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To amend the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century with respect to NAFTA corridor planning and development and coordinated border infrastructure and safety.

Bill: 108-hr-2220
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Authorization
Boundaries
Canada
Customs unions
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Free trade
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Highway planning
Infrastructure
Latin America
Mexico
Road construction
Trade agreements
Traffic congestion
Trucking

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to require the Secretary of Transportation to limit allocations under the Act to high priority corridors that connect to the border between the United States and Mexico or the United States and Canada. Requires the Secretary to give priority consideration to only those on which traffic has increased since enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Implementation Act and is projected to increase in the future.
 
Authorizes separate appropriations for the NAFTA corridor planning and development and coordinated border infrastructure programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act

Bill: 108-hr-2221
Sponsor: Rep. Burr, Richard [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advertising
Communication in medicine
Competition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contact lenses
Damages
Electronic data interchange
Eye care
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health
Liability (Law)
Medical fees
Medical malpractice
Medical records
Medical tests
Optometry
Patients' rights
Physicians
Restrictive trade practices
Sales promotion
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act - Requires a "prescriber" (a person permitted under State law to issue prescriptions for contact lenses) to provide to the patient a copy of the patient's contact lens prescription free of charge.
Declares that a contact lens prescription shall expire: (1) on the date specified by the law of the State involved, if that date is one year or more after the issue date of the prescription; or (2) not less than one year after the issue date of the prescription, if such State law specifies no date or a date that is less than one year after the date of the prescription. Permits an exception in either instance for a patient's ocular health.
Prohibits advertising that lenses for which a prescription is required may be obtained without a prescription. Prohibits a prescriber from issuing certain waivers.
States that any violation of this Act shall be treated as a violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act regarding unfair or deceptive acts or practices.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Public Employer's Restitution Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2222
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Embezzlement
Government Operations and Politics
Local finance
Pension funds
State finance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Public Employer's Restitution Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to allow alienation of an individual's benefits under certain pension plans in order to satisfy, in part or whole, court judgments, decrees, or orders requiring restitution for embezzlement of State or local government funds (qualified embezzlement restitution orders).
 
Gives priority, before payment of such benefits to a State or local government under such an order, to their payment to any other aggrieved State or local government under a previously determined qualified: (1) embezzlement restitution order; or (2) domestic relations order that has such government as an alternate payee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1071)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Prisoner of War Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2224
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Claims
Crime and Law Enforcement
Government liability (International law)
Human rights
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Murder
Persian Gulf War
Prisoners of war
Torture
Treaties
War crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Prisoner of War Protection Act of 2003 - Declares it is U.S. policy to: (1) search out and try in U.S. courts any persons who have mistreated (including willfully killing, torturing, or treating inhumanely) U.S. prisoners of war during the First and Second Gulf Wars; and (2) hold liable countries that commit grave breaches of the Third Geneva Convention against U.S. prisoners of war, including willful killing, torture, and inhumane treatment.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, at the request of the plaintiff, to pay from the Treasury, but not exceeding the sum of Iraqi blocked funds that were vested by Executive Order 13290 of March 20, 2003, any judgment in Civil Action No. 02-0632 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia brought by U.S. prisoners of war and their families against the Republic of Iraq, the Iraqi Intelligence Service, and Saddam Hussein for the brutal torture of them during the First Gulf War.
 
Declares that it shall be U.S. policy to support the claims of U.S. prisoners of war and their families against the Republic of Iraq if, following the Second Gulf War, it becomes evident that U.S. prisoners of war have been killed, tortured, or mistreated during that war, or that the unaccounted-or U.S. prisoner of war from the First Gulf War was killed or tortured by Iraq.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make grants to local educational agencies to support the purchase or lease and use of vending machines that offer for sale healthy foods and beverages in schools.

Bill: 108-hr-2225
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Beverages
Calcium
Child health
Child nutrition
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Health
Iron
Milk
Minerals
Nuts
Oils and fats
Proteins
School districts
Secondary education
Seeds
Sugar
Vending machines
Vitamins

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Authorizes the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for: (1) LEA purchase or lease of qualified vending machines to place in schools for student use; and (2) offsetting of any loss of LEA revenue resulting from using qualified vending machines which offer only healthy foods and beverages for sale.
 
Requires an LEA, as a condition for receiving such a grant, to agree to: (1) remove any vending machines that sell foods and beverages of minimal nutritional value from each elementary or secondary school where qualified vending machines will be placed using the grant funds; and (2) use only qualified vending machines in such school for a period prescribed by the Director.
 
Limits maximum portion sizes of food and beverages offered for sale in qualified vending machines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit reasonable cost reimbursement for emergency room services provided by Federally qualified health centers.

Bill: 108-hr-2226
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Clinics
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Hospital rates
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to allow a Federally qualified health center to elect to have the amount of payment for emergency room services under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) based on the payment methodology applied for outpatient critical access hospital services where the amount of such payment is the reasonable cost of the hospital in providing such services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1081)
action_date: 2003-05-22
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: 2003-05-22
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: 2003-05-22
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: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies.

Bill: 108-hr-2228
Sponsor: Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Affiliated corporations
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Insurance companies
Law
Life insurance
Losses
Stocks
Subsidiary corporations
Tax returns
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include life insurance companies as an "includible corporation" for purposes of filing consolidated tax returns.
Permits an affiliated group which includes at least one domestic insurance company that elects to file a consolidated return rather than pay tax under certain life insurance provisions to use a phased-in percentage of insurance company net operating loss in determining its own taxable income. (Permits unused loss carryover.)
Provides for: (1) subsidiary stock basis adjustment; and (2) waiver of the five-year reconsolidation waiting period for certain formerly includible corporations which became nonincludible as a result of becoming a subsidiary of a nonincludible life insurance company.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Charitable Giving Tax Relief Act

Bill: 108-hr-2229
Sponsor: Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Charitable Giving Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit non-itemizers to deduct a portion of their charitable contributions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
IRA Charitable Rollover Incentive Act

Bill: 108-hr-2230
Sponsor: Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Charitable contributions
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Law
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: IRA Charitable Rollover Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from inclusion as income individual retirement account (IRA) distributions used for qualified charitable purposes. Sets forth related rules for charitable remainder trusts, pooled income funds, and charitable gift annuities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt the deduction for charitable contributions from the phaseout of itemized deductions.

Bill: 108-hr-2231
Sponsor: Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt the charitable contribution deduction from the (income-based) itemized deduction phaseout.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act relating to the distribution chain of prescription drugs.

Bill: 108-hr-2232
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Drug industry
Drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Pharmacies
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the wholesale distributor of certain drugs who is not the manufacturer or an authorized distributor of record for a calendar year of a drug to provide to the recipient of the drug a statement identifying each prior sale, purchase, or trade of such drug (currently, the language "for a calendar year" is not in the Act).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
States' Rights to Medical Marijuana Act

Bill: 108-hr-2233
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug approvals
Drug traffic
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Local laws
Marijuana
Medicinal plants
Pharmacies
Physicians
Smoking
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: States' Rights to Medical Marijuana Act - Transfers marijuana from schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to schedule II of such Act.
Prohibits, in a State in which marijuana may be prescribed or recommended by a physician for medical use under applicable State law, any provision of the Controlled Substances Act from prohibiting or otherwise restricting: (1) the prescription or recommendation of marijuana by a physician for medical use; (2) an individual from obtaining and using marijuana from a prescription or recommendation of marijuana by a physician for medical use by such individual; or (3) a pharmacy from obtaining and holding marijuana for the prescription or recommendation of marijuana by a physician for medical use under applicable State law.
Prohibits any provision of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act from prohibiting or restricting a State entity, in a State in which marijuana may be prescribed by a physician for medical use, from producing or distributing marijuana for the purpose of its distribution for prescription or recommendation by a physician.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Children's Hope Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2234
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Charities
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Property tax
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
State laws
State taxation
Tax credits
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Children's Hope Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a credit ($100, $200 for joint return) which is dependent on enactment of State qualified scholarship tax credits and which is allowed against the Federal income tax for charitable contributions to education investment organizations (as defined by this Act) that provide qualifying assistance for elementary and secondary education.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1310-1311, H1312-1313, H1314-1315, H1315-1317)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Immigration Workload Reduction and Homeland Security Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2235
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Agriculture and Food
Aliens
Arrest
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Detention of persons
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Embassies
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Foreign students
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Higher education
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
International Affairs
Law
Public records
Repatriation
Science, Technology, Communications
Siblings
Transportation and Public Works
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Emergency Immigration Workload Reduction and Homeland Security Enhancement Act of 2003 - Suspends the following immigration-related authorities: (1) the visa waiver program; (2) adjustment to permanent resident status; (3) renewal of temporary protected status; (4) the diversity immigrant visa program; and (5) certain family-related immigrant visa programs. Authorizes specified waiver authority.
Directs: (1) the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a public listing of every alien subject to a final order of deportation for whom the appropriate country of return has refused or unreasonably delayed such action; and (2) that U.S. visa issuance be discontinued in a country which has 24 or more listed individuals.
Sets forth conditions for waiver of such suspension and related provisions.
Suspends authorities of the Secretary and the Secretary of State's to issue nonimmigrant visas.
Directs the Secretary to reimburse State and local law enforcement agencies for certain alien-related detention and removal costs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in House