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Medication Therapy Management Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1270
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Asthma
Cardiovascular diseases
Case management
Chronically ill
Diabetes
Drug utilization
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-16
text: Medication Therapy Management Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for Medicare coverage of medication therapy management services under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Medicare program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7931-7932)
action_date: 2003-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhanced Protection of Our Cultural Heritage Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1271
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2003-06-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Archaeology
Cemeteries and funerals
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cultural property
Destruction of property
Embezzlement
Excavation
Fines (Penalties)
History
Indian lands
Larceny
Minorities
Native Americans
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Receiving stolen goods
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Enhanced Protection of Our Cultural Heritage Act of 2003 - Amends the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 to increase penalties for violating, or counseling, procuring, soliciting, or employing another to violate prohibitions regarding: (1) unauthorized excavation, removal, damage, alteration, or defacement of archaeological resources; (2) trafficking in archaeological resources the excavation or removal of which was wrongful under Federal law; and (3) trafficking in interstate or foreign commerce in archaeological resources the excavation, removal, sale, purchase, exchange, transportation, or receipt of which was wrongful under State or local law. 
Amends the Federal criminal code to increase penalties for: (1) embezzlement and theft from Indian tribal organizations; and (2) illegal trafficking in Native American human remains and cultural items.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7982)
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7981-7982)
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Wrongful Death Accountability Act

Bill: 108-s-1272
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-06-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Employers' liability
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health
Industrial accidents
Law
Occupational health and safety
Recidivists
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Signs and signboards
Wrongful death

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: 
Wrongful Death Accountability Act - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to revise requirements for citations and penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7983)
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7982-7983)
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for a study to ensure that students are not adversely affected by changes to the needs analysis tables, and to require the Secretary of Education to consult with the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance regarding such changes.

Bill: 108-s-1273
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-06-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
College costs
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Education
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Law
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Secretary of Education and the appropriate congressional committees on proposed changes to the tables used in the Federal Needs Analysis Methodology to determine a student's expected family contribution for the award year 2004-2005 under general provisions for student assistance of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Requires such study to examine the impact of such changes on students to ensure that they are not adversely affected.
 
Amends HEA to direct the Secretary to consult with the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance before publishing any notice or promulgating any regulation with respect to updated tables to be used in such needs analysis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7983)
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7983)
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Benefits for Victims of International Terrorism Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1275
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2003-06-17 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Americans in foreign countries
Claims
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Department of State
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability (International law)
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Hostages
International claims
Law
Limitation of actions
Murder
Survivors' benefits
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: 
Benefits for Victims of International Terrorism Act of 2003 - Establishes the Benefits for Victims of International Terrorism Program under which monetary awards shall be made (in lieu of judgments in civil actions against the U.S. or foreign governments) to eligible individuals who are physically injured, killed, or held hostage as a result of an act of international terrorism.
 
Places administration of the program in the Department of State. Prescribes a claims procedure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 108-214.
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8000-8001)
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8000)
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Introduced in Senate
State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability, and Due Process Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1277
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation
Disciplining of employees
Dismissal of employees
Due process of law
Election candidates
Employee rights
Evidence (Law)
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government employee unions
Government employees' political activities
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grievance procedures
Injunctions
Judicial opinions
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Leave of absence
Local employees
Local laws
Personnel records
Police
Police brutality
Police corruption
Police questioning
Police-community relations
Polygraphs
Right of privacy
Right to counsel
Self-incrimination
Sound recording and reproducing
State employees
State laws
Subpoena
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability, and Due Process Act of 2003 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to set forth the due process rights, including procedures, that shall be afforded a law enforcement officer (officer) who is the subject of an investigation or disciplinary hearing.
Declares that an officer shall not be: (1) prohibited from engaging in political activity or be denied the right to refrain from engaging in such activity, except when on duty or acting in an official capacity; and (2) prohibited from being a candidate for an elective office or from serving in such elective office solely because of the officer's status as an officer, with exceptions.
Requires that: (1) each agency adopt and thereafter comply with a written complaint procedure that meets specified requirements; and (2) an investigation based on a complaint from outside the agency commence not later than 15 days after receipt of the complaint by the agency employing the officer against whom the complaint has been made, or any other agency charged with investigating such complaint.
Directs that any officer who is the subject of an investigation be notified of the investigation 24 hours before the commencement of questioning. Establishes rights of officers before and during questioning, including the right to counsel. Requires questioning to be conducted at reasonable hours. Prohibits an officer from being compelled to submit to the use of a lie detector.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8128-8131)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8127-8128)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Information and Benefits Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1281
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Atomic bomb
Cardiovascular diseases
Congress
Department of Defense
Environmental Protection
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health
Herbicides
History
Ionizing radiation
Liver diseases
Medical research
Nuclear weapons
Prisoners of war
Radiation victims
Stroke
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care
Vietnam veterans
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Veterans Information and Benefits Enhancement Act of 2003 - Includes the following among the diseases to be considered service-connected, and therefore compensable through the Department of Veterans Affairs, when suffered by a veteran who is a former prisoner of war who was detained or interned for at least 30 days: (1) cardiovascular (heart) disease; (2) cerebrovascular disease (stroke); or (3) chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis and primary liver carcinoma.
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary) and the Secretary of Defense to jointly conduct a review of the mission, procedures, and administration of the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Department of Defense. Requires appointment of an advisory board for Program review and oversight.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine the appropriate disposition of the Air Force Health Study, an epidemiologic study of Air Force personnel responsible for conducting aerial herbicide spray missions during the Vietnam era.
 
Requires the Secretaries to make specified funds available to the National Academy of Sciences in each of FY 2004 through 2013 for the Academy's Medical Follow-Up Agency of the Institute of Medicine to conduct epidemiological research on military personnel and veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8134)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8133-8134)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish national cemeteries for geographically underserved populations of veterans, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-1282
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) identify the ten burial service areas in the United States that are most in need of a new national cemetery in order to ensure that 90 percent of the veterans who reside in each such area live within 75 miles of a national cemetery; (2) establish a national cemetery in each identified area; and (3) carry out advance planning in FY 2004 for the establishment of such cemeteries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8135)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8134-8135)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require advance notification of Congress regarding any action proposed to be taken by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the implementation of the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services initiative of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-1283
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
 Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from taking any action proposed under the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services initiative of the Department of Veterans Affairs: (1) unless the Secretary has notified Congress of the intention to take such action; and (2) until the later of the expiration of a 60-day period, or 30 days of continuous congressional session, after such notification. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-29
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8136)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8135-8136)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Kosovar-American Enterprise Fund Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1284
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: American investments
Business insurance
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Government Operations and Politics
Kosovo
Nonprofit organizations
President and foreign policy
Serbia
Small business
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Kosovar-American Enterprise Fund Act of 2003 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to designate one private, nonprofit organization (to be known as the Kosovar-American Enterprise Fund) as eligible to receive grant funds from the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development for the development of small- and medium-sized businesses in Kosovo. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend section 502(a)(5) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 regarding the definition of a Hispanic-serving institution.

Bill: 108-s-1287
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the definition of a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) under title V (Developing Institutions).
 
Eliminates the requirement that an HSI provide assurances that at least 50 percent of its Hispanic students are low-income students in order to be eligible for certain grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8160)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8159)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to exclude brachytherapy devices from the prospective payment system for outpatient hospital services under the medicare program.

Bill: 108-s-1288
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2003-06-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Cancer
Hospital rates
Medical supplies
Medicare
Radiotherapy
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for special payment for brachytherapy under the outpatient hospital services prospective payment system equal to the hospital's charges for each device furnished, adjusted to cost.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8160)
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to name the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after Paul Wellstone.

Bill: 108-s-1289
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Health
Minnesota
Names
Senate
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the Paul Wellstone Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-29
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8263)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8234-8236)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an additional advance refunding of tax-exempt bonds issued for the purchase or maintenance of electric generation, transmission, or distribution assets.

Bill: 108-s-1290
Sponsor: Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Energy
Equipment and supplies
Finance and Financial Sector
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: 
Permits one additional advance refunding of certain tax-exempt bonds, of which the net proceeds are used to finance the costs of electric generation, transmission, or distribution assets owned by the issuer or by a consortium of State or local governments which includes the issuer. Sets certain conditions the bonds must meet to qualify for the advance refunding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8236)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S 8236)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Protection for Iraqi Cultural Antiquities Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1291
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Cultural property
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Import restrictions
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Museums

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: 
Emergency Protection for Iraqi Cultural Antiquities Act of 2003 - Authorizes the President to exercise his authority under the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act to implement emergency import restrictions with respect to any archaeological or ethnological material of Iraq as if Iraq were a State Party under that Act (but makes certain limitations under that Act inapplicable, including that the State Party must have requested the President to act). Terminates such authority upon the earlier of one year after the President certifies to Congress that the normalization of relations between the United States and the Iraqi Government has been established or September 30, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8237)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8236-8237)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Telecommunications Planning Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1294
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Commerce
Community development
Cooperative societies
Depressed areas
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Enterprise zones
Federal aid to Indians
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Planning
Public utilities
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Students
Telecommunication industry
Telecommunication systems
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Community Telecommunications Planning Act of 2003 - Authorizes each of the Secretaries of Commerce, Agriculture, and Education to make grants to a local or tribal government, local non-profit entity, cooperative, public utility, or other public entity for community telecommunications infrastructure planning and market development purposes. Requires, in each case, the development of a telecommunications infrastructure and market development plan. Requires the Secretary concerned to give priority to grants for such planning and development for rural or underserved areas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8241-8242)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8241)
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify the definition of rural airports.

Bill: 108-s-1295
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to airports
Airports
Excise tax
Housing and Community Development
Tax exemption
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the exception to the air transportation segment excise tax of domestic segments beginning or ending at a rural airport, to treat as a rural airport any airport which is not connected by paved roads to another airport.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate