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A bill to direct the Administrator of General Services to convey to Fresno County, California, the existing Federal courthouses in that county.

Bill: 108-s-441
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administration of justice
California
Courthouses
Federal office buildings
Land transfers
Land use
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Directs the Administrator of General Services to convey the existing Federal courthouse in Fresno, California, to Fresno County upon completion of a new Federal courthouse in that county.
Designates the existing courthouse as the B.F. Sisk County Courthouse after conveyance.
action_date: 2004-05-11
text: 
Directs the Administrator of General Services to convey to Fresno County, California, for nominal consideration, the building and site located at 1130 O Street in Fresno, known as the B.F. Sisk Federal Building and United States Courthouse, after the completion of construction of, and the relocation of tenants to, a new Federal courthouse.
 
 Requires that the deed for such conveyance include a covenant that provides for public use of the property and substantial use for the administration of justice. Provides for reversion of the property to the United States if it is not used for such purposes. Extinguishes such reversionary interest after 20 years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-11
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 508.
action_date: 2004-05-11
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-05-11
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2708)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Reservists and Guardsmen Pay Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-442
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Federal employees
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Leave of absence
Military pay
Military personnel
National Guard
Salaries
Tax credits
Taxation
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Reservists and Guardsmen Pay Protection Act of 2003 - Entitles a person who is absent from his or her position of Federal employment to perform service in the uniformed services or the National Guard to receive from his or her agency an amount that, when added to the pay and allowances for such service, equals the basic pay for such period of service.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that, for purposes of the general business credit, the Ready Reserve-National Guard employee credit for any taxable year is 50 percent of the actual compensation amount for the taxable year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2709-2710)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2708-2709)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Life-Saving Service Heritage Act

Bill: 108-s-443
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Archives
Arts, Culture, Religion
Boats and boating
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional agencies
Data banks
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Federal libraries
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Historic sites
History
Internet
Library of Congress
Lighthouses and lightships
Marine safety
Merchant seamen
Rescue work
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: United States Life-Saving Service Heritage Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Maritime Initiative of the National Park Service, to establish a program to inventory, evaluate, document, and assist efforts to preserve surviving U.S. Life-Saving Service stations.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) serve as a clearinghouse of information for persons interested in restoring and preserving historic lifesaving stations; (2) make information regarding the Service and related organizations that provided humanitarian assistance to shipwrecked mariners available to the public; and (3) make grants to coordinate and assist such preservation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Sacramento Public Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-444
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Army Corps of Engineers
Bridges
California
Civil engineering
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water resources development
Flood control
Flood damage prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Hydrology
Infrastructure
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Sacramento Public Safety Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out a project for flood damage reduction and ecosystem restoration for the American River in Sacramento, California, in accordance with the plans and conditions described in the Report of the Chief of Engineers dated November 5, 2002.
Directs the Secretary of Transportation: (1) as part of that project, to carry out a project to design and construct a bridge west of and adjacent to Folsom Dam, including necessary linkages from the bridge to existing roadways; and (2) to make a grant to California for up to 80 percent of the cost for the construction of that project.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2710)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2710)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Reservists Retirement and Retention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-445
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
National Guard
Retirement age
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Reservists Retirement and Retention Act of 2003 - Makes an individual eligible for retired pay for non-regular (reserve) military service if such individual: (1) satisfies one of the combinations of minimum age (between 55 and 60) and years of service (between 20 and 30) as presented in a specified table; (2) performed the last six years of qualifying service in currently authorized categories of military service, but not while a member of a regular component, the Fleet Reserve, or the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve (with an exception); and (3) is not entitled to any other retirement pay from an armed force or as a member of the Fleet Reserves.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2711)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2710-2711)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend the duty on triethyleneglycol bis(2-ethyl hexanoate).

Bill: 108-s-446
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Environmental Protection
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2005, the duty on triethyleneglycol bis(2-ethyl hexanoate).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Reservist Opportunities and Protection of Education Act

Bill: 108-s-447
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-02-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
College administration
College costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Leave of absence
National Guard
Retired military personnel
Scholarships
Student aid
Students
Students' rights
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Reservist Opportunities and Protection of Education Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to declare that: (1) whenever a student who is a member of the National Guard or other reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, or a member of such Armed Forces in a retired status, is called or ordered to active duty, the institution of higher education in which the student is enrolled shall grant the student a military leave of absence from the institution while the student is serving on active duty, and for one year after the conclusion of such service; (2) as a consequence of military leave, upon return, such student is entitled to restoration to his or her previous educational status with regard to academic credits earned, scholarships or grants awarded, or tuition and other fees paid; and (3) the student has the option of having tuition fees refunded, subject to a certain condition, or credited to the next period of enrollment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2711-2712)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2711)
action_date: 2003-02-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the President to agree to certain amendments to the Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Mexican States Concerning the Establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation Commission and a North American Development Bank.

Bill: 108-s-449
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Boundaries
Development credit institutions
Environmental Protection
Foreign Trade and International Finance
International agencies
International environmental cooperation
Latin America
Mexico
North America
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Amends the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act to authorize the President to instruct the U.S. representative to the North American Development Bank to vote for or otherwise agree to amendments to the Border Environment Cooperation Agreement (the November 1993 Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Mexican States Concerning the Establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation Commission and a North American Development Bank) that would: (1) authorize the Bank, with the approval of its Board of Directors, to make grants and non-market rate loans out of its paid-in capital for qualified water conservation projects, provided the grants are structured only as co-financing to pay a portion of the recipient's debt service on debt financing for such projects; and (2) amend the definition of "border region" as it relates to such projects to include specified areas in the United States and Mexico that are within a certain distance of the international boundary between the two countries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2841)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Melanie Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act

Bill: 108-s-450
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Case management
Childbirth
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug therapy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Epidemiology
Ethnic groups
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health planning
Higher education
Home care services
Homeless
Hospital care
Housing and Community Development
Medical education
Medical research
Medical screening
Mental depression
Mental health
Minorities
Minority health
Nonprofit organizations
Quality of care
Races
Respite care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Melanie Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to organize a series of national meetings to develop a research plan for postpartum depression and psychosis.
Directs the Secretary to make grants to provide for projects for the establishment, operation, and coordination of effective and cost-efficient systems for the delivery of essential services to individuals with postpartum depression or psychosis and their families.
Authorizes appropriations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2841-2842)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Survivor Benefits Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-451
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Families
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Survivors' benefits
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Military Survivor Benefits Improvement Act of 2003 - Adjusts the basic Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuity amount for surviving spouses, age 62 and older, of former military personnel to: (1) 35 percent of the retired pay of the decedent (current law), for months before October 2004; (2) 40 percent for months during FY 2005; (3) 45 percent for months during FY 2006; (4) 50 percent for months during FY 2007; and (5) 55 percent for months after FY 2007. Adjusts similarly percentage amounts with respect to survivors of reserve personnel and survivors of persons who die while on active duty. Provides a corresponding phased elimination of the SBP supplemental annuity authorized to be provided to such surviving spouses. Requires periodic recomputation of: (1) annuity amounts beginning in October 2004; and (2) retired pay reductions for supplemental survivor annuities.
Provides a one-year open enrollment period for SBP participation, commencing October 1, 2004, for those currently not participating, those electing to increase current coverage, and those wishing to participate in the supplemental SBP.
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to require appropriate premiums for SBP participation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2842)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Patient Navigator, Outreach, and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-453
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Cancer
Case management
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinics
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Confidential communications
Consumer discounts
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health insurance
Housing and Community Development
Indian medical care
Medical fees
Medical records
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Minorities
Minority health
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Right of privacy
Rural health
Social Welfare
Terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Patient Navigator, Outreach, and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration; (2) the Director of the National Cancer Institute; and (3) the Director of the Indian Health Service to make grants for model programs to provide services for cancer and chronic diseases to individuals of health disparity populations.
Requires that these services: (1) be provided in a culturally competent way; (2) include patient navigators to help with finding services and follow-up care; and (3) include ongoing outreach activities.
Conditions grants on the presence of a fee schedule consistent with prevailing rates and a fee discount schedule which provides fee adjustments based on ability to pay.
Evaluates services according to a peer-reviewed model according to best practices.
Limits the grants to five years.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2844-2848)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2843-2844)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of the Army to convey the remaining water supply storage allocation in Rathbun Lake, Iowa, to the Rathbun Regional Water Association.

Bill: 108-s-454
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Commerce
Environmental Protection
Infrastructure
Iowa
Lakes
Lighthouses and lightships
Maintenance and repair
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Water allocation (Policy)
Water districts
Water storage
Water supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey the remaining water supply storage allocation in Rathbun Lake, Iowa, to the Rathbun Regional Water Association in exchange for such Association: (1) constructing, operating, and maintaining a regional lighthouse visitor center complex on Federal land at Rathbun Lake; (2) paying all operation and maintenance costs allocated to the water supply storage space; and (3) using any complex revenues in excess of amounts required to operate and maintain or improve the complex to improve the quality of the environment in the Rathbun Lake watershed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Judicial Officials' Survivor Annuity Enrollment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-455
Sponsor: Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Judicial compensation
Labor and Employment
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Judicial Officials' Survivor Annuity Enrollment Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal judicial code to provide for a six-month period of open enrollment for judicial officials under survivor annuity provisions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to exclude certain wire rods from the scope of any antidumping or countervailing duty order issued as a result of certain investigations relating to carbon and certain alloy steel rods.

Bill: 108-s-456
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Countervailing duties
Customs unions
Dumping
Export subsidies
Exports
Imports
International Affairs
Iron and steel industry
Metal trade
Prices
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Steel
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Excludes specified wire rods from the scope of any antidumping or countervailing duty issued as a result of certain investigations relating to carbon and certain alloy steel rods.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2848)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2849)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Organic Restoration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-457
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Feeds
Livestock
Organic farming

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Organic Restoration Act of 2003 - Amends the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2003, to repeal the provision permitting a farm to be certified as organic with respect to livestock produced on such farm if it uses non-organically produced feed under certain cost-based circumstances.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program Reauthorization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-460
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Authorization
Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Imprisonment
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: State Criminal Alien Assistance Program Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for the State criminal alien assistance program.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize specified appropriations through FY 2010 for the State criminal alien assistance program.


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 S16052)
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text as passed Senate: CR S16052)
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S16051-16052)
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S16051-16052)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2856)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate