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Law· HRH.R. 3694 (103rd)enacted

Child Abuse Accountability Act

United States · United States Congress · 22 November 1993

Child Abuse Accountability Act - Permits the garnishment of an annuity under the Civil Service or Federal Employees' Retirement Systems in order to satisfy a judgment against an annuitant for physically abusing a child.

Bill· HRH.R. 3642 (103rd)referred

Commercial Mortgage Capital Availability Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 22 November 1993

Commercial Mortgage Capital Availability Act of 1993 - Sets forth a regulatory scheme under which qualified insured depository institutions meeting prescribed reserve and capital requirements may execute mortgage loan transfers with a recourse arrangement. Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to modify the definition of "mortgage related security" to include notes directly secured by a first lien on real estate with commercial structures located upon it (thus bringing such securities within the purview of the Act). Directs the Secretary of Labor to exempt commercial mortgage related securities transactions from: (1) certain restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974; and (2) certain taxes imposed under the Internal Revenue Code. Mandates that securities relying on the provisions of this Act comply with all Federal securities laws relating to disclosure to investors, registrations, reporting and anti-fraud provisions. Requires insured depository institutions to maintain the minimum adequate capital prescribed by regulatory banking agencies when executing mortgage backed securities transactions.

Bill· HRH.R. 3628 (103rd)referred

Regulatory Sunset Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 22 November 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Sunset Reviews Title II: Agency Role in Sunset Reviews Regulatory Sunset Act of 1993 - Title I: Sunset Reviews - Establishes the Regulatory Sunset Commission to review regulations of executive agencies and determine in accordance with specified criteria whether they should be terminated, authorized to continue in effect, or modified. Provides for limited judicial review of Commission determinations. Title II: Agency Role in Sunset Reviews - Requires the head of each agency to: (1) conduct thorough and systematic reviews of all agency regulations based on such criteria; (2) prepare and transmit to the Commission a report on agency regulations which includes recommendations of the actions to take; and (3) publish in the Federal Register the agency responses to Commission determinations. Establishes a Regulatory Review Officer within each executive agency (designated by the agency head) to: (1) further agency compliance with this Act; and (2) report directly to the agency head with respect to such function.

Bill· HRH.R. 3584 (103rd)open

Truth in Sentencing Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1993

Truth in Sentencing Act of 1993 - Authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to provide grants to States to build, expand, or operate space in correctional facilities in order to implement specified "truth in sentencing" requirements. Requires a State, to be eligible for funding under this Act, to have in effect throughout the State such requirements, including provisions which: (1) restrict parole, good-time credit release, or other forms of early release to require that criminals convicted of crimes of violence serve at least 85 percent of the sentence imposed by a judge or jury; (2) require the sentencing authority to allow the defendant's victim or the victim's family the opportunity to be heard regarding the issue of sentencing; (3) allow as a sentencing option a "life sentence" without the possibility of parole; and (4) provide that the victim and the victim's family shall be notified whenever such defendant is to be released. Makes exceptions that: (1) allow the State to provide that the Governor may permit the release of a prisoner after a public hearing in which representatives of the public and the prisoner's victims have an opportunity to be heard regarding the proposed release; and (2) make a State eligible for funding under this Act when that State has enacted legislation that provides for the State to be in compliance with this Act within three years of the enactment of such legislation. Sets forth provisions regarding the distribution of, and limitations on, funds. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for a reduction of full-time equivalent positions in all Federal agencies. Sets forth requirements regarding monitoring and notification of the President and the Congress as to whether such reductions are taking place (and, if they are not being met in a given agency, prohibits hiring for any position in such agency until the Office of Management and Budget notifies the President that the agency is in compliance).

Bill· HRH.R. 3587 (103rd)referred

Syndex Fairness Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1993

Syndex Fairness Act of 1993 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission to revise the regulations relating to nonduplication protection and syndicated exclusivity to permit the customers of cable television systems in towns, cities, or communities with populations of less than 50,000 to receive network programs for each network from affiliated television stations in the customers' States.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 185 (103rd)open

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the current Canadian quota regime on chicken imports should be removed as part of the Uruguay Round multilateral trade negotiations and that the imposition of quotas by Canada on United States processed chicken violates Article XI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1993

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) as part of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, negotiate a tariff-rate quota to replace Canada's chicken supply management system, as well as the elimination of processed chicken from Canada's Import Control List; (2) insist under such quota that the amount of chicken determined to be within quota be based on the total amount of chicken imported into Canada in 1993 through both global and supplemental import quotas; (3) seek the elimination or, at the minimum, phase-out of new duties imposed by Canada on chicken imports in accordance with the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement; and (4) oppose any Canadian activity which results in lost sales for U.S. chicken exporters and restricts U.S. access to Canadian markets.

Bill· HRH.R. 3488 (103rd)referred

To amend the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to limit the distribution of funds of the National Endowment for the Arts.

United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1993

Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to prohibit use of National Endowment for the Arts funds to assist financially any project, production, workshop, or program that depicts or describes in a patently offensive way: (1) sexual or excretory activities or organs; or (2) religion or religious symbols.

Bill· HRH.R. 3490 (103rd)referred

Cooperative Agricultural Programs Extended Retirement Credit Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1993

Cooperative Agricultural Programs Extended Retirement Credit Act of 1993 - Provides for crediting under certain conditions, service in certain Federal-State cooperative agricultural and other programs under the Civil Service Retirement System.

Bill· HRH.R. 3480 (103rd)referred

Apollo 11 Moon Landing 25th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1993

Apollo 11 Moon Landing 25th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) issue coins emblematic of humans first landing on the moon 25 years ago; and (2) pay surcharges received from coin sales to the Aerospace Education Alliance to develop and implement a math and science skills program for America's teachers in grades kindergarten through eight.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 177 (103rd)referred

Calling for the United States to amend the London Convention to ban the ocean dumping of low-level radioactive waste, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1993

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) seek an international agreement to ban the deliberate ocean dumping of low-level radioactive waste and encourage a periodic international scientific review of the environmental impacts of such dumping; and (2) urge all nations to comply with existing and future international agreements prohibiting the deliberate ocean dumping of low- and high-level radioactive waste.

Bill· HRH.R. 3352 (103rd)open

NAFTA Worker Security Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1993

NAFTA Worker Security Act of 1993 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to provide transitional trade adjustment assistance to workers adversely affected by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Makes such workers eligible for assistance if the Secretary of Labor determines that a significant number of the workers in a firm have become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to become totally or partially separated, and either: (1) the sales or production, or both, of such firm decreased, imports from Mexico or Canada of articles like or directly competitive with articles produced by such firm have increased, and the increase in such articles contributed to such workers' separation or threat of separation and to the decline in the firm's sales or production; or (2) there has been a shift in production by the workers' firm to Mexico or Canada of articles like or directly competitive with articles produced by the firm. Authorizes a group of workers, including workers in any agricultural firm, or their recognized union to file with the Governor of a State a petition for certification of eligibility to apply for such assistance. Prohibits a worker from receiving duplicative assistance. Authorizes appropriations.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 281 (103rd)open

Respecting child pornography.

United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1993

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Department of Justice should repudiate its reinterpretation of Federal child pornography laws, defend the conviction won in lower courts in Knox v. United States, and vigorously prosecute sexual exploitation of children.

Bill· HRH.R. 3270 (103rd)open

1995 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Commemorative Coin Act

United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1993

1995 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue commemorative one-dollar silver coins bearing a likeness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Requires the Secretary to distribute proceeds from surcharges ($10 per coin) in equal allocations to: (1) the National Park Foundation Restricted Account for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; and (2) the National Park Service Restricted Construction Account for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.

Bill· HRH.R. 3246 (103rd)referred

To provide that the provisions of chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, relating to reemployed annuitants shall not apply with respect to postal retirees who are reemployed, on a temporary basis, to serve as rural letter carriers or rural postmasters.

United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1993

Amends Federal law with respect to the Civil Service and Federal Employees' Retirement Systems to provide that certain requirements relating to reemployed annuitants shall not apply with respect to postal retirees who are reemployed, on a temporary basis, as rural postmasters or rural letter carriers.

Bill· HRH.R. 3228 (103rd)referred

Emergency Immigrant Education Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1993

Emergency Immigrant Education Act of 1993 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish an emergency immigrant education program. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Education to allocate program payments to State educational agencies for services for immigrant children in elementary and secondary schools in local educational agency districts where the number of immigrant children is equal to at least 1,000 or at least five percent of the total number of students enrolled in public and nonpublic schools during that fiscal year. Allows a State to reserve not more than three percent of such funds for such services in local educational agencies which do not meet such criteria. Authorizes the Secretary, also under such program, to make district-wide immigrant grants for other services for immigrant children to local educational agencies whose districts include numbers of such children in public and nonpublic schools equal to at least 5,000 or at least ten percent.

Bill· HRH.R. 3170 (103rd)referred

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consult with representatives of physicians and to use the most recent available data in making geographic adjustments to the payment rates for physicians' services under part B of the medicare program, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1993

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consult with appropriate representatives of physicians in reviewing the geographic adjustment factors used to determine reimbursements for physician services under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance). Requires the Secretary to: (1) base such factors on the most recent available data; (2) first review and revise such factors by January 1, 1995; and (3) study and report to specified congressional committees on the construction of the geographic cost of practice index and the review and revision of the geographic indices under Medicare. Directs the Physician Payment Review Commission to study and report to the Congress on criteria to refine fee schedule areas in applying geographic adjustment factors for computing payment amounts under Medicare for physicians' services.

Bill· HRH.R. 3147 (103rd)open

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the targeted jobs credit permanent and to treat as a member of a targeted group every individual who has received a Department of Defense campaign ribbon, liberation ribbon, or national defense service medal.

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1993

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the targeted jobs credit permanent law. Treats as a member of a targeted group a conflict-era veteran who has been awarded a campaign ribbon, liberation ribbon, or national defense service medal by the Department of Defense.

Bill· HRH.R. 3121 (103rd)open

Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1993

Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, to conduct a study concerning traumatic brain injury. Requires the study to seek to: (1) identify common therapeutic interventions which are used for the rehabilitation of individuals with traumatic brain injuries; and (2) develop practice guidelines for the rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to conduct studies concerning traumatic brain injury and establish a uniform reporting system. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to cooperate with, and provide assistance to, public and private nonprofit entities to reduce the incidence of traumatic brain injury through the establishment and effectuation of prevention projects. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to State and local entities, and to public or nonprofit private entities, to support: (1) special prevention and public awareness initiative projects; (2) model traumatic brain injury prevention, research, and support programs; (3) projects that study the service needs of individuals with traumatic brain injury; and (4) projects involving grants for services coordination. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health, to provide assistance to public and private nonprofit entities to support the conduct of basic and applied research concerning traumatic brain injury, especially with respect to the biomechanics of brain injury. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to award grants to States for the establishment of programs related to traumatic brain injury. Authorizes appropriations. Designates October 1993 as National Head Injury Month.

Bill· HRH.R. 3102 (103rd)referred

To amend the Truth in Lending Act, Truth in Savings Act, and Consumer Leasing Act to modify certain disclosure requirements.

United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1993

Amends the Truth in Lending Act of 1968, Truth in Savings Act of 1991, and Consumer Leasing Act of 1976 to declare that radio broadcast advertisements satisfy statutory consumer disclosure requirements if they include toll-free telephone numbers providing consumers with disclosure information prior to engaging in the transactions specified.

Bill· HRH.R. 3023 (103rd)open

To amend title 10, United States Code, to eliminate the disparity between civilian and military retiree cost-of-living adjustments caused by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 1993.

United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1993

Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to revise provisions concerning limitations on cost of living adjustments for military retirees to set forth special rules concerning such adjustments for FY 1994 through 1996 (currently, special rules are set forth for FY 1994 through 1998).

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 234 (103rd)referred

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that obstetrician-gynecologists should be designated as primary care providers for women in Federal laws relating to the provision of health care.

United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1993

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) obstetrician-gynecologists should be designated as primary care providers for women in Federal laws relating to the provision of health care; and (2) legislative proposals that define primary care should include services performed by obstetrician-gynecologists in such definition.

Bill· HRH.R. 2803 (103rd)referred

Rental-Purchase Reform Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1993

Rental-Purchase Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to set forth information required to be disclosed by merchants to consumers under rental-purchase agreements. Regulates the collection and advertising practices of such merchants. Authorizes consumers to bring civil charges in any U.S. district court for violations of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 2736 (103rd)open

Colonia Waste Water Treatment Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1993

Colonia Waste Water Treatment Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California for waste water treatment for a political subdivision acting on behalf of a colonia that meets this Act's requirements or a colonia that: (1) is determined to be a colonia on the basis of objective criteria; (2) is located in the United States within 100 kilometers of the international boundary between Mexico and the United States; and (3) was in existence as a colonia before November 27, 1990. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 2654 (103rd)open

To authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to exempt certain small landfills from the groundwater monitoring requirements contained in landfill regulations promulgated by the Agency.

United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1993

Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to exempt from specified groundwater monitoring requirements any facility: (1) at which fewer than 20 tons of municipal solid waste is disposed of daily; (2) at which there is no evidence of existing groundwater contamination; and (3) which serves a community that experiences an annual interruption of at least three consecutive months of surface transportation that prevents access to a regional waste management facility or that has no waste management alternative and is in an area that receives 25 inches or fewer of precipitation annually.

Bill· HRH.R. 2641 (103rd)referred

To amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit the issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity to an applicant which is controlled by a person who has controlled 1 or more air carriers which have filed, in the aggregate, 2 or more petitions for bankruptcy.

United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1993

Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit the issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing an air carrier to engage in air transportation to any applicant which is controlled by a person who has controlled one or more air carriers which have filed, in the aggregate, two or more petitions for bankruptcy.

Bill· HRH.R. 2623 (103rd)referred

Amateur Radio Volunteer Services Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1993

Amateur Radio Volunteer Services Act of 1993 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that an individual licensee in the Amateur Radio Service who provides volunteer services to the Federal Communications Commission in programs benefiting the Service shall not incur personal financial responsibility for any alleged damage, loss, or injury from any act or omission of the volunteer from the provision of such services if such: (1) individual was acting in good faith and within the scope of such individual's official function and duties; and (2) damage was not caused by willful and wanton misconduct by such individual.

Bill· HRH.R. 2443 (103rd)open

Equitable Escheatment Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993

Equitable Escheatment Act of 1993 - Amends specified Federal law to prescribe guidelines under which unclaimed distributions of security interests shall be subject to the custodial taking (escheatment) by the State which contains the principal executive offices of either the issuer or the holder of those securities.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 110 (103rd)open

To express the sense of Congress that the President convene a White House Conference on Tourism to recognize travel and tourism in America as a major economic force, providing tax revenue for thousands of cities, counties, and States, income for hundreds of thousands of business firms, and contributing to the Nation's growth an economic stability.

United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993

Urges the President to recognize the influential role rail, bus, air passenger service, highway, and byway investments and other transportation initiatives have in the development of tourism opportunities in the United States by convening a White House Conference on Tourism to address critical issues which highlight the interdependence of transportation and tourism. Declares that transportation infrastructure and the Scenic Byways Program are key components of economic development and should be addressed by the Conference.

Bill· HRH.R. 2305 (103rd)reported

To authorize and encourage the President to conclude an agreement with Mexico to establish a United States-Mexico Border Health Commission.

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

Authorizes the President to conclude an agreement with Mexico to establish a binational commission to be known as the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission. Declares that it should be the duty of the Commission to: (1) conduct a needs assessment in the U.S.-Mexican border area to identify and resolve health problems that affect the general population of the area; (2) coordinate public and private persons to educate the population about, and resolve, such health problems and develop programs to meet needs that are not being met by such persons; and (3) formulate recommendations for a fair method by which the government of one country would reimburse a public or private person in the other country for the cost of a health care service furnished to a citizen or resident alien of the first country who is unable to pay for the service.

Bill· HRH.R. 2241 (103rd)referred

To provide for the establishment of a committee to assist the Secretary of Health and Human Services in developing new criteria and standards for audits of State child support programs, and to require the Secretary to promulgate regulations to modify such audits to emphasize program outcomes.

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1993

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish the Child Support Audit Advisory Committee to assist in developing new criteria and standards for audits of State child support agencies which emphasize program outcomes; and (2) issue final regulations to implement such criteria and standards.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 199 (103rd)open

To recognize the achievements of radio amateurs, and to establish support for such amateurs as national policy.

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993

Commends radio amateurs for their contributions to technical progress in electronics and for their emergency radio communications in times of disaster. Urges the Federal Communications Commission to continue and enhance the development of the amateur radio service as a public benefit by adopting rules and regulations which encourage the use of new technologies within the amateur radio service. Declares that reasonable accommodation should be made for effective operation of amateur radio from residences, private vehicles, and public areas and that regulation at all levels of government should facilitate and encourage amateur radio operation as a public benefit.

Bill· HRH.R. 2121 (103rd)open

Negotiated Rates Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1993

Negotiated Rates Act of 1993 - Amends Federal transportation law to authorize persons against whom a claim is made by a motor carrier of property (other than a household goods carrier), or by a nonhousehold goods freight forwarder for the collection of rates or charges in addition to the rates originally collected by such carrier or freight forwarder, to elect to satisfy such claim pursuant to a specified formula upon showing that the carrier or forwarder is no longer transporting property or is transporting property for the purpose of avoiding application of this Act. Requires that the claimant have been offered a rate other than the one legally on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), have tendered freight in reasonable reliance upon the offered rate, the carrier or forwarder did not properly or timely file a tariff for the rate or failed to execute a valid contract for transportation services, such rate was collected by the carrier or forwarder, and the carrier or forwarder demands additional payment of a higher rate filed in a tariff. Shortens the statute of limitations for the filing of claims: (1) by a motor common carrier or freight forwarder for recovery of transportation or service charges; and (2) by any person to recover overcharges by a motor carrier. Permits motor carriers and shippers to resolve by mutual consent, subject to ICC review and approval, any overcharge and undercharge claims resulting from billing errors or incorrect tariff provisions arising from the inadvertent failure to properly and timely file and maintain agreed upon rates, rules, or classifications. Prohibits a tariff filed with the ICC from being held invalid solely on the basis that it uses a numerical or alpha account code to designate customers or describe the applicability of rates. Requires a motor contract carrier to enter into a written agreement (separate from a bill of lading or receipt) for the provision of transportation services. Sets forth both civil and criminal penalties for violations of this requirement. Requires the ICC to issue regulations prohibiting any motor carrier from reducing a rate set forth in its tariff or contract for any person but the one paying for the transportation service. Sets forth civil penalties. Grants the ICC jurisdiction to resolve disputes arising with respect to certain motor carriers as to whether transportation is provided as a motor common carrier or as a motor contract carrier. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to arrange with the Transportation Research Board to study and report to specified congressional committees on: (1) the public benefits of tariff rate filings by motor carriers of property with the ICC; (2) the extent to which such filing system is used by shippers; (3) the difficulty and cost of determining rates for transportation services under such system; and (4) the number of actions brought before the ICC with respect to such rates.