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United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1992
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the second full week in March 1992 as National Employ the Older Worker Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1992
Declares that the Congress: (1) commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1992; (2) salutes the vision and dedication of those Americans who planned and participated in this heroic battle; (3) reveres the memory, bravery, and spirit of those who fought and perished in it; and (4) honors the sacrifices and devotions of those gallant men who fought in such battle and who, in a single master stroke, reversed the tide of war in the Pacific.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1992
Automotive Buyers Right to Know Act of 1992 - Amends the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to prohibit motor vehicle manufacturers from selling, introducing, or delivering in interstate commerce or importing into the United States any motor vehicle that does not have prominently displayed a label indicating: (1) the location where it was produced; and (2) the value (stated as a percentage of the total value of the motor vehicle) of all parts produced in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1992
Automobile Content Information Disclosure Act - Requires manufacturers and dealers of passenger motor vehicles, light trucks, and sport utility vehicles to display on each vehicle a label specifying: (1) the estimate of the manufacturer of the average range of the minimum and maximum components of each model line of such vehicle which are produced in the United States; and (2) the location of the final assembly of such vehicle. Treats violations under this Act as violations of the label and entry requirements under the Automobile Information Disclosure Act and as unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce under the Federal Trade Commission Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1992
American Shipyard Worker Protection Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from contracting with a foreign nation or firm for the overhaul, repair, or maintenance of naval vessels until he certifies to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees that at least one of the following conditions exist: (1) the work was unplanned and is of an emergency nature; or (2) there is a compelling national security or economic reason for the work to be done by a foreign nation or firm.
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1992
Rural Communities Hazardous Waste Information Act of 1992 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit the issuance of permits for off-site hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facilities to be located in a rural community unless a rural community impact statement has been prepared. Makes such statements available for public review. Sets forth requirements concerning the selection of independent contractors to prepare such statements. Provides for the imposition of fees on permit applicants. Requires such fees to be in an amount necessary to cover the cost of preparing impact statements. Requires impact statements to describe: (1) the economic and social impacts of the proposed facility on each rural community which is within a 20-mile radius of the facility site, including effects on employment, recreational amenities, tourism, public safety and emergency preparedness, and transportation systems; and (2) the costs of mitigating such impacts.
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1992
Designates April 14, 1992, as Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A., the birthday and the start of the 91st year of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the worldwide Lubavitch movement.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1992
Cancer Registries Amendment Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants or contracts to operate population-based, statewide cancer registries in order to collect certain data for each form of in-situ and invasive cancer except basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. Authorizes grants for planning the registries. Mandates a study on factors contributing to elevated rates of breast cancer mortality in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, directly or through grants and contracts, or both, to provide technical assistance to the States in the establishment and operation of statewide registries. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1992
Recognizes and grants a Federal charter to the Shepherd's Centers of America, Incorporated, a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1992
Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from carrying out the Rural Health Care Initiative program.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1992
Directs the Administrator of General Services to review each current contract for leased motor vehicles for the House of Representatives and recommend an alternative (least expensive) plan for leasing of vehicles for any Member with a lease at a rate above the terms available through the General Services Administration (GSA). Requires all motor vehicle leasing for the House to be conducted through GSA beginning on January 3, 1993. Permits Members to lease: (1) the least expensive full size American made motor vehicle that is appropriate for the official business involved; and (2) directly if terms of lease are equal or better than GSA terms.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
Oil and Gas Exploration Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to remove percentage depletion and intangible drilling costs from computation of the alternative minimum tax. Makes permanent the credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source. Allows such credit to offset the alternative minimum tax. Limits such credit to the production of a specified amount of gas or oil from any one well or in any one facility.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
American Dream Assistance Act of 1992 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual to make penalty-free withdrawals from an individual retirement account for the acquisition by such individual or the individual's child of a principal residence which is a first home. Provides that a parent's guarantee of a loan to a child or the child's spouse or to the child's business is not a gift for gift tax purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
Anti-Recession Infrastructure Jobs Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Economic Development Administration, to make grants to State and local governments for infrastructure projects in distressed areas. Provides for direct grants for construction and improvement and for completion of planning. Provides for supplemental grants for other Federal grant programs and for State and local programs. Prohibits the use of grants to acquire real property or to cover maintenance costs. Requires assurance that on-site labor can begin within 90 days of project approval. Requires: (1) contracting out construction or improvement work on grant projects; (2) competitive bidding; (3) acceptance of the lowest responsive bid; (4) advertised specifications covering all requirements or obligations preceding contract award; (5) Buy American conditions; (6) minority participation; and (7) applicability of specified Federal laws regarding individuals with disabilities. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out this Act, to prescribe rules, regulations, and procedures that assure adequate consideration is given to the relative needs of various sections of the country, including consideration of these factors in proposed project areas: (1) severity and duration of unemployment; (2) income levels and extent of underemployment; (3) extent of proposed project contribution to reducing unemployment; and (4) amount of unemployment or underemployment in the construction and construction-related industries. Requires a final determination on each grant application within 60 days after the Secretary receives it (or else the grant will be deemed approved). Sets forth formulas for allocation of funds. Sets aside two and one-half percent for Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages. Sets minimum and maximum allocation limits for any one State and for specified U.S. territories. Requires the Secretary, in making such grants, to give priority and preference to public works: (1) projects of local governments; (2) projects requested by a State or special purpose unit of local government and endorsed by a general purpose local government; and (3) projects requested by school districts. Requires the Secretary, if the average national unemployment rate is six percent or above for the most recent 12 consecutive months, to: (1) expedite and give priority to applications from State or local governments with rates for that period above the national rate; and (2) give priority thereafter to those from any State or local governments having rates for that period above six percent but below the national rate. Requires State and local prioritization of applications. Requires (if the applicant so requests) that the local government's unemployment rate be based on the rate of any community or neighborhood within such local government's jurisdiction. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
Designates January 16, 1993, as National Good Teen Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
Designates June 11, 1992, as National Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
Designates the week of June 1 through 7, 1992, as National Polio Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1992
Job Opportunities to Benefit Society (JOBS) Act of 1992 - Title I: Programs for the Unemployed - Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to establish in the Department of Labor a program of grants to States to create employment programs for certain unemployed individuals in States where the unemployment rate is five percent or more. Requires State Governors, in order to receive fund allotments, to submit annual State plans detailing programs and activities to be assisted and indicating compliance with specified program requirements. Requires a State program to limit such employment to persons within the State who have been unemployed for at least six months and would otherwise qualify for unemployment compensation. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes in the Treasury a Jobs Opportunity to Benefit Society (JOBS) Account, consisting of donations by private individuals and/or corporations to help fund such grants. Allows a State, upon the Secretary's approval of its plan, to receive annual grants based on the number of individuals it expects to employ under the program. Provides that the Secretary will determine the amount of such grants. Terminates the authorization for this Act 36 months from its enactment date. Title II: Deficit Reduction - Requires any grant funds not expended by the Secretary at the end of each fiscal year to be converted to the Treasury for deficit reduction.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1992
Designates the week beginning November 1, 1992, as National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1992
Designates October 1992 as Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1992
Designates August 4, 1992, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1992
Designates February 1992 as National Grapefruit Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1992
Designates May 3 through 9, 1992, as National Correctional Officers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1992
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the last Friday of April 1992 as National Arbor Day.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1992
Designates October 1992 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1992
Designates April 15, 1992, as National Recycling Day.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1992
Designates February 6, 1992, as National Women and Girls in Sports Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1992
Economic Revitalization and Federal Excess and Surplus Property Utilization Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I: Findings and Purposes - Sets forth the purposes of this Act involving the utilization of excess and surplus Government heavy equipment and construction materials infrastructure and development. Title II: Definitions - Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Title III: Disposal of Defense Articles - Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Defense to: (1) evaluate inventories of heavy equipment and construction materials and ensure that those items which are not needed for an identifiable military mission will be classified as excess and disposed of; (2) declare as excess those inventory items which cost over a certain amount to store, maintain, and repair; (3) develop a cost-effective plan for returning excess items to the United States for disposal; (4) report to specified congressional committees on the status of, and disposal plans for, such inventory items; and (5) annually review and evaluate the utilization by recipients of excess nonlethal supplies and excess defense articles pursuant to programs administered by the Department of Defense in order to ensure that such items are being utilized accordingly. Requires the heads of Federal agencies overseeing Federal laboratories to evaluate their inventories of scientific equipment. Requires all such equipment not needed for current or anticipated Federal purposes to be disposed of. Requires appropriate reports to specified congressional committees. Directs the Administrator (Administrator) of the General Services Administration (GSA) to make available excess heavy equipment and construction materials to a Federal agency based on the agency's ability to use such items for official business. Prohibits Federal agencies receiving excess heavy equipment and construction materials from transferring such equipment to other Federal or non-Federal agencies or organizations. Requires excess heavy equipment and construction materials received by a Federal agency to be returned to GSA if the Administrator determines that the equipment is not being efficiently used or if the official business of the agency for which the equipment is being used has been completed. Excludes heavy equipment and construction materials from the definition of "nonlethal excess supplies" used under armed forces provisions, and from the definition of various terms used for excess property in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Title IV: Distribution Of Excess And Surplus Heavy Equipment And Construction Materials - Gives the Administrator authority over the disposal of all excess and surplus heavy equipment and construction materials. Requires such disposal to be done pursuant to this Act. Requires the Administrator to make all excess and surplus heavy equipment and construction materials available to the States after such items have been disposed of to Federal agencies. Requires the Administrator, after providing actual notice to the States of the availability of excess heavy equipment and construction materials, to deliver such items requested by the States on a fair and equitable basis according to public need and efficiency of utilization. Requires the Administrator to make the equipment and materials available without cost, except that if transportation is requested by the State, the Administrator may assess fees for transportation costs. States that for no less than 12 months after original delivery, the Administrator shall retain all right, title, and interest in heavy equipment and construction materials which have an acquisition cost greater than $10,000. Provides that if a State can show that the equipment or materials were well maintained and were efficiently used in the furtherance of public purposes and that the equipment can reasonably be expected to be maintained and used in the furtherance of public purposes, the Administrator shall transfer to the State all right, title, and interest in the equipment or materials. Requires States, within 12 months after regulations to implement this paragraph have been issued, to establish a program under which equipment and construction materials are allocated to eligible users in order to continue to be eligible to receive excess heavy equipment and construction materials. Allows such a program to be operated by the State or by State-Certified Equipment Centers. Requires the Administrator to offer grants for the establishment of such Centers. Sets forth provisions providing for disposals under specified conditions of urgency, such as when the President certifies that a foreign nation has dire need for particular pieces of heavy equipment and construction materials. States that Indian tribes and historically black colleges shall have equal standing with the States in acquiring excess heavy equipment and construction materials. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the use of community development block grant funds to establish such Centers and to establish State infrastructure and economic development plans. Authorizes appropriations for GSA grants to establish such Centers. Title V: State And Community Infrastructure And Economic Development - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to establish a computerized database and standardized forms which States shall use to develop infrastructure and economic development plans utilizing priority lists of anticipated needs submitted to the States by counties and other units of local government, and which also utilize State-Certified Equipment Centers and advanced planning techniques. Requires the Secretary to make grants to States that want to establish such a plan, with priority to States with high long-term unemployment rates and pressing infrastructure needs. Requires the Secretary to establish a national infrastructure and economic development strategy to help States implement their plans to encourage cooperation among the States, and to coordinate Federal infrastructure and economic development programs and resources. Requires the Secretary to update such strategy every two years and to transmit a document containing such strategy to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations for grants to States that want to establish such a plan. Title VI: Effective Date And Applicability - Specifies the effective dates of this Act and requirements for the promulgation of regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1992
National Safe Streets and Education Improvement Act of 1992 - Obligates ten percent of fiscal year appropriations for support of U.S. armed forces personnel in NATO countries or Japan for U.S. elementary and secondary education and law enforcement use. Makes exception to such requirement in situations of war, armed attack, or national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1992
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) any verbal commitments by Japan to reduce its trade barriers to U.S. products or services should be reduced to a binding agreement; (2) the President should initiate negotiations with Japan to reduce such barriers, with the goal of protecting U.S. jobs; (3) in addition to the Structural Impediment Initiative talks, the President should pursue negotiations with respect to auto parts, automobiles, semiconductors, insurance, agriculture, aerospace, and other areas in which he considers Japan maintains a market barrier; and (4) U.S. citizens should purchase more U.S. goods and services.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the strategic nuclear weapons targeting systems of the United States and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) should reflect the reduction of hostility between such nations and the United States; (2) mutually verifiable assurances that no government is targeting the territory of any other should be forthcoming; (3) prior to negotiations leading to the development of a system of mutual verification, such governments should share all available information pertaining to members of the U.S. armed forces unaccounted for in international military conflicts; (4) it should be U.S. policy in arms reduction negotiations to make the issue of changing strategic nuclear targeting a core part of all further agreements; (5) such assurances should be a condition for any U.S. foreign assistance to a member country of the CIS; and (6) the President should report semiannually to the Congress on compliance with revised targeting strategies and policies.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1992
Small Business Credit Crunch Relief Act of 1992 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize deferred participation loans and other financings in FY 1992 through 1994, including general business loans, pollution control loan guarantees, and development company loans and debenture guarantees. Authorizes appropriations to the Small Business Administration for FY 1992 through 1994 for salaries and expenses to implement the debenture and loan guarantee programs authorized by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1992
Declares a named individual to have satisfied certain requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to eligibility for naturalization.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1992
Designates the week beginning August 16, 1992, as National Convenience Store Appreciation Week.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1992
Title I: Short Title, Findings, and Definitions - Trade Enhancement Act of 1992 - Sets forth congressional findings and purposes with respect to access to Japanese markets by U.S. manufacturers of motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts. Title II: Merchandise Trade Deficit Reduction - Sets forth annual merchandise trade deficit reduction targets with respect to Japan's trade deficit with the United States. Requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to compute annually whether the target has been met for each year, and if it has not, to publish in the Federal Register the import and production restriction implementation period for such year. Authorizes the Secretary to impose temporary quantitative import restrictions on Japanese or Japanese-related motor vehicles (foreign motor vehicles) entered during the first three months of the calendar year following the year for which such computation is made. Requires the Secretary to submit a report to the Congress. Expresses the sense of the Congress that representatives of the United States and Japan should continue discussions regarding measures, to be selected by the Japanese Government, to achieve the merchandise trade deficit reduction targets. Urges the United States Trade Representative (USTR) during such discussions to address market access priorities for U.S. exports to Japan. Title III: Import and Production Restrictions to Be Implemented If Trade Deficit Reduction Target Not Met - Directs the Secretary to compute for calendar years 1993 through 1999 quantitative import restrictions on foreign motor vehicles and domestic motor vehicle production restrictions for transplanted Japanese-related auto manufacturers, except such computations are not required for calendar years 1997 through 1999 if trade deficit reduction targets for calendar years 1992 through 1996 are met. Sets forth civil penalties. Requires each person that has one or more motor vehicle or motor vehicle parts manufacturing facilities within the United States to certify to the Secretary whether it is a domestic vehicle or parts manufacturer or a transplanted Japanese-related vehicle manufacturer. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) the Secretary's authority to obtain information and data; and (2) enforcement of this Act. Sets forth civil penalties. Sets forth provisions with respect to the enforcement and judicial review of such penalties. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on implementation of this Act. Title IV: Negotiations and Other Actions - Requires the USTR to enter into negotiations with Japan to enter into a bilateral agreement that: (1) provides a phased-in increase in the use by transplanted motor vehicle manufacturers of domestically-produced motor vehicle parts to the point where such parts constitute 60 percent or more of the total parts used in the production of such vehicles; and (2) eliminate those aspects of the Japanese automotive distribution system that affect the access of domestically-produced motor vehicle parts to Japanese markets. Directs the USTR to enter into negotiations with representatives of the European Community, Japan, and the governments of other major vehicle-producing countries to enter into multilateral agreements that rationalize world-wide market access and production of motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts. Considers acts, practices, and policies of Japan (including, but not limited to, acts, policies, and practices utilized in the Japanese automotive distribution system known as "Keiretsu") that affect the access of manufacturers of domestic motor vehicle parts to the Japanese market as being unjustifiable and burdensome or restrictive to U.S. commerce, according to the Trade Act of 1974. Adds to response authority under such Act authority to increase the percentage of domestically-produced motor vehicle parts used in the production of motor vehicles for purposes of the qualification of Japanese manufacturers as domestic vehicle manufacturers. Specifies certain objectives to be included in negotiations with Japan if the USTR decides to take action with respect to such practices. Requires the USTR to make certain estimates with respect to the percentage of the Japanese market that is accounted for by domestic motor vehicle parts manufacturers. Directs the Secretary to commence an antidumping duty investigation under the Tariff Act of 1930 to determine whether imports or sales (or the likelihood of sales) of Japanese motor vehicle parts to the United States warrant the imposition of antidumping duties. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to the Congress on the extent to which: (1) "Keiretsu" operations in the United States are in compliance with the internal revenue laws, particularly those relating to transfer pricing; and (2) the Internal Revenue Service is auditing such operations. Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to classify for the purposes of tariff treatment certain light trucks as motor vehicles for the transport of goods.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1992
Designates March 25, 1992, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1992
Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to make permanent the transfer to the Railroad Retirement Account of income tax revenues attributable to the taxation of tier II railroad retirement benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1992
Emergency Community Development Act of 1991 - Title I: Temporary Assistance for Community Development Activities - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to States, local governments, and Indian tribes for community development assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Housing Programs - Authorizes funds, in addition to other specified authorizations, for: (1) public housing vacancy reduction; (2) the National Homeownership Trust; and (3) the Flexible Subsidy Fund. Title III: Single Family Mortgage Insurance - Amends the National Housing Act with regard to single family mortgage insurance to prohibit a limitation on financed closing costs. Directs the Secretary to establish single premium payments for refinanced mortgages. Title IV: Rural Housing - Authorizes and increases funding for: (1) insured or guaranteed rural housing loans; (2) supplemental grants for remote rural housing; (3) housing improvement loans; (4) rural housing loans for elderly, handicapped, or low-income persons; (5) housing for rural homeless and migrant farmworkers; and (6) rental assistance payment contracts. Title V: Homeless Assistance - Authorizes and increases funding for: (1) Federal Emergency Management Agency emergency food and shelter grants; (2) emergency shelter grants; (3) the supportive housing demonstration program; (4) supplemental assistance for facilities to assist the homeless; and (5) section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings. Title VI: Department of Housing and Urban Development Administration - Exempts multifamily project assistance from certain certification of limitation provisions under specified circumstances. Authorizes appropriations for multifamily housing mortgage insurance regional, field, or zone staff. Title VII: Financial Institutions Housing Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for the Federal Home Loan Banks' affordable housing program.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1992
Amends Federal law relating to impact aid to provide that eligible local educational agencies shall be entitled to receive certain payments. Provides that the computation of payment amounts shall be based on: (1) prior-year attendance; and (2) the actual or comparable local contribution rate. Eliminates certain adjustments for decreases in Federal activities and certain preliminary payments.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1992
Equalization in Education Act of 1992 - Title I: Equalization of State Spending for Public Education - Prohibits any State from receiving Federal educational assistance for distribution to its public elementary and secondary schools, after August 1, 1996, unless it: (1) employs an equitable method for financing such schools, as determined by the Secretary of Education (the Secretary); or (2) has in effect a State equalization plan approved by the Secretary. Exempts from such prohibition Federal assistance received under provisions for educationally disadvantaged children under chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA chapter 1). Requires direct distribution to the local education agencies within the State of any Federal funds denied to a State under this Act, so that funding purposes may be carried out and equalized financing standards met. Directs the Secretary to provide requested technical assistance to any State to assist in complying with this Act. Directs the Secretary to review annually each State's school financing methods to determine compliance with standards for equalized financing established by the Secretary under this Act. Requires such standards to: (1) incorporate a specified wealth neutrality test incuding at least 95 percent of revenues within the State; and (2) provide for consideration, with respect to each local educational agency, of specified factors relating to numbers of poor or disadvantaged children and to the local tax base for school financing. Requires any State that is notified by the Secretary that its school financing method is inequitable to submit a State equalization plan to the Secretary within one year after such notification. Requires such a plan to provide for achieving an equitable school financing method within five years after plan approval by the Secretary. Requires Federal funds allocated to a State prohibited from receiving them to be distributed to local education agencies within the State so that funding purposes may be carried out and equalized financing standards met. Title II: Grants to States with Equitable Financing - Directs the Secretary to make grants to States that are in compliance with the requirement of substanial equity (by employing an equitable method or having an equalization plan in effect) in school financing. Requires such grant funds to be used to further the goal of providing equalized funding to all public elementary and secondary schools in the State. Sets forth allocation formulas for such grants. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1992
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the provisions permitting small issues of tax-exempt bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1992
Designates the month of May 1992 as National Foster Care Month.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Medicaid Prostate Screening Act of 1991 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to mandate coverage of prostate cancer screening tests under State Medicaid plans.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Medicare Prostate Screening Act of 1991 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage of prostate cancer screening tests under the Medicare program.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Federal Energy Management Reform Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) determine appropriate methods to assess and implement shared energy savings at Federal facilities; (2) publish a standard method for determining life cycle cost effectiveness and a list of shared energy savings technologies; and (3) make a related assessment of all federally owned buildings. Authorizes Federal agencies to sell electricity from alternate energy and cogeneration production facilities. Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to set forth provisions for energy savings contracts. Requires the Secretary to develop a simplified method of energy saving services procurement.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Youth Apprenticeship Act of 1991 - Establishes an Institute for Youth Apprenticeship (the Institute) as an independent establishment to administer youth apprenticeship demonstration programs set up under this Act. Directs the Board Chairperson to establish guidelines, criteria, and procedures for youth apprenticeship demonstration programs, based on such report, including curriculum guidelines, criteria for demonstration program sites and for apprenticeship occupations, and competency criteria and certification procedures for apprentices and trainers. Directs the Institute Executive Director to enter into contracts with public and nonprofit private organizations to develop and evaluate youth apprenticeship demonstration programs. Requires each eligible entity entering into such a contract with the Board to establish partnerships among secondary and postsecondary schools and employers, labor organizations, and community and civic leaders to provide apprenticeship training to students. Requires at least: (1) one secondary school wage incentive demonstration program under which the Institute shall pay 50 percent of the apprenticeship wage; and (2) one secondary school disadvantaged youth demonstration program. Authorizes two postsecondary school demonstration programs (i.e. two contracts with partnerships for programs solely for postsecondary students). Makes such partnerships responsible for program and curriculum development, coordination and quality assurances, and assessment and evaluation of apprentices and training programs. Sets forth requirements for partnership training for various levels of secondary school students. Sets forth requirements for employers to pay: (1) 100 percent of the apprentice wage rate in secondary school programs (but 50 percent in the wage incentive program); (2) 100 percent of the apprentice wage rate and costs of continuing basic skills courses in postsecondary programs; and (3) costs of on-the-job training. States that employers shall not be required to hire apprentices upon completion of the apprenticeships. Directs the Institute to coordinate programs by: (1) providing technical assistance to partnerships; (2) operating an apprenticeship clearinghouse for the partnerships; (3) disseminating model programs and practices to the partnerships; (4) gathering input from all sources on proposals for the labor mobility of apprentices; (5) consult with the Office of Work-Based Learning of the Department of Labor and the Division of Vocational and Technical Education of the Department of Education; and (6) comply with specified evaluation and report requirements. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) nondiscrimination; (2) notice, hearing, and grievance procedures; (3) nonduplication and nondisplacement; and (4) evaluation and reports. Authorizes appropriations. Abolishes the Board and Institute, terminates all programs established by this Act, and repeals this Act and the amendments it makes not later than 69 months after the initiation of the youth apprenticeship demonstration programs.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Amends: (1) the Consumer Credit Protection Act to require a consumer reporting agency (CRA) to include in any consumer report information provided by a State child support agency or verified by another government entity on the failure of the consumer to pay overdue child support; and (2) the Social Security Act (SSA) to require States to provide CRAs with information on overdue child support obligations of absent parents. Eliminates: (1) the requirement under the SSA that such information be made upon the request of the CRA; and (2) the authority of the State under the SSA to impose a fee upon the requesting CRA for the furnishing of such information.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Anti-Boycott MFN Restriction Act of 1991 - 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 · 26 November 1991
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the United States Trade Representative to include in the National Trade Estimate information with respect to the Arab boycott of U.S. persons who do business with or invest in Israel, or who do business with a person who does business with or invests there.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Steel Trade Liberalization Program Extension Act - Amends the Steel Import Stabilization Act to express the sense of the Congress with respect to the quantity of steel products imported into, or exported to, the United States from April 1, 1992, through September 30, 1994, under the steel trade liberalization program.