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A bill  to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that dividend and interest income of individuals not be taxed at rates in excess of the maximum capital gains rate.

Bill: 108-s-26
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Interest
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that dividends and interest income shall be taxed as net capital gain.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S41)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S39-40)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.

Bill: 108-s-27
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Animals
Commerce
Farm management
Livestock
Meat packing industry
Subsidiary corporations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to prohibit livestock packers from owning, controlling, or feeding livestock to such an extent that the producer no longer materially participates in the management of the operation, with exceptions for: (1) animals held for not more than seven days before slaughter; (2) certain cooperatives that own, control or feed livestock and provide such livestock for slaughter; (3) packers that are not required to report price and quantity information on each reporting day; or (4) packers that own one livestock processing plant.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S42)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S42)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the provisions of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 relating to the establishment of university-based centers for homeland security.

Bill: 108-s-28
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Colleges
EBB Terrorism
Education
Higher education
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to: (1) replace specific criteria that the Secretary of Homeland Security must consider in the selection of one or more university-based centers for homeland security with discretion to establish such selection criteria as is necessary to meet the evolving needs of homeland security; and (2) eliminate the requirement that the Secretary report to Congress on establishment of such a center.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Wellstone Corporate Responsibility Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-29
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Corporation taxes
EBB Terrorism
Expatriation
Foreign corporations
Government contractors
International corporations
Tax havens
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Wellstone Corporate Responsibility Act of 2003 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to allow the President to waive, for any specific contract, the prohibition against Federal contracts with foreign incorporated entities that are treated as inverted domestic corporations only if the President certifies to Congress that the waiver is required in the interest of national security (currently, if the Secretary determines that the waiver is required in the interest of homeland security, to prevent the loss of any jobs in the United States, or to prevent the Government from incurring any additional costs).
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the Colonnade Center in Denver, Colorado, as the "Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Building".

Bill: 108-s-30
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Colorado
Federal office buildings
Labor and Employment
Migrant labor
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Designates the Colonnade Center located at 1244 Speer Boulevard in Denver, Colorado, as the Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Building.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S43)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S42-43)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Benjamin M. Banfro.

Bill: 108-s-31
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Declares Benjamin M. Banfro 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: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-32
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Arizona
Colorado
Communication in science
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Education
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Fire prevention
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest health
Forest management
Forestry research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Habitat conservation
Higher education
Idaho
National forests
Nevada
New Mexico
Planning
Professional education
Research centers
Restoration ecology
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: The Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Chief of the Forest Service, to: (1) establish three Institutes (one each in Arizona at Northern Arizona University, New Mexico, and Colorado) to promote the use of adaptive ecosystem management to reduce the risk of wildfires, and improve the health of forest and woodland ecosystems in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah; and (2) assist the Institutes to promote such management.
Defines adaptive ecosystem management as a natural resource management process under which planning, implementation, monitoring, research, evaluation, and incorporation of new knowledge are combined into a management approach that is: (1) based on scientific findings and the needs of society; and (2) used to modify future management methods and policy.
Prescribes requirements for cooperation among the Institutes and Federal programs relating to ecological restoration, wildfire risk reduction, and wildfire management technologies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-10.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Estate Tax Repeal Acceleration (ExTRA) for Family-Owned Businesses and Farms Act

Bill: 108-s-34
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Estate tax
Family enterprises
Family farms
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Estate Tax Repeal Acceleration (ExTRA) for Family-Owned Businesses and Farms Act - Amends estate tax provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to repeal section 2057 (Family-Owned Business Interests). Allows for purposes of such tax, in the case of an electing estate of a decedent with specified carryover business interests, the taxable estate value to be determined by deducting from the value of the gross estate the adjusted value of such carryover business interests of the decedent. Provides for the treatment of carryover business interests and spousal property.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-35
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2003 - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA, which is title II of the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, PL107-147) to extend the TEUCA program through weeks of unemployment ending before June 1, 2003.
Provides for a transition period of continuing payments to individuals with amounts remaining in their TEUC account after May 31, 2003, for weeks beginning before December 31, 2003.
Entitles eligible individuals in all States to a total of 26 weeks of TEUCA compensation (13 weeks beyond the current 13 weeks). Makes such additional benefits also available to individuals who exhausted their TEUCA benefits before January 1, 2003.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Equity Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-36
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Government trust funds
Hospitals
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medicare
Nursing homes
Physicians
Rural health
Social Welfare
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Medicare Equity Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to eliminate the geographic physician work adjustment factor from the geographic indices used to adjust payments under the physician fee schedule.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration project that provides for demonstration grants designed to provide financial or other incentives to hospitals to attract educators and clinical practitioners so that hospitals that serve beneficiaries under the Medicare program who are residents of underserved areas may host clinical rotations.
Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for the use of skilled nursing facility wage data under the prospective payment system for skilled nursing facility services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S43)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to permit Kentucky to operate a separate retirement system for certain public employees.

Bill: 108-s-37
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Government Operations and Politics
Kentucky
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Old age, survivors and disability insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to permit Kentucky to operate a separate retirement system for certain public employees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S44)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S43-44)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 10 East Commerce Street in Youngstown, Ohio, as the "Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Building and United States Courthouse.

Bill: 108-s-38
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Federal office buildings
Judges
Law
Names
Ohio

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Designates the Federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 10 East Commerce Street in Youngstown, Ohio, as the Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Building and United States Courthouse.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting Health Care Purchasing Cooperatives Act

Bill: 108-s-39
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Cooperative societies
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health insurance
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Nonprofit organizations
Quality of care
Self-care
Self-insurance
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Promoting Health Care Purchasing Cooperatives Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, to award grants for the development of health care purchasing cooperatives by two or more employers. Includes employers who self-insure as well as those with fewer than 100 employees who purchase insurance.
Permits the use of funds for professional staff support and the conduct of a feasibility study.
Requires the Secretary to determine a group's eligibility for a grant to establish or expand a cooperative based upon the report of the feasibility study. Requires cooperatives to: (1) be nonprofit; (2) be wholly owned and governed by its member-employees; (3) assist members in pooling their health care insurance purchasing power; and (4) provide data and activities to improve the quality of health care decision-making.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S44-45)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Quality Cheese Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-40
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Dairy industry
Dairy products
Farmers
Government Operations and Politics
Labeling
Law
Milk
Proteins

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Quality Cheese Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from using Federal funds to amend specified regulations to include dry ultra-filtered milk or casein in the definition of "milk" or "nonfat milk" as specified in the domestic natural standards for cheese and cheese products.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S45)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to strike certain provisions of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296), and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-41
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Colleges
EBB Terrorism
Education
Higher education
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: 

Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to: (1) narrow the criteria that the Secretary of Homeland Security must consider in selecting one or more university-based centers for homeland security to demonstrated expertise in interdisciplinary public policy research and communication outreach regarding science, technology, and public policy; (2) repeal the exemption of the Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee from the Federal Advisory Committee Act requirement that an advisory committee terminate two years after being established; (3) repeal the Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act of 2002; (4) repeal provisions authorizing the Secretary to appoint and use advisory committees as necessary; (5) repeal provisions amending the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act, with respect to the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, to limit "agents" of an air carrier engaged in the business of providing air transportation security to persons that have contracted directly with the Federal Aviation Administration on or after February 17, 2002, to provide security and that have not been or are not debarred within six months of that date; (6) repeal provisions amending the Aviation and Transportation Security Act to limit the effective period of any Transportation Security Administration regulation or directive issued for the protection of transportation security to 90 days unless disapproved or ratified by the Transportation Security Oversight Board; (7) repeal amendments made to the Public Health Service Act to define "vaccine" to mean any preparation or suspension, including one containing an attenuated or inactive microorganism or toxin, developed or administered to produce or enhance the body's immune response to a disease and to include all components and ingredients listed in the vaccine's product license application and product label; (8) repeal provisions exempting Office of Science and Technology advisory groups established to assess law enforcement technology needs from the Federal Advisory Committee Act; and (9) repeal a provision requiring the Secretary to waive the prohibition against entering a Federal contract with a foreign incorporated entity treated as an inverted domestic corporation when necessary to prevent the loss of any jobs or to prevent the Government from incurring any additional costs that otherwise would not occur.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S47)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S45-47)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from basing minimum prices for Class I milk on the distance or transportation costs from any location that is not within a marketing area, except under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-42
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dairy industry
Marketing of farm produce
Milk
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from using distance or transportation costs from a location not within a marketing area as the basis for pricing Class I (fluid) milk unless such location supplies the recipient marketing area with specified quantities of milk (single base point pricing).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S47-48)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Democracy for Dairy Producers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-43
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Commerce
Dairy industry
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Marketing orders
Milk
Referendum
Stockholders

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Democracy for Dairy Producers Act of 2003 - Requires, with respect to a specified referendum on Federal milk marketing orders and related reforms, that: (1) if a cooperative association of milk producers elects bloc voting on behalf of its members it shall provide each member with written notice of referendum issues, its intended voting position, and individual producer voting procedures; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture adjust the association vote to reflect individual producer votes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S48)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Elimination of Double Subsidies for the Hardrock Mining Industry Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-44
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Depletion allowances
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Government trust funds
Income tax
Land subsidence
Mine wastes
Mines and mineral resources
Mining claims
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reclamation of land
Revegetation
Sedimentation
Soil erosion
Strip mining
Tax deductions
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Elimination of Double Subsidies for the Hardrock Mining Industry Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow the percentage depletion allowance for hardrock mines located on land currently subject to the general mining laws, or on land patented under such laws. Establishes the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Trust fund in the Treasury. Appropriates to such Fund amounts equal to 25 percent of the additional revenues received by reason of the above change in the percentage depletion allowance. Prescribes guidelines under which such fund shall be available to the Secretary of the Interior for reclamation and restoration of lands and water resources adversely affected by mineral and mineral material mining (excluding coal and fluid materials).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S49)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S48-49)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate