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Version 82 · Passed Senate without amendment · Nov 25, 2003
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Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2003 - Amends the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 to authorize appropriations for FY 2004 through 2006 for: (1) the President for grants to treatment centers and programs in foreign countries that carry out projects and activities specifically designed to treat victims of torture for the physical and psychological effects of torture (including grants to provide research and training to health care providers outside such treatment centers or programs in order to enable them to provide such services); (2) the U.S. voluntary contribution to the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture; and (3) the Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to programs in the United States to cover the costs of services provided by domestic treatment centers in the rehabilitation of victims of torture (including treatment of the physical and psychological effects of torture).
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Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] · R–MN
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Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text as passed Senate: CR S16052)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text as passed Senate: CR S16052)
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S16052)
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S16052)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5180)
Introduced in Senate
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