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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to adjust the tax rate for political organizations.

Bill: 108-s-1059
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Campaign funds
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Political parties
Tax rates
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to adjust the taxable income rate for political organizations to "appropriate rates."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6261)
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6260-6261)
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the visitors' center at Organ Piper Cactus National Monument, Arizona, as the "Kris Eggle Visitors' Center".

Bill: 108-s-1060
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arizona
Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Names
National monuments
National parks
Park rangers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Signs and signboards
Sports and Recreation
Tourism
Trails
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Designates the visitors' center at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, as the Kris Eggle Visitors' Center. Dedicates such center to Eggle (a park ranger who was killed in the line of duty along the U.S.-Mexico border) and to promoting awareness of the risks taken each day by public land management law enforcement officers.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to post interpretive signs at the visitors' center and at the trailhead of the Baker Mine-Milton Mine Loop that describe the important role of such officers in protecting visitors to units of the National Park System, that refer to the tragic loss of Eggle and to the dedication of the trail and visitors' center, and include a copy of this Act and Eggle's image.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-06-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-69.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1061
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Arkansas
Bankruptcy courts
Delaware
Finance and Financial Sector
Florida
Georgia
Judges
Judicial districts
Judicial tenure
Maryland
Michigan
Mississippi
Nevada
New Jersey
New York State
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
South Carolina
Tennessee
Utah
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: 
Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2003 - Authorizes appointment of additional bankruptcy judgeships for specified States, including additional temporary bankruptcy judgeships for Puerto Rico, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Mississippi, and Georgia.
 
Extends certain existing temporary bankruptcy judgeships in Alabama and. Tennessee.
 
 Converts the bankruptcy judgeship presently shared by the southern district and the middle district of Georgia to a bankruptcy judgeship for the middle district of Georgia.
 
Converts to a permanent bankruptcy judgeship existing temporary bankruptcy judgeships for the districts of Delaware and Puerto Rico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6261-6262)
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Stolen Gun Penalty Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1062
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Ammunition
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Larceny
Law
Receiving stolen goods
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sentencing guidelines
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Stolen Gun Penalty Enhancement Act of 2003 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to increase the maximum penalties for knowingly transporting or shipping in interstate or foreign commerce, receiving, possessing, concealing, storing, bartering, selling, or disposing of stolen firearms or ammunition.
Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to amend the Federal sentencing guidelines to reflect the amendments made by this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6262)
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6262)
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Brian Lykins Human Tissue Transplant Safety Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1063
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Communication in medicine
Cytology
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health facilities
Health information systems
Labeling
Law
Licenses
Medical screening
Medical tests
Packaging
Preventive medicine
Product safety
Science, Technology, Communications
Storage
Tissue banks
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: 
 
 
Brian Lykins Human Tissue Transplant Safety Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for oversight by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs of entities engaged in activities relating to human tissue or human tissue-based products, requiring their registration and authorizing their inspection. Requires the reporting of any adverse incidents. Requires the Commissioner to develop a reporting mechanism and a database to store such information. 
Allows the Commissioner, in an instance in which this Act is violated, to: (1) issue an order requiring any distributor of a human cell, tissue, or cellular or tissue-based product to recall or destroy such product; (2) condemn, seize, and destroy such product; (3) require a covered entity to cease the activity that resulted in the violation; or (4) suspend or revoke the registration and listing of the covered entity involved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Act

Bill: 108-s-1064
Sponsor: Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Anniversaries
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil War
Colleges
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Historic sites
History
Louisiana
Military history
Museums
Nonprofit organizations
Pennsylvania
Social Welfare
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Act - Establishes a Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission to plan, develop, and carry out programs and activities appropriate to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.
Requires the Commission to award a grant in each of FY 2004 through 2016 to: (1) the U.S. Civil War Center at Louisiana State University, Louisiana; and (2) the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-600.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Officer Dale Claxton Bulletproof Police Protective Equipment Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1065
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ammunition
Armed Forces and National Security
Block grants
Buy American
Ceramics
Commerce
Criminal statistics
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Firearms
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Glass and glass industry
Government Operations and Politics
Government vehicles
Indian law enforcement
Law enforcement officers
Military vehicles
Minorities
Motor vehicle safety
Police
Polymers
Product development
Science, Technology, Communications
Surplus government property
Surveys
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Officer Dale Claxton Bulletproof Police Protective Equipment Act of 2003 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to States, local governments, and Indian tribes to purchase bullet resistant equipment for use by law enforcement officers.
Sets forth provisions regarding permissible uses of grant funds, preferential consideration, minimum and maximum allocations, matching funds, awards to local governmental units with fewer than 100,000 residents, and application requirements.
Expresses the sense of Congress that entities receiving assistance under this Act should purchase only American-made equipment and products.
Authorizes the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to: (1) conduct research and otherwise work to develop new bullet resistant technologies for use in police equipment; (2) inventory bullet resistant technologies used in the private sector, in surplus military property, and by foreign countries; and (3) promulgate relevant standards for, and conduct technical and operational testing and evaluation of, bullet resistant technology and equipment, and otherwise facilitate the use of that technology in police equipment.
Directs NIJ to give priority in testing and engineering surveys to law enforcement partnerships developed in coordination with high intensity drug trafficking areas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6263-6264)
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6262-6263)
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
AIDS Corps Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1067
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2003-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Labor and Employment
Law
Malaria
Medical education
Medical personnel
Nurse practitioners
Nurses
Pharmacists
Physicians
Physicians' assistants
Public health personnel
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Student loan funds
Technical assistance
Tuberculosis
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: 
 AIDS Corps Act of 2003 - Directs the President to establish a pilot program to demonstrate the feasibility of facilitating the service of health care professionals from the United States in those areas of sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world that are severely affected by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2003-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1068
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Birth defects
Clinical trials
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Demography
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Genetic counseling
Health education
Hereditary diseases
Higher education
Hospitals
Indian medical care
Infants
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical technology
Medical tests
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing education
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2003 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Associate Administrator of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award grants for newborn screening education and training, including followup.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6510-6511)
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6509-6510)
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Taunton, Massachusetts Study Act

Bill: 108-s-1069
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Architecture
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Landscape protection
Massachusetts
National parks
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Taunton, Massachusetts Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating certain historic buildings and areas in the city of Taunton, Massachusetts, as a unit of the National Park System.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
World Trade Center Zone Tax Incentive Act

Bill: 108-s-1070
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Affiliated corporations
Commerce
Corporate management
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Executives
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Location of industries
New York City
Tax treaties
Taxation of foreign income
Transfer of employees
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: World Trade Center Zone Tax Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to state that if there is a qualified headquarters relocation of an eligible foreign corporation, any qualified headquarters activities of the corporation conducted in the New York Liberty Zone shall be treated as conducted outside the United States for purposes of determining: (1) the amount of any tax or withholding tax; or (2) whether the corporation has a permanent establishment within the United States for purposes of any applicable income tax treaty between the United States and any foreign country.
Sets forth "qualified headquarters relocation" criteria with respect to transfers of employees and headquarters activities.
Provides for termination and recapture of tax benefits for failure to meet such requirements.
Defines "expanded affiliated group" for purposes of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Homeland Security Grant Coordination and Simplification Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1073
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Grants-in-aid
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: 
Homeland Security Grant Coordination and Simplification Act of 2003 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish an Interagency Committee to Coordinate and Streamline Homeland Security Grant Programs that shall: (1) ensure coordination among the Federal agencies that provide funding or other assistance to or for State and local law enforcement agencies, fire and rescue operations, medical and emergency relief services, and State and local homeland security efforts; (2) eliminate duplication of requirements contained in emergency plans requested by Federal agencies; (3) simplify and coordinate applications for homeland security funding; (4) identify ways to streamline the process through which Federal agencies support community-based law enforcement, fire and rescue, and medical and emergency relief services; (5) collect information regarding State and local initiatives to promote interoperability of equipment; (6) develop coordinated plans to provide technical assistance to States to promote interoperable equipment; (7) provide coordinated assistance to help State and local governments prepare risk and vulnerability assessments; and (8) review State plan submissions to ensure that all relevant Federal interests are protected.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Burial Benefits Enhancement Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1074
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: 
Veterans' Burial Benefits Enhancement Act of 2003 - Revises eligibility requirements concerning the veterans' burial plot allowance paid by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to a State cemetery.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to lease any unutilized or underutilized land or facilities of the United States that are part of the National Cemetery Administration (Administration) for up to three years. Requires: (1) the lessee to maintain, protect, or restore such land or facilities; and (2) lease proceeds to be deposited into the Administration account.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a national cemetery in each geographic area in which more than 170,000 veterans reside more than 50 miles from an open (unfilled) national or State veterans' cemetery. Allows the Secretary to expand a current (filled) national cemetery in such an area in lieu of such requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6514)
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6513-6514)
action_date: 2003-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1075
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2003-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-16
text: 
Unemployment Compensation Amendments 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.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery for veterans in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Bill: 108-s-1077
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2003-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Pennsylvania

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery for veterans in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S6628)
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6627-6628)
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Stable Transition in Education for Armed Services' Dependent Youth Act

Bill: 108-s-1078
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2003-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Academic performance
Building construction
Charter schools
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Military bases
Military dependents
Nonprofit organizations
School buildings
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Stable Transitions in Education for Armed Services' Dependent Youth Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a five-year demonstration program for competitive matching grants to eligible State educational agencies (SEAs) for subgrants to eligible local educational agencies (LEAs) to establish and maintain high quality military charter schools as independent public elementary or secondary schools in areas of greatest need. Requires the commander of each military installation served by such a school to establish a nonprofit corporation or an oversight group to provide the applicable LEA with oversight and guidance regarding the day-to-day operations of the school.
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award at least four grants in each fiscal year to establish or improve innovative credit enhancement initiatives that assist military charter schools in acquiring, constructing, and renovating facilities. Requires such grants to be made to eligible entities, which may be a public entity such as a military installation, a private nonprofit entity, or a consortium of those two types of entities.
Includes among requirements for military charter schools: (1) an admissions policy providing for at least 60 percent and at most 80 percent military dependent students, except where such percentages are impossible to maintain because of the demographics of the area around the military installation; (2) an intensive high-quality program including practices relating to the academic-passport concept to ease transitions for mobile students; and (3) a curriculum aligned with State student performance standards which may incorporate a curriculum from the Department of Defense Education Activity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S6628-6631)
action_date: 2003-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate