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Invest in the U.S.A. Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-596
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Affiliated corporations
Capital investments
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Dividends
Employee training
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign tax credit
Income tax
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Minimum tax
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Stockholders
Subsidiary corporations
Tax rates
Tax returns
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Invest in the U.S.A. Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a U.S. corporation doing business abroad to elect to have its foreign earnings taxed in the United States for one year at a rate equal to 5.25 percent of the excess qualified foreign distribution and the amount attributable to such corporation as controlled foreign-earned dividends in lieu of being taxed under alternative minimum tax or corporate rates, if dividends received are reinvested in the United States in an approved plan.
Limits foreign tax credits with respect to dividends taxed at such 5.25 percent rate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3321)
action_date: 2003-03-18
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3519-3520)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3519)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
David Jayne Medicare Homebound Modernization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-598
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disabled
Home care services
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: David Jayne Medicare Homebound Modernization Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the definition of homebound for purposes of determining Medicare eligibility for home health services. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from disqualifying from consideration as confined to the home, based on the purpose, frequency, or duration of the absences from the home, any individual who: (1) has been certified by a physician as having a permanent and severe condition that will not improve which requires the individual to receive assistance from another individual with at least three out of five activities of daily living for the rest of the individual's life; and (2) requires one or more described home health services to achieve a functional condition giving the individual the ability to leave the home.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3547-3548)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Diabetes Screening Services Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-599
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Diabetes
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Preventive medicine
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Access to Diabetes Screening Services Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for coverage of diabetes screening tests and services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3548-3549)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Fusion Development Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-600
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Communication in science
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy research
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
International cooperation in science
Nuclear fusion
Planning
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Superconductivity
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Fusion Development Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to undertake full scientific and technological cooperation in the international burning plasma project (ITER).
Directs the Secretary to: (1) send an implementation plan to Congress for a domestic burning plasma experiment (FIRE) if at any time during the negotiations on the ITER project, the Secretary determines that construction and operation of the ITER project is unlikely or infeasible; and (2) transmit to Congress a plan for implementing a policy for developing the scientific, engineering, and commercial infrastructure necessary to ensure that the United States is competitive with other nations in providing fusion energy for its own needs and the needs of other nations, including by demonstrating electric power or hydrogen production for the U.S. energy grid utilizing fusion energy at the earliest date possible.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3549-3550)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
McLoughlin House National Historic Site Act

Bill: 108-s-601
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
National parks
Oregon
West (U.S.)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: McLoughlin House National Historic Site Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the McLoughlin House National Historic Site (that includes the McLoughlin House, the Barclay House, and associated real property, improvements, and personal property) in Oregon City, Oregon, for inclusion in the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-59.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Pathways to Self-Sufficiency Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-603
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
College costs
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Textbooks
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Vocational and technical education
Welfare eligibility
Welfare work participation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Pathways to Self-Sufficiency Act of 2003 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to give States that receive a TANF grant the option to: (1) use the grant to establish a program, including an undergraduate post-secondary or vocational education program, under which an eligible participant may be provided certain support services although the State may not use Federal TANF grant funds to pay the participant's tuition; and (2) credit months of program participation for disregard in calculation of the five-year TANF assistance limitation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3622-3623)
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Responsible Fatherhood Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-604
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2003-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Block grants
Career education
Charities
Child abuse
Child support
Child welfare
Church and social problems
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Divorce
Economics and Public Finance
Employment subsidies
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Family violence
Fathers
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Job creation
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Marriage
Marriage counseling
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Personal budgets
Poor children
Public service advertising
Religion
Social Welfare
Welfare work participation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Responsible Fatherhood Act of 2003 - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary to award grants to eligible States and entities to conduct demonstration programs to promote responsible fatherhood.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to contract with a nonprofit fatherhood promotion organization to: (1) develop and distribute a media campaign that addresses the issue of responsible fatherhood to States, local governments, public agencies, and private entities; and (2) develop a national clearinghouse to assist States and community efforts to promote and support marriage and responsible fatherhood by disseminating information regarding media campaigns and programs instituted by States using grant funds under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend waivers under the temporary assistance to needy families program through the end of fiscal year 2008.

Bill: 108-s-605
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to give States the option to continue to operate under waivers between January 1, 2002, and September 30, 2008, with respect to provision of assistance under a State TANF plan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3623)
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
HEALTH Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-607
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2003-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accident insurance
Blood
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Conflict of interests
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Disability insurance
Disabled
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Evidence (Law)
Expert witnesses
Families
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Liability insurance
Limitation of actions
Medical malpractice
Medical supplies
Minors
Packaging
Parties to actions
Physicians
Product safety
Products liability
Punitive damages
State laws
Vaccines
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Help Efficient, Accessible, Low Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2003 - Makes changes to the health care liability system, including compensation for injured patients and other issues arising out of health care law suits.
Requires a suit to be brought within three years of the date of the manifestation of injury or one year after the claimant discovers or should have discovered the injury, whichever occurs first. Specifies exceptions, and rules for actions brought by minors.
Sets forth requirements and permissible recovery amounts for compensating patient injury, including: (1) the full amount of economic loss without limitation; (2) noneconomic damages as specified; and (3) a fair share rule.
Requires the court to supervise payment-of-damage arrangements, limiting contingency fees.
Provides for a reduction in damage awards by the amount of collateral source benefits to which a claimant is entitled, less any insurance premiums or payments made to obtain such benefits.
Limits the availability of punitive damages, requiring clear and convincing evidence of malicious intent to injure or a deliberate failure to avoid substantially certain, unnecessary injury. Prohibits any demand for punitive damages from being included in a health care lawsuit as initially filed. Prohibits the award of punitive damages for products that comply with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standards, absent material and knowing misrepresentation by those submitting required approval or clearance information to the FDA.
Authorizes periodic payment of future damages to claimants.
Excludes suits for vaccine-related death or injury from the requirements of this Act if otherwise covered under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Preempts any Federal or State law unless such law imposes greater protections from liability, loss, or damages for a health care provider, a health care organization, or for the manufacturer, distributor, supplier, marketer, promoter, or seller of a medical product.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 33.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Personnel Excellence for Students with Disabilities Act

Bill: 108-s-608
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2003-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational research
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Mentoring
Parent-school relationships
Recruiting of employees
Rural education
Scholarships
School administration
School districts
Secondary education
Self-help devices for the disabled
Special education
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Teaching
Urban affairs
Urban education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Personnel Excellence for Children with Disabilities Act of 2003 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to reauthorize and revise provisions for personnel preparation and professional development of special education teachers (SEs) and other educators.
Revises and renames provisions for State program improvement grants as State Personnel and Professional Development Grants. Directs the Secretary of Education to allot such grants to State educational agencies to assist them, and their local educational agencies (LEAs) and their partners (including institutions of higher education and other entities), to support and improve their systems of personnel preparation and professional development for SEs in order to improve results for children with disabilities.
Authorizes the Secretary to make competitive grant and contract awards to eligible entities (partnerships of LEAs and institutions of higher education with State-approved SE personnel programs, and additional entities) to develop professional development partnerships (PDPs) between such entities and elementary or secondary schools. Requires PDPs to use such grants to: (1) develop preservice teacher education for SEs; or (2) create or support professional development schools that provide specified services. Authorizes the Secretary to make competitive grant and contract awards to eligible entities (partnerships of LEAs and State-approved SE personnel preparation programs, and additional entities) to provide professional development, leadership training, and collaborative opportunities for general educators to ensure they have skills and knowledge to meet the needs of, and improve results for, children with disabilities.
Revises requirements: (1) for personnel preparation to improve services and results for children with disabilities; and (2) to benefit children with high-incidence disabilities to include those with emotional or behavioral disorders.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3627-3631)
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3626-3627)
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Restoration of Freedom of Information Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-609
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2003-03-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Freedom of information
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
Law
Public records
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Restoration of Freedom of Information Act of 2003 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prohibit a record pertaining to the vulnerability of and threats to critical infrastructure that is furnished voluntarily to the Department of Homeland Security from being made available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act if: (1) the provider would not customarily make the record available to the public; and (2) the record is designated and certified by the provider as confidential and not customarily made available to the public. Prohibits other Federal agencies in receipt of such a record furnished to the Department from making the record publicly available. Allows a provider to withdraw the confidential designation of a record at any time.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3631-3637)
action_date: 2003-03-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Treatment for Precious Metals Investors Act

Bill: 108-s-611
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2003-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Coins and coinage
Finance and Financial Sector
Gold
Income tax
Law
Platinum
Precious metals
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Silver
Tax rates
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Fair Treatment for Precious Metals Investors Act - Amends Internal Revenue Code maximum capital gains rate provisions to eliminate the exception for gold, silver, and platinum coins.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3732)
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3732)
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Boundary Revision Act

Bill: 108-s-612
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Boundaries
Land transfers
National recreation areas
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Boundary Revision Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire approximately 152 acres of private land, in exchange for approximately 370 acres of land, within the boundary of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Increases the ceiling on the amount of total acreage allowed in the Area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-13
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-59.
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3732-3733)
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' New Fitzsimons Health Care Facilities Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-613
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Capital investments
Colorado
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Leases
Military hospitals
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Veterans' New Fitzsimons Health Care Facilities Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out major medical facility projects at the site of the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado, that may include inpatient and outpatient facilities providing acute, sub-acute, primary, and long-term care services.
Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of the Air Force to undertake appropriate joint activities to address the health care needs of veterans and members of the Air Force on active duty.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-29
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3733)
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3733)
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Protection/Alcohol and Drug Partnership Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-614
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-03-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Alcohol and youth
Alcoholism
Child safety
Child welfare
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Indian children
Indian medical care
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Child Protection/Alcohol and Drug Partnership Act of 2003 - Amends part B (Child Welfare- Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible State and Indian tribe applicants to promote joint activities among Federal, State, and local public child welfare and alcohol and drug abuse prevention and treatment agencies that focus on families with alcohol or drug abuse problems. Requires such activities to: (1) increase the capacity of both the child welfare system and the alcohol and drug abuse prevention and treatment system to address the needs of such families to improve child safety, family stability, and permanence; and (2) promote recovery from alcohol and drug abuse problems.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-13
text: Introduced in Senate