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United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1999
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to award a gold medal to Rosa Parks, in recognition of her contributions to the Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1999
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate provisions which provide for automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1999
Human Cloning Prevention Act of 1999 - Prohibits any Federal agency from making, or entering into any obligation to make, any grant, contract, or other payment to any business, institution, or organization that: (1) has engaged in human cloning in the past year; or (2) controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with any such business, institution, or organization.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1999
Education IRA Fairness Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the deadline for contributions to education individual retirement accounts for a taxable year to the due date for filing the return for the taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the special deduction for the living expenses of Members of Congress from $3,000 to $1.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1999
Declares that it is U.S. policy to deploy a national missile defense.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1999
Declares that: (1) the final political status of the territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority can only be determined through negotiations and agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority; (2) any attempt to establish Palestinian statehood outside the negotiating process will invoke the strongest congressional opposition; and (3) the President should unequivocally assert U.S. opposition to the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1999
Community Safety Act of 1999 - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to exempt from certain (anti-kickback) criminal penalties any hospital remunerations to an ambulance provider owned or operated by a State or local government or a tax-exempt charitable organization that are in kind replenishments of certain ambulance drugs and supplies used during the transport of a patient to the hospital. Prohibits the determination of such remuneration in a manner that takes into account the volume or value of any referrals or business otherwise generated between the parties for which payment may be made in whole or in part under a Federal health care program.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1999
'Know Your Customer' Sunset Act - Ends the effectiveness of, and prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury or any Federal banking agency from prescribing, any regulation that has the effect of requiring a depository institution or any other private entity to: (1) monitor customer accounts; or (2) obtain information concerning any person in connection with a financial transaction (including the source of any funds involved in the transaction).
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1999
Directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide for the award of the Navy Combat Ribbon with respect to participation in ground or surface combat during any period after July 4, 1943, and before March 1, 1961.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1999
Hope for Children Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the amount allowable for qualified adoption expenses; (2) permanently extend the credit for adoption expenses; and (3) adjust the limitations on such credit for inflation.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1999
10 Percent Tax Cut Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce individual income tax rates by ten percent.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1999
Directs the President to impose quotas, tariff surcharges, or negotiate enforceable voluntary export restraint agreements in order to ensure that the volume of imported steel products (semifinished, plates, sheets and strips, wire rods, wire and wire products, rail type products, bars, structural shapes and units, pipes and tubes, iron ore, and coke products) during any month does not exceed the average volume of imported steel for the 36-month period preceding July 1997. Directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Commerce to implement a program for administering and enforcing the restraints on such imports. Authorizes the Customs Service to refuse entry into the U.S. customs territory for a three year period of any steel products that exceed the allowable levels of such products.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1999
Amends the Federal criminal code to establish a national standard for the carrying of certain concealed firearms by non-residents. Authorizes a person who has a valid permit to carry a concealed firearm in one State and who is not prohibited from carrying a firearm under Federal law to carry a concealed firearm (that has been transported in interstate commerce) in another State in accordance with the restrictions of that State (if any) or as specified under this Act. Exempts qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Mandates Information Act of 1999 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), in preparing estimates of the direct costs of all Federal private sector mandates, to estimate also, if feasible, the indirect impact of such mandates on consumers, workers, and small businesses, including any disproportionate impact in particular regions or industries. Prohibits such estimate from being considered in determining whether the direct costs of all such mandates will exceed the threshold specified under current law. Revises provisions concerning legislation subject to a point of order to: (1) define the point of order for a determination by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office that it is not feasible to determine the economic impact of a Federal mandate; and (2) replace certain references to Federal intergovernmental mandates with references to Federal mandates with respect to legislation reported by the Appropriations Committee. Provides a point of order against consideration of legislation that would increase the direct costs of Federal private sector mandates (excluding direct costs attributable to revenue resulting from tax or tariff provisions of any such measure if it does not raise net tax and tariff revenues over the five-fiscal- year period beginning with the first fiscal year such measure affects such revenues) by an amount that causes the stated threshold of $100 million per fiscal year to be exceeded. Revises the definition of "Federal intergovernmental mandate" to mean any provision in legislation, statute, or regulation that relates to a then-existing Federal program under which $500 million or more is provided annually to State, local, or tribal governments under entitlement authority, and that meets certain other criteria, if such legislation, statute, or regulation does not provide participating State, local, or tribal governments with new or expanded authority (currently, if such governments lack such authority) to amend their financial or programmatic responsibilities to continue providing required services affected by the legislation, statute, or regulation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Second Amendment Restoration Act of 1999 - Amends the Federal criminal code to allow a person who is not subject to a Federal firearms prohibition to carry in any State a concealed firearm in accordance with the laws of the State which has issued a license or permit to, or otherwise entitled, such person to carry a concealed firearm, subject to the laws of the State in which the firearm is carried concerning locations in which firearms may not be carried.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 1999 - Declares that a person not prohibited under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act from receiving a firearm shall have the right to obtain firearms for security and to use firearms in defense of: (1) self or family against a reasonably perceived threat of imminent and unlawful infliction of serious bodily injury; (2) self or family in the course of the commission by another person of a violent felony against the person or a member of the person's family; and (3) the person's home in the course of the commission of a felony by another person. Authorizes persons whose rights under this Act have been violated to bring an action in U.S. district court against the United States, any State, or any person for damages, injunctive relief, and such other relief as the court deems appropriate. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the award of attorney's fees; and (2) the statute of limitations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
United Nations Erroneous Debt Act of 1999 - Prohibits the payment of U.S. contributions to the United Nations until the President certifies to the Congress that the United Nations has: (1) agreed to reimburse or credit to the United States a specified sum which reflects unreimbursed U.S. assistance to U.N. military peacekeeping efforts from 1992 through 1995; or (2) eliminated alleged U.S. arrearages to the United Nations and agreed to reimburse or credit a specified sum to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Medicare Common Sense Hospital Payment Act of 1999 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, to repeal a specified restriction on Medicare payment for certain hospital discharges to post-acute care.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to set forth provisions for: (1) a small employer (100 or fewer employees) retirement plan; (2) a credit for the expenses of establishing such a plan; and (3) a model small employer retirement plan.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permanently extend the exclusion from gross income of employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) restore the exclusion for such assistance on the graduate level.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Economic Growth and Tax Freedom Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce individual income tax rates.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Jonathan Jay Pollard should serve his full sentence of life imprisonment and should not receive any form of executive clemency from the President.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Permits certain veterans with service-connected disabilities who are retired members of the uniformed services to receive compensation concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Congressional Pay Integrity and Accountability Act of 1999 - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. Requires the annual rate of pay for Members to be the rate payable as of the enactment of this Act, until such rate is adjusted under provisions of the Federal Salary Act of 1967 or other provision of law.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Collegiate Learning and Student Savings Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit private higher educational institutions, in addition to currently permitted State institutions, to establish qualified tuition programs; and (2) exclude from gross income such program distributions used for qualified higher education expenses. Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to exempt qualified tuition programs from the definition of an investment company.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Long-Term Care Advancement Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) except from the penalty tax and exclude from income amounts withdrawn from qualified retirement plans which are used to pay for premiums for qualified long-term care insurance contracts; and (2) provide a limited credit for an individual who maintains a household with a person requiring custodial care.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Social Security Preservation Act of 1999 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (social security trust funds) to ensure that the annual surplus of the trust funds is invested in: (1) marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States or obligations guaranteed by the United States; or (2) certificates of deposit in insured depository institutions. Outlines provisions for determining the annual surplus of the trust funds. Prohibits disinvestment of social security trust fund amounts from public debt obligations, any refraining from making such investments, or any delay in making normal deposits in such trust funds for public debt limit-related purposes. Authorizes the sale of social security trust fund public debt obligations for the payment of cash benefits and administrative expenses, with conditions, including notifying Congress and the Comptroller General in advance of such sale.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act of 1999 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality from using a social security account number or any derivative as the means of identifying any individual, except for specified social security and tax purposes. Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality from requesting an individual to disclose his social security account number on either a mandatory or a voluntary basis. Prohibits any two Federal agencies or instrumentalities from implementing the same identifying number with respect to any individual, except as authorized under this Act. Prohibits a Federal agency from: (1) establishing or mandating a uniform standard for identification of an individual that is required to be used by any other Federal agency, a State agency, or a private person for any purpose other than the purpose of conducting the authorized activities of the Federal agency establishing or mandating the standard; or (2) conditioning receipt of any Federal grant or contract or other Federal funding on the adoption, by a State, a State agency, or a political subdivision of a State, of a uniform standard for identification of an individual. Prohibits a Federal agency from establishing or mandating a uniform standard for identification of an individual that is required to be used within the agency, or by any other Federal agency, a State agency, or a private person, for the purpose of: (1) investigating, monitoring, overseeing, or otherwise regulating a transaction to which the Federal Government is not a party; or (2) administrative simplification.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Community Protection Act of 1999 - Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize qualified law enforcement officers carrying the official badge and photographic identification issued by the governmental agency for which the individual is employed as a law enforcement officer, notwithstanding State or local laws, to carry a concealed firearm that has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce. Specifies that this Act shall not be construed to supersede or limit the laws of any State that: (1) permit private persons or entities to prohibit or restrict the possession of concealed firearms on their property; or (2) prohibit or restrict the possession of firearms on any State or local government property, installation, building, base, or park. (Sec. 3) Sets forth similar provisions authorizing qualified retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms notwithstanding State or local laws.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Marriage Penalty Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the standard deduction on a joint (married) return equal to twice the deduction of a single (not married) return.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Truth in Budgeting Act - Prohibits the receipts and disbursements of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund from being counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for purposes of the Federal budget as submitted by the President, the congressional budget, or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Exempts such trust funds from any general statutory budget outlays limitation. Amends Federal transportation law to require the Secretary of Transportation to estimate annually: (1) what, but for this Act, would be at the close of the next fiscal year the amount of unfunded aviation authorizations; and (2) the net aviation receipts at the close of such year.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Bill Emerson English Language Empowerment Act of 1999 - Amends Federal law to declare English to be the official language of the U.S. Government. States that representatives of the Federal Government have an affirmative obligation to preserve and enhance the role of English as the official language of the Federal Government. Requires such representatives to conduct official business in English. Prohibits anyone from being denied Government services because he or she communicates in English. Requires that all officials conduct all naturalization ceremonies entirely in English. Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the preservation or use of Native Alaskan or Native American languages.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for producing crude oil and natural gas from marginal wells of: (1) $3 per barrel of qualified crude oil production; and (2) $.50 per 1,000 cubic feet of qualified natural gas production. Provides: (1) a formula for reducing such credit in years in which oil and gas prices increase; and (2) an inflation adjustment for such formula. Allows such credit against the regular and minimum tax.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay monthly special compensation to severely disabled military retirees as follows: (1) $300 for those with disabilities rated as total; (2) $200 for those with disabilities rated at 90 percent; and (3) $100 for those with disabilities rated at 70 or 80 percent. Requires such retirees to have completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable military service and to have a service-connected disability.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends Federal law to exclude the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund from the Federal and congressional budgets, and exempt it from any general budget limitation imposed by statute on U.S. budget outlays and from certain orders issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Senior Tax Relief Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to repeal the tax increase on social security benefits enacted by the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to remove the limitation on the amount of outside income which a beneficiary may earn (earnings test) without incurring a reduction in benefits. Amends the IRC to repeal the estate tax, gift tax, and the tax on generation-skipping transfers.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Job Creation Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude net capital gain from the gross income of taxpayers other than corporations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Self-Employed Health Affordability Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the deduction allowed for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals to 100 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Small Business Common Sense and Fairness Act of 1999 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to: (1) review the size standards of industries with the Standard Industrial Classification Codes of 15, 16, and 17 which were excluded in the 1994 SBA inflationary adjustment; and (2) adjust such standards for inflation for the purpose of deeming an enterprise in any such industry as a small business. Requires the Administrator, at least once every five years, to: (1) review and adjust for inflation such size standard for an enterprise deemed a small business for purposes of competing for Federal contracting opportunities based solely on annual revenues; and (2) report to the Congress and the President on findings and conclusions reached upon such review.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Family Heritage Preservation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the estate tax, gift tax, and tax on generation-skipping transfers.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit: (1) annual carryover of up to $500 of unused nontaxable cafeteria plan and flexible spending arrangement benefits; or (2) such carryover to be distributed as taxable income, or rolled over tax free to certain retirement plans, an education individual retirement plan, or a medical savings account.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Caddie Relief Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat golf caddies performing services for nonprofessional golfers as nonemployees for employment tax purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Repeals the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Capital Gains Tax Reduction Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the maximum capital gains tax rates for both individuals and corporations. Provides for the indexing of assets for determining gain or loss.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Repeals rule XXIII (statutory limit on public debt) of the Rules of the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the current Federal income tax deduction for interest paid on debt secured by a first or second home should not be further restricted.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1998
Declares that the President should: (1) impose sanctions under the Arms Export Control Act and the Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992 to the fullest possible extent, including freezing assets and seizing property in the United States of entities involved in illegal transactions with Iran; (2) take steps to expedite the development of a missile defense system for the United States and for U.S. forces wherever deployed to deal with the Iranian threat, including accelerating development of the Navy Upper Tier program and improving the integration of the Patriot, AEGIS, and THADD missile radar systems; and (3) provide assistance to Israel to acquire a third Arrow missile battery for protection against the Iranian missile threat.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1998
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the commitment made by the United States, in conjunction with South Korea and Japan, to help finance and build two nuclear reactors for North Korea, to provide fuel oil and other assistance to North Korea, and to begin lifting the decades-old economic embargo on North Korea should be suspended until the President certifies that North Korea has agreed to: (1) cease further development of its ballistic missile program; (2) cease all aspects of its nuclear weapons program; (3) cease all construction and activity on all nuclear facilities other than the light water nuclear reactors permitted by the Agreed Framework of October 21, 1994; (4) allow international inspectors complete access to the Yongbyon nuclear complex, all plutonium reprocessing facilities, and other suspected nuclear weapons sites under the Agreed Framework and other international treaties; (5) eliminate its existing stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium and allow verification of such elimination; and (6) stop diverting food, fuel oil, and other international humanitarian assistance to its military personnel and infrastructure; and (7) sign an agreement formally ending the war with South Korea. Declares that the President should at no time, with respect to North Korea, waive the section of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 which requires the maintaining of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards as a precondition for the transfer of nuclear technology.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1998
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Iraq is in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations. Calls for the President to: (1) take appropriate action to bring Iraq into compliance with such obligations; (2) insist on the removal, destruction, or rendering harmless of Iraq's programs for biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons; (3) fully support the right of inspectors of the UN Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) to unfettered and unannounced inspections of suspected weapons facilities; and (4) not renege on past warnings issued by the President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense that the United States is committed to using military force, if necessary, to punish Iraq for interfering with or obstructing UNSCOM's weapons inspections.