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Southern Regional Commission Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-527
Sponsor: Sen. Miller, Zell [D-GA]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Access to health care
Advice and consent of the Senate
Alabama
Auditing
Citizen participation
Community development
Community organization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
County politics and government
Depressed areas
Entrepreneurs
Federal-state relations
Florida
Georgia
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Interstate relations
Labor and Employment
Mississippi
Nonprofit organizations
North Carolina
Presidential appointments
Public meetings
Regional economic development
Regional planning
Social Welfare
South Carolina
Urban affairs
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Southern Regional Commission Act of 2003 - Establishes a Southern Regional Commission to: (1) develop plans and programs to establish priorities and approve grants aimed at breaking the cycle of persistent poverty in the area consisting of specified counties in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia (the region) by increasing the capacity of individuals to participate in the economy and build wealth; (2) establish priorities in a targeted strategy for the region (regional development plan); (3) use the findings of Phase I of the Study on Persistent Poverty in the South, prepared by the University of Georgia, and assess any needs and capital assets of the region that are not addressed by the study based on available research, demonstration projects, assessments, and evaluations; (4) enhance the capacity of and provide support for local development districts in the region; (5) support and enhance State resources and activities designed to address persistent poverty; (6) promote multi jurisdictional efforts at the local level intended to maximize local resources; (7) support community-based efforts designed to address persistent poverty; (8) encourage private investment in industrial, commercial, and other economic development projects in the region; and (9) engage land-grant colleges and universities to provide research support for each State included in the region.
Authorizes the Commission to: (1) approve grants to States and public and nonprofit entities for economic development projects; and (2) make grants to local development districts to pay administrative expenses.
Requires: (1) State members to submit development plans to the Commission; and (2) the Governor of each member State to submit annually a strategy statement describing the State's program for achieving identified goals and objectives.
Sets forth criteria for ranking projects to receive assistance. Requires the Commission to review State and regional and multi state subregional development plans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Indian School Bus Route Safety Reauthorization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-528
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Indian education
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Minorities
Road construction
School buses
State-local relations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Indian School Bus Route Safety Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Makes funds appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) available for each fiscal year to States that have within their boundaries all or a part of an Indian reservation having a land area of ten million acres or more. Makes counties eligible to apply to a State for all or a portion of such funds for maintenance of public roads that are within the county that: (1) provide access to the Indian reservation; (2) are used by a school bus to transport children to or from a school or Head Start program; and (3) are maintained by the county in which the public road is located. Provides that such funding shall supplement, and not supplant, any obligation of funds by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for road maintenance programs on Indian reservations, and any funding provided by a State to a county for road maintenance programs in the county.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3182)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3181-3182)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income loan payments received under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program established in the Public Health Service Act .

Bill: 108-s-529
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to health care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Health
Higher education
Income tax
Medical education
Public health personnel
Scholarships
Student loan funds
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income amounts received as loan repayments under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program established under the Public Health Service Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3184-3186)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-530
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Animals
Blood diseases
Brain diseases
Breast cancer
Cancer
Colon cancer
Communicable diseases
Digestive diseases
Diphtheria
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Families
Federal employees
Fire fighters
Health
Heart diseases
Hepatitis
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Kidney diseases
Labor and Employment
Law
Leukemia
Liver diseases
Lung cancer
Lung diseases
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Prostate cancer
Rabies
Rescue work
Skin cancer
Survivors' benefits
Tuberculosis
Women
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2003 - Provides that, with regard to an individual federally employed in fire protection activities: (1) heart disease, lung disease, and specified cancers and infectious diseases shall be presumed to be proximately caused by the individual's employment; (2) such individual's disability or death due to such a disease shall be presumed to result from personal injury sustained while in the performance of duty; and (3) such presumptions may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Missouri River Enhancement and Monitoring Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-531
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Biological research
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Ecological research
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-state relations
Fishery management
Fishes
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Habitat conservation
Hydrology
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Iowa
Kansas
Minorities
Missouri
Missouri River development
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research centers
Research grants
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
South Dakota
Water quality
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Missouri River Enhancement and Monitoring Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, to establish the Missouri River monitoring and research program to: (1) coordinate the collection of information on the biological and water quality characteristics of the Missouri River and evaluate how those characteristics are affected by hydrology; (2) coordinate the monitoring and assessment of biota (including threatened or endangered species) and habitat of the River; and (3) make recommendations on means to assist in restoring the River's ecosystem.
Designates the River Studies Center of that Division, located in Columbia, Missouri, to administer the program. Directs the Center to: (1) assist in the recovery of the threatened and endangered species of the River; (2) establish a scientific database; (3) enter into contracts with Indian tribes that have reservations along the River for activities supporting this Act; (4) provide financial assistance to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and State agencies to monitor and recover threatened and endangered species; and (5) carry out a competitive grant program for research on the impacts of the operation and maintenance of the River's mainstem reservoirs on the health of fish and wildlife.
Requires the Center, the Directors of the Fish and Wildlife Service and of the Geological Survey, and the Missouri River Natural Resources Committee to: (1) prioritize research needs; (2) issue a request for grant proposals; and (3) award grants.
Directs the Governors of specified States and the governing bodies of the Indian tribes of the Missouri River Basin to establish a Missouri River Basin Stakeholder Committee to make recommendations to Federal agencies on means of restoring the River's ecosystem.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3186-3187)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3186)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Colonias Gateway Initiative Act

Bill: 108-s-532
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Arizona
Boundaries
Business education
California
Colonias
Commerce
Community development
Counseling
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Financial services
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Investments
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Marketing
Mexico
New Mexico
Nonprofit organizations
Potable water
Public-private partnerships
Regional economic development
Regional planning
Rural economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage disposal
Sewage treatment
Sewerage
Social Welfare
Strategic planning
Texas
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Colonias Gateway Initiative Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants through September 30, 2009, to regional organizations to enhance the availability of affordable housing, economic opportunity, and infrastructure in the colonias.
Defines colonia as a recognized community: (1) along the United States-Mexico border region in Arizona, California, New Mexico, or Texas; and (2) lacking such services as potable water, adequate sewage systems, and safe and sanitary housing.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3188-3189)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3187-3188)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act

Bill: 108-s-533
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Awards, medals, prizes
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
International Affairs
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act - Authorizes the President to present to the personal representative or next of kin of each individual who died on or after September 11, 2001, as a direct result of the act of terrorism within the United States on that date, a Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Congressional Medal in recognition of their sacrifice and to honor their deaths.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike: (1) three medals to honor victims of the attack at the World Trade Center (WTC), victims aboard United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania, and victims at the Pentagon; and (2) duplicate medals for presentation to each precinct house, firehouse, emergency response station, or other duty station or place of employment to which officers, emergency workers, and other employees of the U.S. Government and of State and local government agencies (including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) and others who responded to and perished as a direct result of the WTC attacks were assigned on September 11, 2001.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Fallen Heroes Flag Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-534
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Eagles
Emergency medicine
Families
Fire fighters
Flags
Health
Law enforcement officers
Monuments and memorials
Paramedical personnel
Police

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Fallen Heroes Flag Act of 2003 - Allows the Representative (Member of Congress, including Delegate or Resident Commissioner to Congress) of the immediate family of a deceased fire fighter, law enforcement officer, emergency technician, or other rescue worker who died in the line of duty to provide the family, at their request, with a Capitol-flown flag, together with a certificate, signed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Representative providing the flag, which contains an expression of sympathy for the family.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Fallen Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters Flag Memorial Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-535
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Families
Fire fighters
Flags
Law enforcement officers
Monuments and memorials
Police
Social Welfare
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Fallen Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters Flag Memorial Act of 2003 - Allows the family of a law enforcement officer or paid or volunteer firefighter who dies in the line of duty to request, and the Attorney General or the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide, a U.S. flag flown over the Capitol in honor of the officer or firefighter.
action_date: 2003-05-16
text: Fallen Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters Flag Memorial Act of 2003 - Allows the family of a law enforcement officer or firefighter who dies in the line of duty to request that a Member of Congress provide to that family a Capitol-flown flag. Directs that costs associated with providing such flag be paid from official funds.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-05-16
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR 5/15/2003 S6568)
action_date: 2003-05-16
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR 5/15/2003 S6568)
action_date: 2003-05-16
text: Senate Committee on Rules and Administration discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR 5/15/2003 S6568)
action_date: 2003-05-16
text: Senate Committee on Rules and Administration discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR 5/15/2003 S6568)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3189)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3189)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
National Invasive Species Council Act

Bill: 108-s-536
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Ecological research
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Electronic government information
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental education
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Executive orders
Executive reorganization
Exotic animals
Exotic plants
Export controls
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Habitat conservation
Health
Import restrictions
International Affairs
International cooperation
International environmental cooperation
Internet
Minorities
Non-native species
Pest control
Planning
Regional planning
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: National Invasive Species Council Act - Declares that no Federal agency may authorize, fund, or carry out any action that would likely cause or promote the introduction or spread of an invasive species in the United States or any other location, unless the agency head determines that: (1) the benefits outweigh the potential harm to the environment, economy, or human health; and (2) all feasible and prudent measures to minimize the risk or harm will be taken. Requires the Council On Environmental Quality, in conjunction with the National Invasive Species Council, to develop guidelines for such measures.
Establishes within the executive branch the National Invasive Species Council to ensure that Federal agency efforts concerning invasive species are coordinated, effective, complementary, and cost-efficient.
Requires the Council to develop a National Invasive Species Management Plan that details and recommends performance-oriented goals.
Requires the Council to create the Invasive Species Advisory Committee to provide information and advice for consideration by the Council.
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to prepare and submit to Congress and the Council a yearly budget analysis and summary of all Federal programs relating to invasive species.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3495-3496)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3189)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-537
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Communication satellites
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Radio broadcasting
Radio spectrum allocation
Radio stations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act of 2003 - Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reallocating primary allocations of bands of frequencies of the amateur radio and amateur satellite services, diminishing the secondary allocations of such bands to such services, or making additional allocations within such bands that would substantially reduce their utility to the amateur radio or satellite service, unless the FCC provides equivalent replacement spectrum to amateur radio and satellite service.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Border Infrastructure and Technology Modernization Act  of 2003

Bill: 108-s-539
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2003-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Boundaries
Canada
Commerce
Common carriers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Containerization
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
Department of Homeland Security
EBB Terrorism
Employee training
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Free trade
Freight
Government Operations and Politics
Harbors
Identification devices
Immigration
Imports
Industrial buildings
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Mexico
Planning
Police training
Public-private partnerships
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Smuggling
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Border Infrastructure and Technology Modernization Act - Directs the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security of the Department of Homeland Security to: (1) make specified personnel increases in the Department of Homeland Security's Bureaus of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection, respectively; (2) prepare an annual National Land Border Security Plan, which shall include a vulnerability assessment of each port of entry on the northern or southern border, and may provide for port security coordinators; and (3) carry out a three-to-five-site port of entry demonstration program.
Directs the Administrator of General Services to make annual updates to the Port of Entry Infrastructure Assessment Study.
Directs the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to: (1) develop an expansion plan for the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism programs along the northern and southern borders, including the Business Anti-Smuggling Coalition, the Carrier Initiative Program, the Americas Counter Smuggling Initiative, the Container Security Initiative, the Free and Secure Trade Initiative, and other Industry Partnership programs; (2) establish a Partnership demonstration program along the southern border; and (3) establish a demonstration program for a cooperative trade security system with respect to entities (maquiladora) in Mexico that assemble and produce goods from imported parts for export to the United States.
Authorizes specified appropriations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3192-3193)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3191-3192)
action_date: 2003-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate