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Goods Movement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3398
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Car pools
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economic development
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy conservation
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to transportation
Freight
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Gross national product
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Intermodal transportation
Job creation
Local finance
Marine terminals
Motor vehicle pollution control
Noise
Railroad safety
Regional economic development
Right-of-way
Road construction
Science, Technology, Communications
State finance
Technological innovations
Terminals (Transportation)
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic congestion
Traffic engineering
Transportation engineering
Trucking
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Goods Movement Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a goods movement program to improve the productivity, security, and safety of freight transportation gateways, while mitigating congestion and community impacts in the area of such gateways. Declares that the purposes of the program shall be to: (1) facilitate and support multimodal freight transportation initiatives at the State, regional, and local levels to improve freight transportation gateways and mitigate congestion in the area of such gateways; (2) provide capital funding to address infrastructure and freight operational needs at freight transportation corridors and gateways; (3) encourage adoption of new financing strategies to leverage State, local, and private investment in freight transportation gateways; and (4) support military mobilization and readiness.
 
Qualifies for funding under this Act intermodal freight transportation projects that provide community and highway benefits by addressing economic, congestion, security, safety, and environmental issues associated with freight transportation corridors and gateways, subject to specified limitations. Sets forth project selection and grant approval criteria. Requires a recipient of Federal financial assistance for a project with an estimated total cost of $100 million or more to submit to the Secretary an annual financial plan for the project.
 
Repeals National Corridor Planning and Development Program provisions of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2260)
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on electron guns for certain cathode ray tubes, liquid crystal display panel assemblies for use in liquid crystal display projection type televisions, and plasma display panel assemblies for use in plasma flat panel screen televisions.

Bill: 108-hr-3399
Sponsor: Rep. Murtha, John P. [D-PA-12]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Equipment and supplies
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff
Television
Video display terminals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2006, the duty on electron guns for certain: (1) cathode ray tubes; (2) liquid crystal display panel assemblies for use in liquid crystal display projection type televisions; and (3) plasma display panel assemblies for use in plasma flat panel screen televisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the reclamation laws to clarify that certain man-made facilities that receive water from a Bureau of Reclamation Project are not navigable waters.

Bill: 108-hr-3400
Sponsor: Rep. Otter, C. L. (Butch) [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Drainage
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Navigation
Transportation and Public Works
Water storage
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Amends Federal reclamation law to clarify that man-made facilities that receive water from a Bureau of Reclamation Project and store or convey water for irrigation or drainage purposes, except for reservoirs in navigable streams or rivers, shall not be considered navigable waters of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Generic Drugs Access Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3401
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Communication in medicine
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Federal preemption
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Law
Local laws
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Generic Drugs Access Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to new drug applications to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include in an application approval a finding about whether the approved (generic) drug is the therapeutic equivalent of the listed drug involved.
 
Prohibits a State or its political subdivision from establishing or continuing any requirement that does not conform to the therapeutic equivalence requirement of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Permanent Emergency Agricultural Assistance Act

Bill: 108-hr-3402
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Crop insurance
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal budgets
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Livestock
Losses
Minorities
Native Americans
Off-budget expenditures
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Range management
Storms
Water Resources Development
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Permanent Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use Commodity Credit Corporation funds for emergency financial assistance to: (1) crop producers who have suffered qualifying weather-caused crop losses in 2001, 2002, or 2003; and (2) livestock producers for losses in 2001, 2002, or 2003, including livestock under the American Indian livestock program, in a disaster-designated county. Reduces (other than crop insurance) other agricultural assistance by amounts received under this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary to make emergency financial assistance available after 2003 to producers with specified crop insurance coverage who have suffered qualifying weather-caused crop damage in a disaster-designated area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to modify certain provisions regarding methyl bromide, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3403
Sponsor: Rep. Radanovich, George [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Law
Methyl bromide
Ozone layer depletion
Pesticide regulation
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to authorize the production of methyl bromide in the same amount requested by the United States under the critical use exemption process of the Montreal Protocol, even if the parties to the protocol do not approve the entire amount. (Methyl bromide is a fumigant used to control insects, nematodes, weeds, and pathogens that has been defined under the Montreal Protocol of 1991 as a chemical that contributes to depletion of the ozone layer. The Montreal Protocol requires a phase out in production in the United States on a more accelerated schedule than that required of developing countries with which U.S. agriculture competes.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the conveyance of the former Army Reserve Training Center in Wooster, Ohio.

Bill: 108-hr-3404
Sponsor: Rep. Regula, Ralph [R-OH-16]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Army
Land transfers
Military bases
Military training
Ohio
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the city of Wooster, Ohio, the former Army Reserve Training Center in Wooster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 4002 of the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 to provide that the same temporary extended unemployment benefits which are available to certain former employees of domestic air carriers be extended to former employees of foreign air carriers who are similarly situated, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3405
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Airline employees
Armed Forces and National Security
Crime and Law Enforcement
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
International Affairs
Iraq
Layoffs
Middle East and North Africa
Military operations
Terrorism
Unemployment insurance
War

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Amends the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 to extend to certain former employees of foreign air carriers the same type of temporary extended unemployment benefits that are available to certain former employees of domestic air carriers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in House
Oklahoma City National Memorial Act Amendments of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3406
Sponsor: Rep. Istook, Ernest J., Jr. [R-OK-5]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Authorization
Bombings
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal office buildings
Foundations
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government corporations
Land transfers
Law
Monuments and memorials
Oklahoma
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
Oklahoma City National Memorial Act Amendments of 2003 - Amends the Oklahoma City National Memorial Act of 1997 to give responsibility for administration of the Memorial to the Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation (currently administered by the Oklahoma City National Memorial Trust). 
 
Requires the Trust to transfer specified Memorial property, rights, authorities, and duties to the Foundation. Dissolves the Trust. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the National Park Service (NPS), to enter into cooperative agreements with the Foundation for the NPS to provide interpretive services related to the Memorial at NPS expense. 
 
Requires the Secretary to reimburse the Foundation for funds obligated or expended for interpretive services, security, and other costs and services related to the Memorial prior to enactment of this Act to the extent that funds are made available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
California FIRE Act

Bill: 108-hr-3407
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Appropriations
California
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
Forest fires
Government Operations and Politics
Off-budget expenditures
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Supplemental appropriations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
California FIRE Act - Authorizes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 2004 to the Department of Homeland Security, Emergency Preparedness and Response Disaster Relief, for &quot;Disaster Relief&quot; activities associated with the California wildfires.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
College and Job Opportunities for the Future Act

Bill: 108-hr-3408
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Community and school
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational statistics
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Mathematics
Minorities
Minority education
Nonprofit organizations
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Social Welfare
Student employment
Student records
Teacher education
Teaching materials
Women
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
College and Job Opportunities for the Future Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish a title VIII, Cooperative Education programs. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) or combinations of IHEs to develop and make available work experiences for students to help them in future careers and in supporting themselves while in school. Requires such cooperative education to provide alternating or parallel periods of academic study and public or private employment.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and contracts for demonstration and innovation projects, training and resource centers, and research relating to cooperative education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Long Island Sound Preservation and Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-3409
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Bioaccumulation
Cadmium
Carcinogens
Connecticut
Dredging
Environmental Protection
Harbors
Health
Long Island Sound
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Mercury
New York State
Organic compounds
Petroleum
Rhode Island
Waste disposal in the ocean
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
Long Island Sound Preservation and Protection Act - Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to revise requirements for the dumping of dredged material in Long Island Sound. 
Declares that no dredged material from any Federal or non-Federal project containing constituents prohibited as other than trace contaminants may be dumped in Long Island Sound, Block Island Sound, or Peconic Bay except in cases demonstrated to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (and certified by the Administrator in the Federal Register) where the dumping of such material will not cause significant undesirable effects, including the threat associated with the bioaccumulation of such constituents in marine organisms.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the volume cap for private activity bonds shall not apply to bonds for water and sewage facilities.

Bill: 108-hr-3410
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jim [D-FL-11]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Infrastructure
Sewage treatment
Sewerage
Tax-exempt securities
Water Resources Development
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt water and sewage facility bonds from the volume cap on private activity bonds.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Juvenile Gun Crime Reporting Act

Bill: 108-hr-3411
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ammunition
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
Juvenile delinquency
Science, Technology, Communications
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
Juvenile Gun Crime Reporting Act - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit: (1) the sale or other disposition of a firearm or ammunition to any person who has been found by a court to be guilty of an act committed as a juvenile, which, if committed by an adult, would have been a crime of violence; and (2) the shipment or receipt in interstate or foreign commerce, or the possession in or affecting commerce, of a firearm or ammunition by such a person.
 
Amends the Crime Identification Technology Act of 1988 to require a State, to be eligible for a grant under that Act, to provide assurances to the Attorney General that it has the capability and does contribute to a system for criminal justice identification, information, and communication, which identifies each such person.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2198)
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Higher Education Affordability and Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3412
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
College costs
Congress
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education savings accounts
Employee benefit plans
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical personnel
Military medicine
Military personnel
Public health personnel
Scholarships
Student aid
Student loan funds
Sunset legislation
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
Higher Education Affordability and Equity Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Higher Education Act of 1965 to expand education incentives, including: (1) the deduction for interest on education loans; (2) making the deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses permanent; (3) increasing allowable contributions to Coverdell education savings accounts; (4) allowing qualified higher education expenses (books, supplies, room, board, and special needs services) to be excluded from gross income in the case of scholarship programs for higher education; and (5) repealing the sunset provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 applicable to title IV (Affordable Education Provisions) of such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-10-30
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: 2003-10-30
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: 2003-10-30
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: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Home Loan Prepayment Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3413
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2003-10-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Interest
Mortgage banks
Mortgages
Veterans' loans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: 
Veterans Home Loan Prepayment Protection Act of 2003 - Provides that the prepayment in full by a veteran of a home loan guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs after enactment of this Act shall be credited on the date of its receipt at the business location of the mortgage lender, and no interest may be charged thereafter. Permits prepayment through such means as cash, a cashier's check, a certified check, electronic transfer of funds, or such other means routinely accceptable for payment by the residential mortgage lender.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Introduced in House