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Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1387
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-07-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Illegal aliens
Labor and Employment
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: 
Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Secretaries of Homeland Security and State to jointly establish a seasonal and nonseasonal guest worker program with an eligible foreign country. Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) alien worker and program eligibility; and (2) employer applications and petitions.
 
Gives permanent resident status adjustment priority to guest workers who have participated in the program for at least three years. (Requires such application to be filed after the worker has returned to his or her home country.) Prohibits status adjustment before such three-year period.
 
Establishes W-1 (seasonal) and W-2 (nonseasonal) nonimmigrant visas for such workers.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to: (1) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer at least quarterly from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund 100 percent of the guest worker taxes to the Guest Worker Investment Fund for deposit in a guest worker investment account for each guest worker; (2) direct the Secretary of the Guest Worker Investment Fund to create a guest worker investment account for each covered guest worker; (3) establish in the Treasury the Guest Worker Investment Fund; and (4) provide for account distribution after the worker leaves the program and returns to his or her home country.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) adjust the status of certain unlawfully present aliens to nonimmigrant guest worker status (requires adjustment applications to be filed within 12 months of enactment of this Act); and (2) impose additional civil penalties upon employers who knowingly employ unauthorized aliens after such date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S312)
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Medication Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1390
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2003-07-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Health
Parent-school relationships

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Child Medication Safety Act of 2003 - Requires States, as a condition of receiving funds under any program or activity administered by the Secretary of Education, to develop and implement policies and procedures prohibiting school personnel from requiring a child, as a condition of attending school or receiving services, to obtain a prescription for a controlled substance in schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act. (Thus prohibits school personnel from coercing children to receive, or their parents to administer, psychotropic medication.) Provides that nothing in such requirement shall be construed to create a Federal prohibition against teachers and other school personnel consulting or sharing classroom-based observations with parents or guardians regarding a student's academic performance or behavior in the classroom or school, or regarding the need for evaluation for special education or related services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). 
Directs the Comptroller General to review and report on: (1) the variation among States in definitions of psychotropic medication as used in regard to State jurisdiction over public education; (2) the prescription rates of medications used in public schools to treat children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and other disorders or illnesses; (3) which such medications are listed under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA); and (4) which such medications are not listed under CSA, including their properties and effects and whether they have been considered for CSA listing.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve the nutrition of students served under child nutrition programs.

Bill: 108-s-1392
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2003-07-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child health
Child nutrition
Commerce
Community and school
Competition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Exercise
Families
Federal aid to education
Food service
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Health education
Law
Obesity
Parent-school relationships
Planning
Retail trade
School lunch program
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Standards
Student activities
Students
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: 
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to direct the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to establish a program of competitive incentive grants to selected elementary and secondary schools to create healthy school nutrition environments and assess the impact of such environments on the health and well-being of children enrolled in the schools.
 
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) to revise requirements relating to the Secretary's CNA and NSLA regulation of competitive foods in schools. Eliminates a provision which barred such regulations from prohibiting the sale of competitive foods approved by the Secretary in food service facilities or areas during the time of service of food under CNA or NSLA, if the proceeds from the sales of such foods would inure to the benefit of the schools or of organizations of students approved by the schools. Allows such regulations to include provisions that regulate the service of competitive foods. Requires regulations regarding competitive foods to: (1) apply to all school grounds during the duration of the school day; (2) not supersede or otherwise affect State and local regulations on competitive foods that the Secretary determines conform to CNA and NSLA nutritional goals; (3) if such sales are allowed, require proceeds to be used for the benefit of schools or school-approved student organizations; (4) take into account differing needs of elementary, middle and junior high, and high schools; and (5) implement recommendations the Institute of Medicine will make to the Secretary regarding regulation of competitive foods in schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR 7/11/2003 S9250-9251)
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/11/2003 S9248-9250)
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reauthorize and expand the fruit and vegetable pilot program.

Bill: 108-s-1393
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2003-07-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Education
Elementary and secondary education
Fruit
School lunch program
Social Welfare
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: 
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to reauthorize and expand the fruit and vegetable pilot program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR 7/11/2003 S9251)
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/11/2003 S9248-9250)
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Money Follows the Person Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1394
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2003-07-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Chronically ill
Citizen participation
Community health services
Continuum of care
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Long-term care
Medicaid
Public housing
Quality of care
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-11
text: 
Money Follows the Person Act of 2003 - Authorizes a State to apply to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for approval to conduct a demonstration project under which the State shall provide community-based services and supports to Medicaid-eligible individuals residing in a Medicaid long-term care facility for at least 90 days with respect to whom it is determined that, but for community-based services and supports, the individual would continue to require the level of care provided in a Medicaid long-term care facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9304-9306)
action_date: 2003-07-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9304)
action_date: 2003-07-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1396
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-07-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Commerce
Contraceptives
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Physicians
Rebates
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-11
text: 
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a group health plan, and a health insurance issuer providing group coverage, from: (1) excluding or restricting benefits for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services; (2) denying eligibility based on use or potential use of such items or services; (3) providing monetary payments or rebates to a covered individual to encourage acceptance of less than the minimum protections available; (4) penalizing, reducing, or limiting a professional's reimbursement because the professional prescribed such drugs or devices or provided such services; or (5) providing incentives to a professional to induce the professional to withhold drugs, devices, or services. Amends the Public Health Service Act to apply those prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-07-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9416)
action_date: 2003-07-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1397
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2003-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Accreditation (Medical care)
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health facilities
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Hospitals
Local laws
Medical personnel
Preferred provider organizations (Medical care)
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: 
Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Federal Government, and any State or local government that receives Federal financial assistance, from discriminating against any health care entity because (in addition to current prohibited reasons) the entity refuses to provide coverage of, or pay for, induced abortions. Expands the definition of &quot;health care entity&quot; to include (in addition to physicians) other health professionals, a hospital, a provider sponsored organization, a health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, and any other kind of health care facility, organization, or plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Great Lakes Environmental Restoration Act

Bill: 108-s-1398
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Animals
Authorization
Coastal zone
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental monitoring
Executive reorganization
Exotic animals
Exotic plants
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to water pollution control
Fishery management
Government Operations and Politics
Great Lakes
Habitat conservation
Illinois
Indiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Michigan
Minnesota
New York State
Non-native species
Nonpoint source pollution
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Restoration ecology
Sedimentation
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Water use
Watersheds
Wetlands
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: 
Great Lakes Environmental Restoration Act - Establishes a Great Lakes Environmental Restoration Grant Program in the Great Lakes National Program Office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
 
Allocates funds among the Great Lakes States, requiring the funding of at least one project or activity per Great Lakes State per fiscal year. Stipulates that these projects result in tangible improvements in the Great Lakes watershed and address at least one of the priority issues identified by the Great Lakes Environmental Restoration Advisory Board.
 
Prohibits the use of restoration grant funds for: (1) roads not connected with a sewer upgrade; (2) research, monitoring or beautification projects unrelated to tangible improvements to the watershed; or (3) litigation and lobbying expenses.
 
Establishes the Great Lakes Environmental Restoration Advisory Board which includes Federal, State, and local members as well as Canadian and environmental organization observers.
 
Establishes the Great Lakes Federal Coordinating Council.
 
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the Administrator of EPA to: (1) develop and implement science-based indicators of water quality and related environmental factors in the Great Lakes, including measures of accumulated toxic pollutants; (2) establish a Federal network to regularly monitor and collect this data; and (3) make a report available to Congress and the public describing the water quality and related environmental factors of the Great Lakes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9330-9332)
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 South Vine Street in Glenwood, Iowa, as the "William J. Scherle Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-1399
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2003-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Iowa
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility (the Glenwood Main Post Office) located at 101 South Vine Street in Glenwood, Iowa, as the William J. Scherle Post Office Building.

action_date: 2003-07-17
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 (the Glenwood Main Post Office) located at 101 South Vine Street in Glenwood, Iowa, as the William J. Scherle Post Office Building.

action_date: 2003-07-29
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 (the Glenwood Main Post Office) located at 101 South Vine Street in Glenwood, Iowa, as the William J. Scherle Post Office Building.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-29
text: Became Public Law No: 108-65.
action_date: 2003-07-29
text: Became Public Law No: 108-65.
action_date: 2003-07-29
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2003-07-29
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2003-07-23
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2003-07-23
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7183)
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7183)
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 1399.
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7183-7184)
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Mr. Shays moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2003-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2003-07-18
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-07-18
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S9619)
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S9619)
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9618-9619)
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9618-9619)
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 108-65
A bill to provide for the establishment of a new Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility for veterans in the Columbus, Ohio, area.

Bill: 108-s-1403
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health
Ohio
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to construct a medical facility on available Federal land at the Defense Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 514 17th Street Moline, Illinois, as the "David Bybee Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-1405
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2003-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Illinois
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 514 17th Street in Moline, Illinois, as the David Bybee Post Office Building.

action_date: 2003-10-27
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 514 17th Street in Moline, Illinois, as the David Bybee Post Office Building.

action_date: 2003-10-29
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 514 17th Street in Moline, Illinois, as the David Bybee Post Office Building.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S13531-13532; text as passed Senate: CR S13531)
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S13531-13532; text as passed Senate: CR S13531)
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 329.
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to permit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to register a Canadian pesticide.

Bill: 108-s-1406
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2003-07-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Canada
Commerce
Confidential communications
Environmental Protection Agency
Feeds
Fines (Penalties)
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Judicial review
Labeling
Law
Pesticide regulation
Pesticide residues
Pesticides
Trade secrets

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: 
Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to permit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to register a Canadian pesticide that: (1) has not been previously disapproved; (2) is identical or substantially similar in composition to a comparable domestic pesticide already registered; and (3) is registered in Canada by the registrant (or affiliate) of the comparable domestic pesticide.
 
 Requires the Administrator to obtain the confidential statement of formula for the pesticide to determine if it is in fact identical or substantially similar to a comparable domestic pesticide. 
 
Stipulates that any Canadian pesticide the Administrator registers must bear an approved label which completely covers the original Canadian label. 
 
Prohibits actions in Federal court against: (1) the Administrator acting as a registering agency for damages resulting from the use of a product registered under this Act; or (2) registrants for damages resulting from adulteration or compositional alterations of such a product if the registrant could not reasonably have knowledge of such adulteration or alterations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Subcommittee on Production and Price Competitiveness. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-687.
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9419-9421)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9419)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Introduced in Senate