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Fair Disbursement of Offshore Oil Revenue Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-910
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Boundaries
Continental shelf
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Law
Licenses
Local laws
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Nature conservation
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Petroleum in submerged lands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Revenue sharing
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Fair Disbursement of Offshore Oil Revenue Act of 2003 - Establishes the Coastal Communities Outer Continental Shelf Receipt Fund as an interest-bearing account in the Treasury.
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay into the Fund all revenues attributable to an Outer Continental Shelf lease, any part of which is within 200 geographical miles of the coast line.
Directs the Secretary to pay each coastal State and its coastal counties, respectively, one-half of the revenues and any interest earned on them attributable to the State for the fiscal year most recently completed.
Preconditions such disposition of funds upon annual enactment by each coastal State and coastal county of the legislation necessary to provide State and local permits for the onshore facilities needed to support offshore oil or gas development or production in the pertinent adjacent area.
Declares that if a State or county fails to enact such legislation, the funds attributable to it shall not be disbursed, and the Secretary shall take that failure into consideration before offering any additional leases for sale in the offshore area adjacent to that State or county.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the establishment of a memorial to victims who died as a result of terrorist acts against the United States or its people, at home or abroad.

Bill: 108-hr-911
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Jim [D-TX-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
District of Columbia
EBB Terrorism
Federal advisory bodies
Fund raising
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Monuments and memorials
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Signs and signboards
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Establishes the Victims of Terrorism Memorial Advisory Board and authorizes it to establish a memorial to victims who died as a result of terrorist attacks against the United States or its people, at home or abroad, except those individuals identified by the Attorney General as participating or conspiring in terrorist-related activities.
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: 
Establishes the Victims of Terrorism Memorial Advisory Board and authorizes it to establish a memorial to victims who died as a result of terrorist attacks against the United States or its people, at home or abroad, except those individuals identified by the Attorney General as participating or conspiring in terrorist-related activities. 
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: On passage Passed by voice vote.
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by voice vote.
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to a previous  order of the House.
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous special order, the House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 911, as amended.
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: Considered pursuant to a previous order. (consideration: CR H8207-8212; text of measure as introduced in House: CR H8207)
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: Consideration initiated pursuant to a previous order.
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Employee Ownership Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-913
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation directors
Corporation taxes
Corporations
Employee ownership
Estate tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Presidential commissions
Regulatory impact statements
Stocks
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax incentives
Tax-exempt organizations
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Employee Ownership Act of 2003 - Declares the policy of the United States that, by the year 2010, 30 percent of all U.S. corporations shall be owned and controlled by their employees.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for tax-exempt employee-owned and employee-controlled corporation (EOECC) trusts whose primary assets consist of the employer securities of an EOECC.
Declares that: (1) there shall be no tax on the corporate income of an EOECC; and (2) the gross income of an employee owner shall not include any proceeds from the qualified sale of EOECC securities.
Exempts from inclusion in gross income of property transferred in connection with performance of services any transfer (in lieu of compensation) of EOECC securities during the three years following a corporation's election to become an EOECC.
Mandates nonrecognition of gain in the case of the sale or transfer of EOECC securities to an EOECC trust.
Establishes a credit against the estate tax for the amount of EOECC securities considered to have been acquired from or to have passed from a decedent to an EOECC trust.
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on Federal regulations and policies affecting EOECCs.
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.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Zero Gravity, Zero Tax Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-914
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporations
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Free trade
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Manufacturing industries
Service industries
Space activities
Space commercialization
Stocks
Tariff
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Zero Gravity, Zero Tax Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income: (1) space-related income; and (2) gain on the sale or exchange of any stock of a qualified space corporation.
Establishes a space company investment credit for the purchase of qualified stock in a qualified space company.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a national standard in accordance with which nonresidents of a State may carry certain concealed firearms in the State, and to exempt qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns.

Bill: 108-hr-915
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Airports
Alcoholic beverages
College sports
Correctional personnel
Courthouses
Education
Educational facilities
Federal preemption
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Identification devices
Interstate commerce
Interstate relations
Judicial officers
Law
Law enforcement officers
Licenses
Prisons
Public meetings
Sports and Recreation
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Amends the Federal criminal code to establish a national standard for the carrying of certain concealed firearms by non-residents. Authorizes a person who has a valid permit to carry a concealed firearm in one State and who is not prohibited from carrying a firearm under Federal law to carry a concealed firearm in another State in accordance with the restrictions of that State or as specified under this Act. Exempts qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Human Cloning Research Prohibition Act

Bill: 108-hr-916
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cloning
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
DNA
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Genetic research
Genetics
Human embryology
International Affairs
International cooperation in science
Medical research
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Human Cloning Research Prohibition Act - Prohibits the expenditure of Federal funds to conduct or support any research on the cloning of humans.
Directs the Director of the National Science Foundation to enter into an agreement with the National Research Council for a review of the implementation of this Act.
States that nothing in this Act shall restrict other areas of scientific research not specifically prohibited by this Act, including important and promising work that involves: (1) the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer or other cloning technologies to clone molecules, DNA, cells other than human embryo cells, or tissues; or (2) the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques to create animals other than humans.
Expresses the sense of Congress that other countries should establish substantially equivalent prohibitions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research.
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in House
Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act

Bill: 108-hr-919
Sponsor: Rep. Etheridge, Bob [D-NC-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cardiovascular diseases
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Families
Fire fighters
Health
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Police
Stroke
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide that a public safety officer who dies as the direct and proximate result of a heart attack or stroke suffered while on duty or within 24 hours after participating in a training exercise or responding to an emergency situation shall be presumed to have died as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty, for purposes of survivor benefits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 8065-8066)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E309)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4022)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Recruitment and Diversity in Nursing Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-920
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Career education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Men
Minorities
Minorities in medicine
Nurses
Nursing education
Part-time employment
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Recruitment and Diversity in Nursing Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program in which nontraditional nursing students shall contract to serve at least two years at a health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses after attending an accredited school of nursing on a Federal scholarship. Requires the program to run from FY 2004 to 2005, and permits the Secretary to extend the program thereafter.
Sets a maximum figure of 25 percent of the number of scholarships that may be used for training in advanced degree programs. Allows a recipient to complete a period of service on a part-time basis under certain conditions.
Applies certain provisions applicable to the National Health Service Corps Program to the nursing scholarship program. Directs the Secretary to give preference in entering into contracts in such program to individuals in financial need.
Requires the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities to carry out nursing awareness and recruitment programs in elementary schools and secondary schools. States that the program shall run from FY 2004 to 2005, and permits the Secretary to extend the program thereafter. Requires that of the schools in which a beneficiary conducts awareness and recruitment programs, at least half must have a high percentage of nontraditional students. Prohibits any grant for nursing awareness and recruitment programs from lasting for a period of more than three years.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To require amounts remaining in Members' representational allowances at the end of a fiscal year to be used for deficit reduction or to reduce the Federal debt, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-921
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits
Congressional Record
Congressional allowances
Congressional publicity
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Public debt

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Requires any amounts appropriated for a Representational Allowance for a Member of the House of Representatives which remain after all payments are made under such Allowance to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or, in fiscal years for which there is no Federal budget deficit, to reduce the Federal debt.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 to provide for the liquidation of blocked assets of terrorists and terrorist organizations in order to reimburse the Treasury for the compensation of claimants.

Bill: 108-hr-922
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Alien property
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Expropriation
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government trust funds
International Affairs
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Amends the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 to authorize the President to vest and liquidate blocked assets associated with terrorism and its support and use the proceeds to reimburse the Treasury for compensation of claimants under such Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E302)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to replace the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the Federal agency responsible for the administration, protection, and preservation of Midway Atoll, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-924
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Department of the Interior
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
History
Islands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Military history
Monuments and memorials
Pacific area
Wildlife refuges
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) review the administration of Midway Atoll and the designation of the Atoll as a national memorial to the Battle of Midway; (2) designate an agency within the Department of the Interior to replace the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as administrator of the Atoll and developer of the memorial; and (3) provide for public access to the Atoll in the most cost-effective manner available.
Requires that the memorial be given equal consideration with concerns over the preservation of wildlife in all matters related to the administration, development, and preservation of the Atoll.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Schoolchildren's Health Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-926
Sponsor: Rep. Hart, Melissa A. [R-PA-4]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Contraceptives
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Health
School health programs
Secondary education
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Schoolchildren's Health Protection Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit Federal education funding (from programs for which the Secretary or Department of Education has administrative responsibility) to any State or local educational agency that provides to an unemancipated minor, at an elementary or secondary school, postcoital emergency contraception (e.g. the "morning-after pill") or a prescription for such contraception.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
Farm and Ranch Risk Management Act

Bill: 108-hr-927
Sponsor: Rep. Hulshof, Kenny C. [R-MO-9]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural production
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Excise tax
Farm income
Farmers
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fisheries
Fishing boats
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Tax deductions
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Farm and Ranch Risk Management Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual engaged in an eligible farming or commercial fishing business a deduction for any taxable year of up to 20 percent of taxable income attributable to the eligible farming or commercial fishing business which was paid in cash by the taxpayer to a Farm and Ranch Risk Management Account (FARRM Account).
Includes distributions from a FARRM account in the taxpayer's gross income, and subjects to a special ten percent surtax any distributions not made within five years of contribution. Establishes a tax on excess contributions, but exempts the taxpayer from the tax on certain prohibited transactions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in House