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Concentrated Livestock Existing Alongside Nature Act

Bill: 108-s-1407
Sponsor: Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]
Introduced: 2003-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Animals
Business records
Commerce
Farm manure
Feedlots
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Livestock
Soil conservation
Soil pollution
Standards
Waste disposal sites
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: 
Concentrated Livestock Existing Alongside Nature Act - Prohibits the application of animal waste to land where the nitrogen or phosphorus would increase the risk of soil toxicity or surface or ground water pollution. 
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish: (1) permitted levels for other substances found in animal waste; and (2) minimal distances from environmentally sensitive locations or high density or sensitive populations for the aerial spraying of animal waste. 
Requires a containment system for the retention of all animal waste, both wet and dry, including the construction and use of certain structures to store excess waste. Stipulates that these systems and structures have sufficient structural integrity and/or emergency shutoff devices and be sited in such a way as to eliminate or contain discharges and pollution. 
Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator to promulgate national primary ambient air quality standards for hydrogen sulfide and ammonia as measured at any point on the property line of a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO). 
Directs the Administrator to establish an animal waste management program which requires animal owners to have an approved animal waste management plan designed to prevent the discharge of animal waste into surface or ground water. Requires the Administrator to develop plan requirements in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture. 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) compel the closure of any CAFO operating without an approved plan; and (2) review and modify plans where it is administratively determined that a CAFO has caused significant water pollution. 
Waives Federal requirements where State requirements exist that are equally or more stringent. 
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to exclude the expansion of a CAFO from cost-share payments under that Act. Includes, however, as part of the environmental quality incentives program, an animal waste management plan developed by a livestock operator too small to be considered a CAFO.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel.

Bill: 108-s-1408
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2003-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business travel
Commerce
Families
Income tax
Married people
Parent and child
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the restrictions on the tax deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse, dependent, or other individual accompanying the taxpayer on business travel.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9421)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Medical Treatment Act

Bill: 108-s-1410
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2003-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Advertising
Agriculture and Food
Alternative medicine
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Deceptive advertising
Dietary supplements
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drug interactions
Drugs
Evidence (Law)
Food industry
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health warnings
Informed consent (Medical law)
Labeling
Law
Medical supplies
Patients' rights

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: 
Access to Medical Treatment Act - Permits any individual to be treated by a health care practitioner with any medical treatment that the individual desires (including a treatment that is not approved, certified, or licensed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) if: (1) the practitioner agrees to treat the individual; and (2) the administration of such treatment does not violate licensing laws.
 
 Declares that health care practitioners may/shall (sic) provide any method of treatment to such an individual if certain requirements are met. 
Requires a practitioner to report: (1) administering such treatment and discovering it to be a danger to an individual; and (2) the positive effects of an unconventional medical treatment for a life-threatening medical condition.
States that nothing in this Act shall in any way adversely affect the distribution or sale of dietary supplements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9422-9423)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1411
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Age discrimination
Building construction
Community development
Community development banking
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Disabled
Discrimination
Discrimination against the disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government trust funds
Housing finance
Housing subsidies
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Land use
Low-income housing
Minimum wages
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Poverty
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public housing
Real property
Rental housing
Sex discrimination
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax-exempt securities
Taxation
Wages
Welfare recipients
Working poor

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: 
National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2003 - Establishes the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund in the Treasury to promote the development of affordable low-income housing through grants to States and local jurisdictions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9423-9424)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend the implementation of the revised definitions of Metropolitan Statistical Areas applicable to Kent, Ottawa, Muskegon, and Allegan Counties in the State of Michigan.

Bill: 108-s-1412
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2003-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Census
Metropolitan areas
Michigan
Population
Science, Technology, Communications
Statistics
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: 
Stays implementation of the revised definitions of Metropolitan Statistical Areas applicable to Kent, Ottawa, Muskegon, and Allegan Counties in Michigan until October 1, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9424-9425)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
California Affordable Quantity and Quality Water Resources Projects Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1413
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Civil engineering
Costs
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water pollution control
Governmental investigations
Groundwater
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Nonpoint source pollution
Planning
Potable water
Revolving funds
Saline waters
Sediment control
Water conservation
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water supply
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: 
California Affordable Quantity and Quality Water Resources Projects Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Safe Water Drinking Act to increase the authorizations of appropriations for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conservation grant programs, including the national nonpoint source program, the state nonpoint source management program, state pollution control grants, state water quality cooperative agreements, the clean water state revolving fund, and the drinking water state revolving fund. 
 
Authorizes expedited feasibility studies for 22 water projects in California. Requires the Secretaries of the Army and the Interior to give priority to studies that would provide environmental or other benefits, or examine the use of nonstructural or low-impact alternatives to achieving project goals. Lists required components of qualifying studies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9425)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
District of Columbia Personal Protection Act

Bill: 108-s-1414
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ammunition
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
District of Columbia
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Licenses
Local laws
Municipal home rule
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: 
District of Columbia Personal Protection Act - Amends the District of Columbia Code to provide that the D.C. Council's regulatory authority regarding firearms, explosives, and weapons in the District shall not be construed to permit the Council, the Mayor, or any governmental or regulatory authority of the District to prohibit, constructively prohibit, or unduly burden the ability of persons otherwise permitted to possess firearms under Federal law from acquiring, possessing in their homes or businesses, or using for sporting, self-protection or other lawful purposes, any firearm neither prohibited by Federal law nor regulated by the National Firearms Act. Denies the District any authority to enact laws or regulations that discourage or eliminate the private ownership or use of firearms.
 
Repeals the definition of machine gun as any firearm which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily converted or restored to shoot semiautomatically, more than 12 shots without manual reloading. (Thus repeals the ban on semiautomatic weapons.)
 
Repeals the District's: (1) registration requirement for possession of firearms; (2) prohibition on registration of pistols (handguns); (3) prohibition on possession of handgun ammunition; (4) requirement that, under certain conditions, firearms in the possession of certain individuals must be kept unloaded, disassembled, or with the trigger locked; (5) related firearm registration requirements such as applicant qualifications and filing deadline.
 
Eliminates criminal penalties for: (1) possessing an unregistered firearm; or (2) carrying a pistol whether loaded or unloaded in one's dwelling house, place of business, or on land possessed by such person.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-24
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9426)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9425-9426)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 141 Weston Street in Hartford, Connecticut, as the "Barbara B. Kennelly Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-1415
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2003-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Connecticut
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 141 Weston Street in Hartford, Connecticut, as the Barbara B. Kennelly Post Office Building. 

action_date: 2003-10-27
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 141 Weston Street in Hartford, Connecticut, as the Barbara B. Kennelly Post Office Building. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration:  CR S15090)
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 326.
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9427)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9426-9427)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Notch Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1418
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2003-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: 
Notch Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for the computation of minimum Old Age Insurance benefits for individuals who reached age 65 in or after 1979, and to whom applies the 15-year transition period for the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977. 
 
Sets forth a schedule of additional benefit increases for such beneficiaries (and related beneficiaries), with percentages declining from 55 percent to five percent and keyed to the year an individual became eligible for such benefits between 1979 and 1988. 
 
Allows such beneficiaries, in the alternative, to receive lump sum payments over four years totaling $5,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9498-9499)
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9497-9498)
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1419
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Academic performance
Adoption
Alcohol and youth
Child abuse
Child development
Child welfare
Church and social problems
Community organization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Family violence
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Graduate education
Higher education
Homeless
Identification of criminals
Indian children
Information services
Internet
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Mentoring
Minorities
Native Americans
Problem children
Religion
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teenage pregnancy
Telephone
Volunteer workers
Web sites
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: 
Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2003 - Amends title IV part B (Child-Welfare Services) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to States to support the establishment or expansion and operation of programs using networks of public and private community entities to provide mentoring for children in foster care. Authorizes a grant award directly to a political subdivision if the subdivision serves a substantial number of foster care youth.
 
Prescribes program implementation guidelines, including: (1) application requirements; (2) training; (3) screening; (4) educational requirements; (5) Federal and non-Federal share of funds for the Program; (6) considerations in awarding grants; and (7) use of funds. 
Sets forth a maximum grant amount to be awarded to a State or political subdivision. 
Authorizes the Secretary to award a competitive grant to an eligible entity to establish a National Hotline Service or Website to provide information to individuals interested in becoming mentors to youth in foster care.
Instructs the Secretary of Education to implement a program to provide for the discharge or cancellation of the Federal student loan indebtedness of an eligible mentor.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9499)
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
TEACH Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1422
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Autism
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Higher education
Interest
Labor and Employment
Ombudsman
Paraprofessional school personnel
Scholarships
Secondary education
Special education
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Teacher Education for Autistic Children Act of 2003 - TEACH Act of 2003 - Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) training of special education teachers with expertise in autism spectrum disorders (ASD); and (2) improving results for children with ASD, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to carry out a student loan forgiveness program of assuming the obligation to repay up to specified amounts of certain loans under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for borrowers who are employed as full-time special education teachers of children with ASD for three consecutive complete school years. Provides for additional amounts to be repaid at the end of each of the next two additional consecutive years of such employment, up to a total maximum amount.
Amends IDEA to require local educational agencies receiving IDEA assistance to report on autism early intervention activities. 
Directs the Secretary: (1) acting through the Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to establish and provide administrative support for a task force on ASD; (2) with the Secretary of Labor to study and report to Congress on the effectiveness of Federal vocational training programs in providing appropriate assistance to individuals with ASD; and (3) to make grants to each State that establishes and operates at least one State autism ombudsman office.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9594-9595)
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9593-9594)
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize the New York City Watershed Protection Program.

Bill: 108-s-1425
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental monitoring
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
New York City
New York State
Potable water
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Water supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: 
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize the New York City Watershed Protection Program through 2010.

action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize the New York City Watershed Protection Program through 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 406.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe with an amendment. With written report No. 108-205.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe with an amendment. With written report No. 108-205.
action_date: 2003-07-30
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Commonsense Consumption Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1428
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2003-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Consumer behavior
Consumer complaints
Fines (Penalties)
Food industry
Health
Injunctions
Liability (Law)
Obesity

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: 
Commonsense Consumption Act of 2003 - Declares that a qualified civil liability action may not be brought in any Federal or State court, and that any pending qualified civil liability action shall be dismissed immediately by the relevant court. Defines a qualified civil liability action as a civil action brought by any person against a manufacturer or seller of a food, or a trade association, for damages or injunctive relief based on a claim of injury resulting from weight gain or obesity. Specifies actions which shall not count as qualified civil liability actions, including an action regarding the sale of a food which is adulterated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-16
text: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9595-9596)
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate