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        <fullName>Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Small Business Health Care Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish, in the case of a qualified small employer, an employee health insurance expenses credit determined for the applicable percentage of the amount paid by a taxpayer for qualified employee health insurance expenses.</p> <p>Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide, in the case of a State or a unit of local government that establishes a health insurance purchasing pool, a grant equal to the applicable percentage of the administrative costs associated with such pool.</p>]]></text>
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