Rep. Chandler, Rod D. [R-WA-8]

An amendment to delete the requirement that 10 per cent of each year's funds for drug abuse education be earmarked for awards to institutions of higher education.

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An amendment to urge the Secretary of State to enter into negotiations with the Government of Canada concerning tug escorts in Puget Sound.

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An amendment to provide that the liability limits in the bill would not apply to any large oil tanker (with a capacity of more than 40,000 deadweight tons) that enters Puget Sound without a tugboat escort--so that the vessel owner would be fully liable for all damages in U.S. courts.

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An amendment to increase the program funding authorized in the Dorgan amendment from $5 million to $10 million.

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An amendment to exempt the Federal Aviation Administration from the provisions of the 3.3 percent across the board cut imposed by the Penny amendment.

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A substitute to the Murphy amendments to strike the bill's provisions relating to handicapped infants, substituting provisions requiring HHS to issue quidelines for hospitals that want to establish ethical advisory committees to offer advice on the treatment of severely handicapped infants and to help establish hospital treatment policies. It also establishes a national commission to study the issue of treatment of handicapped infants and requires HHS to compile a directory of physicians with expertise in the care and treatment of handicapped infants.

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An amendment to express the sense of Congress that certain enumerated reforms should be included within the actions to be undertaken by Nicaragua in its pursuit of political settlement.

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An amendment to the Shelby substitute amendment to prohibit waiver of requirements on fetal research unless application is made to the Secretary with the approval of the Institutional Review Board with jurisdiction over the applicant. The Secretary may not approve a waiver or modification of regulations without convening an ethics advisory board and determining that the risks to the fetus involved are so outweighed by the sum of the benefit to the fetus and the importance of the knowledge to be gained is so great as to granting the application. It must also be shown that without the waiver such benefits cannot be obtained. Waivers and modifications are to be published in the Federal Register.

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An amendment comprised of two amendments en bloc to reduce the appropriation for Formula Grants by $90 million to $1,775,000,000, and to reduce the appropriation for the Washington Metro by $10,000,000 to $191,119,500.

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Amendment sought to eliminate $8.5 million earmarked for the Fish and Wildlife Service for the purpose of listing new species as either threatened or endangered.

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Concerning United States participation in a Cascadia Corridor commission.

United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1992

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should continue negotiations with the Government of Canada and State, provincial, and local governments in the urbanized Cascadia corridor along Interstate 5/Highway 99 from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Eugene, Oregon, to establish a Cascadia Corridor Commission to: (1) act as a forum to coordinate consideration of regional issues in the Cascadia area; (2) develop a strategy for environmentally sound economic development in the region; and (3) submit a plan, developed by the Commission and incorporating such strategy to the Congress, the Canadian Parliament, the legislature of British Columbia, and the State legislatures of Oregon and Washington.

Concerning United States participation in a Cascadia Corridor Commission.

United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1992

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should continue negotiations with the Government of Canada and State, provincial, and local governments in the urbanized Cascadia corridor along Interstate 5/Highway 99 from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Eugene, Oregon, to establish a Cascadia Corridor Commission to: (1) act as a forum to coordinate consideration of regional issues in the Cascadia area; (2) develop a strategy for environmentally sound economic development in the region; and (3) submit a plan incorporating such strategy to the Congress, the Canadian Parliament, the legislature of British Columbia, and the State legislatures of Oregon and Washington.

Endangered Species Act Reform Amendments of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1992

Endangered Species Act Reform Amendments of 1992 - Title I: Ensuring the Integrity of the Listing, Critical Habitat Designation, and Consultation Processes - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (the Act) with respect to improved data collection and analysis, peer review, equal access to judicial review, recognition of State, local, and international activities, priority for species preservation, critical habitat designation, and consultation processes. Title II: Providing Significance to the Recovery Planning Process - Amends the Act with respect to ensuring the preparation and use of timely, comprehensive, and effective recovery plans. Requires either the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce, as program responsibilities are vested, to report biennially to specified congressional committees on the status of: (1) efforts to develop and implement recovery plans for listed endangered and threatened species; and (2) all species for which such plans have been developed. Title III: Ensuring that the Compliance Procedures and Standards for Private Landowners and Other non-Federal Persons Are Not More Burdensome, Time-Consuming, or Costly than Those Applicable to Federal Agencies - Amends the Act to: (1) make consultation procedures for Federal agencies available to private landowners and other non-Federal agencies available to private landowners and other non-Federal individuals and entities; (2) include permit or license applicants in consultations concerning Federal agency actions; (3) authorize the issuance of general permits for private and other non-Federal activities which have minimal effect on species listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973; (4) facilitate the application for, and processing and issuance of, conservation plans for endangered or threatened species; (5) define the "take prohibition" for application in accordance with the intent of the Congress and in a manner providing more precise guidance to all parties wishing to avoid its violation and possible sanctions; (6) establish special limitations on application of take prohibitions; (7) provide for exemptions from the Act for non-Federal individuals and entities and remove payment requirements associated with obtaining such an exemption; and (8) give non-Federal property owners the option of purchase of their property by, or receipt of compensation for diminished value of their property from, the Federal Government when it requires that the property be managed to protect endangered or threatened species. Title IV: Species Enhancement - Amends the Act to authorize the Secretary to: (1) enter into cooperative management agreements for governing the administration and management of areas identified as habitats for listed species; (2) provide grants to private property owners for preserving the habitat of threatened or endangered species; and (3) permit activities otherwise prohibited when such actions are carried out by certain organizations for the sole purpose of promoting species conservation and population enhancement. Provides for guidance for the release of experimental populations. Title V: Reauthorization and Other Amendments - Makes technical amendments regarding application of Endangered Species Act prohibitions to threatened species and citizens suits. Reauthorizes the Endangered Species Act of 1973 at increased levels.

Concerning United States participation in a Cascadia Corridor commission.

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1992

Declares that the United States should continue negotiations with the Canadian Government and State, provincial, and local governments in the urbanized Cascadia corridor along Interstate 5/Highway 99 from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Eugene, Oregon, to establish a commission to: (1) act as a forum to coordinate consideration of regional issues in the Cascadia area; (2) develop a strategy for environmentally sound economic development in such region; and (3) submit a plan incorporating such strategy to the Congress, the Canadian Parliament, and the legislatures of British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington. Provides for cost-sharing among the Federal, State, and local participants. Authorizes appropriations.

To authorize United States participation in the Cascadia Corridor Commission.

United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1992

Authorizes the United States to participate in the Cascadia Corridor Commission to be established as a bilateral advisory commission in coordination with the Canadian Government and State, provincial, and local governments in the Cascadia region along Interstate 5/Highway 99 from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Eugene, Oregon. Authorizes the Commission to: (1) establish a forum to coordinate consideration of regional issues in the Cascadia region; and (2) develop a strategy for environmentally sound economic development in such region and submit such plan to the Congress, the Canadian Parliament, the legislature of British Columbia, and the State legislatures of Oregon and Washington. Requires the strategy to consider environmental management, urban development, transportation, communications, and education. Authorizes appropriations.

Family Leave Tax Credit Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1992

Family Leave Tax Credit Act of 1992 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer an income tax credit for 20 percent of qualified employee compensation with respect to an employee who is on family leave. Defines family leave as leave in connection with the birth of a child, the placement of a child with the employee for adoption or foster care, the care of a child, spouse, or parent with a serious health condition, or the treatment of a serious health condition which makes the employee unable to perform the functions of his or her position. Limits such credit to employers with 500 or fewer employees, the amount of qualified compensation, and the maximum period for the use of such leave.

To treat health professionals who are faculty members at a dental school and who operate an intramural dental faculty practice plan at such school as paid by a common paymaster for purposes of social security taxes.

United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1992

Amends the Social Security Amendments of 1983 to treat as paid by a common paymaster for purposes of social security taxes any health professionals who: (1) are faculty members at a dental school; and (2) operate an intramural dental faculty practice plan at such school.

Designating February 4, 1993, and February 3, 1994, as "National Women and Girls in Sports Day".

United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992

Designates February 4, 1993, and February 3, 1994, as National Women and Girls in Sports Day.

Pension Funding Improvement Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1992

Pension Funding Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I: Amendments to Pension Plan Funding Requirements - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to revise minimum funding standards for pension plans. Revises the additional funding requirements for pension plans that are not multiemployer plans to provide for an underfunding reduction requirement and solvency maintenance requirement. Title II: Required Security for Certain Plan Amendments - Amends IRC and ERISA to increase required funding percentages and required security under provisions for pension plan termination insurance. Applies such required funding and security provisions to multiemployer plans, as well as to other pension plans. Applies specified criminal penalties to violations of such requirements. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to submit separate reports to the Congress setting forth alternative increases in premiums that would be required for the assets of the single-employer program (established under ERISA provisions for pension plan termination insurance) to equal or exceed such program's current and expected liabilities by 2002. Amends ERISA to require inclusion in annual PBGC reports of actuarial evaluations of pension benefit guaranty funds for the next five, ten, twenty, and thirty years. (Currently, inclusion of such evaluations for the next five years only is required.) Requires such evaluations to set forth alternative premium schedules to assure that PBGC assets equal or exceed its liabilities during such periods. Authorizes the CBO to transmit a separate report analyzing and commenting upon the actuarial evaluation (and premium schedules) prepared by the PBGC, for any fiscal year the CBO deems appropriate. Authorizes the PBGC to require certain plan sponsors or members of a sponsor's controlled group to provide it with records, documents, or other information necessary to determine liabilities and assets of plans covered by ERISA plan termination insurance provisions, or the financial condition of sponsors or members of sponsors' controlled groups maintaining such plans. Applies such information requirements to a plan if: (1) its underfunding exceeds $10,000,000; (2) it has more than 2,000 participants; or (3) it has been granted minimum funding waivers in excess of $1,000,000. Treats all plans maintained by the same sponsor (or any member of such sponsor's controlled group) as one plan for purposes of such information requirements.

Commission on Retirement Income Policy Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1992

Commission on Retirement Income Policy Act of 1992 - Establishes the Commission on Retirement Income Policy. Directs the Commission to study and report to the Congress on: (1) trends in retirement savings in the United States; (2) existing Federal incentives and programs to encourage and protect such savings; and (3) new Federal incentives and programs needed for such purpose. Requires the Commission to address specified issues and to include in its recommendation measures addressing specified needs of future retirees. Terminates the Commission within 90 days after submission of such report. Authorizes appropriations.

Commending the heroic individuals who acted to rescue Jews during the Holocaust and the Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers, which perpetuates the altruism and moral courage of such individuals.

United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1992

Commends: (1) the many heroic individuals who acted at great risk to save Jews from death during the Holocaust; and (2) the Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers for its work in recognizing, honoring, and encouraging the people of the world to show the altruism and moral courage of such heroic individuals.

To repeal the provisions of the Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1992 which provide for optional trustee-to-trustee transfers of eligible rollover distributions and impose a withholding tax on distributions not so transferred.

United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1992

Repeals specified portions of the Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1992 (Public Law 102-318) which: (1) provide for optional trustee-to-trustee transfers of eligible rollover distributions; and (2) impose a withholding tax on distributions not so transferred. Requires the Internal Revenue Code to be applied and administered as if such provisions (and the amendments made by such provisions) had not been enacted.

Designating October 1992 as "Polish-American Heritage Month".

United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1992

Designates October 1992 as Polish-American Heritage Month.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain sponsorship payments from the unrelated business income of tax-exempt organizations, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1992

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to declare that unrelated trade or business does not include the activity of soliciting and receiving qualified sponsorship payments (payments received by tax-exempt organizations from corporations and other sponsors in connection with certain athletic and other public events) for purposes of the tax on unrelated business income of charitable, etc., organizations. Excludes royalties received by certain tax-exempt olympic organizations for the 1996 Olympics as income from an unrelated trade or business. Includes income received by a tax-exempt organization (other than a tax-exempt credit union) from exchanging or leasing its membership list or its identifying symbol for use in connection with credit or debit cards as income derived from an unrelated trade or business.