Leave No Child Behind Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-448
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2003-02-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Academic performance
Access to health care
Accreditation (Education)
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Adult day care
Advertising
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol and youth
Aliens
Ammunition
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Asthma
Auditing
Authorization
Bilingualism
Bioaccumulation
Block grants
Bonds
Books
Building construction
Business records
Cadmium
Camping
Carcinogens
Caregivers
Charities
Child abuse
Child care workers
Child health
Child nutrition
Child safety
Child support
Child welfare
Chromium
Chronically ill
Citizen lawsuits
Citizen participation
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil commitment
Class size
Colleges
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community and school
Community centers
Community colleges
Community facilities
Community health services
Community organization
Computer literacy
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional office buildings
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer protection
Correctional institutions
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Curricula
Day care
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the Treasury
Dioxins
Disabled
Divorce
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs
Drugs and youth
Earned income tax credit
Education
Educational accountability
Educational facilities
Educational innovations
Electronic data interchange
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency medicine
Employee assistance programs
Employee health benefits
Employment of the disadvantaged
Energy
Energy assistance for the poor
Entrepreneurs
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Exhibitions
Eye diseases
Family leave
Family services
Family violence
Fathers
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to housing
Federal employees
Federal installations
Federal libraries
Federal office buildings
Federal-state relations
Federal-territorial relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fetus
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Firearms control
Firearms injuries
Food stamps
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foster home care
Gangs
Garnishment
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government contractors
Government publicity
Government service contracts
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grandparents
Grants-in-aid
Guardian and ward
Hawaiians
Health
Health counseling
Health education
Health information systems
Health insurance
Health services administration
Health warnings
Hearing disorders
Higher education
Home ownership
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Housing subsidies
Hunger
Hunting
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Immigrant health
Immigration
Import restrictions
Income tax
Indian children
Indian education
Indian medical care
Infants
Integrated pest management
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Juvenile delinquency
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Law
Lead
Legal aid
Library of Congress
Licenses
Literacy programs
Low-income housing
Magnet schools
Mail-order business
Maternal health services
Mathematics
Medicaid
Medical records
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Medically uninsured
Mental health
Mental health services
Mental illness
Mentally disabled
Mentoring
Mercury
Minimum wages
Minorities
Museums
Music
Neurology
Nicotine
Nonprofit organizations
Northern Mariana Islands
Nutrition
Paints and varnishes
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Parks
Parole
Part-time employment
Passports
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Performance measurement
Performing arts
Pesticide pollution
Pesticides
Physical fitness
Poor children
Postage stamps
Potable water
Poverty
Pregnancy
Pregnant women
Preschool education
Prescription pricing
Prison alternatives
Private schools
Probation
Product safety
Psychologists
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public schools
Public-private partnerships
Publishers and publishing
Puerto Ricans
Quality of care
Recidivists
Recreation
Recreation centers
Rehabilitation of criminals
Religion
Rental housing
Retail trade
Runaway children
Rural conditions
Rural health
Safety appliances
Safety measures
Scholarships
School administration
School boards
School buildings
School choice
School districts
School health programs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Leave No Child Behind Act of 2003 - MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2003 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish a MediKids program to meet the health needs of eligible children.
Family Opportunity Act of 2003 or the Dylan Lee James Act - Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to give States the option of allowing families of disabled children to purchase Medicaid coverage for them.
Establishes a Commission on Children's Access to Care.
Children's Health Insurance Accountability Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for children's health accountability standards.
Kids Deserve Freedom from Tobacco Act of 2003 or the KIDS Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for additional restrictions on the marketing, advertising, and access to tobacco products.
Comprehensive Insurance Coverage of Childhood Immunization Act of 2003 - Amends ERISA, PHSA, and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to outline standards relating to coverage of childhood immunization.
Children's Environmental Protection Act - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to provide for environmental protection for children and other vulnerable subpopulations.
School Environment Protection Act - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for integrated pest management systems for public schools.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS Secretary) to make grants to eligible States to support parenting support and education programs.
Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act - Family Income to Respond to Significant Transitions Insurance Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make grants to eligible entities to pay for the Federal share of projects to provide wage replacement for eligible individuals responding to family caregiving needs, including those resulting from the birth or adoption of a child.
Family and Medical Leave Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to extend its coverage to private employers with 25 or more (currently, 50 or more) employees.
Amends the Federal civil service law on family and medical leave to provide for an entitlement to leave for addressing domestic violence for Federal employees.
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2003 - Amends Federal civil service law on family and medical leave to authorize the Office of Personnel Management to conduct a demonstration project that assists families by providing paid leave for eligible Federal employees who are responding to: (1) caregiving needs resulting from the birth or adoption of a son or daughter; or (2) other family caregiving needs.
Time for Schools Act of 2003 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and Federal civil service law to provide for entitlement to school involvement leave of eligible individuals, including Federal employees.
Amends SSA titles XIX and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) to provide for optional FamilyCare coverage of targeted low-income parents and their children.
Children's Environmental Protection and Right to Know Act - Amends: (1) the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 with respect to reporting toxic chemicals; and (2) the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to require publication of a list of substances or mixtures determined toxic to children.
Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to provide block grants to States for media campaigns promoting responsible fatherhood.
Amends the Head Start Act and the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to reserve specified funds for programs for infants and toddlers, especially programs to improve access to child care.
Focus On Committed and Underpaid Staff for Children's Sake Act or the FOCUS Act - Establishes the Child Care Provider Development and Retention Grant Program and the Child Care Provider Scholarship Program.
Federal Employees Child Care Act - Provides for child care centers in Federal facilities as well as for child care services for Federal employees.
Amends the Early Learning Opportunities Act to extend the authorization of appropriations.
Child Care Facilities Financing Act - Authorizes the Secretary to award grants for the Federal share of the cost of the acquisition, construction, or improvement of child care facilities or equipment.
Book Stamp Act - Directs the Secretary to make grants to State agencies to promote child literacy and improve children's access to books at home and in early learning and other child care programs.
Amends the Higher Education Act regarding student loan forgiveness for teachers.
America's Better Classroom Act of 2003 - Amends the IRC to establish an income tax credit for qualified public school modernization, school construction, and zone academy bonds.
Child Opportunity Zone Family Center Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to eligible partnerships to pay for the Federal share of the cost of establishing and expanding child opportunity zone family centers.
Amends the IRC to increase the child tax credit and to make the credit partially refundable.
Tax Relief for Working Families Act - Amends the IRC to increase the earned income tax credit for married couples and for two or more qualifying children. Extends the dependent care tax credit to respite care services.
Establishes the Gateways Grant Program to improve the administration of State and county low-income families with children programs.
Child Support Distribution Act - Amends SSA title IV parts A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) and B (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to provide for increased child support payments to families and enforcement of child support obligations.
Child Support Assurance Act - Directs the HHS Secretary to make grants to States for child support assurance demonstration projects.
Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2003 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for a graduated increase in the minimum wage (and apply it to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).
Federal Living Wage Responsibility Act - Specifies minimum hourly wages and other employment terms for employees under Federal contracts.
Amends the IRC concerning: (1) parity for part-time workers, fair counting of wages, and use of improved technology for making wage data available; (2) ensuring unemployment compensation for individuals that are separated from employment due to domestic violence; and (3) loss of child care as good cause for leaving employment.
Amends the TANF program concerning: (1) disregard of months engaged in work for purposes of the five year TANF assistance limit; (2) replacement of case load reduction credit with employment credit; (3) elimination of limit on number of TANF recipients enrolled in vocational education or high school who may be counted towards the work participation requirement; (4) elimination of separate work participation rate for two parent families; and (5) strengthening of TANF individual responsibility plans.
Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 concerning the treatment of aliens under the TANF program.
Amends the TANF program to provide for the reauthorization and extension of TANF State family assistance grants.
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act concerning the child and adult care food program, and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 concerning the food stamp program.
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 concerning: (1) prevention of hunger among families with children; (2) encouragement of collection of child support; and (3) periodic redetermination of eligibility.
Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a rental assistance voucher program. Establishes in the Treasury the Voucher Success Fund and the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
Housing Preservation Matching Grant Act of 2003 - Directs the HUD Secretary to make grants to States for low-income housing preservation.
Amends SSA title IV part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) to direct the HHS Secretary to reimburse States for preventive, protective, crisis, permanency, independent living, and post-permanency services.
Social Services Block Grant Restoration Act - Amends SSA title IV part A (TANF) and SSA title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) to provide for restoration of funds for the social services block grant.
Child Protection/Alcohol and Drug Partnership Act - Amends SSA title IV part B to provide for child protection and alcohol and drug partnerships for children.
Amends SSA title IV part E to provide for a permanency grants program.
Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to authorize the HHS Secretary to award grants for programs to: (1) serve children who have been exposed to domestic violence; and (2) encourage the development and use of multisystem intervention models that respond to the needs of children who have been exposed to domestic violence. Directs the Secretary to establish a program through which the Secretary may make grants to States to address the mental health and developmental needs of young children.
Younger Americans Act - Establishes a national youth policy.
Establishes grants for State and community programs to encourage and assist States and youth development consortia in mobilizing and supporting communities in planning, implementing, and being accountable for strategies that link community-based organizations, local government, volunteer centers, schools, community colleges, colleges, universities, faith-based organizations, businesses, parks and recreation agencies, libraries and museums, arts and cultural organizations, other youth-serving organizations, and other segments of the community to ensure that all youth have access to, and participate in, the full array of described core resources.
Establishes in the Executive Office of the President a Coordinating Council for National Youth Policy.
Mental Health Juvenile Justice Act - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (JJDPA) to establish grants for a State and local juvenile justice agency training program regarding access to mental health and substance abuse treatment for juveniles in contact with the State juvenile justice system.
Establishes a Federal Coordinating Council on Criminalization of Juveniles With Mental Disorders.
Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) provide for the regulation of firearms transfers at gun shows; and (2) require child handgun safety locks on firearms.
Amends the Consumer Product Safety Act to require child handgun safety locks.
Prohibits weapons transfers to juveniles and imports of large capacity ammunition feeding devices.
Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to establish grants for: (1) State and local domestic violence offender recordkeeping improvements; and (2) local and antigun violence media campaigns.
Provides for regulation of Internet firearms transfers. Prohibits multiple handgun sales or purchases.
Directs the HHS Secretary to establish the Advisory Committee on Private Sector Support for Children and Families.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2840-2841)
action_date: 2003-02-26
text: Introduced in Senate