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United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Designates the weeks beginning May 23, 1993, and May 15, 1994, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Amends Federal law to prohibit any State from imposing an income tax on the pension income of any individual who is not a resident or domiciliary of that State.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Prisoner-of-War Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a specified number of one-dollar coins emblematic of the experience of American prisoners of war. Requires that all sales of such coins include a surcharge of $5 per coin. Requires specified proceeds from such surcharges to be paid to the: (1) Secretary of the Interior for construction of the Andersonville Prisoner-of-War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia; (2) endowment fund established by this Act for the maintenance of such Museum; and (3) Secretary of Veterans Affairs to maintain national cemeteries.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
National Writing Project Reauthorization Act of 1993 - Amends the Education Council Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-62) to extend the authorization of appropriations for the National Writing Project. Revises provisions relating to the National Writing Project, including provisions for Federal share, evaluation, and research and development activities.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permanently extend the period during which qualified mortgage bonds and mortgage credit certificates may be issued.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Requests the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to publish, within one year, proposed amended regulations that specify the components of an adequate operator training program and that provide that only trained employees be authorized to operate powered industrial trucks.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1993
Declares that the President should promptly seek the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly with the support of the United States on November 20, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Declares four named individuals to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to the heirs and assigns of a named individual in satisfaction of all claims of such individual's estate and heirs and assigns against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Securities Private Enforcement Reform Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to declare that a defendant may be liable jointly and severally for damages in an implied private action only if the trier of fact specifically determines that the defendant knowingly engaged in securities fraud. Sets forth a liability allocation scheme to determine the percentage of responsibility among the defendants if the trier of fact finds that the defendant did not engage in knowing securities fraud. Prescribes guidelines for the award of reasonable fees and expenses incurred by the prevailing party in any implied private action. Declares that in any implied right of action that is certified as a plaintiff class action: (1) the share that is awarded to the representative plaintiff shall be calculated in the same manner as the share awarded to all other members of the plaintiff class; (2) a party may not be represented by any attorney who owns or has a beneficial interest in the securities that are the subject of the litigation, or who is obligated to pay remuneration to a third party for assistance in obtaining the representation of any party to the action; and (3) funds disgorged as a result of Securities and Exchange Commission action shall not be distributed as payment for attorneys' fees or expenses incurred by private parties seeking distribution of the disgorged funds. Sets a statute of limitations on private rights of action under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Makes certain protections under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, regarding the placing of restrictions on water resources construction projects licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, applicable to a segment of the North Fork of the Payette River in Idaho.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
National Forest Health Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior to declare that a forest health emergency exists on Federal lands under their respective jurisdictions. Requires the appropriate Federal land management agency, upon such declaration, to develop a forest health improvement program. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a special fund to be used for timber sales and salvage and forest rehabilitation and maintenance. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare an annual forest health report. Amends the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 to extend the deadline for the report of the National Commission on Wildfire Disasters.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Provisions Relating to Physicians' Services Subtitle A: Incentives Under Medicare Subtitle B: Increasing Number of Physicians Practicing in Rural Areas Subtitle C: Expansion of Exceptions to Limitations on Physician Self-Referrals Title II: Provisons Relating to Hospitals Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions Subtitle A: Administrative Simplification Subtitle B: Other Provisions Rural Health Care Access Improvement Act of 1993 - Title I: Provisions Relating to Physicians' Services - Subtitle A: Incentives Under Medicare - (Sec. 101) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to modify requirements regarding payments to new physicians and other new health care practitioners for rural area services. (Sec. 102) Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from failing to make Medicare payments on the basis of an individual's failure to complete a questionaire concerning a primary plan. (Sec. 103) Regulates the use of extrapolation by carriers administering Medicare benefits. (Sec. 104) Prohibits certain fees by carriers and the Secretary. (Sec. 105) Requires consideration, in applying standards and criteria for carrier contracts, of evaluations by medical societies representing physicians served by the carrier. (Sec. 106) Provides for appeals of carrier actions. (Sec. 107) Directs carriers to provide for review (of denial of payments for physicians' services) by a physician in the same medical specialty. (Sec. 108) Amends SSA titles XVIII and XIX (Medicaid) to modify the circumstances in which payments may be made to a physician for services provided by another physician. (Sec. 109) Amends SSA title XI to exclude surgical procedures performed in a rural area from utilization and quality control review requirements. Subtitle B: Increasing Number of Physicians Practicing in Rural Areas - (Sec. 111) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to allow a personal interest deduction for qualified medical education loan interest which accrues while the physician is providing primary care to medically underserved rural area residents. (Sec. 112) Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to add the ratio of medically underserved individuals in a health professional shortage area to the aggregate population of all such areas to the exclusive factors considered in determining the greatest shortages in the assignment of National Health Service Corps members. Subtitle C: Expansion of Exceptions to Limitations on Physician Self-Referrals - (Sec. 121) Amends SSA title XVIII to revise the exceptions to prohibitions on physician self-referrals. (Sec. 122) Mandates a study and report to the Congress on the changes in aggregate costs, under Medicare and other health plans, resulting from this subtitle. Title II: Provisions Relating to Hospitals - (Sec. 201) Amends SSA title XVIII to require rural hospital prospective payment system amounts for capital-related costs of inpatient services to be based on either reasonable costs or the payment methodology used for other hospitals, as elected by the hospital. (Sec. 202) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OMBRA) of 1989 to extend referral centers. Removes Medicare provisions relating to exceptions and adjustments in certain payments for regional and national referral centers. Provides that the disproportionate share adjustment percentage be determined, in certain circumstances, as though such provisions had not been removed. (Sec. 203) Shields from certain antitrust laws specified actions of hospitals meeting described requirements. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Subtitle A: Administrative Simplification - (Sec. 301) Requires health benefit plans to: (1) issue health claims cards; (2) provide information to appropriate health claims clearinghouses on individual eligibility for benefits; and (3) accept clearinghouse determinations on clean claims. (Sec. 302) Requires health service providers to submit claims only to the appropriate clearinghouse in a manner consistent with this Act. Imposes civil penalties for violation of such requirements. Requires each hospital, as a Medicare participation agreement requirement, to report information in a manner consistent with OMBRA of 1987. (Sec. 303) Requires: (1) designation of certain clearinghouse areas; and (2) a separate contract in each area with an organization to perform clearinghouse functions. (Sec. 304) Mandates standards for: (1) uniform health claims cards; and (2) information required for claims acceptance and payment. Requires the Secretary to develop computer software for provider inquiries, responses, and electronic claims submission and for uniform hospital reporting. (Sec. 305) Amends IRC to impose a tax on the failure of any group health plan to meet certain requirements of this title. Subtitle B: Other Provisions - (Sec. 311) Amends PHSA to require certain demonstration projects in rural areas invovling trauma care to include specified elements. (Sec. 312) Authorizes the use of certain funds for grants to nursing schools for the establishment of clinics to provide primary care services in medically underserved rural areas and related training. Requires a study on reducing the burden of federally conducted or sponsored health care services information collection requests.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the exclusion from gross income of amounts received under qualified group legal services plans.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Establishes the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area, Idaho. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to finalize, and revise at least once every four years, the comprehensive management plan developed for the Conservation Area. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Land Management, to establish a visitor center to interpret the history and geological, ecological, natural, cultural, and other resources of the Area and the biology of the raptors and their relationships to man. Authorizes the Secretary to permit visitor use of the public lands in the Conservation Area in a manner that is consistent with this Act. Permits continued use of the Conservation Area's Orchard Training Area by the Idaho National Guard. Authorizes the continued grazing of domestic livestock within such Area. Requires the Secretary to study, identify, and, where appropriate, initiate land exchanges to resolve ownership conflicts within the Area. Releases lands within the Snake River Birds of Prey National Area that have been found unsuitable for wilderness designation from further management pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Idaho Land Exchange Act of 1993 - Adjusts the boundaries of the Targhee National Forest in Idaho. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to Idaho, acting through the Regents of its University, the Clark Fork Ranger Station within the Kaniksu National Forest in exchange for Idaho conveying to the Secretary the Clark Fork Land Exchange. Provides that if the lands exchanged between the United States and Idaho are not of equal value, the values shall be equalized in accordance with provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, except that the value of the improvements made by the University on the Clark Fork Ranger Station under the Granger-Thye permit shall be excluded from consideration in such valuation. Adjusts the boundaries of the Kaniksu National Forest to include the lands conveyed by Idaho.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 and specified defense procurement provisions to require each contract for the purchase of property or services made by an executive agency to provide: (1) that the prime contractor and any subcontractor thereof shall guarantee to comply with State workers' compensation laws; and (2) for the termination of the right of the offending contractor or subcontractor to proceed with the work being carried out in a State in which compliance with such a law is not demonstrated, subject to specified requirements. Makes specified exceptions to such provisions under the Defense Base Act and the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act. Authorizes the President to suspend operation of this Act in the event of a national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to accept from the State of Idaho title and interests in East Moscow Mountain. Prescribes guidelines for the management of such lands. Mandates that upon their transfer to the United States such lands be withdrawn from entry and patent under Federal mining laws and from the operation of Federal geothermal and mineral leasing laws. Proscribes the harvesting of timber from such lands. Mandates the continued use of such lands for public recreation purposes. Sets forth conditions under which the Secretary may exchange Federal lands with the County of Latah, Idaho.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act with respect to storage of civilian spent nuclear fuel to: (1) require the Secretary of Energy to notify the affected State and Indian tribe of any decision to provide storage capacity at any site located within their respective jurisdiction; and (2) authorize such entities to disapprove that decision. (Currently, such notification and disapproval guidelines apply only to storage capacity of specified minimum tonnage.) Expedites from three years to one year mandatory removal of such fuel from the interim storage facility. Applies the notice and disapproval guidelines to contracts or obligations in effect before January 7, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Federal Power Act to prohibit the granting of a Federal license for a hydroelectric project unless the applicant complies with all substantive and procedural requirements of the affected State in which the project is located with respect to water acquisition and use. Declares that the Act shall not be construed to constitute a preemption or intent to preempt procedural and substantive State law regarding water rights or water use.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Federal Employees Political Activities Act of 1993 - Prohibits an employee from using or attempting to use official authority or influence to interfere with or affect the result of any election. Prohibits the use of official authority to intimidate, threaten, coerce, or influence: (1) any individual for the purpose of interfering with the right to vote or not to vote for any candidate or measure in any election; (2) any person to give or withhold any political contribution; or (3) any person to engage, or not to engage, in any form of political activity. Prohibits an employee from: (1) giving or offering to give a political contribution to any individual either to vote or to refrain from voting; (2) soliciting, accepting, or receiving a political contribution to vote or refrain from voting; or (3) giving or handing over a political contribution to a superior. Prohibits an employee from soliciting, accepting, or receiving a political contribution: (1) from another employee (or a member of another employee's immediate family) with respect to whom the employee is a superior; or (2) in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by a Federal employee, official, or contractor. Prohibits an employee from getting involved with political contributions with any person who: (1) has, or is seeking to obtain, contractual or other business relations with the employing agency; (2) conducts operations regulated by that agency; or (3) has interests which may be substantially affected by the performance of the employee's official duties. Prohibits an employee from engaging in political activity: (1) while on duty; (2) in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by a Federal employee or official; (3) while wearing a uniform or official insignia identifying the office or position of the employee; or (4) while using any vehicle owned or leased by the Government. Exempts certain high level political appointees from such prohibitions if the costs associated with the political activity are not paid for by money derived from the Treasury. Authorizes leave without pay or accrued annual leave to an employee who is a candidate, upon request, to allow such employee to engage in activities relating to that candidacy. Applies this Act to postal employees and employees of the Postal Rate Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Provisions Relating to Part A Title II: Provisions Relating to Part B Subtitle A: Physicians' Services Subtitle B: Ambulatory Surgical Services Subtitle C: Durable Medical Equipment Subtitle D: Other Provisions Title III: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B Title IV: Provisions Relating to Medicare Supplemental Insurance Policies Miscellaneous and Technical Medicare Amendments of 1993 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance). Title I: Provisions Relating to Part A - (Sec. 101) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to use the day outlier methodology in effect for: (1) FY 1992 for payment of discharges occurring on or after April 1, 1993, and before September 30, 1993; and (2) the first six months of FY 1993 for payment of discharges occurring during FY 1994. (Sec. 102) Modifies the Essential Access Community Hospital program. (Sec. 103) Provides that a change in classification of hospitals from one area to another may not result in a reduction in the wage index for an urban area under certain circumstances. (Sec. 104) Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA-1987) to extend authorized appropriations for the rural health transition grant program. (The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Acts of different years amended by this Act shall be denoted "OBRA-(year).") (Sec. 105) Permits hospitals to decline reclassification from rural to urban referral centers. (Sec. 106) Revises Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital payment provisions. (Sec. 107) Amends OBRA-1989 to extend additional Medicare payments for the hemophilia clotting factor. (Sec. 108) Prohibits the Secretary from recouping from or otherwise reducing Medicare payments to hospitals in New Jersey because of alleged overpayments during a hospital reimbursement demonstration project, until all relevant data are given to the State and hospitals located in it. (Sec. 109) Allows the care of hospital inpatients receiving qualified psychologist services to be supervised by a clinical psychologist to the extent such supervision is permitted under State law. (Sec. 110) Allows graduate medical education to be provided in a hospital-owned community health center. (Sec. 111) Requires a study on the feasibility and desirability of establishing joint medical facilities among the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, and other public and private entities. (Sec. 112) Requires home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities to notify Medicare beneficiaries of the hospice benefit, except in certain circumstances. (Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary to begin collecting data on employee compensation and paid hours of employment in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to compute a wage index to adjust Medicare SNFs payments. (Sec. 115) Amends OBRA-1990 to require the Secretary to continue any rural hospital demonstration project at least through December 31, 1995. Title II: Provisions Relating to Part B - Subtitle A: Physicians' Services - (Sec. 201) Reinstates separate payment for electrocardiogram interpretations performed or ordered to be performed as part of or in conjunction with a visit to or consultation with a physician. (Sec. 202) Repeals provisions for reduced Medicare payments to new physicians and other practitioners during their first four years of practice. (Sec. 203) Prohibits the Secretary from modifying the methodology for determining the amount of time that may be billed under Medicare for anesthesia services. (Sec. 204) Requires the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on the data necessary to review and revise geographical indices. (Sec. 205) Prohibits nonparticipating physicians and suppliers from billing or collecting an actual charge in excess of the Medicare limiting charge. (Sec. 206) Requires the Secretary to study, develop, and report to the Congress on relative values for pediatric services. (Sec. 208) Prohibits the Secretary and carriers from imposing user fees. Subtitle B: Ambulatory Surgical Services - (Sec. 211) Extends eligibility for designation as eye or eye and ear hospitals to certain hospitals. (Sec. 212) Amends OBRA-1990 to extend the cap on payments for intraocular lenses. Subtitle C: Durable Medical Equipment - (Sec. 221) Requires the Secretary to prescribe national standards which suppliers of medical equipment and supplies must meet to receive payment under Medicare for items furnished. (Sec. 222) Prohibits carrier forum shopping by suppliers filing claims. (Sec. 223) Prohibits unsolicited telephone contacts from suppliers of durable medical equipment to Medicare beneficiaries. (Sec. 224) Modifies SSA anti-kickback provisions. (Sec. 225) Specifies the circumstances under which Medicare beneficiaries are not liable for covered items furnished by suppliers on an unassigned basis. (Sec. 226) Revises special payment rules for particular items and services to provide for adjustments to final payment amounts for inherent reasonableness. (Sec. 227) Freezes reasonable charges for parenteral and enteral nutrients, supplies, and equipment. (Sec. 228) Removes aspirators and nebulizers from the category of durable medical equipment (DME) items requiring frequent and substantial servicing and includes accessories relating to aspirators and nebulizers in the category of inexpensive and other routinely purchased equipment. (Sec. 229) Adds payment rules for ostomy supplies, tracheostomy supplies, urologicals, and surgical dressings. (Sec. 230) Changes payment rates for tens devices. Subtitle D: Other Provisions - (Sec. 241) Revises payment conversion factors for services furnished by a medically directed certified registered nurse anesthetist. (Sec. 242) Amends OBRA-1990 to extend Alzheimer's disease demonstration projects. (Sec. 243) Modifies the limitation on the late enrollment penalty. (Secs. 244 and 245) Provides for Medicare coverage of: (1) oral cancer drugs that contain the same active ingredients as anticancer drugs covered by Medicare when administered intravenously; and (2) speech-language pathology and audiology services. (Sec. 246) Amends OBRA-1985, as amended by OBRA-1989, to extend municipal health service demonstration projects. (Sec. 247) Treats certain Indian health programs and facilities as federally-qualified health centers. (Sec. 248) Amends OBRA-1987 to extend the influenza vaccination demonstration project. Title III: Provisions Relating to Parts A and B - (Sec. 301) Modifies provisions relating to physician ownership and referral. Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress on shared facility arrangements. (Sec. 302) Adjusts procedures to determine graduate medical education costs. (Sec. 303) Extends the periods during which Medicare covers immunosuppressive drug therapy following a transplant procedure. Reduces Medicare payments for erythropoietin. (Sec. 304) Revises provisions with respect to Medicare secondary payers. (Secs. 305 and 306) Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish a method for obtaining information with a view to Medicaid payment of the Medicare out-of-pocket expenses of eligible Medicare beneficiaries; and (2) extend waivers for social health maintenance organization (HMO) demonstration projects. (Sec. 307) Repeals peer review organization precertification requirements for certain surgical procedures. (Sec. 308) Modifies hospital conditions of participation with respect to discharge planning under Medicare to require informing a patient of his or her entitlement to hospice services. (Sec. 309) Provides that there must be interest payments on clean claims if the claims are not paid within 30 days of receipt. (Sec. 311) Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to adjust discretionary spending limits with respect to Medicare administrative costs. (Sec. 312) Adjusts Medicare capitation payments with respect to HMOs to account for regional variations in application of the secondary payor provisions. (Sec. 313) Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with regard to certain health care programs of the State of Hawaii. Title IV: Provisions Relating to Medicare Supplemental Insurance Policies - (Sec. 401) Revises certain standards for Medicare supplemental insurance policies.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue code to permanently extend the low-income housing credit.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to prohibit permanent replacement of strikers. Amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer to promise, threaten, or take other action to hire a permanent replacement for an employee who: (1) at the beginning of a labor dispute was in a bargaining unit in which a labor organization either was the certified or recognized exclusive representative or had filed, at least 30 days before such dispute began, a petition for a representational election on the basis of written authorizations by a majority of unit employees and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has not completed the representation proceeding; and (2) in connection with that dispute has engaged in concerted activities for collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection through that labor organization. Makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer to withhold or deny any other employment right or privilege to such an employee as described above who is working for or has unconditionally offered to return to work for the employer, out of preference for any other individual based on that individual's performing, having performed, or having indicated a willingness to perform bargaining unit work for the employer during the dispute. Amends the Railway Labor Act to prohibit any carrier or its officer or agent from offering or granting: (1) permanent replacement employee status in a craft or class during a labor dispute; or (2) any employment preference to an individual who worked or indicated a willingness to work in a craft or class during a labor dispute over an employee who exercised specified rights during such dispute and who is working for, or has unconditionally offered to return to work for, the carrier.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Freedom of Choice Act of 1993 - Provides that a State may not restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy: (1) before fetal viability; or (2) at any time, if such termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman. Allows a State to impose requirements medically necessary to protect the life or health of such women. Declares that this Act shall not be construed to prevent a State from: (1) requiring minors to involve responsible adults before terminating a pregnancy; and (2) protecting individuals from having to participate in abortions to which they are conscientiously opposed.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax exclusion of amounts paid under employee educational assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Designates April 9, 1993, and April 9, 1994, as National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Establishes in the House of Representatives the Select Committee on Aging.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Establishes in the House of Representatives the Select Committee on Aging.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1992
Declares four named individuals to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1992
Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require a consumer reporting agency to include in a consumer report information on the failure of a consumer to pay overdue child support if that information is provided by a State or local child support enforcement agency or verified by any local, State, or Federal government agency.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Rural Health Care Access Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I: Provisions Relating to Physicians' Services - Subtitle A: Incentives Under Medicare - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to modify requirements regarding payments to new physicians and other new health care practitioners for services in a rural area. Prohibits failure to make Medicare payments based on the failure of an individual to complete a questionnaire concerning the existence of a primary plan. Declares that any such payment remains conditional. Regulates the use, by carriers used for the administration of Medicare benefits, of extrapolation. Prohibits fees (by carriers or the Secretary of Health and Human Services) for filing a claim concerning physicians' services, related errors or appeals, applications for unique identifiers, responding to inquiries respecting physicians' services, or providing information with respect to medical review of such services. Requires consideration, in applying standards and criteria for contracts with carriers, of evaluations submitted by medical societies representing physicians served by the carrier. Provides for appeals of carrier actions. Requires carriers to provide for review (of denial of payments for physicians' services) by a physician in the same medical specialty. Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to modify the circumstances in which payments may be made to a physician for services provided by a second physician. Amends the Social Security Act to exclude surgical procedures performed in a rural area from requirements of utilization and quality control review. Subtitle B: Increasing Number of Physicians Practicing in Rural Areas - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a personal interest deduction for qualified medical education loan interest which accrues while the physician is providing primary care to residents of a medically underserved rural area. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to declare that two-year time limits do not apply to a borrower serving an internship or residency program in preparation for primary care practice with regard to paying interest subsidies on certain educational loans, insuring certain student loans, and repaying the principal and interest on certain educational loans. Amends the Public Health Service Act to add the ratio of medically underserved individuals in a health professional shortage area to the aggregate population of all such areas to the list of exclusive factors to be considered in determining the greatest shortages in the assignment of National Health Service Corps members. Subtitle C: Reduction in Medical Malpractice Liability for Community Health Centers - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include entities receiving Federal funds under provisions relating to migrant health centers, community health centers, or health services for the homeless, or health services for residents of public housing, and officers, employees, or certain contractors of such entities who are licensed or certified health practitioners, in the coverage of provisions regulating civil actions for injury resulting from medical or related functions against commissioned officers or employees of the Public Health Service. Subrogates to the United States any insurance claim such an entity or person has. Terminates the inclusion after a specified date. Prohibits grants under provisions relating to migrant or community health centers, health services for the homeless, or health services for residents of public housing unless the applicant has: (1) implemented policies and procedures to assure against malpractice and the risk of lawsuits; (2) reviewed the professional credentials, claims history, and other information regarding its licensed health care practitioners; (3) no history of claims against it (or its officers, employees, or contractor) under such provisions relating to officers and employees of the Public Health Service, or has cooperated with the Attorney General in defending against such claims and has taken corrective action; and (4) has cooperated with the Attorney General in providing information relating to an estimate of expected claims. Empowers the Attorney General, if certain conditions are met, to determine that an individual physician or other practitioner not be deemed a Public Health Service employee for purposes of these provisions. Prohibits hospitals from denying admitting privileges to an otherwise qualified health care provider who is an officer, employee, or contractor of such an entity. Mandates an annual estimate of the amount of expected claims and withholding that amount from the appropriation for each involved grant program. Subtitle D: Expansion of Exceptions to Limitations on Physician Self-Referrals - Amends provisions of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act prohibiting physician referrals to an entity with which the physician has a financial relationship to provide for exceptions relating to health maintenance organizations, managed care plans, shared facility services, and certain community services for which it is found that community individuals will be deprived of adequate health services without such an exception. Mandates a study of the changes in aggregate costs, under Medicare and other health plans, which will result from the amendments made by this subtitle. Title II: Provisions Relating to Hospitals - Amends Medicare provisions to require rural hospital prospective payment system amounts for capital-related costs of inpatient services to be based on reasonable costs or on the methodology used to determine the payment for other hospitals, as elected by the hospital. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 to extend the termination date of provisions requiring referral centers. Removes Medicare provisions relating to exceptions and adjustments in certain payments for regional and national referral centers. Provides that the disproportionate share adjustment percentage be determined, in certain circumstances, as though such provisions had not been removed. Shields from certain antitrust laws specified actions of hospitals meeting described requirements, including being outside of a city or in a city with fewer than a specified number of inhabitants. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Subtitle A: Administrative Simplification - Requires any public or private health benefit plan to: (1) issue health claims cards; (2) provide information to the assigned health claims clearinghouse on eligibility and benefits for an individual; and (3) accept the determinations of clean claims made by the clearinghouse. Requires each health service provider to submit claims only to the assigned clearinghouse and only consistent with standards under this Act. Imposes civil penalties. Establishes a sunset date for the penalties. Requires each hospital, as a Medicare participation agreement requirement, to report information in a uniform manner consistent with specified provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987. Requires: (1) designation of clearinghouse areas having about five million residents each; and (2) a separate contract in each area with a public or private organization to perform the clearinghouse functions. Allows a clearinghouse to impose user charges. Sets forth clearinghouse functions, including eligibility and benefit verification and claims processing. Provides for inter-clearinghouse verification and the use of electronic and other communication forms. Allows the clearinghouse contract to provide for claim payment by the clearinghouse, including regarding Medicare payments. Mandates standards for: (1) uniform health claims cards with certain information electronically encoded; and (2) the type and form of information required for claims acceptance and payment. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and make available to providers such computer software as will enable providers to make inquiries, receive responses, and submit claims electronically and, in the case of hospitals, to submit uniform reports. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on the failure of any group health plan to meet certain requirements of this title, specifying sunset dates for the tax. Sets the amount of the tax at 25 percent of the gross premiums received during the year from all group health plans issued by the person on whom the tax is imposed. Requires that Medicare and Medicaid identification cards be modified to meet the requirements of this Act. Subtitle B: Other Provisions - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require that demonstration projects involving telecommunications to improve trauma care in rural areas include specified elements. Authorizes the use of a specified amount from funds appropriated to carry out provisions relating to health personnel student assistance for grants to nursing schools for the establishment of clinics to provide primary care services in medically underserved rural areas or within a certain distance of Indian country and to provide for related clinical training development, faculty enhancement, and student scholarships. Amends Federal law relating to the independent collection of information by an agency to require: (1) a study of the burden of federally conducted or sponsored health care services information collection requests; and (2) setting a goal of reducing that burden by specified percentages.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Designates November 30 through December 6, 1992, as National Education First Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1992
Designates December 1, 1992, as World AIDS Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1992
Commends all parties to the Middle East peace process. Expresses hope that the parties to the negotiations will advance proposals which provide for democratic elections as a foundation for common agreement on interim self-government, diplomatic recognition, territorial integrity, and a final status for the territories, and economic cooperation among all parties in the region.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1992
Voluntary National Tuberculosis Insurance for Elk Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to set up a voluntary national insurance program for tuberculosis in elk to compensate participating owners for the destruction of any elk found to be infected with or exposed to tuberculosis. Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) insurance premiums; (2) deposit and investment of premiums received; and (3) enforcement of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to use the services, facilities, funds, and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to establish, administer, and otherwise carry out the provisions of this Act. Directs the Secretary to return excess premium funds to the current policy holders of record on a pro rata basis if the insurance program is terminated.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1992
Health Choices Freedom Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define "dietary supplement." Declares that a supplement is not: (1) a drug solely because of its potency or because its labeling or advertising contains certain material; or (2) a food additive if certain requirements are met. Regulates supplement labeling and advertising.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1992
Designates October 30, 1992, as Refugee Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1992
Supports the planting of 500 redwood trees from California on the northwest coast of Spain in commemoration of the quincentenary of the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World. Designates such trees as a gift to the people of Spain made in the name of the people of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Financial Institution Restitution Collection Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to permit prejudgment attachment of certain property where there is probable cause to believe banking laws have been violated. Provides that an order of restitution issued in connection with a conviction for a banking law violation shall: (1) be due in full as of the date of the order; (2) remain enforceable until the total amount of restitution has been paid; and (3) constitute a lien against all of the defendant's property. Authorizes the court to appoint a temporary receiver to administer the defendant's assets to ensure payment of restitution. Requires the court, after the sentencing of the defendant, to make available to any recipient of a court-ordered restitution any financial information contained in the defendant's presentencing investigation report. Mandates that the defendant pay directly to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) any court-ordered restitution which accrues to its benefit. Prohibits the court from taking into consideration the defendant's ability to pay when determining the amount of restitution ordered. Requires the United States Parole Commission (or the probation officer of Federal district court) to notify each recipient of court-ordered restitution if the full amount of such an order has not been fully paid before the end of the defendant's period of supervised release. Prescribes guidelines under which any private person may file a court action to recover, on behalf of the FDIC, any asset of any person liable for the satisfaction of a restitution order. Grants such person a prescribed percentage of recovered assets.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1992
Designates October 1992 as Country Music Month.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1992
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum plus interest to a named individual in satisfaction of all claims of such person's estate and heirs against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1992
Declares that the Congress acknowledges and appreciates the commitment, devotion, and sacrifices of present and former military families. Designates November 23, 1992, as National Military Families Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1992
Arkansas-Idaho Land Exchange Act of 1992 - Provides for the exchange of lands of approximately equal value in Arkansas and Idaho between the Federal Government and the Potlatch Corporation. Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to add specified lands acquired through the exchange to the Cache River and White River National Wildlife Refuges. Directs that lands within the Grandmother Mountain Wilderness Study Area transferred to the Forest Service under this Act shall be managed so as not to impair their wilderness suitability until completion of a specified land and resource plan revision. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare a specified environmental analysis.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1992
United States - China Act of 1992 - Prohibits the President from recommending for a 12-month period in 1993 continuation of a waiver of human rights and emigration requirements for nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) for China under the Trade Act of 1974 unless a specified report is submitted to the Congress stating that China has accounted for and released prisoners who dissented in Tiananmen Square and in other parts of China on June 3 and 4, 1989, and made progress in: (1) preventing gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, including workers' rights, in China and Tibet; (2) preventing exports of products made by prison labor, and allowing U.S. officials and international organizations to inspect such places of detention; (3) terminating religious persecution in China and Tibet and releasing religious leaders incarcerated as a result of the expression of their religious beliefs; (4) removing restrictions in China and Tibet on freedom of the press and on broadcasts by the Voice of America; (5) terminating harassment of Chinese citizens in the United States (including refusal to return or renew passports as retribution for prodemocracy activities); (6) ensuring access to prisoners of international human rights monitoring groups; (7) ensuring freedom from torture and in humane prison conditions; (8) terminating prohibitions on peaceful assembly imposed after June 3, 1989; (9) committing to engage in high-level discussions on human rights issues; (10) adhering to the Joint Declaration on Hong Kong; (11) providing adequate protection of U.S. patents, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights, and implementing the Memorandum of Understanding Between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the United States of America on the Protection of Intellectual Property; (12) providing U.S. exporters access to Chinese markets, including lowering tariffs, removing nontariff barriers, and increasing the purchase of U.S. goods and services; (13) ceasing unfair trade practices which burden or restrict U.S. Commerce; (14) adopting a national policy which adheres to the Missile Technology Control Regime and the controls of the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Australia Group on chemical and biological arms proliferation; and (15) assuring that it is not assisting any nonnuclear weapons state in acquiring nuclear explosive devices. Requires the President, if he recommends such extension, to include in a specified document submitted to the Congress a report on China's progress in meeting the above-mentioned objectives. Requires such report also to include, but not be limited to, progress made by China and Tibet with regard to specified human rights. Grants nondiscriminatory treatment to products of nonstate-owned enterprises in China.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1992
Bankruptcy Amendments of 1992 - Amends Federal bankruptcy law to raise to $1 million the ceiling on debts for eligibility to file as a chapter 13 debtor (bankrupt consumer repayment of debt under court supervision). (Currently the ceiling is $100,000 for unsecured debts, or $350,000 for certain secured debts.) Modifies the guidelines for: (1) chapter 13 bankruptcies; (2) automatic stays; (3) exemptions; (4) discharges; and (5) preferences. Directs the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to compile and make available to the public statistical information regarding bankruptcy cases.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1992
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to exclude construction and fire equipment from the definition of "excess defense articles" for purposes of restricting the transfer of such equipment to foreign countries.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1992
Title I: Law Enforcement Authority and Sundry Administrative Provisions - Grants authority to an on-duty member of the Capitol Police to make arrests and enforce Federal and District of Columbia laws within an expanded area of the District: (1) with respect to any crime of violence committed within the U.S. Capitol Grounds or in the presence of such member; and (2) to prevent imminent loss of life or injury to person or property. (Current law authorizes the Capitol Police to enforce such laws within the U.S. Capitol Buildings and Grounds only.) Changes the composition of the Capitol Police Board. Directs the Chairman of the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate to alternate, by session of Congress, as Chairman of the Board. Requires the payroll administration for members and civilian support personnel of the Capitol Police to be carried out on a unified basis by a single disbursing authority. Requires the Capitol Police Board, with the approval of specified congressional committees, to provide for such payroll administration. Makes such unified payroll administration effective as of FY 1993. Title II: Lump-Sum Payment Provisions - Provides that an officer or member of the U.S. Capitol Police who separates from service within two years of the enactment of this title, and who satisfies the age and service requirements for an immediate annuity pursuant to Federal law, shall be entitled to receive a lump-sum payment for his or her accumulated and current accrued annual leave attributable to service performed by such individual as an officer or non-civilian member of the Capitol Police Force. Sets forth disbursement procedures for such lump-sum payments.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1992
Mortgage Refinancing Reform Act of 1992 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to include within their purview residential mortgage refinancing disclosure requirements. Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require a creditor to promptly refund any unearned portion of the finance charge, together with any unearned portion of the insurance premium, if a consumer prepays in full the financed amount under any consumer credit transaction. Applies this requirement to refinanced transactions, and prepayments made as a result of the acceleration of the obligation to repay. Requires a creditor to calculate the refund of the unearned portion of the finance charge on unearned insurance premiums for any precomputed consumer credit transaction based on a method which is at least as favorable to the consumer as the actuarial method. Entitles consumers to obtain one free annual statement disclosing the amount due on any precomputed consumer credit account. Treats as a statutory mandate a finance charge commitment made by a creditor to a consumer regarding a residential mortgage transaction that is to be consummated within a certain time-frame after the date such commitment is made (unless the offer clearly states that the term is subject to change). Mandates a disclosure statement of the rights and duties of the creditor and consumer with respect to such finance charge commitments. Grants such consumers the right to withdraw a credit application in connection with a residential mortgage transaction without incurring any obligation (other than handling fees) if the withdrawal is made pursuant to prescribed procedures. Increases the civil penalty applicable to creditors who fail to make the disclosures required by this Act in connection with an extension of credit for residential mortgage transactions, including refinancing.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1992
Civil War Battlefield Commemorative Coin Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a specified number of five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Civil War battlefield preservation. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Requires that all sales include a surcharge of $35 per coin for the five-dollar coins, $7 per coin for the one-dollar coins, and $1 per coin for the half-dollar coins. Requires that all surcharges be paid to the Civil War Battlefield Foundation for the preservation of historically significant Civil War battlefields.