Teacher Victims' Family Assistance Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-416
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2003-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
College costs
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Health
Higher education
Homicide
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Married people
Medicare
Medigap
Scholarships
School personnel
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Teachers
Victims of crimes
Violence
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Teacher Victims' Family Assistance Act of 2003 - Directs the Secretary of Education to provide assistance to the immediate families of teachers or other school employees who are killed by an another person's violent act during their performance of duties for a public or private elementary or secondary school (teacher-victims).
Includes among such assistance: (1) funeral assistance; (2) a death benefit payment to the surviving spouse, dependent child, or other next of kin; (3) monthly living assistance for the surviving spouse until death or remarriage and for each dependent child until age18; and (4) undergraduate education assistance for each dependent child for five years or until age 25.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from income: (1) a teacher-victim's wages in the year of death; and (2) teacher victim family assistance under this Act in any taxable year.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allow a teacher-victim's surviving spouse until remarriage, and each dependent child up to age 25, to elect to be deemed to be entitled to hospital insurance benefits and enrolled for supplementary medical insurance benefits under Medicare, and to enroll for a Medigap supplemental policy, under the Social Security Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E79)
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-28
text: Introduced in House