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To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize military recreational facilities to be used by any veteran with a compensable service-connected disability.

Bill: 108-hr-1917
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Military service clubs
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Permits a veteran with a compensable service-connected disability and his or her dependents to use military morale, welfare, and recreational facilities on the same basis as members (and their dependents) entitled to retired pay.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E893-894)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to extend commissary and exchange store privileges to veterans with a service-connected disability rated at 30 percent or more and to the dependents of such veterans.

Bill: 108-hr-1918
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Families
Military dependents
Post exchanges
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Provides military commissary and exchange privileges to veterans with service-connected disabilities of 30 percent or more, as well as their dependents.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-18
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E893-894)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize transportation on military aircraft on a space-available basis for veterans with a service-connected disability rated 50 percent or more.

Bill: 108-hr-1919
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Families
Military aircraft
Military transportation
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide transportation on Department of Defense aircraft, on a space-available basis, for veterans with service-connected disabilities rated at 50 percent or more, and for their dependents, on the same basis that such transportation is provided to former military personnel entitled to retired or retainer pay.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Total Force.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E893-894)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Let U.S. Veterans Rebuild Iraq Act

Bill: 108-hr-1920
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Construction industries
Government contractors
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Middle East and North Africa
Subcontractors
Veterans' employment
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Let U.S. Veterans Rebuild Iraq Act - Directs the Federal Government to require any private sector contractor (or subcontractor) under any Government contract for reconstruction in Iraq, when hiring employees who will perform work under the contract, to extend to preference eligible veterans a hiring preference equivalent to the preference extended for civilian employee positions in the Government.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1175-1176)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Continuity of Care for Veterans with Chronic Conditions Act

Bill: 108-hr-1921
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Chronically ill
Drugs
Health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Continuity of Care for Veterans With Chronic Conditions Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish a veteran by prescription no less than a 90-day supply a medication listed under the Controlled Substances Act if the prescribing physician determines that the veteran: (1) has a chronic condition for which the medication is appropriate; and (2) has not demonstrated any symptoms of abuse of that medication.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1175-1176)
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Fair Taxes for Seniors Act

Bill: 108-hr-1922
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Fair Taxes for Seniors Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a one-time increase ($500,000) in the exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence by a taxpayer who has attained the age of 50 before such sale. (States that in the case of a joint return only one spouse need satisfy the age requirement.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5033)
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E895)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Survivors' Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1923
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Families
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Social Security Survivors' Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to reduce the age of eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits from age 60 to age 55.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5033)
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E895)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Montgomery GI Bill Flexibility Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1924
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education
Higher education
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Montgomery GI Bill Flexibility Act of 2003 - Extends the period of entitlement to educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to 14 (currently, ten) years after the date of an individual's last discharge or release from active duty.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1175-1176)
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Intermediate Sanctions Compensatory Revenue Adjustment Act of 2003 (ISCRAA)

Bill: 108-hr-1926
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Auditing
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Commerce
Drug abuse
Evidence (Law)
Excise tax
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Health
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Medicaid
Minnesota
Mississippi
Social Welfare
State finance
Tax courts
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Texas
Tobacco
Tobacco settlement

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Intermediate Sanctions Compensatory Revenue Adjustment Act of 2003 (ISCRAA) - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose on the collecting attorney: (1) in each excess fee transaction a tax equal to five percent of such fee; and (2) in any case in which such tax is imposed and the excess fee involved is not corrected within the taxable period, a tax of 200 percent of the excess fee involved.
Defines: (1) collecting attorney; (2) excess fee transaction; and (3) taxable period.
Authorizes Tax Court declaratory judgments with respect to excise taxes on excess fee transactions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include wireless telecommunications equipment in the definition of qualified technological equipment for purposes of determining the depreciation treatment of such equipment.

Bill: 108-hr-1927
Sponsor: Rep. Hulshof, Kenny C. [R-MO-9]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Antennas
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Electronics
Equipment and supplies
Income tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include wireless telecommunications equipment in the definition of qualified technological equipment for purposes of determining the depreciation treatment of such equipment under the accelerated cost recovery system.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the eligibility of certain expenses for the low-income housing credit.

Bill: 108-hr-1928
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Commerce
Construction costs
Fees
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Low-income housing
Professional fees
Real estate development
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include associated development costs in the basis of any building which is part of a low-income housing project when calculating the low-income housing credit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Early Education Workforce Act

Bill: 108-hr-1929
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Block grants
Child care workers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Domestic partners
Employee health benefits
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Married people
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Healthy Early Education Workforce Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make an annual allotment to each State that submits an application for formula grants to provide access to affordable health benefits coverage for: (1) eligible child care providers and the staff of center-based child care providers; and (2) certain relatives of such providers and staff, at the discretion of the State involved.
Sets forth the following permissible activities for such grants: (1) to reimburse an employer or other individual specified under this Act for premiums or other costs for coverage under group or individual plans; (2) to offset the cost of enrolling individuals in public health benefits plans; and (3) to otherwise subsidize the cost of health benefits coverage to individuals specified under this Act.
Requires a State to match at least 50 percent of the costs of the activities for which it receives a grant.
Specifies portions of the funds appropriated under this Act to go to U.S. territories and possessions and Indian tribes. Sets forth a formula for calculating the amount to be received by each State (including the District of Columbia).
Directs the Secretary to conduct an evaluation of several State programs representing various approaches to raising the rate of child workers with health benefits coverage.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Liberian Refugee Immigration Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1930
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Africans
Alien labor
Aliens
Department of Justice
Deportation
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Injunctions
Labor and Employment
Law
Liberia
Married people
Refugees
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Liberian Refugee Immigration Protection Act of 2003 - Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain Liberian nationals who were granted, or are eligible to apply for, temporary protected status as of a specified date.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To designate the diplomacy center of the Department of State as the Colin Powell Center for American Diplomacy and to provide for appropriate museum visitor and educational outreach services at the center.

Bill: 108-hr-1932
Sponsor: Rep. Leach, James A. [R-IA-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Arts, Culture, Religion
Cabinet officers
Commemorations
Commerce
Concessions
Conferences
Congress
Congressional tributes
Cultural property
Department of State
Diplomacy
Federal office buildings
Food service
Government Operations and Politics
Museums
Names
Retail trade
Smithsonian Institution
Surplus government property
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: 
Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to designate the diplomacy center of the Department of State, located in the Harry S Truman building, as the Colin Powell Center for American Diplomacy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1934
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Adoption
Childbirth
Families
Family leave
Federal employees
Foster home care
Health
Leave of absence
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2003 - Amends Federal Civil Service provisions to require that, of the 12 weeks of leave available to a Federal employee during any 12-month period based on the birth of a child or the placement of a child with the employee for adoption or foster care, up to one-half of that time (as the employee may designate) shall be with pay, in addition to any annual or sick leave which the employee may otherwise elect to use as part of the same12-week period.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Housing Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1935
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cooperative housing
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Mortgages
Single family housing
Veterans' loans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Veterans Housing Fairness Act of 2003 - Authorizes the use of veterans' housing loan benefits to purchase stock or membership in a development, project, or structure (structure) of a cooperative housing corporation as long as such structure: (1) complies with criteria prescribed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and (2) is a one-family residential unit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E852)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Health Insurance Expansion Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1936
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to health care
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Consumer education
Cooperative societies
Corporations
Cost of living adjustments
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Excise tax
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Nonprofit organizations
Quality of care
Reinsurance
Self-employed
Small business
Social Welfare
State laws
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Small Business Health Insurance Expansion Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow for the deduction of 100 percent of the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals; (2) allow, for small employers, a limited credit for the expenses of employee health insurance coverage provided under a new health plan; and (3) provide for non-profit qualified health benefit purchasing coalitions.
Directs the: (1) Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a State grant program to demonstrate the effectiveness of innovative ways to increase health insurance access through market reforms and other innovations; and (2) Small Business Administration to award grants to facilitate health benefits information for small businesses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Small Business, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Small Business, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Small Business, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Small Business, 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: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1938
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands
Land transfers
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2003- Extends Federal recognition to: (1) the Chickahominy Indian Tribe; (2) the Chickahominy Indian Tribe - Eastern Division; (3) the Upper Mattaponi Tribe; (4) the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc.; (5) the Monacan Indian Nation; and (6) the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
Sets forth the service areas of the various Tribes and requirements for the Tribes with respect to submission of a membership roll, adoption of a constitution, and election of officials.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, upon certain land transfers, to take specified lands into trust for the various Tribes' benefit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E853)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in House