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United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1994
Designates April 25 to May 1, 1994, as Let's Stop Kids Killing Kids Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1994
Amends the Federal judicial code to allow an owner of a patent that is used or manufactured unlawfully by or for the United States to be compensated for his or her reasonable costs in pursuing action against the United States in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (in addition to reasonable and entire compensation).
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1994
Health Research Act of 1994 - Establishes in the Treasury the National Fund for Health Research. Requires regional and corporate health alliances formed under a comprehensive health care reform program to set aside and transfer specified amounts each calendar year into the Fund. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize individuals (other than nonresident aliens) to designate for payment into the Fund at least $1 of a cash contribution or of any tax overpayment made. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to distribute specified amounts from the Fund for various health research activities of the National Institutes of Health and the National Center for Research Resources. Excludes Fund amounts from any budget enforcement procedures under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 or the Balanced Budget Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1994
Worker Rights and Labor Standards Trade Act of 1994 - Directs the President to seek the establishment of: (1) a working party within the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to examine the relationship of fundamental internationally-recognized worker rights to specified articles of the GATT; and (2) a standing committee within the World Trade Organization to perform the functions of the working group.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1994
Economic Investment and Savings Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a capital gains deduction for noncorporate taxpayers of 60 percent of a three-year capital gain, 40 percent of a two-year capital gain, and 20 percent of a one-year capital gain. Requires indexing, based on the consumer price index, of the adjusted basis of certain assets (corporate stock and tangible property that is a capital asset of property used in a trade or business) that have been held for more than one year at the time of sale or other disposition, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Allows an individual an exclusion from gross income for qualified investment income. Limits such exclusion to individuals whose modified adjusted income does not exceed $50,000 ($25,000 in the case of separate return by a married individual) and at least 50 percent of such income is attributable to earned income. Allows such exclusion in computing alternative minimum tax.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1994
Designates the week beginning June 13 as National Parkinson's Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1994
Revolutionary War Historic Preservation Study Act of 1994 - Establishes the Revolutionary War Sites Advisory Commission to: (1) prepare a study of Revolutionary War sites which shall identify their significance, determine threats to their integrity, and provide alternatives for their preservation and interpretation; and (2) report to the Secretary of the Interior and specified congressional committees. Requires the Commission to research and propose innovative open space and land preservation techniques such as designation as units of the National Park System (NPS) or as affiliated areas. Allows the study to include existing NPS units. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1994
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Defense to transfer on a nonreimbursable basis any excess industrial property to any nonprofit educational institution or training school when such entity's proposed use of such property will contribute materially to the national defense.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1994
Designates the week beginning February 12, 1995, as National Random Acts of Kindness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1994
Liberian Relief, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Act of 1994 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide assistance for civil strife relief, rehabilitation, and general recovery in Liberia. Authorizes aprropriations. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of State for migration and refugee assistance for emergency relief, repatriation, and rehabilitation efforts for Liberian refugees who have fled civil strife and for support for relief programs assisting local populations in the bordering countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, and other countries in the region. Authorizes the President to provide supplemental emergency food assistance for civilian victims in Liberia. Authorizes appropriations. Requires a specified amount of local currencies available under title II of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to be made available for disaster assistance for Liberia. Permits assistance authorized for Liberia under this Act to be provided without regard to provisions of law concerning foreign assistance repayments. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for International Development to assess and report to the Congress on the long-term reconstruction, rehabilitation, and development needs of Liberia.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1994
Designates March 31, 1995, as Cesar E. Chavez Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1994
Designates 1995 as the Year of the Grandparent.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1994
NATO Expansion Act of 1994 - Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to NATO membership of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Authorizes the President to establish a program to assist the transition to full NATO membership for Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and other European countries emerging from communist domination designated pursuant to this Act. Permits the President to provide specified security assistance to such countries, including excess defense articles, economic support fund assistance, international military education and training, and foreign military financing. Authorizes the President to provide additional assistance from the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund and Countries in Transition accounts. Permits the President to designate other European countries emerging from communist domination to receive assistance under this Act if he reports to the appropriate congressional committees that such countries: (1) have made significant progress toward establishing democratic institutions, free market economies, civilian control of their armed forces, and the rule of law; and (2) are likely to be in a position to further the principles of the North Atlantic Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area. Authorizes the President to confer, pursuant to agreement with any country eligible to participate in the Partnership for Peace, rights with respect to the military and related civilian personnel and activities of that country in the United States comparable to those conferred by that country with respect to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1994
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require verification of taxpayer identification numbers for purposes of the earned income credit.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1994
Designates July 16 through 24, 1994, as National Apollo Anniversary Observance.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1994
Designates May 22, 1994, as National Neighbor Day.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1994
Congratulates the residents of Jerusalem and the people of Israel on the 27th anniversary of the reunification of that city. Calls upon the President and the Secretary of State to issue an unequivocal statement in support of the principle that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city and the capital of Israel in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1994
Enhanced Access to Support Enforcement Act of 1994 - Amends the Federal judicial code to require States to give full faith and credit to child support orders of other States.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1994
Full Employment Opportunity and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 1994 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to establish a public works and public service job training program. Sets forth provisions for allotment to States, allocation to service delivery areas, program conduct and project requirements, individual eligibility, wages, benefits, and supportive services, waiver of education requirements, and linkages to other programs. Requires that private industry councils include representatives of the State apprenticeship council.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1994
Infrastructure Jobs Act of 1993 - 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. Sets forth general grant requirements and requires the Secretary to prescribe appropriate rules, regulations, and procedures. Sets forth formulas for allocation of funds. Sets aside two and one-half percent for Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages. Provides public works project priorities, with the highest priority for projects of local governments. Provides an additional priority for areas of high unemployment (six percent or more). Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1994
Elderly Housing Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax credit for an individual who maintains a household which includes a qualified elderly relative.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1994
Designates November 1994 as National American Lacemaker Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1994
Urban Revitalization Act of 1994 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to make certain building, health and safety, and environmentally related activities eligible for community development block grants and loan guarantees.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1994
Designates April 1994 as National Buy Recycled Materials and Products Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1994
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 300 (amending title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the earnings test for individuals who have attained retirement age).
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1994
Requests the President to designate the month beginning on April 1, 1994, as National Savings Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Humanitarian Aid Corridor Act - Prohibits foreign assistance funds from being used to provide assistance to any country for any portion of a fiscal year during which the country prohibits or restricts the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance to any other country. Makes such prohibition inapplicable if the President determines and notifies the Congress that providing assistance: (1) is in the national interest; or (2) will benefit directly non-military personnel who are in immediate danger resulting from a natural or manmade disaster (provided that such assistance is humanitarian assistance distributed directly to such personnel or through international relief organizations).
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: State Welfare Reform Option Title II: Incentives for State Participation in Welfare Reform Title III: Policy Changes to Reward Work Title IV: Child Support Enforcement Work-First Welfare Reform Act of 1994 - Title I: State Welfare Reform Option - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to give States the option of developing a welfare reform plan containing a welfare-job development integration plan meeting specified requirements (including those requiring welfare recipient participation along with the State in one of two specified types of Empowerment Compacts with specific goals and timetables for each individual participant's attainment of self-sufficiency) for reorienting their welfare programs towards such overall goal for all welfare recipients who are capable of working. (Sec. 101) Provides for approval, implementation, and evaluation of welfare reform plans. Title II: Incentives for State Participation in Welfare Reform - Amends SSA title IV part A to provide for: (1) increased Federal payments to welfare reform States meeting specified requirements for the costs of operating programs under part F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) (JOBS); and (2) modification of the amount payable to individual welfare reform plan participants expecting a decrease in income over a certain period in States which have elected to adjust individual AFDC benefits quarterly. (Sec. 203) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for purposes of developing welfare reform plans. Sets limits on the amount the Secretary may expend on such grants in any fiscal year through FY 2000. Title III: Policy Changes to Reward Work - Amends SSA title IV part A and the Internal Revenue Code to make various specified changes designed to reward work, by, for example: (1) giving States the authority to establish enhanced earnings disregards for AFDC recipients and define unemployment for purposes of the AFDC-UP program; and (2) making the tax credit for dependent care expenses refundable, and requiring employers to make advance payments of such credit to their employees. (Sec. 304) Requires the Secretaries of Agriculture, of Health and Human Services, and of Labor to submit to the Congress an annual report on any State or Federal laws which may inhibit implementation of welfare reform plans. (Sec. 305) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the requirements to be followed by each State in developing and applying outcome measures and targets for assessing the effectiveness of the State's JOBS program. Amends SSA title IV part A to provide for a reduction in State JOBS funding for States which have not submitted for approval a plan for meeting such requirements. (Sec. 306) Directs the Comptroller General to submit to the Congress a methodology for determining the use of transitional child care and extended medical assistance under Medicaid. Makes various specified amendments to SSA title IV part A, including with regard to matters concerning transitional child care and certain student earnings and income. Title IV: Child Support Enforcement - Directs the Secretary to establish a Federal registry of child support orders issued or modified in a State for comparing information reported on an employee's W-4 form with information in the registry, and for notifying the appropriate State child support order registry established by this Act of the accuracy of the amount specified on the form as the empoyee's monthly child support obligation. (Sec. 402) Makes various specified amendments to SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity), including with regard to matters concerning: (1) expansion of the Federal Parent Locator Service; (2) development of a uniform child support withholding order; (3) State agency access to various data bases containing information with respect to absent parents; and (4) private access to State locate resources and enforcement services for purposes of establishing, modifying, and enforcing child support and parentage orders. (Sec. 403) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) establish a national system for reporting copies of every employee's W-4 form to the appropriate State and Federal child support order registries; and (2) modify the W-4 form to enable the employee to indicate on it certain information related to child support and health care insurance for any dependent children. (Sec. 404) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide for the reconciliation of child support obligations and payments on income tax returns, with the full amount due by the end of the applicable tax year and subject to the same collection process and penalties applicable to back taxes; (2) provide for a tax credit for withholdings and payments in excess of applicable obligations; (3) require the Secretary to pay amounts collected to the appropriate State registry; and (4) require employers to include withheld obligations on the employee's W-2 form. (Sec. 407) Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to: (1) give debts relating to child support higher priority in a garnishment than other Federal debts when an individual's disposable earnings are not sufficient to pay both debts; and (2) prohibit employers from discharging employees with more than one indebtedness, if all but one of the debts arise from one or more orders for the support of a child. (Sec. 408) Amends SSA title IV part D to require States to enact the version of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in August 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Public Housing Rent Reform Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to: (1) revise public housing maximum rent provisions; and (2) exclude private health insurance payments and increase and expand earned income exclusions from related income eligibility determinations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Revitalizing Cities Through Parks Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to eligible community organizations to establish urban open space and parks on municipally owned vacant lots. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
United States Botanic Garden Commemorative Coin Act of 1995 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) issue one-dollar silver coins to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the founding of the United States Botanic Garden; and (2) pay all surcharges received from such coin sales to the National Fund for the United States Botanic Garden.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Neighborhood Crime Fighters Housing Assistance Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide public housing rental assistance on behalf of a family that has provided law enforcement assistance and is likely to be subject to retaliatory violence. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to set aside funds for such program.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Designates October 2 through 8, 1994, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Designates September 25, 1994, as Gold Star Mothers Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Designates July 23 as General Bernardo de Galvez Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Calls for the United States, at the International Conference on Population and Development, to: (1) place the highest priority on the success of the Conference by actively participating, particularly through the President's personal participation; (2) propose or support an initiative concerning the financing of global cooperation on efforts to slow rapid population growth that takes into account the costs of slowing growth and the basic development goals of developing countries and that increases accountability for the use of funds provided for family planning purposes; (3) seek to initiate a process of regular high-level intergovernmental consultations on the issues under consideration at the Conference and establish improved organizational and procedural means to implement its objectives; (4) support the effective implementation of a global action plan to raise the economic, educational, and leadership status of women and programs that provide maternal and child health care, education, and training for women and voluntary family planning; and (5) promote public participation, especially by women, at all levels of formulation and implementation of family planning and sustainable development policy and programs.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Applauds the President for maintaining the U.S. nuclear testing moratorium and for taking a leadership role toward negotiation of a comprehensive test ban treaty. Encourages all nuclear powers to refrain from conducting nuclear explosions prior to conclusion of such a treaty. Urges the Conference on Disarmanent to make all possible progress toward a comprehensive test ban treaty by the end of 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1994
Senior Safe Corridors Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to States, and to units of local government with populations exceeding 100,000, to fund programs that create corridors of safety for senior citizens in high-density senior citizen areas. Directs that such grants be used to fund programs that seek to decrease violent crime against senior citizens by increasing the numbers, protective presence, and watchfulness of police, community group members, and others, and the watchfulness of business owners and employees, in high-density senior citizen areas. Specifies that such programs may include escorting senior citizens. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) application requirements; (2) criteria for application approval and priorities; (3) limits on grant amounts; and (4) reports by grant recipients. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1994
Civilian Ex-Prisoner of War Health and Disability Benefits Act of 1994 - Entitles a former civilian prisoner of war (POW) to receive necessary medical care and disability benefits for any injury or disability resulting from the period of internment or hiding. Requires any presumptive medical and dental condition related to a period of internment provided for former military POWs to be extended to former civilian POWs and requires that it be considered to have been incurred in or aggravated by the period of internment or hiding regardless of the absence of any record of the injury. Establishes the Former Civilian Prisoner of War Committee. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1995 through 2000.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1994
Designates May 14, 1994, as National Police Survivors Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1994
Makes it in order for the Speaker, at any time on the legislative day of March 24, 1994, to entertain a motion that the House suspend the rules and pass S. 349 (providing for the disclosure of lobbying activities to influence the Federal Government) as amended, insist on the House amendment thereto, and request a conference with the Senate thereon.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1994
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any amount received as a national service educational award.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1994
Designates the months of May 1994 and May 1995 as United States Armed Forces History Month.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1994
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) when there is Federal jurisdiction, Federal authorities should prosecute to the fullest extent of the law murders, rapes, burglaries, kidnappings, and assaults committed against commercial truckers; and (2) appropriate Federal agencies should acknowledge this problem and place a priority on evaluating how best to prevent such crimes and apprehend those involved and continue to coordinate their activities with multi-jurisdictional authorities to combat violent crimes committed against truckers.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1994
Designates April 24 through 30, 1994, as National Crime Victims' Rights Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1994
Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to provide that specified funds for employment and training assistance for dislocated workers shall be used to provide counseling and guidance relating to postsecondary education options for eligible dislocated workers, including information on public and private programs of student financial assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1994
Youth Development Block Grant Act of 1993 - Establishes a youth development block grant program. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth formulas for allocation of funds to States and for distribution of funds through State commissions to local boards for community-based youth development services. Requires establishment of county or multicounty Local Youth Development Boards to receive such assistance. Requires establishment of a State Youth Development Commission in each State desiring to receive such assistance. Establishes a National Youth Development Commission to advise the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services on implementation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1994
Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for criminal and civil forfeiture for mail and wire fraud. Makes specified procedures relating to forfeitures under the Controlled Substances Act applicable to forfeitures under this Act. Requires the court to order the forfeiture of any other property of the defendant up to the value of the property subject to forfeiture under this Act if, as a result of conduct of the defendant, the forfeited property cannot be located upon the exercise of due diligence or has been transferred or sold to, or deposited with, a third party, placed beyond the court's jurisdiction, substantially diminished in value, or commingled with other property which cannot be divided without difficulty. Directs that any such forfeited property be seized by the Attorney General or U.S. Postal Service upon process issued pursuant to the Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims by a U.S. district court having jurisdiction over the property, with exceptions for innocent owners or lienholders. Authorizes the Attorney General or Postal Service to seize such property without such process under specified circumstances. Directs the: (1) Attorney General, after providing for the rights of any innocent persons and deducting costs incurred by the United States in conducting the seizure, forfeiture, and identification of victims, to deposit the property forfeited or the proceeds from its sale in the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund; and (2) the Postal Service to deposit property forfeited or the proceeds into the Postal Service Fund. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) restraint or staying of the sale or disposition of property pending appeal; and (2) rules for the disposition of such property and proceeds. Requires the deposit into the Postal Service Fund of amounts from any forfeiture conducted by the Postal Service and from any forfeiture resulting from an investigation conducted by the Postal Service. Allows the Postal Service to share such amounts with any Federal or State agency whose efforts in investigating or litigating the forfeiture contributed to the receipt of such funds.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1994
Authorizes the Postmaster General, whenever there is reason to believe that any person may be in possession, custody, or control of any documentary material or may have information relevant to an investigation of a matter arising under Federal postal law, to issue in writing and cause to be served upon such person before the commencement of a civil or criminal proceeding thereon, a civil investigative demand requiring such person to: (1) produce such documentary material for inspection and copying or reproduction; (2) answer in writing written interrogatories; (3) give oral testimony concerning such material or information; or (4) furnish any combination of such material, answers, or testimony. Requires the Postmaster General to designate an agent to serve as custodian of documentary material, answers to interrogatories, and transcripts of oral testimony received, and such other necessary additional agents to serve as deputies to the custodian. Authorizes the custodian to deliver to the Federal Trade Commission, upon written request, copies of such material, answers, or transcripts for use in connection with an investigation or proceeding under the Commission's jurisdiction to be used only in such manner and subject to such conditions as apply to the Postal Service. Authorizes the Postal Service to file in the district court of the United States for any judicial district in which a person resides, is found, or transacts business and serve upon such person a petition for an order of such court for the enforcement of this Act if the person fails to comply with the civil investigative demand or whenever satisfactory copying or reproduction of any material cannot be done and the person refuses to surrender such material. Exempts any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or transcripts of oral testimony provided pursuant to any demand issued under this Act from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Amends the Federal criminal code to impose a fine and up to five years' imprisonment upon anyone who intentionally obstructs any civil investigative demand made under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or provisions of this Act. Revises prescribed civil penalties imposed for violation of specified postal law relating to false representations and lotteries. Requires such penalties to be paid into the Postal Service Fund (currently, the Treasury). Revises provisions in the Federal criminal code relating to injunctions against fraud to allow the Attorney General to obtain temporary and preliminary injunctive relief upon a showing of probable cause to believe that a violation is occurring or is about to occur. Grants permanent relief when a violation is established by a preponderance of the evidence. Deems a violation to be occurring or about to occur for as long as victims of any such violation have not been redressed and the statute of limitations for such violation has not expired.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Golden Gate National Area Title II: Presidio Public Benefit Corporation Title I: Golden Gate National Recreation Area - Includes certain areas in Mateo County, California, within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) utilize the resources of the Presidio unit of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California, to provide for and support programs and activities that foster research, education, and demonstration projects concerning the environment, international affairs, cultural understanding, health, and science; (2) negotiate and enter into leases, as appropriate, with any private or government entity for the use of any property within the Presidio, except such properties which the Secretary of Defense determines are essential for the continued use of the Presidio by the sixth Army in accordance with the Area's General Management Plan or the Act establishing the Area; (3) negotiate and enter into leases or other appropriate agreements with any Federal agency or organization to house that agency's or organization's employees who are engaged in activities or programs at the Presidio; and (4) enter into interagency permitting agreements or other appropriate agreements with the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and leases with the Red Cross to house their activities and employees at the Presidio. Requires the Secretary to establish competitive bidding procedures to be used for the issuance of such leases. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements and permits for purposes of such Area. Title II: Presido Public Benefit Corporation - Authorizes the President to establish the Presidio Public Corporation only after San Francisco makes specified zoning decisions. Requires the Secretary to transfer all lands, facilities, and interest in certain Presidio properties to the Corporation. Transfers the Public Health Service Hospital and surrounding 36 acres to the administrative jurisdiciton of the Corporation. Directs the Corporation to sell: (1) the Public Health Service Hospital and adjacent golf course and allows it to use the proceeds of the sale for any function authorized by this Act; and (2) at fair market value, the Letterman Army Institute of Research, Letterman Army Medical Center, and such other buildings and lands in the Letterman complex necessary to conduct scientific research or education programs pertaining to human health to the University of California and authorizes it to use the proceeds from the sale for the same purposes. Allows the Secretary or other Cabinet officers to provide Federal personnel, facilities, and services to the Corporation on a reimbursement basis. Declares that the Corporation is devoted to an essential public and governmental function and purpose. Exempts it from all Federal taxes and special assessments. Applies all general penal statutes relating to the larceny, embezzlement, or conversion of public moneys or U.S. property to the moneys and property of the Corporation. Subjects the Corporation to provisions of Federal laws relating to administrative procedures and freedom of information.