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A bill for the relief of Esidronio Arreola-Saucedo, Maria Elena Cobian Arreola, Nayely Bibiana Arreola, and Cindy Jael Arreola.

Bill: 108-s-1130
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: States that Esidronio Arreola-Saucedo, Maria Elena Cobian Arreola, Nayely Bibiana Arreola, and Cindy Jael Arreola shall be eligible for the issuance of immigrant visas or for adjustment of status to that of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: 

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

 
States that Esidronio Arreola-Saucedo, Maria Elena Cobian Arreola, Nayely Bibiana Arreola, and Cindy Jael Arreola shall be eligible for the issuance of immigrant visas or for adjustment of status to that of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text as passed Senate: CR S16061)
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text as passed Senate: CR S16061)
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S16061-16062)
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S16061-16062)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7027-7029)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1131
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Disabled
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Labor and Employment
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase, as of December 1, 2003, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled adult children, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children.
Requires each such increase to be the same percentage as the increase in benefits provided under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, on the same effective date.
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: 

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

 
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase, as of December 1, 2003, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled adult children, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children.
 
Requires each such increase to be the same percentage as the increase in benefits provided under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, on the same effective date.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 306.
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Specter without amendment. With written report No. 108-163.
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Specter without amendment. With written report No. 108-163.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S7029)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7029)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Programs Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1133
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cemeteries and funerals
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government life insurance
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Self-employed
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Veterans Programs Improvement Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase, as of December 1, 2003, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled adult children, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children.
 
Makes the effective date for the award of death pension the same as that for the award of death compensation or dependency and indemnity compensation.
 
Excludes lump-sum insurance proceeds from income for purposes of eligibility for veterans' pensions.
 
Prohibits the payment of veterans' disability compensation for an alcohol- or drug-abuse related disability even if the the alcohol or drug abuse is secondary to a service-connected disability.
 
Provides alternative beneficiaries for National Service Life Insurance and United States Government Life Insurance proceeds when the first beneficiary does not make a claim.
 
Provides burial benefit eligibility for a veteran's surviving spouse who remarries following the veteran's death.
 
Makes permanent the authority for the State cemetery grants program.
 
Repeals the Department of Veterans Affairs Education Loan program.
 
Includes self-employment training under the Montgomery GI Bill.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S7031-7033)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7031)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Physician Payment Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1135
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Medicare Physician Payment Equity Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) establishment of a uniform national Medicare physician fee schedule; and (2) phase-out of geographic adjustment indices.
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on: (1) the recruitment and retention of physicians; (2) the access of Medicare beneficiaries to physicians, medical tests, and medical therapies in each fee schedule area; and (3) the use by Medicare beneficiaries of items and services for which payment may be made under the Medicare program in each such fee schedule area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7040-7041)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 108-s-1137
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Historic sites
History
Indian lands
Land use
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Minorities
Mississippi
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area Act - Establishes, in the State of Mississippi, the Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area, and assigns the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources to serve as the Area's coordinating entity (the entity). Directs the entity to develop and submit to the Secretary of the Interior a management plan for the Area. States elements that the plan shall contain, including recommendations for: (1) the conservation and development of the Area's resources; and (2) educational and interpretive programs.
Directs the Secretary to approve or disapprove of the plan. Directs the entity to periodically review the plan and to submit amendments for approval.
Allows the entity to make grants to and provide technical assistance to tribal and local governments and other public and private entities to further the development and implementation of the plan. Directs the entity to perform certain functions in carrying out this Act, including to: (1) assist local and tribal governments and non-profits in various ways; and (2) make available to the Secretary for audit all records relating to the expenditure of funds and any matching funds.
Sets forth things this Act shall not do, including that it shall not restrict an Indian tribe from protecting cultural or religious sites on tribal land.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate
HEART Act

Bill: 108-s-1138
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alcoholism
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Commerce
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Help Expand Access to Recovery and Treatment Act of 2003, or the HEART Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code to provide for parity in the application of treatment limitations and financial requirements to substance abuse treatment benefits under group health plans and individual health insurance coverage.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S7051-7053)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Traffic Safety Law Enforcement Campaign Act

Bill: 108-s-1139
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Transportation
Drug abuse
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Public service advertising
Seat belts
Traffic accidents and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Traffic Safety Law Enforcement Campaign Act - Directs the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to: (1) establish a program to conduct at least three high-visibility traffic safety law enforcement campaigns each year focusing on reducing alcohol-impaired driving and increasing seat belt use; and (2) evaluate the effectiveness of the campaigns at the end of each year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S7053)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7053)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Higher-Risk Impaired Driver Act

Bill: 108-s-1141
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-05-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Arrest
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Driver education
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug testing
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Mandatory sentences
Motor vehicle safety
Probation
Prosecution
Recidivists
Rehabilitation of criminals
Searches and seizures
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State laws
Traffic accidents and safety
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: 
Higher-Risk Impaired Driver Act - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold an increasing percentage (two percent on October 1, 2007; four percent on October 1, 2008; six percent on October 1, 2009; and eight percent on October 1, 2010) of a State's Federal-aid highway funds if the State has not enacted or is not enforcing a higher risk impaired driver law.
 
Defines such a law as one that provides certain minimum penalties for: (1) a second or subsequent offense of driving while intoxicated (DWI) or driving under the influence (DUI) within a minimum of five consecutive years, of DWI or DUI with a blood alcohol concentration of .15 percent or greater, or of driving-while-suspended if the suspension was the result of a DUI conviction; or (2) refusing a blood alcohol concentration test while under arrest or investigation for involvement in a fatal or serious injury crash. Includes among such penalties: (1) driver's license suspension; (2) motor vehicle impoundment or immobilization; (3) assessment by a certified substance abuse official and assignment to treatment; (4) imprisonment, attachment of an electronic monitoring device, or assignment to a DUI/DWI specialty facility; (5) a $1,000 fine; (6) payment of court-mandated restitution; (7) probation; and (8) required attendance of a treatment program and a victim impact panel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7054)
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Hepatitis C Epidemic Control and Prevention Act

Bill: 108-s-1143
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Communicable diseases
Communication in medicine
Confidential communications
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Federal-state relations
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health counseling
Health education
Health information systems
Health planning
Hepatitis
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Indian medical care
Intravenous drug abuse
Liver diseases
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Minorities
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nonprofit organizations
Paramedical personnel
Performance measurement
Police
Preventive medicine
Public health
Quality of life
Research grants
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Vaccination

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Hepatitis C Epidemic Control and Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a plan for the prevention, control, and management of hepatitis C virus (HCV), which shall include strategies for education and training, surveillance and early detection, and research. Requires the Secretary to conduct a biennial assessment of the plan.
Directs the Secretary to support the development of voluntary State, local, and tribal HCV testing programs and counseling. Provides for the vaccination of individuals infected with HCV against hepatitis A and B and other infectious diseases.
Directs the Secretary to support the establishment and maintenance of HCV surveillance databases and to establish and support a Hepatitis C Clinical Research Network.
Allows the Secretary to award grants to States, political subdivisions of States, Indian tribes, or non-profit entities that have special expertise relating to HCV, to carry out activities under this Act.
Directs the Director of the National Institutes of Health to establish a Liver Disease Research Advisory Board.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S7142-7144)
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to name the health care facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs located at 820 South Damen Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, as the "Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center".

Bill: 108-s-1144
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2003-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Cabinet officers
Congress
Congressional tributes
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Illinois
Names
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs health care facility located at 820 South Damen Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, as the Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-29
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 Baldwin Avenue in Paia, Maui, Hawaii, as the "Patsy Takemoto Mink Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-1145
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Hawaii
House of Representatives
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 120 Baldwin Avenue in Paia, Maui, Hawaii, as the Patsy Takemoto Mink 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 U.S. Postal Service facility located at 120 Baldwin Avenue in Paia, Maui, Hawaii, as the Patsy Takemoto Mink 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. 151.
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: 2003-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
High-Tech Port Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1147
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Containerization
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Explosions
Explosives
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Harbors
International Affairs
Law
Marine safety
Nuclear terrorism
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Standards
Technology assessment
Terrorism
Transportation planning

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: 
High-Tech Port Security Act of 2003 - Instructs the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to prescribe regulations: (1) establishing certification standards and procedures for blast-resistant containers; and (2) prohibiting entry into the United States of any vessel carrying regulated containers after such regulations are prescribed unless they are all certified blast-resistant.
 

 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish standards for the certification of equipment designed to screen a container carried by a vessel entering the United States for radioactive and explosive materials before the container leaves the port; (2) take action to ensure that the twenty largest domestic ports (and any others determined highly vulnerable) have deployed such certified screening equipment; and (3) establish command and control centers at the twenty largest domestic ports. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Quality Improvement Act

Bill: 108-s-1148
Sponsor: Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT]
Introduced: 2003-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Clinics
Disabled
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health information systems
Health maintenance organizations
Home care services
Hospital care
Managed care
Medical economics
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical technology
Medicare
Nursing homes
Patients' rights
Physicians
Quality of care
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Medicare Quality Improvement Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for a health care quality demonstration program under which the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) shall approve demonstration projects that examine health delivery factors that encourage the delivery of improved quality in patient care. Directs the Secretary to establish within HHS a national steering committee for medical excellence demonstration programs to make recommendations to the Secretary regarding program design, evaluation, and participation criteria.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate