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United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for interest on any indebtedness incurred to pay the educational expenses of the taxpayer, spouse, or dependent. Allows such deduction only for the first 48 months of loan repayment.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the act of physical desecration of the U.S. flag and to set criminal penalties for such act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Designates October 1993 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Designates March 25, 1993, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Designates April 9, 1993, and April 9, 1994, as National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that any change in the current policy regarding homosexuals in the armed forces (stating that homosexuality is incompatible with military service and requiring the separation from the armed forces of homosexual military personnel) should be made by law, rather than by executive order.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order to put the question upon final passage of any bill or resolution until printed copies of the measure have been available for all Members for at least one day. Provides for the suspension of this Act for a particular bill or resolution in a national emergency upon the joint request of the Speaker and Minority Leader and with an affirmative two-thirds vote.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Declares that the Congress opposes any attempt to lower the estate tax exemption or raise the effective rate of taxes on estates because such measures contradict the fundamental goal of the United States Government of encouraging long-term private saving through which productive investment that promotes economic growth can be realized.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Recognizes the benefits of cultural diversity and the contributions that many languages have made to American society. Encourages citizens whose native language is other than English to maintain fluency in their language and heritage, to pass it down from generation to generation, and to learn English as well. Commends efforts to maintain one language common to all people in addition to preserving and maintaining the many languages and cultures existing in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1992
Designates the Main Post Office located at 600 Princess Anne Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia, as the Samuel E. Perry Postal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that if Saudi Arabia acquires F-15 aircraft from the United States it should demonstrate its peaceful intentions by lifting its economic boycott against Israel and against U.S. companies that trade with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1992
Designates October 4 through 10, 1992, as National Bone Marrow Donor Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1992
Designates the week beginning October 18, 1992, as National Radon Action Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1992
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a three-year depreciable life for semiconductor manufacturing equipment and equipment used to manufacture advanced materials or to develop advanced technologies. Reduces the individual and corporate capital gains rates and the minimum tax rate on capital gains. Imposes a minimum tax on domestic corporations which are 25-percent foreign-owned and foreign corporations engaged in a trade or business within the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain portions of roads within the boundaries of the Shenandoah National Park to the Commonwealth of Virginia subject to the following conditions: (1) such conveyance shall be limited to the roads as they exist on the enactment of this Act; and (2) if any road conveyed under this Act is no longer used as a public roadway, all rights, title, and interest in it shall revert to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
SSI Disability Reform Act of 1992 - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) allow government agencies to serve as paid representative payees; (2) set the maximum fee payable to representative payees at ten percent of the monthly benefit involved; and (3) revise the provision of SSI benefits to the disabled based on substance abuse. Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to provide for mandatory Medicaid coverage of approved substance abuse treatment programs for certain disabled SSI beneficiaries.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Designates February 4, 1993, and February 3, 1994, as National Women and Girls in Sports Day.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Designates May 2 through 8, 1993, as National Walking Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Designates the week beginning November 8, 1992, as Hire a Veteran Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1992
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the issuance of tax-exempt bonds by organizations which provide rescue or emergency medical services.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1992
Congratulates the College of William and Mary on its 300th anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1992
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit candidates for Federal office from using campaign contributions for inherently personal purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1992
Designates May of each year as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1992
Life Imprisonment for Egregious Recidivists Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal criminal code to require the court, in the case of a conviction for a Federal violent felony, to sentence the defendant to life imprisonment if the defendant has previously been convicted of two other violent felonies.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Designates October 8, 1992, as National Firefighters Day.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1992
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require tax table rate reductions to be based on a percentage of the reduction in Federal spending for calendar years 1993 through 1997. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide sequestration procedures to eliminate the deficit by FY 1998. Specifies accounts that are exempt from reduction. Sets forth reporting requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Directs the National World War II Memorial Fund, Inc., to construct a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs to: (1) honor members of the armed forces who served in World War II; and (2) commemorate U.S. participation in that conflict. Directs the fund to plan, design, and oversee the construction of the Memorial. Establishes the World War II Memorial Advisory Board to: (1) promote and encourage the donation of private funds for the construction of the Memorial; and (2) recommend the site for and assist in the selection of the design of the Memorial. Terminates the Board within 30 days after completion of the Memorial or on the lapse of the authority provided by this Act. Authorizes the Fund to solicit and accept private contributions for construction of the Memorial. States that the requirements and authority of this Act shall lapse if: (1) construction of the Memorial is not commenced within seven years of its enactment; or (2) before such construction, the Secretary of the Interior certifies that funds are not available in an amount sufficient to ensure its completion.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1992
Foreign Aid Reform Act of 1992 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to declare that economic support assistance should be provided principally through commodity import programs, project assistance, sector programs, or the provision of U.S. goods and services. Permits such assistance to be provided to a foreign government as a cash transfer only pursuant to an agreement requiring the recipient government to spend the cash transfer to purchase U.S. goods and services to the extent that the recipient government purchases goods and services not produced in that country. Exempts from this Act any recipient government that: (1) receives less than $25,000,000 cash transfer assistance for a fiscal year; or (2) as of April 1, 1989, was receiving such assistance and has an agreement with the United States under which it agrees to spend an amount equal to the amount of the cash transfer on U.S. goods and services, to carry 50 percent of all bulk shipments of U.S. grain on privately-owned U.S.-flag commercial vessels, to purchase U.S. grain at levels comparable to those purchased in prior years, and to comply with such requirements in any fiscal year in which it receives such assistance. Authorizes the President to waive the requirements of this Act if it is in the national interest to do so.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1992
Designates August 1, 1992, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes and requests the President to: (1) reassert American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with any signatory nation which may be in violation; (3) convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (4) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of the Helsinki process.
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 · 4 June 1992
NOAA Fleet Modernization Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to implement a 15-year program to replace and modernize the fleet of research vessels owned or operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Mandates a plan for the program and preparation of requirements for each class of vessels to be constructed or converted. Authorizes, subject to conditions, multiyear contracts for: (1) acquisition of the vessels; and (2) oceanographic research, fisheries research, and mapping and charting services to assist in fulfilling NOAA missions. Prohibits awarding a contract for the construction, repair, or alteration of any NOAA vessel in a foreign shipyard if the foreign shipyard benefits from unfair subsidies. Requires, for the fleet replacement and modernization program, use of excess capacity of University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System vessels. Mandates consultation regarding interoperability of NOAA and Navy vessels. Authorizes appropriations. Requires unobligated amounts appropriated for fleet modernization, shipbuilding, and conversion under the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 to be obligated in accordance with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1992
Designates March 1993 as Irish-American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1992
Designates the week beginning November 8, 1992, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Nullifies any prohibitions against the transfer of government information about aliens to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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 · 21 May 1992
Designates September 1992 as Childhood Cancer Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1992
Authorizes and instructs the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the majority leader of the Senate, and the appropriate agents of the Congress to cooperate fully with the Internal Revenue Service and the Defense Manpower Data Center in their efforts to match Government employee names and Social Security numbers with computerized bad debt records, among other ways by providing computer tapes for Members of Congress and their staff for use in such computer matches as part of the debt collection effort. Directs the Congress to comply voluntarily with the provisions of the Federal Debt Collection Act of 1982, so that the law applies to Members of Congress and their staff as it applies to executive branch and judicial branch employees.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1992
Designates September 10, 1992, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1992
Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the U.S. Secret Service to protect former Presidents and their spouses (and the children of a former President who are under 16 years of age) for the first year after the former President leaves office, for each succeeding year until an advisory committee determines such protection no longer necessary, and thereafter at the request of the protectee for such periods, subject to the same annual review by the committee, as the committee determines that protection is appropriate. (Current law provides for lifetime protection for former Presidents and their spouses, except for termination of a spouses's protection upon remarriage (which still applies under this Act), but doesn't specify any time period for protection of such children.)
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1992
Small Business Cost Estimate Act of 1992 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to prepare for each public measure reported by a congressional committee (except the Committee on Appropriations of each House) and to submit to that committee for inclusion in the committee report: (1) an estimate of the costs in each of the first five fiscal years of carrying out such measure and of small business compliance with such measure, if significant; and (2) a comparison of those estimates with estimates made by such committee or by a Federal agency.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1992
Directs the Secretary of Education to decrease Department of Education personnel costs by ten percent from amounts appropriated for FY 1993 and 1994. Requires that: (1) 90 percent of the savings from such reduction be transferred to local education agencies in accordance with State aid distribution formulas; and (2) the remaining ten percent be used to reduce the Federal budget deficit. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to replace or reduce State and local government funding for education programs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1992
Designates September 1992 as Displaced Homemakers Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1992
Tax Extension Act of 1992 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the low-income housing credit permanent law. Modifies the rule for unused housing credit carryovers allocated among certain States. Expands the ten-year anti-churning rule waiver to certain projects substantially assisted, financed, or operated under the National Housing Act. Allows units occupied by certain full-time students to qualify for such credit. Authorizes the Treasury Department to waive penalties for certain de minimis errors and recertifications. Excludes assistance under the HOME Investment Partnerships Act from the definition whether a building is federally subsidized. Permits the use of tax-exempt bond financing for such purposes. Provides for State housing credit agencies to designate difficult development areas (in lieu of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development). Allows the use of the rehabilitation investment credit for qualified low-income buildings without regard to whether interior walls are preserved. Prohibit discrimination against section 8 voucher holders in leasing units in qualified low-income buildings. Requires notice before termination of tenancy in such buildings. Allows certain building owners to elect to use apartment size or family size in determining the low-income credit gross rent limitation. Extends the following provisions from June 30, 1992, until December 31, 1993: (1) the authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds and qualified mortgage credit certificates; (2) the authority to issue qualified small issue bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property; (3) employer-provided educational assistance; (4) the tax credit for increasing research activities; (5) the tax exclusion for employer-provided group legal services plans; (6) the targeted jobs credited; and (7) the credit for clinical testing expenses for certain drugs for rare diseases or conditions. Provides for the tax treatment of resale price control and subsidy lien programs under mortgage revenue bond provisions. Excludes from the five-year occupancy requirement under the tax-exempt mortgage revenue bond program any two-family residence which: (1) is a targeted area residence; or (2) is located in an area designated as an economic development zone or enterprise zone by Federal or State law. Suspends, for 1992 and 1993, the tax preference for the appreciated property charitable deduction.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1992
Disapproves the Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992, an Act passed by the District of Columbia Council and signed by the Mayor.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Designates November 13, 1992, as Vietnam Veterans Memorial 10th Anniversary Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1992
Thomas Jefferson Commemoration Commission Act - Establishes the Thomas Jefferson Commemoration Commission to plan, develop, coordinate, and encourage activities in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. Requires the Commission to make interim and final reports to the President and the Congress on its activities. Terminates the Commission within 60 days after its final report. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1992
Designates September 18, 1992, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Requires the POW/MIA flag to be flown on a flagstaff of the White House, the Departments of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, the Selective Service Commission, each national cemetery, and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on such day. Requires the flag to be flown on a flagstaff of each national cemetery and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 30, 1992 (Memorial Day), and on November 11, 1992 (Veterans Day). States that the flag shall be displayed as a symbol of national concern and commitment to resolving the fates of Americans still prisoner, missing, and unaccounted for.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Commission on the Airplane Crash at Gander, Newfoundland, Act - Establishes in the legislative branch of the Government the Commission on the Airplane Crash at Gander, Newfoundland. Directs the Commission to investigate and study the circumstances surrounding the crash of an Arrow Airlines airplane near Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, on December 12, 1985. Requires a report to the President and the Congress on findings and conclusions.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Designates October 4 through 10, 1992, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Designates August 7, 1992, as Battle of Guadalcanal Remembrance Day.