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Hunting Heritage Protection Act

Bill: 108-s-1204
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal-state relations
Fishing
Government Operations and Politics
Hunting
Injunctions
Land use
Law
Legal fees
Licenses
Sports and Recreation
State laws
Trapping

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Hunting Heritage Protection Act - Requires that Federal public lands be open to access and use for recreational hunting except: (1) as limited by the Federal agency with responsibility for such lands for national security or public safety reasons, or for reasons authorized in applicable Federal statutes as reasons for closure; and (2) as such hunting is limited by the State in which such lands are located.
Directs the head of each Federal agency with authority to manage a natural resource or public lands on which such a resource depends to exercise that authority in a manner so as to support, promote, and enhance recreational hunting opportunities.
Declares that Federal land management decisions and actions should result in no net loss of land area available for hunting opportunities on Federal public lands.
Requires the heads of Federal agencies with authority to manage Federal public lands on which recreational hunting occurs to report annually to specified congressional committees on areas administered that have been closed during the previous year to recreational hunting and reasons for such closures and on areas that were open to such hunting to compensate for closed areas.
Prohibits a withdrawal, change of classification, or change of management status, that effectively closes 5,000 or more acres of Federal public land for use for recreational hunting, from occurring unless the head of the Federal agency with authority to manage the land has submitted written notice of the action to both Houses of Congress.
Grants States the right to file civil actions in district courts in cases where Federal agencies fail to comply with State authority to manage or regulate fish and wildlife.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7495)
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Teacher Housing Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1205
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to housing
Housing and Community Development
Indian education
Indian lands
Minorities
Residential rehabilitation
School districts
School personnel
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: 
Rural Teacher Housing Act of 2003 - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide funds to an eligible State (with a population of fewer than one million people) to make grants to eligible school districts located within a qualified municipality (with a population of 6,500 or fewer and no direct access to either a State or interstate highway system) within the boundaries of Indian lands, one or more Native villages, or land owned by one or more Village Corporations).
 

 
Requires such grants to be used for: (1) construction of new housing units within a qualified municipality; (2) the purchase and rehabilitation of existing housing units within a qualified municipality; or (3) the rehabilitation of housing units within a qualified municipality that are owned by an eligible school district.
 
Requires the occupants of such housing units to be teachers or other staff employed by the public school district in which the housing units are located.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7496)
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7495-7496)
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Beneficiary Access to Care Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1206
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2003-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Cancer
Chemotherapy
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug therapy
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
Hospital rates
Legislation
Medical fees
Medicare
Off-budget expenditures
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Beneficiary Access to Care Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department services (OPD) to: (1) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to treat as a separate group of covered OPD services any drug or biological that was treated as such a group as of December 31, 2002, and any drug or biological that has ceased to be eligible for transitional, pass-through payments by reason of the limited period of payment specified; and (2) add special rules for 2004 for the calculation of Medicare OPD fee schedule amounts, among other payment-related changes.
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on pharmacy services used to provide cancer drug therapies in hospital outpatient setting.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7543-7544)
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 East Ritchie Avenue in Marceline, Missouri, as the "Walt Disney Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-1207
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2003-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Entertainers
Government Operations and Politics
Missouri
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 120 East Ritchie Avenue in Marceline, Missouri, as the Walt Disney Post Office Building.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 120 East Ritchie Avenue in Marceline, Missouri, as the Walt Disney Post Office Building.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: 
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 120 East Ritchie Avenue in Marceline, Missouri, as the Walt Disney Post Office Building.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8598; text as passed Senate: CR S8598)
action_date: 2003-06-25
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8598; text as passed Senate: CR S8598)
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 152.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7544)
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a program to provide assistance to States and nonprofit organizations to preserve suburban forest land and open space and contain suburban sprawl, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-1208
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Environmental protection groups
Federal-state relations
Forest conservation
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Land banking
Land transfers
Land use
Nonprofit organizations
Open space lands
Private forests
Social Welfare
Suburbs
Sustainable forestry
Urban affairs
Urban growth

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish in the Forest Service the Suburban and Community Forestry and Open Space Program, which shall provide cost-share grants to preserve private forest land and contain suburban sprawl.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to authorize a requesting State to permit a qualifying organization to acquire one or more conservation easements to carry out the Forest Legacy Program in such State.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7544-7546)
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the acquisition of property in Washington County, Utah, for implementation of a desert tortoise habitat conservation plan.

Bill: 108-s-1209
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Compensation (Law)
Eminent domain
Land transfers
Law
Natural areas
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Provides for Federal acquisition of: (1) the fee simple interest and certain other interests in certain real property owned by Environmental Land Technology, Ltd. (ELT) and other parties, within the Red Cliffs Reserve in Washington County, Utah; and (2) the fee simple interest in certain real property owned by ELT, adjacent to the Red Cliffs Reserve. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to fairly compensate the owners of such lands.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-321.
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7546-7547)
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to identify certain sites as key resources for protection by the Directorate for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection  of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-1212
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: District of Columbia
EBB Terrorism
History
Missouri
Monuments and memorials
National monuments
National parks
New York City
Pennsylvania
Public Lands and Natural Resources
South Dakota
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to include under the definition of &quot;key resources,&quot; for purposes of protection by the Directorate for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection of the Department of Homeland Security, National Park Service sites identified by the Secretary of the Interior as being so universally recognized as symbols of the United States and so heavily visited by the American and international public that such sites would likely be identified as targets of terrorist attacks, including: (1) the Statue of Liberty National Monument in New York Harbor; (2) Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; (3) the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri; (4) Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota; and (5) memorials and monuments in the District of Columbia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Intelligence. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7550)
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Filipino Veterans' Benefits Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1213
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
East Asia
Filipino Americans
Guerrilla warfare
Philippines
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: 
Filipino Veterans' Benefits Act of 2003 - Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish hospital and nursing home care and medical services to any individual who is a Commonwealth Army veteran or new Philippine Scout (current law) and who is: (1) residing in the United States; and (2) a U.S. citizen or alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
 
Provides a rate of payment equal to the rate provided for active-service veterans and their survivors for dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of Commonwealth Army veterans or new Philippine Scouts.
 
Extends through 2008 the authority to operate a Department of Veterans Affairs regional office in the Republic of the Philippines.
 
Provides national cemetery burial benefits for new Philippine Scouts residing in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-29
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7550-7551)
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7550, S7551-7552)
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Family Caregiver Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1214
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2003-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caregivers
Disabled
Families
Health
Income tax
Long-term care
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: 
Family Caregiver Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise and rename the Child Tax Credit as the Family Care Credit. Includes within such credit (in addition to the child care credit) a $3,000 credit for each qualifying individual for whom an eligible taxpayer is a long-term care provider.
 
Defines &quot;eligible expenses&quot; as: (1) certain medical care; (2) lodging away from home; (3) adult day care; (4) custodial care; (5) respite care; and (6) other specialized children's services, including day care for children with special needs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7553-7554)
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7552-7553)
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Cell Phone Users Bill of Rights

Bill: 108-s-1216
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Commerce
Common carriers
Consumer complaints
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Federal Communications Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Telecommunication industry
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: 
Cell Phone Users Bill of Rights - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require each wireless telephone service provider (provider) offering service in one of the largest 100 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas to provide consumers with the option to port (retain) telephone numbers between providers by implementing wireless telephone number portability throughout the networks of providers in each of those statistical areas. Mandates subsequent implementation of such requirement with respect to all other metropolitan statistical areas in which three or more providers provide wireless service.
 
Directs the FCC to require providers to include specified information in their wireless telephone service plans, including charges, minutes allowed, contract length, start-up fees, and taxes and surcharges.
 
Requires each provider to make available, including on the Internet, a map of their service area.
 
Directs the FCC to monitor the quality of wireless service through semiannual provider reports.
 
Empowers the FCC to, and the States to bring civil actions in U.S. district court to, enforce provisions of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
School Service Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1219
Sponsor: Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]
Introduced: 2003-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Civics education
Elementary and secondary education
Government Operations and Politics
National service
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: 
School Service Act of 2003 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Community Corps (CC) for school-age youth.
 
Authorizes the Corporation for National and Community Service to make competitive grants, to cover a Federal share of the cost of planning or operating CC programs, to qualified entities, including States, Indian tribes, local educational agencies, or nonprofit organizations acting in partnership with one or more of such entities. 
Requires CC programs to: (1) engage school-age youth in meaningful service that meets unmet human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs; (2) provide substantial structured opportunities for them to reflect on their service activities; and (3) be integrated into and enhance the school's academic curriculum or educational components of an after-school or summer program. 
Gives priority in awarding grants to qualified entities that: (1) demonstrate they will engage school-age youth in high-quality service programs; and (2) propose to serve jurisdictions with high numbers or percentages of low-income families.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7625-7626)
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1220
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health maintenance organizations
Managed care
Medical economics
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) extend reasonable cost contracts under the Medicare program and the period during which cost contracts may expand service areas; (2) apply certain Medicare+Choice requirements under Medicare part C (Medicare+Choice) to cost contracts to allow beneficiaries to be informed about the option of cost contracts, apply quality assurance requirements, prevent plans from discriminating against certain patients by offering lower premiums, and prohibit States from taxing cost contract premiums; and (3) permit dedicated group practice health maintenance organizations to participate in the Medicare cost contract program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7626-7627)
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7626)
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Wireless Telephone Number Portability Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1221
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Commerce
Common carriers
Consumer protection
Telecommunication industry
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: 
Wireless Telephone Number Portability Act of 2003 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission to require each wireless telephone service provider offering service in one of the largest 100 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas to provide consumers with the option to port (retain) telephone numbers between providers by implementing wireless telephone number portability throughout the networks of providers in each of those statistical areas. Mandates subsequent implementation of such requirement with respect to all other metropolitan statistical areas in which three or more providers provide wireless service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Beneficiary Access to Rehabilitation Facilities Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1222
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2003-06-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Case mix (Medical care)
Collection of accounts
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Law
Medicare
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Medicare Beneficiary Access to Rehabilitation Facilities Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to prospective payment for inpatient rehabilitation services to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services by regulation to define the terms "rehabilitation hospital" and "rehabilitation unit" in a manner fully consistent with all the rehabilitation impairment categories (except miscellaneous) used to classify patients into case-mix groups. Requires the Secretary to update these regulations periodically to ensure that they remain fully consistent with the rehabilitation impairment categories used to classify patients into case-mix groups.
Prohibits the Secretary from seeking to recoup any overpayment, take any enforcement action, or to impose any sanction or penalty, with respect to a rehabilitation hospital, or a converted rehabilitation unit insofar as such overpayment, enforcement action, sanction or penalty, is for failure to satisfy the requirement that 75 percent of the patients of the rehabilitation hospital or converted rehabilitation unit be in one or more of ten listed treatment categories (the 75 Percent Rule).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Introduced in Senate