United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Establishes the Commission on Environment and Development to: (1) monitor the actions of the signatories to documents of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) that reflect compliance with or violations of the goals of the Articles of Agenda 21 of UNCED, the Statement of Principles on the Maintenance, Conservation, and Development of All Forests, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Convention on Biological Diversity; (2) monitor and encourage the development of U.S. Government and private programs with a view toward advancing the objectives of UNCED; and (3) review reports submitted by countries to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Anti-Boycott MFN Restriction Act of 1993 - Prohibits application of nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to the products of countries that participate in, or cooperate with, the international economic boycott of Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title I: Elementary and Secondary Education Program Authorized Title II: Amendments to Other Educational Programs Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1993 - Title I: Elementary and Secondary Education Program Authorized - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to extend for six years the authorizations of appropriations for ESEA programs, including: (1) basic grants under the title I Chapter 1 program of assistance for educationally disadvantaged children (including participation of children enrolled in private schools); (2) Even Start Family Literacy programs; (3) secondary school programs for basic skills improvement and dropout prevention and reentry; (4) funds for implementation of school improvement programs; (5) rural educational opportunities; (6) Federal, State, and local partnership for educational improvement (Chapter 2 programs); (7) Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education assistance; (8) foreign language assistance; (9) magnet schools assistance; (10) women's educational equity; (11) gifted and talented children; (12) Ellender fellowships; (13) immigrant education; (14) the Secretary's fund for innovation in education, including instruction in history and principles of U.S. democracy; (15) Ready to Learn program; (16) basic skills improvement assistance; and (17) bilingual education programs. Title II: Amendments to Other Educational Programs - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the following programs under the following Acts: (1) Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, education for homeless adults, children, and youth; (2) the Follow Through Act, Follow Through programs; (3) impact aid to local educational agencies, under specified Federal laws; (3) the Indian Education Act, assistance to local educational agencies, improvement of education for Indian children, training for their teachers, fellowships for Indian students, gifted and talented, and improvement of education for adult Indians; (4) the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980, refugee and immigrant education; (5) education for Native Hawaiians, under specified Federal law; (6) the Education for Economic Security Act, partnerships in education for mathematics, science, and engineering, and the Star Schools program; (7) the General Education Provisions Act, the National Center for Education Statistics; (8) the Fund for the Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching Act, the fund under such Act; and (9) the Education Council Act of 1991, the National Writing Project.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) and the National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to extend certain authorities. Extends the authorization of appropriations under CNA for: (1) start-up costs for school breakfast programs; (2) State administrative expenses; (3) the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC); and (4) nutrition education and training. Extends the authorization of appropriations under NSLA for: (1) the summer food service program for children; (2) a distribution program; (3) statewide demonstration projects under the child and adult care food program; (4) pilot projects; and (5) training, technical assistance, and the Food Service Management Institute.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Life Imprisonment for Egregious Recidivists Act of 1993 - 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. Specifies that this provision shall not be construed to prevent the imposition of the death penalty.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Merchant Marine Memorial Enhancement Act of 1993 - Authorizes conveyance without consideration of two vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet to any nonprofit organization that operates a Liberty Ship or Victory Ship as a memorial to merchant mariners. Requires the organization to sell the vessel for scrap, use the proceeds to refurbish a Liberty Ship or Victory Ship to enable the ship to participate in activities concerning the 50th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, and return any unused proceeds to the United States for deposit in the Vessel Operations Revolving Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Elevation of the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet Level Title II: Environmental Role of the United States in International Organizations to Which it Belongs Title III: Establishment of the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection Title IV: Effective Date Department of the Environment Act of 1993- Title I: Elevation of the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet Level - Department of the Environment Act - Redesignates the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the Department of the Environment. Encourages the Secretary of the Environment to: (1) assist the Secretary of State in participating in international environmental protection agreements and organizations; (2) conduct research on and develop responses to international environmental problems; and (3) provide assistance to foreign countries and international bodies to improve the environment. Establishes a Bureau of Environmental Statistics and an Advisory Council on Environmental Statistics. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants to, and contracts with, State and local governments to assist in data collection. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for a report on the adequacy of the Department's data collection procedures and capabilities. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth conflict-of-interest disclosure requirements for persons entering into arrangements for services with the Secretary. Requires public notice when the award of a contract may result in a conflict of interests. Title II: Environmental Role of the United States in International Organizations to Which It Belongs - Urges the Secretary of State to convene international conferences to encourage the exchange of information on energy efficiency and environmentally acceptable renewable energy sources. Requires the President to encourage the establishment of an international office to monitor annual generation of carbon dioxide and trace gases on a country-by-country basis. Title III: Establishment of the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection - Establishes the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection to make recommendations on the implementation of Federal environmental laws to protect human health and the environment. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Federal Employees Political Activities Act of 1993 - Prohibits an employee from using or attempting to use official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the result of any election. Prohibits the use of official authority to intimidate, threaten, coerce, or influence: (1) any individual for the purpose of interfering with the right to vote or not to vote for any candidate or measure in any election; (2) any person to give or withhold any political contribution; or (3) any person to engage, or not to engage, in any form of political activity. Prohibits an employee from: (1) giving or offering to give a political contribution to any individual either to vote or to refrain from voting; (2) soliciting, accepting, or receiving a political contribution to vote or refrain from voting; or (3) giving or handing over a political contribution to a superior. Prohibits an employee from soliciting, accepting, or receiving a political contribution: (1) from another employee (or a member of another employee's immediate family) with respect to whom the employee is a superior; or (2) in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by a Federal employee, official, or contractor. Prohibits an employee from getting involved with political contributions with any person who: (1) has, or is seeking to obtain, contractual or other business relations with the employing agency; (2) conducts operations regulated by that agency; or (3) has interests which may be substantially affected by the performance of the employee's official duties. Prohibits an employee from engaging in political activity: (1) while on duty; (2) in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by a Federal employee or official; (3) while wearing a uniform or official insignia identifying the office or position of the employee; or (4) while using any vehicle owned or leased by the Government. Exempts certain high level political appointees from such prohibitions if the costs associated with the political activity are not paid for by money derived from the Treasury. Authorizes leave without pay or accrued annual leave to an employee who is a candidate, upon request, to allow such employee to engage in activities relating to that candidacy. Applies this Act to postal employees and employees of the Postal Rate Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Merchant Mariners Fairness Act of 1993 - Provides that certain qualified service of a member of the U.S. merchant marine, including a vessel crewmember of the U.S. Army Transport Service, during World War II constituted active military service for purposes of eligibility for various veterans' benefits under the GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977. Requires the Secretary of Defense to issue an honorable discharge under such Act to each merchant marine member whose qualified service warrants such a discharge. Prohibits the payment of any retroactive benefits under this Act. Mandates a processing fee for any benefit application for such qualified service.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General to provide, on an expedited basis, for a 30-day maximum parole admission of an alien into the United States to attend the funeral of an immediate blood relative.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Urban Tax Enterprise Zones and Rural Development Investment Zones Subtitle A: Designation and Tax Incentives Subtitle B: Redevelopment Bonds for Tax Enterprise Zones Subtitle C: Expansion of Targeted Jobs Credit Subtitle D: Credit for Contributions to Certain Community Development Corporation Subtitle E: Report on Number of Areas Meeting Enterprise Zone Criteria Title II: Authorization for Additional Assistance to Distressed Communities Subtitle A: National Public-Private Partnership Programs Subtitle B: Block Grant Funding for Eligible Programs Subtitle C: Other Programs Enterprise Zone Community Development Act of 1993 - Title I: Urban Tax Enterprise Zones and Rural Development Investment Zones - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to establish a demonstration program of providing incentives for the creation of tax enterprise zones in order to: (1) revitalize economically and physically distressed areas; (2) promote meaningful employment for zone residents; and (3) encourage individuals to reside in the zones in which they are employed. Subtitle A: Designation and Tax Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of tax enterprise zones during calendar years after 1992 and before 1999: (1) by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in the case of an urban tax enterprise zone; and (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, in the case of a rural development investment zone. Sets forth the eligibility criteria for such designation for urban tax enterprise zones and for rural development investment zones. Allows an enterprise zone employment credit to small employers and tax-exempt organizations as a general business credit of 15 percent of the qualified zone wages. Allows such credit for the first five years of the employee's employment. Allows a deduction for the purchase of enterprise zone stock paid in cash. Excludes from gross income 50 percent of qualified capital gain recognized on the sale or exchange of a new qualified zone asset held for more than ten years. Subtitle B: Redevelopment Bonds for Tax Enterprise Zones - Sets forth special rules for tax-exempt redevelopment bonds which provide financing for tax enterprise zones for the first 60-month period after a zone is so designated. Subtitle C: Expansion of Targeted Jobs Credit - Includes economically disadvantaged zone residents as members of a targeted group. Subtitle D: Credit for Contributions to Certain Community Development Corporations - Allows a general business tax credit for contributions to selected community development corporations to provide employment of, and business opportunities for, low-income individuals who are residents of the operational area of the community. Subtitle E: Report on Number of Areas Meeting Enterprise Zone Criteria - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Congress on the number of areas which satisfy the tax enterprise zone eligibility criteria and the estimated cost to the Government if all such areas were designated as tax enterprise zones. Title II: Authorization for Additional Assistance to Distressed Communities - Subtitle A: National Public-Private Partnership Programs - Expresses the sense of the Congress that public-private partnerships between government and community-based organizations offer an opportunity to empower residents of low-income distressed communities and to forge innovative solutions to the challenges confronting these communities and that increased resources should be invested in such partnerships. Authorizes appropriations to promote certain national public-private partnerships for FY 1993 through 2002. Specifies amounts to be available only for projects or activities that directly and principally benefit the residents of tax enterprise zones. Subtitle B: Block Grant Funding for Eligible Programs - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 2002 for urban enterprise zones and rural development investment zones. Provides for the allocation and use of such amounts for carrying out selected programs within such zones. Specifies the eligible programs in the areas of: (1) crime and criminal justice; (2) job training; (3) education; (4) health and nutrition; and (5) housing and community development. Sets forth requirements for applying for funding. Establishes an interagency council to provide administrative assistance for functions under this title. Requires the council, one year after enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on: (1) any alternative methods or systems for allocation of amounts made available for enterprise zones; and (2) any problems experienced in the implementation and administration of this subtitle. Subtitle C: Other Programs - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to waive the cap on assistance under the community development block grant program for units of general local government located within or containing an urban tax enterprize zone. Authorizes the Secretary of (HUD) to make loan guarantees for such units of local government for development activities. Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to establish the youth adult employment demonstration program to assist young adults with education, job training, and employment services in tax enterprise zones. National Community Economic Partnership Act of 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide nonrefundable lines of credit to community development corporations for the establishment, maintenance, or expansion of revolving loan funds to be utilized to finance projects intended to provide business and employment opportunities for low-income, unemployed, or underemployed individuals and to improve the quality of life in urban and rural areas. Provides assistance to community development corporations to upgrade the management and operating capacity of such corporations and to enhance the resources available to enable such corporations to increase their community economic development activities. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to emerging community development corporations to enable them to establish, maintain or expand revolving loan funds, to make capital or guarantee loans, or to make investments in new or expanding businesses. Requires the Secretary to award grants to organizations to enable them to undertake programs involving research, testing, studies or demonstrations related to community economic development. Directs the Secretary to develop and promulgate joint community development activity programs with other agencies. Authorizes appropriations. Enterprise Capital Access Fund Demonstration Program - Establishes a demonstration program to provide loans and technical assistance grants to nonprofit financial intermediaries in order to finance business and employment opportunities, low-income housing opportunities, and neighborhood revitalization projects. Establishes within HUD an Office of Community Banking to carry out this section. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, to establish a Reverse Commuting Demonstration Program to test the effects of assisting residents of poor inner-city areas to commute to job sites in other areas of the city or surrounding suburbs. Directs the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on an assessment of the market availability of insurance for businesses and residences located in central cities and distressed urban areas and the impact of the availability of such insurance on the economic development or redevelopment of such areas.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to prohibit permanent replacement of strikers. Amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to promise, threaten, or take other action to hire a permanent replacement for an employee who: (1) at the beginning of a labor dispute was in a bargaining unit in which a labor organization either was the certified or recognized exclusive representative or had filed, at least 30 days before such dispute began, a petition for a representational election on the basis of written authorizations by a majority of unit employees and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has not completed the representation proceeding; and (2) in connection with that dispute has engaged in concerted activities for collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection through that labor organization. Makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer to withhold or deny any other employment right or privilege to such an employee as described above who is working for or has unconditionally offered to return to work for the employer, out of preference for any other individual based on that individual's performing, having performed, or having indicated a willingness to perform bargaining unit work for the employer during the dispute. Amends the Railway Labor Act to prohibit any carrier or its officer or agent from offering or granting: (1) permanent replacement employee status in a craft or class during a labor dispute; or (2) any employment preference to an individual who worked or indicated a willingness to work in a craft or class during a labor dispute over an employee who exercised specified rights during such dispute and who is working for, or has unconditionally offered to return to work for, the carrier.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
National Voter Registration Act of 1993 - Requires States to establish procedures with respect to presidential and congressional elections to permit voter registration by: (1) application in person simultaneously with application for a motor vehicle driver's license; (2) mail application; or (3) application in person at designated Federal, State, or nongovernmental office locations. Declares that this Act does not apply to any State that has no voter registration requirement with respect to elections for Federal office, or in which voters may register at the polling place at the time of a general election for Federal office. Amends Federal postal rate law to require the Postal Service to make certain lower postal rates available to State or local election officials who certify that a mailing is in furtherance of this Act. Directs the Federal Election Commission to develop a mail voter registration application form for Federal elections. Provides a private right of action for an individual aggrieved by a violation of this Act. Imposes criminal penalties for specified violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Freedom of Choice Act of 1993 - Provides that a State may not restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy: (1) before fetal viability; or (2) at any time, if such termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman. Allows a State to impose requirements medically necessary to protect the life or health of such women. Declares that this Act shall not be construed to prevent a State from: (1) requiring minors to involve responsible adults before terminating a pregnancy; and (2) protecting individuals from having to participate in abortions to which they are conscientiously opposed.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Escrow Account Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to modify the limitation placed on advance deposits in escrow accounts. Requires any mortgage lender or servicer that establishes or maintains an escrow account in connection with a federally related mortgage loan to pay interest on the balance in such account at a specified minimum annual rate. Cites conditions under which a borrower in connection with a federally related mortgage may terminate an escrow account by submitting a statement certifying that the borrower agrees to make timely payments of all charges paid from the escrow account. Defines the liability incurred for noncompliance with this Act. Sets forth Federal court jurisdiction over escrow account violations, and identifies the parties with standing to sue (including the borrower). Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) report to the Congress the results of a study of standard escrow account management procedures; and (2) promulgate regulations implementing this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Reproductive Health Equity Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, the Peace Corps Act, the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, and other Federal laws covering armed forces personnel and dependents, certain veterans, Federal employees' health benefits, and Federal penal and correctional institutions to provide that services related to abortion be made available to the same extent as are other pregnancy-related services under federally-funded programs. Repeals provisions of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act requiring submission of a resource allocation plan to the Congress by December 17, 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to direct the Administrator of General Services to prescribe regulations to ensure the participation (except in specified circumstances) of at least five historically Black colleges and universities and nonprofit organizations owned and controlled by Black Americans in research and development (R&D) activities conducted with Federal funds by executive agencies. Outlines the requirements to be imposed on executive agencies through such regulations, including the requirement that each such agency reserve a specified percentage of its FY 1994 through 1997 appropriations for R&D activities to be conducted by the Black colleges it must designate under this Act as federally funded R&D centers. Increases such set-aside on a graduated basis for such fiscal years. Requires each recipient of such set-aside to pay a specified percentage of it to the Parren J. Mitchell Institute for Business Education for entrepreneurial and capital formation programs. Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress annually on the activities of executive agencies in carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to use specified funds to carry out programs for child abuse education and prevention curriculum development and teacher training. Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration program relating to child abuse education and prevention curriculum development and teacher training. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish an office in a community in the United States located: (1) not more than ten miles from the border between the United States and Mexico; and (2) as close as practicable to the point that is halfway between San Diego, California, and Brownsville, Texas. Provides that the head of such office shall be the Regional EPA Administrator for the region. Directs the EPA Administrator to delegate to the Regional Administrator functions relating to: (1) administering EPA activities in such region; and (2) coordinating, and cooperating with the Government of Mexico in the implementation of, EPA programs relating to transboundary hazardous waste and air, soil, and water quality problems.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Military Retirement Equity Act of 1993 - Permits retired members of the armed forces to be paid retirement pay concurrently with compensation for any service-connected disability if the person's entitlement to such retirement pay is based solely on age, length of service, or both. Reduces the retirement pay of individuals receiving both types of pay by a specified percentage of the disability compensation which decreases as the disability rating increases. Prohibits any reduction in the retirement pay of a disabled person when the disability rating is total. Declares that, once the Federal budget deficit has been reduced, the Congress should reexamine and eliminate any offset of retired pay by a veteran's disability compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Requires the Postal Service to ensure that nothing in its regulations prevents a veterans' organization from soliciting contributions on postal property so long as those activities do not impede or disturb: (1) postal employees in the performance of their duties; or (2) the general public in transacting business or obtaining services.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Uniformed Services Survivor Benefits Amendments of 1980 to entitle certain individuals who were widowed before September 21, 1972, and who are not covered by the Military Survivor Benefit Plan to an annuity.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends Federal law relating to veterans to provide that the remarriage of a veteran's spouse after age 55 shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Veterans' Burial Benefits Act of 1993 - Amends Federal law to extend burial benefits to specified veterans with service-connected disabilities. Increases from $150 to $300 the veterans' burial plot allowance for eligible veterans who die in Department of Veterans Affairs facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Includes in the definition of a veteran (therefore eligible for all veterans' benefits) all persons considered to be Commonwealth Army veterans by reason of service with the armed forces during World War II in the Philippines.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Flood Elevation Reimbursement Act of 1993 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to provide coverage of elevation costs for certain flood-damaged structures under the national flood insurance program, including retroactive payments.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie in recognition of his accomplishments as a musician. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Social Security Earnings Test Amendments of 1993 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to remove the limitation on the amount of outside income which beneficiaries who have attained retirement age may earn without incurring a reduction in benefits. Sets a monthly limit on the amount other OASDI beneficiaries may earn in a taxable year ending in 1994 before incurring a benefit reduction.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide employers with a 50 percent tax credit for English language education expenses incurred on behalf of employees working in the United States or its possessions. Prohibits the deduction of such expenses if such credit is taken.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax exclusion of amounts paid under employee educational assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that include unemployment compensation in the gross income of an individual and require information reporting with respect to such compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a business tax credit for employers of members of the Ready Reserve or National Guard absent from work on active duty. Limits such credit to $2,000 with respect to any one Ready Reserve-National Guard employee.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Empowers the President to grant a reprieve or a pardon for an offense only to an individual who has been convicted of such offense.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1992
Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the American Discovery Trail extending from Pt. Reyes, California, to Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware, and the Ala Kahakai Trail in Hawaii for study for potential addition to the National Trails System.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1992
Native American Veterans' Home Loan Equity Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and implement a pilot program under which the Secretary may make direct housing loans to aid Native American (Indian, Alaska or Hawaii native, or Pacific Islander) veterans in purchasing, constructing, or improving dwellings on trust land. Requires such loans to be made in a variety of geographic areas and in areas experiencing a variety of economic circumstances. Prohibits any such loans from being made after the end of FY 1997. Authorizes the Secretary to make such a direct housing loan to a Native American if: (1) the Secretary has entered into a memorandum of understanding with respect to such loans with the tribal organization having jurisdiction over such veteran; and (2) the memorandum is in effect when the loan is made. Outlines provisions to be included in each such memorandum. Prohibits entering into any such memorandum unless the Secretary determines that it provides standards and procedures necessary for the reasonable protection of the financial interests of the United States. Limits to $80,000 the principal amount of any such loan, but authorizes the Secretary to exceed such amount in a geographic area in which housing costs are significantly higher than average housing costs nationwide. Sets forth provisions concerning loan interest rates and credit underwriting standards. Directs the Secretary to determine the reasonable value of the interest in property that will serve as security for a loan made under this Act and to establish procedures for appraisals upon which to base such determinations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish minimum requirements for planning, construction or improvement, and general acceptability relating to any direct loan; and (2) establish credit underwriting standards to be used in evaluating such loans. Requires loans to be repaid in monthly installments. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make advances to provide for repairs, alterations, and improvements and to meet incidental expenses of the loan transaction; and (2) take any other actions and make any necessary determinations with respect to expenses, rules and regulations, and the use of persons, organizations, or departments or agencies to carry out his functions. Directs the Secretary to carry out an outreach program to inform tribal organizations and Native American veterans of the pilot program and the availability of direct housing loans for Native American veterans residing on trust lands. Establishes in the Treasury the Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program Account to carry out financial activities relating to the making of loans under this Act. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out the pilot program, to consider the views and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Native-American Veterans established under the Veteran's Health-Care Amendments of 1986. Directs the Secretary to report annually in 1994 through 1998 to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees on: (1) the pilot program and recommendations for legislation regarding the program; (2) the exercise of authority to exceed the maximum loan limit; and (3) the real property appraisals performed for the Secretary during such year. Allows new direct loan obligations for Native American veteran housing loans under this Act to be incurred only to the extent that appropriations to cover their anticipated cost are made in advance. Authorizes appropriations for such loans for FY 1993.
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 · 24 September 1992
Medicare Respite Care Coverage Act of 1992 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of respite care services for a chronically dependent individual under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance).
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1992
Makes it in order for the Speaker to designate a time and place in the legislative schedule for further consideration of postponed proceedings on the question of agreeing to a motion that the House suspend the rules and pass H.J. Res. 512 (Romania most favored nation treatment).
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1992
Authorizes the Coalition for a National Memorial to Mahatma Gandhi to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor Mahatma Gandhi. Prohibits the United States from paying any expense of establishing the memorial.
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