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Emergency Communications and Competition Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-564
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Cable television
Citizen participation
Direct broadcast satellites
Distance education
Education
Educational television
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Internet
Law
Licenses
Political advertising
Space activities
Telemedicine
Television broadcasting

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Emergency Communications and Competition Act of 2003 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to assign licenses in the 12.2 -12.7 gigahertz band for the provision of fixed terrestrial communications services. Prohibits: (1) granting such a license if operations would interfere with direct broadcast satellite service; or (2) such licenses from being used for the provision of personal communications or terrestrial telephony service. Requires licensees to begin providing services within five years after the license is granted.
Requires each licensee to: (1) disseminate Federal, State, and local Emergency Alert System warnings to all subscribers; (2) provide immediate access of its services for national security and emergency preparedness personnel; and (3) adhere to all FCC-established access requirements, including the carriage of local television station signals, access for political candidates, and public interest programming and services.
Directs the FCC to: (1) establish boundaries for license recipients that conform to existing television markets; and (2) redesignate the Multichannel Video Distribution and Data Service as the Terrestrial Direct Broadcast Service.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-22
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-969.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3322-3323)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3321-3322)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Homeland Protection and Tax Hike Prevention Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-565
Sponsor: Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
American Samoa
Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Boundaries
Bridges
Buildings
Chemical industries
Chemical warfare
Citizen participation
College costs
Commemorations
Commerce
Computer networks
Computer security measures
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Disaster relief
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric power production
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Energy
Environmental Protection
Epidemiology
Equipment and supplies
Evacuation of civilians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Fire prevention
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Guam
Harbors
Health
Health information systems
Health surveys
Higher education
Hospital care
Hours of labor
Identification devices
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Medicaid
Medical personnel
Metropolitan areas
Monuments and memorials
Northern Mariana Islands
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Office buildings
Paramedical personnel
Planning
Police
Preventive medicine
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public records
Puerto Rico
Railroad safety
Reservoirs
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Security measures
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Subways
Telecommunication systems
Terrorism
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety
Tunnels
Unemployment
Urban affairs
Virgin Islands
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Water treatment plants
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Homeland Protection and Tax Hike Prevention Act of 2003 - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to award grants to eligible States and metropolitan cities, with different specified allocations based on population and on risk, including proximity to chemical security, nuclear security, port security, international borders, and disaster medical assistance teams.
Specifies optional uses of such funds.
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make budget crisis relief grants to States and local governments, with allocations based on population and on unemployment.
Provides for specified adjustments of Medicaid Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, and increases the cap on Medicaid payments to territories for further fiscal relief.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3323-3325)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3323)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Alzheimer's Disease Research, Prevention, and Care Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-566
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adult day care
Aging
Alzheimer's disease
Authorization
Brain diseases
Cardiovascular diseases
Caregivers
Clinical trials
Drug therapy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to the aged
Geriatrics
Higher education
Home care services
Human behavior
Medical research
Medical tests
Menopause
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Research grants
Respite care
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Alzheimer's Disease Research, Prevention, and Care Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the purposes of the National Institute on Aging by making Alzheimer's disease research a priority.
Requires the Director of the Institute to: (1) undertake an Alzheimer's Disease Prevention Initiative, including accelerating the discovery of new risk and protective factors, rapidly identifying therapies and preventive interventions, and implementing effective prevention and treatment strategies; (2) conduct and support cooperative clinical research regarding Alzheimer's; and (3) conduct, or make grants to conduct, research concerning early detection and diagnosis, the relationship between Alzheimer's and vascular disease, and interventions designed to help caregivers.
Authorizes the Director to establish a National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center to facilitate collaboration among Alzheimer's Disease Centers and Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 2004 through FY 2008.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3325-3326)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Water Quality Investment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-567
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to water pollution control
Government Operations and Politics
Sewage treatment
Sewerage

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Water Quality Investment Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations through FY 2005 for grants for planning, design, and construction of treatment works to control or treat municipal combined sewer overflows and sanitary sewer overflows.
Extends the requirements for a report on funding levels.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make a technical correction in the definition of outpatient speech-language pathology services.

Bill: 108-s-568
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Medical fees
Medicare
Social Welfare
Speech disorders

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Amends part D (Miscellaneous) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the definition of speech-language pathology services to add a definition for the term "outpatient speech-language pathology services."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-569
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Medical fees
Medicare
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare outpatient rehabilitation therapy cap.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Millennium Challenge Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-571
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Access to health care
Advice and consent of the Senate
Agriculture and Food
Chief executive officers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Democracy
Developing countries
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Executive reorganization
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign investments
Free enterprise
Free trade
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government ownership
Government publicity
Health
Human rights
Internet
Law
Misconduct in office
Performance measurement
Planning
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Poverty
Presidential appointments
Public corruption
Right of property
Rule of law
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Technical assistance
Treaties
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: 
Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 - States that it is U.S. policy to reduce global poverty through increased economic growth by supporting a new compact for global development in which increased support is provided by developed countries to those developing countries that are ruling justly, fostering economic freedom, and investing in their citizens.
 
Authorizes the President to provide assistance aimed at reducing poverty to eligible developing countries that enter into agreements with the United States establishing multi-year partnership plans for achieving shared development objectives (Millennium Challenge Contracts). Defines &quot;eligible country&quot; in terms of poverty, commitment to democracy, economic freedom, and investment in its people (including educational opportunity and access to health care).
 
Establishes a Millennium Challenge Account for the receipt of funds authorized under this Act.
 
Establishes in the executive branch the Millennium Challenge Corporation to implement the assistance provided under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3326-3328)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3326)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Gift of Life Congressional Medal Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-572
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2003-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Awards, medals, prizes
Coins and coinage
Congress
Congressional tributes
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Gifts
Government trust funds
Health
Health information systems
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Gift of Life Congressional Medal Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to design and strike a bronze medal to commemorate organ donors and their families.
Makes any organ donor, or the family of any organ donor, eligible for the medal.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to direct the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to arrange for medal presentation to eligible individuals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3330-3331)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3329-3330)
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Unemployment Protection for Low-Income Families on TANF Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-574
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Unemployment
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Unemployment Protection for Low-Income Families on TANF Act of 2003 (UPLIFT Act of 2003) - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for the disregard of months of assistance received during periods of high unemployment for purposes of the five year limit on assistance under TANF.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S3370-3371)
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3370)
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Native American Languages Act Amendments Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-575
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Adult education
Alaska
Archives
Building construction
Colleges
Conferences
Construction costs
Curricula
Data banks
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Educational research
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Hawaii
Hawaiians
Higher education
Indian children
Indian education
Language and languages
Language arts
Leases
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Montana
Pacific Islanders
Parent-school relationships
Preschool education
Scholarships
School buildings
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Native American Languages Act Amendments Act of 2003 - Amends the Native American Languages Act to authorize the Secretary of Education to provide funds to Native American Language Educational Organizations (Organizations), Native American Language Colleges, Indian tribal governments, organizations that demonstrate potential to become Organizations, or a consortia of such organizations, colleges, or tribal governments to establish Native American Language Nest programs (site-based education programs conducted through a Native American language) for students below the age of seven and their families.
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or enter into contracts with such Organizations, colleges, or governments to operate, expand, and increase Native American Language Survival Schools throughout the United States and its territories for Native American children and Native American language-speaking children.
Requires the Secretary to make grants or enter into contracts to establish three specified demonstration programs that will provide assistance to Schools and Nests at: (1) Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani College of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, in consortium with the 'Aha Punana Leo, Inc., and with other entities if deemed appropriate by such college; (2) Piegan Institute of Browning, Montana; and (3) the Alaska Native Language Center of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, in consortium with other entities deemed appropriate by such center. Authorizes such programs to: (1) establish endowments for furthering their activities relative to the study and preservation of Native American languages; and (2) use funds to provide for the rental, purchase, construction, maintenance, and repair of facilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 108-107.
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3371)
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Business Property Economic Revitalization Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-576
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2003-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Leases
Office buildings
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Business Property Economic Revitalization Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to classify qualified leasehold improvement property (defined as certain improvements made to an interior portion of nonresidential real property) as ten-year property for depreciation purposes under the Accelerated Cost Recovery System.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3371-3372)
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Freedom's Way National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 108-s-577
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Historic sites
History
Land use
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Freedom's Way National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Freedom's Way National Heritage Area encompassing 36 communities in Massachusetts and six communities in New Hampshire that have made important and distinctive contributions to the national character of America.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3372)
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Government Amendments to the Homeland Security Act of 2002

Bill: 108-s-578
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
Boundaries
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer security measures
Confidential communications
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Due process of law
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic surveillance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Grand jury
Health
Indian courts
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Indian medical care
Indigenous peoples
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
Laboratories
Law
Military personnel
Minorities
Public health
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Terrorism
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Tribal Government Amendments to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to include the participation of Indian tribes with respect to activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security, including information analysis and infrastructure protection, science and technology, the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security, emergency preparedness and response, treatment of charitable trusts for members of the Armed Forces and other governmental organizations, coordination with non-Federal entities, and training of law enforcement officers by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms of the Department of Justice.
Amends the Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA Patriot Act), and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to include Indian tribes among the participating entities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-30
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 108-312.
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3372)
action_date: 2003-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Russia.

Bill: 108-s-580
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2003-03-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Emigration
Human rights
Immigration
International Affairs
Most favored nation principle
Normal trade relations
Russia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Authorizes the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Russia.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3412)
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Introduced in Senate