hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Federal Judgeship Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-920
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Alabama
Appellate courts
Arizona
Bankruptcy courts
California
Congress
District courts
Finance and Financial Sector
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Judges
Judicial districts
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
New Mexico
New York State
Northern Mariana Islands
Oregon
Presidential appointments
South Carolina
Utah
Virgin Islands
Virginia
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: 
Federal Judgeship Act of 2003 - Directs the President to appoint specified additional: (1) permanent circuit judges for the first, second, sixth, and ninth circuit courts of appeals, and temporary circuit judges for the ninth circuit; and (2) permanent district judges for various districts in Alabama, California, Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, and temporary district judges for California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New Mexico, New York, and Utah.
 
Amends the Federal judicial code to establish Article III courts in the Northern Mariana Islands (with court held at Saipan) and in the Virgin Islands (with court held in Christiansted for the Saint Croix Division, and in Charlotte-Amalie for the Saint Thomas and Saint John Division).
 
Authorizes the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to assign judges of courts of record of the Northern Mariana Islands or Guam to serve temporarily as a judge in the U.S. district court for the district of the Northern Mariana Islands whenever necessary. Grants such judges the powers of magistrate judges.
 
Includes the district courts of the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands within the scope of provisions regarding participation in judicial conferences and regarding annuities for survivors of judicial officials.
 
Amends the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to grant the District court of the Virgin Islands exclusive jurisdiction over all criminal and civil proceedings in the Virgin Islands with respect to income tax laws applicable to the Virgin Islands, with exceptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
State and Local Reservist First Responders Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-921
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee selection
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to Indians
Fire fighters
Grants-in-aid
Health
Hours of labor
Indian law enforcement
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Local employees
Medical personnel
Minorities
Paramedical personnel
Police
Replacement workers
Rescue work
Salaries
State employees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: State and Local Reservist First Responders Assistance Act of 2003 - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to make grants to reimburse any State, local government, or Indian tribe for costs incurred as a result of a call or order to active duty of armed forces reserves who are first responder personnel, including: (1) costs of hiring first responder personnel to replace such reserves; and (2) overtime pay costs for other first responder personnel.
Permits: (1) reimbursement only if the State, local government, or tribe would not have incurred such costs but for the absence of first responder personnel; (2) costs to be reimbursed only for a reserve who serves at least six consecutive months on active duty at any time during the two years preceding the application for the grant; and (3) reimbursable costs to include any costs in connection with such reserve's active duty.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Naturalization and Family Protection for Military Members Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-922
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Citizenship
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Embassies
Families
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Marriage
Married people
Military bases
Military dependents
Military personnel
Naturalization
Parents
State courts
State laws
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Visas
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Naturalization and Family Protection for Military Members Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act respecting naturalization through service in the armed forces to: (1) reduce the required service from three years to two years; (2) prohibit the imposition of a naturalization fee; and (3) qualify the Selective Reserve of the Ready Reserve for such benefits.
Provides for overseas naturalization proceedings for members of the armed forces.
Retains immediate relative status for the alien spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen who died from injury or disease incurred while serving honorably on active military service. (Requires petition filing within two years of such death.)
States that an application for status adjustment by the alien spouse, child, or parent of an alien member of the armed forces who was granted service-related posthumous citizenship may be adjudicated as if the death had not occurred. (Requires application filing prior to such death.)
Treats the spouse, child, or parent of a lawful permanent resident who was granted service-related posthumous citizenship as a valid petitioner for immediate family status. (Requires parent filing within two years of such death.)
Permits such aliens to apply for permanent resident status adjustment.
Waives specified grounds of inadmissibility.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5381-5382)
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Economic Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-923
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
State finance
State laws
Taxation
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Economic Security Act of 2003 - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA) to extend the TEUCA program through November 30, 2003, with a phaseout period through February 28, 2004.
(The TEUCA program provides: (1) an additional 13 weeks of unemployment benefits (TEUC) to jobless workers who have exhausted their regular unemployment benefits; and (2) another additional 13 weeks of benefits (TEUC-X), for a total of 26 additional weeks, for such workers in high unemployment States.)
Entitles eligible individuals in all States to a total of 26 weeks of TEUC compensation (13 weeks beyond the current 13 weeks). Makes such additional benefits also available to individuals who exhausted their TEUC benefits before January 1, 2003.
Provides for a transition period of continuing payments to individuals with amounts remaining in their TEUC account, for weeks beginning before December 31, 2003.
Directs the Secretary of Labor to deem second tier benefit amounts deposited in an individual's account (TEUC-X amounts, which currently provide an extra 13 weeks of benefits in high-unemployment States) as deposited in such account, by reason of the amendments made by this Act, as single tier benefit amounts (TEUC amounts, the basic benefits in all States).
Sets forth requirements relating to applicability of this Act to those who have exhausted their benefits under TEUCA, as well as to current beneficiaries.
Provides for a program of temporary enhanced regular unemployment compensation (TERUC). Modifies eligibility requirements for regular compensation, where applicable for purposes of benefits under this Act, to: (1) set an alternative base period ending at the close of the most recently completed calendar quarter; and (2) allow individuals to seek less than full-time work or not accept full-time work.
Sets forth program requirements for Federal-State agreements, formulas for determining weekly benefits, nonreduction and coordination rules, payments to States, and financing.
Applies program agreements to weeks of unemployment: (1) beginning after the date on which such an agreement is entered into; and (2) ending before July 1, 2004.
Revises TEUCA to provide for coordination with TERUC .

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
American LIFE Trust Fund for the Medical Treatment of the Uninsured in Honor of the Victims and Families of September 11, 2001, Act

Bill: 108-s-928
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2003-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Catastrophic health insurance
Checkoff
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Health
Income tax
Medically uninsured
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-28
text: American LIFE Trust Fund for the Medical Treatment of the Uninsured in Honor of the Victims and Families of September 11, 2001, Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual to designate a portion of any tax overpayment for the American LIFE Trust Fund for the Medical Treatment of the Uninsured in Honor of the Victims and Families of September 11, 2001, which shall use such funds to provide injury and catastrophic illness protection to individuals without health coverage.
Establishes in the Treasury the American LIFE Trust Fund for the Medical Treatment of the Uninsured in Honor of the Victims and Families of September 11, 2001.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Fuel Tax Equalization Credit for Substantial Power Takeoff Vehicles Act

Bill: 108-s-932
Sponsor: Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Building materials
Commerce
Diesel motor
Energy
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Income tax
Natural gas vehicles
Recycling of waste products
Refuse and refuse disposal
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Fuel Tax Equalization Credit for Substantial Power Takeoff Vehicles Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a $250 business credit for each qualified commercial power takeoff vehicle (certain highway vehicles designed to deliver ready mixed concrete or collect refuse or recyclables) owned by a taxpayer at the end of the year. Stipulates that such credit shall not be available for a vehicle used during the year by a governmental entity or a tax-exempt organization.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5487)
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5486-5487)
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the active business definition under section 355.

Bill: 108-s-933
Sponsor: Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Affiliated corporations
Commerce
Corporate reorganizations
Corporation taxes
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Securities
Stocks
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code, concerning the active business definition relating to distributions of stock and securities of a controlled corporation, to treat all corporations that are members of the same affiliated group as a single corporation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the small refiner exception to the oil depletion deduction.

Bill: 108-s-934
Sponsor: Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depletion allowances
Energy
Income tax
Petroleum refineries
Small business
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to change the average daily refinery limitation concerning the oil depletion deduction from 50,000 to 75,000 barrels-per-day.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain coins to be acquired by individual retirement accounts and other individually directed pension plan accounts.

Bill: 108-s-935
Sponsor: Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coins and coinage
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Investments
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the category of "non-collectible" coins eligible for inclusion in individual retirement accounts and other individually directed pension plan accounts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Government Settlement Transparency Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-936
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Income tax
Law
Securities regulation
Stock exchanges
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Government Settlement Transparency Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a business deduction for any amount paid or incurred (whether by suit, agreement, or otherwise) to, or at the direction of, a government or certain nongovernmental regulatory entities in relation to the violation, or potential violation, of any law.
Provides an exception for any amount which the taxpayer establishes constitutes restitution for damage or harm caused by the violation, or potential violation, of any law. (Excludes any amount paid or incurred as reimbursement to the government for the costs of any investigation or litigation.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5488)
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5487-5488)
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research Amendments Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-937
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Algal blooms
Authorization
Coastal zone
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Department of Commerce
Ecological research
Economic impact statements
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental assessment
Environmental education
Environmental monitoring
Estuaries
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Freshwater resources conservation
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Great Lakes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Marine resources conservation
Minorities
Oceanographic research
Oxygen
Pollution measurement
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research Amendments Act of 2003 - Amends the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 (Harmful Algal Act) to repeal the President's authority to disestablish the Interagency Task Force (thus retaining it).
Requires the Task Force to: (1) work with the appropriate State, Indian tribe, and local governments to ensure that the assessment and research plans fulfill the requirements of the Harmful Algal Act; and (2) complete and submit to specified congressional committees not less than once every five years scientific assessments of harmful algal blooms and of hypoxia. Specifies amended assessment requirements.
Requires the Task Force to: (1) make a specified scientific assessment of freshwater algal blooms; and (2) develop and submit to specified congressional committees a research plan providing for a comprehensive and coordinated national research program to develop prevention, control, and mitigation methods to reduce the impacts of harmful algal blooms on coastal ecosystems, public health, and the economy. Specifies research program requirements.
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Task Force and appropriate State, Indian tribe, and local governments, to provide for local and regional scientific assessments of hypoxia or harmful algal blooms, as requested by State, Indian tribe, and local governments. Specifies assessment requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the survivors of former prisoners of war who died on or before September 30, 1999, under the same eligibility conditions as apply to payment of dependency an indemnity compensation to the survivors of former prisoners of war who die after that date.

Bill: 108-s-938
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Ex-prisoners of war
Families
Labor and Employment
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Provides for the payment of dependency and indemnity compensation to the survivors of veterans rated totally disabled at the time of death who were former prisoners of war (currently, to the survivors of such veterans who died after September 30, 1999).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
IDEA Full-Funding Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-939
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Local budgets
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: IDEA Full-Funding Act of 2003 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to revise and reauthorize part B programs of education of all children with disabilities.
Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for part B for FY 2004 through 2013, and in necessary amounts for FY 2014 and thereafter. (Provides phased-in increases of funding designed to reach a promised 40 percent Federal share of funding by FY 2011.)
Makes appropriations in specified amounts for part B for FY 2004 through 2013.
Provides an exception to local educational agency (LEA) maintenance of effort requirements under part B.
Repeals certain provisions relating to LEA treatment of Federal funds as local funds under part B.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5488-5489)
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Armed Forces Citizenship Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-940
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Citizenship
Economics and Public Finance
Embassies
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Law
Legal fees
Military bases
Military discharges
Military personnel
Naturalization
State courts
State laws
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Armed Forces Citizenship Act of 2003 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act respecting naturalization through service in the armed forces to: (1) eliminate the three-year service requirement; (2) prohibit the imposition of a naturalization fee; (3) provide for overseas naturalization proceedings for members of the armed forces; and (4) provide for revocation of citizenship for separation from military service under other than honorable conditions (such ground for revocation shall be in addition to any other provided by law).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5490)
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-941
Sponsor: Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]
Introduced: 2003-04-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Exhibitions
Historic sites
History
Mountains
Nature conservation
North Carolina
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Act of 2003 - Establishes the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area in North Carolina and designates the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership as its management entity.
Directs the Partnership to submit for approval by the Secretary of the Interior a management plan, which shall contain recommendations and strategies for the conservation, funding, management, and development of the Area.
Prohibits the Partnership from using Federal funds to acquire real property.
Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance and financial assistance to the Partnership for developing and implementing the management plan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-29
text: Introduced in Senate