Child Care
S. 822 —-Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) / Small Business (04/08/03)—A bill to create a three-year pilot program that makes small, non-profit child care businesses eligible for SBA 504 loans.
Child Protection
S. 797 —-Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) / Judiciary (04/07/03)—A bill to prevent the pretrial release of those who rape or kidnap children, and for other purposes.
S. 799 —-Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) / Judiciary (04/07/03)—A bill to require federal agencies to establish procedures to facilitate the safe recovery of children reported missing within a public building.
S. 802 —-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) / Judiciary (04/07/03)—A bill to establish procedures in public buildings regarding missing or lost children.
S. 810 —-Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) / Judiciary (04/08/03)—A bill to enhance the protection of children against crime by eliminating the statute of limitations for child abduction and sex crimes, providing for registration of child pornographers as sex offenders, establishing a grant program in support of AMBER Alert communications plans, and for other purposes.
Crime
S. 798 —-Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) / Judiciary (04/07/03)—A bill to assist the states in enforcing laws requiring registration of convicted sex offenders.
S. 800 —-Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) / Judiciary (04/07/03)—A bill to prevent the use of a misleading domain name with the intent to deceive a person into viewing obscenity on the Internet.
S. 801 —-Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) / Judiciary (04/07/03)—A bill to provide for attempt liability for international parental kidnapping.
S. 807 —-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) / Judiciary (04/07/03)—A bill to provide a maximum term of supervised release of life for sex offenders.
Discrimination
S. 841 —-Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) / Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (04/09/03)—A bill to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin, and for other purposes.
Family Support
H.R. 1655 —-Rep. Ted Strickland (D-OH) / Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means (04/07/03)—A bill to provide for Medicare coverage of marriage and family therapist services.
Health
H.R. 1657 —-Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey (D-CA) / Energy and Commerce (04/07/03)—A bill to provide funding for programs at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences regarding breast cancer in younger women, and for other purposes.
Miscellaneous
S. 805 —-Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) / Judiciary (04/07/03)—A bill to enhance the rights of crime victims, to establish grants for local governments to assist crime victims, and for other purposes.
H. Res. 182 —-Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) / Armed Services, International Relations (04/08/03)—A resolution commending Private First Class Jessica Lynch, United States Army, the special operations forces who on April 1, 2003, rescued her from captivity by Iraqi forces, and all United States and coalition forces in Iraq.
Violence Against Women
S. 826 —-Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) / Judiciary (04/09/03)—A bill to provide for transitional housing assistance grants for child victims of domestic violence.
Welfare
S. 813 —-Sen. Jon Corzine (D-NJ) / Finance (04/08/03)—A bill to require a state to promote financial education under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program and to allow financial education to count as a work activity under that program.
