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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain helicopter uses from ticket taxes on transportation by air.

Bill: 108-s-82
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Hazardous wastes
Helicopters
Ordnance
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from certain ticket taxes helicopter transport of persons and cargo in order to conduct removal and environmental restoration activities related to unexploded ordnance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S73)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S73)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
National Aviation Capacity Expansion Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-83
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Air pollution control
Airports
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to transportation
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Illinois
Infrastructure
Judicial review
Law
Metropolitan areas
Noise
Parking facilities
Road construction
Standards
State laws
Suburbs
Transportation planning
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: National Aviation Capacity Expansion Act of 2003 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to implement the redesign and reconstruction of Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Cook and Dupage Counties, Illinois, in accordance with a specified runway design plan, and the development of a south suburban airport in the Chicago metropolitan region, by facilitating their funding, construction, and implementation and all agency reviews. Requires the State of Illinois to prepare an implementation plan under the Clean Air Act for regulating emissions associated with activity at commercial service airports.
Makes the Administrator's approval of an airport layout plan submitted by Chicago that includes the runway redesign plan conditional on the meeting of specified requirements.
Directs the Administrator to give priority consideration to letter of intent applications for the construction of the south suburban airport and for the extension of the main runway at the Gary/Chicago Airport.
Requires the withholding of all airport grant funds for O'Hare (other than grants involving national security and safety) until January 1, 2026, unless specified conditions with respect to operations at Merrill C. Meigs Field have been met.
Directs the Administrator, in providing funds to implement the runway redesign plans, to receive adequate specified assurances from the City of Chicago regarding competitive access to O'Hare by all air carriers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S90)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the President to promote posthumously the late Raymond Ames Spruance to the grade of Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-84
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military promotions
Officer personnel
Retired military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Authorizes and requests the President to advance the late Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance to the grade of fleet admiral on the Navy retired list. Prohibits any increase in compensation or benefits due to such promotion.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Good Samaritan Hunger Relief Tax Incentive Act

Bill: 108-s-85
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Charitable contributions
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Food industry
Food relief
Income tax
Inventories
Tax deductions
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Good Samaritan Hunger Relief Tax Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth a special rule allowing a charitable deduction for contributions of food inventory.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Employer Tax Assistance for Health Coverage Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-86
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Small business
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Small Employer Tax Assistance for Health Coverage Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small employers a limited credit for employee health insurance expenses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S73)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend future reductions of income tax rates if the Social Security surpluses are used to fund such tax rate cuts.

Bill: 108-s-88
Sponsor: Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Budget deficits
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Income tax
Social Welfare
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that if there exists a Federal on-budget deficit income tax rate reductions shall be suspended until it is determined that such a deficit does not exist.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S74)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Universal National Service Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-89
Sponsor: Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed forces reserves
Compulsory military service
Conscientious objectors
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Draft registration
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Executive Office of the President
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Military discharges
Military education
Military training
National service
Physical examinations
Recruiting and enlistment
Religion
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Students
Women
Women soldiers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Universal National Service Act of 2003 - Declares that it is the obligation of every U.S. citizen, and every other person residing in the United States, between the ages of 18 and 26 to perform a two-year period of national service, unless exempted, either as a member of an active or reserve component of the armed forces or in a civilian capacity that promotes national defense. Requires induction into national service by the President. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) induction deferments, postponements, and exemptions, including exemption of a conscientious objector from military service that includes combatant training; and (2) discharge following national service.
Amends the Military Selective Service Act to authorize the military registration of females.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend certain budgetary enforcement to maintain fiscal accountability and responsibility.

Bill: 108-s-90
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget process
Economics and Public Finance
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to extend Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) requirements.
Extends congressional supermajority enforcement requirements in the Senate.
Exempts direct spending or revenue effects resulting in net deficit reduction enacted pursuant to reconciliation since the beginning of that same calendar year from PAYGO points of order enforcement in the Senate.
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress and the President should negotiate and agree on the appropriate discretionary spending levels and extend the statutory discretionary spending caps for 2003 and beyond as early as possible.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on the Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged. (text of measure as introduced: CR S75)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Contracts for Growers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-91
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Contracts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Livestock
Poultry

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Fair Contracts for Growers Act of 2003 - Allows the use of arbitration to resolve a controversy as provided for under a livestock or poultry contract only if, after the controversy arises, both parties consent. Directs an arbitrator to provide to the parties to a written explanation of the factual and legal basis for an award.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S76)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S75-76)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to accelerate and make permanent the child tax credit.

Bill: 108-s-92
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Sunset legislation
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to accelerate and make permanent the $1,000 child tax credit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Sung Jun Oh.

Bill: 108-s-93
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Declares Sung Jun Oh to be lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act upon payment of any necessary visa fees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-94
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Sunset legislation
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Tax Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to accelerate and make permanent the 10 percent income tax rate bracket.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to make permanent the pension and individual retirement arrangement provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.

Bill: 108-s-95
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Accidents
Accounting
Aliens
Annuities
Churches
Civil service retirement
Commerce
Congress
Defined benefit pension plans
Defined contribution plans
Disasters
Dividends
Divorce
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Employee ownership
Excise tax
Executive compensation
Executives
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Household workers
Immigration
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Law
Life expectancy
Loans
Local employees
Merchant seamen
Pension funds
Pension portability
Profit sharing
Religion
Small business
Social Welfare
State employees
Stockholders
Sunset legislation
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation and Public Works
Trusts and trustees
User charges
Valuation
Women
Women's retirement

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Makes Title IX of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (relating to sunset of provisions of such Act) inapplicable to title VI of such Act (relating to pensions and individual retirement arrangements).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Contract With Investors

Bill: 108-s-96
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Congress
Earned income tax credit
Education
Education savings accounts
Elementary and secondary education
Estate tax
Gift tax
Higher education
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Inheritance tax
Labor and Employment
Minimum tax
School buildings
Social Welfare
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax rates
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Tax-exempt securities
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Contract With Investors - Amends the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to repeal the sunset provisions of such Act.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) accelerate individual income tax rate reductions; (2) accelerate the repeal of estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes; (3) reduce maximum capital gains tax rates for individuals; (4) increase capital loss limitations for individuals; (5) accelerate contribution increases for certain retirement plans; (6) increase the age for mandatory retirement and pension plan distributions; and (7) exclude from gross income dividends received by individuals from domestic, publicly traded C corporations, with exceptions.
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should: (1) pass legislation to safeguard workers' pension and retirement accounts; (2) modernize international tax provisions to permit U.S. companies to better compete internationally; (3) repeal outdated regulatory burdens on U.S. investors and companies; (4) enact tort reform; and (5) simplify the Federal tax code and reduce the cost recovery periods for businesses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S225-226)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to treat certain hospital support organizations as qualified organizations for purposes of determining acquisition indebtedness.

Bill: 108-s-97
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charities
Commerce
Debt
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Health
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Liens
Mortgages
Real estate investment
Social Welfare
Tax-exempt organizations
Unrelated business income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends provisions of the Internal Revenue Code concerning the taxation of exempt organizations to treat certain hospital support organizations as qualified organizations for purposes of determining acquisition indebtedness.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S77-78)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S76-77)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Choice in Real Estate Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-98
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank holding companies
Commerce
Housing and Community Development
Real estate business
Subsidiary corporations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Community Choice in Real Estate Act of 2003 - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, and the Revised Statutes of the United States, to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, from determining that real estate brokerage activity or real estate management activity is financial in nature, is incidental to any financial activity, or is complementary to a financial activity. (In effect, prohibits financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities.)
Exempts from such prohibition activities of a bank holding company (or any affiliate) that directly relate to managing any real property owned by national banks or their affiliates.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR 1/09/2003 S152)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 1/9/2003 S151-152)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Jaya Gulab Tolani and Hitesh Gulab Tolani.

Bill: 108-s-99
Sponsor: Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Declares Jaya Gulab Tolani and Hitesh Gulab Tolani to be considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act upon payment of the required visa fees.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: 

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

 Declares Jaya Gulab Tolani and Hitesh Gulab Tolani to be considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act upon payment of the required visa fees.

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: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize salary adjustments for Justices and judges of the United States for fiscal year 2003.

Bill: 108-s-101
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Judges
Judicial compensation
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Authorizes salary adjustments for U.S. justices and judges for FY 2003 concurrently with increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Federal employees.
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since being introduced in the Senate on January 7, 2003. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Authorizes salary adjustments for U.S. justices and judges for FY 2003 concurrently with increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Federal employees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-21
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2003-01-31
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2003-01-31
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-01-31
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S1084)
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S1084)
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1842-1843)
action_date: 2003-01-30
text: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1842-1843)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S80)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S80)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-102
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Minimum tax
Sunset legislation
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to make permanent the increase in the alternative minimum tax exemption.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal certain provisions of the Homeland Security Act (Public Law 107-296) relating to liability with respect to certain vaccines.

Bill: 108-s-105
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
EBB Terrorism
Families
Law
Liability (Law)
Vaccination
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Repeals provisions of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 amending the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program under the Public Health Service Act. Repeals modifications to the definitions of manufacturer and vaccine-related injury or death and an added definition of vaccine. States that this Act shall be deemed to have taken effect as though enacted as part of the enactment of the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S81)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S81)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate