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Adoption Promotion Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1686
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2003-09-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption
Authorization
Child health
Child welfare
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal-state relations
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Intergovernmental fiscal relations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: 
Adoption Promotion Act of 2003 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise requirements with respect to States eligible to receive adoption incentives payments. Reauthorizes the adoption incentive payments program. Provides additional incentives for adoptions of older children (nine years of age and up). Modifies requirements with respect to determination of numbers of special needs adoptions that are not older children as well as adoptions of older children. 
 
Revises the formula for adoption incentive payments to States to provide a payment for: (1) special needs adoptions that are not older child adoptions; and (2) older child adoptions.
 
Repeals the requirement that the Secretary of Health and Human Services provide supplemental grants to incentive-eligible States.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to impose specified penalties against a State for failure to provide necessary data to the Secretary for the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12195-12196)
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12195)
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Securing American Factory Employment (SAFE) Act

Bill: 108-s-1688
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2003-09-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Affiliated corporations
Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Arts, Culture, Religion
Canada
Commerce
Computer software
Employee health benefits
Exports
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Import relief
Income tax
International Affairs
International competitiveness
Labor and Employment
Manufacturing industries
Mexico
Minimum tax
Motion pictures
Partnerships
Retiree health benefits
Science, Technology, Communications
Sound recording and reproducing
Subsidies
Tariff
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: 
Securing American Factory Employment (SAFE) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the exclusion of extraterritorial income from gross income; (2) allow a nine percent deduction for qualified production activities attributable to domestic production; and (3) allow, through 2003, a tax credit for 75 percent of employer provided retired employee health insurance expenses.
 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to revise various factors that the International Trade Commission must consider in making material injury determinations in countervailing duty and antidumping duty proceedings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12200-12203)
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12199-12200)
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Limited English Proficiency and Integrated Workforce Training Act

Bill: 108-s-1690
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education
Bilingualism
Colleges
Community colleges
Compensatory education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
English language
Federal aid to education
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Immigrant education
Immigration
Literacy programs
Vocational and technical education
Wages
Workplace literacy

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: 
Limited English Proficiency and Integrated Workforce Training Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to establish and implement a national demonstration project to analyze and provide data on workforce training programs that integrate English language acquisition and occupational training.
 
Requires the Secretary to award at least ten competitive grants to entities with expertise in serving individuals with limited English proficiency and in providing such integrated training programs. Requires such entities to work with a local board and to include as a principal participant at least one of the following: (1) an employer or employer organization; (2) a nonprofit provider of English instruction; (3) a provider of occupational or skills training; (4) a community-based organization; (5) an educational institution, including a two- or four-year college, or a technical or vocational school; (6) a labor organization; or (7) a local board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 38 Spring Street in Nashua, New Hampshire, as the "Hugh Gregg Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-1692
Sponsor: Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH]
Introduced: 2003-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Governors
Names
New Hampshire
Postal facilities
State officials

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 38 Spring Street in Nashua, New Hampshire, as the Hugh Gregg Post Office Building.

action_date: 2003-10-27
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 38 Spring Street in Nashua, New Hampshire, as the Hugh Gregg Post Office Building.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 332.
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-10-27
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2003-10-22
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Care Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1693
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2003-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Tax credits
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: 
Health Care Tax Credit Expansion Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make individuals receiving unemployment compensation eligible for the 65 percent credit for health insurance costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12281-12282)
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Care for Veterans of Project 112/Project SHAD Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1694
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2003-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Evidence (Law)
Health
Hospital care
Law
Long-term care
Military research
Nursing homes
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: 
Health Care for Veterans of Project 112/Project SHAD Act of 2003 - Makes a veteran who participated in a test conducted by the Department of Defense Deseret Test Center as part of a program for chemical and biological warfare testing from 1962 through 1973 (including the program designated as Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD) and related land-based tests) eligible for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care through the Department of Veterans Affairs for any illness, notwithstanding that there is insufficient medical evidence to conclude that such illness is attributable to such testing. Terminates such eligibility after December 31, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12283)
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12282-12283)
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
PATRIOT Oversight Restoration Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1695
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2003-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional oversight
Emergency Management
Law
Sunset legislation
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: 
PATRIOT Oversight Restoration Act of 2003 - Modifies the sunset provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act to provide that provisions concerning the following (with exceptions) will cease to be effective on December 31, 2005: (1) the disclosure of grand jury information to foreign officials; (2) the scope of subpoenas for records of electronic communications; (3) notification of search warrants; (4) pen register or trap and trace orders; (5) single-jurisdiction search warrants; (6) the Government's authority to declare certain persons inadmissible to the United States; (7) the Attorney General's authority to certify that an alien is engaged in activity that endangers national security and to take such alien into custody; (8) law enforcement authority to access telephone, bank, and credit records through the issuance of National Security Letters; (9) privacy protections for educational records and surveys; (10) the definition of &quot;domestic terrorism&quot;; (11) the Government's civil forfeiture authority to go after assets of terrorist organizations; and (12) the definition of &quot;electronic surveillance.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12285)
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12283-12285)
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Elderly Housing Plus Health Support Demonstration Act

Bill: 108-s-1697
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2003-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Access to health care
Community centers
Congregate housing
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Geriatrics
Health
Health facilities
Housing for the aged
Housing for the disabled
Public housing
Residential rehabilitation
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: 
Elderly Housing Plus Health Support Demonstration Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out an elderly housing plus health support demonstration program to provide elderly and disabled families in public housing with supportive and congregate services, and housing rehabilitation.
 
Sets forth public housing authority (PHA) selection provisions. 
Authorizes appropriations for capital improvements. Directs the Secretary to provide PHA grants under the Housing Act of 1937 for service coordinator and congregate services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12288-12289)
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12287-12288)
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Retirement Security Advice Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1698
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2003-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Affiliated corporations
Brokers
Commerce
Employee rights
Excise tax
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial institutions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Insurance companies
Investment advisers
Investments
Law
Pension funds
Securities
Stocks
Tax penalties
Taxation
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Retirement Security Advice Act of 2003 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to allow prohibited transaction exemptions under specified conditions to: (1) a fiduciary adviser's providing certain investment advice to an employee benefit plan or to a participant or beneficiary of such plan; (2) sale, acquisition, or holding of securities or other property (including any lending of money or other extension of credit associated with these) pursuant to such advice; and (3) direct or indirect receipt of fees or other compensation by the fiduciary adviser or an affiliate in connection with providing such advice. 
Qualifies the following as such fiduciary advisers if they satisfy applicable laws: (1) registered investment advisers; (2) banks; (3) insurance companies; (4) registered broker-dealers; (5) affiliates of such entities; or (6) employees, agents, or registered representatives of such entities. 
Requires such a fiduciary adviser to disclose: (1) fees or other compensation it receives relating to the provision of investment advice or a resulting sale or acquisition of securities or other property, including from third parties; (2) any interest it has (and its affiliates have) in any security or other property recommended, purchased, or sold; (3) any limitation placed on its ability to provide advice; (4) the advisory services offered; (5) that it is acting as a fiduciary of the plan in connection with the provision of such advice; and (6) any information required to be disclosed under applicable securities laws. 
 
Exempts from the duty to monitor the specific investment advice given by the fiduciary adviser a plan sponsor or other fiduciary that arranges for a fiduciary adviser to provide investment advice to participants and beneficiaries, if certain conditions are met. Allows plan assets to be used to pay for the expenses of providing investment advice to participants and beneficiaries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12290-12292)
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12289-12290)
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Head Start Act to require parental consent for nonemergency intrusive physical examinations.

Bill: 108-s-1699
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2003-10-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Health
Informed consent (Medical law)
Law
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Physical examinations
Preschool education
School health programs

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: 
Amends the Head Start Act to require Head Start agencies to obtain written parental consent before administration of any non-emergency intrusive physical examination of a child in connection with participation in a Head Start program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12293)
action_date: 2003-10-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Reasonable Notice and Search Act

Bill: 108-s-1701
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Law
Searches and seizures
Sunset legislation
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
Reasonable Notice and Search Act - Revises provisions governing search warrants authorized under the USA PATRIOT ACT to: (1) limit the authority to delay notice of the issuance of such a search warrant to circumstances where providing immediate notice of the warrant will endanger the life or physical safety of an individual, result in flight from prosecution, or result in the destruction of or tampering with the evidence sought under the warrant; and (2) require such delayed notification to be issued within seven days (currently, within a &quot;reasonable period&quot;) after execution, with extensions by the court for additional periods of up to seven calendar days each time that the court finds reasonable cause to believe that notice of the execution of the warrant would have such consequences.
 
Requires the Attorney General, on a semiannual basis, to transmit to Congress and make public a report concerning all requests for delays of notice and for extensions of such delays.
 
Sunsets the delayed notice authority on December 31, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12378)
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12377-12378)
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Domestic Partner Health Benefits Equity Act

Bill: 108-s-1702
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accident insurance
Domestic partners
Employee health benefits
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Railroad retirement plans
Self-employed
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment insurance
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
Domestic Partner Health Benefits Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to health insurance, to provide for the treatment of domestic partners on an equal basis with spouses by designating as a dependent any individual who is an eligible beneficiary under an employer's health insurance plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12378-12380)
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12378)
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Local Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1703
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Income tax
Maintenance and repair
Railroad equipment
Railroads
Tax administration
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Local Railroad Rehabilitation and Investment Act of 2003- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a railroad track maintenance credit for qualified railroad track maintenance expenditures with respect to which the expenditures were paid or incurred by the taxpayer for the taxable year for Class II or Class III railroads.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12381)
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12380-12381)
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Keeping Families Together Act

Bill: 108-s-1704
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-10-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Academic performance
Case management
Child health
Child welfare
Community health services
Continuing education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal statistics
Custody of children
Data banks
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Family courts
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Group homes
Health
Health insurance
Health planning
Home care services
Housing and Community Development
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Law
Medicaid
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Patient satisfaction
Performance measurement
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Problem children
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
State finance
State laws
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: 
Keeping Families Together Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award competitive grants to States to establish systems of individualized mental health treatment and family support services for children who are in custody or in danger of entering the custody of the state for the purpose of receiving mental health services. 
 
Requires eligible States to: (1) have laws or policies in effect that ensure that children receive appropriate mental health services so that parents do not have to relinquish legal custody of such children; (2) provide matching funds; (3) establish infrastructure for interagency cooperation and cross system financing; and (4) expand public health insurance programs to cover these services after the grant expires.
 
Establishes a Federal interagency task force to examine mental health issues in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and the role of their agencies in promoting access by children and youth to mental health services.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to permit the use of the Medicaid home and community-based services waiver to provide mental health services to children and youths as an alternative to care in inpatient psychiatric hospitals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12381-12382)
action_date: 2003-10-02
text: Introduced in Senate