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Federal Pell Grant Eligibility Clarification Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1348
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Fraud
Higher education
Income
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Scholarships
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Federal Pell Grant Eligibility Clarification Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise eligibility requirements for certain Pell Grant awards by modifying the formula for determining total income to include consideration of current year circumstances for students residing in States in extended benefit periods under the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8737-8738)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8735-8736)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the eligibility of veterans for mortgage bond financing, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-1349
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
California
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Mortgages
Oregon
Tax-exempt securities
Texas
Veterans' loans
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the additional requirements for qualified veterans mortgage bonds to: (1) revise the definition of a qualified veteran to mean any veteran who served on active duty (removes the limitation of service before January 1, 1977) and who applied for financing before 30 years after leaving service (removes the additional proviso of, or before January 31, 1985); (2) revise the State veterans limit; and (3) permit a State to elect to carry forward any of such unused limitation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8738)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act

Bill: 108-s-1350
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Bank accounts
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Damages
Data banks
Driver licenses
Electronic government information
Electronic mail systems
Encryption
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Injunctions
Internet
Local laws
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act - Requires any agency or person that owns or licenses electronic data containing personal information, following the discovery of a breach of security of the system containing such data, to notify any U.S. resident whose personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person. Requires any agency or person who possesses but does not own or license such data, to notify the information owner or licensee about such an unauthorized acquisition. Allows delay of notification in connection with authorized law enforcement purposes. Provides authorized methods of notification and alternative notification procedures.
 
Provides: (1) civil penalties and rights and remedies in connections with violations; and (2) for enforcement by State attorneys general.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-04
text: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-520.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8739-8740)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8738-8739)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 to modify provisions relating to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-1351
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Agricultural industries
Agriculture and Food
Auditing
Citizen participation
Commerce
Congress
Corporation directors
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Energy
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Fertilizers
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government travel
Hydroelectric power
Political parties
Presidential appointments
Residence requirements
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley development
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Amends the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 to increase the membership of the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority and to revamp its structure and composition.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8740-8741)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Widows and Orphans Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1353
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aliens
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Homeland Security
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Law
Refugees
Visas
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Widows and Orphans Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a special immigrant category (N Visa) for certain orphans and women at risk of harm.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8746-8747)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Adjustment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1354
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Commerce
Easements
Environmental Protection
Government liability
Indian claims
Indian lands
Indigenous peoples
Land transfers
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Logging
Lumber trade
Minorities
National forests
Old growth forests
Sports and Recreation
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Cape Fox Land Entitlement Adjustment Act of 2003 - Provides that Cape Fox Corporation shall not be required under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) to select or receive conveyance of 160 nonproductive acres. Permits Cape Fox to select and the Secretary of the Interior to convey 99 acres of the surface estate of Tongass National Forest lands outside Cape Fox's current exterior selection boundary. Directs the Secretary to convey the subsurface estate to those lands to Sealaska Corporation.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to offer and, if accepted by Cape Fox, to exchange specified Tongass National Forest lands for lands and interests identified by Cape Fox from specified lands previously conveyed to it. States that the Cape Fox land conveyed to the Federal Government shall include a public trail easement unless the Secretary of Agriculture agrees otherwise.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, upon conveyance by Cape Fox of such lands and conveyance and relinquishment by Sealaska of the subsurface estate underlying those lands and other specified Tongass National Forest lands, to convey to Sealaska Tongass National Forest lands selected by Sealaska from a specified area. Requires: (1) such exchange to be considered a modification of the Sealaska Corporation/United States Forest Service Split Estate Exchange Agreement; and (2) conveyances under this Act by the Federal Government to be considered to be conveyances pursuant to ANCSA.
Subjects Federal lands conveyed to Cape Fox and Sealaska under this Act to reservations of public easements only as mutually agreed to in the relevant exchange agreements, with such easements to be for access across the lands conveyed for use of national forests or other public land.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9275-9276)
action_date: 2004-03-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests . Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-490.
action_date: 2003-08-06
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held in Anchorage, AK. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-163.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8747-8749)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8747)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act

Bill: 108-s-1358
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appellate courts
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil actions and liability
Classified defense information
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional witnesses
Disciplining of employees
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Evidence (Law)
Executive orders
Federal employees
Government attorneys
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Information leaking
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Merit Systems Protection Board
Office of Special Counsel
Parties to actions
Personnel management
Promotions
Security clearances
Security measures
Waste in government spending
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act - Includes as a protected disclosure by a Federal employee: (1) any lawful disclosure an employee or applicant reasonably believes is credible evidence of waste, abuse, or gross mismanagement, without restriction as to time, place, form, motive, context, or prior disclosure; and (2) the disclosure of information required to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or the conduct of foreign affairs that the employee or applicant reasonably believes is direct evidence of waste, abuse, or gross mismanagement if such disclosure is made to a Member or employee of Congress who is authorized to receive information of the type disclosed. 
Sets forth provisions concerning review and appeal of actions concerning such disclosures. 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide that, for purposes of provisions regarding the protection of voluntarily shared critical infrastructure information, a permissible use of independently obtained critical infrastructure information includes any lawful disclosure an employee or applicant reasonably believes is credible evidence of waste, fraud, abuse, or gross mismanagement, without restriction as to time, place, form, motive, context, or prior disclosure. 
Requires agencies to inform employees on how to make a lawful disclosure of information.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4901-4902)
action_date: 2003-11-12
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 108-414.
action_date: 2003-08-01
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security.
action_date: 2003-07-09
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8749-8751)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8749)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
International Remittance Services Enhancement and Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1359
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Checks
Commerce
Consumer education
Credit unions
Electronic funds transfers
English language
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Fees
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign exchange
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Independent regulatory commissions
Language and languages
Law
Money
National Credit Union Administration
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
International Remittance Services Enhancement and Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Credit Union Act to repeal the limitation on the authority of Federal credit unions to sell negotiable checks (including travelers checks), money orders, and other similar money transfer instruments and services to, as well as cash checks and money orders for, members only. (Thus allows Federal credit unions to perform such services for anyone.) Adds international money transfer services to the list of such services.
 
Directs the appropriate Federal agencies to jointly prescribe regulations that require any financial institution or money transmitting business which initiates an international money transfer on behalf of a consumer to disclose the following: (1) any fees charged to the recipient, including exchange rate or currency conversion fees; (2) a final itemization of all costs to the consumer, including all fees charged for the remittance; and (3) the exact amount of foreign currency to be received by the recipient in the foreign country. 
 
Requires such disclosures to be in English and in any other language used by the financial institution or money transmitting business, or any of its agents, to advertise, solicit, or negotiate, either orally or in writing, at the office of the institution or business at which the international money transfer is initiated.
 
Grants the Federal Trade Commission enforcement powers with respect to any financial institution or money transmitting business that is not an insured depository institution or insured credit union.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8756)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend section 7105 of title 38, United States Code, to clarify the requirements for notices of disagreement for appellate review of Department of Veterans Affairs activities.

Bill: 108-s-1360
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Veterans Affairs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Provides that, if a veteran claimant's filing of a notice of disagreement (a notice of the belief that a veteran's claim decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs is incorrect, together with a request for its appeal) meets minimum statutory requirements, then the notice will be deemed a notice of disagreement with full rights of appeal through the Board of Veterans' Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, notwithstanding its rejection by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
 
Allows for the reevaluation of notices which were found to be defective during the period beginning on March 15, 2002, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8756-8757; correction of text as introduced: CR 7/7/2003 S8897)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8756)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
RAFT (Restore Access to Foreign Trade) Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1361
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air cargo
Commerce
Energy
Energy transportation
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign tax credit
Income tax
Merchant ships
Petroleum
Taxation of foreign income
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: RAFT (Restore Access to Foreign Trade) Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to redefine the term "foreign base company shipping income" to include income derived from, or in connection with, the use of "any aircraft or petroleum vessel in foreign commerce....". (Currently, the term is defined to include income derived from, or in connection with, the use of "any aircraft or vessel in foreign commerce....".) Defines the term "petroleum vessel."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8757)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8757)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
SAFE Border Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1362
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border patrols
Boundaries
Commuting
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
International Affairs
Law
Licenses
Limited access highways
Pedestrians
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Transfer of employees
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Secure and Fast Entry at the Border Act of 2003 or the SAFE Border Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make the Port Passenger Accelerated Service System (PortPASS) permanent.
Provides for minimum two-year entry approvals under the Secure Electronic Network for Travelers Rapid Inspection (SENTRI) program along the United States-Mexico border. Precludes a person convicted of a felony or under active criminal investigation from program participation.
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Department of Homeland Security must ensure the permanence of PortPASS in its transition from the Department of Justice to the Department; (2) all land PortPASS programs should utilize interoperable technology to offer participants increased commuter lane access; (3) the Secretary of Homeland Security should increase SENTRI program staff, training, and resources; and (4) the Secretary should create a pre-inspection low-risk commuter lane for pedestrian land border crossers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8757-8758)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Park Professionals Protection Act

Bill: 108-s-1363
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commerce
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
National parks
Park rangers
Privatization
Reprogramming of appropriated funds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: 
Park Professionals Protection Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior (and any person employed by the Secretary in any capacity) from studying or implementing any plan to privatize, divest, or transfer any part of the mission, function, or responsibility of the National Park Service (NPS).
 
Instructs the Secretary to withhold any funds currently dedicated to such prohibited activities and to reallocate those funds to NPS operations and maintenance accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8758-8759)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8758)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to authorize the payment of expenses after the death of certain Federal employees in the State of Alaska.

Bill: 108-s-1364
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Death
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government travel
Household moving
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act with regards to a program under the Act under which individuals who have lived or worked near public lands are considered for selection for positions within public lands. Declares that if an employee in such program dies in the performance of any assigned duties on or after October 1, 2002, the Secretary of the Interior may: (1) pay reasonable expenses for the transportation of the remains to a location in Alaska which is selected by the surviving head of household of the deceased employee; and (2) pay reasonable expenses for transporting immediate family members to a community in the State of Alaska which is selected by the surviving head of household.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-278.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8759)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8759)
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate