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Patient Abuse Prevention Act

Bill: 108-s-958
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Elder abuse
Employee selection
Employee training
Ex-offenders
Federal aid to health facilities
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health care fraud
Home care services
Hospital personnel
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Labor and Employment
Law
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medical personnel
Medicare
Mental care facilities
Nursing homes
Ombudsman
Paramedical personnel
Patients' rights
Personnel records
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Terminal care facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Patient Abuse Prevention Act - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for the screening of skilled nursing facility and nursing facility employee applicants with criminal background checks to prevent abuse of recipients of long-term care services under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Amends SSA title XVIII part D (Miscellaneous Provisions) to provide for application of skilled nursing facility abuse prevention requirements to any provider of services or any other entity that is eligible to be paid under Medicare for providing home health services, hospice care, or long-term care services to an individual entitled to benefits under part A (Hospital Insurance) or enrolled under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance).
Amends SSA title XI to provide for inclusion of abusive workers in the database established as part of the national health care fraud and abuse data collection program.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration program to provide grants to develop information on best practices in patient abuse prevention training for managers and staff of hospital and health care facilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5603-5607)
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to limit the age restrictions imposed by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration for the issuance or renewal of certain airman certificates, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-959
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Age discrimination
Aircraft pilots
Airline employees
Airlines
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Retirement age
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Amends Federal aviation law to prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, solely by reason of a person's age if 65 years old or younger, from: (1) refusing to issue to, or renew for, such person an airman certificate for the operation of a commercial aircraft; or (2) requiring an air carrier to terminate the employment of, or refuse to employ, such person as a pilot on such aircraft. Applies this prohibition only with respect to persons who have not reached age 64 as of the enactment of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5607)
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5607)
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to expand the scope of the HUBZone program to include difficult development areas.

Bill: 108-s-961
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Small business
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Amends the Small Business Act concerning the HUBZone program (Small Business Administration assistance for start-up businesses in historically underutilized business areas) to qualify under the program any county in which there is a difficult development area (area having high construction, land, and utility costs relative to median gross income), as designated by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under tax credit provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5608)
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5608)
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accelerate the increase in the child tax credit and to expand refundability of such credit, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-962
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Families
Income tax
Parent and child
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the child care credit to: (1) revise refundability criteria; (2) accelerate the increase to a $1,000 credit; and (3) increase a qualifying child's age to 19 years old.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Commandant of the Coast Guard to convey the United States Coast Guard Cutter BRAMBLE, upon its decommissioning, to the Port Huron Museum of Arts and History, Port Huron, Michigan, for use for education and historical display, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-963
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Coast guard
Government Operations and Politics
Michigan
Museums
Ships
Surplus government property
Warships

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Directs the Commandant of the Coast Guard, upon the decommissioning of the Coast Guard Cutter Bramble, to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to such vessel to the Port Huron Museum of Arts and History (the recipient), Port Huron, Michigan, if the recipient meets specified conditions. Includes among such conditions that it: (1) use the vessel for purposes of education and historical display; and (2) hold the Government harmless for claims arising from exposure to asbestos and other hazardous materials after the conveyance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5609)
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5609)
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Community and Rural Air Service Revitalization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-964
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2003-04-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Airline passenger traffic
Bonds
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Local finance
Marketing
Rural economic development
State finance
Surety and fidelity
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Trade secrets

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: 
Small Community and Rural Air Service Revitalization Act of 2003 - Amends Federal transportation law to reauthorize the essential air service (EAS) program through FY 2007.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a marketing incentive program for eligible EAS communities receiving assistance under which the airport sponsor in such a community may receive a grant of not more than $50,000 to develop and implement a marketing plan to increase passenger boardings and the level of passenger usage of its airport facilities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide up to $50,000 in technical assistance to any State within which an eligible EAS community is located to assist them to develop methods to increase passenger boardings.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish certain pilot programs if the entire amount authorized to be appropriated for EAS pilot programs is appropriated for FY 2004 through 2007.
 
Specifies among such pilot programs: (1) one for up to ten communities or consortia of communities under which an airport sponsor may elect to forego any EAS assistance for a ten-year period in exchange for a grant equal to twice the annual EAS assistance received for the most recently ended calendar year; and (2) one for up to ten communities or consortia under which, upon receiving the airport sponsor's petition, the Secretary shall authorize and request the EAS provider to use smaller equipment and consider increasing the frequency of service using such equipment.
 
Requires the Secretary, subject to the same condition, to establish pilot programs under which: (1) airport sponsors share the cost of providing air transportation service greater than basic EAS; and (2) designated EAS communities located in proximity to hub airports are required to assume ten percent of their EAS subsidy costs for a three-year period.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to increase the rates of compensation payable without regard to any agreements or requirements relating to the renegotiation of contracts, if essential air service providers are experiencing significantly increased costs of providing service (an average monthly cost increase of ten percent or more).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5609-5611)
action_date: 2003-04-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Yellowstone Protection Act

Bill: 108-s-965
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aircraft
Department of the Interior
Government Operations and Politics
Idaho
Law
Limited access highways
Montana
National parks
Snowmobiles
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Yellowstone Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement the final rule to phase out snowplane use in Grand Teton National Park and snowmobile use in Yellowstone National Park, the John. D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park. Prohibits the Secretary from modifying or superseding any provisions of that final rule.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-966
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arson
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime prevention
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation
Criminal statistics
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Explosives
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-state relations
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Hate crimes
Housing and Community Development
Indian law enforcement
Juvenile delinquency
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Law
Minorities
Murder
Police training
Prejudice
Prosecution
Racial discrimination
Rape
Religion
Religious liberty
Rural crime
Sentencing guidelines
Sex crimes
Sex discrimination
Sexual orientation
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Victims of crimes
Women
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or other assistance in the criminal investigation or prosecution of any crime that: (1) constitutes a crime of violence under Federal law or a felony under State or Indian tribal law; and (2) is motivated by prejudice based on the race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability of the victim or is a violation of the hate crime laws of the State or tribe. Directs the Attorney General to give priority for assistance to crimes committed by offenders who have committed crimes in more than one State and to rural jurisdictions that have difficulty covering the extraordinary investigation or prosecution expenses.
Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to assist State, local, and Indian law enforcement officials with such extraordinary expenses. Directs the Office of Justice Programs to: (1) work closely with funded jurisdictions to ensure that the concerns and needs of all affected parties are addressed; and (2) award grants to State and local programs designed to combat hate crimes committed by juveniles.
Prohibits specified offenses involving actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to study and provide sentencing enhancements for adult recruitment of juveniles to commit hate crimes.
Amends the Hate Crimes Statistics Act to require the crime data to be collected and published by the Attorney General to include data about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on gender.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5653-5655)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5652-5653)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Equal Treatment Act

Bill: 108-s-967
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Authorization
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Medical economics
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Veterans Equal Treatment Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) discontinue the funding allocation formula for the Department of Veterans Affairs medical care system known as the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation system at the end of the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted; and (2) develop a new formula for the allocation of funds to the national service regions, known as Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), that takes into account specified requirements, including additional costs incurred by a VISN because the age of veterans, or the number of veterans requiring complex care, in that VISN exceeds the median for all VISNs.
Authorizes additional appropriations to be allocated to VISNs that have experienced funding reductions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide capital gain treatment under section 631(b) of such Code for outright sales of timber by landowners.

Bill: 108-s-968
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Income tax
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Timber sales

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide capital gain treatment for outright timber sales by landowners.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5655)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Homeland Security Gun Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-969
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Commerce
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Department of Justice
EBB Terrorism
Emergency Management
Explosives
Federal law enforcement officers
Firearms
Firearms control
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
International Affairs
Law
Licenses
Receiving stolen goods
Recruiting of employees
Retail trade
Searches and seizures
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Standards
Storage
Terrorism
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Homeland Security Gun Safety Act of 2003 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to make certain requirements with respect to the destruction of records of firearms transfers inapplicable during periods in which the Homeland Security Advisory System threat condition is elevated, high, or severe.
Prohibits a licensed dealer from selling or delivering a firearm to a qualified purchaser if the dealer has reasonable cause to believe that: (1) the purchaser intends to transfer the firearm to an ineligible individual; or (2) the gun will be used in a crime.
Requires a chief law enforcement officer who determines that a person is ineligible to receive a handgun to notify the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE) of the person's attempt to purchase a firearm.
Prohibits the sale to, or purchase by, an unlicensed individual of two or more handguns during any 30-day period.
Directs the Attorney General to prescribe security standards for the storage and display of firearms by licensed firearms dealers to prevent theft or other loss.
Authorizes inspections of the inventory and records of a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer at any time without reasonable cause or warrant.
Requires a licensed importer, dealer, or collector, before purchasing a firearm from an unlicensed person, to check the firearm against the Stolen Gun File of the National Crime Information Center.
Increases penalties for specified violations. Provides for: (1) mandatory license suspension when the licensee is charged with a crime; and (2) license suspension for at least 48 hours for failure to report a missing firearm.
Reduces from 50 pounds to five pounds of commercially manufactured black powder the threshold amount covered by certain explosives provisions.
Authorizes appropriations to hire new BATFE inspectors and agents.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5655-5657)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Job Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-970
Sponsor: Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Affiliated corporations
Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Computer software
Corporation taxes
Export subsidies
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Manufacturing industries
Minimum tax
Motion pictures
Partnerships
Science, Technology, Communications
Sound recording and reproducing
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Job Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the foreign sales corporation/extraterritorial income (FSC/ETI) exclusion, with an exemption for certain binding contracts in effect before the date of enactment of this Act.
Permits a foreign corporation that elected to be treated as a domestic corporation to revoke such election and be treated as a domestic corporation transferring its property to a foreign corporation with no gain recognized on such transfer.
Provides: (1) a transitional 2004 through 2008 sliding-scale deduction for an FSC/ETI beneficiary based on the corporation's 2001 FSC/ETI benefit; and (2) special rules for 2003 and for fiscal year taxpayers. Defines "FSC/ETI benefit."
Allows a deduction for income attributable to U.S. production activities equal to ten percent of qualified production activities. Provides a 2006 through 2009 phase-in period. Defines "qualified production activities" as: (1) the portion of the modified taxable income attributable to domestic activities; and (2) the domestic/foreign fraction.
Sets forth related provisions with respect to: (1) determination of income attributable to domestic production activities; (2) domestic production gross receipts; (3) qualifying production property; (4) domestic/foreign fraction; and (5) special rules.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5658-5660)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5657-5658)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicaid Community-Based Attendant Services and Supports Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-971
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2003-05-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Commerce
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer protection
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health services administration
Home care services
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental care facilities
Nursing
Nursing homes
Paramedical personnel
Patient satisfaction
Patients' rights
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Small business
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Medicaid Community-Based Attendant Services and Supports Act of 2003 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to mandate State Medicaid plan coverage of community-based attendant services and supports for certain Medicaid-eligible individuals.
Outlines provisions for: (1) an enhanced Federal medical assistance percentage for ongoing activities of early coverage States that enhance and promote the use of community-based attendant services and supports; and (2) increased Federal financial participation for certain expenditures incurred by the State for the provision of community-based attendant services and supports.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) award grants to eligible States which have established a Consumer Task Force to assist the State in its development of real choice systems change initiatives; and (2) conduct a demonstration project for the purpose of evaluating service coordination and cost-sharing approaches with respect to the provision of community-based services and supports to non-elderly dually eligible individuals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5660-5664)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5660)
action_date: 2003-05-01
text: Introduced in Senate