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List Of United States Federal Legislation, 2001–present
This is a chronological list of United States federal legislation passed by the 107th and subsequent United States Congresses, starting in 2001. It includes links to articles on major legislation. For comprehensive lists, see the lists of acts passed by each Congress. For the main article on this subject, see List of United States federal legislation. Additional lists can be found at List of United States federal legislation: Congress of the Confederation, List of United States federal legislation, 1789–1901 and List of United States federal legislation, 1901–2001. 107th United States Congress * June 7, 2001: Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, , * September 18, 2001: Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001, , * October 26, 2001: Patriot Act, , * November 19, 2001: Aviation and Transportation Security Act, , * December 21, 2001: Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, , * January 8, 2002: No Child Left Behind Act, , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of United States Federal Legislation
This is a chronological, but still incomplete, list of United States federal legislation. Congress has enacted approximately 200–600 statutes during each of its 119 biennial terms so more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789. At the Federal government of the United States, federal level in the United States, legislation (i.e., "statutes" or "statutory law") consists exclusively of Act of Congress, Acts passed by the Congress of the United States and its predecessor, the Continental Congress, that were either signed into law by the President of the United States, President or passed by Congress after a List of U.S. presidential vetoes, presidential veto. Legislation is not the only source of regulations with the Statutory law, force of law. However, most executive branch and judicial branch regulations must originate in a congressional grant of power. ''See also'': List of United States federal executive orders, Executive orders issued by the President; ''Code of Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Authorization For Use Of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution Of 2002
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002,Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 () informally known as the Iraq Resolution, is a joint resolution passed by the in October 2002 as |
Fair And Accurate Credit Transactions Act
The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT Act or FACTA, ) is a U.S. federal law, passed by the United States Congress on November 22, 2003, and signed by President George W. Bush on December 4, 2003, as an amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The act allows consumers to request and obtain a free credit report once every 12 months from each of the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion). In cooperation with the Federal Trade Commission, the three major credit reporting agencies set up the web site AnnualCreditReport.com to provide free access to annual credit reports. The act also contains provisions to help reduce identity theft, such as the ability for individuals to place alerts on their credit histories if identity theft is suspected, or if deploying overseas in the military, thereby making fraudulent applications for credit more difficult. Further, it requires secure disposal of consumer informati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (, , ''(HTML)''; * ttp://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_bills&docid=f:h760rh.txt.pdf same from the U.S. Government Printing Office ''(PDF)'' PBA Ban) is a prohibiting a form of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Check 21 Act
The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (or Check 21 Act) is a United States federal law, , that was enacted on October 28, 2003 by the 108th U.S. Congress. The Check 21 Act took effect one year later on October 28, 2004. The law allows the recipient of a paper check to create a digital version of the original, a process known as check truncation, into an electronic format called a "substitute check", thereby eliminating the need for further handling of the physical document. The recipient bank no longer returns the paper check but electronically transmits an image of both sides of the check to the bank it is drawn upon. Consumers are most likely to see the effects of this act when they notice that certain checks (or images thereof) are no longer being returned to them with their monthly statement, even though other checks are still being returned. Another effect of the law is that it is now legal for anyone to use a computer scanner or mobile phone to capture images of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prison Rape Elimination Act Of 2003
The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) is the first United States federal law intended to deter the sexual assault of prisoners. The bill was signed into law on September 4, 2003. Background Public awareness of prison rape is relatively recent and estimates of its prevalence vary widely. In 1974, Carl Weiss and David James Friar wrote that 46 million Americans would one day be incarcerated; of that number, they claimed, 10 million would be raped. A 1992 estimate from the Federal Bureau of Prisons estimated that between 9 and 20 percent of inmates had been sexually assaulted. Studies in 1982 and 1996 both concluded that the rate was somewhere between 12 and 14 percent. A 1986 study by Daniel Lockwood put the number at around 23 percent for maximum security prisons in New York. In contrast, in Christine Saum's 1994 survey of 101 inmates, only five admitted to have had been sexually assaulted. In 2001, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a paper called '' No Escape: Male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jobs And Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act Of 2003
The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 ("JGTRRA", , ), was passed by the United States Congress on May 23, 2003, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on May 28, 2003. Nearly all of the cuts (individual rates, capital gains, dividends, estate tax) were set to expire after 2010. Among other provisions, the act accelerated certain tax changes passed in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, increased the exemption amount for the individual Alternative Minimum Tax, and lowered taxes of income from dividends and capital gains. The 2001 and 2003 acts are known together as the " Bush tax cuts". Description of cuts JGTRRA continued on the precedent established by the 2001 EGTRRA, while increasing tax reductions on investment income from dividends and capital gains. Accelerated credits and rate reductions JGTRRA accelerated the gradual rate reduction and increase in credits passed in EGTRRA. The maximum tax rate decreases original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act
The Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act of 2003 is a United States federal law enacted as a rider within the PROTECT Act on April 30, 2003. A substantially similar Act was proposed during the previous Congress as the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act ( RAVE Act). Provisions The Act modified section 416(a) of the Controlled Substances Act (also known as the "crackhouse law" and codified at United States Code, ) to expand the section regarding "establishment of manufacturing operations", which previously outlawed maintaining, managing or owning any place used to manufacture, distribute or use drugs to include temporary or permanent uses of the premises. The Act also created a civil penalty of $250,000 or "2 times the gross receipts, either known or estimated, that were derived from each violation that is attributable to the person", whichever was greater. Additionally, the Act recommended that the United States Sentencing Commission reconsider the then-current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PROTECT Act Of 2003
The PROTECT Act of 2003 (, 117 Stat. 650, S. 151, enacted April 30, 2003) is a United States law with the stated intent of preventing child abuse as well as investigating and prosecuting violent crimes against children. "PROTECT" is a backronym which stands for "Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today". The PROTECT Act incorporates the Truth in Domain Names Act (TDNA) of 2003 (originally two separate bills, submitted by Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressman Mike Pence), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2252(B)(b). Overview The law has the following effects: *Provides for mandatory life imprisonment of sex offenders convicted of sex offenses against a minor if the offender has had a prior conviction of abuse against a minor, with some exceptions. *Establishes a program to obtain criminal history background checks for volunteer organizations. *Authorizes wiretapping and monitoring of other communications in all cases related to child abuse or kid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
108th United States Congress
The 108th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2005, during the third and fourth years of Presidency of George W. Bush, George W. Bush's presidency. House members were elected in the 2002 United States House of Representatives elections, 2002 general election on November 5, 2002. Senators were elected in three classes in the 1998 United States Senate elections, 1998 general election on November 3, 1998, 2000 United States Senate elections, 2000 general election on November 7, 2000, or 2002 United States Senate elections, 2002 general election on November 5, 2002. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 2000 United States census. This is the most recent Congress to have a Democratic senator from South Carolina, Fritz Hollings, who retired at the end of the Cong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E-Government Act Of 2002
The E-Government Act of 2002 (, , , H.R. 2458/S. 803), is a United States statute enacted on 17 December 2002, with an effective date for most provisions of 17 April 2003. Its stated purpose is to improve the management and promotion of electronic government services and processes by establishing a Federal Chief Information Officer within the Office of Management and Budget, and by establishing a framework of measures that require using Internet-based information technology to improve citizen access to government information and services, and for other purposes. The statute includes within it * FISMA (the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002) as Title III, and * CIPSEA (the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act) as Title V. Provisions * ''To provide effective leadership of Federal Government efforts to develop and promote electronic Government services and processes by establishing an Administrator of a new Office of Electronic Gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
