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Cord Blood Stem Cell Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1717
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-10-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Blood
Blood banks
Data banks
Directories
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Genetic research
Genetics
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-03
text: 
Cord Blood Stem Cell Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to enter into contracts with qualified cord blood stem cell banks to assist in the establishment, provision, and maintenance of a National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Network of at least 150,000 units of human cord blood stem cells. Lists the purposes of qualifying donor banks and requirements qualifying donor banks must meet. 
 
Directs the Secretary, through the Administrator, to establish as part of the Network a National Cord Blood Stem Cell Registry. Sets forth the functions of the Registry, which shall include: (1) operating a system for identifying, acquiring, and distributing donated units or cord blood; (2) maintaining a database with certain information, including the clinical outcomes of all transplantations related to the Network; and (3) providing transplant physicians and other health care professionals with the ability to search for donor matches.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-10-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12469)
action_date: 2003-10-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend chapter 5 of title 28, United States Code, to provide for the approval of the reassignment of district judges in divisions with 3 or fewer judges in districts in the State of Texas.

Bill: 108-s-1719
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-10-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administration of justice
District courts
Judges
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: 
Amends the Federal judicial code to prohibit the district judges of any district court in Texas from reassigning a district judge whose duty station is in a division with three or fewer judges to a duty station in another division, without the consent of all of the district judges of that district.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on electron guns for cathode ray tubes (CRT's) with a high definition television screen aspect ratio of 16:9.

Bill: 108-s-1722
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-10-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Equipment and supplies
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff
Television
Video display terminals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2006, the duty on electron guns for cathode ray tubes (CRT's) with a high definition television screen aspect ratio of 16:9. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on plasma display panels for use in plasma flat screen televisions.

Bill: 108-s-1723
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-10-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Tariff
Television

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2006, the duty on plasma display panels for use in plasma flat screen televisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panel assemblies for use in LCD projection type televisions.

Bill: 108-s-1724
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-10-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Tariff
Television

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2006, the duty on Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panel assemblies for use in LCD projection type televisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue separately, for the same area, a lease for tar sand and a lease for oil and gas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-1725
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-10-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Competitive bidding
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Licenses
Oil and gas leases
Oil shales
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: 
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue separately, for the same area, a lease for tar sand and a lease for oil and gas.
 
Declares that such a lease shall not be further subject to the Combined Hydrocarbon Leasing Act of 1981.
 
Requires a lease for tar sand to be issued using the same bidding process, annual rental, and posting period as a lease issued for oil and gas. Sets the minimum acceptable bid for a tar sand lease at $2 per acre.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, in order to promote any resource covered by a combined hydrocarbon lease, to waive, suspend, or alter any requirement that a permittee under a permit authorizing prospecting for tar sand must exercise due diligence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Terrorism Victim Compensation Equity Act

Bill: 108-s-1728
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-10-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Africa
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Armed Forces and National Security
Bombings
Civil actions and liability
Claims
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of State
Diplomats
EBB Terrorism
Embassies
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Kenya
Life insurance
Limitation of actions
Middle East and North Africa
Military personnel
Navy
Parties to actions
September 11, 2001
Tanzania
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism
Yemen

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: 
Terrorism Victim Compensation Equity Act - Amends the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 to provide compensation for the U.S. citizens who were victims of the bombings of United States embassies in East Africa on August 7, 1998, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole on October 12, 2000, or the attack on the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, on the same basis as compensation is provided to victims of the terrorist-related aircraft crashes on September 11, 2001.
 
States that a claimant under this Act waives the right to file a civil action in any Federal or State court for damages sustained in the incident, except against a knowing participant in any conspiracy to commit any terrorist act. Exempts from such waiver any civil action to recover a collateral source obligation based on contract.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Medication Errors Reduction Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1729
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-10-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Computer literacy
Computer software
Computers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug interactions
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Health information systems
Health insurance
Hospital personnel
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Leases
Medicaid
Medical malpractice
Medical records
Medical technology
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Nursing homes
Poor children
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: 
Medication Errors Reduction Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to eligible hospitals and skilled nursing facilities for costs related to purchasing, leasing, developing, and implementing standardized clinical health care informatics systems designed to improve patient safety and reduce adverse events and health care complications resulting from medication errors.
 
Gives special consideration to eligible entities serving a large number of Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) eligible individuals. Reserves a certain percentage of grant funds for rural hospitals.
 
Terminates grant authority on September 30, 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12544-12545)
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1730
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-10-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Breast cancer
Collective bargaining
Employee health benefits
Government paperwork
Health insurance
Hospital care
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Mastectomy
Standards
Surgery
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended by the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, and the Public Health Service Act, as amended by the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, to require certain group health plans, and health insurance issuers providing coverage under a group plan, to ensure specified minimum coverage regarding: (1) breast cancer mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissections; and (2) secondary consultations by specialists. Prohibits: (1) changing coverage terms and conditions based on a participant's or beneficiary's decision to request less than the minimum coverage; and (2) certain penalties or incentives to providers or specialists. Amends: (1) the Public Health Service Act to apply the same requirements to health insurance issuers in the individual market; and (2) the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, to apply those requirements to group health plans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13794-13795)
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12546)
action_date: 2003-10-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to designate the La Entrada al Pacifico Corridor in the State of Texas as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System.

Bill: 108-s-1731
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-10-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Road construction
Roads and highways
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: 
Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to designate the La Entrada al Pacifico Corridor in Texas as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Reclamation Rural Water Supply Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1732
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2003-10-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-state relations
Governmental investigations
Housing and Community Development
Indian lands
Indian water rights
Infrastructure
Law
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Native Americans
Potable water
Reclamation of land
Water conservation
Water quality
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: 
The Reclamation Rural Water Supply Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a rural water supply program in Reclamation States.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop and publish in the Federal Register criteria for determining the eligibility of a water supply project for assistance under this Act, including: (1) whether a project serves rural areas or Indian tribes; (2) whether there is an urgent need for a project that would result in continuous, measurable, and significant water quality benefits, address current or future water supply shortages, or improve the health or aesthetic quality of water; (3) whether a project helps meet any applicable legal requirements; (4) whether a project promotes a regional perspective to water resource management issues, implements an integrated resources management approach, increases water management flexibility, or forms a partnership with other entities; and (5) whether a project provides benefits outside the region in which the project is carried on. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) conduct appraisal investigations of proposed rural water supply projects; and (2) carry out feasibility studies of proposed rural water supply systems.
 
Requires State and local authorities, Indian Tribes, or other entities carrying out rural water supply projects under this Act to demonstrate the ability to pay all operation, maintenance, and replacement costs of such projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-539.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12609-12610)
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12609)
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Introduced in Senate
State Court Interpreter Grant Program Act

Bill: 108-s-1733
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-10-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
English language
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Judicial officers
State courts
Translating and interpreting

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: 
State Court Interpreter Grant Program Act - Directs the Administrator of the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice to: (1) make grants to States to develop and implement programs to assist individuals with limited English proficiency to access and understand State court proceedings in which they are a party; and (2) allocate specified funds to establish a court interpreter technical assistance program to assist States receiving grants under this Act.
 
Authorizes the use of grant awards by States to: (1) assess regional language demands; (2) develop a court interpreter program; (3) develop, institute, and administer language certification examinations; (4) recruit, train, and certify qualified court interpreters; and (5) pay for salaries, transportation, and technology necessary to implement the programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12611-12612)
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12610-12611)
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1734
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2003-10-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aliens
Block grants
Child health
Cigarettes
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contraceptives
Dental care
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Health counseling
Health insurance
Identification devices
Immigrant health
Immigration
Infants
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Low birth weight
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Performance measurement
Poor children
Pregnant women
Prescription pricing
Smokeless tobacco
Smoking
Social Welfare
State laws
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: 
Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2003 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to give States new options to cover: (1) low-income pregnant women; and (2) low-income legal immigrant pregnant women and children under Medicaid and SCHIP. 
 
Extends coverage under Medicaid of prescription drugs and counseling services to tobacco cessation medications to help pregnant women enrolled in the program quit using tobacco. Requires coverage of tobacco cessation counseling services for pregnant women, and exempts such services from cost-sharing charges. Covers tobacco cessation medications and counseling for pregnant women, also, under the Maternal and Child Health Services program under SSA title V.
 
Gives States the option under Medicaid to: (1) provide family planning services and supplies to individuals with incomes that do not exceed a State's income eligibility level for medical assistance; and (2) extend the postpartum period for provision of family planning services and supplies. 
 
Gives States the option to provide wrap-around SCHIP coverage to children who have other health coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12612-12615)
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12612)
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Act

Bill: 108-s-1736
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2003-10-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Auditing
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Computer software
Consumer protection
Debt
Electronic commerce
Electronic data interchange
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate compacts
Judicial review
Law
Liability (Law)
Local taxation
Retail trade
Right of privacy
Sales tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
State taxation
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax simplification
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: 
Streamlined Sales and Use Tax - Grants the consent of Congress to the November 12, 2002, Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that such Agreement provides sufficient simplification and uniformity to warrant Federal authorization to States that are parties to the Agreement to require remote sellers to collect and remit the sales and use taxes of such States and of local taxing jurisdictions of such States. States that the purpose of this Act is to effectuate that limited authority, and not to grant additional authority unrelated to the accomplishment of that purpose.
 
States that once 10 States comprising at least 20 percent of the total population of all States imposing a sales tax have petitioned for membership under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, have been found to be in compliance with the Agreement pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, have become Member States under the Agreement, and the necessary operational aspects of the Agreement have been implemented, any Member State under the Agreement is authorized, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to require all sellers not qualifying for the small business exception provided by this Act to collect and remit sales and use taxes with respect to remote sales to purchasers located in such State.
 
Establishes minimum simplification requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12620)
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Gasoline Free Market Competition Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1737
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2003-10-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Antitrust law
Competition
Consumer protection
Corporate mergers
Crime and Law Enforcement
Gasoline
Injunctions
Law
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Retail trade
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: 
Gasoline Free Market Competition Act of 2003 - Amends the Clayton Act to prohibit any person engaging in commerce from: (1) imposing any condition, agreement, or understanding between a crude oil refiner and a motor fuel distributor that limits or prevents the distributor from supplying branded gasoline to independent motor fuel retailers in a highly concentrated market, unless the limitation can be proven not to injure, destroy, or limit competition; (2) selling the same brand of gasoline (if that person is a refiner) to retailers owned or controlled by that refiner in a highly concentrated market at different prices than the refiner charges to its independent dealers, or selling to independent dealers in the same relevant geographic market at different prices if those dealers are located in a highly concentrated market; or (3) engaging in any other practice that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) determines would be likely to reduce supply or increase the price of gasoline in a highly concentrated market.
 
Directs the FTC or the Attorney General to provide notice to each refiner, distributor, and retailer doing business in a highly concentrated market that such market is a &quot;consumer watch zone&quot; subject to specified conditions.
 
Prohibits the FTC or the Attorney General from approving any combination that would create a highly concentrated market that would injure, destroy, or limit competition.
 
Authorizes State attorneys general to bring civil actions in U.S. district court.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3317)
action_date: 2004-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2836-2839)
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12621)
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Introduced in Senate