a subject of human research.
 
Requires an Institutional Review Board to approve all human subject research proposals.
 
 Directs the Secretary to establish criteria for identifying and monitoring high risk clinical trials. 
 
Prohibits grants or awards to a public entity or private academic institution that does not have a program to educate investigators and Board members on the protection of human research subjects.
 
Prohibits the use of Federal funds for classified human subject research if: (1) the Board has waived the informed consent requirement; or (2) the research is exempt from Board review. 
 
Establishes an Office of Human Research Protections within the Office of the Secretary to make grants, conduct research and Institutional Review Board audits, and coordinate Federal efforts. Authorizes the Director of such Office to make grants for a model education program.
 
Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations addressing the participation of people with diminished decisionmaking capacity in human subject research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
At-Home Infant Care Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3595
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Block grants
Caregivers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Government Operations and Politics
Infants
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Parent and child
Single-parent families
Social Welfare
Welfare work participation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
At-Home Infant Care Act of 2004 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible States to provide financial assistance for up to 24 months (in the aggregate) to enable an eligible parent to become the caregiver for an eligible infant at home.
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
OTC Medicine Tax Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3596
Sponsor: Rep. DeMint, Jim [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Costs
Drugs
Health
Income tax
Medical economics
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
The OTC Medicine Tax Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the requirement that the deduction for medicine and drugs is limited to prescribed drugs and insulin.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Auditor Independence and Tax Shelters Act

Bill: 108-hr-3599
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting
Auditing
Business ethics
Commerce
Conflict of interests
Corporate accountability
Corporate governance
Corporation directors
Executives
Financial planning
Financial services
Income tax
Investment advisers
Securities fraud
Securities regulation
Stocks
Tax evasion
Tax shelters
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Auditor Independence and Tax Shelters Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 governing audit requirements to prohibit a registered public accounting firm (or associated person) from providing services to an issuer of securities, or an officer or director of an issuer, to design, organize, promote, assist, or execute any investment, entity, plan, arrangement, or transaction for which a significant purpose is the avoidance or evasion of Federal income tax (tax shelter), and for which the firm may receive fees exceeding $100,000 in the aggregate.
 
Requires the audit committee of an issuer, before pre-approving a non-audit service not otherwise prohibited, to determine whether a reasonable likelihood exists that such service would impair the accounting firm's independence. Prohibits the audit committee from providing advance approval of such a service if a reasonable likelihood of impairment does exist.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2003-11-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2440-2441)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Health Deductible Insurance Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3600
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Medical fees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Health Deductible Insurance Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that if a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage imposes an annual deductible with respect to an individual and the individual changes during a year to another of such issuer's coverages that also imposes an annual deductible, the issuer shall credit toward the deductible for the latter coverage amounts that were credited toward the deductible under the former coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Steel Industry Retiree Benefits Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3601
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health maintenance organizations
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Iron and steel industry
Law
Managed care
Medical economics
Medicare
Retiree health benefits
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Steel Industry Retiree Benefits Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the 65 percent health insurance costs credit, in the case of a qualified steel company, for qualifying coverage of a qualified steel industry retiree and qualifying family members under a qualified health insurance plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Children's Access to Vision Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3602
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Eye care
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health education
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Optometry
Performance measurement
Physical examinations
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Children's Access to Vision Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to make grants to States for: (1) comprehensive eye examinations for children needing such services, with priority for children under nine years old; (2) subsequent vision treatment or services; and (3) educational materials on recognizing signs of visual impairment in children.
 
Directs the Secretary to coordinate the grant program with appropriate Federal and State child services programs. Requires an annual State program evaluation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Iraq Claims Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3603
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Justice
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability (International law)
Government paperwork
Interest
International claims
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Law
Middle East and North Africa

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Iraq Claims Act of 2003 - Requires the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States to determine the validity and amount of each individual and corporate claim against Iraq arising between May 16, 1987, and May 1, 2003, and certify such determinations to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury.
 
States that the provisions of title I of the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949 will apply.
 
Provides for interest on claims from the date of loss or injury to the date of settlement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Governmental Pension Plan Equalization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3605
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil service retirement
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defined benefit pension plans
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Executive compensation
Federal-Indian relations
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Nondiscrimination provisions
Paramedical personnel
Pension funds
Police

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Governmental Pension Plan Equalization Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to specify that rules for governmental plans also apply to plans established for their employees by Indian tribal governments or their subdivisions, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities which they wholly-own or control.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the marriage penalty in the contribution rules for Roth IRAs.

Bill: 108-hr-3606
Sponsor: Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Families
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Married people
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to ROTH IRAs, to eliminate the marriage penalty for the phaseout range, the phaseout threshold, and rollover amounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Small Businesses Health Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3607
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Self-employed
Small business
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Keeping Small Businesses Health Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a tax credit for health insurance coverage provided to employees by employers of 100 or fewer employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Expand America's Workforce Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3608
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Recruiting of employees
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Expand America's Workforce Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, until December 31, 2005, a credit for hiring certain new employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Public Expression of Religion Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3609
Sponsor: Rep. Hostettler, John N. [R-IN-8]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Church and state
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Local employees
Local officials
Religion
Religious liberty
State employees
State officials

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Public Expression of Religion Act of 2003 - Amends the Revised Statutes of the United States with respect to a civil action against State or local officials for deprivation of rights where the deprivation consists of a violation of a prohibition in the Constitution against the establishment of religion. Limits the remedy for such a claim to injunctive relief.
 
Denies the awarding of attorneys fees in such an action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to replace the recapture bond provisions of the low income housing tax credit program.

Bill: 108-hr-3610
Sponsor: Rep. Houghton, Amo [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Limitation of actions
Low-income housing
Social Welfare
Surety and fidelity
Tax credits
Tax penalties
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions of the low income housing tax credit requiring a bond to cover recapture amounts from the disposition, prior to a 15-year compliance period, of a building (or interest therein) eligible for the credit. Provides for a three-year statute of limitation (from the end of the compliance period) for assessing a recapture deficiency.
 
Requires owners of buildings eligible for the low income housing tax credit to file informational returns with the Secretary of the Treasury upon the occurrence of a recapture event and to provide persons who are named in such returns with specified information. Imposes penalties for failure to file required returns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2409-2410)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Metropolitan Congestion Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3611
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bicycles
Bikeways
Car pools
Commuting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to transportation
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Highway planning
Information services
Labor and Employment
Leases
Mass rapid transit
Metropolitan areas
Motor buses
Motor vehicle pollution control
Ozone
Parking facilities
Pedestrians
Police communication systems
Science, Technology, Communications
Smog
Storage
Telecommuting
Telephone
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic congestion
Traffic engineering
Transportation planning
Transportation workers
Urban affairs
Urban planning
Urban transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Metropolitan Congestion Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) to provide that 80 percent of specified funds apportioned to a State (currently, 62.5 percent of the remaining 80 percent) shall be obligated in urbanized areas of the State with populations of over 200,000 and in other areas of the State, in proportion to their relative share of the State's population. 
 
Modifies: (1) the allocation formula under the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program; and (2) the Minimum Guarantee regarding programmatic distribution of funds.
 
Directs that the funds apportioned to a State for a fiscal year for the National Highway System (NHS) be allocated between urbanized areas with a population of over 200,000 in the State and other areas in the State as follows: (1) 75 percent in the ratio that the total lane miles on the NHS in such urbanized areas in the State bears to the total lane miles on the NHS in all areas in the State; and (2) 25 percent in the ratio that the total vehicle miles traveled on the NHS in such urbanized areas in the State bears to the total vehicle miles traveled on the NHS in all areas in the State.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) establish a metropolitan congestion relief program; and (2) establish and implement an operational improvement program.
 
Increases the percentage set aside for metropolitan planning.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-11-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2438-2439)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Outreach Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3612
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cemeteries and funerals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Law
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Veterans Outreach Improvement Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a separate account for the funding of outreach activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs and a separate subaccount for the funding of outreach activities of the Veterans Health Administration, the Veterans Benefits Administration, and the National Cemetery Administration. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish and maintain procedures for ensuring the effective coordination of Department outreach activities between and among such elements, the Office of the Secretary, and the Office of Public Affairs; and (2) ensure that outreach is provided in locations proximate to populations of veterans and other individuals in States that offer a high probability of improving veterans' outreach and assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to appropriate State veterans agencies for such purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House