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Asbestos Claims Criteria and Compensation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-413
Sponsor: Sen. Nickles, Don [R-OK]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administration of justice
Asbestos
Bankruptcy
Cancer
Commerce
Damages
Health
Law
Limitation of actions
Products liability
Torts
Wrongful death

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Asbestos Claims Criteria and Compensation Act of 2003 - Requires as an essential element of an asbestos claim that there be physical impairment to which asbestos exposure was a substantial contributing factor. Sets forth prima facie evidence of that impairment, including as a minimum that the exposed person have: (1) at least a Class 2 permanent respiratory impairment rating; (2) asbestosis or diffuse pleural thickening; and (3) a determination of exposure at or above specified levels concerning ratios of FEV1 to FVS or a chest x-ray showing opacities graded at or above specified levels on the ILO scale.
Requires the use of AMA guidelines or other authoritative standards.
Sets forth requirements concerning claim consolidation (with consent only if not members of the same household), venue, preliminary proceedings, and removal.
Delineates the statute of limitations for claims for nonmalignant conditions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2493-2495)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2492-2493)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Consumer Involvement in Breast Cancer Research Act

Bill: 108-s-415
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.
Breast cancer
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Medical research
Nonprofit organizations
Patients' rights
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Consumer Involvement in Breast Cancer Research Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the National Cancer Institute, to the extent practicable, to increase the involvement of people who are accountable to, represent, and report back to organizations that represent those affected by breast cancer in decision making at the Institute regarding breast cancer.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Providing Annual Pap Tests to Save Women's Lives Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-416
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cervical cancer
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Ovarian cancer
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Social Welfare
Standards
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Providing Annual Pap Tests to Save Women's Lives Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend coverage of screening pap smears and screening pelvic exams to annual examinations regardless of whether a woman is of childbearing age or at high-risk.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Osteoporosis Federal Employee Health Benefits Standardization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-417
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bone diseases
Federal employees
Government employees' health insurance
Health
Imaging systems in medicine
Law
Medical tests
Office of Personnel Management
Osteoporosis
Radioisotopes in medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Women
X-rays

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Osteoporosis Federal Employee Health Benefits Standardization Act of 2003 - Prohibits contracts from being made or plans approved under the health insurance program for Federal employees which do not include coverage of bone mass measurements of qualified individuals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security.
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Pregnancy Discrimination Act Amendments of 2003

Bill: 108-s-418
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Breast feeding
Families
Labor and Employment
Sex discrimination
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Pregnancy Discrimination Act Amendments of 2003 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include breast-feeding (including expression of milk by a lactating woman) within the definitions of "because of sex" or "on the basis of sex" for purposes of the discrimination prohibitions of such Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Osteoporosis Measurement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-419
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Estrogen
Imaging systems in medicine
Medical tests
Medicare
Osteoporosis
Radioisotopes in medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Women
Women's health
X-rays

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Medicare Osteoporosis Measurement Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to include coverage of bone mass measurements under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) for all individuals, including estrogen-deficient women, at clinical risk for osteoporosis.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Renewable Energy Production Incentive Reform Act

Bill: 108-s-421
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2003-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Appropriations
Authorization
Biomass energy
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Energy
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Environmental Protection
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Landfills
Methane
Minorities
Native Americans
Natural gas
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public utilities
Renewable natural resources
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Solar energy
Subsidies
Sunset legislation
Territories (U.S.)
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Renewable Energy Production Incentive Reform Act - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992, prescribing incentive payments for renewable energy production, to direct the Secretary of Energy to assign 60 percent of appropriated funds for a given year to facilities that use solar, wind, geothermal, or closed-loop (dedicated energy crops) biomass technologies to generate electricity, and assign the remaining 40 percent to other projects, if there are insufficient appropriations to make full payments for electric production from all qualified renewable energy facilities in any given year.
Redefines a qualified renewable energy facility to include one: (1) owned by specified kinds of public utility, by a State, Commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States or the District of Columbia, or by an Indian tribal government; and (2) which generates electric energy for sale using certain renewable energy sources, including landfill gas.
Extends the eligibility window for incentive payments through FY 2013.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2538)
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to modify the provisions relating to drawback claims, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-422
Sponsor: Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Customs administration
Exports
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide a drawback (refund) of duties paid on unused merchandise which is entered into the United States and, within a specified time period, is later exported or destroyed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2538-2539)
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Agriculture Security Assistance Act

Bill: 108-s-427
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-02-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agricultural education
Agricultural estimating and reporting
Agricultural machinery
Agricultural statistics
Animal diseases
Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Commerce
Computer simulation
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Epidemiology
Farmers
Farms
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Higher education
International Affairs
Interstate compacts
Interstate relations
Livestock
Local laws
Lumber trade
Medical statistics
Nuclear terrorism
Pest control
Planning
Plant diseases
Plant protection
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Regional planning
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
State laws
Terrorism
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Agriculture Security Assistance Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) assist States to develop agricultural disease response plans, including regional and national plans; (2) conduct a related modeling and statistical analysis study; (3) provide State grants for epidemiological assessment use of geographic information and statistical analysis models in the event of agricultural disease emergencies; (4) implement a biosecurity awareness program for farmers and ranchers, including on-farm biosecurity guidelines and discretionary education programs; and (5) establish a farm and ranch biosecurity grant and loan pilot program.
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide grants for State and local animal health care officials to participate in community emergency planning.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1675-1676)
action_date: 2003-09-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11472-11473)
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2597-2598)
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2596-2597)
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-428
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2003-02-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Indian claims
Indian economic development
Indian education
Indian housing
Indian lands
Indian medical care
Interest
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Minorities
Montana
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 2003 - Requires that the share of the Tribe from amounts distributed to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation under the Indian Tribal Judgement Funds Use or Distribution Act (and including funds from the Fort Peck Reservation, et al. v. The United States of America, Docket No. 773-87) be made available for tribal health, education, housing and social services programs of the tribes, including programs for: (1) education and youth; (2) improvement of facilities and housing; (3) equipment for public utilities; (4) medical assistance or dental, optical or convalescent equipment; and (5) senior citizen and community services.
Prohibits the per capita distribution of such share to any member of the tribe.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-30
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2600)
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Anti-Terrorism Military Sniper Weapon Reclassification Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-429
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-02-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Data banks
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Anti-Terrorism Military Sniper Weapon Reclassification Act of 2003 - Amends Chapter 53 (Machine Guns, Destructive Devices, and Certain Other Firearms) of the Internal Revenue Code to include in the definition of the term "firearm" a 50 caliber sniper weapon.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (consideration: CR S9293-9294; text of measure as introduced: CR S9293-9294)
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2600-2602)
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Lands Production Research Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-432
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2003-02-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemical research
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to research
Forest products
National forests
Pesticides
Science, Technology, Communications
Silver
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Public Lands Production Research Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to develop a program of research into alternative treatments for timber products produced from National Forest System lands, including for those produced with the use of silver-based biocides using silver from Federal lands. Allows the program to be implemented through contracts with public or private laboratories or research institutes with relevant experience.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-196.
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2609)
action_date: 2003-02-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Clearwater Basin Project Act

Bill: 108-s-433
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Citizen participation
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-Indian relations
Fishery management
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest health
Forest management
Forest roads
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government regulation
Habitat conservation
Idaho
Law
Licenses
Minorities
National forests
Pest control
Restoration ecology
Soil conservation
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Watersheds
Weeds
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife reintroduction

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Clearwater Basin Project Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain the Clearwater Advisory Panel (CAP), which shall provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service regarding the Clearwater Basin pilot project (the Project) within the Clearwater and Nez Perce National Forests, Idaho. States that the CAP shall: (1) make recommendations regarding activities for high priority implementation; (2) provide early and continuous coordination with Federal officials; and (3) provide for public input into its proceedings.
Authorizes the Secretary to conduct the Project. Directs the CAP, in consultation with and receiving technical assistance from the applicable Forest Supervisor, to develop and submit for approval from the Forest Supervisor five-year schedules of high priority activities for the Project (with separate schedules for each Forest). Requires that the activities included in such schedules be consistent with the applicable forest land and resource management plan. Directs the Forest Service to complete any applicable National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures for the approval of the activities at the site-specific, project level. Directs the CAP to consult with the Nez Perce Tribe in developing and recommending each schedule.
Directs the Forest Supervisor to issue a project or activity decision document regarding approval of the recommended schedule in accordance with NEPA and other applicable procedures.
Provides for the schedules and activities authorized under this section to supplement certain other schedules, plans, and projects or other activities authorized and implemented under other law.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-24
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-531.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Domestic Surveillance Oversight Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-436
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Conduct of court proceedings
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer credit
Courts of special jurisdiction
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Education
Electronic surveillance
Elementary and secondary education
Evidence (Law)
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Law
Libraries
Right of privacy
School libraries
Searches and seizures
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Domestic Surveillance Oversight Act of 2003 - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to authorize courts established to hear applications, grant orders, and review denials regarding electronic surveillance to establish rules and procedures and take actions necessary to administer their responsibilities under FISA. Directs that such rules and procedures be transmitted to the judges on such courts, the Chief Justice of the United States, and specified congressional committees. Requires the Attorney General to issue a public report annually on the aggregate number of U.S. persons targeted for FISA orders and the number of times that the Attorney General has authorized that such information be used in a criminal proceeding.
Amends: (1) the Federal criminal code to require that the semiannual report of the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to the intelligence and judiciary committees concerning requests for access to telephone and transactional records include a separate statement of requests made of institutions operating as public libraries or serving as libraries of secondary schools or institutions of higher education; (2) the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 to require that the Attorney General's semiannual report regarding requests for financial records go to the judiciary committees; and (3) the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require that the Attorney General's semiannual report regarding disclosures by credit reporting agencies to the FBI be made to the judiciary committees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2705-2706)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2703-2705)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to withdraw Federal land in Finger Lakes National Forest, New York, from entry, appropriation, disposal, or disposition under certain Federal laws.

Bill: 108-s-438
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Energy
Mining leases
National forests
Natural gas
New York State
Oil and gas leases
Oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Withdraws all Federal land in Finger Lakes National Forest, New York, from: (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under public land laws; and (2) disposition under all laws relating to oil and gas leasing.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate a United States courthouse to be constructed in Fresno, California, as the 'Robert E. Coyle United States Courthouse'.

Bill: 108-s-440
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: California
Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Judges
Law
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Designates the U.S. courthouse to be constructed on land bounded by O Street, P Street, Tulare Street, and Capitol Street in Fresno, California, as the Robert. E. Coyle United States Courthouse.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2708)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate