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A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to designate perchlorate as a contaminant and to establish a maximum contaminant level for perchlorate.

Bill: 108-s-502
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Chemicals
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Potable water
Standards
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to designate perchlorate as a contaminant and to establish a maximum contaminant level that provides an adequate margin of safety for vulnerable populations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3035)
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow increase the minimum tax credit where stock acquired pursuant to an incentive stock option is sold or exchanged at a loss.

Bill: 108-s-503
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee stock options
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Minimum tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a special rule allowing a minimum credit against the alternative minimum tax where stock acquired pursuant to an incentive stock option is sold or exchanged at a loss.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
CLEAR Act

Bill: 108-s-505
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Automobile engines
Automobiles
Commerce
Compressed natural gas
Electric vehicles
Energy
Environmental Protection
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Hydrogen
Income tax
Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied petroleum gas
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicle safety
Motor vehicles
Natural gas vehicles
Service stations
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Clean Efficient Automobiles Resulting From Advanced Car Technologies (CLEAR ACT) Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an annual alternative motor vehicle credit equal to the sum of: (1) the new qualified fuel cell motor vehicle credit; (2) the new qualified hybrid motor vehicle credit; and (3) the new qualified alternative fuel motor vehicle credit. Sets forth credit termination dates.
Extends and revises the credit for qualified electric vehicles. Makes leased vehicles eligible for the credit.
Allows a limited credit for installation of alternative fueling stations.
Allows a limited credit for the retail sale of alternative fuels as motor fuel.
Mandates studies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3089-3091)
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Efficient Energy through Certified Technologies (EFFECT) Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-507
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air conditioning
Alternative energy sources
Apartment houses
Building construction
Building materials
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Computer software
Condominium (Housing)
Cooperative housing
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Electric power production
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Fuel cells
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Heat pumps
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Labeling
Law
Licenses
Lighting
Natural gas
Petroleum
Propane
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Renewable natural resources
Rental housing
Science, Technology, Communications
Single family housing
Solar energy
Standards
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax returns
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Efficient Energy through Certified Technologies (EFFECT) Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to energy use in buildings, to establish: (1) a deduction for certain energy efficient property used in business; (2) a credit for the construction of a new energy efficient home; and (3) a credit for certain nonbusiness energy property.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4050)
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3093-3094)
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1830 South Lake Drive in Lexington, South Carolina, as the "Floyd Spence Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-508
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2003-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Names
Postal facilities
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Designates the facility of the U.S. Postal Service located at 1830 South Lake Drive in Lexington, South Carolina, as the Floyd Spence Post Office Building.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the U.S. Postal Service located at 1830 South Lake Drive in Lexington, South Carolina, as the Floyd Spence Post Office Building.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-22
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration:  CR S9740)
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 148.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Market Oversight Act

Bill: 108-s-509
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Business records
Commerce
Commodity exchanges
Consultants
Crime and Law Enforcement
Derivative securities
Evidence (Law)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Futures trading
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Law
Market manipulation
Natural gas
Securities
Securities regulation
Trade secrets
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Energy Market Oversight Act - Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to require that: (1) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) refer to the appropriate Federal agency any contract for a derivative transaction or other financial transaction that FERC determines is not under its jurisdiction; (2) a FERC designee meet quarterly with specified agencies to discuss conditions in energy trading markets and legislative changes that may be appropriate to regulate such markets; and (3) maintain a liaison between the Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Amends the Natural Gas Act and the Federal Power Act to: (1) repeal subjection of the investigations authority of FERC to the consent of the Office of Management and Budget and any other Federal agency; and (2) increase criminal penalties for violations.
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to revise requirements for regulation of excluded swap transactions, transactions not on trading facilities, and other off-exchange transactions exempt from such Act but subject to regulations applicable to transactions on derivatives transaction execution facilities. Replaces the designation "electronic trading facilities" with "covered entities." Prescribes requirements for and limitations on CFTC regulation of covered entities. Authorizes the CFTC to establish core principles requiring a covered entity to monitor trading to prevent fraud and price distortion while ensuring adequate resources to discharge its responsibilities and comply with all reporting, notice, and registration requirements.
Revises the prohibition against fraudulent transactions to state that such prohibitions do not impose on parties to transactions subject to the rules of designated contract markets or registered derivative transaction execution facilities any legal duty to provide counterparties or other market participants with any material market information.
Sets a maximum civil penalty for commodity price manipulation of $1 million or triple the monetary gain for each violation, and a maximum ten-year prison term.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3094-3101)
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Commercial Truck Highway Safety Demonstration Program Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-510
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Highway finance
Interstate highway system
Maine
Traffic accidents and safety
Trucking
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: 
Commercial Truck Highway Safety Demonstration Program Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a program to demonstrate the effects on the safety of the highway network in Maine of permitting operation on the Interstate System highways within the State of a vehicle that weighs over 80,000 pounds, that consists of a three-axle tractor unit hauling a single trailer or semitrailer, and that does not exceed any vehicle weight limitation applicable under Maine law. 
Waives highway funding reduction relating to weight of vehicles using Interstate System highways with respect to vehicles allowed pursuant to this program. 
Provides for program termination and for the responsibilities of the State of Maine, including: (1) submitting a plan to the Secretary of Transportation; (2) establishing a highway safety committee; and (3) collecting data on the net effects of the operation of such vehicles on safety.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
PILT and Refuge Revenue Sharing Permanent Funding Act

Bill: 108-s-511
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Payments in lieu of taxes
Revenue sharing
Taxation
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: PILT and Refuge Revenue Sharing Permanent Funding Act - Provides permanent funding for the Bureau of Land Management's payment in lieu of taxes program (PILT) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's refuge revenue sharing program.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 
PILT and Refuge Revenue Sharing Permanent Funding Act - Provides permanent funding for the Bureau of Land Management's payment in lieu of taxes program (PILT) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's refuge revenue sharing program beginning in FY 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 720.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 108-361.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 108-361.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
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: 2003-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Generating Opportunity by Forgiving Educational Debt for Service Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-512
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Tax exclusion
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Generating Opportunity by Forgiving Educational Debt for Service Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Social Security Act to exclude: (1) from the gross income of a Federal employee amounts the Federal Government repays on the employee's student loans; and (2) such payments from counting as wages for the calculation of Social Security taxes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Corporate Tax Fairness and Shareholder Rights Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-513
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2003-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporate management
Corporation taxes
Expatriation
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Immigration
Income tax
Partnerships
Stocks
Tax deductions
Tax havens

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-31
text: Corporate Tax Fairness and Shareholder Rights Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) 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.
Amends the Securities Act of 1934 to require: (1) disclosure to shareholders, and effects of, corporate expatriation transaction; and (2) disclosure to the SEC of the approval of any corporate expatriate transaction.
Amends the IRC to temporarily (through 2007) increase the expensing limit and phaseout threshold.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Social Security Benefits Tax Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-514
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Social Security Benefits Tax Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the 85 percent (second tier) taxation of Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits. Appropriates, from the general fund, to the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund amounts equal to the reduction in revenue lost because of the repeal.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3165)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Arming Cargo Pilots Against Terrorism Act

Bill: 108-s-516
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aircraft pilots
Airlines
Aviation safety
Commercial aircraft
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
EBB Terrorism
Firearms
Labor and Employment
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Arming Cargo Pilots Against Terrorism Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that a flight deck crew member of a cargo aircraft should be armed with a firearm to defend such aircraft against attacks by terrorists that could use the aircraft as a weapon of mass destruction or for other terrorist purposes.
Amends Federal transportation law to authorize the training and arming of flight deck crew members (pilots) of all-cargo air transportation flights to prevent acts of criminal violence or air piracy.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3721)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3165-3166)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3165)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Francis W. Agnes Prisoner of War Benefits Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-517
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Veterans Affairs
Diabetes
Evidence (Law)
Ex-prisoners of war
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Heart diseases
Labor and Employment
Law
Liver diseases
Medical research
Osteoporosis
Science, Technology, Communications
Stroke
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Francis W. Agnes Prisoner of War Benefits Act of 2003 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions with respect to former prisoners of war to repeal the currently required: (1) 30-day minimum period of internment prior to the presumption of service connection for certain listed diseases, for purposes of the payment of veterans' disability compensation; and (2) 90-day minimum period of internment prior to eligibility for dental care furnished through the Department of Veterans Affairs. Adds the following to the listed diseases under (1), above: heart disease, stroke, liver disease, diabetes (type 2), and osteoporosis. Requires: (1) such presumption also with respect to any disease that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs determines warrants such presumption by reason of having a positive association with the experience of being a prisoner of war; and (2) the Secretary to make such a determination within 60 days after a recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War that such presumption be established for a non-listed disease.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Improvements for Special Needs Beneficiaries Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-526
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Chronically ill
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medicare
Quality of care
Social Welfare
Welfare recipients

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Medicare Improvements for Special Needs Beneficiaries Act of 2003 - Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) allow specialized Medicare+Choice plans for special needs beneficiaries to be any type of coordinated care plan; (2) provide for specialized Medicare+Choice plans for special needs beneficiaries; and (3) restrict enrollment for specialized Medicare+Choice plans to individuals within one or more classes of special needs beneficiaries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate