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A bill to direct the Secretary of Energy to carry out a Next Generation Lighting Initiative.

Bill: 108-s-167
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Auditing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy efficiency
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Intellectual property
Lighting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Next Generation Lighting Initiative Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to implement: (1) the Next Generation Lighting Initiative to support research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities related to advanced solid-state lighting technologies based on white light emitting diodes; (2) fundamental research activities of the Initiative through a private consortium (which may include private firms, trade associations and institutions of higher education), selected through a competitive process; and (3) development, demonstration, and commercial application activities of the Initiative through awards to private firms, trade associations, and institutions of higher education.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S852-853)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S851-852)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
San Francisco Old Mint Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 108-s-168
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
California
Coins and coinage
Federal advisory bodies
Federal office buildings
Finance and Financial Sector
Gold
Government Operations and Politics
History
Nonprofit organizations
Silver
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: San Francisco Old Mint Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 100,000 $5 coins and 500,000 $1 coins emblematic of the San Francisco Old Mint Building, its importance to California and U.S. history, and its role in rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Requires that all proceeds received by the Secretary from any surcharge imposed on the sale of coins issued under this Act be paid to the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S853)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Permanent Death Tax Repeal Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-169
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2003-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Estate tax
Gift tax
Inheritance tax
Law
Sunset legislation
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Permanent Death Tax Repeal Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to permanently repeal the estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes, effective January 1, 2005.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S854)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Water Infrastructure Financing Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-170
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative fees
Authorization
Construction costs
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental technology
Estuaries
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Infrastructure
Lakes
Land transfers
Law
Nonpoint source pollution
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Revolving funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage treatment
State finance
Stream conservation
Subsidies
Technological innovations
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water quality
Water treatment plants
Water use

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Clean Water Infrastructure Financing Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to remove certain requirements for States with respect to construction of treatment works under capitalization grant agreements.
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to assist States in establishing simplified procedures for small water systems to obtain assistance under the Act.
Requires revolving funds to be used only for providing assistance for activities that have as a principal benefit the improvement or protection of water quality of navigable waters.
Provides for an extended repayment period and additional subsidization with respect to loans made to financially distressed communities from revolving funds.
Reauthorizes appropriations for FY 2003 through 2007 for the revolving fund program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S855-856)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S854-855)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Ambulance Payment Reform Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-171
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2003-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulances
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Housing and Community Development
Managed care
Medical fees
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Medicare Ambulance Payment Reform Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to payment for ambulance services to revise requirements for the establishment of a fee schedule.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a system for the coding of claims for ambulance services, including a code set specifying the medical condition of the individual transported by an ambulance and the appropriate level of transportation service.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S856)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Health Care Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-172
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2003-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulances
Ambulatory care
Coinsurance
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Debt
Disabled
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Finance and Financial Sector
Governmental investigations
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Housing and Community Development
Long-term care
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medicare
Mental health services
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Rural Health Care Equity Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) permit hospitals to allocate swing beds and acute care inpatient beds subject to a total limit of 25 beds; (2) eliminate the isolation test for cost-based Medical critical access hospital (CAH) facility ambulance services; (3) provide for a specified alternative adjustment to the wage index; (4) establish a single standardized amount under the Medicare inpatient hospital prospective payment system (PPS); (5) restore the full market basket update for inpatient PPS hospitals; (6) freeze at 6.5 percent the indirect medical education adjustment percentage; (7) provide for establishment of a rural community hospital (RCH) program; (8) remove certain barriers to establishment of distinct part units by RCH and Medicare CAH facilities; (9) revise the CAH program, making various specified payment-related changes; and (10) extend the Medicare rural hospital flexibility program for five years.
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on wage indexing and placement of hospitals in metropolitan statistical areas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S856-859)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Toxic Clean-up Polluter Pays Renewal Act

Bill: 108-s-173
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Petroleum
Pollution taxes
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Toxic Clean-up Polluter Pays Renewal Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code by reinstating the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate until January 1, 2014, and reinstating the Corporate Environmental Income Tax until January 1, 2014.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S859-860)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Tuition Assistance for Families Act

Bill: 108-s-174
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2003-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
College costs
Cost of living adjustments
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Law
Scholarships
Student loan funds
Tax deductions
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Tuition Assistance for Families Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the tax deduction for qualified higher education tuition and related expenses. Sets such deduction at: (1) $12,000 for those with incomes up to $65,000 single or $130,000 joint; and (2) $2,000 for those whose incomes are above that level, but not more than $80,000 single or $160,000 joint. Provides for inflation adjustment. Makes such tuition deduction permanent.
Increases the amount of the Lifetime Learning tax credit percentage from 20 to 25 percent. Increases the amount of education expenses subject to such credit from $10,000 to $12,000 (thus making the maximum allowable credit $3,000, rather than the current $2,000). Provides for inflation adjustment.
Raises annual income limits for the Hope and Lifetime Learning tax credits to $55,000 single and $110,000 joint.
Amends the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2002 to increase the maximum Pell Grant award from $4,000 to $4,500.
Establishes an academic achievement scholarship program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a $1,000 college scholarship to each student in a State who graduates in the top five percent of his or her accredited secondary school's graduating class.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S861)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S860-861)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Indian Trust Asset and Trust Fund Management and Reform Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-175
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2003-01-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Advice and consent of the Senate
Animals
Auditing
Coal
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Financial statements
Fishing
Forests, forestry, trees
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Hunting
Indian lands
Indian water rights
Law
Mines and mineral resources
Minorities
Natural gas
Petroleum
Presidential appointments
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sovereignty
Trusts and trustees
Water Resources Development
Wildlife

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Indian Trust Asset and Trust Fund Management and Reform Act of 2003 - Amends the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 to revise the accounting duties of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to the daily and annual balances of all funds held in trust by the United States for the benefit of an Indian tribe or an individual Indian which are deposited or invested. Requires an annual audit only for accounts with over $1,000 in trust funds. Specifies minimum additional responsibilities of the Secretary.
Requires the development and implementation of an Indian Trust Fund and Trust Asset Management and Monitoring Plan by either an Indian tribe or the Secretary (in close consultation with the tribe). Requires the Plan to: (1) determine the amount and source of trust funds; (2) inventory trust assets; and (3) identify tribal and management objectives along with the actions necessary to achieve them. States that the trust relationship and an approved Plan can coexist.
Replaces the current Office of Special Trustee for American Indians with a Deputy Secretary for Trust Management and Reform to oversee all Indian trust fund and trust asset matters and to consult with Indian tribes and individual trust asset and trust fund account holders. Directs the Deputy Secretary to establish an advisory board on matters within the jurisdiction of the Office of Trust Reform.
Establishes within the office of the Secretary the Office of Trust Reform Implementation and Oversight, headed by such Deputy Secretary, to supervise and direct day-to-day activities concerning such assets or funds, including providing accurate inventories, revenue postings, monthly statements, and annual audits.
Directs the Deputy Secretary to establish a Tribal Task Force on Trust Reform to study and report to Congress on appropriate standards and procedures for inventorying and managing trust assets.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S862-865)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S861-862)
action_date: 2003-01-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Health Care Reimbursement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-176
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost control
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medicare
Quality of care
Social Welfare
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Veterans Health Care Reimbursement Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to authorize the Secretaries of Health and Human Services (HHS) and of Veterans Affairs (VA), under a new Medicare Reimbursement Program for Veterans, to establish a program under which the HHS Secretary shall reimburse the VA Secretary from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund for Medicare health care services furnished to targeted Medicare-eligible veterans who volunteer for such program. Directs the VA Secretary to establish and operate coordinated care health plans to provide benefits to the enrolled veterans consistent with the program under SSA title XVIII part C (Medicare+Choice).
Expresses the sense of Congress that the amount of funds appropriated for the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical care in any fiscal year beginning after the enactment of this Act should not be reduced because of the implementation of the Medicare Reimbursement Program for Veterans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Montgomery GI Bill Revitalization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-177
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Compensatory education
Cost of living adjustments
Disabled
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Income
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Military discharges
Military pay
Scholarships
Secondary education
Student loan funds
Technical education
Veterans' education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Montgomery GI Bill Revitalization Act of 2003 - Amends Federal basic educational assistance provisions (the Montgomery GI Bill) to authorize enhanced educational assistance to a member of the armed forces who, after September 30, 2003: (1) first enters on active duty; (2) reenlists or continues to serve on active duty; (3) serves a continuous period of active duty of four years; or (4) serves and is discharged or released for a service-connected disability, at the convenience of the Government (after serving at least 42 months of such duty), or due to a reduction in force. Limits to 36 months the period for such enhanced assistance. Requires the payment of educational expenses under such program. Provides: (1) a monthly stipend for approved programs of education; and (2) tutorial assistance.
Repeals, with respect to such assistance: (1) a required monthly reduction in pay for individuals who do not elect to participate in such assistance program; (2) a provision authorizing individuals to elect not to receive such assistance; (3) the requirement that participants complete the requirements of a high school diploma or equivalency certificate prior to the end of their initial obligated period of service in order to be eligible to receive such assistance; and (4) provisions limiting an individual's opportunity to withdraw an election not to enroll in such assistance program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Transplant Patients Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-178
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Hospital care
Immunosuppressive drugs
Insurance premiums
Kidney diseases
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Social Welfare
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Transplant Patients Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as amended by the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, to remove time limitations on the coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for individuals who have received organ transplants. (Current law provides coverage for such drugs only for certain time periods after the transplant procedure.)
Amends SSA title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to: (1) continue entitlement to prescription drugs used in immunosuppressive therapy furnished to an individual who receives a kidney or other organ transplant for which payment is made under Medicare; and (2) extend Medicare secondary payer requirements for end stage renal disease beneficiaries.
Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to set forth requirements for group health plans to provide coverage of immunosuppressive drugs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S1071-1072)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1071)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Mobile Telephone Driving Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-179
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws
Traffic accidents and safety
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Mobile Telephone Driving Safety Act of 2003 - Amends Federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to withhold five percent of specified FY 2005 highway funds from any State that has not enacted or is not enforcing a law that prohibits the use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle, except in case of an emergency or other exceptional circumstance. Increases the withheld amount to ten percent after FY 2005. Allows such a State law to permit the use of a mobile telephone with a device that permits hands-free operation of the telephone if the State determines that such use does not pose a threat to public safety.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S1073)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1072-1073)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Stock Option Accounting Review Act

Bill: 108-s-181
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Business records
Commerce
Corporation reports
Corporation taxes
Employee stock options
Executive compensation
Federal advisory bodies
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Labor and Employment
Law
Standards
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Stock Option Accounting Review Act - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to direct the Financial Accounting Standards Board to: (1) review the accounting treatment of employee stock options; and (2) within one year after the enactment of this Act, adopt an appropriate generally accepted accounting principle for the treatment of such options.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S1075)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1073-1075)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate