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Antiterrorism Intelligence Distribution Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-266
Sponsor: Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]
Introduced: 2003-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil defense
Classified defense information
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Emergency medicine
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fire departments
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Medical personnel
Rescue work
Security clearances
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Antiterrorism Intelligence Distribution Act of 2003 - Amends the Department of Homeland Security Act to require the Office for State and Local Government Coordination within the Office of the Secretary to identify the appropriate officials of each State who will require access to classified information to ensure the health and safety of its citizens. Specifies guidelines for identifying the appropriate State and local officials.
Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require the Director of Central Intelligence to provide the appropriate national intelligence to State and local governments.
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide security clearances and appropriate training to such officials. Requires the Secretary provide the appropriate technology and facilities to ensure prompt, efficient, and secure transmittal, receipt, and storage of classified information.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Intelligence.
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Telecommunications Ownership Diversification Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-267
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2003-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Auditing
Broadband
Cable television
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Direct broadcast satellites
Enterprise zones
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Law
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Partnerships
Radio stations
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Stocks
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Telecommunication industry
Telephone
Television stations
Urban affairs
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Telecommunications Ownership Diversification Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an electing taxpayer to treat a qualified telecommunications business sale to an eligible purchaser as an involuntary conversion. Places limits on the ensuing tax benefit. Defines an eligible purchaser as: (1) an economically and socially disadvantaged business; or (2) a corporation or partnership which, following the purchase, has substantially all of its assets in the telecommunications business and is at least five percent owned by the Telecommunications Development Fund.
Provides a limited tax credit to a local exchange carrier that is not a Bell operating company and is headquartered in an empowerment zone.
Provides for the exclusion from income of 50 percent of the gain on any sale or exchange of stock in an eligible purchaser engaged in a telecommunications business held for more than five years.
Directs the Comptroller General to biennially audit the administration of the provisions of this Act and issue a report.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1829-1832)
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1829)
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the Pyramid of Remembrance Foundation to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia and its environs to honor members of the Armed Forces of the United states who have lost their lives during peacekeeping operations, humanitarian efforts, training, terrorist attacks, or covert operations.

Bill: 108-s-268
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Covert operations
Crime and Law Enforcement
District of Columbia
EBB Terrorism
Foundations
International Affairs
International relief
Labor and Employment
Military operations
Military personnel
Military training
Monuments and memorials
Peacekeeping forces
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Authorizes the Pyramid of Remembrance Foundation to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor members of the armed forces who have lost their lives during peacekeeping operations, humanitarian efforts, training, terrorist attacks, or covert operations.
Prohibits use of Federal funds for such memorial, except as provided by the Commemorative Works Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-65.
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1832-1833)
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1832)
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Municipal Debt Refinancing Act

Bill: 108-s-271
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Municipal Debt Refinancing Act- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a second or third advance refunding of bonds if the original bond was issued to finance governmental facilities used for essential government functions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1835)
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1834-1835)
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Southern Campaign of the Revolution Heritage Area Study Act

Bill: 108-s-276
Sponsor: Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: American Revolution
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Historic sites
History
Landscape protection
Military history
Military parks
National monuments
Nature conservation
North Carolina
Outdoor recreation
Public-private partnerships
Social life and customs
South Carolina
Sports and Recreation
State parks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Southern Campaign of the Revolution Heritage Area Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study and report to specified congressional committees on the suitability and feasibility of designating specified South Carolina counties, cities, public sites, other sites maintained by the State, and National Park Service sites in the State, as well as appropriate North Carolina sites, as the Southern Campaign of the Revolution Heritage Area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Visitor Center Act

Bill: 108-s-277
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Building construction
Commerce
Construction costs
Ecotourism
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Infrastructure
Migratory bird conservation
Research natural areas
Utah
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Visitor Center Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to construct an education and administrative center at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Box Elder County, Utah, to provide for the interpretation of resources at the Refuge for the education and benefit of the public, the advancement of research, protection, and health of waterfowl habitat, and the administration of such Refuge.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-02-11
text: Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2003-02-11
text: Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1882)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of the heirs of Clark M. Beggerly, Sr., of Jackson County, Mississippi.

Bill: 108-s-279
Sponsor: Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the heirs of Clark M. Beggerly, Sr., of Jackson County, Mississippi, a specified sum in settlement of all claims arising out of the taking by the United States of certain parcels of land on Horn Island.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to address claims relating to Horn Island, Mississippi.

Bill: 108-s-280
Sponsor: Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Eminent domain
Islands
Land transfers
Law
Limitation of actions
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mississippi

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Addresses claims arising from the taking by the United States of certain parcels of land on Horn Island, Mississippi. Waives the right to raise certain affirmative defenses and deems the statute of limitations under the Quiet Title Act to be equitably tolled.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
High School Sports Information Collection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-282
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Athletes
Athletics
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
School administration
Secondary education
Sex discrimination
Sports and Recreation
Sports personnel
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Women
Women athletes
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: High School Sports Information Collection Act of 2003 - Amends the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (PL107-279) to direct the Statistics Commissioner (of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Institute of Education Sciences in the Department of Education) to collect information from coeducational secondary schools with respect to equality in their athletic programs. Requires such information to include total budget and expenditures for each team, season and postseason schedules and successes, as well as identification of: (1) each participant's gender, race, and ethnicity; and (2) each coach's gender and qualifications.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1884-1885)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Good IRA Rollover Act

Bill: 108-s-283
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Charitable contributions
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Public Good IRA Rollover Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit tax-free distributions from an individual retirement account made directly to a qualified charity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4945-4946)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1885)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special rule for members of the uniformed services and the Foreign Service in determining the exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence.

Bill: 108-s-284
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Capital gains tax
Department of State
Families
Federal employees
Foreign service
Government Operations and Politics
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
International Affairs
Married people
Military personnel
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Authorizes a member of the uniformed services or the Foreign Service serving on "qualified official extended duty" to extend for ten years the five-year period utilized in determining full exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1886)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1885-1886)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Artist-Museum Partnership Act

Bill: 108-s-287
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Art
Artists
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authors and authorship
Charitable contributions
Copyright
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Intellectual property
Literature
Music
Tax deductions
Tax returns
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Artist-Museum Partnership Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a fair market value (determined at time of contribution) deduction for charitable contributions of literary, musical, artistic, scholarly compositions, or the copyright created by a qualifying donor. Exempts certain non-personal letters and memoranda from such treatment.
Limits such increased deduction to the donor's artistic adjusted income (as defined by this Act).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5014-5015)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1889-1890)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Indian Contracting and Federal Land Management Demonstration Project Act

Bill: 108-s-288
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Anthropology
Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal employees
Federal-Indian relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government service contracts
History
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Indian lands
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Planning
Religion
Surveys
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Indian Contracting and Federal Land Management Demonstration Project Act - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to contract with an applying Indian tribe for the provision of certain services or deliverables that would otherwise be procured from the private sector, and absent a request by one or more tribes that would receive a direct benefit from those services or deliverables to enter into such a contract.
Requires the Secretary to establish the Native American Indian and Federal Land Management Demonstration Project.
Requires the Secretary under such Project to contract with at least 12 Indian tribes or tribal organizations to plan, and administer programs, services, and activities relating archeological, anthropological, and cultural surveys and analyses, and activities related to the identification, maintenance, or protection of lands considered to have religious, ceremonial, or cultural significance to Indian tribes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1890-1892)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1890)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Armed Forces Tax Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-289
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Agriculture and Food
Annuities
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Capital gains tax
Citizenship
Day care
Department of Commerce
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Expatriation
Families
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Immigration
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Interest
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Legislation
Military dependents
Military education
Military operations
Military pensions
Military personnel
Military training
National Guard
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real estate appraisal
Repatriation
Science, Technology, Communications
Service academies
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Survivors' benefits
Tax administration
Tax deferral
Tax evasion
Tax exclusion
Tax returns
Tax treaties
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Trusts and trustees
User charges
Valuation
Veterans' organizations
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Armed Forces Tax Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish special tax provisions applicable to the uniformed services and the Foreign Service, including an extension of time to exclude gain from the sale of a principal residence, exclusion from income of certain death gratuity benefits, extending combat zone filing rules to contingency operations, excluding certain dependent care assistance from income, and the deduction overnight travel expenses for National Guard and Reserve members.
Suspends the tax-exempt status of a designated terrorist organization.
Establishes IRS service user fee authority through September 30, 2013.
Revises IRC expatriation tax provisions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1892-1897)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to identify a route that passes through the States of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System.

Bill: 108-s-290
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Kansas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Road construction
Roads and highways
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to identify as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System the Southwest Passage Initiative for Regional and Interstate Transportation Corridor (or SPIRIT Corridor), which extends along U.S. Route 54 from its starting point in Texas on the border between the United States and Mexico, through New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and ending in Wichita, Kansas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1898)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1897-1898)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Quality Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-291
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government lending
Higher education
Mathematics
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Special education
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Quality Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for additional amounts of student loan forgiveness for certain teachers of: (1) mathematics and science in secondary schools; and (2) special education in elementary and secondary schools.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1899)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt licensed funeral directors and licensed embalmers from the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of that Act.

Bill: 108-s-292
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Commerce
Hours of labor
Minimum wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt licensed funeral directors and licensed embalmers from the minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements of such Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1899)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate