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Medicare Services Improvement and Savings Act

Bill: 108-hr-2343
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2003-06-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Mammography
Medical fees
Medical supplies
Medical tests
Medicare
Nursing homes
Social Welfare
Women
X-rays

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Medicare Services Improvement and Savings Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exclude the following portable services from payment under the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system: (1) portable electrocardiograms; (2) portable X-rays; and (3) portable mammograms.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-04
text: Introduced in House
Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2344
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Civil actions and liability
Compensation (Law)
Constitutional law
Copyright
Damages
Due process of law
Evidence (Law)
Expert witnesses
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Injunctions
Intellectual property
Interest
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Patent infringement
Plant protection
Profit
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Semiconductors
State constitutions
State employees
State laws
State officials
Trademarks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: 
Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act of 2003 - Amends Federal patent law to prohibit the award of remedies in civil actions brought for infringement of a patent issued on or after January 1, 2004, if a State or State instrumentality is or was at any time the legal or beneficial owner of such patent, except upon proof that by the date the infringement commenced (or January 1, 2006, whichever is later) the State has waived its immunity from suit in Federal court for any infringement of intellectual property protected under Federal law.
 
Exempts patents from such limitation if it would materially and adversely affect a legitimate contract-based expectation in existence before January 1, 2004, or the party seeking remedies was a bona fide purchaser for value of the patent, and, at the time of the purchase, did not know and was reasonably without cause to believe that a State or State instrumentality was once the legal or beneficial owner of the patent.
 
Amends Federal copyright law and the Trademark Act of 1946 to apply the same condition of State waiver of immunity to suit under Federal law to the award of remedies in any civil action brought under such laws where a State or State instrumentality is or was at any time the legal or beneficial owner of the copyright or trademark involved.
 
Provides that in actions against an officer or employee of a State or its instrumentality for violations of provisions of Federal copyright or patent laws, the U.S. Code, the Trademark Act of 1946, or the Plant Variety Protection Act, remedies shall be available against such individual in the same manner and to the same extent as they available in an action against a private individual under like circumstances.
 
Imposes liability on States for violations of the fifth or fourteenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution (takings or due process violations) involving intellectual property under such Federal laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
Seniors Financial Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2346
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security finance
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: 
Seniors Financial Security Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the tax on social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
Children's Hope Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2347
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Charities
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Property tax
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
State laws
State taxation
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: 
Children's Hope Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a credit ($100, $200 for joint return) which is dependent on enactment of State qualified scholarship tax credits and which is allowed against the Federal income tax for charitable contributions to education investment organizations (as defined by this Act) that provide qualifying assistance for elementary and secondary education. Excludes from gross income amounts received from an education investment organization for qualified elementary and secondary education expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1310-1311, H1312-1313, H1314-1315, H1315-1317)
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
American ParaProfessional Learning Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2348
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Mathematics
Paraprofessional school personnel
Rating of teachers
Reading
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: 
American ParaProfessional Learning Equity Act of 2003 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, to revise standards for some paraprofessionals by providing an alternative standard of quality applicable to those hired before January 8, 2002 (existing paraprofessionals, as opposed to new ones hired after such date).
 
Requires each local educational agency (LEA) receiving assistance under ESEA title I part A (I-A) to ensure that, by January 8, 2006, all such existing paraprofessionals working in I-A funded programs either have satisfied standards applicable to new paraprofessionals (as required for both groups under current law) or have met a rigorous standard of quality as demonstrated through an evaluation of: (1) performance of job duties that occur in the presence of students; and (2) knowledge of, and ability to assist in, instructing reading, writing, and mathematics (or readiness for these) at the grade level of the students to be instructed.
 
Requires each State educational agency (SEA) receiving I-A assistance to develop, by January 8, 2005, procedures and criteria for such evaluations. Requires each evaluation to be conducted by an employee of a different LEA than the one the paraprofessional works for, or by an SEA employee. Requires SEAs to train or approve each employee who conducts such evaluations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
To authorize certain major medical facility projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 108-hr-2349
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Authorization
Building construction
California
Clinics
Connecticut
Construction costs
Department of Veterans Affairs
Earth movements and building
Economics and Public Finance
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Illinois
Leases
Medical research
Nevada
North Carolina
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out: (1) construction of a new bed tower to consolidate two inpatient sites of care in inner city Chicago; (2) construction in Clark County, Nevada, of a facility for a multispecialty outpatient clinic to replace the leased Las Vegas ambulatory care center and for a satellite office for the Veterans Benefits Administration; (3) seismic corrections to strengthen Medical Center Building 1 of the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system in San Diego, California; and (4) renovation of all inpatient care wards and establishment of a consolidated medical research facility at the Department's West Haven, Connecticut, facility.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a lease for an outpatient clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 
Prohibits funds available to the Secretary from being used for disposal of the Lakeside Division facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities in Chicago, Illinois, until the Secretary has entered into a contract to construct a new bed tower at the Department's West Side Medical Center in Chicago.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: See Public Law 108-170.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Certain provisions incorporated. See S. 1156, Title II, Section 211.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: -Provision incorporated. See H. R. 1720, Section 3.
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1156)
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs health care for certain Filipino World War II veterans residing in the United States.

Bill: 108-hr-2352
Sponsor: Rep. Simmons, Rob [R-CT-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aliens
Asian American ethnic groups
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
East Asia
Guerrilla warfare
Health
History
Hospital care
Nursing homes
Philippines
Residence requirements
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: 
Requires (current law authorizes) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish hospital and nursing home care and medical services, on the same basis as provided to veterans, to a Commonwealth Army veteran or new Philippine Scout who resides in the United States as a citizen or lawfully admitted alien, provided that the Secretary first certifies that sufficient resources are available at the facilities at which the majority of such veterans or Scouts would receive such care and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-06
text: See Public Law 108-170.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Provision incorporated. See S. 1156, Title I, Section 103.
action_date: 2003-06-24
text: -Provision incorporated. See H. R. 2357, Section 3.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1165)
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
Inclusive Home Design Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2353
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Architecture and the disabled
Armed Forces and National Security
Building construction
Building laws
Civil actions and liability
Damages
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Federal preemption
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Housing subsidies
Income tax
Injunctions
Land transfers
Law
Leases
Legal fees
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Parties to actions
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public housing
Punitive damages
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Taxation
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: 
Inclusive Home Design Act of 2003 - Requires, with exceptions, newly constructed, federally assisted single family houses and town houses to include at least one level that complies with the following accessibility features for persons with disabilities: (1) accessible entrance; (2) accessible interior doors; (3) accessible environmental controls; and (4) accessible habitable space and an accessible bathroom.
 
Requires: (1) each applicant for Federal financial assistance to submit compliance assurances to the relevant Federal agency, and (2) each person who arranges for design or construction of a covered dwelling to submit architectural and construction plans for State or local approval. Prohibits Federal financial assistance to a State or local government unit unless the recipient is taking certain enforcement actions with regard to covered dwellings.
 
Permits: (1) private civil actions in a United States District Court or State court for violations under this Act; and (2) the Attorney General to commence civil actions or intervene in civil actions under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1168)
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
State Veterans Cemetery Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2354
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: 
State Veterans Cemetery Fairness Act of 2003 - Makes the burial plot allowance for a veteran who dies in a Department of Veterans Affairs facility or a facility providing Department-contracted care $300 (current law) or the lesser of the actual costs or $750 in the case of a State in which ground burial in a national cemetery is not available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4983)
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
Hawaii Water Resources Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2355
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Hawaii
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Irrigation
Land transfers
Potable water
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Saline waters
Waste water treatment
Water conservation
Water supply
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Hawaii Water Resources Act of 2003 - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of: (1) a project in Kalaeloa, Hawaii, to desalinate and distribute seawater for direct potable use within the service area of the Board of Water Supply, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii; (2) facilities in Kealakehe, Hawaii, for the treatment and distribution of recycled water and for environmental purposes within the County of Hawaii; and (3) and acquire land for, facilities in Lahaina, Hawaii, for the distribution of recycled water from the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility for nonpotable uses within the County of Maui. Limits the Federal share to 25 percent of the total cost of any such project. Prohibits the use of funds provided by the Secretary for project operation and maintenance.
Amends the Hawaii Water Resources Act of 2000 to: (1) increase the authorization of appropriations for the Federal share of activities authorized under the Act for the Hawaii Water Resources Study; and (2) eliminate the prohibition against the total Federal cost share for the study and reports from exceeding the amount authorized by the Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1159-1160)
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
Prescription Drug Comparative Effectiveness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2356
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Clinical trials
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health information systems
Internet
Medicaid
Medical research
Medicare
Pharmaceutical research
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Standards
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Prescription Drug Comparative Effectiveness Act of 2003 - Directs the Director of the National Institutes of Health, in coordination with the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, to conduct research to develop valid scientific evidence regarding the comparative effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and (where appropriate) comparative safety relative to other drugs and treatments for the same disease or condition, of prescription drugs that account for high levels of expenditures or use by individuals in Federally funded health programs, including Medicare and Medicaid.
Directs the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to: (1) analyze such evidence; and (2) develop standards for the design and conduct of cost-effectiveness studies under this Act.
Establishes reporting requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
Invest in Space Now Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2358
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-44]
Introduced: 2003-06-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Auditing
Commerce
Department of Transportation
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Investments
Law
Licenses
Space activities
Space commercialization
Spacecraft
Stocks
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: 
Invest in Space Now Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a credit for the purchase of space transportation vehicle provider stock (as defined by this Act). Sets forth separate credit limitations for large and small capitalization providers, as well as aggregate annual limitations.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a United States Commercial Space Transportation Vehicle Industry Authorization Program to provide tax credit eligibility to support qualified commercial space transportation vehicle development startup ventures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-05
text: Introduced in House