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Health Care That Works for All Americans Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-581
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2003-03-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Child health
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Critically ill
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Drug industry
Employee health benefits
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health care industry
Health insurance
Health services administration
Home care services
Hospital care
Internet
Labor and Employment
Law
Long-term care insurance
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical technology
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Mental illness
National health insurance
Patients' rights
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
World Wide Web

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Health Care That Works for All Americans Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, to establish a Citizens' Health Care Working Group (the "Working Group"). Directs the Working Group to hold hearings for various purposes, including to examine: (1) the capacity of the public and private health care systems to expand coverage options; (2) innovative State strategies used to expand health care coverage and lower health care costs; and (3) efforts to enroll individuals currently eligible for public or private health care coverage.
Requires the Working Group to make a report available to the general public which shall be entitled, "The Health Report to the American People."
Directs the Working Group to: (1) initiate health care community meetings throughout the United States; and (2) submit to Congress final recommendations, including any proposed legislative language to implement such recommendations.
Permits certain congressional committees to draft legislative language based on the recommendations of the Working Group if the Working Group does not draft such language. Allows the President to submit legislative language to Congress based on the recommendations of the Working Group. Sets forth procedures for consideration by Congress of legislative language proposed under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Coal Energy Research Development and Demonstration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-582
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2003-03-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air pollution control
Carbon cycle
Coal
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Corporation taxes
Cost accounting
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electric power production
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Investment tax credit
Mercury
Nitrogen oxides
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Smog
Sulphur dioxide
Tax credits
Taxation
Technology assessment
Tennessee Valley development
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Coal Energy Research Development and Demonstration Act of 2003 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) perform an assessment that identifies cost and performance goals of technologies permitting continued cost-competitive use of coal for electricity generation, as chemical feedstocks, and as transportation fuel in 2007, 2015, and the years after 2020; and (2) implement a technology research, development, and demonstration program to facilitate production and generation of coal-based power through methods and equipment under designated statutes.
Prescribes conditions and criteria for the authorization of appropriations for a clean coal power initiative program.
Instructs the Secretary to award competitive, merit-based grants to universities for the establishment of Centers of Excellence for Energy Systems of the Future.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish income tax credits for investment in and for production from a qualifying advanced clean coal technology facility.
Prescribes guidelines for the treatment of persons not able to use the entire credit relating to clean coal technology.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3412-3418)
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Meningitis Immunization Awareness Act

Bill: 108-s-583
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-03-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bacterial diseases
Brain diseases
Camping
Child health
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Juvenile delinquency
Preventive medicine
Prisoners
School health programs
Secondary education
Sports and Recreation
Students
Vaccination
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Meningitis Immunization Awareness Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and make available to day care centers, camps, educational entities, prisons, and other entities that provide dorm-like housing, information concerning bacterial meningitis and the meningitis vaccine.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3418)
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3418)
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Product Safety Notification and Recall Effectiveness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-584
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-03-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer education
Data banks
Defective products
Electric appliances
Families
Furniture industry
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Independent regulatory commissions
Internet
Law
Product safety
Science, Technology, Communications
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Product Safety Notification and Recall Effectiveness Act of 2003 - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a rule requiring: (1) manufacturers of juvenile products, small household appliances, and certain other consumer products to establish and maintain a system for providing notification to consumers of recalls of such products; and (2) that the notification system include use of product safety owner cards, Internet registration, or an alternative method, to create a database of information regarding consumers of covered consumer products, for the sole purpose of product recall notification.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3419-3420)
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3418-3419)
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Retiree Survivors Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-585
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-03-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Families
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' pensions
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Military Retiree Survivors Relief Act of 2003 - Eliminates the dependency and indemnity compensation offset against Survivor Benefit Plan annuities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3420)
action_date: 2003-03-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Round II EZ/EC Flexibility Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-586
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Commerce
Community development
Depressed areas
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Labor and Employment
Rural economic development
Tax-exempt securities
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Round II EZ/EC Flexibility Act of 2003 - Authorizes appropriations to: (1) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for specified urban empowerment zones; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture for specified rural empowerment zones and rural enterprise communities. Permits: (1) use of such funds for zone or community strategic plan implementation; and (2) use of Federal funds to pay matching fund requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3507)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3506-3507)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Hydrogen Transportation Wins Over Growing Reliance on Oil (H2 GROW) Act

Bill: 108-s-587
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Automobiles
Commerce
Commercialization
Corporation taxes
Depreciation and amortization
Electric vehicles
Energy efficiency
Energy industries
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Federal advisory bodies
Fringe benefits
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government vehicles
Hydroelectric power
Hydrogen
Income tax
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Labor and Employment
Landfills
Methane
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicle safety
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Renewable natural resources
Retail trade
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Solar energy
Standards
Subsidies
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: 
Hydrogen Transportation Wins Over Growing Reliance on Oil (H2 GROW) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish, with respect to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and the production and use of hydrogen used in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, tax credits, tax deductions, depreciation benefits, and income exemptions and exclusions.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to establish minimum Federal fleet requirements with respect to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
 
Establishes, as a goal, to replace reliance on 30 million barrels of foreign oil through the use of hydrogen fuel cells by December 31, 2012.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish an advisory commission regarding the commercialization of fuel cell motor vehicles, including the achievement of the above goal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3507-3508)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-588
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Comprehensive health care
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Health insurance
Identification devices
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
National health insurance
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Taxation
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2003 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to allow certain eligible individuals born after December 31, 2004, who have not attained age 23, to enroll in the MediKids Program under new SSA title XXII established by this Act for entitlement to benefits specified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Includes among such benefits early and periodic screening, diagnostic services, and treatment services under Medicaid (SSA title XIX), and prescription drugs and biologicals. Provides for: (1) cost-sharing; (2) a payment schedule for covered benefits; (3) a monthly MediKids premium and the means for payment of it; and (4) a reduction in premium for certain low-income families.
Creates in the Treasury the MediKids Trust Fund for collected premiums, appropriated amounts, and other revenues for use in funding the coverage provided under the MediKids Program and maintaining its financial solvency.
Authorizes the Secretary to implement a care coordination services program including specified elements under which eligible individuals may elect to have health care services covered under SSA title XXII managed and coordinated by a designated care coordinator.
Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to increase the membership of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, with the initial terms of additional members staggered.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose a MediKids premium tax in the case of any taxpayer (with certain exceptions) required to pay a premium under the MediKids Program for an eligible individual; and (2) provide for a refundable tax credit for 50 percent of cost-sharing expenses under the MediKids Program.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to propose a gradual schedule of progressive tax changes to fund the MediKids Program as the number of enrollees grows in the out-years.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3509-3512)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3508-3509)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare+Choice Equity and Access Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-590
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Capitation (Medical care)
Health maintenance organizations
Managed care
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Medicare+Choice Equity and Access Act of 2003 - Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to calculation of annual Medicare+Choice capitation rates to: (1) give Medicare+Choice organizations the option to receive payment based on the adjusted average per capita cost for the Medicare+Choice payment area involved; (2) revise the formula used to calculate the national standardized annual Medicare+Choice capitation rate to reflect Medicare+Choice enrollment; (3) remove application of the budget neutrality adjustment factor in the calculation of the blended capitation rate; and (3) provide for increase of the minimum percentage increase.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Moment of Quiet Reflection in Schools Act

Bill: 108-s-591
Sponsor: Sen. Miller, Zell [D-GA]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Meditation
Religion
Religion in the public schools
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Moment of Quiet Reflection in Schools Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require each local educational agency (LEA), if it receives ESEA funds, to ensure that the teacher in charge of each classroom in each school served by the LEA conducts a brief period of quiet reflection for not more than 60 seconds with the participation of all the students assembled in the classroom, at the opening of school on every school day.
Prohibits such period from being conducted as a religious service or exercise. Requires such period to be considered as an opportunity for a moment of silent reflection on the anticipated activities of the day.
Declares that this Act shall not be construed as prohibiting or restricting constitutionally protected prayer.
Requires LEAs, as a condition of receiving ESEA funds, to certify in writing to their State that they are in compliance with this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Reservists Pay Security Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-593
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Department of Transportation
Federal employees
Leave of absence
Military pay
Military personnel
National Guard
Salaries
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Reservists Pay Security Act of 2003 - Entitles a person who is absent from his or her position of Federal employment to perform service in the uniformed services or the National Guard to receive from his or her agency an amount that, when added to the pay and allowances for such service, equals the basic pay which would have been payable to such employee for such period of service for which such employee is not otherwise compensated. Makes this Act retroactive to September 11, 2001.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: 
Reservists Pay Security Act of 2004 - Entitles Federal employees who are absent from their positions while on active duty in the uniformed services or the National Guard to receive the amount of their basic pay which, when taken together with their military pay and allowances, is no less than the amount of pay that they would have earned if there had been no interruption in their civilian employment.
 
Expands the reemployment rights of Federal employees on active duty in the uniformed services.
 
Requires the Office of Personnel Management to prescribe regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
 
Makes this Act retroactive to pay periods beginning on October 11, 2002, subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 800.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 108-409.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 108-409.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3517)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Indian School Construction Act

Bill: 108-s-594
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Bonds
Building construction
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Income tax
Indian education
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Mutual funds
Planning
School buildings
Secondary education
Tax credits
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Indian School Construction Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a pilot program under which eligible Indian tribes have the authority to issue tribal school modernization bonds to provide funding for the construction, rehabilitation, or repair of tribal schools, including advance planning and design.
Permits a tribe to use amounts received through a bond issue to enter contracts: (1) for the design and engineering of the school; and (2) with financial advisors, underwriters, attorneys, trustees, and other professionals who would be able to provide assistance to the tribe in issuing bonds.
Makes any tribal school modernization bond issued by a tribe subject to a trust agreement.
Authorizes the Secretary to deposit not more than $30 million each fiscal year into a tribal school modernization escrow account beginning in FY 2004 from amounts made available for school replacement under the construction account of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Requires the Secretary to use any amounts deposited to make payments to trustees or for advance planning and design.
Declares that no bond shall be an obligation of, nor shall payment of the principal be guaranteed by, the United States, the tribes, or their schools. Exempts from Federal income tax any earnings through the investment of funds under the control of a trustee. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit to individuals who hold such bonds.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3517-3518)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Housing Bond and Credit Modernization and Fairness Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-595
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Income
Income tax
Low-income housing
Mortgage interest rates
Mortgages
Rent
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Housing Bond and Credit Modernization and Fairness Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the required use of certain principal repayments on mortgage subsidy bond financings to redeem bonds; (2) modify the purchase price limitation under mortgage subsidy bond rules based on median family income; and (3) define the term "area median gross income" for low-income housing credit projects.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3518-3519)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3518)
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in Senate