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Upper White Salmon Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Bill: 108-s-1614
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2003-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Washington State
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: 
Upper White Salmon Wild and Scenic Rivers Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified portions of the White Salmon River, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and administer the comprehensive management plan required by the Act for the designated sections of the River in accordance with that portion of the preferred alternative of the Forest Service Wild and Scenic River Study Report and Final Legislative Environmental Impact Statement for the Upper White Salmon River dated July 7, 1997, addressing only those sections.

action_date: 2004-10-10
text: 
Upper White Salmon Wild and Scenic Rivers Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified portions of the White Salmon River, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11127-11183; text as passed Senate: CR S11172-11173)
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11127-11183; text as passed Senate: CR S11172-11173)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 721.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 108-362.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 108-362.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-714.
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11480)
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 37, United States Code, to make permanent the rates of hostile fire and imminent danger special pay and family separation allowance for members of the uniformed services as increased by the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003.

Bill: 108-s-1615
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Military dependents
Military pay

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: 
Makes permanent the $150 to $225 increase in imminent danger special pay and the $100 to $250 increase in the family separation allowance for members of the uniformed services (currently, both terminate at the end of FY 2003).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11481)
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11480)
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to prevent the preemption of State community property law as it relates to nonforfeitable accrued retirement benefits.

Bill: 108-s-1616
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Community property
Defined benefit pension plans
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide that ERISA does not preempt State community property law with respect to nonforfeitable accrued retirement benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11482)
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11481-11482)
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Women's Pension Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1617
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Annuities
Collective bargaining
Defined contribution plans
Divorce
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Interest
Law
Married people
Railroad retirement plans
Separation (Law)
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Widowers
Widows
Women
Women's retirement

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Women's Pension Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to require the spouse's consent for distributions from defined contribution plans (DCPs, which include individual account plans such as 401(k) plans). (Current law only requires such consent in the case of defined benefit plans). Applies joint and survivor annuity rules to DCPs. 
Prescribes requirements for division of pension benefits upon divorce. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations relating to the time and order of issuance of qualified domestic relations orders. Provides for treatment of former spouses as surviving spouses in certain cases. 
Revises requirements for joint and survivor annuities. Requires pension plans to offer participants the option of a qualified joint and 3/4 survivor annuity (as an alternative to the current qualified joint and survivor annuity). 
Amends Federal law relating to the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to provide for a survivor annuity to widows, widowers, and certain former spouses of Federal employees who die after having separated from the service with title to a deferred annuity under CSRS, but before attaining the age for such annuity under it (on the same basis as is currently provided to certain survivors of former Members of Congress). Revises CSRS and Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) requirements for court orders relating to Federal employee retirement benefits for former spouses. Revises the order of precedence for disposition of remaining amounts in thrift savings accounts. 
Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to: (1) entitle divorced spouses to railroad retirement annuities independent of the actual entitlement of the employees; and (2) extend the payment of any portion of Tier II railroad retirement benefits to surviving former spouses pursuant to divorce agreements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11482-11483)
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Education for Homeless and Foster Children with Disabilities Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1619
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2003-09-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disabled
Elementary and secondary education
Guardian and ward
Homeless
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: 
Improving Education for Homeless and Foster Children with Disabilities Act of 2003 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to ensure that special education and other services are provided for children with disabilities who are homeless or who are wards of the State, including foster children.
 
Revises or adds IDEA provisions relating to such children under: (1) definitions of parents, and of homeless children (and youth); (2) State child find systems; (3) local educational agency coordinated services systems, interagency personnel development, and liaisons for service delivery; (4) evaluations, eligibility determinations, individualized education programs, and educational placements; (5) procedural safeguards; (6) infants and toddlers, and related statewide systems, applications, and assurances; (7) State interagency coordinating councils; and (8) training in educational advocacy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11569-11570)
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Head Start Assessment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1620
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-09-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Child development
Child health
Congress
Congressional hearings
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Language arts
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Mental health
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Public meetings
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: 
Head Start Assessment Act of 2003 - Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from proceeding with the full-scale implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System on Child Outcomes, as described in a specified project proposal, until the Secretary certifies to Congress that: (1) congressional oversight hearings have been concluded concerning the development and implementation of the System; (2) the Secretary has concluded public forums in different regions of the United States, and provided an opportunity for written public comments, concerning early childhood assessment proposals; (3) the Secretary has reported to Congress a study by the National Academy of Sciences of early childhood assessments focusing on improving accountability, instruction, and the delivery of services; and (4) sufficient funds are available to develop and implement any new Head Start assessments, and deliver necessary additional technical assistance and professional development required to successfully implement these assessments.
 
Prescribes requirements for participants in such public forums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11571)
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11570-11571)
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Consumer, Schools, and Libraries Digital Rights Management Awareness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1621
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2003-09-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arts, Culture, Religion
Books
CD-ROMs
Cable television
Charitable contributions
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Computer software
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer education
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal Communications Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Independent regulatory commissions
Internet
Labeling
Law
Legislation
Libraries
Licenses
Mass media
Motion pictures
Music
Restrictive trade practices
Right of privacy
Sound recording and reproducing
Subpoena
Television
Television programs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: 
Consumers, Schools, and Libraries Digital Rights Management Awareness Act of 2003 - Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission, except as specifically authorized by Congress, from requiring a person manufacturing, importing, or offering for sale or license in the United States a device, machine, or process that is designed, manufactured, or marketed for rendering, processing, transmitting, receiving, or reproducing a digital media product to incorporate access control or redistribution control technology into the design of such device, machine, or process.
 
Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to establish an advisory committee to inform the FTC about: (1) the ways in which access control and redistribution technology may affect consumer, educational institution, and library use of digital media products based on their legal and customary uses of such products; and (2) how awareness of such technologies in the digital media products they purchase or legally own may be achieved. Prohibits a person from offering for sale, license, or use by a consumer, educational institution, or library an access- or redistribution-controlled digital media product unless the product contains a notice of the restriction such technology may have on the product's use.
 
Prohibits an Internet access service from being compelled to make available to a manufacturer of a digital media product the identity or personal information of a subscriber or user of its service for use in enforcing the manufacturer's right relating to the use of such product.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) secondary market rights for used digital media products; and (2) FTC enforcement of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11574-11576)
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11571-11574)
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to exempt certain members of the Armed Forces from the requirement to pay subsistence charges while hospitalized.

Bill: 108-s-1622
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-09-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health
Hospital care
Military medicine
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: 
Exempts from the requirement to pay subsistence charges while hospitalized in a military facility an officer or former officer, or an enlisted member or former enlisted member not entitled to retired or retainer pay or equivalent pay, who is hospitalized in a military facility because of an injury or disease incurred: (1) as a direct result of armed conflict; (2) while engaged in hazardous service; (3) in the performance of duty under conditions simulating war; or (4) through an instrumentality of war. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11576)
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11576)
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for relief of Elvira Arellano.

Bill: 108-s-1623
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2003-09-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: 
Declares Elvira Arellano to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to add Rhode Island to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council.

Bill: 108-s-1624
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2003-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Fishery management
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Middle Atlantic States
Rhode Island

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: 
 Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to add Rhode Island to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council. Excludes fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean seaward of Rhode Island from the Council's authority. Increases the Council's number of voting members from 21 to 23, and from 13 to 14 the number appointed by the Secretary of Commerce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S11649)
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11649)
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Apprenticeship, Training, and Employment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1625
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Apprenticeship
Commerce
Employee training
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Skilled labor
Small business
Tax credits
Technical education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: 
Apprenticeship, Training, and Employment Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide small employers with a highly skilled trades training credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S11650-11651)
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11649-11650)
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1626
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2003-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Feeds
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Livestock
Minorities
Native Americans
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Water Resources Development
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: 
Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use Commodity Credit Corporation funds for emergency financial assistance to producers who have suffered qualifying weather-caused crop losses in 2001, 2002, or 2003, for: (1) crops; or (2) livestock under the American Indian livestock program in a disaster-designated county.
 
Reduces (other than crop insurance) other agricultural assistance by amounts received under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prescribe the oath of renunciation and allegiance for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Bill: 108-s-1628
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2003-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Allegiance
Government Operations and Politics
Oaths

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prescribe the oath of renunciation and allegiance for purposes of such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11680)
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Compassionate Care Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1629
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-09-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Caregivers
Case management
Child health
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Continuum of care
Cost accounting
Cost effectiveness
Counseling
Critically ill
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health counseling
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Higher education
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Insurance companies
Managed care
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical residents
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Nurses
Nursing education
Pain
Pharmaceutical research
Physicians
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Research grants
Respite care
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social work
Teaching materials
Teleconferencing
Telemedicine
Terminal care
Terminal care facilities
Terminally ill
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: 
Children's Compassionate Care Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide grants to: (1) provide training in pediatric palliative care and related services; (2) implement or expand pediatric palliative care programs for children with life-threatening conditions; (3) expand the number of physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, and appropriate allied health professionals and specialists with pediatric palliative clinical training and research experience; (4) enhance pediatric palliative care and care for children with life-threatening conditions in general pediatric or family practice residency training programs through the development of model programs; and (5) fund research in pediatric pain and symptom management that will utilize existing facilities of the National Institutes of Health.
 
Provides for Medicare and private sector pediatric palliative care demonstration projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S11682-11685)
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11680-11682)
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Introduced in Senate