Rep. Brooks, Jack B. [D-TX-9]

An amendment to establish an office of Inspector General in the Department of Defense.

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An amendment to strike section 7. Section 7 would have repealed that the Coast Guard submit a semiannual report to Congress on expenditures incurred in the provision of security for the President and other federal officials.

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An amendment to require competitive bidding for procurement of automatic data processing equipment or services.

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An amendment deleting the provision transferring to the Archivist of the U.S. functions relating to national security information and the Information Security Oversight Office which had been assigned to the Administrator of General Services.

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An amendment.

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An amendment to the Roe substitute amendment to provide for audits of proposals for grants. The administrator is given authority, by this amendment, to withhold funds for costs which are found to be unreasonable, unsupported by adequate documentation, or otherwise unallowable under applicable federal cost principles. Funds may also be withheld for projects that do not meet design specifications or effluent limitations of the grant agreements.

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An amendment to eliminate the program for Louisiana Sheriffs.

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An amendment to prohibit the Secretary of Defense from using polygraph examinations in the case of civilian employees of DOD or members of the Armed Forces to any extent greater than permitted as of 8/5/82. This prohibition runs to 4/15/84.

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A substitute amendment to the Udall amendment. The amendment sets the rental rate for the lands leased by the City of Tucson to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base at $773 annually. It also provides that exact acreage to be conveyed by the City by the Air Force is to be determined by survey to be paid for by the City. The land must be used as a public park.

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An amendment to make technical changes in section 816 which provides for transfers of land under the Secretary of the Army by authorizing the Administrator of General Services to transfer the land (the bill had made no mention of the Administrator). It also reduces from 15 to 10.5 acres the land to be transferred at Fort McNair.

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A substitute amendment for the Dickinson amendment in Title X. The amendment limits use of funds to a single polygraph test program where not more than 3,500 people are to be tested in FY'85 and FY'86 combined. The Secretary is required to submit a report by 12/31/86 on the use of polygraph use by DOD. It requires establishment of a continuing polygraph research program.

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An amendment to create an Office of Drug Enforcement Coordination within the Executive Branch responsible for establishing policies, objectives and priorities for federal drug enforcement. The Director would serve at a sub-cabinet level, nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The Director would be empowered to make temporary reassignment of federal personnel, with the concurrence of the appropriate agency heads. The National Drug Enforcement Policy Board would be abolished.

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An amendment to require that the Presidential Transition Authorization Request shall be included in the proposed appropriation transmitted by the President in each fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which the term of office of such President shall expire.

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An amendment to prohibit the use of funds to procure construction services and products from Japanese firms for U.S. public works projects during FY 1988. The President or head of an agency could waive this prohibition if such action is needed or it is in the public interest to do so.

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An Amendment to direct the Secretary of Energy to make available in FY 1987 not less than $2,800,000 from the General Science and Research Actvities appropriation to the Texas Accelerator Center, Woodlands, Texas, to support ongoing research.

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An en bloc amendment consisting of a series of amendments to do the following: 1. Establish mandatory prisoner literacy programs for all individuals in Federal prisons; 2. Improve the potential to recover money given to S&L officials in anticipation of a government take-over of the depository institution; 3. Disallow officials affiliated with a depository institution under receivership freom purchasing assets previously owned by that institution; 3. Establigh demonstration programs regarding anobolic steroids; 4. Ban isopropyl nitrite and other nitrites; 5. Increase the fund limit of the Victims of Crime Act; 6. Establish a National Commission to support Law Enforcement; 7. Strengthen Drug Free School Zones and coordingat anti-drug activities with local law enforcement agencies; 8. Authorize additional funding for various new international narcotics control initiatives; 9. prevent persons who are liable for violations of securities violations from using certain bankruptcy procedures.

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An amendment to exempt certain tankers from requirements in the bill which specify that the 1986 Immigration Reform Act applies to longshore work. The amendment would exempt sanctions from being applied to employers for hiring non-immigrant alien crewmen for certain work on these tankers.

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An amendment limiting the amount of punitive damages awarded for intentional discrimination by employers with fewer than 100 employees to $150,000 or an amount equal to such compensatory damages and equitable monetary relief awarded, whichever is greater.

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Amendment in the nature of a substitute creates a new Federal criminal offense with regard to violations of civil child support orders; grants Federal courts the authority to make compliance with child support obligations a condition of parole; authorizes a $10 million grant program for the States for coordination of enforcement efforts; and creates a commission to study child and family welfare.

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Amendment authorizes construction of a child care facility at Fort Point, Galveston, TX, under the management of the Galveston District, Army Corps of Engineers.

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See Gekas amendment (A004) for description.

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Amendment in the nature of a substitute consists of the text of two bills which passed the House previously: H.R. 2372, concerning fair use and copyright renewal which passed the House November 25, 1991; and H.R. 1612, to eliminate the library reproduction reporting requirement which passed the House November 18, 1991.

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Amendments en bloc: (1) restore a provision in current law that provides the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) with the ability to waive the 60% attorney requirement for governing bodies; (2) exempt the Inspector General of the LSC from any limitations on access to information that may be adopted by the LSC; (3) clarify that the LSC is not required to provide a full 12-month grant for certain programs; (4) clarify the definition of "staff attorney" in order to cover more program attorneys under the restrictions contained in the bill; (5) require the LSC to provide a fair hearing to employees or other persons before terminating assistance for cause; (6) make a technical correction to the title of the bill; (7) require that non-federal funds received by the LSC or its grantees must be accounted for and reported separately from federal funds; and (8) clarify that members of a governing or policy body may be appointed to more than one governing or policy body.

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Amendment in the nature of a substitute provides a cap on punitive damages in cases of intentional discrimination of $150,000, or the amount of compensatory damages, whichever is greater; provides that victims of unintentional discrimination will receive equitable relief; restores the definition of "business necessity" in defending employment practices to that of the 1971 Griggs decision; places the burden of proof in defending employment practices on the employer; prohibits the use of quotas by employers as an unlawful employment practice; and prohibits the practice of adjusting test scores based on race, sex, religion, or national origin ("race norming").

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Amendment allows LSC outreach activities to be sponsored by church groups.

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Amendments en bloc: (1) authorize the use of 25% of excess unobligated funds in the Asset Forfeiture Fund to support drug abuse prevention and treatment grants; (2) require a national awareness program of federal law which requires states to revoke convicted drug abusers' drivers licenses in order to receive federal highway funds; (3) increase the penalty for unauthorized uses of military medals; (4) require the "Safe Schools" program to be accessible to Spanish-speaking students; (5) expand the definition of "drug emergency areas"; (6) delete certain reporting requirements for firearms dealers; (7) require the National Institute of Justice to conduct a study and assessment of alcohol use and treatment of convicted criminals; (8) require the Justice Department to conduct a study of certain incendiary ammunition; (9) expand the use of Bureau of Justice Assistance grants regarding response to domestic violence; (10) establish a National Commission to Support Law Enforcement; (11) expand federal penalties for providing material support to terrorists; (12) require expanding the availability of treatment for drug addiction as a goal of the National Drug Control Strategy; (13) restore to the bill the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program; (14) establish a National Commission to Study the Causes and Demand for.Drugs in the United States; (15) make technical correction to language concerning insurance fraud; (16) make the transfer of Justice Forfeiture Funds subject to appropriations; (17) make technical changes to programs under the jurisdiction of the Education and Labor Committee including Safe Schools Assistance grants, child abuse information systems, campus sexual assault, drug abuse resistance education, and the midnight basketball league program; (18) authorize the transfer to states of forfeited real property for state parks or related purposes; (19) authorize funds to help defray uncompensated costs incurred by trauma centers arising from drug-related violence; (20) name the Irwin Rutman Program which extends death benefits to retired public safety officers; (21) extend the death penalty to certain terrorist-related offenses and for rape and child molestation murders; (22) clarify certain provisions of the Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Program; (23) clarify certain provisions of the Certainty of Punishment of Young Offenders state grant program; (24) clarify certain provisions of the General Education Provisions Act concerning the release of education and criminal records; and (25) permit certain U.S.-flag passenger vessels to offer gambling beyond the three mile limit. 190

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An amendment comprised of six amendments offered en bloc which include amendments numbered 32, 36, 40, 48, 49, and 50 printed in part 2 of House report 103-474. The amendments require the Federal Government to incarcerate or to reimburse states and localities for the costs of incarcerating undocumented aliens convicted in State courts; give law enforcement officials and courts access to criminal history for use in stalking and domestic violence cases; prohibit state motor vehicle departments from disclosing personal information about any individual with certain specified exceptions; add a new title on prison security enhancement; add a new title on civil rights of institutionalized persons; and provide that a Federal court shall not hold prison or jail overcrowding unconstitutional under the eighth amendment except in certain instances.

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An amendment offered en bloc, consisting of the following 35 amendments printed in Part Two of House Report 103-474: Amendment No. 1. (Porter), 2. (Barca), 3. (Olver), 4. (Gilman), 5. (Watt), 6. (Hoyer), 7. (Hoyer), 8. (Livingston), 9. (Slaughter), 10. (Slaughter), 11. (Martinez), 12. (Abercrombie), 14. (Scott), 15. (Bonilla), 16. (Smith, MI), 17. (Inslee), 18. (Filner), 19. (Hall, OH), 20. (Becerra), 21. (Wheat), 22. (Vento), 23. (Wise), 24. (Miller, CA), 25. (Fazio), 26. (Strikland), 27. (Brooks), 28. (Long), 29. (Rostenkowski), 30. (Frank), 34. (McCandless), 35. (Kennedy), 42. (Owens), 43. (Evans), 44. (Rangel), and 47. (Manzullo).

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An amendment consisting of several amendments, offered en bloc, to do the following: Change the effective date of the bill from 1993 to 1994; clarify that the intent of the bill is to extend the effectiveness of the previous independent counsel law as though it had not expired; and require the independent counsel to comply with Justice Department procedures with regard to the use and handling of classified materials.

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An amendment to retain provisions of law with respect to arbitration awards subject to trial de novo, as well as numerous procedural limits on arbitrator power which expired on November 19, 1993.

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Thomas Alva Edison Sesquicentennial Commemorative Coin Act

United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1994

Thomas Alva Edison Sesquicentennial Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the inventions made by Thomas A. Edison in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of his birth. Instructs the Secretary to conduct an open design competition for the design of the obverse and reverse of the coins. Terminates the authority to mint such coins after December 31, 1997. Mandates that certain surcharges received from coin sales be distributed to specified entities.

To authorize the vessel R/V ROSS SEAL to be documented under the laws of a foreign country during a 3-year period.

United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1994

Authorizes a named vessel to be documented under the laws of a foreign country, without prohibition from or ineligiblity for engagement in coastwise trade.

Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Improved Bankruptcy Administration Title II: Commercial Bankruptcy Issues Title III: Consumer Bankruptcy Issues Title IV: Governmental Bankruptcy Issues Title V: Technical Corrections Title VI: Severability; Effective Date; Application of Amendments Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994 - Title I: Improved Bankruptcy Administration - Amends Federal bankruptcy law to allow, with the consent of the parties in interest, an extension of the 30 day period following conclusion of a preliminary hearing on a motion to lift an automatic stay, by the end of which a final hearing must be concluded. (Sec. 102) Amends the judicial code to mandate the jurisdiction of a Federal district court to hear appeals from interlocutory orders and decrees of bankruptcy judges increasing certain time periods for filing a bankruptcy plan. (Currently, a district court has discretion to hear such appeals by its leave only.) (Sec. 103) Revises expedited procedures for reaffirmation of debts. (Sec. 104) Permits bankruptcy court judges to hold status conferences and to issue case limitations and conditions at such conferences. Amends the Federal judicial code to change from discretionary to mandatory the authority of the judicial council of a circuit to establish a bankruptcy appellate panel service. Prescribes circumstances for the termination of a bankruptcy appellate panel. Revises appeals guidelines. (Sec. 105) Permits bankruptcy administrators (in a State in which the bankruptcy system is administered by a Bankruptcy Administrator instead of a U.S. Trustee) to preside at meetings of creditors and equity security holders, and to examine the debtor at creditors' meetings. (Sec. 106) Amends the Bankruptcy Code to include within the definition of "person" pension benefit guarantors and legal or beneficial owners of an asset of an eligible deferred compensation plan or of a governmental employee pension benefit plan (thus enabling such persons, State pension funds, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to serve on creditors' committees). (Sec. 107) Revises current guidelines to permit increases in incentive compensation for bankruptcy trustees. (Sec. 108) Increases the dollar limitations and debt limits applicable to specified bankruptcy procedures (thus enlarging the range of debtors eligible to repay debts over a period from regular income (Chapter 13 debtors), and accounting for inflation since 1978). (Sec. 109) Revises premerger notification requirements. (Sec. 110) Entitles members of Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization committees to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses. (Sec. 111) Prescribes guidelines for supplemental injunctions issued to enjoin entities from taking legal action to receive payment with respect to any claim that under a reorganization plan is to be paid by a specified trust established to assume the debtor's liability for asbestos-related damages. (Sec. 112) Amends the judicial code to authorize bankruptcy court judges to conduct jury trials in civil proceedings under specified circumstances. (Sec. 113) Provides for a waiver of State and Federal sovereign immunity with respect to monetary recoveries and declaratory or injunctive relief under the Bankruptcy Code. Title II: Commercial Bankruptcy Issues - Amends Federal bankruptcy law to revise provisions regarding the right of a party with a security interest in certain aircraft equipment, maritime vessels, or railroad rolling stock equipment to take possession of such equipment or vessels in compliance with an equipment security agreement notwithstanding the automatic stay or property use or sale provisions of the bankruptcy code or injunctive power of the bankruptcy court, unless the trustee assumes the debtor's obligations under the agreement by a specified deadline and any default is cured. (Sec. 202) Sets forth or revises guidelines governing: (1) liability limitations with respect to noninsider transferees for avoided transfers; (2) maintenance and continued perfection of a secured creditor's position; (3) rejection of unexpired leases of real property or timeshare interests; (4) inclusion of the claims of independent sales representatives within priority claims against the bankrupt estate; (5) exclusion from the bankrupt estate of the debtor's interest in liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons; (6) a seller's right to reclaim goods from a bankrupt debtor; (7) election of a disinterested trustee; (8) rights of the partnership trustee against the general partners; (9) exclusion from the debtor's estate of certain accounts receivable and chattel paper; (10) timely filing of claims, interests, and administrative expense requests; (11) the protection of security interests in post-petition rents; and (12) spot foreign exchange contracts. Title III: Consumer Bankruptcy Issues - Permits a Chapter 13 debtor to cure a lien arising from a home mortgage default with respect to his or her principal residence until the residence is sold under the lien. (Sec. 302) Declares certain criminal fines nondischargeable under a Chapter 13 proceeding. (Sec. 303) Amends Federal bankruptcy law to modify the guidelines under which a lien shall be considered to impair an exemption. (Sec. 304) Provides that a petition in bankruptcy does not operate as an automatic stay with respect to an action or proceeding for: (1) the establishment of paternity; or (2) the establishment or modification of an order for child or spousal maintenance or support. Includes within the priority list of expenses and claims that are to be paid by the bankrupt estate any claims for child or spousal support pursuant to a court order. Declares that a debtor in bankruptcy may not avoid a judicial lien securing a debt for child and spousal support or maintenance. Prohibits a bankruptcy trustee from avoiding a transfer that was a bona fide payment of a debt for child or spousal support or maintenance pursuant to a court order. Permits child support creditors to appear and intervene without charge, and without meeting any special local court requirement for attorney appearances, in any bankruptcy proceeding in any bankruptcy or district court upon the filing of a court form detailing the status of the child support debt. (Sec. 305) States that: (1) the rights of the mortgagee on the debtor's principal residence may not be modified; and (2) the rights of the most senior mortgagee on the debtor's principal residence may not be modified to reduce the secured claim to a value that is less than that of the allowed claim. (Sec. 306) Revises the guidelines regarding the debtor's cure of a default to limit a secured creditor to the benefit of the initial underlying agreement, including applicable nonbankruptcy law. (Sec. 307) Modifies the guidelines governing the presumed nondischargeability of certain consumer debts. Title IV: Governmental Bankruptcy Issues - Provides that the filing of a bankruptcy petition does not operate as an automatic stay of the creation, perfection, or enforcement of a statutory lien for an ad valorem property tax imposed by a governmental entity if such tax becomes due after the filing of a bankruptcy petition. (Sec. 402) Modifies the eligibility requirements for municipal bankruptcy filings to require that municipalities be specifically authorized by the State to file for bankruptcy. Title V: Technical Corrections - Makes technical and conforming corrections to the Bankruptcy Code and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. Amends the judicial code to require a U.S. trustee to supervise the administration of cases and trustees in cases under Chapter 12 of the Bankruptcy Code. Title VI: Severability; Effective Date; Application of Amendments - Sets forth severability provisions and the effective date of this Act. Makes it inapplicable to certain cases commenced before its enactment.

Designating the week beginning October 16, 1994, as "National Penny Charity Week".

United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1994

Designates the week beginning October 16, 1994, as National Penny Charity Week.

To extend for an additional two years the period during which medicare select policies may be issued.

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1994

Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend from three years to five years the period during which Medicare select policies may be issued.

Designating November 1, 1994, as "National Family Literacy Day".

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1994

Designates November 1, 1994, as National Family Literacy Day.

To commend the United States rice industry, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1994

Commends the U.S. rice industry for its decision to establish an industry organization. Recognizes the success such decision will have in promoting the interests of the rice industry and the rice-consuming public.

To waive the time limitation specified by law for the award of certain military decorations in order to allow the posthumous award of the congressional medal of honor to Doris Miller for actions while a member of the Navy during World War II.

United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1994

Waives certain time limitations with respect to the posthumous award of the Congressional Medal of Honor to Doris Miller for acts of heroism while serving in the Navy during World War II.

Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the announcement of the Japanese Food Agency that it does not intend to fulfill its commitment to purchase 75,000 metric tons of United States rice.

United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1994

Expresses the sense of the Congress disapproving of the Japanese Food Agency's decision not to fulfill its commitment to purchase 75,000 metric tons of U.S. rice.

International Antitrust Enforcement Assistance Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1994

International Antitrust Enforcement Assistance Act of 1994 - Authorizes the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to provide, in accordance with an antitrust mutual assistance agreement in effect with a foreign antitrust authority, antitrust evidence to assist such authority to: (1) determine whether a person has violated, or is about to violate, any of the foreign antitrust laws administered or enforced by the authority; and (2) enforce any of such laws. Authorizes the Attorney General to conduct investigations to obtain evidence relating to a violation of such foreign antitrust laws and provide such evidence to the authority, regardless of whether the conduct investigated violates any of the Federal antitrust laws. Authorizes the U.S. district court for the district in which a person resides, is found, or transacts business, upon application of the Attorney General made in accordance with such an agreement, to order such person to give testimony or a statement to, or to produce a document or other thing for, the Attorney General to assist the authority to make its determination or enforce any of such laws. Sets forth provisions regarding the contents of the order, the preservation of rights and privileges, and voluntary conduct. Makes this Act inapplicable with respect to antitrust evidence that is: (1) received by the Attorney General or the FTC under provisions of the Clayton Act regarding a premerger notification and waiting period; (2) a matter occurring before a grand jury with respect to which disclosure is prevented by Federal law, with exceptions; (3) specifically authorized to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy under criteria established by executive order; and (4) classified under specified provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Permits disclosure of antitrust evidence obtained under the Antitrust Civil Process Act in accordance with such an agreement under, and the other requirements of, this Act. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) publication requirements; (2) implementation of such agreements; (3) limitations on judicial review; (4) supplementation and preservation of authority; and (5) reporting requirements.

Designating September 17, 1994, as "Constitution Day".

United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1994

Designates September 17, 1994, as Constitution Day.

To make technical improvements in the United States Code by amending provisions to reflect the current names of congressional committees.

United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1994

Makes technical amendments to the U.S. Code to reflect the current names of congressional committees.

To codify without substantive change recent laws related to transportation and to improve the United States Code.

United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1994

Codifies specified provisions of Federal transportation law.

To designate the second Sunday in October of 1994 as "National Children's Day".

United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1994

Designates the second Sunday in October 1994 as National Children's Day.

To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel CYGNE SAUVAGE.

United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1994

Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation for employment in the coastwise trade for a named vessel.

Commemorating June 22, 1994, as the 50th anniversary of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.

United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1994

Commemorates June 22, 1994, as the 50th anniversary of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that June 21, 1994, be designated as "Freedom Summer Remembrance Day" and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1994

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) June 21, 1994, is designated as Freedom Summer Remembrance Day; and (2) it reaffirms the goal of removing remaining barriers to full voter participation in this Nation.

Designating August 2, 1994, as "National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day".

United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1994

Designates August 2, 1994, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.

National Community Service Commemorative Coin Act

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1994

National Community Service Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar silver coins to commemorate students who volunteer to perform community service. Mandates that all surcharges received from such coin sales be paid to the National Community Service Trust to fund innovative community service programs at American universities, including the service, research, and teaching activities of the faculty and students involved in such programs.

Designating June as "African-American Music Month".

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1994

Designates June as African-American Music Month.