Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2003
Latest action · May 1, 2003 Motion to Report Measure Defeated by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 23.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 2, 2003
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Directs the President to establish an interagency United States Global Change Research Program to improve understanding of global change and to provide periodic assessments of the vulnerability of the United States and other regions to global change.
Directs the President to develop a National Global Change Research Plan to implement the Program, including recommendations for global change research.
Requires the Plan to set research goals and priorities, including global measurements of physical processes contributing to changes in the Earth system as well as economic and demographic trends and how these processes and trends interact.
Directs the President to establish an interagency climate and other global change data management working group.
Requires the President to direct the Secretary of State to initiate discussions with other nations leading toward international protocols and other agreements to coordinate global climate change research activities.
Directs the President to establish an Office of Global Change Research Information.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 1, 2003Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- May 1, 2003Motion to Report Measure Defeated by the Yeas and Nays: 18 - 23.
- Apr 2, 2003Introduced in House
- Apr 2, 2003Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Apr 2, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E643-644)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Air pollution control
- Alternative energy sources
- Animals
- Appropriations
- Archives
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Biological diversity
- Capital investments
- Chemicals
- Climate
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Communication in science
- Conferences
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost effectiveness
- Data banks
- Demography
- Developing countries
- Ecological research
- Economic research
- Economics and Public Finance
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy development
- Energy efficiency
- Energy research
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental health
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental technology
- Executive reorganization
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Geography and mapping
- Glaciers
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Health
- International Affairs
- International agencies
- International cooperation in science
- International environmental cooperation
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Nuclear nonproliferation
- Nuclear reactors
- Policy sciences
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Remote sensing
- Renewable natural resources
- Research centers
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientists
- Sea level
- Solar energy
- Space activities
- Sustainable development
- Technical assistance
- Transportation and Public Works
- Treaties
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