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Medicare Incentive Payment Program Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-379
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Law
Legislation
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Medicare Incentive Payment Program Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish procedures under which the Secretary, and not the physician furnishing the service, is responsible for determining when a payment is required to be made under the Medicare incentive (bonus) payment program.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish and implement an ongoing educational program to provide education to physicians under the Medicare program on the Medicare incentive payment program; and (2) conduct an ongoing study of such program for annual reports to Congress.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2363)
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2362-2363)
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
LEGACY Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-381
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Custody of children
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Energy
Energy efficiency
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to housing
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grandparents
Housing authorities
Housing discrimination
Housing for the aged
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Public housing
Rent
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Living Equitably: Grandparents Aiding Children and Youth Act of 2003 (Legacy Act of 2003) - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out: (1) a five-year pilot program in connection with the supportive housing program to provide assistance to private nonprofit organizations for expanding the supply of intergenerational dwelling units for intergenerational families (families headed by an elderly person); and (2) a five-year demonstration program for section 8 rental assistance to families headed by a grandparent or relative who is raising a child.
Makes grandparent-headed and relative-headed families eligible for: (1) family unification assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937; (2) Home program ECHO units under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; and (3) fair housing initiatives education, counseling, and outreach under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987.
Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to provide Department of Housing and Urban Development personnel with related training.
Directs the Secretary and the Director of the Bureau of the Census to conduct a joint study of such families' housing needs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Cholesterol Screening Coverage Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-382
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2003-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular diseases
Cholesterol
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Medicare Cholesterol Screening Coverage Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of cardiovascular screening tests under the Medicare program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2367)
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2366-22367)
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Canadian Waste Import Ban Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-383
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2003-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Canada
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Import restrictions
Incineration
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Law
Municipal solid waste
Transboundary pollution
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: 
Canadian Waste Import Ban Act of 2003 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit the importation into any State, and acceptance by a solid waste management facility, of Canadian municipal solid waste for disposal or incineration until the date on which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgates regulations to implement and enforce the Agreement Concerning the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste between the United States and Canada.
 
Authorizes State Governors to opt out of such prohibition pending promulgation of regulations if notice is submitted to the Administrator.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) perform the functions of the Designated Authority of the United States described in the Agreement with respect to the importation and exportation of municipal solid waste; and (2) implement and enforce the Agreement. 
 
Directs the Administrator, when making importation decisions under the Agreement, to obtain the consent of each State and to consider the impact of importation on homeland security, public health, and the environment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2367-2368)
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2367)
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Corporate Patriot Enforcement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-384
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2003-02-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporate mergers
Corporation taxes
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Partnerships
Stock exchanges
Stockholders
Tax evasion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Corporate Patriot Enforcement Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code by determining that acquiring corporations in"corporate expatriation transactions" shall be considered domestic corporations. Defines a "corporate expatriation transaction" as, with certain exceptions, one in which a "nominally foreign corporation" acquires substantially all of the properties held by a domestic corporation and in which, immediately after the transaction, more than 80 percent of the stock of the acquiring corporation is held by former shareholders of the domestic corporation. Lowers the 80 percent threshold to 50 percent when the acquiring "nominally foreign corporation" lacks substantial business activities in the foreign country in which it was created and organized compared to the total activities of the "expanded affiliated group" and the stock is publicly traded, with the principal market of trading being the United States. Defines the terms "nominally foreign corporation" and "expanded affiliated group."
Applies similar rules to partnership transactions.
Establishes that a series of related transactions relevant to the Act shall be handled as a single transaction.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Education for Retirement Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-386
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Adult education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against the elderly
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Estates (Law)
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Fraud
Grants-in-aid
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Long-term care
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Personal budgets
Retirement
Saving and investment
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telemarketing
Usury

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Education for Retirement Security Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities to provide financial education programs to mid-life and older individuals who reside in local communities in order to: (1) enhance their financial and retirement knowledge; and (2) reduce financial abuse and fraud, including telemarketing, mortgage, and pension fraud, among them.
Authorizes the Secretary to award a grant to one or more eligible entities to: (1) create and make available instructional materials and information that promote financial education; and (2) provide training and other related assistance regarding the establishment of financial education programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2463)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2462-2463)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Geriatric Care Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-387
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Caregivers
Case management
Chronically ill
Clinics
Coinsurance
Continuum of care
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Drug utilization
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency medicine
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Geriatrics
Health counseling
Higher education
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Living wills
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical residents
Medicare
Osteopathy and osteopaths
Physicians
Psychiatrists
Rural health
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telephone
Terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Geriatric Care Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to payments to hospitals, rural health clinics, or Federally qualified health centers for direct graduate medical education (GME) costs and the limitation on the number of full-time-equivalent residents in allopathic and osteopathic medicine. Provides for the disregard of up to three geriatric residents in applying such limitation. Extends the eligibility period for GME payment for geriatric fellowship training.
Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for Medicare coverage of care coordination and assessment services to an individual with a serious and disabling chronic condition.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2463-2465)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Boost for Child Care Act

Bill: 108-s-388
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Day care
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Income tax
Parent and child
Tax credits
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: A Boost for Child Care Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the child care credit to: (1) expand the credit by revising the definition of the applicable percentage; and (2) accelerate the increase to a $1,000 credit.
Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program promote awareness of the use of dependent care assistance programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2465-2466)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2465)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Caring for Children Act

Bill: 108-s-389
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Auditing
Child care workers
Child development
Child health
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Disabled
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefit plans
Employee training
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health
Higher education
Internet
Labor and Employment
Preschool education
Scholarships
School-age child care
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Telephone
Web sites
Working poor

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Caring for Children Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect and disseminate directly or through competitive award of contracts: (1) information concerning health and safety in various child care settings; and (2) relevant findings in the field of early childhood learning and development.
Directs the Secretary to award grants to eligible entities to develop: (1) distance learning child care training technology infrastructures; and (2) model technology-based training courses for child care providers and child care workers, to be provided through distance learning programs made available through the infrastructure. Requires, to the maximum extent possible, that such grants be awarded in those regions of the United States with the fewest training opportunities for child care providers.
Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration program of competitive grants to States to help them provide funds to encourage the establishment and operation of small business employer-operated child care programs. Requires a State to give priority for such assistance to applicants that desire to form a consortium to provide child care in a geographic area within the State where such care is not generally available or accessible, and allows such consortia to include businesses, nonprofit agencies or organizations, local governments, or other appropriate entities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2466-2467)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2465)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Safety Valve Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-390
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Appellate procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Conspiracy
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Informers
Law
Limitation of actions
Mandatory sentences
Prisoners' rights
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sentencing guidelines
Smuggling

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Safety Valve Fairness Act of 2003 - Makes retroactive the court's authority to apply sentencing guidelines instead of mandatory sentences to drug offenders who were first time, nonviolent drug offenders who were not leaders or organizers, did not use a firearm, and provided the Government with all the information they had about the offense.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2467)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-392
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2003 - Permits retired members of the armed forces with service-connected disabilities to be paid both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation.
Repeals provisions providing for special compensation for certain severely disabled military retirees and certain combat-related disabled uniformed services retirees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2468)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2467-2468)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow employers a credit against income tax with respect to employees who participate in the military reserve components and to allow a comparable credit for participating reserve component self-employed individuals, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-393
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Military pay
Self-employed
Tax credits
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers an income tax credit with respect to employees who participate in the military reserve components, and to allow a comparable credit for participating reserve component self-employed individuals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2469-2470)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the combat zone income tax exclusion to include income for the period of transit to the combat zone and to remove the limitation on such exclusion for commissioned officers.

Bill: 108-s-394
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Income tax
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel
Officer personnel
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to non-taxed "combat zone" compensation to: (1) include "transit to the combat zone" within such definition; and (2) eliminate the enlisted personnel compensation ceiling for commissioned officers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2470)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Bipartisan Renewable Efficient Energy with Zero Effluent (BREEZE) Act

Bill: 108-s-395
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Energy
Income tax
Tax credits
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Bipartisan Renewable, Efficient Energy with Zero Effluent (BREEZE) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend, for three years, the credit for producing energy from wind.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2471)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2470-2471)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Gunsmith Excise Tax Simplification Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-396
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Excise tax
Firearms
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Imports
Manufacturing industries
Small business
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Gunsmith Excise Tax Simplification Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a person who manufactures, produces, and imports fewer than 50 firearms per year from the firearms excise tax.
Treats persons considered as a single employer for certain special rule provisions as a single person for such exemption.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2471)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2471)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Payroll Tax Deduction Act

Bill: 108-s-397
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Self-employed
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Payroll Tax Deduction Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual a deduction in arriving at adjusted gross income for the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) taxes paid by the individual as an employee during the taxable year. Includes in such deduction: (1) the portion of the tier 1 railroad retirement tax paid equivalent to OASDI taxes; as well as (2) amounts equivalent to such taxes imposed with respect to remuneration covered by a voluntary agreement under the Social Security Act for coverage of State and local government employees, or a specified kind of agreement entered into by American employers with respect to foreign affiliates.
Allows a self-employed individual to deduct, in arriving at adjusted gross income, all OASDI taxes paid and half the hospital insurance taxes paid.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2472)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2471-2472)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide that members of the Armed Forces performing services at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, and in the Horn of Africa in support of Operation Enduring Freedom shall be entitled to tax benefits in the same manner as if such services were performed in a combat zone, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-398
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Caribbean area
Cuba
Estate tax
Excise tax
Families
Income tax
Latin America
Married people
Military bases
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel
Missing in action
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax administration
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax rates
Tax returns
Telephone
War casualties
Widowers
Widows
Withholding tax
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Entitles military personnel eligible for special pay for hostile fire or imminent danger for services at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, and in the Horn of Africa in support of Operation Enduring Freedom or any successor operation to specified tax benefits as if such services were performed in a combat zone.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2473)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate