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United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1993
Head Start Safety Act - Amends the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984 and the Toxic Substances Control Act to expand coverage of such Acts to include Head Start programs and facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1993
1995 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue commemorative one-dollar silver coins bearing a likeness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Requires the Secretary to distribute proceeds from surcharges ($10 per coin) in equal allocations to: (1) the National Park Foundation Restricted Account for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; and (2) the National Park Service Restricted Construction Account for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1993
Federal Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit and set penalties for knowingly circumcising, excising, or infibulating any part of the labia majora, labia minora, or clitoris of another person who has not attained age 18, except where: (1) necessary to the health of the person on whom it is performed (if performed by a person licensed in the place of its performance as a medical practitioner); or (2) performed on a person in labor or who has just given birth (if performed for medical purposes connected with such labor or birth by a person licensed in the place it is performed as a medical practitioner, midwife, or person in training to become such a practitioner or midwife). Prohibits and sets penalties for knowingly denying a person medical care or services, or otherwise discriminating against a person in the provision of medical care or services, because that person has: (1) undergone female circumcision, excision, or infibulation (female circumcision); or (2) requested that female circumcision be performed on any person. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out appropriate education, preventive, and outreach activities in communities that traditionally practice female circumcision to inform people in those communities about the health risks and emotional trauma inflicted by such practices and to inform them and the medical community about the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on pistols, revolvers, and other firearms. Establishes the Hospital Gunshot Cost Relief Trust Fund to assist urban hospitals in defraying costs incurred in providing medical care to gunshot victims who are not covered under any health plan. Transfers the net revenues from the excise tax to such Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1993
Emergency Immigrant Education Act of 1993 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish an emergency immigrant education program. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Education to allocate program payments to State educational agencies for services for immigrant children in elementary and secondary schools in local educational agency districts where the number of immigrant children is equal to at least 1,000 or at least five percent of the total number of students enrolled in public and nonpublic schools during that fiscal year. Allows a State to reserve not more than three percent of such funds for such services in local educational agencies which do not meet such criteria. Authorizes the Secretary, also under such program, to make district-wide immigrant grants for other services for immigrant children to local educational agencies whose districts include numbers of such children in public and nonpublic schools equal to at least 5,000 or at least ten percent.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1993
Asylum Abuse Prevention and System Improvements Act of 1993 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose criminal penalties upon any person who knowingly assists in fraudulent asylum applications for commercial advantage or private financial gain. Sets forth procedures for: (1) adjudicating political asylum claims; and (2) detention and release of asylum applicants. Directs the Attorney General to ensure that specified amounts are made available each fiscal year to the Central Asylum Office in the Executive Office of Immigration Review for adjudication implementation. Authorizes appropriations for additional Department of Justice asylum adjudication staff. Directs the Attorney General to report to certain congressional committees on the backlog in adjudicating asylum claims. Authorizes the Attorney General to use specified amounts from the Immigration Emergency Fund to manage large and sudden numbers of asylum applicants.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1993
Amends the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 to repeal the reduction in the tax deductible portion of business meal and entertainment expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Comprehensive Early Childhood Education Programs Title II: Training, Technical Assistance, Planning, and Evaluation Title III: Model Federal Government Child Development Programs Title IV: Research and Demonstrations Title V: General Provisions Comprehensive Early Childhood Education Act of 1993 - Establishes and expands comprehensive early childhood education programs and services. (Sec. 4) Authorizes appropriations. Title I: Comprehensive Early Childhood Education Programs - Directs the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance for early childhood education programs to prime sponsors and other public and private nonprofit agencies and organizations pursuant to approved plans and applications. (Sec. 102) Authorizes the Secretary to designate a State, locality, combination of localities, Indian tribe on a Federal or State reservation, or public or private nonprofit agency or organization as a prime sponsor if it meets certain requirements and has its plan approved. (Sec. 103) Requires each designated prime sponsor to establish and maintain an Early Childhood Education Council. (Sec. 104) Sets forth requirements for comprehensive early childhood education plans. (Sec. 106) Authorizes special grants to States for various purposes. (Sec. 108) Requires reports on possible use of public facilities for child development programs. (Sec. 109) Provides for Federal share payments for programs, services, and activities. Title II: Training, Technical Assistance, Planning, and Evaluation - Authorizes the Secretary to make payments for preservice and inservice training for programs under this Act for employees, potential employees, and volunteers. (Sec. 202) Directs the Secretary to make technical assistance available to prime sponsors and project applicants for planning, developing, and implementing programs under this Act. (Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary to make an annual evaluation of Federal involvement in early childhood education activities. (Sec. 204) Directs the Secretary to: (1) appoint a Special Committee on Federal Standards for Early Childhood Education; and (2) promulgate Federal Standards for Early Childhood Education to be applicable to all programs assisted under this Act. (Sec. 205) Directs the Secretary to appoint a special committee to develop a uniform licensing code for early childhood education facilities. Title III: Model Federal Government Early Childhood Education Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to establish and operate model early childhood education programs for the children of Federal civilian employees. (Sec. 302) Provides for Federal share payments. Title IV: Research and Demonstrations - Directs the Secretary to: (1) carry out a program of early childhood development research and demonstration projects; and (2) coordinate all early childhood education research, training, and development within the Federal Government and, as feasible, by other agencies, organizations, and individuals. Requires representatives of specified Federal agencies to meet at least annually to coordinate child development and early childhood education and related activities. Title V: General Provisions - Defines "children" as individuals who have not reached age eight. (Sec. 502) Directs the Secretary to establish procedures to assure that adequate nutrition services will be provided in programs under this Act. Requires such services to make use of the Special Food Services Program for children. (Sec. 503) Sets forth special administrative, including nondiscrimination, provisions. Provides for withholding of grants and for public information.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1993
Middle Income Senior Tax Relief Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the income threshold amounts at which 85 percent of social security benefits become includable in gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1993
Designates November of each year as National American Indian Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1993
Designates October 29, 1993, as National Firefighters Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1993
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the nonimmigrant admission into the United States of certain alien students and visitors who are the spouses and children of U.S. permanent resident aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1993
Asylum at Ports of Entry System Improvements Act of 1993 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to create grounds for exclusion of an alien who: (1) uses or attempts to use a fraudulent document to enter the United States or to board a common carrier for such purpose; or (2) uses a document to board a common carrier and then fails to present such document to an immigration official upon arrival at a U.S. port of entry. Directs the Attorney General to designate a class of senior asylum officers who shall perform specified expedited asylum examinations at U.S. airports or other ports of entry. Authorizes such officers, upon a finding of frivolous claim or resettlement in another country, to exclude the alien from the United States. Sets forth limited petition and review provisions. Increases penalties for certain alien smuggling offenses. Creates a separate offense and penalty for an alien smuggler who seriously injures or jeopardizes an alien's life.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1993
Federal Court Settlements Sunshine Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal judicial code to require public disclosure of settlements of civil actions to which the United States is a party, with exceptions. Prohibits such civil actions from being dismissed except by order of court and requires public disclosure of any settlement made after such dismissal.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1993
Designates the week beginning October 25, 1993, as World Population Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1993
Abolishes the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice. Repeals specified Federal provisions which provided for the promotion by the Department of Defense of certain civilian marksmanship activities.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1993
Public Health and Safety Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the manufacture, import, export, sale, purchase, transfer, receipt, ownership, possession, transport, or use (transaction) of a handgun or handgun ammunition. Makes exceptions with respect to the military, law enforcement agencies, registered security guard services, and licensed handgun clubs and members of such clubs. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to approve such a transaction by licensed manufacturers, importers, and dealers as necessary to meet the lawful requirements of such persons and entities covered by the exceptions. Specifies handgun club licensing requirements. Requires: (1) the Secretary to revoke the license of any such club that does not continue to meet such requirements; and (2) such club to pay to the Secretary an annual license fee of $25. Specifies security guard service registration requirements. Requires: (1) the Secretary to revoke such registration if the service does not continue to meet such requirements; and (2) such service to pay to the Secretary an annual registration fee of $50. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) recordkeeping (by licensed manufacturers, importers, dealers, handgun clubs or their members and by registered security guard services that transfer handguns or handgun ammunition); (2) reports of loss or theft; and (3) transfers to handgun clubs. Authorizes the voluntary delivery to any designated Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency of a handgun owned or possessed by a person. Directs the Secretary to: (1) arrange with each such agency to receive handguns for the transfer, destruction, or other disposition of such handguns; and (2) pay to such person $25 or the fair market value of the gun. Authorizes appropriations. Sets penalties for violations of this Act. Specifies that a person who voluntarily delivers a handgun under this Act after 180 days after enactment shall not be subject to criminal prosecution for possession of the handgun, but shall pay to the Secretary a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $500. Establishes penalties for: (1) failure to report the loss or theft of a handgun; (2) negligent and intentional deliveries to an unauthorized place; (3) false statements or representations; and (4) failure to keep, or permit inspection of, records. Provides for the forfeiture of any handgun or handgun ammunition involved or used in a violation of this Act or of any other criminal law of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1993
Veterans' Long-Term Care Act of 1993 - Defines "long-term care," for veterans' benefits purposes, as a continuum of institutional and noninstitutional programs and services that provide restorative care and support through a time period generally exceeding 90 days. Makes eligible for long-term care provided through the Department of Veterans Affairs any veteran: (1) being treated for a service-connected disability (SCD); (2) who has an SCD of 50 percent or more, for the treatment of any disability; (3) who is eligible for pension from the Department, for the treatment of any disability; and (4) for any disability resulting from Department treatment. Authorizes the Secretary to provide long-term care to certain nonqualifying veterans when medically necessary and subject to facility availability. Requires the Secretary to establish a schedule of long-term care copayments, and a long-term care coinsurance plan. Deems Department long-term care providers to be Medicare participating providers for purposes of Medicare payments under the Social Security Act. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with non-Department facilities for the provision of long-term care for veterans when Department facilities are inaccessible or otherwise incapable of providing such care. Requires such facilities to meet certain standards. Authorizes the provision of in-kind assistance to such facilities in lieu of payments. Authorizes the Secretary to provide social support services, including personal care and homemaker services, as part of long-term care services provided. Directs the Secretary to designate geographic areas of the United States as veterans' service areas in which long-term care will be available. Requires a report. Requires operation of such service areas by October 1, 1999. Directs the Secretary to regularly assess Department needs for new long-term care services. Establishes in the Treasury the Veterans' Long-Term Care Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements for the establishment on Department property of veterans' continuing care facilities in which veterans reside while receiving appropriate care. Requires a Department medical center, outpatient clinic, or nursing home to be colocated with such facilities. Requires at such facilities the establishement of a team of primary care providers to be known as the Veterans' Continuing Care Center Health team. Requires congressional reports.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1993
National Drug Policy Act of 1993 - Establishes the Commission on National Drug Policy to study and report to the President and the Congress on the unlawful production, distribution, and use of controlled substances.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II of the Social Security Act (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) to set forth rules for filing returns with respect to domestic service employment taxes and requires such returns to be made on a calendar year basis. Subjects such taxes to estimated tax provisions. Makes filing requirements inapplicable to any employer liable for tax concerning remuneration for services other than domestic service in a private home. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into agreements with States to collect the State unemployment tax imposed on remuneration for domestic service and transfers such amounts to a State's account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. Treats such taxes as domestic service employment taxes. Requires the Secretary to inform domestic service employers in private homes of their tax obligations. Adjusts the threshold (from $50 a calendar quarter to $800 a year) for paying and withholding social security taxes on wages paid for domestic service in a private home. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to adjust such threshold amount in the same manner as adjustments to certain social security insurance amounts. Excludes domestic service in a private home by an individual 16 years and under from amendments made by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1993
National Maritime Heritage Act of 1993 - Declares that it shall be the policy of the Federal Government, in partnership with State and local governments and private organizations and individuals, to support and encourage Federal, State, and local governmental and private conservation of historic maritime resources. Creates the National Maritime Trust to receive, preserve, and administer donations of real property and objects significant in American maritime history and culture and accept, hold, and administer gifts to carry out a maritime preservation and education program. Establishes the National Maritime Heritage Grants Program to foster a greater awareness and appreciation of the role of maritime endeavors in history and culture. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make a cooperative agreement with the Trust for assistance in administration of the Program. Provides for a matching grants-in-aid program to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Secretary, through the National Maritime Initiative, to administer a program of direct grants for the preservation of maritime resources, including direct preservation, demonstration projects, training, and educational programs. Authorizes conveyance to the Trust, without consideration, of each vessel in the National Defense Reserve Fleet that has no usefulness to the Government and is scheduled to be scrapped. Requires the Trust to sell: (1) the vessels for scrap and use the proceeds for the purposes of this Act; and (2) sufficient vessels to derive a minimum annual dollar amount. Declares that amounts available to, or used by, the Trust under these provisions shall not be considered in any determination of amounts available to the Department of the Interior. Establishes the Maritime Heritage Grants Committee to perform certain duties, including overseeing the grants program and reviewing grant proposals. Requires the Committee to determine whether any projects exist that meet specified criteria regarding receiving a grant prior to issuance of implementing regulations. Provides for disbursal of scrapped vessel funds to approved projects. Mandates an annual audit of Trust accounts by independent accountants and authorizes annual audits by the General Accounting Office.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Research on Women's Health Subtitle A: NIH Women Scientist Employment Opportunities Act Subtitle B: Women and AIDS Research Initiative Amendments of 1993 Subtitle C: Women and Alcohol Research Equity Act of 1993 Subtitle D: National Breast Cancer Strategy Act of 1993 Subtitle E: Lupus Research Amendments of 1993 Subtitle F: Women's Midlife Health Research Act Subtitle G: Osteoporosis and Related Bone Disorders Research Education, and Health Services Act of 1993 Subtitle H: Ovarian Cancer Research and Information Amendments of 1993 Subtitle I: Antiprogestin Testing Act of 1993 Subtitle J: Women's Health Environmental Factors Research Act of 1993 Subtitle K: Federal Risk Assessment in Women's Health Act of 1993 Subtitle L: Pharmaceutical Interactions Safety Act Subtitle M: Pharmaceutical Testing Fairness Act Subtitle N: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Studies Act of 1993 Title II: Services Regarding Women's Health Subtitle A: Equity in Health Professions Education Act Subtitle B: Women's Health Office Act of 1993 Subtitle C: Women's Health Information Act of 1993 Subtitle D: Breast and Cervical Cancer Amendments of 1993 Subtitle E: Women's Preventive Health Amendments of 1993 Subtitle F: Postreproductive Health Care Act Subtitle G: Medicare Bone Mass Measurement Coverage Act of 1993 Subtitle H: Mickey Leland Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Parenthood Act of 1993 Subtitle I: Adolescent Health Demonstrations Projects Act of 1993 Subtitle J: Eating Disorders Information and Education Act of 1993 Subtitle K: Women and HIV Outreach and Prevention Act Subtitle L: Standby Guardianship Act Subtitle M: Federal Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act of 1993 Subtitle N: Smoking Prevention and Cessation in WIC Clinics Act Subtitle O: Family and Medical Leave Health Care Reform Resolution of 1993 Subtitle P: Veteran Women's Health Improvement Act of 1993 Subtitle Q: Defense Women's Health Improvement Act of 1993 Subtitle R: International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health Act Women's Health Equity Act of 1993 - Title I: Research on Women's Health - Subtitle A: Women Scientists Employment Opportunities Act - NIH Women Scientists Employment Opportunity Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health to: (1) establish policies for NIH on matters relating to the employment of women scientists by NIH; and (2) monitor compliance with such policies and take appropriate actions if the policies have been violated. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Women and AIDS Research Initiative Amendments of 1993 - Women and Aids Research Initiative Amendments of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with respect to cases of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, to establish a program, under the Public Health Service Act, for the purpose of conducting biomedical and behavioral research on such cases in women, especially on the prevention of such cases. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Women and Alcohol Research Equity Act of 1993 - Women and Alcohol Research Equity Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to obligate a specified amount to carry out research projects on alcohol abuse and alcoholism among women. Subtitle D: National Breast Cancer Strategy Act of 1993 - National Breast Cancer Strategy Act of 1993 - Establishes an Office of Breast Cancer within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health to coordinate activities of Federal agencies relating to breast cancer. (Sec. 118) Establishes the National Breast Cancer Commission to conduct a study on current efforts on both the public and private sectors relating to the prevention, early detection, treatment, education, and research relating to breast cancer. (Sec. 119) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 through 1996 for conducting and supporting research on breast cancer through the National Cancer Institute. (Sec. 120) Requires the Director of the National Cancer Institute to: (1) conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training, the dissemination of health information, and other programs with respect to breast cancer; and (2) establish the Rose Kushner Scholarship Program for the purpose of entering into contracts with individuals under which the Institute provides scholarships to individuals for attending health professions schools and the individuals agree to study oncology and serve as employees of the National Institutes of Health for a specified period. (Sec. 121) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1994 through 1996 for at least ten research programs on breast cancer, lung cancer, or prostate cancer under designated programs. Subtitle E: Lupus Research Amendments of 1993 - Lupus Research Amendments of 1993 - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to expand and intensify research and related activities of the Institute with respect to lupus. Authorizes appropriations. Subpart F: Women's Midlife Health Research Act - Women's Midlife Health Research Act - Requires the Director of the National Institute on Aging to provide for the development or expansion of not less than five centers for research on: (1) the process by which the functioning of the ovaries diminishes or ceases completely; and (2) conditions arising from the diminished or complete cessation of the functioning of the ovaries. Subtitle G: Osteoporosis and Related Bone Disorders Research Education, and Health Services Act of 1993 - Osteoporosis and Related Bone Disorders Research, Education, and Health Services Act of 1993 - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the Director of the National Institute on Aging, and the Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to expand and intensify research on osteoporosis and related bone disorders. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services an Interagency Council on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders. Sets forth the duties of such Council. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services an Advisory Panel on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to make grants or enter into contracts with eligible organizations to establish a Resource Center on Osteoporosis and Related Disorders. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle H: Ovarian Cancer Research and Information Amendments of 1993 - Ovarian Cancer Research and Information Amendments of 1993 - Amends provisions of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 which added provisions to the Public Health Service Act to make revisions concerning ovarian cancer funding and public information education. Subtitle I: Antiprogestin Testing Act of 1993 - Antiprogestin Testing Act of 1993 - Provides for research on antiprogestin drugs for any potential use, including termination of pregnancy and contraception and when used therapeutically for cancer, endocrine disorders, and endometriosis. Subtitle J: Women's Health Environmental Factors Research Act of 1993 - Women's Health Environmental Factors Research Act of 1993 - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to carry out research on the effects that environmental factors have on women's health conditions. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle K: Federal Risk Assessment in Women's Health Act of 1993 - Federal Risk Assessment in Women's Health Act of 1993 - Directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy to conduct a review of all Federal programs that assess or mitigate the risks to women's health from environmental exposures. Subtitle L: Pharmaceutical Interactions Safety Act - Pharmaceutical Interactions Safety Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to require clinical investigations to include investigations of the possible interaction of the drug or biological product with relevant female or male hormones, unless inappropriate. Subtitle M: Pharmaceutical Testing Fairness Act - Pharmaceutical Testing Fairness Act - Requires new drug clinical investigations, device clinical investigations, and biological products clinical investigations to include women and minority groups as subjects, unless inappropriate. Subtitle N: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Studies Act of 1993 - Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Studies Act of 1993 - Directs the Federal Trade Commissions to conduct specified studies concerning tobacco advertising and its effect on women and minorities, as well as its targeting of women and girls concerning weight loss, and the demographics of such advertising. Title II: Services Regarding Women's Health - Subtitle A: Equity in Health Professions Education Act - Equity in Health Professions Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study to determine the extent to which health professions schools provide adequate education to students on women's health conditions. Subtitle B: Women's Health Office Act of 1993 - Women's Health Office Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health an Office of Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Office. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 208) Establishes within the Office of the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention an Office of Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Office. Requires the Director of such Office to establish the Coordinating Committee on Research on Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Committee. (Sec. 209) Establishes within the Office of the Director of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research an Office of Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Office. Requires the Director of such Office to establish the Coordinating Committee on Research on the Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Committee. (Sec. 210) Amends title VII of the Social Security Act to provide for the establishment within the Office of the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration an Office of Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Office. Requires the Director of the Office to establish the Coordinating Committee on Research on Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Committee. (Sec. 210A) Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish within the Office of Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration an Office of Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Office. Requires the Director of such Office to establish the Coordinating Committee on Women's Health. Sets forth the duties of such Committee. Subtitle C: Women's Health Information Act of 1993 - Women's Health Information Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an Interagency Committee on Health Communications to provide advice to the Secretary on developing and coordinating Federal promotion and education activities, including activities within the Public Health Service. Requires the Committee to give priority to carrying out activities regarding women's health. (Sec. 214) Directs the Assistant Secretary for Health to establish the Clearinghouse on Women's Health to compile, archive and disseminate information concerning women's health and to publish a yearly summary of such materials to be made available upon request. Subtitle D: Breast and Cervical Cancer Amendments of 1993 - Breast and Cervical Cancer Amendments of 1993 - Amends provisions of the program under the Public Health Service Act which provides for breast cancer screenings to place certain limits on the amounts which may be paid to promote entities for such screenings. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1998 for the screening program. Subtitle E: Women's Preventive Health Amendments of 1993 - Women's Preventive Health Amendments of 1993 - Provides for grants for demonstration projects relating to preventive health care for women. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Postreproductive Health Care Act - Postreproductive Health Care Act - Provides for grants to provide specified health services to women who are of menopause age or older. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle G: Medicare Bone Mass Measurement Coverage Act of 1993 - Medicare Bone Mass Measurement Coverage Act of 1993 - Provides for Medicare coverage of bone mass measurements for qualified individuals. Subtitle H: Mickey Leland Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Parenthood Act of 1993 - Mickey Leland Adolescent Pregency Prevention and Parenthood Act of 1993 - Revises title XX of the Public Health Service Act. Renames such title as Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Care, and Research Grants. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to provide prevention and care services to pregnant adolescents and their male partners, adolescent parents, and nonpregnant adolescents. Sets forth provisions affecting: (1) how such grants are to be used; (2) priorities, amounts, and duration of such grants; (3) grant application requirements; (4) program coordination; and (5) research. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle I: Adolescent Health Demonstrations Projects Act of 1993 - Adolescent Health Demonstrations Projects Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary to make grants to establish or support adolescent health demonstration projects in secondary schools for the purpose of demonstrating how such projects may be established throughout the United States. Requires that priority be given to projects serving low-income or minority populations. Prohibits the use of any project funds to perform or pay for abortions. Subtitle J: Eating Disorders Information and Education Act of 1993 - Eating Disorders Information and Education Act of 1993 - Provides for a program of information and education to the public on the prevention and treatment of eating disorders. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle K: Women and HIV Outreach and Prevention Act - Women and HIV Outreach and Prevention Act - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for a program that provides to women preventive health services that are related to acquired immune deficiency. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 253) Authorizes the Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to make grants for the treatment of women for substance abuse, including counseling to prevent infection with and transmission of AIDS. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 254) Authorizes appropriations for the AIDs early intervention program for women under the Public Health Service Act. Subtitle L: Standby Guardianship Act - Standby Guardianship Act - Amends part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to require a State, in order to be eligible for payments under such part, to have in effect standby guardianship laws and procedures. Subtitle M: Federal Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act of 1993 - Federal Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for the imprisonment or fining of any individual who knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of any person under the age of 18. Directs the Secretary to carry out outreach activities in communities that traditionally practice female circumcision. Subtitle N: Smoking Prevention and Cessation in WIC Clinics Act - Smoking Prevention and Cessation in WIC Clinics Act - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require the State agency responsible for nutrition education and drug abuse education to establish a smoking cessation demonstration program for pregnant participants. Subtitle O: Family and Medical Leave Health Care Reform Resolution of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that any bill to address the ongoing and unmet health insurance needs of this country that is enacted should require that paid or unpaid leave, as detailed in the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, be incorporated as a basic or elective option in specified situations. Subtitle P: Veteran Women's Health Improvement Act of 1993 - Veteran Women's Health Improvement Act of 1993 - Includes women's health services within the definition of medical services authorized to be furnished to eligible veterans. Includes as women's health services pap smears, breast examinations, and reproductive health care. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to contract with non-Department of Veterans Affairs facilities for outpatient women's health services when Department facilities are inadequate or inaccessible. Requires information on the provision of women's health services to be included in a report from the Secretary to the Congress concerning women veterans. (Sec. 278) Amends the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 to: (1) require consultation by the Secretary with various officials, advisory committees, and task forces with regard to appropriate women's health research; (2) expand the research related to women to include specified topics; (3) include certain appropriate personnel of the Department in conducting such research, including women veterans and veteran members of minority groups; and (4) direct that a women veterans population study report required under such Act include an examination of the medical and demographic histories of women veterans comprising the study sample. (Sec. 279) Makes applicable to Department medical facilities provisions of the Public Health Service Act regarding mammography quality standards. Requires all Department facilities to meet such standards within two years. Subtitle Q: Defense Women's Health Improvement Act of 1993 - Requires female members and former members of the armed forces who are entitled to medical care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to be furnished primary and preventive health care services for women as part of such care. Provides the same coverage for female dependents of members and former members of the armed forces. (Sec. 283) Directs the Secretary of Defense to prepare and submit to the Congress a report evaluating the provision of health care services through military medical treatment facilities and CHAMPUS to female members of the armed forces and female covered beneficiaries. Requires the Secretary to include a study to determine the needs of female members and dependents for health care services, including primary and preventive health care services for women. (Sec. 284) Directs the Secretary to establish a Defense Women's Health Research Center within the Department of the Army to be the coordinating agent for multidisciplinary and multiinstitutional research within the Department of Defense on women's health issues related to service in the armed forces. (Sec. 285) Directs the Secretary of the Army, during FY 1994, to continue the breast cancer research program as established under prior law. (Sec. 286) Directs the Secretary of Defense, in conducting or supporting clinical research, to ensure that women and minority group members of the armed forces are included as research subjects. Provides a waiver of such requirement. (Sec. 287) Directs the Secretary to submit three annual reports on research relating to female members and dependents within the armed forces. (Sec. 288) Directs the Secretary to establish at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences a women's health curriculum advisory committee to promote the comprehensive integration of women's health issues into the curriculum. Subtitle R: International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health Act - International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth population assistance authorities and requirements. (Sec. 292) Makes such assistance available to a country that: (1) accounts for a significant portion of the world's annual population increment; (2) has significant unmet needs for methods of contraception, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and obstetric and gynecological care and requires foreign assistance to sustain quality reproductive health services; or (3) demonstrates a strong commitment to population stabilization and reproductive health strategies. Prohibits nongovernmental and multilateral organizations from being subjected to requirements which are more restrictive than those applicable to foreign governments for such assistance. Makes funds available for: (1) the United Nations Population Fund if it agrees to prohibit the use of funds for coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization; and (2) the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training to further international cooperation in the development of contraceptive technology. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 294) Makes development assistance available on a priority basis for countries which have agreed to address specific education, literacy, and health issues. Authorizes the President to establish a grant program, to be known as the Safe Motherhood Initiative, to improve the access of girls and women to reproductive health care services. Earmarks amounts of development and economic assistance for programs in support of equalizing male and female levels of primary and secondary school enrollment. Authorizes appropriations for the Child Survival Fund, the Safe Motherhood Initiative, and for research on, and treatment and control of, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developing countries. (Sec. 296) Requires the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to report annually to the Congress on allocations to population activities and, if such allocations total less than $1 million, to set forth actions to encourage increased allocations. (Sec. 297) Establishes the Commission on World Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health to coordinate U.S. participation in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 298) Provides for certain actions to support the United Nations Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women and the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue regulations which: (1) require domestic and foreign aircraft to have a ventilation system which provides not less than 20 cubic feet of fresh air per minute per person in the cabin; and (2) provide for monitoring recirculating air filters to ensure that they are changed when needed, maintaining a minimum standard of humidity in the aircraft's cabin, and monitoring the ozone levels in the cabin to assure compliance with current regulations. Requires the Administrator of the FAA to establish a toll-free telephone number system for receiving telephone calls to report illnesses relating to aircraft travel.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Community Arts Partnership Act of 1993 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a Community Arts Partnership program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to eligible entities to provide comprehensive and coordinated educational and cultural services to at-risk children and youth. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Repeal of Tax Increase on Social Security Benefits Title II: Reductions in Spending Title I: Repeal of Tax Increase on Social Security Benefits - Repeals the tax increase on social security benefits made under the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. Title II: Reductions in Spending - Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to terminate the Space Station Freedom program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) terminate the procurement of new production F-16 aircraft; (2) extend current procurement schedules for procurement of the F-22 aircraft; (3) reduce the number of attack submarines by the end of FY 1998; (4) terminate procurement of Trident II (D-5) sea-launched ballistic missiles and reduce the number of Trident ballistic missile submarines; and (5) delay procurement of the Tri-Service Stand-Off Attack Missile but continue research, development, test, and evaluation at the FY 1993 level. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to eliminate the honey price support program. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue rules to eliminate below-cost timber sales. Provides for increasing fees charged for grazing on public lands to fair market value. Subjects production of locatable minerals from a claim located on lands open to mineral entry under the Mining Law of 1872 to an annual royalty of at least eight percent of the gross income from production. Voids claims for failures to pay royalties and prohibits a claimant from locating a new claim on lands included in the abandoned claim for one year.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for preventive health measures with respect to breast and cervical cancers for FY 1994 through 1998.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Preventive Services for Victims of Violence Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide grants for demonstration projects for the prevention of mental illnesses and substance abuse among: (1) children who have been victims of physical or sexual abuse; and (2) adults who have been victims of sexual assault or family violence, including childhood physical or sexual abuse. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Amends the Intermodal surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to deauthorize improvements on Miller highway in New York City, New York, and instead authorize improvements to the 72nd Street station of the Interborough Rapid Transit line located at the intersection of West 72nd Street and Broadway, in an equal amount.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Prohibits a member of the armed forces or person seeking to become a member from being discriminated against by the armed forces on the basis of sexual orientation.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to exempt from the embargo on trade with Cuba the export of medicines or medical supplies, instruments, or equipment. Sets forth limitations on the President's authority to restrict the exportation of such medicines and supplies to Cuba.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an inflation adjustment after 1994 for income thresholds in determining the taxation of social security benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic Building Restoration and Preservation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to eligible historically black colleges and universities for the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and structures on their campuses. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Designates May 2 through 8, 1994, as Public Service Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Designates October 1993 as Crime Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) President Clinton and Secretary of State Christopher should be commended for their diplomatic efforts to encourage Arab League members to end the secondary and tertiary Arab League boycott of Israel; (2) they should give attention to diplomatic efforts to encourage those countries that were beneficiaries of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm to end such boycott; and (3) the United States should oppose Saudi Arabia's joining the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) until such time that it renounces its participation in the boycott and ensures that U.S. companies and other countries have access to the Saudi Arabia market regardless of their business relationship with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Chlorine Zero Discharge Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require pulp and paper manufacturing facilities to achieve zero discharge into water of organochlorine compounds, byproducts, or metabolites formulated as a result of the use of chlorine or any other chlorinated oxidizing agent in the pulp and paper manufacturing process. Requires permits for paper and pulp mills which use chlorine or chlorinated oxidizing agents to require compliance with the zero discharge requirement. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) evaluate alternatives to the use of organochlorines in pulp and paper manufacturing and to publish a report on the transfer to chlorine-free technology in the pulp and paper industry as a model for pollution prevention; and (2) provide technical information and support to assist permit applicants in the use of such alternatives.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow penalty-free withdrawals from retirement plans by individuals who are unemployed, if: (1) such individuals have received unemployment compensation for 12 consecutive weeks; and (2) distributions are made in the year during which such compensation was paid or the succeeding year.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Coastal Cities Clean Water Initiative of 1993 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to New York, New York, Los Angeles and San Diego, California, the county sanitation district of Los Angeles County, California, the municipality of metropolitan Seattle, Washington, and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority for constructing wastewater treatment works. Limits the Federal share of a project to 75 percent of total costs. Bars the use of funds appropriated to carry out this Act to expand the capacity of the North River Waste Water Treatment Plant located in New York, New York. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1993
Headwaters Forest Act - Extends the boundaries of the Six Rivers National Forest, California, to include certain lands to be referred to as the Six Rivers National Forest Addition. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) acquire land within the boundaries of the Addition by donation, by purchase, or by exchange for other lands owned by any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States; and (2) develop and implement a land acquisition plan giving priority to the acquisition of lands within the boundaries of the Headwaters Forest Wilderness. Authorizes appropriations. Designates the Headwaters Forest Wilderness as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Requires the Secretary to develop a comprehensive management plan detailing measures for the preservation of the existing old growth redwood ecosystems in the Addition, including: (1) a prohibition on timber sales from lands within the old growth redwood groves; and (2) measures to restore lands affected by previous timber harvests to mitigate watershed degradation and impairment of habitat for the marbled murrelet, spotted owl, native salmon stocks, and other old-growth forest dependent species. Sets forth provisions regarding payments to local governments in lieu of taxes for lands acquired under this Act. Directs the Secretary to study specified lands in the Addition, analyzing the area's potential for addition to the Headwaters Forest and identifying the area's natural resources.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1993
Poverty Data Correction Act of 1993 - Requires any data relating to the incidence of poverty produced or published by or for the Secretary of Commerce for subnational areas to be corrected for differences in the cost of living and data produced for State and sub-State areas to be corrected for differences in the cost of living for at least all States of the United States. Requires such corrected data to be published in 1995 and biennially thereafter. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop or cause to be developed a Sate cost-of-living index which ranks and assigns an index value to each State using data on wage, housing, and other costs relevant to the cost of living; and (2) multiply the Federal Government's statistical poverty thresholds by the index value for each State's cost of living to produce State poverty thresholds for each State. Requires the State cost-of-living index and resulting State poverty thresholds to be published before September 30, 1994, for calendar year 1993 and to be updated annually thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1993
Designates March 1994 as Irish-American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1993
Designates December 1993 as National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1993
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) obstetrician-gynecologists should be designated as primary care providers for women in Federal laws relating to the provision of health care; and (2) legislative proposals that define primary care should include services performed by obstetrician-gynecologists in such definition.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1993
Directs the President to: (1) investigate and report to the Congress on the whereabouts of U.S. citizens and others who have been missing from Cyprus since 1974; and (2) do everything possible to return such persons (including remains of those no longer alive) to their families.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1993
New York Harbor Tunnel Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of the Army to study and report to specified congressional committees on alternative physical and operational configurations of a prospective cross-harbor rail freight tunnel connecting Brooklyn, New York, with the west side of the New York Harbor. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1993
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study the feasibility of establishing a major container feeder port at the Brooklyn waterfront, New York City, New York.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1993
Designates August 1, 1993, as National Incest and Sexual Abuse Healing Day.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1993
Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior to be transferred to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission to be used to acquire an undeveloped, open space tract of land presently owned by the Sterling Forest Corporation to protect the watershed, outdoor recreational, wildlife habitat, and Appalachian Trail values in the Sterling Forest area of the New York/New Jersey Highlands Region. States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the Government, or relieve the Commission and New York of any obligation otherwise imposed under New York State law, to pay property taxes or provide for the costs of stewardship and management of any lands located in New York that may be acquired through this authorization. Requires the Commission to hold and manage all property acquired with funds made available in this Act for the purposes specified in it.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1993
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating September 1993 as Classical Music Month.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1993
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that any health care delivery system reform legislation enacted should address the health care needs of children.