Budget

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to authorize the line item veto.

United States · United States Congress · 16 June 2003

Constitutional Amendment - Authorizes the President, in the case of any bill, order, resolution, or vote presented to the President by the House of Representatives and the Senate, to decline to approve in whole any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority, any item of new direct spending, or any tax benefit.

Kapitalmarktgesetz, Änderung

Austria · National Council · 13 June 2003

Antrag der Abgeordneten Mag. Johann Maier, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Kapitalmarktgesetz geändert wird

Verbesserung der Prospektpflicht (Publizitätsvorschriften) im Investmentfondsgesetz (InvFG)

Austria · National Council · 13 June 2003

Antrag der Abgeordneten Mag. Johann Maier, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Verbesserung der Prospektpflicht (Publizitätsvorschriften) im Investmentfondsgesetz (InvFG)

Maßnahmen gegen den zunehmenden Flugverkehr über Vorarlberg

Austria · National Council · 12 June 2003

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Anna Franz, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Maßnahmen gegen den zunehmenden Flugverkehr über Vorarlberg

Jugendförderung und Österreichischer Pennälerring

Austria · National Council · 12 June 2003

Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Dieter Brosz, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Einstellung der Förderung aus der Bundes-Jugendförderung an den Österreichischen Pennälerring

Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 22) proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 12 June 2003

Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.J. Res. 22 (balanced budget amendment).

Datenschutz bei Versicherungen

Austria · National Council · 11 June 2003

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Johann Maier, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundeskanzler betreffend Datenschutz bei Versicherungen

Datenschutz bei Versicherungen

Austria · National Council · 11 June 2003

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Johann Maier, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Finanzen betreffend Datenschutz bei Versicherungen

Verkauf der bundeseigenen Wohnungen

Austria · National Council · 11 June 2003

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Gabriela Moser, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Finanzen betreffend Verkauf der bundeseigenen Wohnungen

Budgetbegleitgesetz 2003

Austria · National Council · 11 June 2003

Budgetbegleitgesetz 2003

Austria · National Council · 11 June 2003

Budgetbegleitgesetz 2003

Austria · National Council · 11 June 2003

Budgetbegleitgesetz 2003

Austria · National Council · 11 June 2003

Budgetbegleitgesetz 2003

Austria · National Council · 11 June 2003

Budgetbegleitgesetz 2003

Austria · National Council · 11 June 2003

Budgetbegleitgesetz 2003

Austria · National Council · 11 June 2003

Zusatzantrag der Abgeordneten Dr. Alfred Gusenbauer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen gem. § 84 Abs. 2 GOG auf Volksabstimmung über den Gesetzesbeschluss des Nationalrates betreffend das Budgetbegleitgesetz 2003 nach Beendigung des Verfahrens gem. Art. 42 B-VG, jedoch vor Beurkundung durch den Bundespräsidenten (59/111 d.B.)

Homeland Security Geographic Information Act of 2004

United States · United States Congress · 11 June 2003

Directs the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish and carry out a program to provide for the efficient use of geospatial information, which shall include: (1) providing such geospatial information as may be necessary to implement the critical infrastructure protection programs; (2) providing leadership in meeting the requirements of, and populating the databases used by, those responsible for planning, prevention, mitigation, assessment and response to emergencies, critical infrastructure and other DHS functions; and (3) assuring interoperability and preventing unnecessary duplication of geospatial information among all users. Includes among the Chief Information Officer's responsibilities: (1) managing DHS geospatial information needs and activities; (2) establishing standards to assure the interoperability of geospatial information pertaining to homeland security among all users of such information within DHS, other agencies, State and local government, and the private sector; (3) coordinating with and providing liaison to the Federal Geographic Data Committee and carrying out DHS's responsibilities pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-16 and Executive Order 12906; (4) providing grants to fund data creation and to execute information sharing agreements with State, local, and tribal governments; and (5) ensuring that DHS utilizes available commercial geospatial data and services by awarding contracts to entities in the private sector.

Paperwork and Regulatory Improvements Act of 2004

United States · United States Congress · 11 June 2003

Paperwork and Regulatory Improvements Act of 2003 - Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act to require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in minimizing the Federal information collection burden, to assign the equivalent of at least two full-time staffers to review the burden on the public imposed by the Internal Revenue Service. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal specified exemptions from Paperwork Reduction Act requirements and certain other rulemaking requirements. Amends the Truth in Regulating Act of 2000 to make permanent the authority of a chairman or ranking member of a congressional committee to request the Comptroller General to perform a regulatory analysis of an economically significant rule upon agency publication. Amends the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001 to: (1) instruct the Director of OMB to require each agency annually to submit an estimate of the total annual costs and benefits of Federal rules and paperwork for the agency and each agency program for the fiscal year of submission and each of the four succeeding fiscal years and for the current fiscal year and the prior fiscal year; and (2) include such accounting statement and associated report as part of the Federal budget submitted to the President, in a form that allows direct comparison of the budget for Government activities and functions with the costs and benefits to the public of associated Federal rules and paperwork. Requires the Director to designate at least five agencies as pilot projects in regulatory budgeting for FY 2006 and 2007. Includes the regulatory budgets of the designated agencies as an alternative budget presentation in the Government's budget for FY 2007.

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004

United States · United States Congress · 11 June 2003

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency; (2) Department of Defense; (3) Defense Intelligence Agency; (4) National Security Agency; (5) National Reconnaissance Office; (6) National Imagery and Mapping Agency; (7) Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; (8) Departments of State, the Treasury, Energy, and Justice; (9) Federal Bureau of Investigation; (10) Department of Homeland Security; and (11) Coast Guard. Specifies that the amounts authorized and the authorized personnel ceilings as of September 30, 2004, for such activities are those specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations, which shall be made available to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees and the President. Allows the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to authorize employment of civilian personnel in excess of the number authorized for FY 2004 (by not more than two percent) when necessary to the performance of important intelligence functions. Requires notification of the congressional intelligence committees. Authorizes appropriations for the Intelligence Community Management Account for FY 2004, as well as for full-time personnel for elements within such Account. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund. Specifies that the authorization of appropriations by this Act shall not be deemed to constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity which is not otherwise permitted by the Constitution or laws of the United States.

Chronic Wasting Disease Task Force Establishment Act of 2003

United States · United States Congress · 11 June 2003

Chronic Wasting Disease Task Force Establishment Act of 2003 - Establishes the National Chronic Wasting Disease Task Force to: (1) coordinate activities to implement the National Plan (published jointly by the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture, and entitled "Plan for Assisting States, Federal Agencies, and Tribes in Managing Chronic Wasting Disease in Wild and Captive Cervids," dated June 26, 2002) in cooperation with State, regional, local, tribal, college, and university and non-governmental partners; (2) plan and host an annual national public conference to review progress made in implementing the Plan; and (3) develop an annual cross-cutting budget to specify sufficient levels of appropriations necessary to implement it.

Bundesfinanzgesetz für das Jahr 2003 samt Anlagen

Austria · National Council · 10 June 2003

Bericht des Budgetausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (60 d.B.): Bundesfinanzgesetz für das Jahr 2003 samt Anlagen

Bundesfinanzgesetz für das Jahr 2004 samt Anlagen

Austria · National Council · 10 June 2003

Bericht des Budgetausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (61 d.B.): Bundesfinanzgesetz für das Jahr 2004 samt Anlagen

Une décennie de réformes fiscales en Europe : la France à la traîne

France · Senate · 10 June 2003

Les réformes fiscales intervenues dans les pays européens au cours des années 1990

To require any amounts appropriated for Members' Representational Allowances for the House of Representatives for a session of Congress that remain after all payments are made from such Allowances for the session to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or to reduce the Federal debt.

United States · United States Congress · 10 June 2003

Requires any amounts appropriated for a Representational Allowance for a Member of the House of Representatives which remain after all payments are made under such Allowance to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or, in a session of Congress or other period for which there is no Federal budget deficit, to reduce the Federal debt.

Relief for Working Families Tax Act of 2003

United States · United States Congress · 9 June 2003

Relief for Working Families Tax Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the child care credit to: (1) make the 15 percent refundable portion of the child tax credit effective as of 2003 (currently 2005); (2) include combat pay within taxable income for refundable credit determinations; and (3) establish phased-in increases to the income threshold amounts for joint filers and for married filing separate filers (marriage penalty reduction). States that such amendments shall be subject to certain sunset provisions under the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Amends the Code to provide a uniform definition of "child." Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to extend customs user fees.

Kunstförderung des Bundes

Austria · National Council · 6 June 2003

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Andrea Kuntzl, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundeskanzler betreffend Kunstförderung des Bundes

die finanzielle und administrative Unterstützung des Österreich-Konvents

Austria · National Council · 6 June 2003

Bericht des Budgetausschusses über den Antrag 133/A der Abgeordneten Dr. Andreas Khol, Dr. Heinz Fischer, Herbert Scheibner, Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen, Kolleginnen und Kollegen über ein Bundesgesetz betreffend die finanzielle und administrative Unterstützung des Österreich-Konvents

Budgetbegleitgesetz 2003

Austria · National Council · 6 June 2003

Bericht des Budgetausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (59 d.B.): Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Bundesstatistikgesetz 2000, das Bundes-Sportförderungsgesetz, das Presseförderungsgesetz 1985, das Publizistikförderungsgesetz 1984, das KommAustria-Gesetz, das Privatfernsehgesetz, das Parteiengesetz, das Beamten-Dienstrechtsgesetz 1979, das Gehaltsgesetz 1956, das Vertragsbedienstetengesetz 1948, das Richterdienstgesetz, das Landeslehrer-Dienstrechtsgesetz 1984, das Land- und forstwirtschaftliche Landeslehrer-Dienstrechtsgesetz 1985, das Bundeslehrer-Lehrverpflichtungsgesetz, das Pensionsgesetz 1965, das Bundestheaterpensionsgesetz, das Teilpensionsgesetz, das Verfassungsgerichtshofgesetz 1953, das Bundesbahn-Pensionsgesetz, das Bundesbahngesetz 1992, das Bundesbediensteten-Sozialplangesetz, das Schülerbeihilfengesetz 1983, das Bundesgesetz über die Förderung der Erwachsenenbildung und des Volksbüchereiwesens aus Bundesmitteln, die Fernmeldegebührenordnung, das Rundfunkgebührengesetz, das ÖIAG-Gesetz 2000, das Poststrukturgesetz, das Bundeshaushaltsgesetz, das Finanzausgleichsgesetz 2001, das Katastrophenfondsgesetz, das ASFINAG-Gesetz, das Schieneninfrastrukturfinanzierungsgesetz, das Ausfuhrfinanzierungsförderungsgesetz 1981, das Ausfuhrförderungsgesetz 1981, das Bundesfinanzierungsgesetz, das Glücksspielgesetz, das Pensionskassengesetz, das Einkommensteuergesetz 1988, das Körperschaftsteuergesetz 1988, das Umgründungssteuergesetz, das Umsatzsteuergesetz 1994, das Gesundheits- und Sozialbereich-Beihilfengesetz 1996, das Bewertungsgesetz 1955, das Erbschafts- und Schenkungssteuergesetz 1955, das Investmentfondsgesetz 1993, das Kraftfahrzeugsteuergesetz 1992, das Straßenbenützungsabgabegesetz, das Normverbrauchsabgabegesetz, das Elektrizitätsabgabegesetz, das Erdgasabgabegesetz, das Energieabgabenvergütungsgesetz, das Mineralölsteuergesetz 1995, die Bundesabgabenordnung, das Abgabenverwaltungsorganisationsgesetz, das Zollrechts-Durchführungsgesetz, das Produktpirateriegesetz, das Bundesgesetz über die Bundesrechenzentrum GmbH, das Zivildienstgesetz 1986, das Gesetz betreffend die Anlegung von Eisenbahnbüchern, die Wirkung der an einer Eisenbahn eingeräumten Hypothekarrechte und die bücherliche Sicherung der Pfandrechte der Besitzer von Eisenbahn-Prioritätsobligationen (Eisenbahnbuchgesetz), das Handelsgesetzbuch, das Bundespflegegeldgesetz, das Opferfürsorgegesetz, das Behinderteneinstellungsgesetz, das Familienlastenausgleichsgesetz 1967, das Allgemeine Sozialversicherungsgesetz, das Gewerbliche Sozialversicherungsgesetz, das Bauern-Sozialversicherungsgesetz, das Beamten-Kranken- und Unfallversicherungsgesetz, das Rezeptpflichtgesetz, das Tierseuchengesetz, das Tierarzneimittelkontrollgesetz, die Straßenverkehrsordnung 1960, das Innovations- und Technologiefondsgesetz, das Forschungs- und Technologieförderungsgesetz, das Arbeitslosenversicherungsgesetz 1977, das Arbeitsmarktpolitik-Finanzierungsgesetz, das Arbeitsmarktservicegesetz, das Insolvenz-Entgeltsicherungsgesetz, das Karenzgeldgesetz, das Arbeitsverfassungsgesetz, das Bundesimmobiliengesetz und das Marchfeldschlösser-Gesetz geändert, ein Bundesgesetz über die Leistung eines besonderen Erstattungsbetrages anlässlich der Aufnahme in ein Dienstverhältnis zum Fürstentum Liechtenstein als Richter oder Staatsanwalt, ein Luftfahrtentschädigungsgesetz, ein Bundesgesetz über die Vergütung von Steuern an ausländische Vertretungsbehörden und ihre im diplomatischen und berufskonsularischen Rang stehenden Mitglieder (Internationales Steuervergütungsgesetz - IStVG), ein Kohleabgabegesetz; ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem vorübergehende Maßnahmen im Bereich des Strafaufschubs getroffen werden, und ein Bundesgesetz über den Nachkauf von Luftraumüberwachungsflugzeugen erlassen werden sowie das Bundesgesetz über den Beirat für die Statistik des Außenhandels beim Österreichischen Statistischen Zentralamt aufgehoben wird (Budgetbegleitgesetz 2003)

Kosten der Justiz (Eigendeckungsgrad) - Erledigung der Geschäftsfälle

Austria · National Council · 4 June 2003

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Johann Maier, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Justiz betreffend Kosten der Justiz (Eigendeckungsgrad) - Erledigung der Geschäftsfälle

Group Health Plan Coverage Expansion Act of 2003

United States · United States Congress · 4 June 2003

Group Health Plan Coverage Expansion Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to direct the Secretary of Labor to establish a program to promote and facilitate expansion of coverage under group health plans. Requires administrators of employee benefit plans under ERISA to notify plan participants, in plan descriptions, of the availability of : (1) child health insurance assistance, through the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under title XXI of the Social Security Act (SSA); and (2) cash benefits for eligible elderly or disabled individuals, through Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments under title XVI of SSA. Prohibits group health plans, and health insurance issuers offering group health insurance coverage, under ERISA, from imposing: (1) any aggregate lifetime limit on benefits, including any category of benefits; or (2) any change in the premium rates charged to any participant or beneficiary to make them more than those charged to otherwise similarly situated individuals solely on the basis of a pre-existing condition. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow pension or annuity plans to make payments for premiums for continuation coverage (COBRA benefits, in reference to requirements of title X of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985) under a group health plan on behalf of a qualified beneficiary, if such COBRA benefits are subordinate to retirement benefits provided by the plan and to the qualified current retiree health liabilities of a health benefits account which is part of such plan. Amends ERISA to authorize the Secretary or a State to bring a civil action for equitable relief against a qualified individual for not maintaining substantial health insurance coverage while obtaining emergency room services. Authorizes a court to order such a defendant to maintain at least two years of substantial health insurance coverage on the patient involved.

To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund be excluded from the budget of the United States Government.

United States · United States Congress · 4 June 2003

Excludes the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund from the Federal and congressional budgets and exempts it from any general budget limitation imposed by statute on U.S. budget outlays.

Joshua B. Bolten, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, vice Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 3 June 2003

To limit the United States share of assessments for the United Nations regular budget.

United States · United States Congress · 3 June 2003

Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to bar the use of Department of State funds to pay the U.S. share of assessed contributions for the United Nations regular budget in an amount greater than the largest assessed contribution of any other permanent member country of the United Nations Security Council (currently, an amount greater than 22 percent of the total of all assessed contributions).

Immobilien-Investmentfondsgesetz; Bankwesengesetz, Investmentfondsgesetz u.a., Änderung

Austria · National Council · 2 June 2003

Bundesgesetz, mit dem ein Bundesgesetz über Immobilienfonds (Immobilien-Investmentfondsgesetz - ImmoInvFG) erlassen und mit dem das Bankwesengesetz, das Investmentfondsgesetz 1993, das Kapitalmarktgesetz, das Wertpapieraufsichtsgesetz, das Betriebliche Mitarbeitervorsorgegesetz, das Pensionskassengesetz, das Finanzmarktaufsichtsbehördengesetz, das Einkommensteuergesetz 1988 und das Körperschaftsteuergesetz 1988 geändert werden

Steigerung der Mittel für "Zukunftsinvestitionen" im Haushalt des BMBF seit 1998; Darstellung der Haushaltsbeträge im EPL 30 seit 1998 (G-SIG: 15050743)

Germany · German Bundestag · 30 May 2003

Verwertung der geschlossenen Bezirksgerichte durch die Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft mbH

Austria · National Council · 28 May 2003

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Ruth Becher, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Wirtschaft und Arbeit betreffend Verwertung der geschlossenen Bezirksgerichte durch die Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft mbH

Konsulargebührengesetz, Änderung

Austria · National Council · 28 May 2003

Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Konsulargebührengesetz 1992 geändert wird

Hochwasserschäden 2002

Austria · Federal Council · 27 May 2003

Anfrage der Bundesräte Reinhard Todt, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Finanzen betreffend Hochwasserschäden 2002

87 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has identified reductions in his Department in light of the decision announced in the budget to seek a reduction of 5,000 positions in the public service. [14429/03]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2003

87 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has identified reductions in his Department in light of the decision announced in the budget to seek a reduction of 5,000 positions in the public service. [14429/03]

87 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has identified reductions in his Department in light of the decision announced in the budget to seek a reduction of 5,000 positions in the public service. [14429/03]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 May 2003

87 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has identified reductions in his Department in light of the decision announced in the budget to seek a reduction of 5,000 positions in the public service. [14429/03]

Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament - Proposal for basic acts for grants currently covered by the Commission's administrative autonomy (part A of the budget) or its institutional prerogatives: general introduction

European Union · European Commission · 27 May 2003

Versicherungen bei Kunsttransporten im Ausland

Austria · National Council · 23 May 2003

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Eva Glawischnig, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für auswärtige Angelegenheiten betreffend Versicherungen bei Kunsttransporten im Ausland

Schluss mit dem Verwirrspiel um die Eurofighter

Austria · National Council · 23 May 2003

Dringliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Alfred Gusenbauer, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Landesverteidigung betreffend Schluss mit dem Verwirrspiel um die Eurofighter

Rechnungshofbericht über die Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Austria · National Council · 23 May 2003

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Gerhard Reheis, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Finanzen betreffend Rechnungshofbericht über die Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Rechnungshofbericht über die Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Austria · National Council · 23 May 2003

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Gerhard Reheis, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Wirtschaft und Arbeit betreffend Rechnungshofbericht über die Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Rechnungshofbericht über die Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Austria · National Council · 23 May 2003

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Gerhard Reheis, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur betreffend Rechnungshofbericht über die Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Finanzielle und administrative Unterstützung des Österreich-Konvents

Austria · National Council · 23 May 2003

Antrag der Abgeordneten Dr. Andreas Khol, Dr. Heinz Fischer, Herbert Scheibner, Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen, Kolleginnen und Kollegen über ein Bundesgesetz betreffend die finanzielle und administrative Unterstützung des Österreich-Konvents

National Museum of African American History and Culture Act

United States · United States Congress · 23 May 2003

National Museum of African American History and Culture Act - (Sec. 4) Establishes within the Smithsonian Institution (SI) the National Museum of African American History and Culture, to be operated as a center for scholarship and a location for museum training, public education, exhibits, and collection and study of items and materials relating to the life, art, history, and culture of African Americans that encompass the period of slavery, the era of reconstruction, the Harlem renaissance, the civil rights movement, and other periods of the African American diaspora. (Sec. 5) Establishes the National Museum of African American History and Culture Council to: (1) advise and assist the SI Board of Regents on Museum planning, design, construction, operation, and budgets; and (2) have responsibility and authority with respect to the Museum's collections and work, subject to the Board of Regents' general policies. (Sec. 6) Requires the Secretary of SI to appoint a Director to manage the Museum. (Sec. 7) Establishes the Office of Education and Liaison Programs within the Museum to work with educational institutions and museums throughout the Nation. Requires the Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services to establish specified grant, scholarship, internship, and fellowship programs relating to African American museums. (Sec. 8) Directs the Board of Regents to select the Museum's site from one of four specified sites on or adjacent to the national mall. Requires the Board of Regents to pay costs of planning, design, and construction of the Museum on the chosen site as follows: 50 percent from Federal funds and 50 percent from non-Federal sources. (Sec. 9) Provides for Congressional Budget Act compliance by declaring that authority under this Act to enter into contracts or to make payments shall be effective in any fiscal year only to the extent provided in advance in an appropriations Act, except that mounts made available under section 11 of this Act shall remain available until expended. (Sec. 10) Directs the Council and the Board of Regents, in carrying out their duties under this Act, to consider the reports and plans submitted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture Plan for Action Presidential Commission under the National Museum of African American History and Culture Plan for Action Presidential Commission Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-106). (Sec. 11) Authorizes appropriations in a specified amount for FY 2004, and in necessary amounts for subsequent fiscal years.

Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 2) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2004.

United States · United States Congress · 22 May 2003

Waives points of order against the consideration of the conference report on H.R. 2 (Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003).

Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 2003

Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act - Approves the August 28, 2000, Federal programmatic Record of Decision issued by specified Federal agencies and supported by the State of California as a framework for addressing Calfed Bay-Delta Program components. Authorizes the Secretary and the heads of such agencies to carry out Stage 1 activities (projects and programs planned for the first seven years) in the following categories if such activities have been subject to environmental review and approval under Federal and State law and have been certified by the California Bay-Delta Authority to be consistent with the Record of Decision: water storage; conveyance; water use efficiency; water transfers; the Environmental Water account; integrated regional water management plans; ecosystem restoration; watersheds; water quality; levee stability; science; program management, oversight, and coordination; and diversification of water supplies. Requires the Federal agencies to: (1) coordinate their activities with specified California agencies; (2) cooperate with local and tribal governments and the public through a federally chartered advisory committee or other means; and (3) implement the Program using the best available scientific information and scientific review. Directs the Secretary: (1) to report monthly on the Authority's progress in achieving the water supply targets, environmental water account requirements, and water quality targets described in the Record and on any pending actions that may affect the Authority's ability to achieve those targets and requirements; (2) to report annually on Program implementation, expenditures, and accomplishments; (3) to certify in such annual report whether the Program is progressing in a balanced manner in advancing Program components (requires the Authority to prepare a revised implementation schedule to ensure balanced progress if balance is not certified); (4) to submit annual financial reports containing a detailed accounting of all Federal and State funds received and obligated under the Program and all projects to be carried out in the upcoming year; (5) prior to December 2004, to report to Congress on the Program's accomplishments, the specific steps remaining to be undertaken, the specific funding levels and sources to accomplish such steps, and recommendations necessary to accomplish Program goals and objectives. Requires: (1) the President's budget to include requests for an appropriate funding level for each Federal agency to carry out its Program responsibilities; and (2) the Office of Management and Budget to submit an interagency budget crosscut report displaying the budget proposed for each such agency for the Program. Prohibits the Federal share of the total cost of implementing Stage 1 from exceeding 33.3 percent.