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Native Alaskan Subsistence Whaling Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-293
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alaska
Animals
Charitable contributions
Equipment and supplies
Eskimos
Income tax
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Minorities
Native Americans
Ships
Storage
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Whaling

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Native Alaskan Subsistence Whaling Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a charitable deduction for up to $10,000 of the reasonable and necessary whaling expenses incurred in support of Native Alaskan subsistence bowhead whale hunting activities conducted pursuant to the management plan of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. Limits such deduction to an individual recognized by the Commission as a whaling captain charged with the responsibility of maintaining and carrying out such sanctioned whaling activities.
Lists as whaling expenses those for: (1) the acquisition and maintenance of whaling boats, weapons, and gear; (2) food and other provisions for the crew; and (3) storage and distribution of the catch.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1899-1900)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1899)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to eliminate the sunset for the determination of the Federal medical assistance percentage for Alaska under the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000.

Bill: 108-s-294
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alaska
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 to eliminate the sunset for (thus making permanent) the determination of the Federal medical assistance percentage for Alaska under the Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1900)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Denali Transportation System Act

Bill: 108-s-295
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alaska
Department of Transportation
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Harbors
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Labor supply
Marine terminals
Marine transportation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Road construction
Roads and highways
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Denali Transportation System Act - Amends the Denali Commission Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish a program to pay the design and construction costs of the Denali transportation system in Alaska. Authorizes the Commission to construct marine connections and other transportation access infrastructure for communities that would otherwise lack access to the National Highway System. Makes each completed highway on the Denali transportation system a part of the National Highway System. Authorizes the Commission to give preference to the use of Alaskan construction firms and Alaskan materials used in the construction of the Denali transportation system.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1901)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1900-1901)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Fairness to All Fallen Vietnam War Service Members Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-296
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
District of Columbia
Governmental investigations
History
Military history
Monuments and memorials
Vietnam veterans
Vietnamese Conflict
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Fairness to All Fallen Vietnam War Service Members Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to study and report to Congress: (1) to identify veterans who died after October 31, 1955, as a result of military operations in southeast Asia whose names are not eligible for inscription on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; and (2) on the feasibility and equitability of revising the eligibility requirements to be more inclusive of such veterans or of creating an alternative means for recognizing them.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-03
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-65.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1901-1902)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1901)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Assistance for Families of Space Shuttle Columbia Heroes Act

Bill: 108-s-298
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Astronautics
Astronauts
Charitable contributions
Estate tax
Families
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Social Welfare
Space activities
Space shuttles
Survivors' benefits
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Assistance for Families of Space Shuttle Columbia Heroes Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make applicable to Space Shuttle Columbia victims the same provisions that are applicable to members of the Armed Forces and victims of certain terrorist attacks on death.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1908)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1907-1908)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to modify the boundaries for a certain empowerment zone designation.

Bill: 108-s-299
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-02-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Boundaries
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Maine
Rural economic development
Tax incentives

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Includes all of Aroostook County, Maine, within the Aroostook County Empowerment Zone (for Department of Agriculture empowerment zone purposes).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1908-1909)
action_date: 2003-02-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that reimbursements for costs of using passenger automobiles for charitable and other organizations are excluded from gross income, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-301
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Automobiles
Bank accounts
Bank records
Charitable contributions
Charities
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Income tax
Law
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion
Tax returns
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income amounts received from a charitable organization as reimbursement for the operating expenses of a passenger automobile utilized for the benefit of such organization, with exceptions.
Amends Federal law to revise provisions allowing the Secretary of the Treasury to impose a civil penalty for any violation of a provision regarding records and reports on foreign financial agency transactions (present law allows a penalty only for willful violations).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1979)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1978-1979)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-303
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cloning
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cytology
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Ethics
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Forfeiture
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Human embryology
In vitro fertilization
International Affairs
Laboratories
Law
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) conducting or attempting to conduct human cloning; (2) shipping the product of nuclear transplantation for the purpose of human cloning in the United States or elsewhere; or (3) exporting to a foreign country an unfertilized blastocyst if such country does not prohibit human cloning.
Requires the Comptroller General to report to the congressional judiciary committees on: (1) actions taken to enforce such prohibitions; (2) actions of State attorneys general to enforce similar State laws; (3) the Federal-State-local government coordination of enforcement actions; and (4) international laws relating to human cloning.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require research involving nuclear transplantation to be conducted in accordance with applicable Federal standards for the protection of human subjects. Prohibits: (1) a somatic cell nucleus from being transplanted into a human oocyte (egg) that has undergone or will undergo fertilization; (2) an unfertilized blastocyst from being maintained after more than 14 days from its first cell division, not counting storage times at temperatures less than zero degrees centigrade; (3) an oocyte from being used in nuclear transplantation research unless donated voluntarily with the donor's informed consent; (4) an oocyte or unfertilized blastocyst from being acquired, received, or transferred for valuable consideration in interstate commerce; or (5) the conduct in a laboratory of nuclear transplantation in which human oocytes are subject to assisted reproductive technology treatments or procedures.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act

Bill: 108-s-304
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adoption
Caregivers
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disability insurance
Disabled
Diseases
Economics and Public Finance
Employment subsidies
Evidence (Law)
Families
Family leave
Family violence
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Foster home care
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health
Law
Leave of absence
Sick leave
Social Welfare
Unemployment insurance
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act - Family Income to Respond to Significant Transitions Insurance Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make five-year grants to a State or local government to pay for the Federal share of the cost of carrying out projects that assist families by providing wage replacement for eligible individuals responding to caregiving needs resulting from the birth or adoption of a son or daughter or other family caregiving needs.
Family and Medical Leave Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) to extend coverage to employees at worksites where the employer employs at least 25 (currently 50) employees at the worksite and within 75 miles of that worksite.
Amends FMLA and Federal civil service law to entitle to leave those employees who must address the effects of domestic violence.
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2003 - Permits the Office of Personnel Management to contract with one or more employing agencies to conduct a demonstration project that provides paid leave for eligible individuals who are responding to caregiving needs resulting from the birth or adoption of a son or daughter or other family caregiving needs. Requires the leave to last for at least six weeks during a 12-month period.
Time for Schools Act of 2003 - Amends FMLA to allow employees covered by such Act to take up to 24 hours, during any 12-month period, of school involvement leave to participate in: (1) an academic activity of their child's school, such as a parent-teacher conference or an interview for a school; or (2) literacy training under a family literacy program. Amends Federal civil service law to provide the same school involvement leave allowance for Federal employees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1980-1981)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include in the criteria for selecting any project for the low-income housing credit whether such project has high-speed Internet infrastructure.

Bill: 108-s-305
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Internet
Low-income housing
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the criteria for selecting a project for the low-income housing credit to require such criteria to include infrastructure permitting the use of high-speed Internet technology in each residential unit.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Seniors Health and Independence Preservation Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-306
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Age
Authorization
Capitation (Medical care)
Case management
Case mix (Medical care)
Chronically ill
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Cost effectiveness
Demography
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health maintenance organizations
Health planning
Housing and Community Development
Internet
Kidney diseases
Law
Long-term care
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical statistics
Medicare
Nursing homes
Patient satisfaction
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Seniors Health and Independence Preservation Act of 2003 - Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) consolidate and restate the Federal laws relating to the social health maintenance organization (SHMO) demonstration projects; and (2) make the projects permanent.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate a regulation that permits each SHMO demonstration project to expand its service area to include areas within the State served by the organization that are not contiguous to any other service area of the organization.
Permits the participation in the SHMO demonstration project program of: (1) the five organizations authorized under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to demonstrate the concept of SHMOs that were approved by the Secretary in 1995; and (2) each entity that received a planning grant in 1998 under the 1997 Grants Program for Reforming Service Delivery for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries to develop a Second Generation Social HMO Demonstration Program.
Requires the Secretary to notify the appropriate congressional committees prior to making any change to the benefits available under a SHMO demonstration project.
Directs the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to study and report to Congress on the cost-effectiveness of SHMO demonstration projects and their potential expansion.
Requires the Secretary to conduct, and report to Congress on, a comparative qualitative survey of the satisfaction of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in: (1) the original Medicare fee-for-service program under Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance); (2) a Medicare+Choice plan under Medicare part C (Medicare+Choice); and (3) an SHMO.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1981-1982)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 200 West 2nd Street in Dayton, Ohio, as the "Tony Hall Federal Building and United States Courthouse".

Bill: 108-s-307
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Ex-Members of Congress
Federal office buildings
House of Representatives
Law
Names
Ohio

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Designates the Federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 200 West 2nd Street, in Dayton, Ohio, as the Tony Hall Federal Building and United States Courthouse.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1982)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to impose greater accountability on the Tennessee Valley Authority with respect to capital investment decisions and financing operations by increasing Congressional and Executive Branch oversight.

Bill: 108-s-308
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Capital investments
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate finance
Corporation reports
Debt
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Energy
Energy demand
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Hydroelectric power
Nuclear power plants
Public debt
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Directs the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to submit a Ten-Year Business Outlook and Strategic Plan to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and to certain congressional committees that includes: (1) estimates of power demand and capital expenditures; (2) a strategy and criteria for the development and financing of new nuclear and nonnuclear power supply sources; and (3) a strategy for managing the financing, refinancing, and repayment of existing TVA indebtedness.
Requires the financial plan to include TVA policies regarding: (1) the use of short-term and long-term debt; (2) the use of derivative or other financing instruments; and (3) risk management strategies.
Prohibits TVA, until the Director and each of the congressional committee leaders issue a written concurrence to the Plan, from: (1) expending any internally generated capital or otherwise undertake any investment in, or enter into any arrangement that would result in the development or financing of, new, additional, or replacement plant, equipment, or capacity; or (2) undertaking any financing of additional indebtedness or refinancing of debt without the written concurrence of the Director and leaders of specified congressional committees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1983)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1982-1983)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Aeronautics Research and Development Revitalization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-309
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2003-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aeronautics
Air pollution control
Air traffic
Aircraft industry
Aircraft pilots
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Authorization
Aviation fuels
Aviation safety
Commerce
Commercial aircraft
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Energy
Energy conservation
Engineering
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Health
Helicopters
Higher education
Human engineering
Information technology
Labor and Employment
Meteorological research
Nitrogen oxides
Noise
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Research centers
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Sonic boom
Student employment
Supersonic aircraft
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Technology transfer
Transportation workers
Weather forecasting

Summary:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Aeronautics Research and Development Revitalization Act of 2003 - Directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator to develop technologies that would: (1) significantly reduce aircraft noise, harmful emissions, and fuel consumption; (2) make certain performance improvements to existing rotorcraft; and (3) enable overland flight of supersonic civil transport aircraft with certain performance characteristics. Directs the NASA Administrator to provide specified congressional committees a plan for the implementation of such initiatives.
Directs the NASA Administrator to establish NASA aeronautics scholarships for U.S. citizens enrolled in accredited Masters degree programs in aeronautical engineering at institutions of higher education.
Directs the Administrators of NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to participate in a national initiative to define and develop an air traffic management system that meets national long-term aviation security, safety, and capacity needs. Sets forth certain things that the system shall do, including that it ensure seamless global operations for system users.
Provides for grants from the FAA Administrator for university-based Centers for Research on Aviation Training.
Authorizes appropriations for certain FAA research and development projects and activities.
Requires certain aviation-related studies and assessments.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1984-1987)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1983-1984)
action_date: 2003-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate