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Transitional Medical Assistance Improvement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-883
Sponsor: Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Transitional Medical Assistance Improvement Act of 2003 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to revise the program commonly referred to as the transitional medical assistance (TMA) program. Authorizes States to: (1) extend the eligibility for TMA of low-income individuals for up to 12 additional months; and (2) allow another six months of eligibility, in certain circumstances, in the case of a family eligible for or receiving Medicaid for less than three of the previous six months. Repeals the sunset date for TMA (thus making the program permanent).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5232-5233)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Consumer Rental-Purchase Agreement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-884
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Advertising
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contracts
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal liability
Damages
Deceptive advertising
District courts
Evidence (Law)
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Federal preemption
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Garnishment
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Insurance premiums
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Law
Lease and rental services
Leases
Liability (Law)
Liability insurance
Limitation of actions
Maintenance and repair
Negotiable instruments
Parties to actions
Prices
Property insurance
Rent
Restrictive trade practices
Small business
State laws
Surety and fidelity
Taxation
Warranties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act of 2003 - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to prescribe guidelines for rental-purchase transactions, including: (1) the determination of rental-purchase cost; (2) disclosure requirements; (3) prohibitions against confessions of judgment, wage assignments, and waiver of consumer claims or defenses, and other specified types of provisions; (4) furnishing of statements of account; (5) point-of-rental disclosures; and (6) rental-purchase advertising disclosures. 
Declares that an action for civil liability may be brought against a merchant's assignee only if the violation is apparent on the face of a rental-purchase agreement to which it relates, including, but not limited to, a disclosure that can be determined to be incomplete or inaccurate from the face of the agreement. 
Authorizes the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to promulgate implementing regulations. 
Provides for Federal and State enforcement of this Act. Subjects to criminal penalties any willful and knowing violation of the information disclosure requirements of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5233-5237)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Intermediate Sanctions Compensatory Revenue Adjustment Act of 2003 (ISCRAA)

Bill: 108-s-887
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2003-04-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Auditing
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Commerce
Drug abuse
Evidence (Law)
Excise tax
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Health
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Medicaid
Minnesota
Mississippi
Social Welfare
State finance
Tax courts
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Texas
Tobacco
Tobacco settlement

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Intermediate Sanctions Compensatory Revenue Adjustment Act of 2003 (ISCRAA) - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose on the collecting attorney: (1) in each excess fee transaction a tax equal to five percent of such fee; and (2) in any case in which such tax is imposed and the excess fee involved is not corrected within the taxable period, a tax of 200 percent of the excess fee involved.
Defines: (1) collecting attorney; (2) excess fee transaction; and (3) taxable period.
Authorizes Tax Court declaratory judgments with respect to excise taxes on excess fee transactions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5240-5242)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5237-5240)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Terrorist Victim Citizenship Relief Act

Bill: 108-s-889
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Citizenship
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Families
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Terrorist Victim Citizenship Relief Act - Deems aliens who died as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States to be honorary U.S. citizens if they held lawful immigration status. Entitles the spouses and children of such victims to naturalization as U.S. citizens upon being administered the oath of renunciation and allegiance in an appropriate ceremony pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), without regard to their current status, if they apply to the Secretary of Homeland Security for naturalization within two years. Directs the Secretary to record the date of naturalization of any such person as being September 10, 2001. Prohibits naturalization of, or affording honorary citizenship to, any alien (or family member) who is inadmissible or deportable under the INA, including any perpetrator of such attacks.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5350)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Supporting Success for High Need Students Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-890
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
School districts
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Supporting Success for High Need Students Act of 2003 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) to establish high-cost funds from which local educational agencies (LEAs) are paid a portion of: (1) the costs of providing a free appropriate public education to high-need children; and (2) other high costs associated with educating children with disabilities under IDEA part B.
Allocates such grants to States using the IDEA part B allotment formula; and authorizes appropriations for such targeted grants. Permits LEAs to apply for disbursements from the SEA's high-cost fund to offset 75 percent of that portion of a high-need student's education that costs more than four times the average per pupil expenditure (in the Nation or State, whichever is lower). Allows disbursements to cover education and related services included in an appropriately formulated Individualized Education Plan. Prohibits use of such disbursements to pay: (1) costs otherwise reimbursable as medical assistance under the State Medicaid program; (2) inappropriate or unnecessary excess costs disallowed by the SEA; or (2) legal, court, or other costs associated with a cause of action brought to ensure a free appropriate public education for a high-need child.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5351-5352)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Prescription Drug Equity for Seniors Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-891
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug industry
Drugs
Governmental investigations
Life expectancy
Medicare
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Price discrimination
Social Welfare
Terminal care
Terminally ill

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Prescription Drug Fairness for Seniors Act of 2003 - Requires each participating manufacturer of a covered outpatient drug to make it available for purchase by each pharmacy: (1) in an amount equal to the aggregate amount of the drug sold or distributed by the pharmacy to Medicare beneficiaries; and (2) at a price equal to the lower of either the lowest price paid for the drug by the Federal Government or the manufacturer's best price for the drug. Sets forth special provisions with respect to hospice programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Prescription Drug Fairness for Seniors Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-892
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Canada
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug industry
Drugs
East Asia
Europe
Foreign Trade and International Finance
France
Germany
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Italy
Japan
Medicare
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Price discrimination
Social Welfare
Terminal care
Terminally ill
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Prescription Drug Fairness for Seniors Act of 2003 - Requires each participating manufacturer of a covered outpatient drug to make it available for purchase by each pharmacy: (1) in an amount equal to the aggregate amount sold or distributed by the pharmacy to Medicare beneficiaries; and (2) at a price no greater than the manufacturer's average foreign price. Sets forth special provisions with respect to hospice programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-893
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Clothing
Discrimination in employment
Employee rights
Employee training
Employers' liability
Hours of labor
Labor and Employment
Law
Leave of absence
Recruiting of employees
Religion
Religion in the workplace
Religious liberty
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 
Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2003 - Amends the the Civil Rights Act of 1964 regarding religious observance in the workplace to declare that for an employer's accommodation of an employee's religious observance or practice to be considered reasonable, it must remove the conflict between employment requirements and the employee's religious observance or practice.
 
Deems as an unlawful employment practice an employer's refusal to permit an employee to use leave of general usage to remove the conflict solely because the leave will be used to accommodate the religious observance or practice of the employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Marine Corps 230th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 108-s-894
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Anniversaries
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Awards, medals, prizes
Building construction
Coins and coinage
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Fund raising
History
Marines
Military history
Museums
Silver
Social Welfare
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Marine Corps 230th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 500,000 one dollar coins which shall be emblematic of the warrior ethos of the United States Marine Corps. Requires all surcharges from the sale of the coins to be paid to the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for construction of the Marine Corps Heritage Center.
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Marine Corps 230th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 500,000 one dollar coins which shall be emblematic of the warrior ethos of the United States Marine Corps. Requires: (1) all coin sales to include a surcharge of $10 per coin; and (2) all surcharges to be paid to the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for construction of the Marine Corps Heritage Center. 
 
Directs the Secretary to take such actions as may be necessary to ensure that minting and issuing coins under this Act will not result in any net cost to the U.S. Government. Prohibits a coin from being issued unless the Secretary has received: (1) full payment for the coin; (2) security to indemnify the United States for full payment; or (3) a guarantee of full payment from a depository institution, the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the National Credit Union Administration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 632.
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Reported by Senator Shelby without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Reported by Senator Shelby without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-06-17
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include wireless telecommunications equipment in the definition of qualified technological equipment for purposes of determining the depreciation treatment of such equipment.

Bill: 108-s-895
Sponsor: Sen. Nickles, Don [R-OK]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Antennas
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Electronics
Equipment and supplies
Income tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include wireless telecommunications equipment in the definition of qualified technological equipment for purposes of determining the depreciation treatment of such equipment under the accelerated cost recovery system.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Contraception Education Act

Bill: 108-s-896
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer organizations
Contraceptives
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Higher education
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Emergency Contraception Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop and disseminate to the public information on emergency contraception.
Requires that the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to develop and disseminate to health care providers information on emergency contraception.
Requires that the information disseminated to health care providers include at a minimum: (1) information describing the use, safety, efficacy, and availability of emergency contraception; (2) a recommendation regarding its use in appropriate cases; and (3) information explaining how to obtain copies of information from the CDC.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Citizenship Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-897
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Citizenship
Economics and Public Finance
Embassies
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Law
Legal fees
Military bases
Military personnel
Naturalization
State courts
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Military Citizenship Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act respecting naturalization through service in the armed forces to: (1) reduce the required service from three years to two years; and (2) prohibit the imposition of a naturalization fee.
Provides for overseas naturalization proceedings for members of the armed forces.
Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe a policy that facilitates the finalization of naturalization proceedings for members of the armed forces, including priorities for emergency leave and air transportation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7922-7923)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Fern Lake Conservation and Recreation Act

Bill: 108-s-898
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Commerce
Conservation easements
Dams
Easements
Environmental Protection
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Infrastructure
Kentucky
Lakes
Land transfers
Landscape protection
Law
National parks
Outdoor recreation
Potable water
Sports and Recreation
Tennessee
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Virginia
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Fern Lake Conservation and Recreation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to acquire for addition to the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park specified lands which contain Fern Lake and its surrounding watershed located in Bell County, Kentucky, and Claiborne County, Tennessee.
Requires the Secretary, upon making such acquisition, to convey the Lake, along with the dam and appurtenances associated with the withdrawal and delivery of water from the Lake, to the City of Middlesboro, Kentucky.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (consideration: CR S7790-7792; text: CR S7791)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
American Hospital Preservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-899
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Medical education
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: American Hospital Preservation Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) restore the full market basket percentage increase applied to payments to hospitals for inpatient hospital services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries starting in FY 2004, and for FY 2005 and each subsequent fiscal year as well; (2) ensure the full market basket update for any fiscal year after FY 2005; and (3) restore the reimbursement factor for indirect medical education payments to teaching hospitals to the FY 2002 level for FY 2005 and each subsequent fiscal year, after providing for an increase in such factor from current levels for FY 2004.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5354)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Lower Yellowstone Reclamation Projects Conveyance Act

Bill: 108-s-900
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Canals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Construction costs
Dams
Easements
Energy
Environmental Protection
Fishery management
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Hydroelectric power
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Irrigation districts
Land transfers
Law
Maintenance and repair
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mineral reserves
Missouri River development
Montana
North Dakota
Outdoor recreation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Right-of-way
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works
Water districts
Water rights
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Lower Yellowstone Reclamation Projects Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey the works, facilities, and lands of the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project, the Intake Irrigation Project in Montana, and the Savage Unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program to the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Districts No. 1 (Montana) and No. 2 (North Dakota), the Intake Irrigation District (Montana), and the Savage Irrigation District (Montana), respectively, pursuant to the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding of November 16, 1999, between the Districts and the Bureau of Reclamation. Requires: (1) all conveyances under this Act, except the Diversion Works (land and the diversion dam structure, canal headworks, and first section of the mail canal) to be conveyed in the first stage; and (2) the Diversion Works to be conveyed in the second stage..
Requires the Districts to buy Reclamation withdrawn lands as identified in the Memorandum for their value in providing operation and maintenance benefits.
Requires the Secretary to accept: (1) an amount equal to the present value of the remaining water supply repayment obligation from the Savage Irrigation District as full payment of such District's share of the construction of the Savage Unit; and (2) a specified amount from the Pick Sloan Missouri Basin Program (Eastern Division) power customers as full payment for the construction aid-to-irrigation associated with Unit facilities.
Conditions the conveyance on the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Districts conveying a perpetual conservation easement to the State of Montana for the purposes of protecting, preserving, and enhancing the conservation values and permitting recreation on Federal lands in part to be conveyed under this Act. Sets forth requirements regarding: (1) continuation of Pick-Sloan Program irrigation components and pumping power service; and (2) Yellowstone River fisheries protection.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-618.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5355-5356)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate