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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the qualified small issue bond provisions.

Bill: 108-s-756
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2003-04-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Biomass energy
Biotechnology
Commerce
Computer industry
Computer software
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy crops
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial institutions
Forest products
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Manufacturing industries
Office buildings
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development facilities
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code regarding qualified small issue bonds to: (1) increase the cap and capital expenditure amounts from $10 million to $20 million, with an inflation adjustment beginning in 2003; and (2) expand the definition of "manufacturing facility" to include certain biotech and software production.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4639-4640)
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4639)
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill entitled the "Guard and Reserve Commanders Pay Equity Act"

Bill: 108-s-757
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2003-04-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Military pay
National Guard
Officer personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Includes officers who are members of the National Guard or a reserve component within the authority of the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide special pay for positions of unusual responsibility which are of a critical nature to an armed force .

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for certain energy-efficient property.

Bill: 108-s-758
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2003-04-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Condominium (Housing)
Cooperative housing
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Fuel cells
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, through December 31, 2008, a limited credit for energy-efficient building property. Defines such property as a fuel cell power plant that: (1) generates electricity using an electrochemical process; (2) has an electricity-only generation efficiency greater than 30 percent; and (3) generates at least 0.5 kilowatt of electricity, using an electrochemical process.
Allows, through December 31, 2008, a limited credit to an individual for nonbusiness energy-efficient building property (U.S. residential property) expenditures.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4640-4641)
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4640)
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Wind Energy Systems Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-759
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2003-04-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Condominium (Housing)
Corporation taxes
Energy
Equipment and supplies
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Residential, Farm, Ranch, and Small Business Wind Energy Systems Act of 2003 or the Small Wind Energy Systems Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer an annual credit for 30 percent of the cost of installing a qualified residential wind turbine. Limits such credit to $1,000 for each kilowatt of capacity. (Excludes swimming pools or any storage medium which has a function other than a storage function.)
Allows an annual business credit for installation of a qualifying wind turbine on a farm, ranch, or small business. Limits such credit to the smaller of: (1) 30 percent of basis, including installation; or (2) $1,000 for each kilowatt of capacity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4642-4643)
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4641-4642)
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to exclude certain land from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System.

Bill: 108-s-761
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-04-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Barrier islands
Coastal zone
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Reefs
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Excludes any property in the Matagorda Dunes and Bahia de Matagorda subdivisions in Matagorda County, Texas, from the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-04-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-764
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Law enforcement officers
Police
Safety measures

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2003 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend through FY 2007 the authorization of appropriations for the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program (a matching grant program which helps State, tribal, and local jurisdictions purchase armor vests for use by law enforcement officers).
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: 

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

 
Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2003 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend through FY 2007 the authorization of appropriations for the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program (a matching grant program which helps State, tribal, and local jurisdictions purchase armor vests for use by law enforcement officers). 

action_date: 2003-07-15
text: 

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

 
Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2003 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend through FY 2007 the authorization of appropriations for the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program (a matching grant program which helps State, tribal, and local jurisdictions purchase armor vests for use by law enforcement officers). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9431; text as passed Senate: CR S9431)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9431; text as passed Senate: CR S9431)
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 193.
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4704-4705)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4704)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery for veterans in the Jacksonville, Florida, metropolitan area.

Bill: 108-s-766
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Metropolitan areas
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery for veterans in the Jacksonville, Florida, metropolitan area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4705)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4705)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the increase in the tax on social security benefits.

Bill: 108-s-767
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the 85 percent (second tier) taxation of Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits. Transfers from the general fund in the Treasury to the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund amounts equal to the resultant reduction in revenues.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4706)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4705-4706)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Senior Executive Service Reform Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-768
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law judges
Federal advisory bodies
Federal officials
Salaries

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Senior Executive Service Reform Act of 2003 - Establishes level II of the Executive Schedule as the maximum annual rate of pay, including comparability pay adjustments, for Senior Executive Service (SES) positions, including positions in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Requires establishment of a range of rates of basic pay for the SES, requiring each senior executive to be paid at one of such rates based on individual performance, contribution to the agency's performance, or both. Provides a minimum and maximum rates.
Provides pay rate increases for administrative law judges, Contract Appeals Board members, and certain senior level positions by raising the Executive Schedule level on which their pay is based.
Removes the authority for the appointment of limited emergency appointees. Sets duration limits for limited appointees, allowing the Office of Personnel Management to exceed such limits in rare circumstances. Outlines reemployment rights and reassignment and transfer authority for limited appointees.
Provides one day of annual leave for each full biweekly pay period for positions classified above GS-15, senior executives, and any employee with a minimum rate of basic pay greater than the GS-15, step 10 rate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-769
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Auditing
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Criminal justice information
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Employee selection
Ex-offenders
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Labor and Employment
Law
Personnel records
Private police
Right of privacy
State laws
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2003 - Permits an authorized employer of private security officers to submit to a participating State's identification bureau fingerprints or other means of positive identification (as determined by the Attorney General) of an employee for purposes of a criminal history record information search. Requires the employer to: (1) obtain an employee's written consent; and (2) provide to the employee confidential access to any information received.
Directs the Attorney General, upon receipt of such a request submitted through a State identification bureau, to search the appropriate records of the Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and to provide any resulting identification and criminal history information.
Sets forth provisions regarding permissible uses of the information and the frequency of requests. Prescribes criminal penalties for falsely certifying compliance with applicable employer standards or for intentionally using information obtained for purposes other than determining suitability for employment as a private security officer.
Authorizes: (1) the FBI Director to collect fees to process such background checks; (2) a State to assess a fee on an employer for the costs of administering this Act; and (3) a State to opt out from participation in such background check system.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4708)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4707-4708)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Treatment and Due Process Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-770
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Caregivers
Cash welfare block grants
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Demography
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Drug abuse
Due process of law
Earned income tax credit
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
English language
Ethnic groups
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family violence
Food relief
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Health
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Illiteracy
Income
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Law
Learning disabilities
Medicaid
Mentally disabled
Poverty
Right of privacy
Sex crimes
Shelters for the homeless
Social work
Taxation
Translating and interpreting
Unemployment insurance
Wages
Welfare eligibility
Welfare work participation
Wife abuse

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Fair Treatment and Due Process Protection Act of 2003 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require a State to which a family assistance grant is made to provide appropriate interpretation and translation services to individuals who lack English proficiency if the number or percentage of persons lacking English proficiency meets certain standards. Provides for a reduced family assistance grant as a penalty for States failing to provide such services.
Requires a pre-sanction review process. Provides for a similar penalty for States not following such process.
Revises data collection and reporting requirements.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) conduct longitudinal studies of a representative sample of families that receive TANF assistance; and (2) ensure that public disclosure with respect to any information concerning TANF recipients or applicants is made in a manner that protects their privacy.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4709-4712)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4708-4709)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Victims of Child Abuse Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-771
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child abuse
Community centers
Families
Family violence
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: 
Victims of Child Abuse Act of 2003 - Reauthorizes the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990. Revises requirements for the establishment of Regional Children's Advocacy Centers, removing the Director of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect from the process.
 
Revises assistance proposal solicitation requirements to direct the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to solicit such proposals when existing contracts with Regional Children's Advocacy Centers are close to expiration.
 
Eliminates the Children's Advocacy Advisory Board.
 
Makes the National Children's Alliance the subgrantor of grants made by the Administrator to develop and implement local multidisciplinary child abuse investigations and prosecution programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4713-4714)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4712-4713)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Airport Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-772
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airports
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: 
Small Airport Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Aviation and Transportation Security Act to extend through FY 2004 the part of the formula for apportionment of airport improvement program funds under which the Secretary of Transportation shall use, in lieu of passenger boardings at an airport during the prior calendar year, the greater of: (1) the number of passenger boardings at that airport during 2000; or (2) the number of passenger boardings at that airport during 2001.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-773
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2003-04-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Authorization
Child abuse
Child pornography
Child safety
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Homeless
Internet
Kidnapping
Law
Missing children
Parent and child
Prostitution
Runaway children
Science, Technology, Communications
Victims of crimes
World Wide Web

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize officers and agents of the Secret Service, at the request of any State or local law enforcement agency or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, to provide forensic and investigative assistance in support of any investigation involving missing or exploited children.
Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to: (1) include among the purposes of grants under such Act coordinating the operation of a cyber tip-line to provide on-line users an effective means of reporting Internet-related child sexual exploitation in the areas of distribution of child pornography, on-line enticement of children for sexual acts, and child prostitution; (2) extend the authorization of appropriations through FY 2007; and (3) authorize increased appropriations for the annual grant to the Center for FY 2004 though 2007.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4714-4715)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4714)
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the use of completed contract method of accounting in the case of certain long-term naval vessel construction contracts.

Bill: 108-s-774
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Shipbuilding
Tax administration
Transportation and Public Works
Warships

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a taxpayer who owns and operates a shipyard to elect to use the completed contract accounting method with respect to an qualified naval construction contract (more than 24 months in duration).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4826)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to make private, nonprofit medical facilities that serve industry-specific clients eligible for hazard mitigation and disaster assistance.

Bill: 108-s-775
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief
Environmental Protection
Health
Health facilities
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to include within the definition of a "private nonprofit facility" that is eligible for hazard mitigation and disaster assistance a facility that provides medical services to specific occupational or industry segments of the public and that is operated by a tax-exempt organization.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4826-4827)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate