Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1860
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Athletes
Authorization
California
Chemicals
Citizen participation
Clinical trials
Colombia
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation
Criminal statistics
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drugs and athletes
Drugs and youth
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medicine
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal employees
Federal officials
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Florida
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Health
Health surveys
Heroin
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Informers
International Affairs
International cooperation
Iowa
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Latin America
Law
Marijuana
Maryland
Medical research
Methamphetamine
Military civic action
Mississippi
National Guard
Nonprofit organizations
Olympic games
Opium
Parent and child
Patrol aircraft
Patrol ships
Pennsylvania
Performance measurement
Planning-programming-budgeting
Prison alternatives
Prosecution
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public service advertising
Research centers
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Searches and seizures
Sentencing guidelines
Sexual harassment
Smuggling
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
State laws
Steroids
Strategic planning
Student employment
Student loan funds
Technology assessment
Technology transfer
Telephone
Terrorism
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Urban affairs
Witnesses
Women
Women's health
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: 
Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Reauthorizes appropriations for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Provides for a U.S. Interdiction Coordinator.
 
Directs: (1) the President to annually submit to Congress a National Drug Control Strategy; and (2) the Director of the Office to submit to Congress a description of a national drug control performance measurement system.
 
Modifies the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program, including authorizing the Director to use specified funds to respond to emerging drug trafficking threats.
 
Dawson Family Community Protection Act - Requires the Director to ensure that specified funds are used in HIDTAs with severe neighborhood safety and illegal drug distribution problems to: (1) ensure neighborhood safety, including the prevention of witness intimidation; and (2) use methods including operation of a toll-free telephone hotline to report illegal drug activity.
 
Directs that the Counter-Drug Technology Assessment Center be headed by a Chief Scientist. 
 
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Drug-Free Media Campaign Act of 1998 to require the Director to determine the overall purposes and strategy of the national media campaign.
 
Designates a United States Anti-Doping Agency. 
 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to State or local prosecutors for drug treatment alternative to prison programs.
 
Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2003 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to modify the definition of &quot;anabolic steroid&quot; to include androstenedione and specified chemicals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14811-14814)
action_date: 2003-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate