Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2]

An amendment comprised of amendments numbered 17 and 18 printed in the Congressional Record and offered en bloc. The amendments provide funds for the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center and the Oceanic Institute of Hawaii.

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Amendment sought to reinstate the 2 year deferment of student loans to individuals participating in medical residency or intern programs. \ A point of order was sustained against the amendment on the grounds that it violates section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act in that it would create new entitlement authority in fiscal year 1993 notwithstanding the fact that the Congress has not agreed to the budget resolution for fiscal year 1993.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 15 in the Congressional Record, to require States to include in their workforce development and literacy plans a description of how the State will maintain programs for single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women, as well as programs designed to promote the elimination of sex bias.

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An amendment to require the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics to analyze data on school finance in order to determine the progress, or lack thereof, of state efforts to equalize funding among school districts; and to provide for a comprehensive study on equity in school financing to be conducted by the National Academy of Sciences.

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An amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in House Report 107-232 to eliminate the bill's provisions concerning incentive compensation and the 12-hour rule. Under the substitute, the same conditions as presented in the original bill would apply to the 50% rule.

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An amendment numbered 1 printed in House Report 105-726 to strike lines 11 through 13 on page 17 that repeal the Native Hawaiian Education Act.

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An amendment in the nature of a substitute to transform the AFDC program into a program that successfully moves recipients from welfare to work. It significantly increases the funding for education, job training, employment services, and child care for welfare recipients--in order to help them move into the workforce. It requires states to have an increasing percentage of their AFDC caseload participate in JOBS programs over seven years, rising from 15% in FY 1997 to 50% in FY 2003. It imposes a work requirement and rewards states that move recipients from welfare to unsubsidized employment. It contains provisions to ensure that welfare recipients are better off economically by taking a job than by staying on welfare. It contains no changes in School Lunch, WIC, and other child nutrition programs; Food Stamps; SSI; and benefits for legal immigrants. Finally, it finances its spending increases for education, job training, and child care programs by raising the top corporate tax rate by 1.25% to 36.25%.

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An amendment no. 10 printed in H.Rept. 106-240 to create a program to provide grants for teachers who take sabbatical leave to pursue study for professional development.

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An amendment to provide that legislation affecting entitlement programs in which states participate voluntarily, shall not be considered as imposing a federal unfunded mandate as defined in the bill. (Text of the amendment was printed as amendment No. 96 in the Congressional Record of January 19, 1995.

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An amendment, printed as amendment No. 5 in the Congressional Record of July 16, 1997, to require states that currently fund programs for homemakers, single parents, pregnant women, and programs that promote gender equity, to continue to fund the programs at the same level as in FY 1997. The amendment would also restore a requirement, not in the bill, that each state designate a gender equity coordinator.

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Amendment no. 1 printed in H. Rept. 106-463 to strike Title I, Fatherhood Grant Program and replace with the Parents Count Program.

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An amendment numbered 70 printed in the Congressional Record to increase the amount for NOAA Procurement, Acquisition and Construction by $1.2 million.

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An amendment numbered 21 printed in House Report 107-69 to require mentoring for teachers with 3 years or less experience in low performing schools.

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An amendment no. 4 printed in the Congressional Record to restore language concerning gender equity and reinstate the Women's Educational Equity Act.

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Amendment no. 3 printed in H. Rept. 106-463. to strike title II that creates Fatherhood Projects of National Significance.

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Recognizing the "Code Adam" child safety program, commending retail business establishments that have implemented programs to protect children from abduction, and urging retail business establishments that have not implemented such program to consider doing so.

United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2002

Recognizes the "Code Adam" child safety program, commends all retail business establishments that have implemented such program to protect children from abduction, and urges retail business establishments that have not implemented such program to consider doing so.

Military Survivor Benefits Improvement Act of 2002

United States · United States Congress · 18 September 2002

Military Survivor Benefits Improvement Act of 2002 - Adjusts the basic Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuity amount for surviving spouses, age 62 or over, of former military personnel to: (1) 35 percent of the retired pay of the decedent (current law), for months beginning on or before the enactment of this Act; (2) 40 percent of such pay, for months beginning after enactment of this Act until October 2005; (3) 45 percent of such pay for months beginning after September 2005 and before October 2012; and (4) 55 percent of such pay for months after September 2012. Adjusts similarly the percentage amounts of SBP supplemental annuity authorized to be provided for such surviving spouses. Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure appropriate adjustments in the computation of retired pay reductions for such supplemental annuities.

Act to Save America's Forests

United States · United States Congress · 26 July 2002

Act to Save America's Forests - States that the purposes of this Act are to protect native biodiversity and ecosystems on Federal land from losses caused by: (1) clearcutting and other forms of even-age logging operations; and (2) logging in ancient forests, roadless areas, watershed protection areas, and special areas. Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 to revise eligibility criteria for members of the land and resource management scientific committee. Revises the committee termination date to ten years after enactment of this Act. Provides for conservation and restoration of native biodiversity in forested areas. Prohibits clearcutting or other even-age logging operations on any stand or watershed on certain Federal land, National Forest System land, and National Wildlife Refuge System land. Provides for: (1) Federal enforcement; and (1) a private right of action. Describes special areas as Federal forest land parcels possessing outstanding biological, scenic, recreational, or cultural values which may not meet the definitions of ancient forests, roadless areas, or watershed protection areas. Designates specified special areas which shall be subject to restrictions on road construction and logging in the following States: (1) Alabama; (2) Alaska; (3) Arizona; (4) Arkansas; (5) California; (6) Colorado; (7) Georgia; (8) Idaho; (9) Illinois; (10) Michigan; (11) Minnesota; (12) Missouri; (13) Montana; (14) New Mexico; (15) North Carolina; (16) Ohio; (17) Oklahoma; (18) Oregon; (19) South Carolina; (20) South Dakota; (21) Tennessee; (22) Texas; (23) Vermont; (24) Virginia; (25) Wisconsin; and (26) Wyoming. Provides for the appointment of a committee of independent scientists to recommend additional special areas. Restricts road construction and logging on Federal land in ancient forests, special areas, roadless areas, and watershed protection areas. Provides for: (1) Federal enforcement; and (1) a private right of action.

Terrorist Victim Citizenship Relief Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 July 2002

Terrorist Victim Citizenship Relief Act - Deems aliens who died as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States to be honorary U.S. citizens if they held lawful immigration status. Entitles the spouses and children of such victims to naturalization as U.S. citizens, without regard to their current status. Prohibits awarding honorary citizenship to any alien or naturalizing any family member of any alien who is inadmissible or deportable under the Immigration and Nationality Act, including any perpetrator of such attacks.

Children's Development Commission Act (Kiddie Mac)

United States · United States Congress · 26 July 2002

Children's Development Commission Act (Kiddie Mac) - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to insure mortgages for: (1) new or rehabilitated child care and development facilities, including mortgage insurance for fire safety equipment loans; and (2) purchase or refinance of existing child care and development facilities. Establishes the Children's Development Commission (Kiddie Mac) which shall: (1) issue facility standards and compliance certifications; and (2) make loans not in excess of $50,000 for facility rehabilitation or renovation. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a study of the availability of child care facility secondary mortgage markets.

Internet Radio Fairness Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 July 2002

Internet Radio Fairness Act - Declares that the July 8, 2002, determination by the Librarian of Congress of rates and terms for the digital performance of sound recordings and ephemeral recordings shall not apply to transmissions and ephemeral recordings by a small business, small organization, or small governmental jurisdiction (small entities). Declares further that the first determination of terms and rates of royalty payments made after enactment of this Act shall apply to transmissions made by small business concerns during the period between the enactment of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the date provided for in that determination. Requires the copyright arbitration royalty panel to establish rates and terms in accordance with specified objectives. Amends Federal copyright law to declare that, except in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, it is not a copyright infringement for a transmitting organization entitled to transmit to the public a performance or display of a work, under a license or transfer of the copyright, or for a broadcast radio station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission that makes a broadcast transmission of a sound recording in a digital format on a nonsubscription basis, to make one or more copies or phonorecords of that work, if each copy or phonorecord is: (1) retained and used solely by the transmitting organization that made it; and (2) used solely for the purpose of making the transmitting organization's own transmissions or for purposes of archival preservation or security.

Tobacco Smuggling Eradication Act of 2002

United States · United States Congress · 26 July 2002

Tobacco Smuggling Eradication Act of 2002 - Amends chapter 52 (Tobacco Products and Cigarette Papers and Tubes) of the Internal Revenue Code to require all packages of tobacco products to carry a unique legibly printed serial number by which the Secretary of the Treasury can identify the manufacturer or importer and the location and date of manufacture or importation. Requires tobacco products sold on Indian reservations to be labeled as such. Requires a tobacco wholesaler to have a permit and to maintain certain records. Requires export warehouse proprietors to file certain reports with the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into certain tobacco related information agreements with foreign countries. Establishes new offenses relating to the distribution of tobacco. Raises the $1,000 civil penalty under chapter 52 to $10,000. Amends the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act to: (1) expand the applicability of such Act from cigarettes only to "tobacco product" (cigars, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and pipe tobacco); (2) define "contraband tobacco product" as a quantity of tobacco product that is equivalent to or more than 30,000 cigarettes (currently, 60,000) which bear no evidence of the payment of applicable State tobacco taxes; (3) establish new unlawful acts; and (4) require additional recordkeeping. Repeals Federal law provisions concerning reports required to State tobacco tax administrators by individuals engaged in interstate cigarette commerce.

Health Care Continuation Coverage Act of 2002

United States · United States Congress · 26 July 2002

Health Care Continuation Coverage Act of 2002 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program to provide premium assistance for qualified individuals for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) continuation coverage under the Public Health Service Act, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Requires States to provide temporary Medicaid coverage, under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, for individuals who: (1) have become totally or partially separated from employment on or after July 1, 2001; (2) are not eligible for COBRA continuation coverage; and (3) are not covered under a group health plan, health insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid. Includes coverage of such individuals' spouses and dependents who are also uninsured. Requires States, under Medicaid, to pay the unsubsidized portion of COBRA continuation benefits for individuals who: (1) have become totally or partially separated from employment on or after July 1, 2001; and (2) are eligible for COBRA continuation coverage. Includes coverage of such individuals' spouses and dependents who are also eligible and otherwise uninsured. Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to exclude unemployment compensation in determining eligibility and benefits under such Act.