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A bill to make changes to the Office for State and Local Government Coordination, Department of Homeland Security.

Bill: 108-s-45
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil defense
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crisis management
EBB Terrorism
Emergency Management
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-local relations
Fire departments
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health planning
Intergovernmental relations
Medical personnel
Rescue work

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to: (1) provide for the Office for State and Local Government Coordination to be headed by a director; and (2) require such Office to prepare annual reports on State and local priorities based on first responder needs, a needs assessment that identifies duplicative Federal and State or local homeland security functions, recommendations regarding program creation, expansion, or elimination to assist State and local entities in carrying out functions under the Department of Homeland Security, and proposals to increase the coordination of Department priorities within and between States.
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate at least one employee in each State and the District of Columbia to serve as a Homeland Security Liaison Officer to provide homeland security information, research, technical support, coordination, training, and resources.
Establishes: (1) an Interagency Committee on First Responders and State, Local, and Cross-jurisdictional Issues that shall ensure coordination, with respect to homeland security functions, among the Federal agencies involved with State, local and regional governments, State, local, and community-based law enforcement, fire and rescue operations, and medical and emergency relief services; and (2) an Advisory Council for such Committee.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S49-50)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Robert Bancroft of Hayden Lake, Idaho, to permit the payment of backpay for overtime incurred in missions flown with the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Bill: 108-s-46
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Federal employees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: States that Robert Bancroft of Hayden Lake, Idaho, is entitled to overtime pay plus interest for missions flown as part of operation SNOWCAP in South America between February 10, 1992, and February 14, 1994.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
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 terminate operation of the Extremely Low Frequency Communication System of the Navy.

Bill: 108-s-47
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Electromagnetic waves
Government Operations and Politics
Military communications
Navy
Science, Technology, Communications
Submarines

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Directs the Secretary of the Navy to terminate operation of the Extremely Low Frequency Communication System while maintaining the infrastructure necessary for its resumption.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S50)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S50)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal the provisions of law that provides automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

Bill: 108-s-48
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional salaries
Cost of living adjustments

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S51)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S50-51)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Deficit Reduction Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-49
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Armed Forces and National Security
Ballistic missiles
Education
Farm corporations
Farms
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Irrigation
Medical education
Military medicine
Submarines
Tax returns
Taxation
Water allocation (Policy)
Water conservation
Water districts
Water rates

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Deficit Reduction Act of 2003 - Irrigation Subsidy Reduction Act of 2001 (sic) - Amends the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 to direct the Secretary of the Interior, for each parcel of land to which irrigation water is delivered or proposed to be delivered, to identify a single individual or legal entity as the owner, lessee, or operator.
Allows irrigation water to be delivered at less than the normal per-acre cost to either: (1) a qualified recipient that reports gross farm income from a single farm operation in excess of $500,000 per taxable year; or (2) a limited recipient that received such water on or before October 1, 1981, and that reports gross farm income in excess of such amount.
Requires lessees (currently, only owners and operators) of an irrigation district to furnish such district a certification of compliance with the Act. Allows the Secretary to require a lessee or operator to submit for examination a copy of a tax return for any taxable year in which the single farm operation of the lessee or operator received irrigation water at less than full cost.
Repeals a provision exempting from Federal reclamation ownership and cost pricing limitations district lands held in trust for a beneficiary or beneficiaries whose interests in the lands served do not exceed such limitations.
Directs the Secretaries of the Interior, the Treasury, and Agriculture to enter into a memorandum of understanding to permit the Secretary of the Interior to have access to and use available information collected or maintained by either the Department of the Treasury or Agriculture that would aid in enforcement of the ownership and pricing limitations of Federal reclamation law.
Terminates the Uniformed Services University of Health Science.
Requires the Secretary of Defense to terminate production of D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles under the D5 submarine-launched ballistic missile program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S53-54)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S51-53)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Health Care Funding Guarantee Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-50
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Health
Indexing (Economic policy)
Medical economics
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Veterans Health Care Funding Guarantee Act of 2003 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) make available to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for programs, functions, and activities of the Veterans Health Administration for FY 2005 120 percent of the amount obligated during FY 2002; and (2) adjust the amount provided after FY 2005 based on the number of enrolled veterans and the number of others eligible for and provided care and the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.
Repeals provisions which: (1) prohibit the appropriation, obligation, or use of funds for any Department of Veterans Affairs major medical facility project or lease unless such funds have been specifically authorized by law; (2) require the Secretary to submit to specified congressional committees a prospectus of a proposed medical facility involving an expenditure of more than $4 million or facility lease with an average annual rental of more than $600,000; and (3) require the Secretary to give Congress notice before obligating an amount of funds for a major medical facility project that would cause the total amount obligated to exceed the amount specified in the law for that project by more than 10 percent, and when proposing that funds be used for a purpose other than the purpose for which such funds were appropriated.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Generic Pharmaceutical Access and Choice for Consumers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-51
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug approvals
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Federal employees
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government paperwork
Indian medical care
Legislation
Managed care
Medicaid
Medicare
Military medicine
Minorities
Prescription pricing
Prisoners
Social Welfare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Generic Pharmaceutical Access and Choice for Consumers Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require each grant or contract entered into under the Act that involves the provision of health care items or services to individuals to include provisions to ensure that any prescriptions provided for under such grant or contract are filled by providing the generic form of the drug involved, unless there is no approved generic form of the drug, or the nongeneric form of the drug is either specifically ordered by the prescribing provider or requested by the individual for whom the drug is prescribed.
Makes similar changes under the Federal Employee Health Benefits program, Medicare program, Medicaid program, and programs affecting Indians, veterans, the uniformed services, and prisoners.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that for each drug application filed there shall be a determination as to whether there is a therapeutic equivalent for such drug.

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
Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act

Bill: 108-s-52
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Commerce
Electronic commerce
Electronic mail systems
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental tax relations
Internet
Local laws
Local taxation
Sales tax
State laws
State taxation
Tax exemption
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to: (1) permanently ban taxes on Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce; and (2) repeal the ban exception for a tax on the sale or use of Internet services that was generally imposed and actually enforced prior to October 1, 1998.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4337-4339)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S54)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S54)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow small business employers a credit against income tax for employee health insurance expenses paid or incurred by the employer.

Bill: 108-s-53
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Small business
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow small business employers a credit against income tax for employee health insurance expenses the employer pays or incurs.
Sets forth formula for deriving amount of credit.
Specifies that no amount paid or incurred for health insurance coverage pursuant to a salary reduction arrangement shall be taken into account for purposes of determining the credit.
Limits such credit to expenses paid for employees whose total annual wages exceed $5,000 but not $25,000, indexed for inflation.

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
Greater Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-54
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Competition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consent decrees
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Intellectual property
Judicial opinions
Law
Patents
Pharmaceutical research
Prescription pricing
Restrictive trade practices
Right of petition
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Greater Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise provisions concerning the timing of generic drug availability.
Requires applicants (pharmaceutical companies) to register their patents with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within 30 days of approval (or issuance for subsequently issued patents).
Makes failure to timely register a bar to civil actions for patent infringement.
Requires applications for new drugs (NDA) or abbreviated new drug applications (ANDA) which rely upon investigations not conducted by or for the applicant and which concern a patent that claims both the drug and a method of use or more than one method of use to include a certification on a claim-by-claim basis that the patent is invalid or will not be infringed (known as a Paragraph IV filing/certification) by the new drug's (generic) manufacture and a statement regarding the method(s) of use claim.
Prohibits (for subsequently issued patents) an extension of the 30 month stay of FDA approval for any new drug where an ANDA or NDA contains a Paragraph IV filing/certification and the patent holder indicates an intention to bring a patent infringement suit against the new (generic) drug's manufacturer.
Makes failure to timely file a civil action for infringement a bar to later action.
Requires the first generic applicant with a Paragraph IV filing to forfeit the 180 day marketing exclusivity period to a subsequent generic applicant if the first generic applicant engages in certain behaviors (forfeiture events) which delay or prevent the marketing of the generic drug.
Revises notice requirements for Paragraph IV filings to include and protect certain proposed formulation, composition, or method of use information.
Excludes an applicants's ability to pay damages from a court's consideration of whether or not to provide injunctive relief before the expiration of the 30 month stay of approval period.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S55-58)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Higher Education Opportunities Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-55
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
College costs
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Law
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Veterans' Higher Education Opportunities Act of 2003 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to change the amount of monthly veterans' educational assistance allowance under the Montgomery GI Bill from a fixed amount adjusted for inflation to an amount equal to the average monthly costs of tuition and expenses for commuter students at public institutions of higher education that award baccalaureate degrees (75 percent of such amount for veterans whose initial obligated period of active duty is two years). Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to determine such average monthly costs each year and to publish such amounts in the Federal Register.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act

Bill: 108-s-56
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health
Labor and Employment
Married people
Military dependents
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
Retiree health benefits
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' medical care
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act - Includes as an employee, for purposes of Federal provisions authorizing enrollment under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program: (1) a member of the armed forces who began service before June 7, 1956, and retired after a minimum of 20 years of such service or by reason of a service-connected disability; and (2) the surviving widow or widower of such member.
Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into an agreement with the Office of Personnel Management to provide FEHB coverage to the following eligible beneficiaries: (1) a member or former member entitled to military retired or retainer pay; (2) an unremarried former spouse who was married to a member for at least 20 years, during which such member performed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable military service; (3) a dependent of a deceased qualifying member or former member; (4) a dependent of a living member or former member; and (5) a family member.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Donald C. Pence.

Bill: 108-s-57
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to Donald C. Pence in compensation for the failure of the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay dependency and indemnity compensation for a specified period to his now deceased mother.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S59)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S59)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for the conversion of cooperative housing corporations into condominiums.

Bill: 108-s-58
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Condominium (Housing)
Cooperative housing
Corporation taxes
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Stockholders
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Revises Internal Revenue Code provisions concerning distributions by cooperative housing corporations to provide that: (1) no gain or loss shall be recognized to a cooperative housing corporation on the distribution by such corporation of a dwelling unit to a stockholder in such corporation if such distribution is in exchange for the stockholder's stock in such corporation; and (2) no gain or loss shall be recognized to a stockholder of such corporation on the transfer of such stockholder's stock in an exchange described in clause (1). Provides for determining the basis of a dwelling unit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S59)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S59)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit former members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability rated as total to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the Armed Forces are entitled to travel on such aircraft.

Bill: 108-s-59
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Military aircraft
Military aviation
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Directs the Secretary of Defense to permit any former member of the armed forces who is entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability rated total by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to travel on military aircraft to the same extent as retired members of the armed forces.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S60)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S59-60)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize certain disabled former prisoners of war to use Department of Defense commissary and exchange stores.

Bill: 108-s-60
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Defense
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Ex-prisoners of war
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Post exchanges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Authorizes use of Department of Defense commissary and exchange stores by former prisoners of war who have been honorably separated from service and have a service-connected disability rated at 30 percent or more.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S60)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S60)
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in Senate