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United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2003
Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation to Dr. Dorothy Height (President of the National Council of Negro Women) of a congressional gold medal in recognition of her many contributions to the Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 2003
Poison Control Center Enhancement and Awareness Act Amendments of 2003 - Amends the Poison Control Enhancement and Awareness Act to authorize appropriations for: (1) the maintenance of a national toll-free number to access regional poison control centers; and (2) the nationwide media campaign to promote poison control center utilization. Amends provisions pertaining to the poison control center grant program, including to provide funds for: (1) developing standardized poison prevention and poison control centers; and (2) improving national toxic exposure surveillance. Modifies provisions pertaining to the renewal of a waiver of the certification requirements for receiving poison control center grants. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to assist in the implementation and maintenance of continuos national toxicosurveillance of poison control center data to detect new hazards from various sources, including household products.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 2003
Designates the historic Federal District Court Building located at 100 North Palafox Street in Pensacola, Florida, as the Winston E. Arnow Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 2003
Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 - Makes emergency war-related appropriations for FY 2003 to: (1) the Department of Agriculture; (2) the Department of Justice (including the Counterterrorism Fund); (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; (5) the Judiciary; and (6) the Department of State and related agencies, including the Broadcasting Board of Governors for Middle East Television Network broadcasting to the Middle East and radio broadcasting to Iraq. Makes emergency war-related appropriations for the following Department of Defense-Military items, programs, and activities: (1) Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide; (2) Operation Iraqi Freedom Response Fund (including Transfer of Funds); (3) Military Personnel, Transfer of Funds (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Reserve Personnel-Army, and National Guard Personnel-Army); (4) Operation and Maintenance, Transfer of Funds (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Defense-Wide, Army National Guard); (5) the Defense Health Program; (6) Procurement, Army, Transfer of Funds (Aircraft, Missiles, Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Ammunition, Other, Defense-Wide); (7) Procurement, Air Force; (8) Procurement, Defense-Wide; (9) Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Transfer of Funds (Army and Defense-Wide); (10) Combat, Stability Operations, and Air Force Reconstitution Cost (including Transfer of Funds); (11) Natural Resources Risk Remediation Fund (including Transfer of Funds); (12) Revolving and Management Funds (Defense Working Capital Funds); and (13) other specified Department of Defense Programs (Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, including Transfer of Funds). Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2003, the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002, and the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 to: (1) make available specified additional funds; and (2) provide for a specified transfer of funds by the Secretary of Defense. Makes specified amounts available for transfer by the Secretary of Defense to the Operation Iraqi Freedom Response Fund. Makes additional funds available for Bilateral Economic Assistance to: (1) the United States Agency For International Development; (2) the Child Survival and Health Programs Fund; (3) International Disaster Assistance; (4) Operating Expenses of the United States Agency for International Development; (5) the Economic Support Fund; (6) the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (including Transfer of Funds); and (7) Loan Guarantees to Israel. Makes additional funds available to the Department of State for: (1) the International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement; (2) the Andean Counterdrug Initiative; (3) the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund; and (4) the Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining, and Related Programs. Makes additional funds available for Foreign Military Assistance Financing Program and Peacekeeping Operations. Makes additional funds available for: (1) the Department of Homeland Security; (2) Citizenship and Immigration Services; (3) United States Secret Service; (4) Border and Transportation Security; (5) Immigration and Customs Enforcement; (6) the Transportation Security Administration; (7) Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Operating Expenses; (8) the Office For Domestic Preparedness; (9) the United States Coast Guard; (10) Emergency Preparedness and Response; and (11) Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection. Makes additional funds available for the Department of Health and Human Services: (1) Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (Disease Control, Research, and Training); and (2) Office of the Secretary (Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund). Makes additional Legislative Branch funds available for: (1) the House of Representatives salaries and expenses; (2) Committee Employees (Standing Committees); (3) Capitol Police; (4) the Office of Compliance; (5) the Architect of the Capitol; (6) the Library of Congress; and (7) the General Accounting Office. Makes additional Department of Defense funds available for: (1) Military Construction (Navy and Air Force); and (2) Family Housing Operation and Maintenance for the Air Force.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 2003
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom in recognition of his outstanding and enduring contributions to maintaining the security of all freedom-loving nations. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) strike such gold medal (and authorizes the Secretary to strike and sell duplicate bronze medals); and (2) deposit sums received from the sale of the bronze medals into the U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 2003
Columbia Orbiter Memorial Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army to construct in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, a memorial marker honoring the seven members of the crew of the Columbia Orbiter who died on February 1, 2003, during the landing of space shuttle mission STS-107. Authorizes the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to: (1) accept gifts and donations for that or another memorial or monument to the crew; and (2) transfer any donations accepted to the Secretary for the Arlington National Cemetery memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 2003
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit: (1) Federal civilian and military retirees to pay Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and TRICARE supplemental premiums on a pretax basis; and (2) a deduction (available to itemizers and nonitemizers) for TRICARE supplemental premiums and enrollment fees. Sets an implementation deadline of the first open enrollment period beginning not less than 90 days following enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 2003
Medicare Medical Nutrition Therapy Amendment Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for coverage of medical nutrition therapy services for beneficiaries with cardiovascular diseases.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 2003
Resolves that the House of Representatives: (1) congratulates the American Dental Association for establishing the "Give Kids a Smile" program; (2) emphasizes the need to improve access to dental care for children; and (3) thanks the thousands of dentists who volunteered their time to treat an estimated one million children on February 21, 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 2003
American History and Civics Education Act of 2003 - Directs the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to award competitive grants to nonprofit educational institutions to establish: (1) Presidential Academies for Teaching of American History and Civics to offer workshops for teachers of American history and civics; and (2) Congressional Academies for Students of American History and Civics to offer workshops for outstanding students of American history and civics. Directs the NEA Chairperson to award a grant to an organization for the creation of a national alliance of elementary school and secondary school teachers of American history and civics.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 2003
The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act - Prohibits a person from: (1) slaughtering a horse for human consumption; (2) importing to, or exporting from, the United States horseflesh or horses for human consumption; (3) selling, bartering, transferring, receiving, or distributing horseflesh or horses for human consumption; or (4) soliciting or knowingly causing any such actions. Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) criminal and civil penalties; (2) enforcement authority of the Secretary of Agriculture; (3) placement of confiscated horses; (4) euthanasia of unplaceable or severely injured or diseased horses; (4) funding of animal rescue facilities; and (5) exemptions.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 2003
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until February 24, 2003, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 12 February 2003
Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make specified technical corrections in the enrollment of H.J. Res. 2 (making consolidated appropriations for FY 2003).
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 2003
Veterans Prescription Access Improvement Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish to a veteran such drugs and medicines as may be ordered on prescription of a duly licensed physician in the treatment of any illness or injury of such veteran. (Currently, other requirements must be met before such veterans will be furnished drugs and medicines on private practitioner prescriptions.)
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2003
Social Security Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal: (1) pension offset provisions applicable to husband's and wife's insurance benefits, widow's and widower's insurance benefits, and mother's and father's insurance benefits with respect to Old-Age and Survivors insurance benefit payments; and (2) windfall elimination provisions with respect to computation of the primary insurance amount of an individual.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 2003
Authorizes the President to award a gold medal to each of the seven crew members who perished aboard the space shuttle Columbia: Rick D. Husband; Michael P. Anderson; Laurel Clark; David M. Brown; William C. McCool; Kapana Chawla; and Ilan Ramon.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 2003
Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2003 - Amends title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to reauthorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to award state family assistance grants. Authorizes States to use grants for marriage promotion activities and requires the Secretary to make bonus grants to each State that has achieved formulated employment goals. Revises: (1) requirements for the consideration of certain child care expenditures in determining State compliance with contingency fund requirements; (2) State work participation requirements, incorporating a 40-hour work week standard, and creating a State superachiever participation rate credit; and (3) requirements for the use of TANF grants. Authorizes the Secretary to establish TANF performance goals and plans. Makes appropriations for research, demonstrations, and technical assistance. Repeals waiver continuation authority. Promotion and Support of Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage Act of 2003 - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to authorize the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit community entities for demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of various approaches to create a Fatherhood Program. Permits States the option to make TANF programs mandatory partners with one-stop employment training centers. Caring for Children Act of 2003 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to specify consumer education information States are required to collect and disseminate. Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to income tax benefits. Reauthorizes funding for State child care entitlement programs and revises State requirements for child support payments. Amends: (1) SSA title XI (General Provisions) to eliminate specified limitations on the Secretary's authority to approve demonstration projects and grant waivers; and (2) SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to require the Commissioner of Social Security to review State agency blindness and disability determinations. Authorizes the administering Secretary to authorize innovative State demonstration projects involving individual programs, or integrating multiple public assistance, employment security, and other programs to support working families. Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the Secretary to establish a program to make grants to States to provide food assistance and funds to operate employment and training programs for needy individuals. Extends abstinence education funding and reauthorizes transitional medical assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 2003
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until February 20, 2003, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 2003
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until February 14, 2003, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 2003
Investment in America Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the credit for increasing research activities. Increases the alternative incremental credit rates. Provides an alternative credit for qualified research expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 2003
Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act - Shields the manufacturer, distributor, or seller of a food or non-alcoholic beverage product intended for human consumption from civil liability, relating to consumption of such products, in Federal or State court, unless the plaintiff proves that the product was not in compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements at the time of sale.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 2003
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until February 7, 2003, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 2003
Congratulates the World Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers for their victory in Super Bowl XXXVII.
United States · United States Congress · 8 January 2003
Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2003 - Permits retired members of the armed forces with service-connected disabilities to be paid both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation. Repeals provisions providing for special compensation for certain severely disabled military retirees and certain combat-related disabled uniformed services retirees.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 2003
Community Choice in Real Estate Act - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, and the Revised Statutes of the United States, to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, from determining that real estate brokerage activity or real estate management activity is financial in nature, is incidental to any financial activity, or is complementary to a financial activity. (In effect, prohibits financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities.) Exempts from such prohibition: (1) activities of a bank holding company (or any affiliate) that directly relate to managing any real property owned by national banks or their affiliates; and (2) the right, power, or ability of any financial holding company to engage in any activity, or acquire or retain the shares of any company engaged in an activity authorized for financial holding companies on December 6, 2001 ("grandfather clause").
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 2003
Provides that the remarriage of the surviving spouse of a veteran after age 55 shall not bar the payment of veterans' dependency and indemnity compensation to which such spouse was previously entitled.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 2003
Constitutional Amendment - Grants Congress power to prohibit the physical desecration of the U.S. flag.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 2003
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until January 31, 2003, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 2003
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until January 31, 2003, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 2002
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until January 11, 2003, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 2002
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until November 22, 2002, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 2002
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until October 18, 2002, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 2002
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until November 22, 2002, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 2002
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until November 22, 2002, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 2002
Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Iraq - Expresses support for the President's efforts to: (1) strictly enforce through the United Nations Security Council all relevant Security Council resolutions applicable to Iraq; and (2) obtain prompt and decisive action by the Security Council to ensure that Iraq abandons its strategy of delay, evasion, and noncompliance and promptly and strictly complies with all relevant Security Council resolutions. Authorizes the President to use the U.S. armed forces to: (1) defend U.S. national security against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and (2) enforce all relevant Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq. Directs the President, prior to or as soon as possible (but no later than 48 hours) after exercising such authority, to make available to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate his determination that: (1) reliance on further diplomatic or peaceful means alone will not achieve the above purposes; and (2) acting pursuant to this resolution is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Declares that this section is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization for use of the armed forces, consistent with requirements of the War Powers Resolution. Requires the President to report to Congress at least every 60 days on matters relevant to this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 2002
Amends Public Law 107-229 to extend until October 11, 2002, specified continuing appropriations for FY 2003.
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 · 25 September 2002
Christopher Reeve Paralysis Act - Permits the Director of the National Institutes of Health (the "Director" of NIH), acting through the Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, to expand and coordinate the activities of NIH with respect to research on paralysis. Allows the Director to award grants to public or nonprofit entities to fund Christopher Reeve Paralysis Research Consortia for paralysis research. Permits the Director to solicit public input regarding paralysis research programs. Allows the Director, acting through the Director of the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development and the National Center for Rehabilitation Research and in collaboration with other agencies, to expand and coordinate the activities of NIH with respect to research with implications for enhancing daily function for persons with paralysis. Permits the Director to make grants to multicenter networks of clinical sites that will collaborate on rehabilitation intervention protocols. Permits the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to study the unique health challenges associated with paralysis and other physical disabilities to improve the quality of life and long-term health status of individuals with such conditions. Allows the Secretary to undertake direct research and to make grants. Provides for the formation of a national paralysis and physical disability quality of life plan, a hospital-based paralysis registry, and a Comprehensive Paralysis and Other Physical Disability Quality of Life Program. Allows the Secretary to convene a working group for coordinating paralysis research, public health, and rehabilitation training at the Federal level.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2002
Makes continuing appropriations for FY 2003. Appropriates amounts for continuing, at the current rate of operations, projects or activities which were conducted in FY 2002 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority was made available in: (1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002; (2) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002; (3) the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2002; (4) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2002; (5) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2002; (6) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2002; (7) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002; (8) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002; (9) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2002; (10) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2002; (11) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002; (12) the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2002; and (13) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002. Provides funding under this resolution until enactment into law of any covered appropriation or the applicable appropriations Act (without any provision for the covered appropriation) or October 4, 2002, whichever occurs first. Authorizes continuation of other specified activities through such date.
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
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003 - Makes appropriations for FY 2003 to the Department of Labor for: (1) the Employment and Training Administration, training and employment services; (2) community service employment for older Americans; (3) Federal unemployment benefits and allowances; (4) State unemployment insurance and employment service operations; (5) advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and other trust funds; (6) administration of employment and training programs, including welfare-to-work grants; (7) the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration; (8) the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (9) the Employment Standards Administration; (10) certain special benefits; (11) the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program; (12) the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (13) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (14) the Mine Safety and Health Administration; (15) the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (16) the Office of Disability Employment Policy; (17) departmental management; (18) veterans employment and training; and (19) the Office of Inspector General. Makes appropriations for FY 2003 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for: (1) the Health Resources and Services Administration; (2) health education assistance loans; (3) the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Trust Fund; (4) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP); (5) the National Institutes of Health (NIH); (6) the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; (7) the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality; (8) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, for grants to States for Medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, and the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund; (9) the Administration for Children and Families for payments to States for child support enforcement and family support programs, low income home energy assistance, refugee and entrant assistance, payments to States for child care and development block grants, social services block grants, children and families services programs, promoting safe and stable families, and payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance; (10) the Administration on Aging; (11) the Office of the Secretary, for general departmental management; (12) the Office of Inspector General; (13) the Office for Civil Rights; (14) policy research; (15) medical benefits for Public Health Service commissioned officers, and medical care for dependents and retired personnel; (16) health facilities construction and management funds for CDCP and NIH; and (17) the public health and social services emergency fund, for expenses related to countering potential biological, disease, and chemical threats to civilian populations. Makes appropriations for FY 2003 to the Department of Education for: (1) education for the disadvantaged; (2) impact aid; (3) school improvement programs; (4) Indian education; (5) English language acquisition; (6) special education; (7) rehabilitation services and disability research; (8) certain special institutions for persons with disabilities; (9) vocational and adult education; (10) certain student financial assistance programs; (11) specified higher education programs; (12) Howard University; (13) the college housing and academic facilities loans program; (14) the historically Black college and university capital financing program account; (15) education research, statistics, and assessment; (16) departmental management; (17) the Office for Civil Rights; (18) the Office of the Inspector General; and (19) student aid administration. Makes appropriations for FY 2003 to the: (1) Armed Forces Retirement Home; (2) Corporation for National and Community Service; (3) Corporation for Public Broadcasting; (4) Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (5) Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; (6) Institute of Museum and Library Services; (7) Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; (8) National Council on Disability; (9) National Labor Relations Board; (10) National Mediation Board; (11) Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (12) Railroad Retirement Board; (13) Social Security Administration; and (14) U.S. Institute of Peace. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 2002
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain property on Egmont Key, Florida, to the State of Florida, contingent on the land being used for a State park. Requires Florida to continue to preserve and manage wildlife on Egmont Key as part of the agreement. Allows the Secretary to require additional terms and conditions as deemed appropriate, except that the Secretary may not require Florida to restore or preserve any historic resource on the land conveyed. Requires the Secretary to provide written notification to Florida regarding any impending reversion of the land for a breaching of the terms of the conveyance, and allow Florida to take corrective action.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 2002
Designates the U.S. Post Office building located at 3135 First Avenue North in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the William C. Cramer Post Office Building.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 2002
2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for the Department of Defense - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 2002 for: (1) military personnel, Air Force; (2) operation and maintenance for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and defense-wide; (3) the Defense Emergency Response Fund; (4) procurement for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and defense-wide; and (5) research, development, test and evaluation for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and defense-wide. Permits the use of appropriated funds available for the V-22 to meet unique requirements of the Special Operations Forces. Authorizes the President to continue to provide assistance to Russia under cooperative threat reduction programs and the Freedom Support Act under an alternative certification requirement if such assistance is vital to U.S. national security interests. Authorizes the use of certain FY 2002 Department of Defense (DOD) funds for: (1) additional costs of international inspectors under chemical demilitarization programs; and (2) narcotics trafficking interdiction and anti-terrorism activities in Colombia. Appropriates funds for: (1) procurement of three MH-47 Chinook helicopters; and (2) chemical agent destruction at DOD facilities in Aberdeen, Maryland, and Newport, Indiana. Rescinds $59 million of procurement funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOD. Earmarks $100 million from the Defense Emergency Response Fund to reimburse foreign nations for goods, services, or use of facilities provided in direct support of U.S. military operations in the global war on terrorism (requiring notification of the congressional appropriations committees).
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 2002
District of Columbia Student Opportunity Scholarship Act of 2002 - Authorizes the establishment of the District of Columbia Scholarship Corporation as a private, nonprofit corporation to administer, publicize, and evaluate a District scholarship program and determine elementary and secondary student and school eligibility. Establishes a District of Columbia Scholarship Fund, to be administered by the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides for a seven-member Corporation Board of Directors, with six members appointed by the President from House and Senate nominees, and one member appointed by the District Mayor. Authorizes the Corporation to award tuition scholarships and enhanced achievement scholarships to District students in kindergarten through grade 12 with family incomes not exceeding 185 percent of the national poverty line. Allows scholarships to be used for tuition, fees, and appropriate transportation to public, private, or independent schools (or beyond-school-hours enhancement programs) in the District and specified neighboring counties and cities in Maryland and Virginia. Requires the following order of scholarship award priorities to students who: (1) have received such a scholarship in a previous year (in the program's second and subsequent years); (2) District school or kindergarten enrollees; (3) victims of school violence; and (4) other eligible students. Requires use of a lottery whenever amounts are insufficient to provide a scholarship for each student in one of these categories. Directs the Comptroller General to study and report on the District scholarship program. Provides for expedited judicial review of challenges to such program.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 2002
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Pledge of Allegiance, including the phrase "One Nation, under God," reflects the historical fact that a belief in God permeated the founding and development of our Nation; (2) the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals's ruling is inconsistent with the U.S. Supreme Court's First Amendment jurisprudence that the Pledge and similar expressions are not unconstitutional expressions of religious belief; (3) such phrase should remain in the Pledge; and (4) the Ninth Circuit should agree to rehear this ruling en banc in order to reverse this constitutionally infirm and historically incorrect ruling.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 2002
Urges the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee to recommend to the Postmaster General that a commemorative postage stamp be issued by the U.S. Postal Service each year in honor of Veterans Day.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 2002
2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery From and Response To Terrorist Attacks on the United States - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 2002 for: (1) the Department of Agriculture; (2) the Department of Health and Human Services for the Food and Drug Administration; (3) the Department of Justice; (4) the Department of Commerce and related agencies; (5) the Judiciary; (6) the Department of State and related agency; (7) the Securities and Exchange Commission; (8) the Department of Defense; (9) the District of Columbia; (10) the Department of Defense (civil); (11) the Department of Energy; (12) bilateral economic assistance (including the Agency for International Development); (13) military assistance; (14) multilateral economic assistance; (15) the Department of the Interior and the Smithsonian Institution; (16) the Department of Labor; (17) the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health; (18) the Department of Education; (19) the Legislative Branch; (20) the Department of Defense (military construction); (21) the Department of Transportation; (22) Department of the Treasury; (23) the Postal Service Fund; (24) Executive Office of the President and Funds Appropriated to the President; (25) Federal Election Commission; (26) the General Services Administration; (27) the Department of Veterans Affairs; (28) the Department of Housing and Urban Development; (29) the Department of Health and Human Services; (30) the Environmental Protection Agency; and (31) the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Makes specified budget rescissions. Limits the availability of certain supplemental appropriations to the extent they are designated as emergency requirements as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and transmitted by the President to Congress and/or are designated as such by Congress. American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2002 - Prohibits U.S. cooperation with the International Criminal Court, including a prohibition on transferring classified national security and law enforcement information. Restricts participation in certain United Nations peacekeeping operations and prohibits military assistance to parties to the International Criminal Court. Authorizes the President to waive such restriction and prohibition, as specified. Authorizes the President to use all means necessary to bring about the release of covered U.S. persons and covered allied persons held captive by, on behalf, or at the request of the Court. Urges an evaluation of U.S. military alliances to determine the degree of risk faced by members of the U.S. armed forces if placed under the command or operational control of foreign military officers subject to the jurisdiction of the Court. Authorizes the withholding and redirection of U.S. assessments to the United Nations or other international organizations as specified. Sets forth the relationship between the President's exercise of his constitutional authority as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, this Act, and actions taken with respect to a specific matters involving the Court, including congressional notification requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 2002
Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2002 - Amends title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to reauthorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to award state family assistance grants. Authorizes States to use grants for marriage promotion activities and requires the Secretary to make bonus grants to each state that has achieved formulated employment goals. Revises requirements for the consideration of certain child care expenditures in determining State compliance with contingency fund requirements. Revises State work participation requirements, incorporating a 40-hour work week standard, and creating a State superachiever participation rate credit. Revises requirements for the use of TANF grants. Repeals the Secretary's authority to make loans to State welfare programs and revises State work participation requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to establish TANF performance goals and plans. Makes appropriations for research, demonstrations, and technical assistance. Repeals waiver continuation authority. Promotion and Support of Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage Act of 2002 - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act to authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit community entities for demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of various approaches to create a Fatherhood Program. Permits States the option to make TANF programs mandatory partners with one-stop employment training centers. Caring for Children Act of 2002 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to specify consumer education information States are required to collect and disseminate. Amends income tax benefits and reporting requirements. Reauthorizes funding for State child care entitlement programs and revises State requirements for child support payments. Amends SSA title XI (General Provisions) to eliminate specified limitations on the Secretary's authority to approve demonstration projects and grant waivers. Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to require the Commissioner of Social Security to review State agency blindness and disability determinations. Authorizes the administering Secretary to authorize innovative State demonstration projects involving individual programs, or integrating multiple public assistance, employment security, and other programs to support working families. Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the Secretary to establish a program to make grants to States to provide food assistance and funds to operate employment and training programs for needy individuals. Extends abstinence education funding and reauthorizes transitional medical assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 2002
Combat Pay for Combat Risk Act of 2002 - Dictates that a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is entitled to special pay for being subject to hostile fire or imminent danger as part of Operation Enduring Freedom (or any successor operation) shall be treated in the same manner as if the individual were in a combat zone for the following provisions of the Internal Revenue Code: (1) those relating to the special rule where a deceased spouse was missing in action; (2) those pertaining to exclusion of certain combat pay for soldiers; (3) those relating to income taxes of members of the Armed Forces upon death; (4) those pertaining to members of the Armed Forces dying in combat zone or by reason of wounds suffered in the combat zone; (5) those defining wages relating to combat pay (to apply to remuneration paid after the passage of the Act); (6) those dealing with taxation of phone service for soldiers from a combat zone; (7) those pertaining to a joint tax return where an individual is missing in action; and (8) those relating to time for performing certain acts postponed due to service in a combat zone.