Justice Enhancement and Domestic Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-22
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Afghanistan
Air piracy
Aliens
Alliances
Ammunition
Appellate procedure
Armed forces abroad
Arrest
Bank fraud
Bank records
Biological warfare
Bombings
Boundaries
Capital punishment
Chemical warfare
Child safety
Citizenship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Claims
Classified defense information
Collection of accounts
Commercial aircraft
Community-based corrections
Compensation for victims of crime
Computer security measures
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Counterfeiting
Court records
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against humanity
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Criminal liability
Department of Defense
Department of Justice
Deportation
Detention of persons
Dismissal of employees
District of Columbia
Due process of law
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Embezzlement
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Employee benefit plans
Employee training
Energy
Environmental Protection
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Extradition
Families
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to transportation
Federal employees
Federal office buildings
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Firearms
Firearms control
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government internships
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health care fraud
Higher education
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Imprisonment
Indian law enforcement
Information networks
Informers
Infrastructure
Insanity
International Affairs
International agencies
International cooperation
Islam
Jurisdiction
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Larceny
Law
Legislation
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medicare
Military intervention
Military law
Military operations
Minorities
Misconduct in office
Missing children
Murder
Native Americans
New York City
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Office buildings
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Pardons
Parties to actions
Passports
Pennsylvania
Pension funds
Pleas (Criminal procedure)
Police communication systems
Police training
President and foreign policy
Pretrial procedure
Prisoners of war
Prisoners' rights
Probation
Prosecution
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public prosecutors
Public service advertising
Radio broadcasting
Religion
Religious liberty
Right of privacy
Right to counsel
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-incrimination
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sentencing guidelines
September 11, 2001
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
South Asia
Speedy trial
Standards
Supreme Court
Suspects' rights
Television broadcasting
Territories (U.S.)
Terrorism
Torture
Traffic signs and signals
Translating and interpreting
Transportation and Public Works
Trials
Uranium
Uranium enrichment
Victims of crimes
Victims of terrorism
Video tape recording
Virgin Islands
Virginia
Visas
War crimes
Weapons of mass destruction
Welfare eligibility
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Justice Enhancement and Domestic Security Act of 2003 - Incorporates provisions entitled as follows: (1) the First Responders Partnership Grant Act of 2003 (authorizes grants to support public safety officers in efforts to protect homeland security and prevent and respond to acts of terrorism); (2) the Safe Borders Act of 2003 (authorizes appropriations for hiring additional Immigration and Naturalization Service personnel and for border security protection technology); (3) the Military Tribunal Authorization Act of 2003 (authorizes the President to establish tribunals for the trial of suspected terrorists and individuals who aid or abet terrorists); (4) the Anti-Terrorist Hoax and False Report Act of 2003; (5) the National AMBER Alert Network Act of 2003 (requires the Attorney General to assign an AMBER Alert Coordinator of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to act as a national coordinator of the AMBER Alert communications network); (6) the Prosecutorial Remedies and Tools Against the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003; (7) the Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2003 (reauthorizes and increases funding for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children); (8) the National Child Protection and Volunteers for Children Improvement Act of 2003; (9) the Seniors Safety Act of 2003 (includes provisions regarding crimes against seniors, health care and pension fraud, telemarketing fraud, violations of nursing home rules and regulations, and restitution of elderly crime victims); (10) the Identity Theft Victims Assistance Act of 2003; (11) the Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2003; (12) the Social Security Number Misuse Prevention Act of 2003; (13) the Crime Victims Assistance Act of 2003 (requires a responsible official to arrange reasonable protection of a victim from a suspected offender and sets forth consultation and participatory rights of a victim at detention hearings, trials, and sentencing proceedings); (14) the Providing Reliable Officers, Technology, Education, Community Prosecutors, and Training in Our Neighborhoods Act of 2003 (PROTECTION Act); (15) the Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act of 2003; (16) the Federal Prosecutors Retirement Benefit Equity Act of 2003; (17) the Federal Bureau of Investigation Reform Act of 2003 (revises whistle blower protections); (18) the DNA Sexual Assault Justice Act of 2003 (provides for a recommended national protocol on collecting and processing DNA evidence at crime scenes); (19) the Say No to Drugs Community Centers Act of 2003; (20) the Our Lady of Peace Act of 2003 (revises requirements and provides grants for firearms eligibility determination information and technology); (21) the Ballistics, Law Assistance, and Safety Technology Act of 2003 (BLAST Act) (sets forth firearms ballistics testing and record keeping requirements); (22) the Innocence Protection Act of 2003 (sets forth procedures governing DNA testing of a person convicted of a Federal crime and provides grants for legal representation provided to indigent defendants in State capital cases); and (23) the Anti-Atrocity Alien Deportation Act of 2003 (provides for the inadmissibility and deportability of aliens who have committed acts of torture or extrajudicial killings abroad).
Provides for establishment of: (1) a Rural Policing Institute; (2) a protective function privilege with respect to testimony by Secret Service personnel; (3) the Office of Special Investigations within DOJ to investigate and take legal action to denaturalize certain aliens; and (4) the Advisory Committee on Cargo Theft..
Provides for grants for: (1) treatment facilities in rural States and economically depressed communities, residential treatment centers for drug-addicted women with minor children, and residential and outpatient substance abuse treatment programs for juveniles; (2) drug treatment alternative to prison programs; and (3) community-based justice programs for the prosecution of firearm-related crimes (Project Exile).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 1/9/2003 S136-143)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate