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A bill to amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize payments to certain trusts under the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-776
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Health
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Amends Federal law concerning the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees Retirement System to allow a payment due a minor or an individual mentally incompetent or under other legal disability to be made to the person who is a trustee under a trust under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act that contains the assets of an individual who is disabled. Provides for the assignability of payments under such Systems to such a trust.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4827)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4827)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the impact aid program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve the delivery of payments under the program to local educational agencies.

Bill: 108-s-777
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Building construction
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Entitlements
Families
Impact aid
Indian children
Military dependents
Minorities
School buildings
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to entitle certain local educational agencies (LEAs) to receive specified Federal payment amounts under Impact Aid programs: (1) relating to Federal acquisition of real property; and (2) for basic support for eligible federally-connected children. (Current law makes such LEAs eligible for such payments up to specified maximum amounts.)
Extends the authorization of appropriations for: (1) construction and school modernization payments for certain LEAs, including ones with high percentages of children living on Indian lands or children of military parents; and (2) facilities maintenance payments for certain schools located on military bases and serving military dependent children.
Makes appropriations for payments in each fiscal year to LEAs under Impact Aid programs: (1) relating to Federal acquisition of real property; and (2) for basic support for eligible federally-connected children. Declares that provisions relating to payments for such programs constitute budget authority in advance of appropriations and represent the Federal obligation to pay such amounts to LEAs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4827-4828)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Rx Drug Discount and Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-778
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Advice and consent of the Senate
Ambulatory care
Auditing
Catastrophic health insurance
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer discounts
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug industry
Drug interactions
Drug therapy
Drug utilization
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Grievance procedures
Health care fraud
Health maintenance organizations
Income
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Internet
Labor and Employment
Law
Legislation
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical records
Medical statistics
Medicare
Medigap
Patient satisfaction
Patients' rights
Performance measurement
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Presidential appointments
Quality control
Quality of care
Rebates
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax returns
Taxation
Trusts and trustees
Vaccines
Web sites
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Medicare Rx Drug Discount and Security Act of 2003 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to add a new part D (Voluntary Medicare Prescription Drug Discount and Security Program). Establishes, within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a Center for Medicare Prescription Drugs, headed by a Director of Medicare Prescription Drugs, to administer the Voluntary Medicare Outpatient Prescription Drug Discount and Security Program. Directs the Secretary of HHS to establish this Program, under which an eligible beneficiary may voluntarily enroll in a prescription drug card plan offered by an eligible entity and endorsed by the Secretary and receive specified benefits, including a catastrophic benefit. Outlines enrollee protections. Makes the costs of providing program benefits payable from the Medicare Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
Establishes a Medicare Competition and Prescription Drug Advisory Board.
Amends SSA title XVIII part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) to provide for the exclusion of new part D costs from the determination of the Medicare part B monthly premium.
Revises Medicare supplemental health insurance (Medigap) requirements with respect to revision of the 1991 National Association of Insurance Commissioners Model Regulation to accord with this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4828-4834)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Wastewater Treatment Works Security and Safety Act

Bill: 108-s-779
Sponsor: Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Cameras
Chemicals
Computer security measures
Computer software
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional oversight
Crime and Law Enforcement
District of Columbia
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Employee selection
Employee training
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental technology
Explosives
Federal aid to water pollution control
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Information services
Infrastructure
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Lighting
Maintenance and repair
Maryland
Recycling of waste products
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Sewage treatment
Sewerage
Terrorism
Virginia
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water storage
Water supply
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Wastewater Treatment Works Security and Safety Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require certain water treatment works to assess their vulnerability to terrorist and intentionally disruptive attack and develop an emergency response plan in coordination with local emergency plans.
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to review both the assessment and the plan. Provides for the protection of the confidentiality of such information. Sets forth record keeping and revision requirements.
Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to water treatment works to assist in compliance and pay the costs of basic security enhancements. Provides grants for immediate and urgent security needs.
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Administrator to research and review possible terrorist means of intentional disruption as well as alternative treatment processes should a disruption occur.
Authorizes the Administrator to make grants for the improvement of vulnerability self-assessment tools for publicly owned treatment works.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8662)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4834-4835)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Chief Martin Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 108-s-780
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional gold medals
Minorities
Mississippi
Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Chief Martin Congressional Gold Medal Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to Chief Phillip Martin in recognition of his leadership of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians for over 45 years and for his contributions to the American Indian community, particularly to the native and non-native communities of Mississippi.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to restore balance to the membership of the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council.

Bill: 108-s-781
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Federal advisory bodies
Fishery management
Government Operations and Politics
Gulf of Mexico
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Territorial waters

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to prohibit, during FY 2003 through 2006, the Secretary of Commerce or his designee from appointing an individual to the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council: (1) unless the list of individuals submitted by the Governor of the State from which the individual is to be appointed includes at least one individual from the commercial fishing sector; or (2) if the appointment of that individual (other than one who is a participant in, or representative of, a commercial fishery) would result in there being fewer than five members of the Council who are participants in, or representatives of, commercial fisheries.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to provide for inflation adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds of the National Labor Relations Board.

Bill: 108-s-782
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Indexing (Economic policy)
Industrial relations
Jurisdiction
Labor disputes
Law
National Labor Relations Board

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide for inflation adjustments to the mandatory jurisdiction thresholds of the National Labor Relations Board.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Petrified Forest National Park Expansion Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-784
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Archaeology
Arizona
Arts, Culture, Religion
Boundaries
Grazing
History
Land transfers
National parks
Paleontology

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Petrified Forest National Park Expansion Act of 2003 - Revises the boundaries of the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire private and State lands within in the Park's revised boundary to be administered as part of the Park.
Directs the Secretary to transfer to the National Park Service (NPS) administrative jurisdiction over any land under the Secretary's jurisdiction that: (1) is within the Park's boundaries; and (2) is not under the NPS's administrative jurisdiction.
Permits the continuation of grazing on land transferred to the Secretary.
Requires the Secretary to amend the general management plan for the Park to address the use and management of any additional land acquired under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-739.
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4836)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4835-4836)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the payment of dividends on the stock of cooperatives without reducing patronage dividends.

Bill: 108-s-785
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Cooperative societies
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Stocks
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the patronage dividends of cooperatives shall not be reduced by stock dividends to the extent the stock dividends are in addition to amounts otherwise payable.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4837)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4836-4837)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Business Links Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-786
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Grants-in-aid
Labor and Employment
Wages
Welfare work participation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: 
Business Links Act of 2003 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to replace bonus grants to reward high performance States with innovative business link partnership grants. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Labor, under such program, to jointly award grants to eligible applicants for programs to enable eligible individuals with limited English proficiency or other barriers to employment to: (1) increase their wages, especially by providing supports and services at or near work sites and to identify and strengthen career pathways by expanding and linking work and training opportunities for such individuals in collaboration with employers (to promote business linkages); or (2) provide for transitional jobs programs which combine publicly subsidized time-limited employment in the public or nonprofit private sector with skill development and activities to remove barriers to employment. Adds antidisplacement protections for workers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4838-4839)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4837)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair and Independent Federal Judiciary Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-787
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Higher education
Judicial compensation
Judicial ethics
Labor and Employment
Legal education
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Fair and Independent Federal Judiciary Act of 2003 - Increases salaries for justices of the Supreme Court and for district court and other specified judges. Repeals Federal law that requires specific congressional authorization for salary increases for Federal judges and Supreme Court justices.
Modifies provisions regarding survivor annuity benefits, including to increase the notification period for survivor annuity coverage for a judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Directs the President to appoint members to the Citizens' Commission on Public Service and Compensation pursuant to the Federal Salary Act of 1967.
Amends the Federal judicial code to: (1) establish within the Treasury a Judicial Education Fund for the payment of necessary expenses incurred by a judge or justice in attending a private judicial seminar approved by the Board of the Federal Judicial Center; and (2) require each justice, judge, and magistrate of the United States to maintain a list (to be made available to the public) of all financial interests that would require disqualification.
Directs the Judicial Conference of the United States to promulgate regulations to prohibit the solicitation or acceptance of anything of value in connection with a private judicial seminar, with exceptions.
Requires a judge to avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety. Makes the prohibition against behaving with impropriety applicable to both the professional and personal conduct of a judge. Prohibits a judge from holding membership in any organization, except for religious or fraternal organizations, that practices discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, or national origin.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4840-4841)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4839-4840)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Citizenship for Servicemembers Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-789
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2003-04-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Citizenship
Military personnel
Naturalization

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Citizenship for Servicemembers 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; and (2) prohibit the imposition of a naturalization fee.
Provides for overseas naturalization proceedings for members of the Armed Forces.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4842-4843)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4842)
action_date: 2003-04-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act

Bill: 108-s-792
Sponsor: Sen. Miller, Zell [D-GA]
Introduced: 2003-04-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appellate courts
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Consumer credit
Contracts
Courts of special jurisdiction
Debtor and creditor
Department of Veterans Affairs
Eviction
Evidence (Law)
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreclosure
Garnishment
Government Operations and Politics
Government life insurance
Government publicity
Health
Health insurance
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Injunctions
Insurance premiums
Interest rates
Judicial review
Law
Leases
Liability (Law)
Liens
Limitation of actions
Married people
Military dependents
Military personnel
Mining claims
Mining leases
Missing in action
Mortgages
Power of attorney
Property tax
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real estate appraisal
Real estate business
Rent
Rental housing
Residence requirements
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-07
text: Amends the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 to rename the Act as the Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act and to revise provisions with respect to certain civil protections and rights afforded to servicemembers while on active-duty assignment. Authorizes any servicemember to waive any of such rights and protections, pursuant to written agreement.
Provides certain protections of servicemembers against default judgments, including a minimum 90-day stay of proceedings, with respect to the payment of any tax, fine, penalty, insurance premium, or other civil obligation or liability.
Prohibits an eviction or distress from being made against a servicemember or his or her dependents during a period of military service for a premise for which rent does not exceed $1,700 (currently $1,200), except by court order. Prohibits: (1) rescinding or terminating for breach of contract during a period of military service a contract for the purchase or lease of real or personal property entered into prior to such service; and (2) a person holding a lien on property or effects of a servicemember from foreclosing or otherwise enforcing such lien (with penalties and protection for materially affected dependents) during a period of service and 90 days thereafter.
Increases the total amount of life insurance coverage protection provided under the Act to $250,000, or an amount equal to the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance maximum limit, whichever is greater.
Allows findings of fact and conclusions of law made by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in administering the life insurance provisions of the Act to be reviewed by the Board of Veterans Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (not reviewable under current law).

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