United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1992
Equal Human Rights for All American Children Act of 1992 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make any child born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions to a U.S. citizen parent a U.S. citizen at birth (without prior U.S. residence of the citizen parent). Reduces from 21 years old to six years old the maximum age at which a person of unknown parentage found in the United States can be shown to have been born outside the United States and thus lose his or her U.S. citizenship.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie in recognition of his accomplishments as a musician. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1992
National Dividend Act of 1992 - Establishes a program for the distribution of certain corporate tax revenues to the registered voters of each State in the form of dividend payments. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the chief financial officer of each State, in accordance with a prescribed schedule, an amount equal to the National Dividend Payment, as computed under this Act, multiplied by the number of registered voters in the State. Sets forth criteria and procedures to govern: (1) the chief financial officer's selection of an incorporated bank to act as the State's disbursing agent; and (2) payments to qualified voters. Establishes in the Treasury the National Dividend Payment Trust Fund. Authorizes payment into the Fund of specified amounts from revenue received from: (1) corporate income tax; (2) tax on the unrelated business income of certain tax-exempt organizations; (3) capital gains tax; (4) tax on insurance company income; and (5) alternative minimum tax on corporations. Establishes a National Dividend Review Board to review the manner in which payments are made from the Fund and to make investments of Fund amounts. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, for income tax purposes, all dividend income received by a taxpayer from domestic corporations, including dividends received under this Act. Increases the corporate income tax deduction for dividends received by a corporation on the preferred stock of a public utility. Prohibits corporate income tax rates from exceeding 34 percent. Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to declare it out of order in either the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider budget resolutions for fiscal years 1993 and thereafter that would increase the level of total budget outlays beyond those budgeted for FY 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1992
Declares that the Congress acknowledges and appreciates the commitment, devotion, and sacrifices of present and former military families. Designates November 23, 1992, as National Military Families Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1992
Arkansas-Idaho Land Exchange Act of 1992 - Provides for the exchange of lands of approximately equal value in Arkansas and Idaho between the Federal Government and the Potlatch Corporation. Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to add specified lands acquired through the exchange to the Cache River and White River National Wildlife Refuges. Directs that lands within the Grandmother Mountain Wilderness Study Area transferred to the Forest Service under this Act shall be managed so as not to impair their wilderness suitability until completion of a specified land and resource plan revision. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare a specified environmental analysis.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Designates February 21 through 27, 1993, as American Wine Appreciation Week. Commends the winegrape and fruit growers and vintners of the United States for the production of high quality agricultural products.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Congratulates the residents of Jerusalem and the peopole of Israel on the 25th anniversary of the reunification of that city. Urges that: (1) Jerusalem remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected; and (2) the President and Secretary of State issue an unequivocal statement in support of such principle.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Prisoner-of-War Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a specified number of one-dollar coins emblematic of the experience of American prisoners of war. Requires that all sales of such coins include a surcharge of $5 per coin. Requires specified proceeds from such surcharges to be paid to the: (1) Secretary of the Interior for construction of the Andersonville Prisoner-of-War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia; (2) endowment fund established by this Act for the maintenance of such Museum; and (3) Secretary of Veterans Affairs to maintain national cemeteries.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1992
Designates October 24 through November 1, 1992, as National Red Ribbon Week for a Drug Free America. Recognize the hard work and dedication of those involved in combatting substance abuse.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1992
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a first-time homebuyer who purchases a principal residence a tax credit of ten percent of the purchase price of such residence. Limits the credit to $5,000. Requires married individuals filing jointly to both be first-time homebuyers. Allows the use of 50 percent of the credit in the first taxable year in which the residence is purchased and the remaining 50 percent in the succeeding taxable year. Makes this credit applicable to residences acquired after February 1, 1992, and before January 1, 1993, or for which a binding contract is entered into during such period.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1992
Agricultural Commodity Embargo Limitation Act - Provides that the President may not prohibit or restrict the export of U.S. agricultural products to any country unless: (1) a state of war exists between such country and the United States; or (2) the President certifies to the Congress that such country is engaged in military hostilities against the United States and such certification is in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1992
Overseas United States Citizens' Representation in the Congress Act of 1991 - Provides for representation in the House of Representatives of citizens residing outside the United States by a nonvoting delegate. Requires that such delegate be elected by absentee ballot by citizens who have the right to vote in Federal elections under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Rights Act. Sets forth eligibility requirements for such office. Requires a commission appointed by the President to determine the procedures and regulations for election to such office.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1992
Overseas American Children's Human Rights Act of 1991 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with regard to U.S. citizenship (nationality) for children born abroad to U.S. citizen parents to: (1) repeal the provision regarding a child born to parents one of whom is a citizen and the other of whom is a national; (2) give U.S. citizenship to a child born to parents one of whom is a citizen and the other of whom is an alien if the citizen parent has been present in the United States one year (currently such parent must have five years' presence, two of which were after attaining the age of 14 years); and (3) give citizenship to a child born abroad to a U.S. citizen, in or out of wedlock, who would otherwise be stateless at birth.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1992
Overseas American Economic Competition Enhancement Act of 1992 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the taxable income of certain U.S. citizens or residents living abroad. Excludes from the gross income of qualifying individuals (thus exempting from income tax), in addition to foreign earned income, the following items: (1) U.S. earned income and certain capital gain net income during the period of a temporary stay or stays (not exceeding a total of 183 days) in the United States; (2) foreign income other than compensation for labor or personal services; (3) U.S. income not effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business; and (4) gain from the disposition of a U.S. real property interest. Revises the criteria under which an individual qualifies for these tax exclusions to make eligible a U.S. citizen or resident who, during any 18-month period (currently 12 months), is present in a foreign country or countries during at least 510 full days (currently 330).
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1992
Classroom Safety Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to assist local educational agencies (LEAs) most directly affected by crime and violence in reducing and preventing violent crime in elementary and secondary schools. Directs the Secretary to develop a model for classroom safety written in English and Spanish and make it available to any LEA upon request. Requires the grants to be used for programs of: (1) anticrime and safety measures, and education and training to prevent crime, violence and illegal use of drugs and alcohol; (2) counseling for victims and witnesses of crime in schools; (3) conflict resolution and peer mediation counseling for students, teachers, and other personnel in regular contact with students in school; (4) purchasing crime prevention equipment, including metal detectors and video-surveillance devices; and (5) preventing and reducing student participation in organized crime and drug and gang-related activities in schools. Requires grant applications to include comprehensive plans. Sets administrative cost limits. Allows renewal of the grant for up to two additional years after the initial grant, under certain conditions. Bases selection of recipients upon crime problem, need and ability, and student population (and equitable geographic distribution, if practicable). Requires annual reports by LEA grant recipients to the Secretary, and by the Secretary to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1992
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend and revise Special Programs for Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds (TRIO Programs). Extends through FY 1997 the authorization of appropriations for such programs. Adds to program goals motivation and preparation of such students for doctoral programs. Adds requirements for: (1) a peer review application process; (2) inflation adjustments; (3) minimum grant levels for specified programs; (4) duration of grants and contracts; (5) notice of application status; (6) early notification and technical training for potential providers of special programs and projects; (7) unlimited number of applications by an entity; and (8) coordination with other programs for disadvantaged students. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to ensure that: (1) members of groups underrepresented in higher education are represented as readers of TRIO programs applications; and (2) each such application is read by at least three reviewers not employed at the Department of Education. Sets forth requirements for documentation of status as a low-income individual, for purposes of TRIO programs eligibility. Revises provisions for the Talent Search program (one of the TRIO programs). Sets forth an expanded list of permissible services which talent search projects may offer, in addition to tutoring, including counseling, mentoring, and parent workshops. Lowers the minimum age and elementary education completion levels for participant eligibility to 11 years of age and five years of school completed (currently 12 and six, respectively, while retaining the maximum age level of 27 years). Revises provisions for the Upward Bound program (one of the TRIO programs). Adds to the list of permissible services which upward bound projects may offer mentoring programs involving elementary or secondary school teachers, college faculty, students, or any combination thereof. Requires any assisted upward bound project which has received two or more years of program funding to include in its core curriculum: (1) instruction in mathematics through precalculus; (2) at least one laboratory science; (3) at least one foreign language; and (4) instruction in composition and literature. Revises provisions for Student Support Services (one of the TRIO programs). Adds requirements for design goals of support services projects, including increased rates of college retention, graduation, and transfers from two- to four-year institutions, and institutional climates supportive of low-income and first-generation college students and individuals with disabilities. Adds to permissible services for such projects mentoring programs involving school teachers, college faculty and/or students. Revises provisions for the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement (under TRIO programs provisions). Adds to permissible services: (1) mentoring programs involving elementary or secondary school teachers, college faculty, and/or students; and (2) exposure to cultural events and academic programs not usually available to disadvantaged students. Allows costs for summer room and board, summer tuition, and transportation to summer programs to be paid in addition to the maximum annual amount for a student stipend. Eliminates provisions which: (1) conditioned program funding on specified minimum funding for other programs; and (2) set program funding limits. Revises provisions for Educational Opportunity Centers (under TRIO programs provisions). Expands the list of permissible services which such centers may offer, in addition to tutorial and counseling services, including public information campaigns, assistance in course selection, financial aid application, and entrance exam preparation, alternative education guidance for dropouts, career workshops, monitoring programs, and special programs for students of limited English proficiency. Revises provisions for Staff Development Activities (for training for staff and leadership personnel for projects under TRIO Programs). Requires such training to be offered annually for new directors of such projects as well as annually specified topics and other topics chosen by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to make Outreach Grants to institutions of higher education, community-based organizations, and other public and private nonprofit organizations to provide outreach information to potential providers of programs and projects authorized under Federal Early Outreach and Student Services Programs (the new subpart 1) that could serve groups underrepresented in such programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make Project Evaluation grants and contracts to institutions of higher education and other public and private organizations to: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of the various programs authorized under TRIO programs provisions (chapter 1); and (2) disseminate results of ongoing evaluations to similar programs as well as to other individuals concerned with the postsecondary access and retention of low-income, first-generation students.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1992
Directs the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to take action authorized under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 against foreign countries (Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan) which block market access of U.S. rice and rice products. States that if related trade negotiations do not produce improved U.S. rice access by the later of March 1, 1993, or six months after enactment of this Act, the USTR shall take specified actions restricting such countries' imports into the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1992
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that any legislation passed by the Congress to address American health care needs must include coverage for mental disorders.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1992
Dire Emergency Job Creation Appropriations Act, 1992 - Makes dire emergency appropriations for FY 1992 to stimulate the economy and to create and retain productive jobs. Title I: Immediate Job Creation Through Vital Public Investments - Appropriates funds for the following investments in transportation to: (1) accelerate the resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation of the nation's interstate highway system; (2) accelerate the construction, reconstruction, restoration, and rehabilitation of highways and transit systems; (3) accelerate the construction, alteration, and rehabilitation of runways, taxiways, aprons, and roads within airport boundaries; and (4) accelerate the construction and rehabilitation of National Park Service roads and parkways and the completion of the Appalachian Development Highway System. Declares the Federal share payable for highway projects to be 95 percent. Provides for the apportionment to the States of such funds and exempts such funds from specified limitations. Makes additional funds available for: (1) community development grants; (2) community services block grants to encourage the creation of business and employment opportunities; and (3) child care and development block grants to improve the availability and quality of child care services. Makes additional funds available for investments in: (1) wastewater treatment facilities; (2) water resource, hydroelectric power, irrigation, and reclamation projects; (3) natural resource protection and enhancement; (4) urban forest maintenance; and (5) park and recreation area improvements. Appropriates additional funds for investments in: (1) public housing modernization; (2) rural housing improvements; (3) energy conservation home improvements for low-income households; and (4) military family housing improvements in the United States. Appropriates an additional amount to restore the prior level of Federal support for economic development purposes as in effect immediately before September 30, 1982. Appropriates additional amounts to create jobs and promote economic development in the Appalachian and Tennessee Valley regions. Makes additional new and direct guaranteed loan authority available to increase small business opportunities. Makes available additional loan authority and additional funding for investments in: (1) rural electrification and telephone system upgrades; (2) watershed and conservation development; and (3) rural water and sewer improvements. Appropriates additional funds for: (1) maintaining and protecting public investment in Federal buildings; (2) improving facilities for veterans; (3) expanding and modernizing correctional facilities; (4) improving Indian health/reservation facilities; (5) constructing Federal biomedical research facilities; and (6) accelerating library construction. Appropriates funds to the Department of Labor to establish the emergency job creation program to provide productive jobs in an expeditious manner. Sets forth administrative provisions for such program. Requires the use of such funds to provide unemployed individuals with temporary employment for not more than six months for the repair, maintenance, and rehabilitation of publicly-owned facilities or for the conservation, rehabilitation, and improvement of public lands. Provides for allocating such funds to the territories, native Americans, and the States. Title II: Short-Term Assistance for Those Adversely Affected by the Economic Downturn - Makes additional funds available for: (1) the emergency food and shelter program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; (2) retraining displaced workers who have been adversely affected by the recession; (3) the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC); and (4) the emergency food assistance program. Title III: Investments for Long-Term Economic Expansion - Appropriates additional funds for certain research and development and advanced technology programs concerning: (1) high energy physics; (2) advanced technology and technology transfer; (3) research facility upgrades; and (4) oceanic and atmospheric research. Appropriates additional funds for investments in education through: (1) the Head Start program; (2) vocational skills improvement; (3) construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of academic and residential facilities; and (4) science and engineering education and human resources programs. Title IV: General Provisions - Prohibits appropriations contained in this Act from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided. Designates all funds in this Act as emergency requirements for purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1992
Amends the District of Columbia Code to impose a sentence of life in prison without parole, or death, for murder in the first degree in the District of Columbia.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1992
Safe Schools Act of 1992 - Establishes in the Department of Education a National School Safety Center to serve as a clearinghouse for school-related information about violence and vandalism, safety programs, and crisis intervention plans. Authorizes the Center to: (1) conduct workshops and seminars; and (2) assist in teacher and administrator training and design and operation of school safety programs. Authorizes appropriations. Weapons-Free School Zones Act of 1992 - Amends Federal law to make it unlawful for a person to knowingly possess a potentially deadly weapon in a school zone. Authorizes the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, upon request by the Governor or chief executive officer of an affected State or local government, to: (1) declare a severely threatened local school district a violent crime region; and (2) take necessary action, including use of Federal agency resources and personnel to support State and local law enforcement activities.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1992
American Veterans' Health Care Reform Act of 1992 - Defines as a "core-entitled veteran" any veteran currently eligible for hospital, nursing home, and domiciliary care through the Department of Veterans Affairs. Makes the provision by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of nursing home and domiciliary care for core-entitled veterans mandatory (currently discretionary). Requires (currently authorizes) the Secretary: (1) when Department facilities are not available, to contract with non-Department facilities for hospital care and medical services for core-entitled veterans; and (2) to transfer to a non-Department nursing home for adult day care core-entitled veterans who cannot be kept at a Department nursing facility. Makes the provision of dental services in non-Department facilities mandatory for core-entitled veterans (currently discretionary) when such veterans cannot be furnished such treatment in a Department facility because of incapacity or geographical inaccessability. Requires (currently allows) the provision of domiciliary care to certain low-income veterans. Authorizes the provision of domiciliary care to ineligible (non-core-entitled) veterans who agree to participate in a managed health care plan established under this Act. Directs (currently authorizes) the Secretary to correct or treat any non-service-connected disability of a core-entitled veteran when such veteran is already receiving hospital or nursing home care in a Department facility. Makes an identical change with respect to the provision of dental services and treatment for a non-service-connected dental condition. Authorizes the Secretary to perform outpatient services for certain veterans if the Secretary determines they are needed (currently, only for medical services necessary in preparation for hospital admission or to obviate the need for such admission). Makes mandatory (currently discretionary) the provision by the Secretary on an ambulatory or outpatient basis of needed medical services for: (1) former POWs; (2) any veteran of the Mexican border period or World War I; and (3) any veteran in receipt of an increased pension or allowance based on the need for regular aid or attendance or by reason of being permanently housebound. Requires the provision of outpatient dental services, treatment, and related appliances to any core-entitled veteran. Allows any other veteran to be furnished such services if they participate in the Department-managed health care plan. Directs the Secretary to furnish readjustment counseling to any veteran who served on active duty (currently, only to any active-duty Vietnam era veteran). Directs the Secretary to provide seeing eye or guide dogs and related expenses and mechanical or electronic equipment used for overcomining blindness to any core-entitled veteran. Allows the Secretary to provide such dogs, expenses, or equipment to any other veteran who agrees to participate in the Department-managed health care plan. Directs the Secretary, in the case of core-entitled veterans, to: (1) furnish home health services (including lifts) found necessary to treat a veteran's disability or if medically necessary; (2) furnish devices for assistance in overcoming deafness; (3) repair or replace any artificial limb, truss, brace, hearing aid, spectacles, or similar appliance reasonably necessary and belonging to a veteran; (4) transfer such veteran from a Department to a non-Department nursing home at his or her request; (5) contract for care, treatment and rehabilitative services in halfway houses, therapeutic communities, psychiatric residential treatment centers, and other community-based treatment facilities for those suffering from alcohol or drug dependence or abuse; and (6) furnish respite care services. Makes permanent the provision of such respite care services (currently terminates on September 30, 1992). Directs the Secretary to provide certain of such services to non-core-entitled veterans who agree to participate in the Department-managed health care plan. Exempts core-entitled veterans from any required medication copayments. Makes permanent (currently terminates September 30, 1991) such required copayments for non-core-entitled veterans. Directs the Secretary to furnish preventive health care services to any core-entitled veteran requesting such services. Authorizes the Secretary to provide such services to any other veteran who either agrees to pay the United States a reasonable amount for such services or participates in the Department-managed health care plan. Outlines the various preventive services offered. Requires the Secretary, in carrying out such services, to emphasize the use of interdisciplinary health care teams composed of various professional and paraprofessional personnel. Directs the Secretary to design, implement, and maintain a managed health care services plan to make a variety of health care services packages available to non-core-entitled veterans and their survivors and dependents. Directs the Secretary to determine a range of premiums for such packages which are affordable to potential participants in the plan. Requires such plan to be established within two years after enactment of this Act. Authorizes payments by non-core-entitled veterans for discretionary services provided to such veterans and their survivors and dependents through the Department to be paid directly to the Government, from a plan fund derived from the payment of premiums, or through reimbursement under Medicare, Medicaid, the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS), private health insurance, or by any combination of such payment alternatives. Authorizes appropriations, for fiscal years beginning after 1992 and to the extent provided in advance in appropriation Acts, of necessary sums to provide benefits to which entitlement is established under this Act, including the cost necessary to allow the Department to practice quality management and assurance functions. Authorizes appropriations for the same period to cover administrative expenses in carrying out this Act. Includes Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements under the definition of a "health plan contract," thereby allowing such reimbursements to be included in the health plan established under this Act. Authorizes: (1) the United States to collect for care and services provided to non-core-entitled veterans and their survivors and dependents under CHAMPUS, Medicare, Medicaid, or any other health insurance plan; and (2) the Secretary to use funds collected in the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical-Care Cost Recovery Fund for providing benefits and paying administrative and operational expenses for the delivery of health care services. Exempts all health benefits which core-entitled veterans are provided under appropriate Federal provisions from sequestration under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Act). Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees on the implementation and operation of health care plans and reforms made effective by this Act. Directs the Secretary, as part of each such report, to request and take into account comments provided by congressionally-chartered veterans' organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) consideration of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) should be a high priority; (2) LIHEAP funding for FY 1993 should be increased to a level greater than or equal to funding for FY 1992; and (3) the President should accept the LIHEAP funding level for FY 1993 as recommended by the Congress.
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