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A bill to provide information and advice to pension plan participants to assist them in making decisions regarding the investment of their pension plan assets, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-1892
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Auditing
Business records
Commerce
Consultants
Consumer education
Defined benefit pension plans
Defined contribution plans
Employee ownership
Employee rights
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Financial services
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Income tax
Investment advisers
Investments
Law
Liability (Law)
Pension funds
Retirement
Securities
Tax exclusion
Tax returns
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation
Trusts and trustees
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for information and advice to assist pension plan participants in making decisions regarding the investment of their pension plan assets under defined contribution plans that are individual account plans (IAPs) (401(k) and similar plans) which hold regularly tradable employment securities and permit participants or beneficiaries to exercise control over assets in the account.
 
Requires the plan administrator to include in the account statement a notice that the account may be overinvested in employer securities and real property, whenever assets consisting of employer securities and real property exceed 50 percent of total IAP assets. Excludes from such notice requirement: (1) assets held through pooled investment vehicles; and (2) employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) that have no contributions subject to section 401 (k) or (m) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). 
Amends IRC to limit to $1,500 the aggregate amount which may be excluded from gross income with respect to qualified retirement planning services (QRPS) provided to any individual during a taxable year. Prohibits exclusion of any such amount if the modified adjusted gross income of the taxpayer exceeds $100,000 ($200,000 for married individuals filing a joint return). Provides that no amount (constructive receipt) shall be included in the gross income of any employee solely because the employee may choose between any QRPS provided by a qualified investment advisor and compensation which would otherwise be includable in the employee's gross income. Applies such provision to highly compensated employees only if such choice is available on substantially the same terms to each member of the group of employees normally provided education and information regarding the employer's qualified employer plan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15190)
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Integrity of the United States Courts Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1893
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Appellate procedure
Canada
Conflict of interests
Countervailing duties
Courts of special jurisdiction
Customs unions
Dispute settlement
Dumping
Free trade
Government Operations and Politics
Imports
International Affairs
International agencies
Judicial opinions
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Latin America
Law
Mexico
Misconduct in office
North America
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Integrity of the United States Courts Act of 2003 - Amends the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act to permit a party or person to file with the U.S. Court of International Trade an appeal of a determination of a binational panel or committee, alleging that a panel or committee determination was based on a misinterpretation of U.S. law, a member of a binational panel or committee is guilty of gross misconduct, bias, or serious conflict of interest, or that the panel or committee seriously departed from a fundamental rule of procedure or exceeded its own authority, and such actions have materially affected panel or committee determinations with respect to antidumping and countervailing duty cases and threaten the integrity of the panel or committee review process. 
Authorizes a person to commence an action in the U.S. Court of International Trade if such person has requested a panel or committee review of an antidumping or countervailing duty determination, but such panel or committee is not convened within 120 days. 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to grant the U.S. Court of International Trade jurisdiction over the review of a final determination of a binational panel or an investigating authority.
Declares that the amendments made by this Act with respect to antidumping and countervailing duty law shall apply to goods from Canada and Mexico.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the deduction of interest paid in certain situations where the debt is guaranteed by a related foreign person.

Bill: 108-s-1894
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank loans
Commerce
Debtor and creditor
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Insurance companies
Interest
Securities
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the limitation for the deduction of interest for interest payments on debt guaranteed by a foreign person as long as the taxpayer establishes that it could have borrowed the same amount of debt from an unrelated lender without a guarantee.
 
Revises the definition of disqualified interest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Relief Extension Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1896
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to health care
Alcohol tax
Alcoholic beverages
Alternative energy sources
Bonds
Building construction
Business and social problems
Charitable contributions
Commerce
Computer software
Computers
Congress
Construction costs
Construction industries
Corporate philanthropy
Corporation taxes
Costs
Depletion allowances
District of Columbia
Economic assistance
Economic development
Education
Educational technology
Electric power production
Electric vehicles
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Energy
Enterprise zones
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Health
Health insurance
Hepatitis
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Influenza
Insurance companies
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Life insurance
Medical savings accounts
Mental health services
Minimum tax
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
New York City
Oil pollution
Pension funds
Petroleum
Petroleum refineries
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Retiree health benefits
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
September 11, 2001
Social Welfare
Sunset legislation
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt securities
Teachers
Teaching materials
Terrorism
Textbooks
Transportation and Public Works
User charges
Vaccines
Wages
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: 
Tax Relief Extension Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend provisions concerning: (1) parity in the application of certain limits to mental health benefits; (2) the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources; (3) the work opportunity credit; (4) the welfare-to-work credit; (5) the taxable income limit on percentage depletion for oil and natural gas produced from marginal properties; (6) qualified zone academy bonds; (7) the cover over tax on distilled spirits; (8) the deduction for corporate donations of computer technology; (9) the credit for qualified electric vehicles; (10) the deduction for clean-fuel vehicles and certain refueling property; (11) the deduction for certain expenses of school teachers; (12) the availability of medical savings accounts; (13) the expensing of environmental remediation costs; (14) the expansion of the work opportunity tax credit to the New York Liberty Zone; (15) the temporary special rules for taxation of life insurance companies; (16) certain tax incentives for investment in the District of Columbia; (17) the combined employment tax reporting program; (18) transfers of excess pension assets to retiree health accounts; and (19) IRS user fees.
 
Adds to the definition of taxable vaccines any vaccine against hepatitis A and any trivalent vaccine against influenza.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15190-15192)
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Education Payment Clarification Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1897
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Hospitals
Medical education
Medical residents
Medicare
Osteopathy and osteopaths
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the counting of residents in approved allopathic and osteopathic medical residency training programs for purposes of indirect medical education and direct graduate medical education payments. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reimburse teaching hospitals for residents in nonprovider settings, when the hospital incurs all, or substantially all, the costs of training in that setting, starting from the effective date of a written agreement between the hospital and the entity owning or operating the nonprovider setting. Requires the effective date to be determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Defines all, or substantially all, of the costs for the training program in that setting as the residents' stipends and benefits and other costs, if any, as determined by the parties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Voluntary Support for Reservists and National Guard Members Act

Bill: 108-s-1898
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Checkoff
Government trust funds
Military pay
National Guard
Tax administration
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Voluntary Support for Reservists and National Guard Members Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a taxpayer to designate a specified portion of any tax overpayment to the Reservist Income Differential Trust Fund (the Fund). Establishes such Fund.
 
Directs the Secretary of a military department, to the extent provided in appropriations Acts, to pay an eligible member of a reserve component of the armed forces a pay differential, according to a specified formula, of up to a maximum amount of $25,000. Provides for funding from the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15288-15289)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15288)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
National Cancer Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1899
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Breast cancer
Cancer
Cervical cancer
Clinical trials
Colon cancer
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health information systems
Health surveys
Higher education
Lifestyle
Medical education
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medically uninsured
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ovarian cancer
Pain
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Prostate cancer
Quality of care
Quality of life
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
National Cancer Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop an information-sharing plan for State cancer registries.
 
Modifies provisions concerning preventive health measures with respect to breast and cervical cancers to permit priority to be given to certain projects involving: (1) colorectal cancer screening and outreach; and (2) treating uninsured women diagnosed with cancer during such screening. 
 
Authorizes specified waivers of the direct services requirement for breast and cervical cancer screening grants.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to eligible entities to educate cancer patients and their families about medical techniques to reduce and prevent pain, survivorship care and support programs, and related community resources.
 
Requires a national cancer research center to have a practitioner education program that includes pain and symptom management and survivorship care.
 
Amends various provisions of the Act to emphasize the importance of pain and symptom management throughout the nation's cancer programs.
 
Establishes within the National Cancer Institute (the NCI) an Office on Cancer Survivorship.
 
Authorizes the Director of NCI to co-fund grant projects for various cancer programs.
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate with respect to: (1) cancer survivorship; and (2) institutional review board procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15289)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Health Care Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1901
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Small business
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Small Business Health Care Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish, in the case of a qualified small employer, an employee health insurance expenses credit determined for the applicable percentage of the amount paid by a taxpayer for qualified employee health insurance expenses.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide, in the case of a State or a unit of local government that establishes a health insurance purchasing pool, a grant equal to the applicable percentage of the administrative costs associated with such pool.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish a National Commission on Digestive Diseases.

Bill: 108-s-1902
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Clinical trials
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive diseases
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Higher education
Imaging systems in medicine
Legislation
Medical education
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical technology
Medical tests
Mortality
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nutrition
Preventive medicine
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human and Human Services to establish a National Commission on Digestive Diseases, which shall: (1) study the incidence, duration, and mortality rates of digestive diseases, as well as their social and economic impacts; (2) evaluate public and private facilities and resources (including trained personnel and research activities) for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of such diseases; (3) identify related disease management programs (including biological, behavioral, nutritional, environmental, and social programs); and (4) develop a long-range plan for the use and organization of national resources to effectively deal with digestive diseases. 
 
Terminates the Commission 30 days after submission of its final report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15290-15291)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1907
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Community policing
Computers
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
DNA
Data banks
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency communication systems
Environmental Protection
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Health
Housing and Community Development
Indian law enforcement
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Mediation
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Native Americans
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
Rural crime
Science, Technology, Communications
Tribes and tribal system
Victims of crimes
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Rural Safety Act of 2003 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to make grants to rural local and tribal governments for the retention for one additional year of police officers funded through the cops on the beat (or COPS) Program; and (2) authorize the use of COPS grants on a matching funds basis to assist the police departments of such units in improving police communications, and in developing and improving access to crime-solving technologies. 
Directs the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice to make grants to such units to: (1) establish or improve 911 service in those communities; and (2) establish restorative justice programs for juveniles, such as victim/offender mediation and family and community conferences.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, to make grants to establish in rural areas substance abuse (particularly methamphetamine) prevention and treatment pilot programs and methamphetamine prevention education programs.
Directs the Attorney General to provide for the cleanup of methamphetamine laboratories and related hazardous waste, and for the improvement of contract-related response time for cleanup of methamphetamine laboratories and related hazardous waste by providing additional contract personnel, equipment, and facilities, in rural areas. 
Establishes a Rural Policing Institute as part of the Small Town and Rural Training Program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15297-15299)
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5488-5489)
A bill to allow certain Mexican nationals to be admitted as nonimmigrant visitors for a period of 6 months.

Bill: 108-s-1908
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Crime and Law Enforcement
Identification devices
Latin America
Mexicans
Mexico
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Provides for the admittance of Mexican nationals currently admissible under laser-visa border crossing regulations as six-month nonimmigrant visitors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1909
Sponsor: Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS]
Introduced: 2003-11-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Data banks
Drug therapy
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health facilities
Health information systems
Health planning
Health promotion
Health surveys
Higher education
Hospital care
Labor and Employment
Law
Medical personnel
Medical statistics
Medical technology
Medical tests
Neurology
Paramedical personnel
Planning
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Standards
Stroke

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: 
Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a grant program for State stroke care systems; (2) foster the development of stroke care systems through information sharing among agencies and individuals involved in such care; (3) develop a model curriculum for training emergency medical services personnel, including dispatchers, first responders, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics, in stroke prehospital treatment; (4) issue best practices guidelines; and (5) provide public information on recognition of stroke symptoms and appropriate post-stroke actions. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for such purposes.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry; and (2) make State grants for the development of stroke care systems. Authorizes the Secretary to make related State planning grants.
 
Provides special grant consideration for States in a geographic area with an elevated incidence of stroke or stoke-caused disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-11-20
text: Introduced in Senate