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To amend the Education Land Grant Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to pay the costs of environmental reviews with respect to conveyances under that Act.

Bill: 108-hr-108
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to education
Land transfers
National forests
School districts

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Education Land Grant Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to pay environmental review costs with respect to conveyances under such Act.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced in the House on January 7, 2003. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the Education Land Grant Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to pay environmental review costs with respect to conveyances under such Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 406 - 8 (Roll no. 114). (text:  CR H2874)
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 406 - 8 (Roll no. 114).(text:  CR H2874)
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration:  CR H2878-2879)
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 108.
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration:  CR H2874-2875)
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Mr. Hayworth moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Residential Solar Energy Tax Credit Act

Bill: 108-hr-109
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Condominium (Housing)
Cooperative housing
Energy
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Solar energy
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Residential Solar Energy Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited tax credit through tax year 2008 for residential solar energy property equal to the sum of: (1) 15 percent of the taxpayer's qualified photovoltaic property expenditures during the taxable year; and (2) 15 percent of the taxpayer's qualified solar water heating property expenditures during the same year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Responsibility Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-110
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional-executive relations
Expedited congressional procedure
Government Operations and Politics
Government regulation
House rules and procedure
Judicial review
Law
Legislation
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Congressional Responsibility Act of 2003 - Prohibits a regulation from taking effect before the enactment of a bill comprised solely of the text of the regulation.
Requires an agency, whenever it promulgates a regulation, to submit to each House of Congress a report containing its text and an explanation.
Sets forth expedited congressional procedures for consideration of bills to enact agency regulations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and the House.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Community Choice in Real Estate Act

Bill: 108-hr-111
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-44]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank holding companies
Commerce
Housing and Community Development
Real estate business
Subsidiary corporations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Community Choice in Real Estate Act - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, and the Revised Statutes of the United States, to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, from determining that real estate brokerage activity or real estate management activity is financial in nature, is incidental to any financial activity, or is complementary to a financial activity. (In effect, prohibits financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities.)
Exempts from such prohibition: (1) activities of a bank holding company (or any affiliate) that directly relate to managing any real property owned by national banks or their affiliates; and (2) the right, power, or ability of any financial holding company to engage in any activity, or acquire or retain the shares of any company engaged in an activity authorized for financial holding companies on December 6, 2001 ("grandfather clause").

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for an additional place of holding court in the District of Colorado.

Bill: 108-hr-112
Sponsor: Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Colorado
District courts
Judicial districts

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Federal judicial code to add Colorado Springs as a location where court will be held for the District of Colorado.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: 

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

 
Amends the Federal judicial code to add Colorado Springs as a location where court will be held for the District of Colorado.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 375.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-625.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-625.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Clean Ocean Preservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-113
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Dredging
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Polychlorinated biphenyls
Sedimentation
Waste disposal in the ocean
Waste disposal sites
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Clean Ocean Preservation Act of 2003- Establishes an effects level of poly-chlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for remediation material at the Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS) off the coast of New Jersey.
Requires any Environmental Protection Agency rule concerning such sediments to be at least as protective of human health and the environment as the established level.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To require that the Secretary of the Interior conduct a study to identify sites and resources, to recommend alternatives for commemorating and interpreting the Cold War, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-114
Sponsor: Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Archives
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Bomber aircraft
Cold War
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense industries
Flight training
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Intercontinental ballistic missiles
International Affairs
Military aircraft
Military command and control
Military communications
Military training
Missile bases
National parks
Nevada
Nuclear weapons
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Radar defense networks
Strategic forces
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct and submit to specified congressional committees a National Historic Landmark theme study to identify sites and resources in the United States that are significant to the Cold War.
Requires the Secretary to prepare and publish an interpretive handbook on the Cold War and to disseminate information gathered through the study through means in addition to the handbook.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Aviation Biometric Badge Act

Bill: 108-hr-115
Sponsor: Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airline employees
Airports
Aviation safety
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Transportation
EBB Terrorism
Federal employees
Fingerprints
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Right of privacy
Security measures
Transportation workers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Aviation Biometric Badge Act - Amends Federal aviation law to direct the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security to require by regulation that each security screener (or employee who has unescorted access, or may permit other individuals to have unescorted access, to an aircraft or a secured area of the airport) be issued a biometric security badge that identifies a person by fingerprint or retinal recognition.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
New Fitzsimons Regional Federal Medical Center Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-116
Sponsor: Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Capital investments
Colorado
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Leases
Military hospitals
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Veterans' New Fitzsimons Health Care Facilities Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out major medical facility projects at the site of the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado, including inpatient and outpatient facilities providing acute, sub-acute, primary, and long-term care services.
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: 
New Fitzsimons Regional Federal Medical Center Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary) to carry out major medical facility projects at the site of the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado, including inpatient and outpatient facilities providing acute, sub-acute, primary, and long-term care services.
 
Requires consultation between the Secretary and the Secretary of Defense, which shall include consideration of establishing a Department of Veterans Affairs-Department of Defense joint health-care venture at the site.
 
Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 through 2006.
 
Directs the Secretary to report to the congressional veterans' and appropriations committees on the authority exercised under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: See Public Law 108-170.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Provision incorporated. See 1156, Title II, Section 213.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 1720, Section 4.
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 107.
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 108-200.
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 108-200.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend to civilian employees of the Department of Defense serving in combat zones the tax treatment allowed to members of the Armed Forces serving in combat zones.

Bill: 108-hr-117
Sponsor: Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Department of Defense
Estate tax
Excise tax
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Missing in action
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax exclusion
Telephone
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to certain Department of Defense civilian employees serving in combat zones, to: (1) exclude from gross income certain combat zone compensation; (2) make the additional estate tax inapplicable; and (3) exclude the toll tax on telephone service from such zones.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
To overrule United States v. Fior D'Italia, Inc.

Bill: 108-hr-118
Sponsor: Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Finance and Financial Sector
Labor and Employment
Law
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Supreme Court decisions
Tax administration
Tipping

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: States that the Internal Revenue Code shall be applied without regard to the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Fior D'Italia (which permitted use of the aggregate estimation method when calculating an employer's total Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) liability for tips received by employees rather than basing FICA liability on each employee's actual tips).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Harmful Invasive Weed Control Act

Bill: 108-hr-119
Sponsor: Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Economics and Public Finance
Exotic plants
Federal aid to Indians
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Indian lands
Minorities
Non-native species
Pest control
Weeds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Harmful Invasive Weed Control Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to provide financial assistance through States to eligible weed management entities to control or eradicate harmful, invasive weeds on public and private land. Requires the allocation of certain funds to States and Indian tribes to carry out projects approved by States and Indian tribes for such purposes. Reserves five percent of such funds for allocation to Indian tribes.
Prohibits such assistance from being used to carry out projects to control or eradicate animal pests.
Allows an Indian tribe, if the funds allocated to tribes are not sufficient to provide such assistance to each weed management entity of a tribe, to seek additional funding by participating as a local stakeholder in the establishment of such an entity.
Permits any activity involving real property to be carried out only with the consent of the landowner.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior, USDA.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
Voluntary Opportunities for Increasing Contributions to Education Act

Bill: 108-hr-120
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Charitable contributions
Commerce
Computer literacy
Computer software
Computers
Corporate philanthropy
Corporation taxes
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Income tax
Maintenance and repair
Scholarships
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Voluntary Opportunities for Increasing Contributions to Education Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an annual tax credit of up to $500 for an individual ($1,000 for joint filers) and $100,000 for a corporation for 75 percent of the qualified charitable contributions (school tuition organizations, facility construction or renovation, computer acquisition or training) made on behalf of elementary or secondary schools.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House