Laws of the 108th Congress

To prohibit the offer of credit by a financial institution to a financial institution examiner, and for other purposes.

To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to extend the mental health benefits parity provisions for an additional year.

To provide for a report on the parity of pay and benefits among Federal law enforcement officers and to establish an exchange program between Federal law enforcement employees and State and local law enforcement employees.

To reauthorize the Defense Production Act of 1950, and for other purposes.

To provide assistance for poison prevention and to stabilize the funding of regional poison control centers.

To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes.

To establish the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

To amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to further the conservation of certain wildlife species.

To provide for the exchange of certain lands in the Coconino and Tonto National Forests in Arizona, and for other purposes.

To restate, clarify, and revise the Soliders' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940.

To approve the Compact of Free Association, as amended, between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Compact of Free Association, as amended, between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and to appropriate funds to carry out the amended Compacts.

To regulate interstate commerce by imposing limitations and penalties on the transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail via the Internet.

To support certain housing proposals in the fiscal year 2003 budget for the Federal Government, including the downpayment assistance initiative under the HOME Investment Partnership Act, and for other purposes.

Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2004, and for other purposes.

To establish within the Smithsonian Institution the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and for other purposes.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

To ensure that a public safety officer who suffers a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of public safety officer survivor benefits.

Appointing the day for the convening of the second session of the One Hundred Eighth Congress.

To award congressional gold medals posthumously on behalf of Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine, Harry and Eliza Briggs, and Levi Pearson in recognition of their contributions to the Nation as pioneers in the effort to desegregate public schools that led directly to the landmark desegregation case of Brown et al. v. the Board of Education of Topeka et al.

To amend the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize appropriations to provide assistance for domestic and foreign centers and programs for the treatment of victims of torture, and for other purposes.

To improve the United States Code.

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.

To amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize programs for the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.

To halt Syrian support for terrorism, end its occupation of Lebanon, and stop its development of weapons of mass destruction, and by so doing hold Syria accountable for the serious international security problems it has caused in the Middle East, and for other purposes.

To reauthorize the ban on undetectable firearms.

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary program for prescription drug coverage under the Medicare Program, to modernize the Medicare Program, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction to individuals for amounts contributed to health savings security accounts and health savings accounts, to provide for the disposition of unused health benefits in cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements, and for other purposes.

To temporarily extend the programs under the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 through March 15, 2004, and for other purposes.

To extend the national flood insurance program.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve and enhance provision of health care for veterans, to authorize major construction projects and other facilities matters for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to enhance and improve authorities relating to the administration of personnel of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

To reauthorize the United States Fire Administration, and for other purposes.

To reauthorize the National Transportation Safety Board, and for other purposes.

To authorize salary adjustments for Justices and judges of the United States for fiscal year 2004.

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 38 Spring Street in Nashua, New Hampshire, as the “Hugh Gregg Post Office Building”.

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 57 Old Tappan Road in Tappan, New York, as the “John G. Dow Post Office Building”.

To provide for availability of contact lens prescriptions to patients, and for other purposes.

To make certain technical and conforming amendments to correct the Health Care Safety Net Amendments of 2002.

To award a congressional gold medal to Dr. Dorothy Height in recognition of her many contributions to the Nation.

To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a loan repayment program regarding the provision of veterinary services in shortage situations, and for other purposes.

To reauthorize the United States Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, and for other purposes.

To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act, to prevent identity theft, improve resolution of consumer disputes, improve the accuracy of consumer records, make improvements in the use of, and consumer access to, credit information, and for other purposes.

To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to reauthorize the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and for other purposes.

To provide for Federal court proceedings in Plano, Texas.

To extend and expand the basic pilot program for employment eligibility verification, and for other purposes.

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Food and Drug Administration to require certain research into drugs used in pediatric patients.

To revise and extend the Birth Defects Prevention Act of 1998.

To authorize appropriations for nanoscience, nanoengineering, and nanotechnology research, and for other purposes.

To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain land in the State of Florida, and for other purposes.

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3210 East 10th Street in Bloomington, Indiana, as the “Francis X. McCloskey Post Office Building”.

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2650 Cleveland Avenue, NW in Canton, Ohio, as the “Richard D. Watkins Post Office Building”.

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 514 17th Street in Moline, Illinois, as the “David Bybee Post Office Building”.