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Crane Conservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-128
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Citizen participation
Coal
Cranes (Birds)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Ecological research
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Endangered species
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental monitoring
Environmental protection groups
Federal advisory bodies
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Human-animal relationships
Hunting
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Labor and Employment
Land use
Migratory bird conservation
Nongovernmental organizations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Research
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Treaties
Water Resources Development
Wetlands
Wild animal trade
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management
Wildlife reintroduction

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Crane Conservation Act of 2003 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance for approved projects relating to the conservation of cranes, using amounts in the Crane Conservation Fund established by this Act.
Allows a project proposal to be submitted by: (1) any wildlife management authority of a country that is located in the African, Asian, European, or North American range of a species of crane and carries out at least one activity that affects crane populations; (2) the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; and (3) any person or organization with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of cranes.
Establishes the Crane Conservation Fund in the Multinational Species Conservation Fund.
Authorizes the Secretary to convene an advisory group representing public and private organizations actively involved in the conservation of cranes to assist in carrying out this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S158-159)
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Truth in Tuna Labeling Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-130
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Commerce
Consumer education
Driftnet fishing
Environmental Protection
Environmental law enforcement
Export controls
Exports
Fisheries
Fishery agreements
Fishery management
Fishing boats
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign fishing
Import restrictions
Imports
International Affairs
International agencies
International environmental cooperation
Labeling
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine mammals
Pacific Ocean
Transportation and Public Works
Tuna
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Truth in Tuna Labeling Act of 2003 - Amends the Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act to declare that a tuna product labeled "dolphin safe" violates the Federal Trade Commission Act unless it is accompanied by a certificate stating that no dolphins were intentionally chased or harassed during the particular voyage on which the tuna were caught using purse seine nets.
Applies this mandate to tuna products harvested either outside or inside the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S159-160)
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-132
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Capital punishment
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Constitutional law
DNA
Disabled
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Due process of law
Evidence (Law)
Families
Forensic medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Habeas corpus
Health
Identification of criminals
Juvenile delinquency
Law
Legislation
Mentally disabled
Presidential commissions
Prisoners' rights
Prosecution
Racial discrimination
Right to counsel
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Standards
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: National Death Penalty Moratorium Act of 2003 - Prohibits the Federal Government from carrying out the death penalty until Congress considers the final findings and recommendations of the National Commission on the Death Penalty, enacts legislation repealing this provision, and implements or rejects the guidelines and procedures recommended by the Commission. Expresses the sense of Congress that States should enact a moratorium on executions to allow time to review whether their administration of the death penalty is consistent with constitutional requirements of fairness, justice, equality, and due process.
Establishes the National Commission on the Death Penalty to: (1) determine whether administration of the death penalty comports with such constitutional requirements; and (2) establish guidelines and procedures which ensure that death penalty cases are administered fairly and impartially in accordance with due process, minimize the risk that innocent persons may be executed, and ensure that the death penalty is not administered in a racially discriminatory manner.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5510)
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S161-164)
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S160-161)
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to fully fund 40 percent of the average per pupil expenditure for programs under part B of such Act.

Bill: 108-s-133
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2003-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to authorize and make appropriations in amounts necessary for FY 2004 and each subsequent fiscal year to fully fund 40 percent of the average per pupil expenditure for IDEA part B programs of assistance for education of all children with disabilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Wellstone Memorial Renegade Corporation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-134
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2003-01-09 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: 2003-01-09
text: Wellstone Memorial Renegade Corporation 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: 2003-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Dayton Fair Tax Cut Act

Bill: 108-s-135
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2003-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Business records
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Estate tax
Families
Family enterprises
Family farms
Foreign tax credit
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
International Affairs
Law
Licenses
Married people
Minimum tax
Partnerships
Small business
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Tax preparers
Tax rates
Tax returns
Tax shelters

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Dayton Fair Tax Cut Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) expand the 10 percent bracket; (2) eliminate scheduled decreases in the higher brackets; (3) eliminate the repeal of the estate tax by repealing subtitle A (Repeal of Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes) of the Economic Growth and Tax Reconciliation Act of 2001), provide for a $4 million estate tax exemption, and provide for a complete estate tax deduction for family-owned businesses; (4) set forth rules for concerning the economic substance doctrine, increase certain penalties, and impose additional requirements with respect to tax shelters; (5) tax as domestic corporations foreign corporations created through inversion transactions; (6) accelerate the $1,000 child tax credit; (7) provide marriage penalty relief; and (8) extend the special alternative minimum tax rule applicable to years 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 to years 2003, 2004, and 2005.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Expedited Remedy for Persistent Dumping Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-136
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2003-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Canada
Countervailing duties
Customs unions
Dumping
Export subsidies
Exports
Governmental investigations
Imports
International Affairs
Latin America
Mexico
North America
Prices
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: 
Expedited Remedy for Persistent Dumping Act of 2003 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to revise requirements for monitoring cases of suspected persistent dumping to: (1) provide for an expedited antidumping investigation of merchandise from an additional supplier country if the Department of Commerce discerns imports of merchandise from the additional supplier country have increased by 15 percent or more during a period of 90 days or longer; and (2) establish Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission procedures and deadlines for making determinations as to whether or not dumping and injury have occurred.
 
Adds specific conditions for reducing the price used to establish export price or &quot;constructed export price,&quot; meaning the amount at which the merchandise is first sold or agreed to be sold in the United States by or for the producer or exporter. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to improve the administration of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-137
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2003-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Department of Agriculture
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Licenses
Migratory bird conservation
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Exempts any migratory bird management carried out by the Secretary of Agriculture through the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service from the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (including regulations).
Authorizes a Service employee acting under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to: (1) issue a depredation permit to a Service stakeholder or cooperator; and (2) manage and take migratory birds.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to temporarily increase the Federal medical assistance percentage for the medicaid program.

Bill: 108-s-138
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2003-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Block grants
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Territories (U.S.)
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Declares that, if the Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) for a State for FY 2003 is less than the FMAP for FY 2002, the FY 2002 FMAP shall be substituted for the State's FMAP for the third and fourth calendar quarters of FY 2003. Declares similarly that if a State's FY 2004 FMAP is less than the FY 2003 FMAP, the FY 2003 FMAP shall be substituted for each calendar quarter of FY 2004.
Requires each eligible State for the third and fourth calendar quarters of FY 2003 and each calendar quarter of FY 2004 to have its FMAP increased by 2.45 percentage points. Mandates a specified Medicaid payment cap increase for territories. Prohibits application of the FMAP increases for a State under this Act with respect to: (1) disproportionate share hospital payments under Medicaid; and (2) payments under SSA titles IV and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP).
Amends SSA title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services), for the purpose of providing State fiscal relief allotments to States and territories in accordance with a specified table, to make appropriations to be available for obligation by the State through June 30, 2005, and for expenditure by the State through September 30, 2005.
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress on the most appropriate data and methodology to use to determine the Federal medical assistance percentage for purposes of programs authorized under the Social Security Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S164-165)
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S164)
action_date: 2003-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Loan Forgiveness for Head Start Teachers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-140
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-01-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Preschool education
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-10
text: Loan Forgiveness for Head Start Teachers Act of 2003 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend to certain Head Start teachers student loan forgiveness under both the Federal Family Education Loan program and the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S204-205)
action_date: 2003-01-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S204)
action_date: 2003-01-10
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow medicare beneficiaries an advanced refundable credit against income tax for the purchase of outpatient prescription drugs.

Bill: 108-s-142
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2003-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Drugs
Health
Income tax
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a specified credit for the purchase of outpatient prescriptions not covered by Medicare or insurance by persons eligible for Medicare. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to notify those entitled to Medicare of this credit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to increase the role of the Secretary of Transportation in administering section 901 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-143
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Cargo preference
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Transportation
Executive reorganization
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Merchant ships

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to grant to the Secretary of Transportation the sole responsibility for designating a program as subject to the requirement that at least 50 percent of Government-generated cargoes be shipped on privately owned U.S.-flag commercial vessels to the extent such vessels are available at fair and reasonable rates.
Declares that requirements that specified percentages of gross tonnage of equipment, materials, or agricultural commodities furnished or financed by the United States be transported on U.S.-flag commercial vessels shall be applicable for the 12-month period commencing April 1 of each year before 2003, the 18-month period commencing on April 1, 2003, and the 12-month period commencing on October 1 (fiscal year) of each year after 2004. Repeals certain additional gross tonnage requirements with respect to U.S.-flag commercial vessels.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
North Korea Democracy Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-145
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2003-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alliances
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control agreements
Arms control verification
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
East Asia
Energy
Export controls
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
International broadcasting
International control of nuclear power
International cooperation
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Law
Licenses
Middle East and North Africa
Military maneuvers
North Korea
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
President and foreign policy
Radio broadcasting
Refugees
Right of asylum
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology transfer
Uranium
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: North Korea Democracy Act of 2003 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Agreed Framework of October 21, 1994 is, as a result of North Korea's actions, null and void; (2) North Korea's pursuit and development of nuclear weapons represents a serious threat to the security of the United States, its regional allies, and friends, and seriously undermines the security and stability of Northeast Asia; and (3) North Korea must come into compliance with its obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and other commitments to the international community by taking specified actions.
Prohibits U.S. assistance to North Korea or the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization under the Agreed Framework.
Prohibits nuclear cooperation between the United States and North Korea unless: (1) the President determines and reports to specified congressional committees that North Korea is in compliance with its safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has permitted the IAEA full access to all nuclear sites, and has taken steps to implement and fulfill its obligations under the Joint Declaration on Denuclearization; and (2) Congress enacts a joint resolution approving such action.
Authorizes the President to impose full economic sanctions against North Korea, or take other appropriate specified actions, in response to activities of North Korea to develop nuclear weapons in violation of its international obligations.
Urges the United States to work with other countries in the region to adopt a policy of receiving temporarily refugees from North Korea. Authorizes refugee status to nationals of North Korea for purposes of admission into the United States.
Provides for Radio Free Europe to increase broadcasting to North Korea to 24 hours a day.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S232-233)
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-146
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-01-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Assault
Conspiracy
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crimes against women
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Families
Fetus
Health
Military and naval offenses
Murder
Organized crime
Pregnant women
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Violence
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2003 - Provides that: (1) any person who engages in conduct that violates specified provisions of the Federal criminal code, the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, or the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, or specified articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (conduct constituting certain Federal violent crimes), and thereby causes the death of, or bodily injury to, a child who is in utero, shall be guilty of a separate offense (but prohibits imposition of the death penalty for such offense); and (2) the punishment for that separate offense shall be the same as that provided under Federal law for that conduct had that injury or death occurred to the unborn child's mother.
Directs that if the person engaging in the conduct thereby intentionally kills or attempts to kill the unborn child, that person shall be punished as provided under the Federal criminal code for intentionally killing or attempting to kill a human being.
Bars prosecution under this Act: (1) for conduct relating to an abortion for which the consent of the pregnant woman has been obtained or for which such consent is implied by law in a medical emergency; (2) for conduct relating to any medical treatment of the pregnant woman or her unborn child; or (3) of any woman with respect to her unborn child.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S233-234)
action_date: 2003-01-13
text: Introduced in Senate