United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1992
Provides an extension, at the election of the qualified taxpayer, of the time for payment of income tax on the nonexcluded portion of the combat pay of members of the armed forces serving in the Persian Gulf conflict.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a nonimmigrant (but not permanent resident) status for the spouse and minor children of a lawful permanent resident alien. Prohibits such spouse from working in the United States. Terminates such status upon termination of the marriage.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Wetlands Reform Act of 1992 - Title I: Amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make any pollutant discharge or alteration of navigable waters unlawful. Revises certification requirements for persons seeking to conduct activities which may result in discharges or other alterations of navigable waters to provide State certifications that such activities will allow for the protection, achievement, and maintenance of designated uses included in water quality standards. Authorizes the issuance of permits for other alterations of navigable waters. Defines "other alterations" as activities which impair the flow, reach, or circulation of surface water, or which result in changes in the hydrologic regime, bottom contour, or configuration of the waters or in the type, distribution, or diversity of vegetation. Revises provisions concerning general permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material into, or other alteration of, navigable waters. Prohibits authorization for an activity within a State that has denied or revoked a water quality certification for such activity. Provides for biennial review of permits and revision or revocation to avoid or minimize adverse effects on navigable waters and for reports to the Congress. Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to establish a special Fast Track team in each district office to expedite the review and processing of minor permits. Prohibits the issuance of permits if there is a practical alternative to the proposed activity that would have less adverse impact on navigable waters. Requires all adverse impacts to wetlands and other U.S. waters to be fully mitigated to achieve full restoration of the functions and values lost. Applies exemptions from permit requirements for agricultural and certain other activities to other alterations of navigable water that occur as a result of such activities. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Secretary of the Army to promulgate final regulations determining the circumstances under which discharges of dredged or fill material or other alterations of navigable waters which were converted to production of commodity crops prior to December 23, 1985, shall be exempt from permit requirements. Authorizes citizen suits for violations of general permits or permit conditions. Title II: Other Provisions - Directs the Comptroller General to submit to the Congress an analysis of needs of the Corps of Engineers and EPA for additional personnel, administrative resources, and funding to improve implementation of the wetlands permit program. Requires funds to be used for: (1) the training and certification of wetlands delineators authorized by the Water Resources Development Act of 1990; and (2) the improvement of existing education and outreach programs of the Corps of Engineers or EPA regarding wetlands permitting. Requires the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service to use funds for wetlands mapping and for the delineation of wetlands in watersheds and ecosystems for which the need for delineation is particularly acute. Provides for the update of existing maps at least once every 15 years. Directs the Administrator to contract for an independent study of the scientific basis for wetlands identification and delineation to be conducted by the National Academy of Sciences. Requires such study to specifically address the scientific bases of certain Federal manuals for identifying and delineating wetlands and to recommend appropriate scientific methods and procedures for identification and delineation. Provides for the submission of study results to specified congressional committees. Prohibits revisions to or clarifications of the Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands or regulations related to the definition, delineation, or identification of wetlands until the study has been completed. Title III: Wetlands Restoration Pilot Program - Directs the Secretary to initiate a pilot program of wetlands restoration.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Revises the overtime pay system for United States Customs Service inspectors, with changes providing overtime pay for: (1) overtime services provided on other than Sundays, holidays, or on callback at twice the hourly rate of basic pay of the customs inspector or canine enforcement officer (inspector), with no work for which overtime is authorized to be treated as being less than two hours in duration (unless the work occurs immediately before or after a shift, in which case the hourly rate shall be applied to the actual time worked); (2) Sunday and holiday work at such rate, with no work for which overtime is authorized to be treated as being less than four hours in duration; and (3) unscheduled work at such rate (or, where the inspector is required to return to such employee's place of work at such rate plus an amount equal to the product of the employee's hourly rate of basic pay multiplied by three hours, as compensation for commuting time), with no work for which overtime is authorized to be treated as being less than two hours in duration. Specifies that customs officers and employees who may be required to remain on duty between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. to perform services in connection with the lading or unlading of cargo, the lading of cargo or merchandise for transportation in bond or for exportation in bond or with benefit of drawback, the receiving or delivery of cargo on or from the wharf, or the unlading, receiving, or examination of passengers' baggage, shall receive overtime compensation at the rates provided under this Act. Treats inspectors as law enforcement officers for purposes of the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System. Ties the Customs User Fee Account under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to Civil Service retirement provisions regarding deductions, contributions, and deposits. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to fix the rates of pay for journeyman level inspectors undertaking inspectional services at no less than the minimum rate payable for GS-11.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the honored dead in the war against drugs are heroes deserving the recognition and appreciation of all nations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) consideration of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) should be a high priority; (2) LIHEAP funding for FY 1993 should be increased to a level greater than or equal to funding for FY 1992; and (3) the President should accept the LIHEAP funding level for FY 1993 as recommended by the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Petitions the President to intervene personally to urge the Government of Great Britain to address the continuing human rights violations in the north of Ireland and to initiate talks among all parties involved in the conflict to find a lasting and equitable solution.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Bill of Rights is one of the most important achievements in history; (2) the Bill of Rights' liberties should not be abridged or infringed upon; (3) constant vigilance and struggle are required; and (4) the study of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution should be a central component of primary and secondary education.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1992
United States Olympic Checkoff Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate on their income tax returns contributions (not less than one dollar) to the United States Olympic Trust Fund. Establishes such Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1992
Amends the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-164) to provide that the eligibility requirements applicable to regular (rather than extended) unemployment compensation benefits shall apply in determining eligibility for emergency unemployment compensation benefits under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1992
Cancer Registries Amendment Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants or contracts to operate population-based, statewide cancer registries in order to collect certain data for each form of in-situ and invasive cancer except basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. Authorizes grants for planning the registries. Mandates a study on factors contributing to elevated rates of breast cancer mortality in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, directly or through grants and contracts, or both, to provide technical assistance to the States in the establishment and operation of statewide registries. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1992
Directs the Administrator of General Services to review each current contract for leased motor vehicles for the House of Representatives and recommend an alternative (least expensive) plan for leasing of vehicles for any Member with a lease at a rate above the terms available through the General Services Administration (GSA). Requires all motor vehicle leasing for the House to be conducted through GSA beginning on January 3, 1993. Permits Members to lease: (1) the least expensive full size American made motor vehicle that is appropriate for the official business involved; and (2) directly if terms of lease are equal or better than GSA terms.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1992
Declares that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) breast cancer should be declared a public health emergency under specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act to accelerate investigation into the cause, treatment, and prevention of the cause; and (2) activities initiated under the emergency should not supplant major research projects on breast cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
DES Education and Research Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish a program for the conduct and support of research and training, the dissemination of health information, and other measures with respect to the diagnosis and treatment of conditions associated with exposure to the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES). Mandates: (1) programs to educate health professionals and the public; and (2) longitudinal studies. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
Anti-Recession Infrastructure Jobs Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Economic Development Administration, to make grants to State and local governments for infrastructure projects in distressed areas. Provides for direct grants for construction and improvement and for completion of planning. Provides for supplemental grants for other Federal grant programs and for State and local programs. Prohibits the use of grants to acquire real property or to cover maintenance costs. Requires assurance that on-site labor can begin within 90 days of project approval. Requires: (1) contracting out construction or improvement work on grant projects; (2) competitive bidding; (3) acceptance of the lowest responsive bid; (4) advertised specifications covering all requirements or obligations preceding contract award; (5) Buy American conditions; (6) minority participation; and (7) applicability of specified Federal laws regarding individuals with disabilities. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out this Act, to prescribe rules, regulations, and procedures that assure adequate consideration is given to the relative needs of various sections of the country, including consideration of these factors in proposed project areas: (1) severity and duration of unemployment; (2) income levels and extent of underemployment; (3) extent of proposed project contribution to reducing unemployment; and (4) amount of unemployment or underemployment in the construction and construction-related industries. Requires a final determination on each grant application within 60 days after the Secretary receives it (or else the grant will be deemed approved). Sets forth formulas for allocation of funds. Sets aside two and one-half percent for Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages. Sets minimum and maximum allocation limits for any one State and for specified U.S. territories. Requires the Secretary, in making such grants, to give priority and preference to public works: (1) projects of local governments; (2) projects requested by a State or special purpose unit of local government and endorsed by a general purpose local government; and (3) projects requested by school districts. Requires the Secretary, if the average national unemployment rate is six percent or above for the most recent 12 consecutive months, to: (1) expedite and give priority to applications from State or local governments with rates for that period above the national rate; and (2) give priority thereafter to those from any State or local governments having rates for that period above six percent but below the national rate. Requires State and local prioritization of applications. Requires (if the applicant so requests) that the local government's unemployment rate be based on the rate of any community or neighborhood within such local government's jurisdiction. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
Authorizes amounts for expenses of investigations and studies by the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control in the second session of the 102d Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1992
Emergency Climate Stabilization and Earth Regeneration Act of 1992 - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to establish a process through which the Congress and the President shall cooperate in a national and international program to: (1) reduce heat, drought, famine, and forest fires and to decrease the freezing extremes, snow buildup, flooding, cloud cover, and storms in the winter; (2) regenerate the earth through reforestation, soil and ocean remineralization, conservation, and alternative energy technology development; (3) maximize food and agricultural security through research on soil remineralization and other environmentally sound, sustainable means; and (4) create and develop a secure, environmentally sustainable way of life consistent with long-term climate stabilization. Sets forth specific ways to achieve reduction of carbon dioxide. Recognizes that the U.S. contribution to the global program to reduce greenhouse gases and stabilize the world's climate should be at least proportional to the United States' past and current emissions of such gases relative to other nations. Directs the President to promulgate a regulation providing for a climatic stabilization program and for information development and processing centers to process data concerning world climatic conditions. Requires the regulation to include a plan that provides for: (1) Federal, State, and local climate stabilization plans; (2) specified remineralization goals for the United States; (3) international cooperation to maximize the activities of soil, forest, and energy work and the reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide; (4) the curtailment of counterproductive technological practices, including reduction in the use of fossil fuels and toxic and radioactive materials and guidelines for the cutting of trees; (5) support for ecologically sound technology and practices; (6) employment and community requirements; and (7) the implementation of specified articles of the United Nations Charter that require the settlement of international disputes by peaceful means and promote higher standards of living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social progress. Directs the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate to take steps to establish a Joint Committee on Climate Stabilization. Establishes a Council on Climate Stabilization and Earth Regeneration as an independent Federal agency. Encourages the establishment of State and local councils to assure implementation of the climate stabilization program. Requires the President to provide for a unified crisis management operation through international, Federal, State, and local activity to minimize damage from, and to maintain agricultural and industrial production under, changing atmospheric conditions that cause natural disasters. Provides for ongoing evaluation of the climate stabilization program. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a corporate tax surcharge. Terminates such tax after December 31, 1996. Establishes a Climate Stabilization Trust Fund to be in an amount equivalent to the amount of corporate tax surcharges received in the Treasury. Makes the Fund available to carry out this Act. Requires 80 percent of the funding of any project under this Act to be from Federal sources. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1992
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to prohibit community development block grant awards to communities that fail to enforce antiharassment laws with regard to the exercising of abortion rights.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1992
American Rail Industry Competitiveness Act of 1992 - Sets forth congressional findings and purposes with respect to revitalization of the American rail car industry. Directs the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to establish, through the making of grants and loans, a program of financial assistance to private and public entities to promote research and development (R and D) in the domestic rail car industry, to facilitate growth in the engineering and design capabilities of domestic rail car companies, and in general to promote the competitiveness of the American rail car industry. Sets forth specified requirements with respect to such grants and loans. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to require the Secretary, through the establishment of a new Cooperative Research Center or utilization of an existing Center, to promote the development of U.S. rail car technology. Amends the Federal Transit Act to require the Secretary to designate one university transportation center with responsibility for R and D relating to rail car technology. Requires the Secretary to provide additional grants to such center to conduct R and D, training, and technology transfers with respect to such technology in order to promote the growth and development of the American rail car industry. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the corporate capital gains tax for rail industry stock held for more than three years by a domestic rail car company. Establishes alternative rates for capital gains on rail industry stock held by noncorporate taxpayers. Allows, until January 1, 1998, domestic rail car companies a special tax credit for R and D activities. Allows a rail industry start-up credit of ten percent of qualified rail start-up expenditures incurred until December 31, 1998. Provides for the treatment of the rail tax incentives in computing the alternative minimum tax. Classifies rail car property as five-year property for purposes of determining depreciation under the accelerated cost recovery system. Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to require the Secretary, with respect to the award of grants to States for business-labor-education partnership training programs, to give priority to projects that are specifically targeted to the training of skilled workers and technicians in high technology aspects of the domestic rail car industry. Requires the Secretary to select one State for the establishment of a pilot vocational educational program designed to promote high technology training (including the retraining of individuals employed or previously employed in industries with declining labor demand) in the rail car supply industry. Directs the Secretary of Education to report to the Congress on progress made to promote vocational education and training in the American rail car industry. Amends the Federal Transit Act to direct the Secretary to require each mass transportation assistance grantee that operates a rail transit system to submit, by October 1 of each year, a ten-year and 20-year schedule setting forth anticipated rail car acquisitions (by timing and volume) during the upcoming ten- and 20- year periods. Requires the Secretary to develop, and annually update, ten- and 20-year projections of such acquisitions. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress a plan under which the Federal Transit Administration will: (1) develop more precise rail car procurement forecasting; and (2) manage the timing of the award of Federal grants to assure a stable national rail car replacement plan and provide regular and reliable cycles of rail car procurement. Requires the Secretary to establish a Federal Clearinghouse to serve as a source of the data on the domestic rail car industry.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1992
Economic Revitalization and Federal Excess and Surplus Property Utilization Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I: Findings and Purposes - Sets forth the purposes of this Act involving the utilization of excess and surplus Government heavy equipment and construction materials infrastructure and development. Title II: Definitions - Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Title III: Disposal of Defense Articles - Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Defense to: (1) evaluate inventories of heavy equipment and construction materials and ensure that those items which are not needed for an identifiable military mission will be classified as excess and disposed of; (2) declare as excess those inventory items which cost over a certain amount to store, maintain, and repair; (3) develop a cost-effective plan for returning excess items to the United States for disposal; (4) report to specified congressional committees on the status of, and disposal plans for, such inventory items; and (5) annually review and evaluate the utilization by recipients of excess nonlethal supplies and excess defense articles pursuant to programs administered by the Department of Defense in order to ensure that such items are being utilized accordingly. Requires the heads of Federal agencies overseeing Federal laboratories to evaluate their inventories of scientific equipment. Requires all such equipment not needed for current or anticipated Federal purposes to be disposed of. Requires appropriate reports to specified congressional committees. Directs the Administrator (Administrator) of the General Services Administration (GSA) to make available excess heavy equipment and construction materials to a Federal agency based on the agency's ability to use such items for official business. Prohibits Federal agencies receiving excess heavy equipment and construction materials from transferring such equipment to other Federal or non-Federal agencies or organizations. Requires excess heavy equipment and construction materials received by a Federal agency to be returned to GSA if the Administrator determines that the equipment is not being efficiently used or if the official business of the agency for which the equipment is being used has been completed. Excludes heavy equipment and construction materials from the definition of "nonlethal excess supplies" used under armed forces provisions, and from the definition of various terms used for excess property in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Title IV: Distribution Of Excess And Surplus Heavy Equipment And Construction Materials - Gives the Administrator authority over the disposal of all excess and surplus heavy equipment and construction materials. Requires such disposal to be done pursuant to this Act. Requires the Administrator to make all excess and surplus heavy equipment and construction materials available to the States after such items have been disposed of to Federal agencies. Requires the Administrator, after providing actual notice to the States of the availability of excess heavy equipment and construction materials, to deliver such items requested by the States on a fair and equitable basis according to public need and efficiency of utilization. Requires the Administrator to make the equipment and materials available without cost, except that if transportation is requested by the State, the Administrator may assess fees for transportation costs. States that for no less than 12 months after original delivery, the Administrator shall retain all right, title, and interest in heavy equipment and construction materials which have an acquisition cost greater than $10,000. Provides that if a State can show that the equipment or materials were well maintained and were efficiently used in the furtherance of public purposes and that the equipment can reasonably be expected to be maintained and used in the furtherance of public purposes, the Administrator shall transfer to the State all right, title, and interest in the equipment or materials. Requires States, within 12 months after regulations to implement this paragraph have been issued, to establish a program under which equipment and construction materials are allocated to eligible users in order to continue to be eligible to receive excess heavy equipment and construction materials. Allows such a program to be operated by the State or by State-Certified Equipment Centers. Requires the Administrator to offer grants for the establishment of such Centers. Sets forth provisions providing for disposals under specified conditions of urgency, such as when the President certifies that a foreign nation has dire need for particular pieces of heavy equipment and construction materials. States that Indian tribes and historically black colleges shall have equal standing with the States in acquiring excess heavy equipment and construction materials. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the use of community development block grant funds to establish such Centers and to establish State infrastructure and economic development plans. Authorizes appropriations for GSA grants to establish such Centers. Title V: State And Community Infrastructure And Economic Development - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to establish a computerized database and standardized forms which States shall use to develop infrastructure and economic development plans utilizing priority lists of anticipated needs submitted to the States by counties and other units of local government, and which also utilize State-Certified Equipment Centers and advanced planning techniques. Requires the Secretary to make grants to States that want to establish such a plan, with priority to States with high long-term unemployment rates and pressing infrastructure needs. Requires the Secretary to establish a national infrastructure and economic development strategy to help States implement their plans to encourage cooperation among the States, and to coordinate Federal infrastructure and economic development programs and resources. Requires the Secretary to update such strategy every two years and to transmit a document containing such strategy to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations for grants to States that want to establish such a plan. Title VI: Effective Date And Applicability - Specifies the effective dates of this Act and requirements for the promulgation of regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1992
Infrastructure Improvement and Job Opportunity Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to make grants to assist local job projects that: (1) may include renovation or rehabilitation of public buildings or facilities with commercial, industrial, public, service, housing, historic, or other value; and (2) provide employment to eligible participants. Requires eligible areas that desire such funds to establish District Executive Councils (DECs) to receive such grants. Allows the private industry council in any eligible area that is substantially the same as a service delivery area under the Job Training Partnership Act to petition the Governor to be designated a DEC if it meets specified requirements. Requires DECs to select projects to be assisted under the Secretary's criteria and to submit project plans and annual reports on their activities. Limits use of grant funds for administrative expenses to ten percent. Requires an eligible area to: (1) be a county or comparable general local government unit; and (2) have no more than 300,000 population, unless granted a waiver by the Secretary. Makes eligible for job project participation individuals who: (1) have a high school diploma or equivalent or are at least 18 years of age; (2) have resided in the eligible area for at least 30 days; (3) have been unemployed for 35 days prior to determination of employment for an assisted job project; (4) are U.S. citizens or nationals, lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens, refugees and parolees, or persons otherwise authorized by the Attorney General to work in the United States; (5) had an earned income in the year preceding the determination, and a family income in the year in which the determination is made, respectively, of less than $17,000; (6) work for not more than 16 hours per week in any compensated job other than the assisted project job; (7) demonstrate to the project manager that they sought private sector employment during the 35 days prior to their application for and will continue to do so during their period of assisted employment; and (8) are not eligible for retirement benefits. Limits a household to no more than two eligible participants. Requires testing for basic reading and writing competence prior to a job project employment. Requires that counseling and instruction be furnished to participants who fail to pass such basic competency test. Requires participants who have not received a high school diploma or equivalent to maintain satisfactory progress toward receiving one in order to continue employment. Allows participants with limited English-speaking ability to be furnished with instruction the DEC considers appropriate. Sets forth requirements for job projects. Prohibits selection of a project if an objection is filed by two DEC members appointed by the State Governor or Mayor, of the largest municipality or two appointed by the chief executives of local governments in the eligible area. Prohibits selection of DEC managers, officers, or employees or project participants on the basis of political affiliation (and limits the number of specified types of DEC members who may be from the same political party). Sets limits on job project: (1) expenses for transportation and equipment (ten percent); (2) number of supervisors (one-to-ten ratio); (3) individual workweek (32 hours); and (4) project duration (18 months). Requires project managers to submit monthly progress reports to the DEC. Requires participants to receive wages equal to the higher of: (1) the minimum wage under specified provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; (2) the minimum wage established under the applicable State or local minimum wage law; or (3) the amount the participant receives in assistance under the State plan approved under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) or in unemployment compensation, plus ten percent of that amount. Requires that participants be furnished benefits and employment conditions comparable to those of employees in similar occupations employed by a comparable employer, but prohibits any participant from being eligible for unemployment compensation during or on the basis of project employment. Requires participants to be eligible for supportive services necessary for participation. Requires DECs to establish for the eligible area, job clubs to assist participants to prepare resumes, develop interviewing techniques, and evaluate individual job search activities. Sets forth labor standards for job projects, including appropriate conditions of employment and training and health and safety. Prohibits the use of funds for contributions on behalf of any participant to retirement systems or plans. Sets forth displacement rules. Prohibits: (1) any displacing of current employees; (2) impairing of existing contracts or collective bargaining agreements; (3) filling of openings created by related layoffs or terminations; or (4) infringing on promotional opportunities of current employees. Requires that labor organizations representing a substantial number of employees engaged in similar work or training in the same area as that proposed to be funded be given an opportunity to comment on the project proposal at least 30 days before the project is approved. Applies Davis-Bacon Act wage rules to all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors for federally assisted construction and repair work, except with respect to eligible participants in projects assisted under this Act. Sets forth nondiscrimination provisions. Requires DECs to establish and maintain evaluation files for each individual employed on a project assisted under this Act, to be made available to the participant monthly but to no other person without the participant's consent. Provides for allotments to States and substate allocations to DECs for eligible areas. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the following program requirements: (1) testing, for individuals with handicaps; (2) participant maintenance of satisfactory progress toward a high school diploma or equivalent; and (3) the 32-hour per week individual maximum for project employment (for unusual circumstances, subject to a two-thirds vote of each DEC). Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on administration of this Act, with program summaries and recommendations. Provides for auditing by the General Accounting Office. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) place the highest priority on its successful participation in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) (and that the President should make every effort to attend); (2) actively support the signing of international agreements that effectively reduce the threats of climate change and the loss of biological diversity and that establish a strong framework for cooperation between developing and developed countries on a wide range of environmental and developmental issues; (3) seek the development of a stronger legal framework to protect the global environment; (4) support the effort to address the legitimate needs of developing countries for increased financial resources, new and appropriate technologies, and reduced debt burden to facilitate sustainable growth; (5) support initiatives to help developing countries become more energy efficient, with increased priority on renewable energy resources and more efficient transportation systems; and (6) support global goals of slowing deforestation of primary native forests.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1992
Title I: Short Title, Findings, and Definitions - Trade Enhancement Act of 1992 - Sets forth congressional findings and purposes with respect to access to Japanese markets by U.S. manufacturers of motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts. Title II: Merchandise Trade Deficit Reduction - Sets forth annual merchandise trade deficit reduction targets with respect to Japan's trade deficit with the United States. Requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to compute annually whether the target has been met for each year, and if it has not, to publish in the Federal Register the import and production restriction implementation period for such year. Authorizes the Secretary to impose temporary quantitative import restrictions on Japanese or Japanese-related motor vehicles (foreign motor vehicles) entered during the first three months of the calendar year following the year for which such computation is made. Requires the Secretary to submit a report to the Congress. Expresses the sense of the Congress that representatives of the United States and Japan should continue discussions regarding measures, to be selected by the Japanese Government, to achieve the merchandise trade deficit reduction targets. Urges the United States Trade Representative (USTR) during such discussions to address market access priorities for U.S. exports to Japan. Title III: Import and Production Restrictions to Be Implemented If Trade Deficit Reduction Target Not Met - Directs the Secretary to compute for calendar years 1993 through 1999 quantitative import restrictions on foreign motor vehicles and domestic motor vehicle production restrictions for transplanted Japanese-related auto manufacturers, except such computations are not required for calendar years 1997 through 1999 if trade deficit reduction targets for calendar years 1992 through 1996 are met. Sets forth civil penalties. Requires each person that has one or more motor vehicle or motor vehicle parts manufacturing facilities within the United States to certify to the Secretary whether it is a domestic vehicle or parts manufacturer or a transplanted Japanese-related vehicle manufacturer. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) the Secretary's authority to obtain information and data; and (2) enforcement of this Act. Sets forth civil penalties. Sets forth provisions with respect to the enforcement and judicial review of such penalties. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on implementation of this Act. Title IV: Negotiations and Other Actions - Requires the USTR to enter into negotiations with Japan to enter into a bilateral agreement that: (1) provides a phased-in increase in the use by transplanted motor vehicle manufacturers of domestically-produced motor vehicle parts to the point where such parts constitute 60 percent or more of the total parts used in the production of such vehicles; and (2) eliminate those aspects of the Japanese automotive distribution system that affect the access of domestically-produced motor vehicle parts to Japanese markets. Directs the USTR to enter into negotiations with representatives of the European Community, Japan, and the governments of other major vehicle-producing countries to enter into multilateral agreements that rationalize world-wide market access and production of motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts. Considers acts, practices, and policies of Japan (including, but not limited to, acts, policies, and practices utilized in the Japanese automotive distribution system known as "Keiretsu") that affect the access of manufacturers of domestic motor vehicle parts to the Japanese market as being unjustifiable and burdensome or restrictive to U.S. commerce, according to the Trade Act of 1974. Adds to response authority under such Act authority to increase the percentage of domestically-produced motor vehicle parts used in the production of motor vehicles for purposes of the qualification of Japanese manufacturers as domestic vehicle manufacturers. Specifies certain objectives to be included in negotiations with Japan if the USTR decides to take action with respect to such practices. Requires the USTR to make certain estimates with respect to the percentage of the Japanese market that is accounted for by domestic motor vehicle parts manufacturers. Directs the Secretary to commence an antidumping duty investigation under the Tariff Act of 1930 to determine whether imports or sales (or the likelihood of sales) of Japanese motor vehicle parts to the United States warrant the imposition of antidumping duties. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to the Congress on the extent to which: (1) "Keiretsu" operations in the United States are in compliance with the internal revenue laws, particularly those relating to transfer pricing; and (2) the Internal Revenue Service is auditing such operations. Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to classify for the purposes of tariff treatment certain light trucks as motor vehicles for the transport of goods.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1992
Comprehensive Preventive Health Care Act of 1992 - Mandates establishment of a schedule, broken down by age and gender, of recommended preventive health care services. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to add the services to the definition of "medical and other health services." Excludes items or services on the schedule which are not provided in accordance with the schedule. Amends Federal law relating to veterans' benefits to add the services to: (1) the definition of "medical services;" and (2) provisions relating to eligibility for outpatient services. Amends Federal law relating to health insurance for Federal employees to allow the services to be covered under service benefit plans and indemnity benefit plans. Establishes a project to demonstrate the effectiveness in providing preventive health care services in improving the health of individuals and reducing the aggregate costs of providing health care. Mandates five-year grants to 50 counties to: (1) provide specified preventive services to individuals otherwise unable to pay; (2) conduct a study and report to the Congress regarding preventive service requirements imposed by each State on health benefit plans offered to residents of the State; and (3) dissemination of information on preventive care, the importance of periodic examinations, and the need to maintain a family medical history.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1992
Amends the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-164) to add 13 weeks to the number of weeks of benefits payable under the emergency unemployment compensation program. Provides for a total number of weeks of such emergency benefits as follows: (1) 33 weeks (currently 20) in higher unemployment States (with a total unemployment rate of nine percent or higher or an adjusted insured unemployment rate of five percent or higher, for specified periods); and (2) 26 weeks (currently 13) for all other States. Extends to October 3, 1992, the expiration date of the emergency unemployment program (currently June 13, 1992). (Makes a conforming amendment extending provisions for unemployment insurance benefits for certain railroad workers during periods of high national unemployment.) Requires that the provisions of (and amendments made by) this Act be treated as emergency requirements designated by the President and the Congress under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Requires that any amount of new budget authority, outlays, or receipts resulting from the provisions of (and amendments made by) this Act not be considered for any purpose under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1992
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude cooperative housing corporations from the limitations on deductions incurred by certain membership organizations in transactions with their members. Prohibits patronage losses of an organization from being used to offset earnings which are not patronage earnings. Specifies earnings to be treated as patronage earnings in the case of cooperative housing corporations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Enterprise Communities Incentives Act of 1991 - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to establish a demonstration program of incentives for the creation of tax enterprise zones in order to: (1) revitalize economically and physically distressed areas; (2) promote meaningful employment for zone residents; and (3) encourage individuals to reside in the zones in which they are employed. Title I: Designation and Tax Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of tax enterprise zones by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during calendar years 1993 through 1996. Sets forth eligibility criteria for rural areas. Sets forth the eligibility criteria for such designation, including: (1) a population of not less than 4,000; (2) pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general distress; (3) a high unemployment rate; and (4) a required course of action designed to reduce the various burdens borne by employers or employees in the area. Provides that a course of action under private entities may not be federally funded and may include: (1) a reduction of tax rates or fees; (2) an increase in public services; (3) a reduction in government paperwork requirements; (4) business community commitments to provide jobs and job training; (5) special preference to minority contractors; (6) gifts of land for the operation of neighborhood businesses; (7) pooled health insurance; (8) loans by local financial institutions for business start-ups; and (9) special preference to low-income housing projects and private activity bonds. Allows an enterprise zone employment credit to small employers as a general business credit of ten percent of the qualified zone wages paid plus qualified zone employee health insurance costs. Allows such credit for the first five years of the employee's employment. Makes the rehabilitation credit available for buildings in the tax enterprise zone that are at least 30 years old. Provides a shorter recovery period (20 years) for nonresidential real property. Allows a 60-month amortization period (in lieu of depreciation) for child care facilities. Allows the deferral of capital gain for ten years if the gain is reinvested in tax enterprise zone property. Limits the dollar amount of deferred gain. Declares that loss on any qualified zone corporate investment shall be treated as an ordinary loss. Allows a deduction for the purchase of enterprise zone stock on the original issue by a qualified issuer. Limits such amount to $50,000 for any taxable year, or $250,000 during the taxpayer's lifetime. Increases the research credit for research conducted in tax enterprise zones. Increases the low-income housing credit for qualified buildings in a tax enterprise zone where a portion of such building is used as a qualified child care center. Increases such credit for low-income buildings in tax enterprise zones and the State housing credit ceiling for buildings in such zones. Sets forth incentives with respect to tax-exempt bond provisions for projects in tax enterprise zones. Provides a tax exemption for work-based education organizations in tax enterprise zones. Allows businesses a credit for work-based education contributions as part of the general business credit. Title II: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Tax Enterprise Zones - Requires enterprise zones to receive priority in the designation of foreign trade zones. Title III: Studies - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller General each to report to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance on the effectiveness of the incentives provided by this Act in achieving its purposes. Title IV: Community-Based Crime Control and Alternatives for High-Risk Youth in Enterprise Zones - Directs the Attorney General, through the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the Department of Justice after specified consultations, to make grants to units of general local government that establish or expand community-oriented policing programs and complementary, comprehensive prevention efforts to reduce and prevent drug abuse and crime, particularly among youth and adolescents, offenders and other populations at high risk for involvement in drug abuse and crime. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Housing and Community Development Activities in Enterprise Zones - Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to direct the board of directors of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation to appoint an Advisory Council for Neighborhood Development Initiatives to advise the board with respect to: (1) assistance to community development corporations for development activities in tax enterprise zones; (2) grants for housing and community development in such zones; and (3) activities for high-risk youth in such zones. Authorizes appropriations. Allows the sale of federally-held properties within tax enterprise zones to nonprofit and for-profit organizations at a price not exceeding 50 percent of the appraised value of such property. Requires such property to be used for housing, commercial enterprises, job training, or drug treatment. Title VI: Drug Exposed Children - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to authorize supplemental grants to carry out demonstration programs for certain drug-exposed infants, toddlers, and children. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require that the clearinghouse for alcohol and drug abuse information collect and disseminate information and instructional materials regarding drug-exposed children. Provides for consultation and technical assistance to educational personnel regarding educational needs of such children. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the making of grants to institutions of higher education for teacher training for educating such children. Title VII: Substance Abuse Treatment Corps - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish within the Public Health Service the Substance Abuse Treatment Corps to increase the availability of treatment for alcohol and drug abuse in geographic areas with a significant incidence of abuse and an inadequate availability of services. Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out such purpose only through assigning Corps members to provide services for such areas. Allows the Secretary to assign a Corps member to an entity only if the entity, among other requirements, enters into an agreement with the Secretary regarding the allocation, between the Secretary and the entity, of costs relating to the assignment. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of entering into contracts with students in specified fields under which the students agree to serve in the Corps upon obtaining their degrees in consideration of the Federal Government's agreeing to pay tuition, other expenses, and a stipend. Applies, except as inconsistent, provisions relating to the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program to this program. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of entering into contracts with individuals who have been licensed or certified in certain fields, or who are students in such fields, under which the individuals agree to serve in the Corps in consideration of the Federal Government's agreeing to repay up to a specified sum of educational loans of the individuals. Applies, except as inconsistent, provisions relating to the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program to this program. Authorizes appropriations for the scholarship and loan repayment programs established by this Act. Title VIII: Drug-Free Schools Emergency Target Grants - Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to revise provisions with respect to emergency grants to authorize the Secretary to make drug-free schools emergency target grants to eligible local educational agencies (LEAs) and consortia of LEAs (currently, limited to LEAs) that: (1) demonstrate significant need for additional assistance for purposes of reducing and preventing drug and alcohol use and drug-related crime among students served by such agencies (currently, to combat drug and alcohol use among such students, and excludes the following provisions); (2) support projects that require cooperative linkages between schools and communities to reduce and prevent drug and alcohol use among schoolchildren; (3) demonstrate the most effective approaches to reducing and preventing drug and alcohol use among schoolchildren; and (4) promote the goal that every school in America will be free of drugs and violence and will offer a discipined environment conductive to learning. Specifies: (1) authorized activities by LEAs with grant funds; and (2) eligibility and application requirements for such grants by LEAs and consortia of LEAs. Directs the Secretary, in awarding grants, to give special preference to applications that: (1) hold particular promise for reducing and preventing the incidence of drug and alcohol use and drug-related violence in elementary and secondary schools; (2) are based on a rigorous and comprehensive research design; and (3) have demonstrated that they will integrate the resources of families, community groups, and the media into an effective, community-based assault on drug and alcohol use in schools. Requires the Secretary to conduct an evaluation of this program. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) grant amounts and distribution of funds; and (2) set-asides from appropriations to conduct such evaluation, provide training and technical assistance to LEAs, and disseminate the results of the program. Authorizes appropriations. Requires a local or intermediate educational agency or consortium to include in any application to the State educational agency for a drug and alcohol abuse prevention grant a statement of how any emergency target grants funded by the Government under this Act are integrated into the overall prevention plan set forth in the application. Title IX: Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women and Family Members - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide federally reimbursed Medicaid coverage of alcoholism and drug dependency residential treatment services for pregnant women whose family income is below 185 percent of the Federal poverty level and for their Medicaid-eligible children and spouses. Lists the required services included in such coverage as: (1) individual, group, and family counseling and addiction education and treatment; (2) room and board in a structured environment with on-site supervision 24 hours a day; (3) child day health services; (4) parental assistance in obtaining developmental assistance for their preschool children and public education for themselves and their school-age children; (5) easier access to apppropriate health, social, and child care services; and (6) planning and assistance in reentering society. Requires that such coverage continue for at least 12 months (unless such coverage is found to be no longer therapeutically necessary), except that the coverage of pregnant women must continue for one year following the end of pregnancy. Limits the size of a residential treatment facility to no more than 40 beds, except under prescribed conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Revises the overtime pay system for United States Customs Service inspectors, with changes providing: (1) overtime pay for: (a) administrative workweek hours which exceed 40 per week or eight per day, at a rate equal to two times the inspector's hourly rate of basic pay, with no work for which overtime is authorized to be treated as being less than four hours in duration; (b) Sunday and holiday work, at the same rate and under the same conditions as described above; and (c) unscheduled work, at the same rate as described above, plus an amount equal to three times the inspector's hourly rate of basic pay as compensation for commuting time, with no work for which overtime is authorized to be treated as being less than two hours in duration; and (2) pay period and fiscal year caps on overtime pay. Limits overtime under such system to Customs Service employees performing the functions of a customs inspector and customs canine enforcement officers. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to prohibit merchandise or passengers from foreign places, or merchandise being transported from one port to another, from being unladen from carrying vehicles during overtime hours (currently, at night). Amends the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 to require the authorization for the Customs Service to specify the maximum amount available for payment of overtime. Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to terminate reimbursement of appropriations for certain Customs Service overtime costs. Treats Customs Service employees as law enforcement officers for purposes of the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System. Ties the Customs User Fee Account under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to Civil Service Retirement System provisions regarding deductions, contributions, and deposits. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to fix the rates of pay for journeyman level customs inspectors and canine inspection officers undertaking inspection services at no less than the minimum rate payable for GS-11.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Medicaid Prostate Screening Act of 1991 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to mandate coverage of prostate cancer screening tests under State Medicaid plans.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Medicare Prostate Screening Act of 1991 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage of prostate cancer screening tests under the Medicare program.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Nuclear Weapons Stockpiles Information Act - Requires the annual budget material submitted to the Congress by the President to include an unclassified report prepared jointly by the Secretaries of Energy and of Defense concerning the nation's nuclear defense stockpile, including information on existing and proposed future inventories and production of nuclear weapons and fissile materials. Requires the first such report to include a historical record of U.S. nuclear weapons production and materials inventories between 1945 and 1990. Prohibits funds appropriated to the Departments of Energy or of Defense from being obligated to provide financial assistance to enterprises of the Soviet Ministry of Atomic Power and Industry of the Soviet Union or its successor entities until the President certifies to the Congress that information on past and present Soviet nuclear weapons production and fissile materials inventories has been made available to the public of the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Expansion Act of 1990 to make students from Andean countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) eligible for a scholarship program for students from Latin America and the Caribbean.
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