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Medicare Indian Health Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1779
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Hospital care
Indian medical care
Medical economics
Medicare
Minorities
Native Americans
Social Welfare
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: 
Medicare Indian Health Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) authorize reimbursement for all Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) services furnished by certain Indian health facilities; (2) require Medicare providers to charge no more than Medicare rates for inpatient hospital services provided to Indians who are eligible for contract health services from the Indian Health Service, tribally operated health programs, or urban Indian organizations; and (3) authorize outpatient or ambulatory care clinics (whether free-standing or provider-based) operated by the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe, a tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization to elect to be reimbursed on the same basis as if such clinic were a hospital outpatient department of the Indian Health Service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13139)
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13138-13139)
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1780
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2003-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug law enforcement
Drugs and athletes
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Health
Health surveys
Secondary education
Sentencing guidelines
Sports and Recreation
Steroids

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: 
Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2003 - Amends the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990 to modify the definition of &quot;anabolic steroid&quot; to include tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), androstenedione, and specified related chemicals. 
 
Authorizes the Attorney General, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to exempt from regulation any compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any anabolic steroid, that is intended for administration to a human being or an animal, and that does not present any significant potential for abuse because of its concentration, preparation, formulation, or delivery system.
 
Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review the Federal sentencing guidelines with respect to offenses involving anabolic steroids and consider amending such guidelines to provide for increased penalties.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) award grants to enable public and nonprofit private entities to carry out science-based education programs in elementary and secondary schools to highlight the harmful effects of anabolic steroids; and (2) ensure that the National Survey on Drug Use and Health includes questions concerning the use of anabolic steroids.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13141)
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13139-13141)
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Pharmaceutical Market Access Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1781
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2003-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer protection
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug industry
Drugs
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Identification devices
Import restrictions
Imports
Labeling
Law
Packaging
Prescription pricing
Product safety
Science, Technology, Communications
Sunset legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: 
Pharmaceutical Market Access Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations allowing qualifying individuals to import covered products (in addition to pharmacists and wholesalers, whom current law authorizes to import such products).
 
Amends provisions pertaining to record keeping regarding imported covered products. States that the Secretary shall not have to store records in cases in which qualifying individuals have imported a covered product. 
 
Amends provisions regarding the testing of imported covered products. Declares that specified tests, including ones involving authenticity and degradation of products, shall not be required unless the importer is a wholesaler. Requires such tests to be conducted by the importer unless a product is a prescription drug subject to the provisions of this Act pertaining to counterfeit-resistant packaging. (Currently either the importer or the manufacturer may conduct such tests). 
 
Eliminates the sunset date current law establishes for the provisions pertaining to the importation of covered products.
 
Classifies prescription drugs as misbranded if they do not incorporate specified counterfeit-resistant technologies in packaging. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions by unanimous consent.
action_date: 2003-10-24
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 325.
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13142)
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Trade in Pouch Tuna Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1782
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Brunei
Cambodia
East Asia
Employee rights
Environmental Protection
Free trade
Indonesia
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Labor and Employment
Laos
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Tariff
Thailand
Tuna
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: 
Fair Trade in Pouch Tuna Act of 2003 - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to eliminate tariffs on pouch tuna imported from member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam), excluding the Union of Myanmar, up to the quantity of such duty-free imports from beneficiary nations of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act. Restricts eligibility to those ASEAN nations that provide and enforce internationally recognized worker rights and environmental protections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13142)
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Employee Commuter Benefits Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1783
Sponsor: Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2003-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Commuting
District of Columbia
Electric vehicles
Energy
Executive orders
Federal employees
Fringe benefits
Government travel
Government vehicles
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Maintenance and repair
Maryland
Mass rapid transit
Natural gas vehicles
Terminals (Transportation)
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: 
Requires each Federal agency in the National Capital Region to implement a program under which all qualified Federal employees serving in or under such agency shall be offered transit pass transportation fringe benefits as required under Executive Order 13150.
 
Authorizes the use of a passenger carrier to transport a Federal officer or employee between his or her place of employment and a mass transit facility. Requires a Federal agency that provides such service to: (1) absorb the cost; (2) when possible, use alternative fuel vehicles; and (3) coordinate such transportation with other Federal agencies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13145-13146)
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13142-13145)
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Methamphetamine Blister Pack Loophole Elimination Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1784
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-10-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commerce
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drugs
Health
Methamphetamine
Packaging
Retail trade

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: 
Methamphetamine Blister Pack Loophole Elimination Act of 2003 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to eliminate the exemption as a &quot;regulated transaction&quot; for any sale of ordinary over-the-counter pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine products (including blister packs) by retail distributors.

action_date: 2004-10-04
text: 

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

 
Methamphetamine Blister Pack Loophole Elimination Act of 2003 (sic) - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to eliminate the exemption as a &quot;regulated transaction&quot; for any sale of ordinary over-the-counter pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine products (including blister packs) by retail distributors. (Currently a nine-gram limit is in effect for any single individual buying pseudoephedrine sold in bottles but there is no limit for blister packs.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 763.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Hatch without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13147)
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13146-13147)
action_date: 2003-10-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the operation of National Guard counterdrug schools.

Bill: 108-s-1785
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2003-10-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: California
Community organization
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense budgets
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Federal law enforcement officers
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Iowa
Labor and Employment
Mississippi
National Guard
Pennsylvania
Police training
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-24
text: 
Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to establish and operate, or provide financial assistance to the appropriate States to establish and operate, not more than five National Guard counterdrug schools for the provision by the National Guard of training in drug interdiction and counter-drug activities and drug demand reduction activities to personnel of Federal agencies, State and local law enforcement agencies, community-based organizations, and other non-Federal governmental and private entities and organizations. Identifies such schools in California, Florida, Iowa, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-10-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13210)
action_date: 2003-10-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Steel Industry National Historic Site Act

Bill: 108-s-1787
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-10-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commerce
Historic sites
History
Manufacturing industries
Pennsylvania
Steel

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: 
Steel Industry National Historic Site Act - Establishes the Steel Industry National Historic Site in Pennsylvania as a unit of the National Park System. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by donation specified property for inclusion within such Site.
 
Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a management plan for the Site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13380-13381)
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Denver Federal Center Redevelopment Act

Bill: 108-s-1788
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-10-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Building construction
Colorado
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal installations
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Housing and Community Development
Land transfers
Leases
Maintenance and repair
Real estate development
Storage

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: 
Denver Federal Center Redevelopment Act - Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to enter into leases of Federal real property, including improvements thereon, with totally nonfederal entities to provide for the construction, rehabilitation, operation, maintenance, or use of all, or portions of, the Denver Federal Center. 
 
Lists terms and conditions for such a lease (master lease), including that it: (1) have as its primary purpose enhancing the value of the Center; (2) be negotiated pursuant to such procedures as the Administrator considers necessary to ensure the integrity of the selection process and to protect U.S. interests; (3) be for a term not to exceed 50 years; and (4) provide that all development risk remain with the nonfederal entity. Directs that a master lease be for fair consideration. 
 
Requires that net proceeds from a master lease be deposited into, administered, and expended, subject to appropriations Acts, as part of the Federal Building Fund. Authorizes the Administrator to retain from the proceeds of a master lease amounts necessary to recover the expenses incurred by the Administrator with respect to such lease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13382-13383)
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13381-13382)
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site Land Exchange Act

Bill: 108-s-1789
Sponsor: Sen. Miller, Zell [D-GA]
Introduced: 2003-10-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Commemorations
Georgia
Historic sites
History
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site Land Exchange Act - Amends the Act of October 10, 1980, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by donation or exchange property owned by the State of Georgia or any political subdivision thereof that is within the Martin Luther King, Junior National Historic Site and Preservation District (current law allows such acquisitions only by donation).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-626.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3210 East 10th Street in Bloomington, Indiana, as the "Francis X. McCloskey Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-1790
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2003-10-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Indiana
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 3210 East 10th Street in Bloomington, Indiana, as the Francis X. McCloskey Post Office Building.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Art and Collectibles Capital Gains Tax Treatment Parity Act

Bill: 108-s-1792
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2003-10-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcoholic beverages
Art
Artists
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authors and authorship
Books
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Coins and coinage
Copyright
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Intellectual property
Jewelry trade
Literature
Metals
Music
Platinum
Postage stamps
Precious metals
Silver
Tax deductions
Tax rates
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Art and Collectibles Capital Gains Tax Treatment Parity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide art and collectibles with the same capital gain rates as other assets held long-term.
Establishes a (limited) fair market value deduction for qualifying literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly charitable contributions created and donated by the taxpayer.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-10-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on electron guns for cathode ray tubes (CRT's) with a high definition television screen aspect ration of 16:9 and other parts used in plasma and LCD televisions.

Bill: 108-s-1794
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Equipment and supplies
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff
Television
Video display terminals

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2006, the duty on electron guns for cathode ray tubes (CRT's) with a high definition television screen aspect ratio of 16:9 and other parts used in plasma and LCD televisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Bail Bond Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1795
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Bail
Forfeiture

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Bail Bond Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit a judicial officer from declaring forfeited a bail bond for violation of specified collateral release conditions other than failing to appear in court. Makes forfeiture of a bail bond for violation of such collateral release conditions unavailable as a sanction.
Amends rule 46 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to provide that if the defendant fails to appear physically before the court (currently, if there is a breach of condition of a bond), the district court shall declare a forfeiture of the bail.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Renaissance Act

Bill: 108-s-1796
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2003-10-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural industries
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Biomass energy
Bonds
Broadband
Commerce
Corporations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy crops
Environmental Protection
Farm manure
Farmers
Fire departments
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Habitat conservation
Health
Hospitals
Income tax
Infrastructure
Law
Long-term care
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing homes
Police
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Rural economic development
Rural housing
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage disposal
Social Welfare
Soil conservation
Tax credits
Tax-exempt securities
Taxation
Telemedicine
Trusts and trustees
Venture capital
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water treatment plants
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: 
Rural Renaissance Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish the Rural Renaissance Corporation to issue rural renaissance bonds for the financing of qualified projects.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited credit to the holder of a rural renaissance bond. Sets an annual rural renaissance bond limit and provides for allocation among the States.
 
Describes qualified projects as: (1) a water or waste treatment project; (2) a conservation project, including any project to protect water quality or air quality (including odor abatement), any project to prevent soil erosion, and any project to protect wildlife habitat, including any project to assist agricultural producers in complying with Federal, State, or local regulations; (3) an affordable housing project; (4) a community facility project, including hospitals, fire and police stations, and nursing and assisted-living facilities; (5) a value-added agriculture or renewable energy facility project for agricultural producers or farmer-owned entities, including any project to promote the production or processing of ethanol, biodiesel, animal waste, biomass, raw commodities, or wind as a fuel; (6) a rural venture capital project for, among others, farmer-owned entities; (7) a distance learning or telemedicine project; (8) a project to expand broadband technology; and (9) a rural teleworks project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13517-13520)
action_date: 2003-10-29
text: Introduced in Senate