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Campus Classmate Offenders in Rehabilitation and Treatment Act

Bill: 108-s-399
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug courts
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Higher education
School discipline
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Campus Classmate Offenders in Rehabilitation and Treatment Act - Campus CORT Act - Authorizes the Attorney General, through the Office of Justice Programs, to make demonstration grants to accredited universities and colleges to establish up to five programs for campus classmate offenders in rehabilitation and treatment (Campus CORT), modeled after the statewide local drug court programs throughout the United States, for each fiscal year for which funds are provided.
Requires Campus CORTS to: (1) be established at accredited colleges or universities; (2) have jurisdiction over substance abuse related disciplinary cases involving students that may or may not be criminal in nature, including illegal drug use, abuse of prescription drugs, alcohol abuse, and other issues; (3) pursuant to Attorney General regulations, establish appropriate quasi-judicial standards and procedures for disciplinary cases; and (4) impose as the ultimate sanction expulsion from school. Prohibits involvement in a Campus CORT of any student deemed to be a danger to the community.
Directs the Attorney General to make grants to qualified universities and colleges, the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, the National Drug Court Institute, and other associations and experts to assist in establishing campus drug courts and provide training and technical assistance in support of the program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2474)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2473-2474)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow for the expansion of areas designated as renewal communities based on 2000 census data.

Bill: 108-s-400
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Census
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Poverty
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax incentives
Urban affairs
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow for the expansion of areas designated as renewal communities based upon 2000 census population and poverty rate data.
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to include certain adjacent areas not meeting population requirements in such renewal community expansion.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
SBP Benefits Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-401
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Families
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Survivors' benefits
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: SBP Benefits Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends Federal provisions concerning the military Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) to adjust the basic SBP annuity amount for surviving spouses age 62 or over of former military personnel to: (1) 35 percent of the retired pay of the decedent, for months beginning on or before the enactment of this Act (current law); (2) 40 percent of such pay, for months beginning after such date and before October 2007; (3) 45 percent, for months beginning after September 2007; and (4) 55 percent, for months beginning after September 2013.
Adjusts similarly the authorized percentage amounts of SBP supplemental annuity authorized for such spouses.
Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure appropriate adjustments in the computation of retired pay deductions for such supplemental annuities made necessary by this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2475)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2474-2475)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-402
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Air piracy
Aircraft
Airports
Aliens
Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Assassination
Automobile theft
Capital punishment
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Conspiracy
Correctional personnel
Criminal investigation
Destruction of property
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
EBB Terrorism
Election candidates
Emergency Management
Espionage
Explosives
Families
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal officials
Firearms
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
Hostages
Immigration
Informers
International Affairs
Kidnapping
Larceny
Law
Law enforcement officers
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Marine safety
Members of Congress
Motor vehicles
Murder
Offshore structures
Organized crime
Parole
Police
Postal service
Presidential protection
Prison violence
Prisoners
Protection of officials
Racial discrimination
Railroads
Rape
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes
Smuggling
State employees
Supreme Court justices
Terrorism
Torture
Transportation and Public Works
Treason
Vice Presidents
Victims of crimes
Violence
Weapons of mass destruction
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2003 - Repeals death penalty provisions for a wide range of specified offenses under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Federal criminal code (the code), the Controlled Substances Act, and other statutes, including for murder relating to the smuggling of aliens, murder during a hostage-taking, and certain non-homicide-related offenses (espionage and treason). Repeals code procedures relating to imposition of the death sentence.
Prohibits sentencing to death or putting to death any person for any violation of Federal law. Directs that any person sentenced to death before the date of this Act's enactment for any such violation serve a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2477-2478)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2475-2477)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Modeling Exploitation Prevention Act

Bill: 108-s-404
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child abuse
Child labor
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Internet
Labor and Employment
Photography
Science, Technology, Communications
Video tape recording
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Child Modeling Exploitation Prevention Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit an employer from employing a child model in exploitive child modeling. Defines "exploitive child modeling" as modeling involving the use of a child under 17 years old for financial gain without the purpose of marketing a product or service other than the child's image, regardless of whether the employment relationship of the child is direct or indirect, contractual or non-contractual, or is termed that of an independent contractor. Provides that such term does not apply to an image which, taken as a whole, has serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Sets penalties for violations. Includes employment of a minor in violation of such provision within the definition of "oppressive child labor."
Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit displaying or offering to provide the image of an individual engaged in exploitive child modeling, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, with the intent to make a financial gain, except with respect to an image which has serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2479-2480)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2479)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Paul Wellstone Early Educator Loan Forgiveness Act

Bill: 108-s-405
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Higher education
Licenses
Preschool education
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Paul Wellstone Early Educator Loan Forgiveness Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the student loan forgiveness program for child care providers to include preschool teachers. Requires such teachers to: (1) have received at least an associate's degree, and be working toward or have already received a bachelor's degree, in early childhood education; and (2) work for an eligible preschool program provider to prepare the children for transition to kindergarten.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2481-2482)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2480-2481)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Communities Combating College Drinking and Drug Use Act

Bill: 108-s-406
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alcohol and youth
College administration
Colleges
Drug abuse
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
Student activities
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Communities Combating College Drinking and Drug Use Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make matching grant allotments to applicant States to enhance or establish statewide coalitions to reduce the usage of drugs and alcohol by college students both on campus and in the surrounding community at large.
Requires such a statewide coalition to be formed in cooperation with at least half of the institutions of higher education within the State, and with local communities, nonprofit groups, community anti-drug or anti-alcohol coalitions, and other substance abuse prevention groups within the State.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2482-2483)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2480-2481)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide loan forgiveness for attorneys who represent low-income families or individuals involved in the family or domestic relations court systems.

Bill: 108-s-407
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administration of justice
Adoption
Child abuse
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Domestic relations
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family courts
Family violence
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Juvenile delinquency
Law
Legal aid
Legal education
Legal services
Scholarships
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a demonstration program of student loan forgiveness for highly qualified attorneys who: (1) work for State or local government, or nonprofit private, entities on behalf of low-income families or individuals in the family or domestic relations court systems; and (2) have trained and worked in areas including juvenile justice, truancy, child abuse or neglect, adoption, domestic relations, child support, paternity, or others which State law determines to be in the field of family or domestic relations law.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2483-2484)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2480-2481)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Ready To Educate All Children Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-408
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Class size
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Engineering
Engineers
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
History
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Language arts
Law
Licenses
Mathematics
Mentoring
Political science
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Ready to Educate All Children Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive matching grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish partnerships with high poverty local educational agencies or high poverty schools (local partners) to establish or enhance a clinically-based elementary or secondary school teacher training program.
Requires an IHE receiving such a grant to: (1) establish a partnership with a local partner to establish or enhance such a program; (2) facilitate a partnership among the IHE's departments to ensure that future teachers are prepared to teach; and (3) implement a project-based assessment. Requires such IHE also to use grant funds for at least three activities listed.
Makes a student who participates in a program funded under this Act eligible for student assistance under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 during the student's fifth year of study for a teaching degree (if such clinically-based program is a teaching-degree study requirement).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2484-2486)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2480-2481)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide loan forgiveness to social workers who work for child protective agencies.

Bill: 108-s-409
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety
Child welfare
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Interest
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Social work
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to carry out a demonstration program of student loan forgiveness for child welfare workers employed by child protection agencies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2486-2487)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2480-2481)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Intelligence Collection Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-410
Sponsor: Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Foreign Intelligence Collection Improvement Act of 2003 - Homeland Intelligence Agency Act of 2003 - Establishes the Homeland Intelligence Agency as an element of the Department of Homeland Security, with the primary mission of supporting the Director of Central Intelligence in the collection and dissemination of foreign intelligence and counterintelligence in the United States, including the plans, intentions, and capabilities of international terrorist groups operating in the United States. Establishes within the Agency: (1) a Director, Deputy Director, and Inspector General; (2) an Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties Protection; and (3) an Office of Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Coordination.
Requires the Agency Director to: (1) establish and implement personnel training programs; (2) disseminate collected intelligence to other elements of the intelligence community and appropriate Federal, State, and local departments and agencies; (3) establish guidelines on the collection of foreign intelligence and counterintelligence inside the United States; and (4) coordinate overseas intelligence activities with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Transfers to the Agency all homeland intelligence functions currently performed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), CIA, National Security Agency, and Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive. Replaces the FBI with the Agency as an element of the U.S. intelligence community.
Establishes in the FBI the Office of Foreign Intelligence Coordination.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Public Reporting Act - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to: (1) require additional matters within annual reports on foreign intelligence surveillance; and (2) authorize the undisclosed participation of an Agency official or agent in the activities of a religious or political organization in order to obtain foreign intelligence information or information concerning international terrorism.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Intelligence.
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2487-2488)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Southwest Bridge Research Center Establishment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-411
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bridges
Education
Federal aid to transportation
Higher education
New Mexico
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Southwest (U.S.)
Transportation research
Transportation safety

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Southwest Bridge Research Center Establishment Act of 2003 - Amends Federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation, in addition to grants that university transportation centers receive under the Act, to provide grants to New Mexico State University, in collaboration with the Oklahoma Transportation Center, to establish a university transportation center known as the Southwest Bridge Research Center. Declares that the purpose of the Center is to contribute at a national level to a systems approach to improving the overall performance of bridges. Sets forth certain grant requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2491)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2488-2491)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Local Emergency Health Services Reimbursement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-412
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2003-02-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Arrest
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Entitlements
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health care fraud
Illegal aliens
Immigrant health
Immigration
Indian medical care
Minorities
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Local Emergency Health Services Reimbursement Act of 2003 - Amends the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to appropriate $1,450,000,000 for each of FY's 2004 through 2008 for allotments to States for reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens (presently such appropriations end after FY 2001). Sets forth formulas for the disbursement of funds by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Declares that $957,000,000 shall be allotted based on a percentage of undocumented aliens and $493,000,000 shall be allotted based on numbers of undocumented alien apprehensions (in the six States with the highest number of such apprehensions).
Permits a State to receive funds on both accounts. Allows funds to go to States, local governments, hospitals, or other providers in a State, including providers of services received through an Indian Health Service facility (presently funds go only to States). Permits reimbursement to providers for the uncompensated provision of emergency health services to aliens who have been allowed to enter the United States for the sole purpose of receiving such services.
Directs the Secretary to ensure that fraudulent payments are not made from allotments under this Act. Allows for the reallotment of unused funds.
Declares that this Act constitutes budget authority in advance of appropriations Acts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text  of measure as introduced: CR S2492)
action_date: 2003-02-13
text: Introduced in Senate