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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the deduction of Medicare part B premiums from Social Security benefits payments only for months in which Medicare coverage is provided.

Bill: 108-hr-3434
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2003-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize deductions of Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) premiums from social security benefits payments only for coverage in the same month in which the deduction is made (and not for a subsequent month).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
National Commission on Employment and Economic Security Act

Bill: 108-hr-3435
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2003-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dislocated workers
Economic security
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Occupational health and safety
Stress (Psychology)
Violence
Violence in the workplace

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: 
National Commission on Employment and Economic Security Act - Establishes the National Commission on Employment and Economic Security to study and report on: (1) issues related to economic and psychological insecurity caused by employment displacement of U.S. workers; (2) relationships between psychological stress caused by such insecurity and increased violence by employees and former employees in the workplace and their private lives; and (3) economic and psychological effects of the decreasing number of well-paid jobs for U.S. workers. Directs the Commission to make recommendations, including ones for legislative and administrative action, regarding potential solutions to alleviate problems connected with the economic and psychological insecurity of U.S. workers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Raheen Tyson Heighter Life Insurance for America's Troops Act

Bill: 108-hr-3436
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2003-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Insurance premiums
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: 
Raheen Tyson Heighter Life Insurance for America's Troops Act - Amends the Servicemembers Group Life Insurance Program for active-duty military personnel to allow premium deductions from basic pay only for coverage in excess of $100,000 (thereby effectively requiring the Government to provide the cost of the first $100,000 of such coverage).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Foam Fire Safety Act

Bill: 108-hr-3437
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2003-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Building materials
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer protection
Emergency Management
Fire prevention
Furniture industry
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Polymers
Product safety
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: 
Foam Fire Safety Act - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to promulgate safety standards that address open flame ignition of mattresses, bedding, upholstered furniture, and sound proofing materials, and other materials containing polyurethane.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2224)
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3438
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2003-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Breast cancer
Cancer
Cervical cancer
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Government publicity
Gynecology
Health education
Nonprofit organizations
Ovarian cancer
Public service advertising
Social Welfare
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: 
Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act of 2003 or Johanna's Law - Directs The Secretary of Health and Human Services: (1) through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and in collaboration with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to carry out a national campaign to increase the awareness and knowledge of women with respect to gynecologic cancers; and (2) through NIH and the Director, to carry out a demonstration program with nonprofit private entities to test different outreach and education strategies to increase such awareness among women and health care providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2219)
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
JTTF Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3439
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2003-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Central Intelligence Agency
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
EBB Terrorism
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Intelligence officers
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Police
Police training
Salaries
Terrorism
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: JTTF Enhancement Act of 2003 - Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to carry out a program under which the Director maintains in appropriate U.S. regions and localities task forces of law enforcement agents to combat international terrorism. Directs that each task force be comprised of at least one FBI agent and selected Federal, State, and local law enforcement agents. 
Requires the Director to: (1) make available appropriate training to each participating agent; and (2) continue to reimburse the overtime pay for each participating State and local agent. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to increase the number of Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services agents available for the program. 
Amends the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 to authorize a program of detailing Central Intelligence Agency employees with State and local law enforcement agencies.
Authorizes a detail program for State and local enforcement personnel to the Department of Justice.
Directs the Attorney General to expand the Law Enforcement Support Center to ensure access for all Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2213)
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from taking any action to implement any recommendation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES) Commission during the one-year period beginning on the date of the submission of the commission's recommendations to the Secretary.

Bill: 108-hr-3440
Sponsor: Rep. John, Christopher [D-LA-7]
Introduced: 2003-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from implementing any recommendation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services (CARES) Commission during the one-year period beginning on the date of submission of the Commission's recommendations to the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
School Nutrition Enhancement Act

Bill: 108-hr-3441
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2003-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Education
Elementary and secondary education
Income
School lunch program
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: 
School Nutrition Enhancement Act - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to phase out reduced price lunches and breakfasts by phasing in increases in income eligibility for free lunches and breakfasts by specified increments from 130 percent of the Office of Management and Budget nonfarm income poverty guidelines for July 1, 2003, to 185 percent of such guidelines for July 1, 2008, and every subsequent school year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Mental Health and Back-to-Work Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3442
Sponsor: Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2003-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Mental health services
Names
Veterans' employment
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: 
Veterans Mental Health and Back-to-Work Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in providing veterans' rehabilitative services, to furnish: (1) work skills training and development; (2) employment support; and (3) job development and placement.
 
Revises provisions establishing the Committee on Care of Severely Chronically Mentally Ill Veterans to: (1) redesignate such Committee as the Committee on Care of Veterans With Serious Mental Illness; and (2) require in its annual report an assessment of how the veterans' rehabilitative services programs are serving veterans with mental illness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Adams National Historical Park Boundary Addition Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3443
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, William D. [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2003-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Adams Administration
Boundaries
Commemorations
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Massachusetts
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: 
Adams National Historical Park Boundary Addition Act of 2003 - Amends the Adams National Historical Park Act of 1998 to revise the boundary of Adams National Historical Park to include the Quincy Homestead and carriage shed at 34 Butler Road in Quincy, Massachusetts, within the Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Menu Education and Labeling Act

Bill: 108-hr-3444
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2003-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Beverages
Consumer education
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Labeling
Law
Local laws
Nutrition
Oils and fats
Restaurants
Salt
Signs and signboards
State laws
Vending machines

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: 
Menu Education and Labeling Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require restaurants that are part of a chain of at least 20 outlets doing business under the same trade name to provide the total number of calories, grams of saturated fat plus trans fat, and milligrams of sodium adjacent to any item on menus in a clear and conspicuous manner. Requires vending machines and restaurant menu boards to display the total number of calories of each item.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to propose implementing regulations within 12 months of the enactment of this Act.
 
Permits restaurants to provide additional nutritional information. Allows States and local governments to require additional nutritional information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H936)
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Dandini Research Park Conveyance Act

Bill: 108-hr-3445
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbons, Jim [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2003-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: College administration
Colleges
Community colleges
Higher education
Land transfers
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Dandini Research Park Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Board of Regents of the University and Community College System of Nevada all right, title, and interest of the United States in specified land located in Washoe County, Nevada, patented to the University of Nevada under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act. 
 Requires the Board of Regents to pay the net proceeds of any sale of such land to the Secretary for use by the Director of the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-07
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation Act

Bill: 108-hr-3446
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2003-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Conservation easements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Environmental Protection
Fines (Penalties)
Health
Idaho
Informers
Land transfers
Landowners
Livestock
Montana
National parks
Recidivists
Vaccination
Veterinary medicine
Wildlife conservation
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: 
Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation Act - Prohibits an individual from killing, hazing, or capturing any buffalo on Federal lands or land held under Federal conservation easements or using any form of bait to lure buffalo from any Federal land onto private land until the Secretary of the Interior and other appropriate Federal agencies carry out specified duties.
 
Establishes fines and criminal penalties for violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2003-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
To modify the boundaries for a certain empowerment zone designation.

Bill: 108-hr-3448
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2003-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Boundaries
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Maine
Rural economic development
Tax incentives

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: 
Includes all of Aroostook County, Maine, within the Aroostook County Empowerment Zone (for Department of Agriculture empowerment zone purposes).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to reduce class size through the use of fully qualified teachers, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3450
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2003-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Class size
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employment tests
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Mentoring
Paraprofessional school personnel
Parent-school relationships
Private schools
Rating of teachers
Reading
Recruiting of employees
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a grants program to reduce class size through the use of fully-qualified teachers. Allots funds to States and local educational agencies to recruit, hire, and train additional teachers, in order to: (1) reduce class sizes nationally, in grades one through three, to an average of 18 students per classroom; and (2) improve teaching in those grades so that all students can learn to read independently and well by the end of the third grade.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
Alzheimer's Treatment and Caregiver Support Act

Bill: 108-hr-3451
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2003-11-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Caregivers
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing homes
Senior centers
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: 
Alzheimer's Treatment and Caregiver Support Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers to expand treatment services for patients with Alzheimer's disease and training and support services for families and caregivers. Obligates specified funds for medically underserved communities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-05
text: Introduced in House