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United States · United States Congress · 10 October 2002
Designates the Federal building located at 324 Twenty-Fifth Street in Ogden, Utah, as the James V. Hansen Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 2002
Texas Band of Kickapoo Act Amendments - Amends the Texas Band of Kickapoo Act to require the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas (Tribes) to each update the membership roll of its members. Requires the Tribes to compile a list of their tribal members who permanently reside, but were not born in, the United States and are not otherwise citizens or nationals of the United States. Amends the Immigration and Naturalization Act to declare that a person who is of Kickapoo descent, a member of either of the Tribes, was born outside of, but permanently resides in the United States, and is not otherwise a citizen or national of the United States, may apply to the Attorney General for a United States certificate of citizenship. Authorizes the Attorney General to issue a certificate of citizenship to such individuals. Amends the Texas Band of Kickapoo Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma to relinquish its claim to beneficial title to the Kickapoo Reservation in Maverick County, Texas. Requires the Secretary, at the request of the Tribe, to accept such land as replacement land and take that land into trust for the benefit of the Kickapoo Tribe if there are no adverse legal claims on the land. Extends the eligibility of individuals for Federal Indian programs and services from the Texas Band of Kickapoo Indians to both Kickapoo Tribes.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 2002
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) should enter into mediation, while adopting 24-hour extensions of the expired collective bargaining agreement; and (2) if a settlement is not reached, the President should direct the Attorney General to petition any U.S. district court having jurisdiction of these parties to enjoin a strike or lock-out or its continuation.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 2002
Encourages all Americans to learn about the importance of bone marrow donation and to become a bone marrow donor by joining the National Marrow Donor Program Registry. Supports the goals of National Marrow Awareness Month, especially efforts to increase the number of minority donors and to educate Americans about bone marrow donation and transplants.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 2002
Expresses appreciation for Prime Minister Tony Blair's leadership in the war on terrorism and sympathy to British victims of terrorism and their families. Commends British intelligence and defense agencies for their continued efforts in the war on terrorism. Reaffirms the special relationship between the people of the United States and Great Britain.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 2002
Declares the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should complete action in the 107th Congress on the Pension Security Act of 2002 and present it to the President for his signature before adjournment.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 2002
Designates the Federal building located at Fifth and Richardson Avenues in Roswell, New Mexico, as the Joe Skeen Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 2002
Declares the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should complete action in the 107th Congress on the Community Solutions Act of 2001 and present it to the President for his signature before adjournment.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 2002
Declares the sense of the House of Representatives that the 107th Congress should complete action on and present to the President, before September 30, 2002, legislation extending and strengthening the 1996 welfare reforms.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 2002
Declares the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should complete action on the Permanent Death Tax Repeal Act of 2002, and present it to the President before adjournment.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 2002
Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2002 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide: (1) emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2001 or 2002 crop losses due to weather or related conditions; and (2) payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2001 and 2002 losses in an emergency-designated county, with set-asides for the American Indian livestock program.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 2002
Recognizes September 11 as both a day to remember those taken from their families and a day for Americans to recommit to the Nation, to their freedom, and to each other. Extends deepest sympathies to the countless innocent victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, their families, friends, and loved ones. Honors the heroic actions of first responders, law enforcement personnel, State and local officials, volunteers, and others who aided the innocent victims. Expresses thanks and gratitude to the foreign leaders and citizens of all nations who have assisted and continue to stand in solidarity with the United States against terrorism. Remains resolved to pursue all those responsible for the terrorist attacks and their sponsors until they are discovered and punished.
United States · United States Congress · 4 September 2002
National Forest Organizational Camp Fee Improvement Act of 2002 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to charge an annual acreage and market value-based fee for the occupancy and use of National Forest System lands and facilities by organizational camps (nonprofit or governmental entity-run camps for youth or persons with disabilities).
United States · United States Congress · 4 September 2002
National AMBER Alert Network Act of 2002 - Requires the Attorney General to assign an AMBER Alert Coordinator of the Department of Justice to act as the national coordinator of the AMBER Alert communications network regarding abducted children. Requires the coordinator to: (1) seek to eliminate gaps in the network; (2) work with States to encourage the development of additional network elements and to ensure regional coordination; and (3) act as the nationwide point of contact for network development and for regional coordination of alerts on abducted children through the network. Directs the Coordinator to: (1) notify and consult with the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning each child abduction for which an AMBER Alert is issued; and (2) establish minimum standards for the issuance of alerts and for the extent of their dissemination (limited to the geographic areas most likely to facilitate the recovery of the abducted child). Requires the Secretary of Transportation to provide grants to States for the development or enhancement of notification or communications systems along highways for alerts and other information for the recovery of abducted children. Includes among permissible activities the development or enhancement of electronic message boards, and the placement of additional signage, along highways. Directs the Attorney General to provide grants to States for the development or enhancement of programs and activities for the support of AMBER Alert communications plans.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 2002
Tax Simplification Act of 2002 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the alternative minimum tax. Amends the definitions of dependent and of head of household. Modifies provisions concerning: (1) the dependent care credit; (2) the child tax credit; (3) the earned income credit; and (4) the deduction for a personal exemption for dependents. Accelerates the repeal of the phaseout of personal exemptions and of the overall limitation on itemized deductions. Repeals certain phaseout provisions, including with regard to the child tax credit. Modifies provisions dealing with the capital gains tax (including, allowing the deduction for nonitemizers) and providing for a deduction for points on a home mortgage. Provides for the partial exclusion of dividends and interest. Increases the exclusion for group-term life insurance purchased for employees. Combines the Hope and Lifetime Learning credits. Repeals provisions regarding collapsible corporations. Sets forth special rules dealing with the active business test for certain corporate reorganizations. Provides rules for determining the transferor's basis of intangible property to a corporation. Repeals the ability of partnerships to elect to apply large partnership rules, effective after December 31, 2003. Repeals the personal holding company tax. Grants the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to prescribe the class life of any property, except for residential rental property and nonresidential real property. Repeals the occupational taxes relating to distilled spirits, wine, and beer. Converts the failure to pay one's estimated income tax penalty to an interest charge on the accumulated unpaid balance.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 2002
Directs the Secretary of Energy to convey to Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma, Incorporated, all right, title, and interest of the United States to specified land, consisting of approximately 6.3 acres of the facility of the Southwestern Power Administration in Tupelo, Oklahoma, for use in economic development within the service area of the Tri-County Indian Nations Community Development Corporation. Retains a Federal easement to the parcel, including telephone and telegraph rights, in order to maintain a sewage connection to the electrical substation and lagoon facility located adjacent to the parcel.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 2002
Fire-Safe Cigarette Act of 2002 - Amends the Consumer Product Safety Act to set a deadline for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a rule implementing the consumer product safety standard prescribed by this Act to reduce the risk of fire from cigarettes. Prescribes testing methodology. Authorizes the Commission to regulate the ignition propensity of cigarette paper for roll-your-own tobacco products when it sets such standards. Instructs the Commission to include in such standard a proscription against the stockpiling of cigarettes to which the fire safety standards will apply. Denies the Commission any jurisdiction over tobacco or tobacco products.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 2002
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that it is not an establishment of religion for teachers in a public school to recite, or to lead willing students in the recitation of, the following pledge: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 2002
Peace Corps Charter for the 21st Century Act - Amends the Peace Corps Act to require all recruiting of volunteers to be undertaken solely by the Peace Corps. Conditions the President's authority to detail or assign Peace Corps volunteers to certain Federal and State agencies and other entities upon a determination that such a detail or assignment does not contradict the standing of such volunteers as being independent from foreign policy-making and intelligence collection. Requires the Director of the Peace Corps, before implementing any new initiative, to consult with the Peace Corps National Advisory Council and to report to Congress on: (1) the initiative's objectives and costs, and any impact it may have on existing programs and the safety of volunteers; (2) the status of security procedures in any country in which the Peace Corps operates programs or is considering doing so; (3) student loan forgiveness programs currently available to Peace Corps volunteers; and (4) initiatives the Peace Corps intends to pursue in order to solicit requests from eligible countries where the presence of volunteers would facilitate a greater understanding of the world and of diverse cultures and systems of government, including peoples from countries with substantial Muslim populations. Requires the Director to develop a training program for all Peace Corps volunteers in the education, prevention, and treatment of infectious diseases. Increases Peace Corps volunteer readjustment allowances to $200 a month. Establishes a program to award grants to private nonprofit corporations in the District of Columbia to serve as incubators for returned Peace Corps volunteers seeking to use their knowledge and expertise to undertake community-based projects.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 2002
Fire Safe Cigarette Act of 2002 - Amends the Consumer Product Safety Act to direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to prescribe a consumer product fire safety standard to reduce the risk of fire from cigarettes. Prescribes testing methodology. Authorizes the Commission to regulate the ignition propensity of cigarette paper for roll-your-own tobacco products when it sets such standards. Instructs the Commission to include in such standard a proscription against the stockpiling of cigarettes to which the fire safety standards will apply. Denies the Commission any jurisdiction over tobacco or tobacco products.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 2002
Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act of 2002 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include demonstration, education, and other programs concerning cancer survivorship among the activities of the National Cancer Institute (Institute) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Requires the Director of NIH to: (1) expand and coordinate NIH activities related to cancer survivorship; and (2) establish an Office on Survivorship within the Institute. Creates the position of Associate Director for Survivorship. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Protection, to: (1) study the health challenges associated with cancer survivorship and carry out projects and interventions; and (2) make grants for the monitoring and evaluation of cancer care and survivorship.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 2002
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2002 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit any physician or other individual from knowingly performing a partial-birth abortion, except when necessary to save the life of a mother that is endangered by a physical disorder, illness, or injury. Authorizes the father, if married to the mother at the time of the abortion, and the maternal grandparents of the fetus, if the mother is under 18 years of age, to obtain specified relief in a civil action, unless the pregnancy resulted from the plaintiff's criminal conduct or the plaintiff consented to the abortion. Authorizes a defendant accused of an offense under this Act to seek a hearing before the State Medical Board on whether the physician's conduct was necessary to save the life of the mother. Prohibits the prosecution of a woman upon whom a partial-birth abortion is performed for conspiracy to violate this Act or under provisions regarding punishment as a principal or an accessory or for concealment of a felony.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 2002
Improving Access to Long-Term Care Act of 2002 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a deduction for eligible long-term care premiums for coverage for a taxpayer, spouse and dependents. Sets deduction amounts. Reduces amount by a specified figure if the modified gross income of the taxpayer exceeds $20,000 (or $40,000 for a joint return, with such values adjusted for inflation). Makes ineligible for the deduction an individual covered for long-term care under a health plan maintained by an employer in which 50 percent or more of the cost is incurred by the employer. Forbids long-term care deduction from also being taken as a deduction for medical expenses or self-employed health care expenses under specified parts of the Code. Permits deduction whether or not taxpayer itemizes. Allows additional personal exemption for each spouse or dependent with "long-term needs" in a taxpayer's home. Defines "individual with long-term care needs." Sets limits for amount of such exemption.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 2002
Designates the U.S. Post Office building located at 6910 Yorktown Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the Robert Wayne Jenkins Station.
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