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A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to restrict the application of the windfall elimination provision to individuals whose combined monthly income from benefits under such title and other monthly periodic payments exceeds $2,000 and to provide for a graduated implementation of such provision on amounts above such $2,000 amount.

Bill: 108-s-1011
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to: (1) restrict the application of the windfall elimination requirement to individuals whose combined monthly income from the individual's primary insurance amount under such title and the portion of the monthly periodic payment attributable to noncovered service performed after 1956 exceeds $2,000; and (2) provide for a graduated implementation of such requirement on amounts above such threshold by applying applicable percentages determined according to a specified table.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
COAST Anti-Drilling Act

Bill: 108-s-1013
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Continental shelf
Gas in submerged lands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mining leases
Ocean mining
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Submarine oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act, or the COAST Anti-Drilling Act - Amends Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil, natural gas, or any other mineral in either the Mid-Atlantic planning area or the North Atlantic planning area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5872)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5871-5872)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the management of health care services for veterans to place certain low-income veterans in a higher health-care priority category.

Bill: 108-s-1014
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health
Housing and Community Development
Low-income housing
Public housing
Social Welfare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, as of October 2, 2002, to give a higher priority in the provision of hospital care and medical services under the veterans' patient enrollment system to veterans who are eligible for treatment as a low-income family under the United States Housing Act of 1937 for the area in which the veterans reside, regardless of whether such veterans are otherwise treated as single person families or families under such Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-11-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14393)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5873)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5872-5873)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide entitlement to health care for reserve officers of the Armed Forces pending orders to initial active duty following commissioning.

Bill: 108-s-1016
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Health
Military medicine
Officer personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Entitles to medical and dental care in military treatment facilities a member of the reserves who has been commissioned as an officer if: (1) the member has requested orders to active duty for the member's initial period of active duty following commissioning; (2) such request has been approved; (3) the orders have not been issued; and (4) the member does not have health care insurance and is not covered by any other health benefits plan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5873)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5873)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Hospital Outpatient Cost-Sharing Reduction Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1017
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Hospital rates
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Medicare Hospital Outpatient Cost-Sharing Reduction Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), with respect to the prospective payment system for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services, to provide for an extended period through 2013 of increased graduated reduction of the Medicare beneficiary copayment for a covered OPD service furnished under Medicare.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Care Tax Credit Enhancement for Workers and Steel Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1018
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Health
Health insurance
Imports
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Iron
Iron and steel industry
Labor and Employment
Married people
Medical economics
Medicare
Pension trust guaranty insurance
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Social Welfare
Steel
Tariff
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Health Care Tax Credit Enhancement for Workers and Steel Security Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the trade adjustment assistance-related health care tax credit to: (1) decrease age eligibility for Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation pension recipients; (2) eliminate the three-month coverage requirement concerning State-based coverage; and (3) revise covered month eligibility for the spouse of an individual entitled to Medicare.
States that the steel import licensing and monitoring program established by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Commerce shall remain in effect until not later than March 6, 2010.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1019
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Assault
Conspiracy
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crimes against women
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Families
Fetus
Health
Military and naval offenses
Murder
Organized crime
Pregnant women
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Violence
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2003 - Provides that: (1) any person who engages in conduct that violates specified provisions of the Federal criminal code, the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, or the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, or specified articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (conduct constituting certain Federal violent crimes), and thereby causes the death of, or bodily injury to, a child who is in utero, shall be guilty of a separate offense (but prohibits imposition of the death penalty for such offense); and (2) the punishment for that separate offense shall be the same as that provided under Federal law for that conduct had that injury or death occurred to the unborn child's mother.
Directs that if the person engaging in the conduct thereby intentionally kills or attempts to kill the unborn child, that person shall be punished as provided under the Federal criminal code for intentionally killing or attempting to kill a human being.
Bars prosecution under this Act: (1) for conduct relating to an abortion for which the consent of the pregnant woman has been obtained or for which such consent is implied by law in a medical emergency; (2) for conduct relating to any medical treatment of the pregnant woman or her unborn child; or (3) of any woman with respect to her unborn child.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 89.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5874-5875)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5873-5874)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
School Breakfast Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1020
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child nutrition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Indexing (Economic policy)
Price indexes
School lunch program
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: 
School Breakfast Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NLSA) to revise requirements for the school breakfast program.
 
Revises severe need assistance under CNA to provide that eligible schools are entitled to receive a specified meal reimbursement rate (eliminating an alternative lesser payment of the operating costs of the breakfast program).
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, under CNA, to make competitive startup and expansion grants to State educational agencies to assist eligible schools in initiating and expanding school breakfast programs.
 
Provides for commodity assistance for the school breakfast program (in addition to current provisions for commodity assistance for the school lunch program under NLSA).
 
Directs the Secretary, under NLSA, to make grants to State agencies for pilot projects to provide free breakfasts to high school students, without regard to family income. Requires the Secretary to approve for project participation high schools under the jurisdiction of up to six nominated school food authorities selected so as to: (1) target projects toward such authorities that have the highest percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price meals under the school lunch or breakfast program and the lowest percentage of students that receive such meals; and (2) equitably distribute projects among urban and rural high schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Summer Food Service Program Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1021
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Child nutrition
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Food service
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Poor children
Rural conditions
School lunch program
Social Welfare
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: 
Summer Food Service Program Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to revise requirements for the summer food service program for children.
 
Provides for a temporary redefinition of rural areas in which poor economic conditions exist.
 
Revises requirements relating to payments to service institutions for operating expenses and administrative costs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make competitive startup grants to ten States to assist eligible service institutions in initiating summer food service program sites.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Child and Adult Care Food Program Improvements Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1022
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Adult day care
Child nutrition
Day care
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency housing
Families
Group homes
Housing and Community Development
Poor children
Rural conditions
Rural education
School lunch program
Shelters for the homeless
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: 
Child and Adult Care Food Program Improvements Act of 2003 - Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to revise requirements for the child and adult care food program.
 
Revises requirements relating to: (1) the eligibility of private organizations; (2) the supplement reimbursement rate for tier II family or group day care homes; (3) the administrative reimbursement rate for family or group day care home sponsoring organizations in rural areas; and (4) management support.
 
Provides for temporary redefinitions of: (1) tier I family or group home in rural areas; and (2) at-risk school children in rural areas.
 
Revises the program for at-risk school children to add Oregon, New York, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Iowa, and Indiana to the limited list of States in which institutions are to receive reimbursement. (Continues the current listing of Illinois, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Delaware, Michigan, and two unspecified States.)
 
Allows emergency shelters to claim reimbursement for resident children not more than 18 years of age. (The current limit is 12.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to increase the annual salaries of justices and judges of the United States.

Bill: 108-s-1023
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Appellate courts
Courts of special jurisdiction
District courts
Judicial compensation
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Increases the annual salaries of the Chief Justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court, U.S. circuit and district judges, and judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade and Court of Federal Claims by 16.5 percent on January 1, 2004.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 145.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-06-18
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5877)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5876)
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Northern Border Prosecution Initiative Reimbursement Act

Bill: 108-s-1024
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Alaska
Boundaries
Criminal investigation
Detention of persons
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Idaho
Law
Legal aid
Legal fees
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
New Hampshire
New York State
North Dakota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Prosecution
Social Welfare
Vermont
Washington State
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Northern Border Prosecution Initiative Reimbursement Act - Directs the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the Office of Justice Programs, to carry out the Northern Border Prosecution Initiative to provide funds to reimburse eligible northern border States (or local governments thereof) for costs incurred for handling dispositions of criminal cases that are federally initiated but federally declined-referred (i.e., where a decision has been made in a criminal case by a U.S. Attorney or a Federal law enforcement agency during a Federal investigation to no longer pursue Federal criminal charges against a defendant and to refer the investigation to a State or local jurisdiction for possible prosecution). Requires that such program be modeled after the Southwestern Border Prosecution Initiative and serve as a partner program to that initiative to reimburse local jurisdictions for processing Federal cases.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5951-5952)
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Older Americans Tax Fairness Act

Bill: 108-s-1026
Sponsor: Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Older Americans Tax Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the phaseout of the taxation of social security benefits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Irrigation Project Contract Extension Act of 1998 to extend certain contracts between the Bureau of Reclamation and certain irrigation water contractors in the States of Wyoming and Nebraska.

Bill: 108-s-1027
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Nebraska
Water supply
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Amends the Irrigation Project Contract Extension Act of 1998 to: (1) extend each of the water service or repayment contracts for the Glendo Unit of the Missouri River Basin Project identified under the Act until December 31, 2005; (2) extend the Cooperative Agreement for Platte River Research and other Efforts Relating to Endangered Species Habitats Along the Central Platte River, Nebraska, for a term beyond December 31, 2005; and (3) require, if such cooperative agreement terminates before such date, the contracts to be subject to renewal on the termination date.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-271.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Men's Health Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1028
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Men

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Men's Health Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Department of Health and Human Services an office to be known as the Office of Men's Health. Requires a report.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1029
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict
Armed Forces and National Security
Armistices
Boundaries
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Democracy
Diplomacy
Foreign leaders
Government Operations and Politics
Israel
Middle East and North Africa
Palestinians
Peace
Peace negotiations
Political violence
Recognition (International law)
Sunset legislation
Terrorism
Treaties
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: 
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Enhancement Act of 2003 - Calls for: (1) the Palestinian administration to take security related steps to implement a performance based road map to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; and (2) the U.S. administration to work toward the two states living in peace within secure and internationally recognized boundaries.
 
 Expresses the sense of Congress that a Palestinian state should not be recognized until the President makes specified determinations, including that new leadership of a Palestinian governing entity, not compromised by terrorism, has been elected and has taken appropriate measures to counter terrorism and terrorist financing in the West Bank and Gaza.
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act to allow U.S. assistance to be provided to a Palestinian state only: (1) during the effective period of a presidential certification that a binding international peace agreement exists between Israel and the Palestinians and that the new Palestinian government has been democratically elected, has renounced violence against Israel, has dismantled any group that conducts terrorism against Israel, is demilitarized, and has no agreements that threaten Israel's security; and (2) if the President has provided advance notice to Congress.
 
Authorizes the President to provide assistance to a Palestinian state to support activities to substantially improve the economy and living conditions of the Palestinians.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to seek to convene donors conferences to gain commitments from other countries, multilateral institutions, and non-governmental organizations to provide economic assistance to Palestinians.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5952-5953)
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a tax credit for long-term care givers.

Bill: 108-s-1031
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2003-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caregivers
Disabled
Families
Health
Income tax
Long-term care
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise and rename section 24 (Child Tax Credit) as the Family Care Credit. Includes, in addition to the $500 per child credit, a $3,000 credit per qualifying individual requiring specified long-term care.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate