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Clean Air Planning Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-843
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Biomass energy
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Emissions trading
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental monitoring
Environmental technology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Fines (Penalties)
Fossil fuels
Fuel cells
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Hydroelectric power
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Law
Licenses
Mercury
Nitrogen oxides
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Renewable natural resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Solar energy
Standards
Sulphur dioxide
Water Resources Development
West (U.S.)
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Clean Air Planning Act of 2003 - Amends the Clean Air Act to require integrated air quality planning for the electric generating sector.
Establishes national pollutant tonnage limitations for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, and carbon dioxide.
Provides for review and revision of annual tonnage limitations.
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish trading programs for nitrogen oxide and mercury allowances.
Directs the Administrator to establish reserves of nitrogen oxide and mercury allowances as set asides for new units.
Establishes a nitrogen oxide and mercury allowance transfer system.
Directs the Administrator to establish a carbon dioxide allowance trading program.
Makes allowances available to projects certified by a newly established independent review board. Permits the trading of allowances under any U.S. or internationally recognized carbon dioxide reduction program.
Establishes a carbon dioxide allowance transfer system. 
Revises the new source review program to cover unit changes after 2008 and to permit the lowest achievable emission rate standard to take cost into account. 
Revises the sulfur dioxide allowance program to establish an allowance reserve for new units and to establish maximum emissions for states in the Western Regional Air Partnership.
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) a program to provide region-oriented forecasts and warnings regarding air quality for certain regions of the United States, using existing Federal programs to the degree possible.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5077-5083)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5076-5077)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Water Adjudication Fee Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-844
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Administrative fees
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government liability
Government litigation
Law
Legal fees
Water allocation (Policy)
Water rights

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Water Adjudication Fee Fairness Act of 2003 - Subjects the United States, in any State administrative or judicial proceeding for the adjudication or administration of water rights in which the United States is a party, to the imposition of fees and costs on its claims to water rights under either State or Federal law to the same extent as a private party to the proceeding.
Sets forth requirements for reporting by heads of Federal agencies that file or have pending water rights claims.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5083)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-845
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health insurance
Immigrant health
Immigration
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Pregnant women
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to grant States the option of covering certain categories of eligible women and child resident aliens under the Medicaid and SCHIP programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5083-5084)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Mortgage Insurance Fairness Act

Bill: 108-s-846
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government insurance
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Insurance
Insurance premiums
Interest
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Tax deductions
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Mortgage Insurance Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the deduction of premiums for mortgage insurance. Provides for the phaseout of such deduction based on income.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5085)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5084-5085)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Early Treatment for HIV Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-847
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
American Samoa
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Territories (U.S.)
Virgin Islands
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Early Treatment for HIV Act of 2003 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to give States the option of providing Medicaid coverage for certain low-income HIV-infected individuals. Provides States taking advantage of this option with an enhanced Federal Medicaid match.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5091)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5085-5091)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Daniel King Cairo.

Bill: 108-s-848
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-04-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Declares Daniel King Cairo to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act upon payment of the required visa fees.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: 

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

 Declares Daniel King Cairo to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act upon payment of the required visa fees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-12-08
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text as passed Senate: CR S16061-16062)
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text as passed Senate: CR S16061-16062)
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S16061-16062)
action_date: 2003-11-25
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S16061-16062)
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business and Financial Institutions Tax Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-850
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Bank holding companies
Bank loans
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Commerce
Corporate philanthropy
Corporation directors
Corporation taxes
Debt
Dividends
Excise tax
Families
Family enterprises
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Interest
Investments
Labor and Employment
Law
Losses
Small business
Stockholders
Stocks
Subsidiary corporations
Tax administration
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Tax preferences
Tax returns
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Trusts and trustees
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Small Business and Financial Institutions Tax Relief Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make a trust-individual retirement account (IRA) an eligible bank S corporation shareholder.
Exempts from prohibited transaction rules any sale of stock in an IRA pursuant to a small business corporation's election to be an S corporation.
Excludes from the definition of passive income for purposes of S status termination any interest income earned by or dividends on assets required to be held by a bank, a bank holding company, or a qualified subchapter S subsidiary bank.
Increases to 150 the maximum number of shareholders a small business organization may have to be eligible to elect S corporation treatment.
States that stock held by a bank director as required by banking regulations (director qualifying stock) shall not be considered a disqualifying second class of S corporation stock.
Permits a bank which makes an S corporation election to recapture certain bad debt reserves in the year of election or the preceding year.
Limits any special rules regarding corporate income preference items to the three years following S corporation election.
Treats a husband and wife as one shareholder. Permits, and sets forth criteria for, an election to treat all members of a family as one shareholder.
Permits the issuance of qualified preferred stock, which shall not be treated as second class stock. Makes any distribution (not in payment in exchange for stock) made by an S corporation with respect to qualified preferred stock includible as ordinary income of the holder and deductible to the corporation as an expense.
Revises exceptions to the criteria for the treatment of certain wholly owned subchapter S subsidiaries with reference to required information returns.
Provides for a charitable contribution basis adjustment of S corporation stock based upon the shareholder's pro rata share of adjusted basis.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Custody Protection Act

Bill: 108-s-851
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Criminal liability
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Guardian and ward
Interstate commerce
Law
Parent and child
Prosecution
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State courts
State laws
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Child Custody Protection Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit transporting a minor across a State line to obtain an abortion and thereby abridging the right of a parent under a law in force in the State where the minor resides requiring parental involvement in a minor's abortion decision. Makes an exception if the abortion was necessary to save the life of the minor.
Specifies that neither the minor transported nor her parent may be prosecuted or sued for a violation of this Act.
Makes it an affirmative defense to a prosecution for, or to a civil action based on, such a violation that the defendant reasonably believed that before the minor obtained the abortion, the parental consent or notification or judicial authorization that would have been required had the abortion been performed in the State where the minor resides, took place.
Authorizes any parent who suffers harm from a violation to obtain appropriate relief in a civil action. Defines "parent" to include a guardian, legal custodian, or person standing in loco parentis who has care and control of the minor, and with whom the minor regularly resides, who is designated by such law as a person to whom notification, or from whom consent, is required.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-03
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5176)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5175-5176)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
National Guard and Reserve Comprehensive Health Benefits Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-852
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Coinsurance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance continuation
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medical economics
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military pay
National Guard
Payroll deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: National Guard and Reserve Comprehensive Health Benefits Act of 2003 - Makes members of the Selected Reserve and the Individual Ready Reserve eligible for either the Prime or Standard option of the TRICARE Program (a Department of Defense managed health care program), allowing for either self-coverage or self-and-family coverage. Requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) provide at least one open enrollment period each year for such members; and (2) charge applicable premiums, deductibles, and copayments for such coverage.
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay the applicable premium to continue in force any qualified health plan coverage for a reserve member (and his or her dependents) while the member is serving on active duty pursuant to a call or order issued during a war or national emergency declared by the President or Congress. Requires the continuation of COBRA coverage during such period. Prohibits simultaneous coverage under both the qualified health plan and TRICARE.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5177-5178)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Mental Health Copayment Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-853
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Medical economics
Medicare
Mental health services
Psychotherapy
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Medicare Mental Health Copayment Equity Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for a gradual reduction of copayment rates for outpatient psychiatric services under the Medicare program (from 50 percent to the standard 20 percent) by 2009.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5178-5180)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Investment Company Capital Access Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-855
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Debt
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Securities
Small business
Tax-exempt organizations
Unrelated business income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Small Business Investment Company Capital Access Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the definition of "acquisition indebtedness" specified debt-financed indebtedness incurred by a small business investment company.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5181-5182)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5181)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
America's Better Classroom Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-856
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Apprenticeship
Building construction
Charitable contributions
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Community and school
Construction costs
Construction industries
Construction workers
Corporate philanthropy
Curricula
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational planning
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee selection
Enterprise zones
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Higher education
Income tax
Indian education
Infrastructure
Interest
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Public schools
School buildings
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Skilled labor
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax returns
Tax-exempt securities
Teacher education
Vocational and technical education
Volunteer workers
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: America's Better Classroom Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a limited tax credit for qualified public school modernization bonds (qualified construction, zone academy, and tribal school bonds). Sets forth bond limits and allocation formulas.
Amends the General Education Provisions Act to apply certain labor standards on construction projects financed under such public school modernization bond program.
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to establish provisions concerning employment and training activities related to the construction or reconstruction of public school facilities.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a pilot program under which eligible Indian tribes have the authority to issue qualified tribal school modernization bonds to provide funding for the construction, rehabilitation, or repair of tribal schools, including advance planning and design.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Incentives to Educate American Children (I Teach) Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-857
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Law
Licenses
Rural education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Incentives to Educate American Children (I Teach) Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a tax credit of $1,000 for: (1) teachers in public elementary or secondary schools or public kindergartens in rural areas or areas with high poverty; and (2) teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Grants a credit of $2,000 for a teacher meeting both criteria.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5182)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Microbicide Development Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-859
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Clinical trials
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of State
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Human immunodeficiency viruses
International Affairs
International cooperation in science
Medical research
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Product development
Psychology
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Sexually transmitted diseases
Strategic planning

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Microbicide Development Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Office of AIDS Research to expedite the development of a Federal strategic plan for the conduct and support of microbicide research.
 Requires the Director of such office to expand, intensify, and coordinate the activities of all appropriate institutes and components of the National Institutes of Health with respect to research on the development of microbicides to prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Requires the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to establish within the Vaccine and Prevention Research Program of the Division of AIDS in the Institute, a branch charged with carrying out microbicide research and development.
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fully implement the Centers' five-year topical microbicide agenda to support microbicide research and development.
Directs the Office of HIV/AIDS of the Agency for International Development, in conjunction with other offices within AID, to fully implement AID's microbicide agenda to support the development of microbicides, and facilitate wide-scale introduction once microbicide products are available.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5183-5185)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5182-5183)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to designate the oak tree as the national tree of the United States.

Bill: 108-s-860
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Emblems
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Trees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Designates the tree genus Quercus (commonly known as the oak tree) as the national tree.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate