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Mental Health Parity Reauthorization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1929
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Mental health services
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Mental Health Parity Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Public Health Service Act to extend mental health parity provisions through 2004.

action_date: 2003-12-19
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Mental Health Parity Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Public Health Service Act to extend mental health parity provisions through 2004. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-19
text: Became Public Law No: 108-197.
action_date: 2003-12-19
text: Became Public Law No: 108-197.
action_date: 2003-12-19
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2003-12-19
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2003-12-11
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2003-12-11
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H12863-12864)
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H12863-12864)
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: Mr. Johnson, Sam asked unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and consider.
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H12863-12864)
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S15481; text as passed Senate: CR S15481)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S15481; text as passed Senate: CR S15481)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 108-197
RU-486 Suspension and Review Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1930
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Administrative procedure
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional veto
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drugs
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Labeling
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
RU-486 Suspension and Review Act of 2003 - Deems the approved application for the drug mifepristone (marketed as Mifeprex, commonly known as RU-486, and used for the chemically induced termination of intrauterine pregnancy) to have been suspended. 
 
Directs the Comptroller General to review and report on the process by which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved mifepristone. Provides for the contingent reinstatement of such drug if the report determines the approval to have been in accordance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15473-15475)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal the sunset of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 with respect to the expansion of the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs.

Bill: 108-s-1931
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2003-11-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption
Congress
Families
Income tax
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-22
text: Amends the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-16) to make the sunset provisions inapplicable to section 202, which expanded and increased the adoption credit and adoption assistance programs under the Internal Revenue Code.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15573)
action_date: 2003-11-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15573)
action_date: 2003-11-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhancing Federal Obscenity Reporting and Copyright Enforcement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1933
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-11-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computer crimes
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Copyright
Criminal investigation
Criminal statistics
Federal law enforcement officers
Intellectual property
Law
Licenses
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-22
text: 
Enhancing Federal Obscenity Reporting and Copyright Enforcement Act of 2003 - Amends Federal copyright law to provide that a certificate of registration shall satisfy registration requirements irrespective of any inaccurate information on the registration application, unless: (1) the inaccurate information was included on the application with knowledge that it was inaccurate; and (2) the inaccurate information, if known, would have caused the Register of Copyrights to refuse registration.
 
Requires the court, in any case in which such inaccuracies are alleged, to request the Register to advise the court whether the inaccurate information, if known, would have caused the Register to refuse registration.
 
Allows a court, in computing statutory damages for copyright infringements, to determine that all the parts of a compilation or derivative work do not constitute one work but rather are separate works, if the court in its discretion concludes that they are distinct works having independent economic value.
 
Requires the Attorney General to ensure that: (1) any unit in the Department of Justice responsible for investigating computer hacking or intellectual property crimes is assigned at least one agent to support such unit for the purpose of investigating crimes relating to the theft of intellectual property; and (2) each such agent has received appropriate training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 528.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2003-11-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-11-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15573-15574)
action_date: 2003-11-22
text: Introduced in Senate
ICARE Act

Bill: 108-s-1934
Sponsor: Sen. Nickles, Don [R-OK]
Introduced: 2003-11-23 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Adoption
Advice and consent of the Senate
Aliens
Census
Child health
Child labor
Child welfare
Citizenship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Electronic government information
Emigration
Employee training
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Federal employees
Fees
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Human rights
Immigration
International cooperation
Judicial review
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Orphans
Parent and child
Passports
Presidential appointments
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Treaties
Vaccination
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-23
text: 
Intercountry Adoption Reform Act of 2003 or ICARE Act - Establishes an Office of Intercountry Adoptions within the Department of State (DOS). Requires the President to appoint an Ambassador at Large to head the Office. 
 
Transfers to the Office all immigration functions with respect to intercountry adoptions currently performed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant automatic U.S. citizenship to internationally adopted children upon entry of a full and final adoption decree (thus dispensing with the need for such children to obtain visas). 
 
Creates a new W nonimmigrant visa category for children traveling to the United States to be adopted by U.S. citizens.
 
Allows adopted children age 18 or under to claim an exception to immunization requirements for purposes of admissibility (currently limited to those age 10 or under).
 
Redefines the term &quot;adoptable child.&quot;
 
Requires U.S. citizen adoptive parents to obtain approval of an adoption petition prior to issuance of a W visa or a full and final adoption decree. Provides that such petitions are subject to the terms applicable to orphan petitions. Directs the Ambassador to issue regulations: (1) establishing an expedited reapproval process for families whose prior approvals to adopt have expired; and (2) governing the appeal of petition denials.
 
Requires the Office to determine whether a child is an adoptable child, pursuant to specified procedures, as a prerequisite to the issuance of a W visa or a full and final adoption decree.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15648-15651)
action_date: 2003-11-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15647-15648)
action_date: 2003-11-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from unrelated business taxable income the gain or loss on the sale or exchange of certain brownfield sites, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-1936
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2003-11-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Brownfields
Capital gains tax
Corporation taxes
Environmental Protection
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Land transfers
Land use
Metropolitan areas
Open space lands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real property
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations
Unrelated business income tax
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide, as a general rule, for the exclusion from unrelated business taxable income gain or loss from the qualified sale, exchange, or other disposition of any qualifying brownfield property by an eligible taxpayer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15815-15816)
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15813-15815)
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Mercury Health Advisory Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1939
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2003-11-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Breast feeding
Child health
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Consumer education
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Families
Federal-state relations
Fish inspection
Fishery products
Fishes
Fishing
Food industry
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health warnings
Labeling
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Medical research
Mercury
Pollution measurement
Pregnant women
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public service advertising
Restaurants
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Seafood
Signs and signboards
Sports and Recreation
Telephone
Water Resources Development
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: 
Mercury Health Advisory Act of 2003 - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs jointly to develop fish consumption advisories for methyl-mercury in fish. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) prepare and distribute to health professionals (and others upon request) a consumer's mercury advisory notice regarding the health risks of fish consumption; and (2) establish a toll-free number for individuals who desire additional information.
 
Requires the Administrator to prepare and distribute to specified State entities and applicants for fishing licenses (and others upon request) a consumer's guide to mercury, including a health advisory for the consumption of recreationally-caught fish.
 
Requires the Secretary to work with States and other entities to: (1) develop and distribute standardized advisories, including consumption advisories and health warnings, regarding the presence of methyl-mercury in seafood; and (2) design and implement a related national public education program.
 
Directs the Commissioner to resume the Food and Drug Administration's seafood methyl-mercury monitoring sampling program.
 
Requires the Secretary, within one year of enactment of this Act, to finalize the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point assessment to determine whether methyl-mercury exposure through fish consumption is a public health hazard.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 108-s-1941
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2003-11-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Authors and authorship
Cemeteries and funerals
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colleges
Commerce
Courthouses
Cultural property
Education
Environmental Protection
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governors
Higher education
Historic sites
History
Illinois
Land use
Landowners
Law
Lincoln Administration
Monuments and memorials
Museums
Nature conservation
Office buildings
Planning
Poetry
Presidential debates
Presidential libraries
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Recreation
Right of property
School buildings
Signs and signboards
Sports and Recreation
Supreme Court justices
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: 
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area in Illinois.
 
Designates the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition as the management entity for the Area.
 
Allows the Coalition, using funds made available under this Act, to prepare a management plan for the Area and reports, studies, interpretive exhibits and programs, historic preservation projects, and other activities recommended in the plan.
 
Prohibits the Coalition from using Federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property.
 
Directs the Coalition to submit to the Secretary of the Interior a management plan reviewed by participating units of government within the Area's boundaries which shall, among other things: (1) contain a comprehensive program for conservation, interpretation, funding, management, and development and historical, cultural, and natural resources and recreational and educational opportunities of the Area; and (2) include a business plan detailing the functions of the local coordinating entity and of activities included in recommendations contained in the plan. Requires the Secretary to approve or disapprove the proposed plan not later than 90 days after receiving it. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical and financial assistance to the Coalition for the development and implementation of the management plan.
 
Requires the Coalition to provide assistance and encouragement to State and local governments, private organizations, and persons to protect and promote the Area's resources and values.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Future Iraq Costs Act

Bill: 108-s-1942
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-11-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Defense budgets
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
President and foreign policy
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: 
Future Iraq Costs Act - Directs the President to report quarterly to each Member of Congress on the projected total cost of U.S. operations in Iraq, including military operations and reconstruction efforts, through FY 2008. Requires an explanation for each change in such projected cost.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15838)
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15837-15838)
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Unemployment Compensation Extension Act

Bill: 108-s-1943
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2003-11-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Railroad employees
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: 
Unemployment Compensation Extension Act - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA) to extend the TEUC program through weeks of unemployment ending before July 1, 2004. Terminates individual payments for weeks beginning after December 31, 2004.
 
Increases to 26 weeks an eligible individual's TEUC payments. Provides for an additional seven weeks of payments, for a total of 33 weeks, for individuals in high-unemployment States (TEUC-X). (Current law provides 13 weeks of regular TEUC payments, with an additional 13 and total 26 in TEUC-X States.)
 
Revises requirements for determining TEUC-X States, using certain triggers based on insured unemployment rates and on total unemployment rates.
 
Provides for temporary State authority to waive application of certain look-back provisions under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970.
 
Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to provide a temporary increase in extended unemployment benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1944
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2003-11-24 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Aggression
Alliances
Arab-Israeli conflict
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Boundaries
Capital cities
Civil-military relations
Conferences
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Democracy
Development credit institutions
EBB Terrorism
Economic assistance
Economic development
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign leaders
Fund raising
Gaza Strip
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Immigration
Infrastructure
International cooperation
International propaganda
International relief
Israel
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Nongovernmental organizations
Palestinians
Peace
Peace treaties
Political violence
President and foreign policy
Recognition (International law)
Refugees
Rule of law
State-sponsored terrorism
Sunset legislation
Terrorism
Treaties
United Nations
Water Resources Development
Water allocation (Policy)
Water rights
West Bank

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: 
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Enhancement Act of 2003 - Calls for: (1) any new Palestinian authority to take security-related steps to implement a 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 measures to counter terrorism and terrorist financing in the West Bank and Gaza. 
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to allow U.S. assistance to be provided to a Palestinian state only: (1) during the effective period of a presidential certification that a Palestinian state exists that has been recognized by the United States and Israel and admitted to the United Nations, that a binding international peace agreement exists between Israel and the Palestinian state, and that the new Palestinian Government has been democratically elected, has renounced violence against Israel, has dismantled any group that conducts terrorism against Israel, has instituted clearly agreed upon limits on its military, 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 improve the economy and living conditions of the Palestinians.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to coordinate a program of international economic assistance to the Palestinians. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15838)
action_date: 2003-11-24
text: Introduced in Senate