datamatters24/research-document-archive huggingface dataset:
and other geospatial information to address State, local, 
regional, and tribal agency needs. Such evaluation shall 
have been conducted by an independent entity. 
SEC. 6. DATA AVAILABILITY. 
The Administrator shall ensure that the results of 
each of the pilot projects completed under section 4 shall 
be retrievable through an electronic, Internet-accessible 
database. 
SEC. 7. EDUCATION. 
The Administrator shall establish an educational out-
reach program to increase awareness at institutions of 
higher education and State, local, regional, and tribal 
agencies of the potential applications of remote sensing 
and other geospatial information. 
SEC. 8. COST SENSITIVITY STUDY. 
The Administrator shall conduct a study of the effect 
of remote sensing imagery costs on potential State, local, 
regional, and tribal agency applications. The study shall 
identify applications that are likely to be most affected by 
reductions in the cost of remote sensing imagery. Not later 
than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Administrator shall transmit to the Congress the re-
sults of the study conducted under this section.
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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1291
To amend the Public Health Service Act to include State high risk pool 
insurance programs in the list of covered entities that receive reductions 
in the prices charged for prescription drugs under the prescription drug 
pricing agreements under section 340B of that Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 13, 2003
Mr. UDALL of Colorado introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to include State 
high risk pool insurance programs in the list of covered 
entities that receive reductions in the prices charged 
for prescription drugs under the prescription drug pric-
ing agreements under section 340B of that Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘State High Risk Pool 
Drug Assistance Program Act of 2003’’.
SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF STATE HIGH RISK POOL INSURANCE 
PROGRAMS AS A 340B COVERED ENTITY. 
Section 340B(a)(4) of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 256b(a)(4)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(M) A State-operated qualified high risk 
pool that provides for premium rates and cov-
ered benefits for such coverage consistent with 
standards included in the National Association 
of Insurance Commissioners Model Health Plan 
for Uninsurable Individuals, subject to such 
conditions as the Secretary may establish by 
regulation, which shall include the following: 
‘‘(i) The pool establishes criteria for 
individuals eligible to obtain benefits 
through the pool. 
‘‘(ii) Eligible individuals are given a 
card identifying them as high risk pool 
members. 
‘‘(iii) Pharmacies that fill prescrip-
tions for eligible individuals may bill the 
administrator or pharmacy benefit man-
ager of the pool. 
‘‘(iv) The pool has a direct relation-
ship to the eligible individual that in-
cludes—
‘‘(I) maintaining records of the 
individual’s health care claims; and 
‘‘(II) the receipt by the individ-
uals of health care services from con-
tracted network providers. 
‘‘(v) The pool serves at least individ-
uals who would be eligible under the provi-
sions of any of subparagraphs (A) through 
(L) but for level of income. 
In the case of such a pool, nothing in clause (v) shall 
be construed as limiting the application of the agree-
ment under this section to individuals described in 
such clause.’’.
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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1295
To provide for coverage of diabetic foot sore apparatus as items of durable 
medical equipment under the Medicare Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 13, 2003
Ms. WOOLSEY (for herself, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. 
KILDEE, Mr. FROST, Mr. HONDA, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of 
Texas, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Ms. WAT-
SON, Mr. OWENS, and Mr. SANDERS) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition 
to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for coverage of diabetic foot sore apparatus as 
items of durable medical equipment under the Medicare 
Program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Diabetic Foot Amputa-
tion Prevention Act’’.
SEC. 2. COVERAGE OF DIABETIC FOOT SORE APPARATUS 
AS DME. 
(a) COVERAGE.—The term durable medical equip-
ment, as defined in section 1861(n) of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(n)), is deemed to include a qualified 
diabetic foot sore apparatus, as defined in subsection (c). 
(b) PAYMENT.—Payment for a qualified diabetic foot 
sore apparatus shall be made in the manner provided for 
under section 1834(a)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395m(a)(2)) (relating to payment for inexpensive and 
other routinely purchased durable medical equipment). 
(c) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘qualified diabetic foot 
sore apparatus’’ means an apparatus consisting of a mir-
ror and a handle that is used by individuals with diabetes 
to detect or monitor foot sore complications resulting from 
diabetes, as approved by the Secretary. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The provisions of this sec-
tion shall take effect on October 1, 2003, and apply to 
items furnished on or after that date.
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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1296
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the dollar limitation 
on the deduction of interest on education loans. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 13, 2003
Mr. WU introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal 
the dollar limitation on the deduction of interest on 
education loans.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. REPEAL OF DOLLAR LIMITATION ON DEDUC-
TION OF INTEREST ON EDUCATION LOANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section 221 of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to maximum 
deduction) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) LIMITATION BASED ON MODIFIED ADJUSTED 
GROSS INCOME.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The amount which would 
(but for this subsection) be allowable as a deduction 
under this section shall be reduced (but not below 
zero) by the amount determined under paragraph 
(2). 
‘‘(2) AMOUNT
OF
REDUCTION.—The amount 
determined under this paragraph is the amount 
which bears the same ratio to the amount which 
would be so taken into account as—
‘‘(A) the excess of—
‘‘(i) the taxpayer’s modified adjusted 
gross income for such taxable year, over 
‘‘(ii) $50,000 ($100,000 in the case of 
a joint return), bears to 
‘‘(B) $15,000 ($30,000 in the case of a 
joint return). 
‘‘(3) MODIFIED
ADJUSTED
GROSS
INCOME.—
The term ‘modified adjusted gross income’ means 
adjusted gross income determined—
‘‘(A) without regard to this section and 
sections 222, 911, 931, and 933, and 
‘‘(B) after application of sections 86, 135, 
137, 219, and 469.’’.
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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1297
To require the construction at Arlington National Cemetery of a memorial 
to the crew of the Columbia Orbiter. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 13, 2003
Mr. YOUNG of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 
Science, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the construction at Arlington National Cemetery 
of a memorial to the crew of the Columbia Orbiter.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Columbia Orbiter Me-
morial Act’’.
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SEC. 2. CONSTRUCTION OF MEMORIAL TO CREW OF CO-
LUMBIA ORBITER AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL 
CEMETERY. 
(a) CONSTRUCTION REQUIRED.—The Secretary of 
the Army shall, in consultation with the Administrator of 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, con-
struct at an appropriate place in Arlington National Cem-
etery, Virginia, a memorial marker honoring the seven 
members of the crew of the Columbia Orbiter who died 
on February 1, 2003, over the State of Texas during the 
landing of space shuttle mission STS–107. 
(b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Of the amount appro-
priated or otherwise made available by title II of the De-
partment of Defense Appropriations Act, 2003 (Public 
Law 107–248) under the heading ‘‘OPERATION
AND 
MAINTENANCE, ARMY’’, $500,000 shall be available for 
the construction of the memorial marker required by sub-
section (a). 
SEC. 3. DONATIONS FOR MEMORIAL FOR CREW OF COLUM-
BIA ORBITER. 
(a) AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT DONATIONS.—The Ad-
ministrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Admin-
istration may accept gifts and donations of services, 
money, and property (including personal, tangible, or in-
tangible property) for the purpose of an appropriate me-
morial or monument to the seven members of the crew
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of the Columbia Orbiter who died on February 1, 2003, 
over the State of Texas during the landing of space shuttle 
mission STS–107, whether such memorial or monument 
is constructed by the Administrator or is the memorial 
marker required by section 2. 
(b) TRANSFER.—(1) The Administrator may transfer 
to the Secretary of the Army any services, money, or prop-
erty accepted by the Administrator under subsection (a) 
for the purpose of the construction of the memorial mark-
er required by section 2. 
(2) Any moneys transferred to the Secretary under 
paragraph (1) shall be merged with amounts in the ac-
count referred to in subsection (b) of section 2, and shall 
be available for the purpose referred to in that subsection. 
(c) EXPIRATION OF AUTHORITY.—The authority of 
the Administrator to accept gifts and donations under 
subsection (a) shall expire five years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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‘‘Sec. 1638. Lower Chino dairy area desalination demonstration and reclamation
project.’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 19, 2004.
Attest:
Clerk.
H. R. 1298
One Hundred Eighth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the seventh day of January, two thousand and three
An Act
To provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and
malaria, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States
Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of
2003’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act
is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Definitions.
Sec. 4. Purpose.
Sec. 5. Authority to consolidate and combine reports.
TITLE I—POLICY PLANNING AND COORDINATION
Sec. 101. Development of a comprehensive, five-year, global strategy.
Sec. 102. HIV/AIDS Response Coordinator.
TITLE II—SUPPORT FOR MULTILATERAL FUNDS, PROGRAMS, AND PUBLIC-
PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
Sec. 201. Sense of Congress on public-private partnerships.
Sec. 202. Participation in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Ma-
laria.
Sec. 203. Voluntary contributions to international vaccine funds.
TITLE III—BILATERAL EFFORTS
Subtitle A—General Assistance and Programs
Sec. 301. Assistance to combat HIV/AIDS.
Sec. 302. Assistance to combat tuberculosis.
Sec. 303. Assistance to combat malaria.
Sec. 304. Pilot program for the placement of health care professionals in overseas
areas severely affected by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Sec. 305. Report on treatment activities by relevant executive branch agencies.
Sec. 306. Strategies to improve injection safety.
Sec. 307. Study on illegal diversions of prescription drugs.
Subtitle B—Assistance for Children and Families
Sec. 311. Findings.
Sec. 312. Policy and requirements.
Sec. 313. Annual reports on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the HIV
infection.
Sec. 314. Pilot program of assistance for children and families affected by HIV/
AIDS.
Sec. 315. Pilot program on family survival partnerships.
TITLE IV—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS
Sec. 401. Authorization of appropriations.
H. R. 1533—2
under section 3(c)(14) of the Investment Company Act of
1940’’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 270 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Presi-
dent shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report setting forth the strategy de-
scribed in subsection (a). 
(2) REPORT CONTENTS.—The report required 
by paragraph (1) shall include a discussion of the 
elements described in paragraph (3) and may in-
clude a discussion of additional elements relevant to 
the strategy described in subsection (a). Such dis-
cussion may include an explanation as to why a par-
ticular element described in paragraph (3) is not rel-
evant to such strategy. 
(3) REPORT
ELEMENTS.—The elements re-
ferred to in paragraph (2) are the following: 
(A) The objectives, general and specific, of 
the strategy. 
(B) A description of the criteria for deter-
mining success of the strategy. 
(C) A description of the manner in which 
the strategy will address the fundamental ele-
ments of prevention and education, care, and 
treatment (including increasing access to phar-
maceuticals and to vaccines), the promotion of 
abstinence, monogamy, avoidance of substance
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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1298
To provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, 
and malaria, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 17, 2003
Mr. HYDE (for himself, Mr. LANTOS, Mr. WELDON of Florida, Ms. LEE, and 
Mr. LEACH) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on International Relations 
A BILL 
To provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/
AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuber-
culosis, and Malaria Act of 2003’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. Purpose.
Sec. 5. Authority to consolidate and combine reports. 
TITLE I—POLICY PLANNING AND COORDINATION 
Sec. 101. Development of a comprehensive, five-year, global strategy. 
Sec. 102. HIV/AIDS Response Coordinator. 
TITLE II—SUPPORT FOR MULTILATERAL FUNDS, PROGRAMS, 
AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS 
Sec. 201. Sense of Congress on public-private partnerships. 
Sec. 202. Participation in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and 
Malaria. 
Sec. 203. Voluntary contributions to international vaccine funds. 
TITLE III—BILATERAL EFFORTS 
Subtitle A—General Assistance and Programs 
Sec. 301. Assistance to combat HIV/AIDS. 
Sec. 302. Assistance to combat tuberculosis. 
Sec. 303. Assistance to combat malaria. 
Sec. 304. Pilot program for the placement of health care professionals in over-
seas areas severely affected by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and 
malaria. 
Sec. 305. Report on treatment activities by relevant Executive branch agencies. 
Subtitle B—Assistance for Children and Families 
Sec. 311. Findings. 
Sec. 312. Policy and requirements. 
Sec. 313. Annual reports on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the 
HIV infection. 
Sec. 314. Pilot program of assistance for children and families affected by HIV/
AIDS. 
Sec. 315. Pilot program on family survival partnerships. 
TITLE IV—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
Sec. 401. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 402. Sense of Congress.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) During the last 20 years, HIV/AIDS has 
assumed pandemic proportions, spreading from the 
most severely affected region, sub-Saharan Africa, to 
all corners of the world, and leaving an unprece-
dented path of death and devastation.
(2) According to the Joint United Nations Pro-
gramme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), more than 
65,000,000 individuals worldwide have been infected 
with HIV since the epidemic began, more than 
25,000,000 of these individuals have lost their lives 
to the disease, and more than 14,000,000 children 
have been orphaned by the disease. HIV/AIDS is the 
fourth-highest cause of death in the world. 
(3)(A) At the end of 2002, an estimated 
42,000,000 individuals were infected with HIV or 
living with AIDS. Of these individuals, more than 
3,200,000 were children under the age of fifteen and 
more than 19,200,000 were women. 
(B) Women are four times more vulnerable to 
infection than are men and are becoming infected at 
increasingly high rates, in part because many soci-
eties do not provide poor women and young girls 
with the social, legal, and cultural protections 
against high risk activities that expose them to HIV/
AIDS. 
(C) Women and children who are refugees or 
are internally displaced persons are especially vul-
nerable to sexual exploitation and violence, thereby 
increasing the possibility of HIV infection.
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Treasury and the Attorney General jointly determine 
to be appropriate.
Passed the House of Representatives September 11, 
2003. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.
(4) As the leading cause of death in sub-Saha-
ran Africa, AIDS has killed more than 19,400,000 
individuals (more than 3 times the number of AIDS 
deaths in the rest of the world) and will claim the 
lives of one-quarter of the population, mostly adults, 
in the next decade. 
(5) An estimated 1,900,000 individuals in Latin 
America and the Caribbean and another 7,200,000 
individuals in Asia and the Pacific region are in-
fected with HIV or living with AIDS. Infection rates 
are rising alarmingly in Eastern Europe (especially 
in the Russian Federation), Central Asia, and 
China. 
(6) HIV/AIDS threatens personal security by 
affecting the health, lifespan, and productive capac-
ity of the individual and the social cohesion and eco-
nomic well-being of the family. 
(7) HIV/AIDS undermines the economic secu-
rity of a country and individual businesses in that 
country by weakening the productivity and longevity 
of the labor force across a broad array of economic 
sectors and by reducing the potential for economic 
growth over the long term. 
(8) HIV/AIDS destabilizes communities by 
striking at the most mobile and educated members
of society, many of whom are responsible for secu-
rity at the local level and governance at the national 
and subnational levels as well as many teachers, 
health care personnel, and other community workers 
vital to community development and the effort to 
combat HIV/AIDS. In some countries the over-
whelming challenges of the HIV/AIDS epidemic are 
accelerating the outward migration of critically im-
portant health care professionals. 
(9) HIV/AIDS weakens the defenses of coun-
tries severely affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis 
through high infection rates among members of their 
military forces and voluntary peacekeeping per-
sonnel. According to UNAIDS, in sub-Saharan Afri-
ca, many military forces have infection rates as 
much as five times that of the civilian population. 
(10) HIV/AIDS poses a serious security issue 
for the international community by—
(A) increasing the potential for political in-
stability and economic devastation, particularly 
in those countries and regions most severely af-
fected by the disease;
(B) decreasing the capacity to resolve con-
flicts through the introduction of peacekeeping 
forces because the environments into which
these forces are introduced pose a high risk for 
the spread of HIV/AIDS; and 
(C) increasing the vulnerability of local 
populations to HIV/AIDS in conflict zones from 
peacekeeping troops with HIV infection rates 
significantly higher than civilian populations. 
(11) The devastation wrought by the HIV/
AIDS pandemic is compounded by the prevalence of 
tuberculosis and malaria, particularly in developing 
countries where the poorest and most vulnerable 
members of society, including women, children, and 
those individuals living with HIV/AIDS, become in-
fected. According to the World Health Organization 
(WHO), HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria ac-
counted for more than 5,700,000 deaths in 2001 
and caused debilitating illnesses in millions more. 
(12) Together, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, ma-
laria and related diseases are undermining agricul-
tural production throughout Africa. According to the 
United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, 
7,000,000 agricultural workers throughout 25 Afri-
can countries have died from AIDS since 1985. 
Countries with poorly developed agricultural sys-
tems, which already face chronic food shortages, are 
the hardest hit, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa,
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ney, the party, certifies is relevant to 
the case; and 
‘‘(bb) specifies an appropriate re-
dacted identifier that uniquely cor-
responds to each item of unredacted 
protected information listed; and 
‘‘(II) by providing that all references 
in the case to the redacted identifiers in 
such reference list shall be construed, with-
out more, to refer to the corresponding 
unredacted item of protected information. 
‘‘(B)(i) Subject to clause (ii), the Judicial 
Conference of the United States may issue in-
terim rules, and interpretive statements relating 
to the application of such rules, which conform 
to the requirements of this paragraph and 
which shall cease to have effect upon the effec-
tive date of the rules required under subpara-
graph (A). 
‘‘(ii) Pending issuance of the rules required 
under subparagraph (A), any rule or order of 
any court, or of the Judicial Conference, pro-
viding for the redaction of certain categories of 
information in order to protect privacy and se-
curity concerns arising from electronic filing or
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gress, an applicable waiver or decision referred to in para-
graph (1) or (2) is in effect.
Passed the House of Representatives April 8, 2003. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.
Union Calendar No. 130
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1303
[Report No. 108–239] 
A BILL 
To amend the E-Government Act of 2002 with re-
spect to rulemaking authority of the Judicial 
Conference. 
JULY 25, 2003
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed
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SECTION 1. BREAST CANCER STAMP EXTENSION. 
Section 414(h) of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘2005’’ and inserting ‘‘2006’’.
Passed the House of Representatives January 27, 
2004. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.