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Rep. Greenwood, James C. [R-PA-8]

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Bill· HRH.R. 2640 (103rd)open

Health Care Cooperative Antitrust Protection Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1993

Health Care Cooperative Antitrust Protection Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate guidelines under which a health care joint venture may submit an application requesting that the Secretary provide the entities participating in the venture with an exemption under which: (1) monetary recovery on an antitrust claim brought against the entity shall be limited to actual damages if specified conditions are met and the conduct of the entity in making or performing a contract to carry out the venture shall not be deemed illegal per se; or (2) the antitrust laws shall not apply to conduct within the scope of the venture for a five-year period. Requires the Secretary to approve or disapprove the application within a specified time frame and, with respect to a disapproval, to provide a statement explaining the reasons for such disapproval. Directs the Secretary and the Attorney General to approve the application if: (1) in the case of a venture seeking the five-year exemption, the Secretary finds that such venture meets specified criteria, such as promoting enhancement of the quality of health care services to individuals residing in the geographic area served by the participating entities, preserving meaningful competition among health care providers, reducing costs or increasing efficiency, improving utilization of services, and eliminating costly and unnecessary duplication in the delivery of health care services in such area; and (2) an entity participating in the venture submits to the Secretary, the Attorney General, and the Interagency Advisory Committee on Competition, Antitrust Policy, and Health Care (created by this Act) an application that contains the identities of the parties to the venture; the nature, objectives, and planned activities of the venture; and specified assurances and information. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) revocation and renewal of exemptions, and withdrawal of an application; and (2) requirements relating to notice and publication of exemptions. Establishes the Advisory Committee to: (1) discuss and evaluate competition and antitrust policy and their implications regarding the performance of health care markets; (2) analyze the effectiveness of health care joint ventures receiving exemptions in reducing costs and expanding access; and (3) make recommendations to the Congress.

Bill· HRH.R. 2623 (103rd)referred

Amateur Radio Volunteer Services Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1993

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

Bill· HRH.R. 2606 (103rd)referred

Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1993

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

Bill· HRH.R. 2599 (103rd)referred

Space Advertising Prohibition Act

United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1993

Space Advertising Prohibition Act - Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to prohibit the use of outer space for advertising purposes.

Bill· HRH.R. 2515 (103rd)referred

To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with respect to the extension of unlisted trading privileges for corporate securities, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993

Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to: (1) repeal the notice and hearing requirements formerly applicable to unlisted trading privileges for corporate securities; and (2) prescribe guidelines under which a national securities exchange may extend unlisted trading privileges to a security listed and registered on any national securities exchange.

Bill· HRH.R. 2498 (103rd)referred

Defense Diversification and Community Adjustment Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Improved Defense Conversion, Reinvestment, and Transition Assistance Activities Title II: Improvements to the Defense Diversification Program Under the Job Training Partnership Act Defense Diversification and Community Adjustment Act of 1993 - Title I: Improved Defense Conversion, Reinvestment, and Transition Assistance Activities - Establishes as one of the Assistant Secretaries of Defense the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Economic Adjustment who shall be responsible for the U.S. economic conversion program. Directs the Assistant Secretary to facilitate the development by community leaders of community adjustment plans to reduce the effects of defense downsizing in substantially and seriously affected communities. Requires the Director of Community Assistance Grants to aid in the formation of community adjustment committees which shall develop such plans. Makes grants and technical assistance available to such committees. Makes communities that have been determined by the Economic Development Administration to be substantially and seriously affected communities eligible for economic adjustment assistance under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, subject to the availability of appropriations. Amends the Defense Economic Adjustment, Diversification, Conversion, and Stabilization Act of 1990 to make the Assistant Secretary responsible for dislocated worker notification requirements imposed by such Act. Requires the Assistant Secretary to be responsible for assessment and conversion possibilities for defense contractors, subcontractors, and qualified small businesses in a substantially and seriously affected community. Provides grants through the Assistant Secretary to qualified small businesses for aid in conversion to nondefense activities. Requires the Assistant Secretary to cooperate with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration with regard to such assistance. Directs the Assistant Secretary to develop and maintain a list of all Federal programs concerned with defense conversion, reinvestment, and transition programs and to coordinate activities and provide information with regard to such programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide a one-year moratorium on payment of rent for the use of certain defense property by certain defense contractors for nondefense purposes. Authorizes appropriations for programs under this and related Acts. Title II: Improvements to the Defense Diversification Program Under the Job Training Partnership Act - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to: (1) transfer from the Secretary of Defense to the Secretary of Labor the authority to carry out the defense conversion adjustment program; and (2) authorize FY 1994 appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 2467 (103rd)referred

Vietnam Women's Memorial Coin Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1993

Vietnam Women's Memorial Coin Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue silver coins emblematic of the Vietnam Women's Memorial sculpture. Requires all surcharges received from the sale of such coins to be used for: (1) an endowment for the Memorial; (2) education and research concerning veterans and their families; and (3) the identification and documentation of women who served in the armed forces during the Vietnam era. Expresses the sense of the Congress that this coin program shall be self-sustaining and administered to result in no net cost to the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 202 (103rd)referred

To express the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the broadcasting of video programming containing violence.

United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1993

Declares that each of the four major television broadcast networks and their affiliates, independent television stations, the Public Broadcasting System, and cable programmers and operators should: (1) not telecast programming containing dramatized violence; (2) superimpose explicit viewer advisories throughout programming containing dramatized or documentary violence; (3) provide explicit audio and on-screen viewer advisories immediately prior to transmittal of such programming; (4) not transmit programming promotions or advertisements that contain violence; (5) develop a standard scheme for classifying programming on the basis of the amount and type of dramatized violence it contains; and (6) educate and inform viewers about the harmful effects of exposure to television violence.

Bill· HRH.R. 2443 (103rd)open

Equitable Escheatment Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993

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

Bill· HRH.R. 2432 (103rd)referred

Responsible Parent Immunization Plan Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Immunization of Children Receiving AFDC Title II: Immunization of Children Receiving Food Stamps Benefits Title III: Current Program Regarding Immunizations Title IV: Immunizations for Uninsured Children Title V: Monitoring System with Respect to Immunization of Certain Children Title VI: Parental Behavior with Respect to Childhood Immunizations Title VII: Use of Medicaid Funds for Monitoring Medicaid Beneficiaries Responsible Parent Immunization Plan Act of 1993 - Title I: Immunization of Children Receiving AFDC - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require a State's AFDC plan to require any parent applying for or receiving aid to ensure that each of his or her children have received specified immunizations. Title II: Immunization of Children Receiving Food Stamps Benefits - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to: (1) provide for a benefit reduction if all children in a household have not received specified immunizations; or (2) provide for a benefit increase if all such children have received such immunizations. Title III: Current Program Regarding Immunizations - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for grants to States for immunizations. Title IV: Immunizations for Uninsured Children - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for grants to States to provide pediatric immunizations to uninsured children without charge for the cost of the vaccine. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Monitoring System with Respect to Immunization of Certain Children - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for grants to States for the purpose of establishing a monitoring system which encourages the parents of uninsured children or children who are members of families receiving food stamps or other forms of assistance to have their children receive immunizations. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Parental Behavior with Respect to Childhood Immunizations - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for grants for demonstration projects to develop innovative methods to encourage parents to ensure that their children receive scheduled immunizations. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Use of Medicaid Funds for Monitoring Medicaid Beneficiaries - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for the use of Medicaid funds to monitor Medicaid beneficiaries under the monitoring system established by title V of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 2434 (103rd)referred

Putting Jobs and the American Family First Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Family Tax Credit Title II: Reducing the Cost of Capital by Reducing Capital Gains Tax Rates and Indexing the Basis of Certain Assets Title III: Neutral Cost Recovery Title IV: Increasing National Savings Through Individual Retirement Plus Accounts, Indexing for Inflation the Income Thresholds for Taxing Social Security Benefits, Etc. Title V: Cap on Federal Spending and Establishment of Commission to Reduce Federal Spending Putting Jobs and the American Family First Act of 1993 - Title I: Family Tax Credit - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals a tax credit of $500 multiplied by the number of qualifying children who have not attained age 18. Places limitations on such credit and adjusts it for inflation. Title II: Reducing the Cost of Capital by Reducing Capital Gains Tax Rates and Indexing the Basis of Certain Assets - Reduces the individual and corporate capital gains rate from 34 percent to 15 percent. Reduces such tax to 7.5 percent for low- and middle-income taxpayers. Provides for the phaseout of personal exemptions and the overall limitation on itemized deductions to take into account adjusted gross income which has been reduced by net capital gain. Requires indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, 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 transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Provides for indexing the limitation on capital losses of noncorporate taxpayers. Title III: Neutral Cost Recoverry - Allows the depreciation deduction to be computed based on a neutral recovery basis for property placed in service after December 31, 1993. Repeals the special depreciation rules applicable under the adjusted current earnings provisions of the minimum tax. Title IV: Increasing National Savings Through Individual Retirement Plus Accounts, Indexing for Inflation the Income Thresholds for Taxing Social Security Benefits, etc. - Allows individuals to establish individual retirement plus accounts with tax treatment similar to that for individual retirement plans. Makes contributions to such account nondeductible. Provides for qualified distributions from such accounts. other than for general retirement purposes, including special purpose distributions made for the purchase of a first home and for medical or educational purposes. Prohibits special purpose distributions from being made during the first five years of the account. Provides an inflation adjustment after 1996 for income thresholds in determining the taxation of social security benefits. Excludes income from individual retirement plans when determining modified adjusted gross income. Provides an inflation adjustment after 1996 for the maximum amount allowable as a deduction for retirement savings. Title V: Cap on Federal Spending and Establishment of Commission to Reduce Federal Spending - Establishes the Commission on Reduction of Federal Spending to: (1) recommend specific reductions in Federal activities to assure that spending does not grow at a rate in excess of two percent per year through FY 1998; and (2) report a bill to the Congress with changes necessary to achieve such reductions. Establishes an advisory council to assist the Commission. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollidngs Act) to set forth sequestration procedures when the increase in annual Federal spending exceeds the amount resulting from an annual rate of inflation of two percent.

Bill· HRH.R. 2406 (103rd)referred

Diesel Fuel Tax Enforcement Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1993

Diesel Fuel Tax Enforcement Act of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that outlays for Internal Revenue Service criminal investigation and other enforcement activities should be increased and such increase shall be funded with offsetting spending reductions in other program areas. Makes permanent the authority for the Internal Revenue Service to conduct undercover operations. Requires additional information in reports to the Congress concerning such operations. Requires the Attorney General to report to the Congress on: (1) the feasibility of additional Federal task forces dealing with organized crime's involvement in diesel fuel tax evasion; and (2) other steps that could be taken to reduce criminal evasion of such taxes.

Bill· HRH.R. 2368 (103rd)referred

Older Americans Economic Security Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993

Older Americans Economic Security Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction for qualified elderly care expenses which exceed five percent of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income. Allows a charitable deduction to physicians and registered professional nurses for medical services or goods donated to elderly individuals. Allows tax-free withdrawals from individual retirement accounts to pay long-term care expenses or to purchase insurance covering such expenses.

Bill· HRH.R. 2355 (103rd)referred

Child Support Enforcement Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993

Child Support Enforcement Act - Declares that nothing in this Act should be construed to affect the right of an individual or State to receive child support payments or the obligation of an individual to pay child support. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require any taxable unpaid child support payments of a taxpayer to be treated as amounts includible in gross income by reason of the discharge of indebtedness of the taxpayer. Allows a deduction for subsequently made payments. Allows a nonbusiness bad debt deduction for unpaid child support payments. Limits such deduction to $5,000 per child. Allows such deduction to taxpayers whose gross income does not exceed $5,000 and who are owed payments of at least $500. Requires payments to be delinquent during the entire taxable year. Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for amounts under this Act. Requires subsequent payments to be included in the gross income of the recipient. Requires net revenues from this Act to be applied to the retirement of outstanding public debt obligations.

Bill· HRH.R. 2319 (103rd)referred

To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require each department, agency, and instrumentality of the executive branch of the Federal Government to use recycled paper.

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require all Federal agencies to use printing and writing paper containing at least ten percent postconsumer material. Authorizes Federal agencies that are in compliance with such requirement to use any monies received from the sale of materials collected for recycling for activities within their legal authority.

Bill· HRH.R. 2315 (103rd)referred

Bosnia-Hercegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

Bosnia-Hercegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993 - Directs the President to terminate the U.S. arms embargo of the Government of Bosnia-Hercegovina upon receipt of a request from such government for assistance in exercising its right of self-defense under the United Nations Charter. Authorizes the President to direct the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training to provide assistance to Bosnia-Hercegovina if it makes such request. Limits the amount of such assistance. Bars members of the U.S. armed forces who provide such assistance from performing combatant duties outside of the United States. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 2292 (103rd)referred

Executive Composting Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993

Executive Composting Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President and the Governor of each State should consider: (1) carrying out on-site composting of organic materials generated at their residences and grounds; and (2) distributing the resulting compost to visitors and local residents for use in gardens and for other appropriate purposes.

Bill· HRH.R. 2271 (103rd)referred

To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to encourage the placement of youths in private sector jobs under the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993

Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to give priority to placement in private sector jobs under the summer youth employment and training program. Provides that retention in unsubsidized employment shall not be considered an appropriate factor in prescribing performance standards for such program. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the targeted jobs tax credit with respect to qualified summer youth employees by: (1) revising the age limitation to age 14 to 22 (currently 16 to 18); (2) increasing the amount of creditable wages from $3,000 to $3,500; (3) coordinating the credit with Federal summer youth employment programs; and (4) reducing certain paperwork burdens.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 204 (103rd)referred

To designate the week of July 25 through 31, 1993, as the "National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War".

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993

Designates July 25 through 31, 1993, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes the President to urge U.S. departments and agencies, interested organizations, groups, and individuals to fly the American flag at half-staff on July 27, 1993, in honor of the Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.

Bill· HRH.R. 2253 (103rd)referred

Foreign Aid Impact Assessment Act

United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1993

Foreign Aid Impact Assessment Act - Requires the President to submit triennially to the Congress a report (on a country-by-country basis) analyzing the impact and effectiveness of U.S. economic assistance provided during the preceding three fiscal years. Requires that each report: (1) be submitted to the Congress as a separate document; and (2) identify those countries in which economic assistance has been most and least successful, explain why the assistance was not more successful, and specify what the United States has done as a result.

Law· HRH.R. 2202 (103rd)enacted

Preventive Health Amendments of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993

Breast and Cervical Cancer Amendments of 1993 - Amends Public Health Service Act provisions authorizing grants for breast and cervical cancer preventive health measures to allow States to make contracts with private entities, provided the amount paid does not exceed the amount that would be paid under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Revises breast and cervical cancer screening quality assurance requirements. Allows the grants to be made to tribes and tribal organizations. Establishes a committee to coordinate Federal agency activities regarding established objectives for reductions in breast and cervical cancer in the United States by the Year 2000. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the breast and cervical cancer preventive health measures provisions.

Bill· HRH.R. 2205 (103rd)open

Trauma Care Amendments Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993

Trauma Care Amendments Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) increase (from 12 to 13) the number of members of the Advisory Council on Trauma Care Systems; (2) include on the Council an individual who has been a trauma patient at a designated trauma center, to be appointed for a four-year term; and (3) require that at least four (currently, 25 percent) of the members be knowledgeable concerning rural areas. Requires the Council to meet not less than once and, if the Chair determines necessary, up to four times each year (currently, at the call of the Chair and not less than once each three months). Includes among requirements for State plans (in order to receive allotments) coordination and cooperation among bordering States with respect to areas in which logical geographic groupings across State borders would be appropriate (currently, among States that share any standard metropolitan statistical area). Authorizes appropriations. Directs the General Accounting Office to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the duplication of Federal emergency medical services and trauma activities.

Bill· HRH.R. 2201 (103rd)referred

Injury Prevention and Control Amendments of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993

Injury Prevention and Control Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out specified activities with respect to domestic violence and sexual assault, including: (1) collecting data relating to the incidence of such violence and assault; (2) making grants to public and nonprofit entities for the evaluation of programs whose purpose is to prevent such violence and assault; (3) providing to the public information and education on such violence and assault; (4) training health care providers to identify individuals whose medical condition or statements indicate that they are victims of such violence and assault and to refer them to entities that provide related services; and (5) making grants to public and nonprofit private entities for demonstration projects with respect to such violence and assault. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to advise the Secretary and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect to the prevention and control of injuries. Revises reporting requirements under the Act to include periodic reporting of activities carried out with respect to such violence and assault and with respect to rural areas. Authorizes the Secretary to work in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with public and nonprofit private entities to promote activities regarding the prevention and control of injuries (currently, limited to injury control). Directs the Secretary to disseminate information concerning the practical applications of research conducted or assisted to the public, including elementary and secondary schools. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 199 (103rd)open

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

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993

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

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 175 (103rd)referred

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to require open committee meetings and to allow the broadcasting and still photography of any committee meetings or hearings that are open to the public.

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993

Amends rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to allow meetings of the standing committees and subcommittees to be closed to the public only if disclosure of matters to be considered would endanger national security or would tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person. Repeals provisions making the coverage of committee hearings and meetings by television broadcast, radio broadcast, or still photography a privilege made available by the House. Requires proceedings of open committee hearings or meetings to be open to television broadcast, radio broadcast, and still photography, or by any of such method of coverage. Prohibits a committee or subcommittee chairman from limiting the number of television or still cameras below two representatives from each medium.

Bill· HRH.R. 2146 (103rd)open

National Park Service Concessions Policy Reform Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993

National Park Service Concessions Policy Reform Act of 1993 - Repeals the Concessions Policy Act of 1965. Provides that such repeal shall not affect the validity of any contract entered into under such Act. Applies the provisions of this Act to such contract to the extent such provisions are inconsistent with the express terms and conditions of it. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to authorize, under specified conditions, private persons, corporations, or other entities to provide and operate such facilities and services in the National Park System. Requires a concessions contract to be awarded only through competitive bid procedures. Allows waiver of such procedures and award of a temporary contract to avoid interruption of services. Prohibits the Secretary from granting a preferential right to a concessioner to: (1) renew concessions contracts under this Act, with exceptions or; (2) provide new or additional services at a park. Sets forth a formula for determining franchise fees. Establishes a maximum: (1) ten-year duration for a concessions contract; and (2) two-year duration for a temporary one. Requires the approval of the Secretary before a concessions contract can be transferred, assigned, sold, or conveyed. Protects certain possessory interest of concessioners who have commenced acquisition or construction of any structure on Federal land within a park before the enactment of this Act. Requires all concessions contracts to make concessioners responsible for utility costs. Amends Federal law that authorizes the Secretary to provide utility services to concessioners on a reimbursement of appropriation basis. Places limitations on a concessioner's rates and charges to the public. Exempts contracts awarded by the Secretary under this Act from certain provisions of Federal law with respect to leasing of U.S. buildings and properties. Amends the Historical Sites, Buildings and Antiquities Act to repeal provisions authorizing the Secretary to grant concessioner contracts, leases, or permits without advertising and securing competitive bids.

Bill· HRH.R. 2121 (103rd)open

Negotiated Rates Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1993

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

Bill· HRH.R. 2127 (103rd)referred

Comprehensive Child Welfare Services Reform Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1993

Comprehensive Child Welfare Services Reform Act of 1993 - Amends title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish a new comprehensive child welfare services program under part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance). Authorizes appropriations. Amends SSA title IV part B (Child-Welfare Services) to provide for coordination with other programs providing services to children and families. Amends SSA title XI to revise demonstration waiver provisions. Amends SSA title IV parts B and E to provide for recovery of training costs. Amends SSA title IV part E to make permanent the independent living program and to maintain basic and additional ceiling amounts at the latter amounts authorized under current law. Provides that in determining the eligibility of an individual aged 16 for foster care maintenance payments under such part, the State agency shall disregard from the resources of the individual an amount not exceeding what the agency determines to be reasonable for the purpose of achieving self-sufficiency. Amends the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 to repeal provisions respecting the annual report on voluntary placement.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 100 (103rd)referred

Many Neighbors, One Earth Resolution

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1993

Many Neighbors, One Earth Resolution - Urges the President to develop and implement a coordinated economic and development policy and program of action designed to promote broadbased, sustainable development that will reduce global hunger and poverty in environmentally sound ways. Specifies that such policy and program should have as its principal objectives: (1) expanding economic opportunities; (2) meeting basic human needs; (3) promoting environmental protection and sustainable use of natural resources; and (4) promoting pluralism, democratic participation, and human rights. Specifies that such policy and program should involve all relevant international activities of the U.S. Government. Urges the President to take specific actions, including: (1) proposing the enactment of legislation providing for a post-Cold War foreign assistance program to promote sustainable development, especially the reduction of hunger and poverty in environmentally sound ways; (2) developing and implementing development cooperation programs and projects in pursuit of such objectives; (3) ensuring that development cooperation programs take into account relevant local perspectives of the rural and urban poor during the design, planning, and implementation process for project and program assistance; and (4) encouraging and supporting the efforts of countries to reduce their level of military spending when such spending is disproportionate to security needs and to spending on health, education, and environmental protection.

Bill· HRH.R. 1989 (103rd)open

Medical Injury Compensation Fairness Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1993

Medical Injury Compensation Fairness Act of 1993 - Deems each individual or entity receiving health care services for which payment may be made in whole or in part with funds provided under a Federal program to have entered into an agreement to resolve any medical malpractice liability claim through a certified State or Federal dispute resolution system. Requires any such entity to bring any medical malpractice liability action that arises from a claim resolved through such system only in accordance with specified procedures. Denies a tax deduction for health insurance expenses to any employer not having in effect such an agreement with respect to the resolution of medical malpractice claims.

Bill· HRH.R. 1999 (103rd)open

Respecting the relationship between workers' compensation benefits and the benefits available under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act.

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1993

Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993 to make State workers' compensation laws the exclusive remedy for agricultural worker injuries under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for all cases in which a final judgment has not been entered before October 6, 1992.

Bill· HRH.R. 1950 (103rd)open

Family and Economic Recovery Act

United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Tax Relief for Families Title II: Family Savings Incentives Subtitle A: Increase in Income Limitations for Deductible IRA Contributions; Increase in IRA Contribution Limits; Penalty-Free Withdrawals for Home Ownership, Education, and Medical Expenses Subtitle B: Exclusion for Employer-Provided Educational Assistance to Include Educational Assistance for Spouse and Dependents of Employee Title III: Medical Care Savings Accounts; Health Care Cost Controls; Deduction for Health Insurance Costs of Self-Employed Individuals Title IV: Educational Choice Programs Title V: Grants to Encourage Employers to Adopt Flexible Work and Family Policies Title VI: Reducing the Cost of Capital by Reducing Capital Gains Tax Rates, Indexing the Basis of Certain Assets, and Excluding Gain from Sales of Principal Residences Title VII: Enterprise Zones Subtitle A: Designation of Enterprise Zones Subtitle B: Federal Income Tax Incentives Subtitle C: Regulatory Flexibility Subtitle D: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones Family and Economic Recovery Act - Title I: Tax Relief for Families - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers a credit for each child who has not attained the age of 19. Allows a credit for qualified adoption expenses. Disallows the use of such credits together with other credits or deductions. Title II: Family Savings Incentives - Subtitle A: Increase in Income Limitations for Deductible IRA Contributions; Increase in IRA Contribution Limits; Penalty-Free Withdrawals for Home Ownership, Education, and Medical Expenses - Increases the income limitations on retirement savings deductions and provides a cost-of-living adjustment after 1994 for such limitations. Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for deductible retirement amounts after 1993. Allows distributions from certain retirement plans without penalty to purchase first homes, pay higher education expenses and financially devastating medical expenses, and assist certain unemployed individuals. Treats certain disaster victims as first-time homebuyers. Subtitle B: Exclusion for Employer-Provided Educational Assistance to Include Educational Assistance for Spouse and Dependents of Employee - Excludes from gross income employer-provided educational assistance to spouses and dependents of employees. Makes such exclusion permanent. Title III: Medical Care Savings Accounts; Health Care Cost Controls; Deduction for Health Insurance Costs of Self-Employed Individuals - Excludes from gross income medical care savings benefits. Describes such benefits as a health plan which provides that all or part of the premium differential realized by instituting a qualified higher deductible health plan is credited to participating employees to pay for medical care for a plan year. Requires amounts remaining at the end of such plan year to be deposited into a tax exempt medical care savings account (subject to rules similar to those for retirement plans) for use by the participant for medical expenses. Increases the deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals to 100 percent (50 percent for 1995 and 1996) and makes such deduction permanent. Preempts State laws: (1) requiring the offering of health plans providing certain services; and (2) prohibiting employer groups from purchasing health insurance. Title IV: Educational Choice Programs - Educational Choice Programs Act - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 2000 for grants and scholarship awards to parents of elementary or secondary school children that may be redeemed at a variety of public and private schools, including religious schools. Sets forth administrative details for such program. Title V: Grants to Encourage Employers to Adopt Flexible Work and Family Policies - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 to provide start-up grants to businesses to explore, initiate, or expand flexible work policies in an effort to ease work and family demands on employees. Includes as examples flexitime, part-time, job sharing, telecommuting, flexiplace, or compressed work weeks. Title VI: Reducing the Cost of Capital by Reducing Capital Gains Tax Rates, Indexing the Basis of Certain Assets, and Excluding Gain from Sales of Principal Residences - Reduces the individual and corporate capital gains rate from 34 percent to 15 percent. Reduces such tax to 7.5 percent for low- and middle-income taxpayers. Provides for the phaseout of personal exemptions and the overall limitation on itemized deductions to take into account adjusted gross income which has been reduced by net capital gain. Requires indexing, based on the gross national product deflator, 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 transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Provides for indexing the limitation of capital losses of noncorporate taxpayers. Excludes from gross income the sale or exchange of property that has been owned and used by the taxpayer as the taxpayer's principal residence. Terminates provisions relating to the rollover of gain on the sale of a principal residence. Title VII: Enterprise Zones - Subtitle A: Designation of Enterprise Zones - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate enterprise zones for purposes of providing tax and regulatory relief and improving local services. Limits choices to areas nominated by States and local governments. Limits the total number of areas that may be designated, and the time period of the designation. Authorizes the Secretary to designate a zone only if the area meets certain locational, demographic, unemployment, and poverty criteria. Requires nominating local governments, as a condition of the Secretary's designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action that may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining regulation of business, and providing job training to area residents. Describes areas to which the Secretary must give preference in selecting areas for designation. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress every two years on the effects of such enterprise zones' designation in accomplishing the purposes of this Act. Subtitle B: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Allows a nonrefundable income tax credit to enterprise zone employees for five percent of any qualified wages earned as do not exceed a specified amount. Phases out such credit as total wages increase over $20,000. Provides for the nonrecognition of capital gain on the sale of enterprise zone property. Allows a taxpayer a deduction on the aggregate amount paid for the purchase of enterprise stock on its original issue by a qualified issuer. Requires any gain from the disposition of the stock to be treated as ordinary income. Excludes enterprise zone capital gains from income computation of alternative minimum taxes. Subtitle C: Regulatory Flexibility - Amends Federal law to revise the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions to include qualified business, government, and nonprofit enterprises operating within enterprise zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by a designating government, to waive or modify rules and regulations pertaining to the implementation of projects or activities within an enterprise zone. Requires agencies to approve the request if the resulting benefits of job creation, community development, or economical revitalization outweigh the public interest in retaining the rule unchanged. Disallows waiver or modification of a rule that would directly violate a statutory requirement or present a danger to the public health and safety. Subtitle D: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis, and to expedite the processing of, applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to, and expedite applications for, the establishment of ports of entry necessary to establish such zones.

Bill· HRH.R. 1945 (103rd)referred

To provide for return of excess amounts from official allowances of Members of the House of Representatives to the Treasury for deficit reduction.

United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1993

Provides that any amount remaining in an official allowance of a Member of the House of Representatives at the end of the session of Congress or other period for which the allowance is made available shall be returned to the Treasury to be used for deficit reduction.