2003-02-27 H.R. 2: Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 2003-02-27 H.R. 2: Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 Public contracts Administrative procedure Government service contracts Authorization Medical care Income tax Tax administration Tax exclusion Tax exemption Minimum tax Fines (Penalties) Fraud Government paperwork Injunctions Disaster relief Floods Livestock Tax deferral Budgets Business Congress Depreciation and amortization Executive departments Government information Minorities Profit Taxation Trade Damages Economic policy Agriculture Child support Children Civil rights Collection of accounts Disabled Discrimination in employment Education Elementary and secondary education Emergency management Energy Families Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to education Governmental investigations Grants-in-aid Health policy Higher education Infrastructure Job training Labor Law Natural resources Technology Welfare Whistle blowing Finance Foreign corporations Insurance companies International finance Holding companies Appropriations Indexing (Economic policy) State and local government Commemorations Indian medical care Politics and government Historic sites History Medicine Claims Customs administration Department of the Treasury Limitation of actions Trademarks Virgin Islands Trusts and trustees Intellectual property Small business Immigration Criminal justice Illegal aliens Copyright Alcoholic beverages Computer software Patents Wine Health insurance Animals Corporation directors Water resources Tax returns Taxpayers Casualty insurance Housing Low-income housing Property insurance Stocks Actions and defenses Firearms Cost of living adjustments Pensions Residential rehabilitation Insurance premiums Corporation taxes Debtor and creditor Excise tax Interest Punitive damages Tax rates Sunset legislation User charges Medical education Visas Aged Day care Federal aid to child health services Medicaid Public health personnel Scholarships Student loan funds Vaccines Food Earnings Tax deductions Bonds Gifts Transportation Puerto Rico Age discrimination Confidential communications Legal fees Tax credits Adoption Foster home care Capital gains tax Timber sales Charitable contributions Citizenship Federal aid to transportation Gambling Sports Earned income tax credit Tax preparers Missing children Americans in foreign countries Disability evaluation Married people Tax refunds Withholding tax Tax-deferred compensation plans Guam Northern Mariana Islands Ammunition Infrastructure (Economics) Federal aid to health facilities Tax-exempt organizations American Samoa Executive compensation Bank accounts Bankruptcy Custody of children Divorce Life insurance Tax penalties Blind Taxation of foreign income Housing for the aged Intergovernmental fiscal relations Mortgage guaranty insurance Reinsurance Sex discrimination Droughts Foreign tax credit Tax-exempt securities Free ports and zones Options (Contract) Partnerships Real estate investment trusts Retiree health benefits Valuation Dividends Stockholders Agricultural cooperatives Corporate debt Foreign banks and banking Losses Compensation for victims of crime Retail trade Kidnapping Corporate mergers Discrimination Agricultural education Affiliated corporations Tax evasion Beer Internal revenue law Gasoline Polygraphs Diesel motor Corporate reorganizations Medically uninsured Support of dependents Students Basketball Football Emergency medicine Separation (Law) Baseball Computer industry Cooperative societies Mutual funds State budgets Alcohol tax Sheltered workshops Corporate governance Tax shelters Wholesale trade Hepatitis Instalment plan Tax liens Expatriation Insider trading in securities Investors Horse racing Welfare eligibility Civil rights enforcement Federal mandates Chief executive officers Discrimination against the disabled Poor children Taxpayer compliance Defined benefit pension plans Federal aid to law enforcement Employment of the disabled Welfare waivers Discrimination in education enacted H.R. 2: To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2004. Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. 2003-02-27 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. 2003-05-06 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 24 - 15. 2003-05-06 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 108-94. 2003-05-08T16:10:00-04:00 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 49. 2003-05-08T16:11:00-04:00 Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 227 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2 with 1 hour of general debate. Rule provides for debate in the House equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means. The amendment recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means now printed in the bill (H.Rept. 108-94) shall be considered as adopted. The rule waives all points of order against the bill, as amended, and against its consideration. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. 2003-05-08T22:00:00-04:00 Rule H. Res. 227 passed House. 2003-05-09T11:20:00-04:00 Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 227. 2003-05-09T11:21:00-04:00 Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2 with 1 hour of general debate. Rule provides for debate in the House equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means. The amendment recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means now printed in the bill (H.Rept. 108-94) shall be considered as adopted. The rule waives all points of order against the bill, as amended, and against its consideration. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. 2003-05-09T11:21:00-04:00 DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 2. 2003-05-09T11:22:00-04:00 The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. 2003-05-09T13:18:00-04:00 Mr. Rangel moved to recommit with instructions to Ways and Means. 2003-05-09T13:19:00-04:00 Floor summary: READING OF MOTION - The House proceeded with the reading of the proposed amendment in the nature of a substitute contained in the motion to recommit. 2003-05-09T13:20:00-04:00 Subsequently, unanimous consent was granted to dispense with further reading of the motion to recommit with instructions. 2003-05-09T13:32:00-04:00 Mr. Thomas raised a point of order against the motion to recommit with instructions. The provisions of the motion to recommit with instructions are not germane. Sustained by the Chair. 2003-05-09T13:33:00-04:00 Point of order sustained against the motion to recommit with instructions. 2003-05-09T13:33:00-04:00 Mr. Rangel appealed the ruling of the chair. The question was then put on sustaining the ruling of the chair. 2003-05-09T13:34:00-04:00 Mr. Thomas moved to table the appeal of the ruling of the Chair. 2003-05-09T13:34:00-04:00 On motion to table the appeal of the ruling of the Chair Agreed to by recorded vote: 222 - 202 (Roll No. 180). 2003-05-09T13:50:00-04:00 Mr. Moore moved to recommit with instructions to Ways and Means. 2003-05-09T13:50:00-04:00 Floor summary: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Moore motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment that provides that the bill's provisions will not take effect until the Federal budget is in balance. 2003-05-09T13:51:00-04:00 The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. 2003-05-09T13:58:00-04:00 On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 202 - 218 (Roll no. 181). 2003-05-09T14:14:00-04:00 pass On passage Passed by recorded vote: 222 - 203 (Roll no. 182). 2003-05-09T14:30:00-04:00 The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection. 2003-05-09T14:30:00-04:00 Received in the Senate. 2003-05-12 Senate struck all after the Enacting Clause and substituted the language of S.1054 amended. 2003-05-15 pass Passed Senate in lieu of S.1054 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 49. Record Vote Number: 179. (consideration: CR S6474-6475; text as passed Senate: CR 5/20/2003 S6741-6786) 2003-05-15 Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Grassley; Hatch; Nickles; Lott; Baucus; Rockefeller; Breaux. 2003-05-15 Message on Senate action sent to the House. 2003-05-20 Mr. Thomas asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference. 2003-05-22T10:28:00-04:00 On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection. 2003-05-22T10:29:00-04:00 Mr. Stenholm moved that the House instruct conferees. 2003-05-22T10:29:00-04:00 DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Stenholm motion to instruct conferees. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to include in the conference report the fiscal relief provided to States by section 371 of the Senate amendment and to the maximum extent possible within the scope of conference, agree to a conference report that will neither increase the Federal budget deficit nor increase the amount of the debt subject to the public debt limit. 2003-05-22T10:29:00-04:00 The previous question was ordered without objection. 2003-05-22T11:42:00-04:00 On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by voice vote. 2003-05-22T11:43:00-04:00 The Speaker appointed conferees: Thomas, DeLay, and Rangel. 2003-05-22T11:43:00-04:00 Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement held at the desk in Senate. 2003-05-22 Conference report H. Rept. 108-126 filed. 2003-05-22T20:44:00-04:00 Conferees agreed to file conference report. 2003-05-22 Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 253 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 2. 2003-05-22T22:45:00-04:00 Rule H. Res. 253 passed House. 2003-05-23T00:07:00-04:00 Mr. Thomas brought up conference report H. Rept. 108-126 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 253. 2003-05-23T00:08:00-04:00 DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report. 2003-05-23T00:08:00-04:00 The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. 2003-05-23T01:38:00-04:00 Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. 2003-05-23T01:55:00-04:00 On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 231 - 200 (Roll no. 225). 2003-05-23T01:55:00-04:00 Conference report considered in Senate. 2003-05-23 Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 50. Record Vote Number: 196. 2003-05-23 Message on Senate action sent to the House. 2003-05-23 Cleared for White House. 2003-05-23 Presented to President. 2003-05-23 Signed by President. 2003-05-28 Became Public Law No: 108-27. 2003-05-28 H.Res. 253: 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. (108th Congress) H.Res. 253: 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. S. 1054: Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (108th Congress) S. 1054: Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 H.Res. 227: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax incentives to encourage economic growth. (108th Congress) H.Res. 227: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional tax incentives to encourage economic growth. S. 2: Jobs and Growth Reconciliation Tax Act of 2003 (108th Congress) S. 2: Jobs and Growth Reconciliation Tax Act of 2003 108 H.R. 2: Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (108th Congress) 2 h To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2004. HouseBill LegislativeAction VoteAction OfficialTitle