United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1994
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to allow State, county, or municipal government officers or employees, if such persons do not participate in discharge permit determinations involving such governments, to be members of boards that approve permit applications notwithstanding a prohibition on membership for persons who have received a significant portion of income from permit holders or applicants.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1994
Amends the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make a loan to the Madera-Chowchilla Power Authority to assist in the repayment of financial obligations associated with hydroelectric facilities adversely affected by drought conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1994
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to extend from three years to five years the period during which Medicare select policies may be issued.
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Leadership in Educational Technology Title II: State Planning for Improving Student Achievement Through Integration of Technology Into the Curriculum Title III: National Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Development Title III: (sic): Universal Service for Education Classroom Technology Act of 1994 - Title I: Leadership in Educational Technology - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to carry out Federal leadership activities in promoting higher student achievement through the use of technology in education. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and publish a national long-range technology plan; and (2) provide assistance to States for planning use of technology in schools. (Sec. 103) Amends the Department of Education Organization Act and the General Education Provisions Act to establish an Office of Educational Technology, with a Director, in the Department of Education. (Sec. 104) Sets forth authorized uses of funds under this title and non-Federal share provisions. (Sec. 106) Amends the Training Technology Transfer Act of 1988 to: (1) transfer the Office of Training Technology Transfer to the Office of Educational Technology (from the Office of Educational Research and Improvement); and (2) authorize appropriations to carry out such Act. (Sec. 107) Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title. Title II: State Planning for Improving Student Achievement Through Integration of Technology into the Curriculum - Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants, according to an allocation formula, to State education agencies to plan for improved student learning in all schools through the use of technology as a integral part of the State improvement plan under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: National Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Development - Amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to establish a Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Development Program to promote widespread availability of advanced telecommunications technologies to: (1) enhance delivery of diverse social services, including education and health care, to the public; and (2) support formation of a nationwide, multimedia, high-speed, interactive infrastructure of varied information technologies, through interconnection and improvement of existing facilities and deployment of new ones. (Sec. 301) Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make program grants to eligible applicants. Gives special consideration to applications that will increase participation by underserved populations. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to provide funds for training, planning, and studies. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to provide for collection and dissemination of information on distance learning. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title. Title III: (sic): Universal Service for Education - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to establish requirements for universal service protection and advancement. (Sec. 301 (sic)) Makes it the duty of every common carrier engaged in intrastate, interstate, or foreign communication by wire or radio to contribute to the preservation and advancement of universal service. Includes among such contributions monetary payment, certain service obligations, in-kind payment, or other forms of contribution determined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and States. Directs the FCC to: (1) set guidelines for defining universal service; and (2) prescribe and implement regulations to ensure that interstate telecommunications providers make such a contribution on a competitively neutral basis (with any funds so contributed to be distributed to each State). Establishes the Educational Telecommunications and Technology Fund for activities that ensure that elementary and secondary schools have complete access to existing and innovative telecommunications and information technologies and services. Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations relating to deposits in the Fund. Directs the FCC and the Secretaries of Education and Commerce to jointly prescribe regulations relating to disbursements from the Fund, including specified provisions. Directs the FCC to delegate to each State the primary responsibility for defining universal service and ensuring that universal service goals are met. Allows each State to impose a nondiscriminatory charge on intrastate telecommunications or take other actions to protect and advance universal service, considering specified options. Requires, to the extent a State establishes a fund to support universal service, that all telecommunications services providers be eligible to receive payments from such fund. Directs the FCC to assume such responsibilities if a State has not done so within two years after enactment of this Act. (Sec. 302) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make it the duty of all telecommunications carriers that use public rights of way to permit educational institutions, health-care institutions, local and State governments, public broadcast stations, public libraries, other public entities, community newspapers, and broadcasters in the smallest markets to obtain access at preferential rates to intrastate and interstate services provided by such carriers. Prohibits reselling such services, except to other entities eligible for such preferential rates. Directs the FCC to commence a rulemaking proceeding to prescribe regulations to: (1) enhance availability of advanced telecommunications services to all public elementary and secondary school classrooms, health-care institutions, and libraries; and (2) ensure establishment of appropriate functional requirements and/or interoperability standards for telecommunications arrangements that interconnect such entities with the public switched network. Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to issue a notice of inquiry, review alternatives, and publish recommendations to the FCC and the Secretaries of Education and of Commerce with respect to establishing an educational telecommunications corporation to provide credit and grant funds to support the national goal of access to existing and innovative telecommunications and information technologies and services.
United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1994
Water Desalination Act of 1994 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to award grants and enter into contracts to conduct, encourage, and assist in the financing of research to develop processes for converting saline or contaminated water into water suitable for beneficial uses. Directs the Secretary to recommend desalination projects to the Congress and to conduct a demonstration and development program for water desalination and related activities. Limits Federal funding for projects to 50 percent of the total cost. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1994
Small Business Incentive Act of 1993 - Amends the Securities Act of 1933 to increase from $5 million to $10 million the size of small business offerings that are exempt from the registration requirements of the Act. Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to exclude from its definition of "investment company" any issuer all of whose securities are held by certain investors whom the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has determined possess such financial sophistication, net worth, and other specified factors as not to need the protections of such Act. Empowers the SEC to define such "qualified purchasers." Sets forth conditions under which certain business and industrial development companies that are already subject to regulation by the State in which they are organized are exempt from the regulatory constraints of such Act. Increases to $10 million the maximum aggregate amount of proceeds that certain interstate closed-end investment companies may receive from the sale of their outstanding securities and still retain their exempt status under such Act. Expands the definition of "eligible portfolio company" to include any company which does not have total assets in excess of $4 million and capital and surpluses in excess of $2 million. Declares that a "business development company" is not required to make available significant managerial assistance with respect to any eligible portfolio company or any other company that meets certain SEC criteria. Permits a business development company to acquire the securities of an eligible portfolio company from persons other than such portfolio company itself. Requires a business development company to file with the SEC a written evaluation of the risk factors involved in investment due to the nature of the company's capital structure.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1994
Declares that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) one of the principal purposes of health care reform should be to ensure that medically underserved populations are provided adequate access to health services; (2) the reform should require that each health plan make provider agreements with specified types of individuals, institutions, and entities; and (3) the reform should require that those individuals, institutions, and entities provide services in the most appropriate language and cultural context.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1994
Expresses the sense of the Congress disapproving of the Japanese Food Agency's decision not to fulfill its commitment to purchase 75,000 metric tons of U.S. rice.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1994
Designates August 1, 1994, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes the President to reassert America's commitment to the Helsinki Accords and requests him to: (1) convey to all signatories of the Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is a vital element of further progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (2) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of such process to address the major problems that remain.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1994
Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Act of 1994 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of specified prostate cancer screening services and certain drug treatments for such cancer. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish fee schedules for such services. Amends Federal law to cover such screening and treatment services for veterans as a preventive health service. Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for certain public health programs related to prostate cancer research and education. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research to: (1) conduct and support prostate cancer health services and screening and treatment procedures; and (2) provide for the development, periodic review, and updating of clinically relevant guidelines, standards of quality, performance measures, and medical review criteria.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1994
Integrated Child Health Care Network Act of 1994 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from granting a waiver under the Medicaid program to permit a State to require children enrolled in the program to receive medical assistance through managed care plans, unless such assistance is provided through an integrated child health care network. Directs the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities over a three-year period for the establishment and operation of such networks using different payment models, including grants to demonstrate the operation of networks (including State-initiated networks) applying a separate capitated payment rate with respect to children enrolled with the network.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1994
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to pursue specified steps to enhance agricultural exports and related domestic programs, including aggressive utilization of Commodity Credit Corporation funds and commodities in the maximum amounts allowed under the Uruguay Round Agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1994
Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require States to establish procedures for monthly reporting to certain consumer reporting agencies of child support obligations owed by absent parents. Requires prior notice to such parents and a reasonable opportunity to contest the accuracy of any information about overdue support payable that would be provided to such agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1994
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) June 21, 1994, is designated as Freedom Summer Remembrance Day; and (2) it reaffirms the goal of removing remaining barriers to full voter participation in this Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1994
Social Security Account Number Anti-Fraud Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish, according to prescribed guidelines, an electronic program for American employers to verify the social security account and other relevant employment information to reduce the use of fraudulent social security documents for employment purposes; (2) implement the Social Security Account Number Anti-Fraud Program according to a prescribed schedule; and (3) report to the Congress on the Program's initial implementation.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1994
National Community Service Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar silver coins to commemorate students who volunteer to perform community service. Mandates that all surcharges received from such coin sales be paid to the National Community Service Trust to fund innovative community service programs at American universities, including the service, research, and teaching activities of the faculty and students involved in such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1994
Timber Fair Trade and Forest Conservation Act of 1994- Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to require the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary), in order to determine whether a critical shortage exists of unprocessed timber, or of any species or grade of unprocessed timber, for domestic manufacturing, to monitor: (1) exports of, and contracts to export, unprocessed timber; and (2) domestic supplies of such unprocessed timber for domestic manufacturing purposes. Requires the Secretary to impose quantitative restrictions on the export of unprocessed timber in any State or region where a critical shortage exists. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress specified quarterly reports. Requires the Secretary, whenever such export restrictions are imposed, to give preference in the allocation of export licenses to persons who own or have ownership interests in fewer than 3,000 acres of forest land. Authorizes the President to suspend such export restrictions if a ruling is issued under the formal dispute resolution procedures of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) finding that they violate GATT Article XI prohibitions on export restrictions and are not allowable under such Article's exceptions. Directs the Secretary to impose quantitative restrictions on exports of unprocessed timber from Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, and Montana.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1994
Calls on: (1) the Republic of Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabagh to cease all hostilities and begin peace negotiations under the framework established by the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (2) the parties to the conflict to simultaneously lift all blockades in the region; and (3) the President to take an active role in promoting peace and in monitoring the human rights situation in the region.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1994
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) any health care reform legislation that is enacted should contain provisions that ensure that qualified poison control centers are adequately compensated; and (2) a national commission should be established to study the delivery and funding of poison control services.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1994
Osteoporosis Risk Reduction Act of 1994 - Mandates review of: (1) the relationship between dietary calcium intake, bone mineral density, and the onset of osteoporosis; and (2) the recommended daily allowances for calcium. Requires development of optimum daily intake levels and, as appropriate, a proposed amendment to the standard of identity for enriched flour for the fortification of bread, cereal, and other grain products.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Humanitarian Aid Corridor Act - Prohibits foreign assistance funds from being used to provide assistance to any country for any portion of a fiscal year during which the country prohibits or restricts the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance to any other country. Makes such prohibition inapplicable if the President determines and notifies the Congress that providing assistance: (1) is in the national interest; or (2) will benefit directly non-military personnel who are in immediate danger resulting from a natural or manmade disaster (provided that such assistance is humanitarian assistance distributed directly to such personnel or through international relief organizations).
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Credit for Rural Business Enterprises Title II: Credit for Rural Infrastructure Title III: Credit for Rural Housing Rural Credit and Development Act of 1994 - Title I: Credit for Rural Business Enterprises - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to permit farm credit banks and production credit associations to purchase loans and loan interests from non-Farm Credit System institutions. Enlarges the scope of farm-related business for credit availability purposes. Authorizes banks for cooperatives to provide loans and other financial services to entities providing certain farm-related services or products under specified conditions. Title II: Credit for Rural Infrastructure - Authorizes Farm Credit banks to make community facility loans. Authorizes banks for cooperatives to finance utility-related services. Title III: Credit for Rural Housing - Enlarges rural housing credit availability by: (1) increasing eligible population areas; (2) increasing farm credit bank and production credit association loan portfolios for non-farmer rural housing loans; and (3) authorizing loans to rural residents for personal, family, or household needs other than housing finance.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
United States Botanic Garden Commemorative Coin Act of 1995 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) issue one-dollar silver coins to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the founding of the United States Botanic Garden; and (2) pay all surcharges received from such coin sales to the National Fund for the United States Botanic Garden.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1994
California Forest Ecosystems Health Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and implement ecosystem management plans for National Forest System lands in California.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1994
Urban Recreation and At-Risk Youth Act of 1994 - Amends the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide, through the urban park and recreation recovery program, at-risk youth recreation grants in neighborhoods and communities with a high prevalence of crime, particularly violent crime or crime committed by youth, for purposes including the provision of lighting, emergency phones, or other capital improvements for the security of urban parks. Directs the Secretary to give grant priority to local government programs meeting specified criteria, including: (1) targeting youth at the greatest risk of becoming involved in violence and crime; (2) teaching important values and life skills; (3) offering education and counseling in addition to recreation opportunities; and (4) showing the greatest potential of being continued with non-Federal funds or serving as models. Requires local governments, to be eligible for such grants, to include strategies to reduce crime and juvenile delinquency in their five-year action programs for park and recreation recovery. Requires no more than 25 percent of Federal grant funds made available under such Act to be used for program support. Repeals provisions limiting the duration of the urban park and recreation recovery program to five years.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1994
Helium Act of 1994 - Amends the Helium Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) enter into agreements with private parties for the recovery and disposal of helium on Federal lands; (2) grant leasehold rights to such helium; (3) store and transport crude helium; and (4) maintain and operate existing crude helium storage at the Bureau of Mines Cliffside Field. Directs the Secretary to: (1) cease producing, refining, and marketing refined helium; and (2) dispose of all facilities, equipment, and Federal property interests relating to refined helium activities. Requires the Secretary to impose fees for helium storage, withdrawal, or transportation services. Prescribes guidelines for: (1) the purchase of helium by Federal agencies from certain private persons; and (2) the sale of crude helium by the Secretary. Mandates that proceeds from helium sales be paid to the Treasury. Instructs the Secretary to eliminate helium stockpiles by a prescribed deadline. Repeals the Secretary's authority to borrow under the Helium Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1994
Expresses the sense of the Congress that any national health care reform legislation should cover all preventive and treatment services relating to breast and cervical cancers, sexually transmitted diseases, and general gynecological services, including several specified services.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1994
Access to Children's Health Care Act of 1994 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to treat certain clinics operated by children's hospitals as federally-qualified health centers under Medicaid.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1994
Tax Fairness for Agriculture Act of 1994 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit agricultural or horticultural organizations from treating member dues (limited to a specified amount) as unrelated business taxable income.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1994
Designates March 23, 1994, the 92d birthday of the Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (leader of the worldwide Lubavitch movement), as Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1994
Honors James Norman Hall for his outstanding contributions to the United States, France, Tahiti, and the South Pacific. Requests the President to provide for the presentation of a copy of this concurrent resolution to the President of Tahiti Nui (French Polynesia) to be publicly displayed at the James Norman Hall Museum in Tahiti.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1994
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to include in the program of sharing Forest Service timber sale receipts those counties affected by decisions related to the California spotted owl.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: NRC Licensing of New Department of Energy Nuclear Facilities Title II: Federal Nuclear Facilities Regulatory Review Commission Federal Nuclear Facilities Licensing and Regulation Act - Title I: NRC Licensing of New Department of Energy Nuclear Facilities - Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to mandate that any new Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear facilities comply with the licensing requirements imposed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate standards for the protection of the public health and safety and the environment from radioactive releases from new DOE nuclear facilities. Title II: Federal Nuclear Facilities Regulatory Review Commission - Establishes the Federal Nuclear Facilities Regulatory Review Commission to recommend to the Congress an approach to subjecting existing DOE nuclear facilities to independent regulation, after taking into account specified issues. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1994
Private Property Owners Bill of Rights - Requires Federal agency heads to: (1) comply with applicable State and tribal government laws in implementing and enforcing the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) and the permitting program for dredged or filled material under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA); (2) administer and implement the Acts in a manner that least affects the private property owners' constitutional and other legal rights; (3) develop and implement rules and regulations for ensuring that such rights are protected when making any final decision that restricts the use of private property; (4) obtain the consent of the property owner and provide appropriate notice before entering privately-owned property in order to collect information on it; and (5) give the property owner an opportunity to review and dispute the data collected before using it to implement or enforce any of the Acts. Amends ESA and FWPCA to provide for administrative appeals of certain actions, including those related to the denial of permits and the imposition of administrative penalties. Entitles a private property owner deprived of 50 percent or more of the fair market value or the economically viable use of a portion of property as a consequence of a final qualified agency action to receive compensation upon request in accordance with specified guidelines. Amends ESA to require the Secretary of the Interior to notify all private property owners or lessees of property subject to a management agreement and provide an appropriate opportunity for their participation in such an agreement when the Secretary enters into it with any non-Federal person establishing restrictions on property use.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1994
1995 Special Olympics World Games Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the 1995 Special Olympics World Games. Mandates that the surcharges collected from the sale of such coins be paid to the 1995 Special Olympics World Games Organizing Committee, Inc.
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1994
Amends the Interstate Commerce Act to direct the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to require a fair and equitable arrangement for protection of the interests of railroad employees who may be affected by an ICC order approving an application for construction or acquisition and operation of a railroad line. Requires such arrangement to be no less fair and beneficial to the interests of such employees than those established under specified provisions for employee protective arrangements in transactions involving rail carriers.
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