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Ending the Double Standard for Stock Options Act

Bill: 108-s-182
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Business records
Commerce
Corporation reports
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Employee stock options
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications
Subsidiary corporations
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Ending the Double Standard for Stock Options Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit the amount of deductions taken for property transferred in connection with a stock option to the amount treated as an expense by taxpayer in ascertaining income, profit, or loss.
Requires Secretary to formulate rules where the stock option is granted by a parent or subsidiary corporation.
Excludes from the definition of "wages," for purposes of the research tax credit, the amount of property transferred in connection with a stock option and required to be included in a report or statement until such amount is so included. Limits the portion of the amount to be treated as wages to no more than the amount of the deduction taken with respect to such amount.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2520-2521)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S1075)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1073-1075)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
SEC Civil Enforcement Act

Bill: 108-s-183
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Business records
Commerce
Evidence (Law)
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Investment advisers
Law
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities fraud

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: SEC Civil Enforcement Act - Amends the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers' Act of 1940 to: (1) expand the range of persons, including financial institutions, subject to SEC civil monetary penalties (currently corporate officers, directors, auditors, lawyers, or publicly traded companies are exempt from such SEC sanctions); and (2) increase maximum civil monetary penalties for securities violations.
Grants the SEC administrative authority, pursuant to an official SEC investigation, to subpoena financial records from a financial institution and transfer them to any government authority, in specified circumstances, without customer notice that a records request has been made.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4946)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S1076-1078)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1075-1076)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend section 401 (b)(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 regarding the Federal Pell Grant maximum amount.

Bill: 108-s-184
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Scholarships
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to maximum individual amounts of Federal Pell Grant for academic years 2004-05 through 2009-10. (Current law provides $5,800 for 2003-04.) Increases such amount to $6,700 for 2004-05, and by increments in each of specified subsequent academic years, up to $11,600 for 2009-10.
Requires a further increase in any such maximum Federal Pell Grant amount, by an amount sufficient to achieve a five percent increase in students' purchasing power relative to the cost of attendance at an institution of higher education, if the Secretary of Education determines that the amount authorized does not increase such purchasing power by at least five percent from one academic year to the next.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S1078)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1078)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Africa Famine Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-185
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Africa
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Agricultural assistance
Agriculture and Food
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Child health
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
European Union
Executive reorganization
Families
Famines
Food relief
Food supply
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
International agencies
International cooperation
International relief
Legislation
Malnutrition
Maternal and infant welfare
Maternal health services
Nongovernmental organizations
Parents
President and foreign policy
Preventive medicine
Public corruption
Supplemental appropriations
United Nations
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Africa Famine Relief Act of 2003 - Authorizes emergency appropriations to the emergency assistance program under title II of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to provide humanitarian assistance for sub-Saharan Africa.
Urges the President to establish a task force responsible for designing a comprehensive strategy to deal with the immediate needs of the humanitarian crisis in sub-Saharan Africa and addressing the long-term causes of food insecurity in the region, including corruption within certain governments of sub-Saharan Africa. Directs the President to instruct the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, the World Food Programme, international organizations, and other appropriate international organizations to use the U.S. vote to support additional food aid and other humanitarian assistance for sub-Saharan Africa.
Authorizes emergency appropriations for: (1) international disaster assistance for relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction assistance for sub-Saharan Africa; and (2) the award of grants to eligible administrative organizations to award subgrants to nongovernmental organizations to expand activities to prevent the mother-to-child transmission of HIV by providing treatment, medical care, and support services to HIV-infected parents and their children.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Living Organ Donor Protections Act

Bill: 108-s-186
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Living Organ Donor Protections Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit health insurance discrimination in group premiums with respect to individuals who are living organ donors.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1078-1079)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
National Cyber Security Leadership Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-187
Sponsor: Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Computer security measures
Computer software
Congress
Congressional oversight
Cybernetics
EBB Terrorism
Electronic government information
Espionage
Evidence (Law)
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
International Affairs
Internet
Labor and Employment
Law
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: National Cyber Security Leadership Act of 2003 - Requires the Chief Information Officer of each Federal agency to: (1) identify the significant vulnerabilities of the information technology (IT) of such agency; (2) establish performance goals for eliminating such vulnerabilities; (3) procure or develop tools to identify and eliminate those vulnerabilities in order to achieve such performance goals; (4) train personnel in the utilization of those tools; (5) test the agency's IT to determine the extent of its compliance with the performance goals; and (6) develop and implement a plan to eliminate significant vulnerabilities in order to achieve compliance.
Requires: (1) each Officer to include information on the agency's activities under this Act in annual reports on the agency's information security program and practices submitted to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); and (2) the OMB Director to ensure the review of such reports by the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); (3) the NIST Director to designate, as the result of such review, any significant IT vulnerabilities of such broad applicability and severity so as to warrant the use of government-wide guidelines the Director shall develop and make available to such Officers for complying with this Act; and (4) the Secretary of Commerce to mandate agency use of such guidelines.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1079)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Data-Mining Moratorium Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-188
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Data banks
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
EBB Terrorism
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Identification of criminals
International Affairs
Law
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Data-Mining Moratorium Act of 2003 - Prohibits any officer or employee of the Departments of Defense (DOD) or Homeland Security (DHS) from implementing or carrying out for data-mining purposes any part of: (1) the DOD component of the Total Information Awareness program or any other data-mining program of DOD; or (2) any data-mining program of DHS similar or related to the Total Information Awareness program. Makes such prohibition effective from the date of enactment of this Act until the date of enactment of a law specifically authorizing data-mining by a Federal department.
Requires the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the head of each other Federal department or agency using or developing data-mining technology to report to Congress on all such activities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S1080)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1079-1080)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Intelligence Community Leadership Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-190
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Cabinet officers
Central Intelligence Agency
Congress
Dismissal of employees
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Inspectors general
Intelligence community staff
Intelligence officers
Military intelligence
Officer personnel
Presidential appointments
Promotions
Salaries
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Intelligence Community Leadership Act of 2003 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to be composed of: (1) a Director and Deputy Director of National Intelligence; (2) a Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Community Management; (3) a National Intelligence Council; (4) three Assistant Directors for National Intelligence for Collection, Analysis and Production, and Administration; (5) a General Counsel to the Director; (6) an Inspector General of the Intelligence Community; and (7) the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive. Includes among the Director's responsibilities: (1) providing national intelligence to the President, the heads of Federal departments and agencies, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior military commanders, and, where appropriate, Congress; (2) developing an annual budget for intelligence and intelligence-related activities; and (3) establishing requirements and priorities to govern the collection of national intelligence by elements of the intelligence community.
Recodifies provisions establishing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), designating as its lead official the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (currently, the Director of Central Intelligence) and removing provisions which established specified CIA deputy and assistant director positions. Prohibits an individual from serving simultaneously as Director of National Intelligence and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Director should be a cabinet-level official.
Provides Executive Schedule pay levels for the newly-established Director, Deputy Director, and Assistant Director positions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Intelligence.
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1081-1082)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-191
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Hospital care
Immunosuppressive drugs
Insurance premiums
Kidney diseases
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Social Welfare
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage Act of 2003 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to: (1) continue entitlement to prescription drugs used in immunosuppressive therapy furnished to an individual who receives a kidney transplant for which payment is made under Medicare; and (2) extend Medicare secondary payer requirements for end stage renal disease beneficiaries.
Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code to set forth requirements for group health plans to provide coverage of immunosuppressive drugs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1082)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
John's Law of 2003

Bill: 108-s-192
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-01-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Arrest
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal liability
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Motor vehicles
Searches and seizures
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: John's Law of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to withhold specified Federal highway funds from a State that fails to enact and enforce a law that requires: (1) an agency to provide an individual summoned to transport or accompany a person who has been arrested for public intoxication with a written statement advising that individual of his or her potential criminal and civil liability for permitting or facilitating the arrestee's operation of a motor vehicle while the arrestee remains intoxicated; and (2) a law enforcement agency to impound the vehicle of a person arrested for public intoxication for a period of 12 hours or until such later time as the person is able to operate the vehicle in a safe manner and not in violation of driving while intoxicated laws.
Allows withheld funds to: (1) remain available for apportionment to the State (once it meets Act requirements) for four years; (2) remain available for expenditure for three fiscal years after apportionment; and (3) be redistributed to other States if the originally targeted State is not in compliance, or the funds are not obligated for expenditure, within such periods.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S1083)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1082-1083)
action_date: 2003-01-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Radiation Detection for Dirty Bomb Material in Containers and Bulk Cargo Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-193
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bombs
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Energy
EBB Terrorism
Education
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Energy
Environmental Protection
Explosives
Federal aid to research
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Freight
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Identification of criminals
International Affairs
Merchant ships
Nuclear energy
Nuclear energy research
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Packaging
Radiation
Radiation safety
Sabotage
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-17
text: Radiation Detection for Dirty Bomb Material in Containers and Bulk Cargo Act of 2003 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to implement a program to: (1) maintain and expand ongoing seaport and land radiation detection system projects; (2) use existing laboratory relationships and expertise in large-scale radiation monitoring systems; (3) evaluate radiation detection systems for use at seaports and places of entry by land in the United States; and (4) select at least one system for demonstration at a seaport and at a place of land entry.
Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct an evaluation of existing state-of-the-art systems that provide the highest degree of detection capability for radioactive sources hidden in sea freight containers or cargo crossing land borders; (2) emphasize the rapid development of existing technology and systems on completion of the evaluation; (3) develop standard procedures and protocols for detection and reporting of data collected from radiation collection systems; and (4) develop a national technical assistance program to share and propagate the experiences gained in conducting the program.
Requires the Secretary to solicit the views of stakeholders, including the National Maritime Security Advisory Committee, local port authorities, the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Inc., and the Health Physics Society; and (2) provide student internships to universities in States with significant seaports that focus on academic programs pertaining to radiation detection and radiation health physics.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Registry Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-194
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Civil actions and liability
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate divestiture
Corporate mergers
Corporate reorganizations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Energy
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental monitoring
Fines (Penalties)
Fluorocarbons
Forest conservation
Forest products
Fuel switching
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Internet
Law
Lumber trade
Methane
Nitrogen oxides
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Sulphur
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-17
text: National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Registry Act of 2003 - Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish and administer: (1) a national greenhouse gas emissions information system to collect annual lists required to be submitted under this Act of an entity's greenhouse gas emissions and their sources; and (2) a national greenhouse gas registry to collect voluntarily reported information on emissions reductions. Specifies factors for adjustment of emissions records by a reporting entity.
Directs the Administrator and the Secretaries of Commerce, Agriculture, and Energy to develop greenhouse gas emissions quantification and verification protocols, electronic reporting methods, and accounting and reporting standards. Requires verification of reported emissions information.
Requires the Administrator to publish an annual national greenhouse gas emissions inventory.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S1146-1148)
action_date: 2003-01-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1145-1146)
action_date: 2003-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate