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United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1992
Designates October 4 through 10, 1992, as National Bone Marrow Donor Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1992
Ballona Wetlands Restoration Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of the Army to issue regulations for the expedited consideration of permit applications submitted under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters at the Ballona Wetlands in Los Angeles, California. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a demonstration program to encourage the full restoration of such wetlands. Provides for mitigation credits to persons who conduct restoration activities. Permits credits to be used for obtaining permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material between Point Conception, California, and the Mexican border. Requires the Administrator to establish a mitigation banking system and authorizes the sale of credits to third parties with the Administrator's approval. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1992
Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1992, for Disaster Assistance to Meet the Present Emergencies Arising from the Consequences of Hurricane Andrew and other Natural Disasters - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 1992 for emergencies arising from natural disasters such as Hurricane Andrew and Typhoon Omar. Designates such amounts as emergency requirements for all purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Title I: Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies - Makes additional appropriations available to the Department of Agriculture for: (1) the Agricultural Research Service for buildings and facilities; (2) the Commodity Credit Corporation for crop losses and the tree assistance program; (3) the Soil Conservation Service for watershed and flood prevention operations; (4) the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service for the emergency conservation program; (5) the Farmers Home Administration for the agricultural credit insurance fund program account, the rural housing insurance fund program account, the rural development insurance fund program account, the rural development loan fund program account, rural water and waste disposal grants, very-low-income housing repair grants, rural housing for domestic farm labor, emergency community water assistance grants, and salaries and expenses; and (6) the Food and Nutrition Service for the food stamp program. Declares that funds provided by this title are available only to the extent funds are not provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Title II: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies - Makes additional funds available to: (1) the Department of Commerce for the Economic Development Administration, the Minority Business Development Agency, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; (2) the Department of Justice for general administration, legal activities, the Federal Prison System, and the Office of Justice Programs; (3) the Department of State for the administration of foreign affairs; (4) the Judiciary for Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and other judicial services; and (5) the Small Business Administration for the disaster loans program account. Title III: Department of Defense - Military - Makes additional amounts available for incremental costs of military, reserve, and national guard personnel and for operation and maintenance of military forces. Title IV: Energy and Water Development Department of Defense - Civil - Makes additional funds available to the Army Corps of Engineers-Civil for general construction, flood control and coastal emergencies, operation and maintenance, and flood control for the Mississippi River and tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. Title V: Department of the Interior and Related Agencies - Makes additional appropriations available to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; (2) the National Park Service; (3) the United States Geological Survey; and (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Title VI: Departments of Laobr, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies - Makes additional funds available to: (1) the Department of Health and Human Services for the Public Health Emergency Fund; (2) the Department of Education for educational excellence, impact aid, student financial assistance, and departmental management. Title VII: Department of Defense - Military - Makes supplemental amounts available to cover incremental costs at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, for military construction and family housing. Title VIII: Department of Transportation and Related Agencies - Makes additional funds available to the Department of Transportation for: (1) the Coast Guard; (2) the Federal Aviation Administration; (3) the Federal Transit Administration; and (4) the Research and Special Programs Administration. Title IX: Treasury Department, U.S. Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and Certain Independent Agencies - Makes supplemental funds available to: (1) the Department of the Treasury for the U.S. Customs Service and the Internal Revenue Service; and (2) the General Services Administration (GSA) for the Federal Buildings Fund and the Federal Supply Service. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury and the Administrator of GSA to hire temporary employees as necessary for government operations in areas affected by Hurricane Andrew and Typhoon Omar. Amends the Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1992 to repeal restrictions on travel expenses on employees subject to such Act. Authorizes heads of Federal agencies to establish emergency administrative leave as necessary for employees affected by the Hurricane and the Typhoon. Title X: Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies - Makes additional amounts available to: (1) Department of Veterans Affairs for the Veterans Health Administration and departmental administration; (2) the Department of Housing and Urban Development for housing programs, housing counseling assistance, guaranteed housing loans, and management administration; and (3) the Federal Emergency Management Agency for disaster relief, the disaster assistance direct loan program account, the community disaster loan program account, and salaries and expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie in recognition of his accomplishments as a musician. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Filipino Veterans' Equity Act of 1992 - Amends the Immigration Act of 1990 to extend the naturalization application deadline for certain Filipino veterans of World War II. States that military service records authenticated by the Government of the Philippines shall be accepted to certify qualifying military service. Permits the naturalization examination and oath to be given in the Philippines. Grants special immigrant status for spouses and sons and daughters of such veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Persian Gulf War Health Registry Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary) to maintain a Persian Gulf War Health Registry for purposes of compiling information on Persian Gulf War veterans to assist in identifying possible disabilities which may result from service in the U.S. armed forces in southwest Asia during such war. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) information to be included in the Registry, including a description of activities in which the veteran participated during the war that may have long-term health effects, locations in which the veteran served, and any investigation drugs administered to such veterans by the Department of Defense (DOD); and (2) steps that the Secretary may (and Secretary of Defense, upon request, shall) take, including a comprehensive mental and physical examination and follow-up consultation, to determine the current health status of such veterans. Directs the Secretary and Secretary of Defense to: (1) inform Gulf War veterans who are no longer members of the armed forces of the provisions of this Act and encourage such veterans to participate in the Registry; and (2) annually furnish to such veterans updated information on health risks of service in southwest Asia during the war. Requires DOD to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs each fiscal year, from funds appropriated for health care, for the cost of administering the Registry for Gulf War veterans who are members of the armed forces. Specifies that: (1) nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the Secretary to provide Gulf War veterans in the Registry with hospital care, nursing home care, or outpatient medical services for the treatment of diseases or disabilities identified in an examination authorized pursuant to this Act; and (2) application for an examination shall not be construed as an application for any other benefit. Directs the Secretary to conduct a longitudinal study, over a 50-year period, to assess the short- and long-term health consequences of service in southwest Asia during the Gulf War, including an ongoing examination of the health consequences of petrochemical exposure, investigation drugs administered during the Gulf War, the fumes of burning trash, and diseases indigenous to the Middle East. Requires the Secretary and Secretary of Defense to submit to the Congress a joint annual report on the Registry. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish the Registry (and have access to the registry established by the Secretary of Defense); and (2) submit to the Congress a research protocol for the 50-year study.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Designates May 2 through 8, 1993, as National Walking Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Designates November 30 through December 6, 1992, as National Education First Week.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Designates the week beginning November 8, 1992, as Hire a Veteran Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1992
Designates the U.S. Court of Appeals building located at 125 South Grand Avenue, Pasadena, California, as the Richard H. Chambers United States Court of Appeals Building.
United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1992
Designates December 1, 1992, as World AIDS Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1992
National Organ Donor Awareness Campaign Act of 1992 - Mandates a national campaign to increase public awareness of organ transplantation, including development of a national clearinghouse. Requires research on the process by which individuals listed in the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network are selected and other matters relating to public education and promotion regarding organ donation. Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to establish a Network advisory committee. Increases the Network's annual funding cap. Modifies Network functions and its board of director's composition. Amends block grant provisions of the PHSA to mandate payments to health care facilities for the dispensing of immunosuppressive drugs to eligible transplant recipients. Authorizes appropriations. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove the one-year limitation on coverage of immunosuppressive drugs. Amends the PHSA to require, in making grants and contracts to increase the number of organ donors, inclusion of projects encouraging procurement from minority communities (including cultural, racial, and language minorities) and from other communities with below average donation rates. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1992
Amends the Small Business Act to permit extended participation by disadvantaged small business concerns in business development programs.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1992
Emergency Community Development Loan Guarantee Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to enter into additional annual housing loan guarantee commitments under section 108 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1992
Designates October 30, 1992, as Refugee Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1992
Children's Initiative - Family Preservation Act of 1992 - States that titles I through V of this Act may be cited as the Family Preservation Act of 1992 - Title I: Child Welfare Services - Amends part B (Child Welfare Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to create a capped entitlement program to provide child welfare services designed to strengthen and preserve families. Provides for allotments, reallotments, and payments to States of entitlement funds. Requires use of part of such funds to develop or expand specialized child welfare service programs for families in crisis due to substance abuse. Requires uses of remaining funds to develop or expand certain family and child service programs. Repeals provisions for incentive payments to States which maintain a foster care inventory, information system, and case review system; but requires States to provide such protections and other services designed to keep families together or reunify them, or to place children for adoption, with a legal guardian, or in some other planned, permanent living arrangement. Requires States to submit the following types of reports on child welfare services and expenditures: (1) pre-expenditure reports; (2) post-expenditure reports; and (3) comparative financial contributions reports. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transmit to specified congressional committees annual summaries of the information in such comparative financial contributions reports. Requires such information to be made available to the public. Reserves entitlement funds for grants to State court systems to assess and improve procedures in child welfare cases in carrying out parts B and E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of SSA title IV. Sets forth application requirements and formulas for determining the amount of such grants for FY 1994 through 1998. Directs the HHS Secretary to submit interim and final reports to the Congress on the information obtained from assessments conducted with such grants and the impact of such grant program on State court procedures and functions. Requires each State to compile periodically a detailed directory of programs designed to keep families together or reunify them or place children permanently, identifying which of such programs provides specialized child welfare services to families in crisis due to substance abuse. Requires States to report on measures taken to comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act. Title II: Foster Care And Adoption Assistance - Amends SSA title IV to add a new part C, Comprehensive Service Projects to grant States flexibility and resources to develop comprehensive and coordinated services designed to: (1) preserve and strengthen families with children at risk of placement outside their homes; (2) reunite children with their families expeditiously if an out-of-home placement is found to be necessary; and (3) place children in adoptive homes or other permanent arrangements in a timely fashion if reunification with their families is not appropriate. Permits any State to apply to the HHS Secretary for permission to: (1) conduct a comprehensive service project in a selected area or areas; and (2) suspend certain child welfare services and foster care and adoption assistance requirements with respect to State activities in such area or areas during the project. Sets forth application requirements and administrative provisions for such projects. Prohibits the HHS Secretary from requiring as a condition of approval of a project application: (1) the State to select any area or areas in which to conduct the project; or (2) the project to comply with any requirements not specified in the project authorization. Sets forth those requirements with which such a project must comply. Provides for determining the expenses for which a State might properly seek reimbursement, for purposes of calculating such grant amount. Authorizes the HHS Secretary to increase such grant amount, to the extent appropriate, by taking specified factors into account. Sets forth requirements for notification to States of grant amounts, and for grant payments in equal quarterly installments. Prohibits a State from carrying out such a project in a manner that impairs the entitlement of any child to: (1) the foster care benefits he or she would have receive if the HHS Secretary had approved the State plan and had not authorized the State to conduct such a project; or (2) any other benefit to which the child is legally entitled. Deems a State to have in effect an approved foster care and adoption assistance plan during the period in which it conducts such a project for purposes of State plan requirements under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of SSA title IV. Requires States to report annually on project funds expended to the HHS Secretary and the Advisory Commission on Children and Families. Provides for administrative remedies for unsuccessful projects. Provides for project termination. Makes abandoned children entering foster care eligible for foster care maintenance payments. Makes the adoptive parents of any such child with respect to whom foster care maintenance payments may be made eligible for adoption assistance payments. Makes technical revisions to the foster care maintenance payments program and the adoption assistance program to expand the removal from home requirement to include removal from legal custody. Provides for retroactive application of such new requirement under the adoption assistance program. Makes children whose adoption has been set aside by a court eligible for foster care maintenance payments. Makes the adoptive parents of any such child with respect to whom foster care maintenance payments may be made eligible for adoption assistance payments. Establishes a respite care program for foster parents with children who have special needs. Limits the expenses eligible for reimbursement under such program. Expands the definition of children with special needs, for purposes of the adoption assistance program, to include: (1) those children for whom information is known and available about their genetic or social history indicating a high risk of medical conditions or physical, mental, or emotional handicaps which makes it reasonable to conclude that they cannot be placed for adoption without providing part E adoption assistance or Medicaid (SSA title XIX) medical assistance; and (2) those children that have been adopted, that were under the care and responsibility of the State agency responsible for administering the State's part E programs immediately before adoption, and that have a mental, physical, or emotional handicap that either existed before the adoption but was not diagnosed until afterwards, or first manifests itself after the adoption but is congenital or was caused beforehand. Extends to relatives (as well as foster parents) who are prospective adoptive parents, and with whom the child has significant emotional ties while in their care, the exception to the requirement that an effort be made to place special needs children with appropriate adoptive parents without providing adoption or Medicaid assistance. Requires each State to submit to the HHS Secretary the factors and conditions it uses to identify children with special needs for purposes of the adoption assistance program, and any modifications to such factors and conditions. Directs the HHS Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee on Foster Care Placement to study and report to the Secretary and the Congress on the implementation of specified requirements, under State plans for foster care and adoption assistance, that reasonable efforts be made: (1) before placement of a child in a foster home, to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the child from the child's home; and (2) to make it possible for the child to return to the child's home. Provides Federal coverage of 90 percent of State costs in developing and installing certain statewide mechanized data collection and information retrieval systems. Covers 50 percent of State costs for operation of such systems. Provides that all State expenditures for development, installation, and operation of such systems shall be treated as necessary for proper and efficient administration of the State plan, without regard to whether the systems may be used with respect to foster or adoptive children other than those on behalf of whom payments may be made for foster care maintenance or adoption assistance. Reduces, after three years, from 90 to 50 percent the Federal matching payment for development and installation of such systems. Defers a deadline for implementation of automated systems until one year after certain regulations are promulgated. Directs the Secretary to establish a work group to advise on planning and implementation of the system to be used for collection of data relating to adoption and foster care in the United States. Requires the State plan to provide for: (1) a triennial review of the amounts paid as foster care maintenance payments and adoption assistance to assure their continuing appropriateness; and (2) a report to the HHS Secretary on the results. Sets forth requirements concerning dispositional hearings to determine the final status of a foster child. Revises the time frame for judicial determinations on voluntary placements. Sets forth case plan requirements for placement of children in out-of-State foster care. Requires annual review, with the child present, of the status of children in out-of-State foster care placements. Requires States to collect data on the numbers of children in out-of-State foster care placements. Requires a State, in order to receive payments for expenditures after FY 1994 for foster care maintenance payments made with respect to children placed in foster care outside the State, to conduct and submit a study to the HHS Secretary, by the end of such fiscal year, identifying the number and common characteristics of such children and the reasons why they were not placed in foster care in the State. Provides for the treatment of assets of youth participating in the independent living program. Eliminates the ceilings on Federal foster care payments to States and the State's authority to transfer unused foster care funds to child welfare services programs. Directs the HHS Secretary to: (1) establish an advisory committee; and (2) issue final regulations for training of staff of agencies responsible for administering foster care and adoption assistance programs, and for training of foster care and adoptive parents. Directs the Secretary annually to publish information, on a State-by-State basis, on expenditures for, and the operation of, the Child Welfare Services program, the Foster Care and Adoption Assistance program, and Comprehensive Service Projects. Amends SSA title IV to add a new part G, Child Welfare Review System. Directs the HHS Secretary to establish such system to: (1) review each State child welfare program to assess whether the requirements of the Act are being carried out; (2) impose financial penalties in cases of substantial failure to comply; and (3) provide technical assistance to any such program. Sets forth provisions relating to effects of noncompliance, suspension and rescission of financial penalties, and administrative and judicial review. Requires that all State child welfare programs be reviewed at least once by the end of FY 1997. Prohibits the Secretary from reducing or withholding any payment, or seeking any repayment from any State under part B or E, by reason of a determination made in connection with specified reviews or audits for certain periods. Prohibits suspension of payments with respect to any claim for reimbursement 30 days after the HHS Secretary receives the quarterly statement of expenditures that contains the report of the claim. Provides that within ten months after the Secretary takes any action to suspend payment with respect to such a claim, the Secretary shall: (1) determine the allowability of the claim; or (2) if unable to make such a determination, make payment with respect to the claim, subject to a later determination of allowability. Title III: Social Services Block Grant - Amends SSA title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) to authorize increased appropriations for title XX programs. Provides for the allocation to tribal organizations of program funds otherwise allotted to the State in which the Indians represented by such an organization reside. Title IV: Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation Activities - Amends part A (General Provisions) of SSA title XI to require the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) to establish an Advisory Commission on Children and Families. Requires the Commission to collect and assess specified types of information in order to identify cost-effective approaches to protect and enhance the physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being of children and their families. Directs OTA to report annually to the Congress on the Commission and its assessment. Requires the Commission to conduct, through contracts with independent research organizations, the following research and evaluation projects: (1) the evaluation of child welfare service programs, including intensive family preservation programs; (2) foster care evaluations; (3) longitudinal child welfare data bases, and studies of child welfare population dynamics; and (4) comprehensive service projects evaluations. Requires the Commission to study child separation guidelines. Directs the HHS Secretary to conduct the following research and evaluations: (1) a study (under contract with an independent research organization) to assess the prevalence and nature of risks to the safety of employees of child welfare systems; and (2) a three-year study (under contract with an organization with demonstrated appropriate experience) to examine methodologies for measuring the workloads of providers of child welfare services and community mental health services. Directs the HHS Secretary to make grants to States or localities for child welfare demonstration projects concerning abandoned child permanent placement. Directs the HHS Secretary to authorize eligible institutions to conduct demonstration projects to train eligible individuals to deliver culturally sensitive and bilingual child welfare services in U.S. areas that border on Mexico. Directs the HHS Secretary to make grants to eligible institutions to conduct projects to train eligible institutions to deliver culturally sensitive and bilingual welfare services in urban centers which have a high proportion of historically unserved or underserved populations. Authorizes the HHS Secretary to make grants to State or local government agencies to conduct demonstration projects designed to: (1) develop and implement innovative recruitment or retention strategies for trained staff in public and private nonprofit agencies working with children and adolescents at risk of being placed in foster care; and (2) test the effect of joint training programs for the staff of child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice agencies, and for judicial personnel and judges. Authorizes the HHS Secretary to conduct demonstration projects designed to test the feasibility of eliminating income and resource requirements respecting foster care and adoption assistance payments. Directs the HHS Secretary to provide technical assistance to States for: (1) interpreting and implementing parts B, C, and E; (2) disseminating information on innovative child welfare agencies; (3) correcting problems identified through Federal audits and reviews and carrying out corrective action plans under part E; (4) implementing the foster care and adoption data collection system; and (5) addressing other matters identified by the HHS Secretary. Title V: Miscellaneous Human Resources Amendments - Amends the AFDC program to give States the option of using retrospective budgeting without monthly reporting under AFDC. Increases the amount of stepparent income disregarded under AFDC. Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to extend demonstration projects for evaluating model procedures for reviewing child support awards. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 to make technical corrections relating to human resource and income security provisions. Title VI: Childhood Hunger Relief - Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act - Subtitle A: Ensuring Adequate Food Assistance - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to remove the excess shelter deduction cap for purposes of food stamp program eligibility. (Sets forth transitional caps through 1996.) Eliminates food stamp reductions for households reapplying for program reinstatement within 30 days. Excludes 100 percent (currently only a specified portion) of third party payments for transitional housing for the homeless from consideration as program income. Increases funding for the nutrition assistance program in Puerto Rico. Excludes general assistance vendor payments from consideration as program income. Excludes the income of high school students from consideration as program income. (Current law excludes income until a student's eighteenth birthday.) Subtitle B: Promoting Self-Sufficiency - Excludes from consideration as program income: (1) the first $50 a month received as child support; and (2) child support payments to non-household members. Increases annually the fair market value limit of vehicles that program recipients may own. Subtitle C: Simplifying the Provision of Food Assistance - Permits related adults living in the same household to apply for separate program benefits under specified conditions. Repeals provisions authorizing benefit reductions due to insufficient funding. Subtitle D: Commodity Distribution to Needy Families - Amends the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to provide for increased allotments in FY 1993 for commodity purchases under the emergency food assistance program. Subtitle E: Implementation and Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective dates for provisions of this title. Title VII: Funding - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a surtax on individuals with incomes over $1,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1992
Supports the planting of 500 redwood trees from California on the northwest coast of Spain in commemoration of the quincentenary of the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World. Designates such trees as a gift to the people of Spain made in the name of the people of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1992
Life Imprisonment for Egregious Recidivists Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal criminal code to require the court, in the case of a conviction for a Federal violent felony, to sentence the defendant to life imprisonment if the defendant has previously been convicted of two other violent felonies.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1992
Birth Defects Prevention Act of 1992 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish birth defects prevention and research programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to award grants to, enter into cooperative agreements with, or provide direct technical assistance in lieu of cash to, States, State health authorities, or health agencies of political subdivisions of a State for collection, analysis, and reporting of birth defects statistics from birth certificates, infant death certificates, hospital records, or other sources and to collect and disaggregate such statistics by gender and racial and ethnic group. Directs the Secretary to establish at least five regional birth defects monitoring and research programs to collect and analyze information on the number, incidence, correlation, and causes of birth defects, to include information regarding gender and different racial and ethnic groups, including Hispanics, non-Hispanic whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the CDC, to award grants or enter into cooperative agreements with specified entities to serve as Centers of Excellence for Birth Defects Prevention Research. Requires one of the Centers to focus on birth defects among ethnic minorities. Requires the CDC to establish a clearinghouse for the collection and storage of data and generated from birth defects monitoring programs developed under this Act. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the CDC, to award grants to or enter into cooperative agreements with State departments of health, universities, or other private, or nonprofit entities to develop, evaluate, and implement prevention strategies designed to reduce the incidence and effects or (sic) birth defects. Directs the Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee for Birth Defects Prevention to provide advice and recommendations on prevention and amelioration of birth defects to the Secretary and the Director of the CDC. Requires the Secretary to report biennially to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources regarding the incidence of birth defects, the contribution of birth defects to infant mortality, the outcome of implementation of prevention strategies, and identified needs for research and policy development to include information regarding the various racial and ethnic groups, including Hispanic, non-Hispanic whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1992
Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1993 - Title I: Department of the Treasury - Treasury Department Appropriations Act, 1993 - Makes appropriations to the Department of the Treasury for FY 1993 for: (1) departmental offices; (2) the Office of Inspector General; (3) the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; (4) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (5) the Financial Management Service; (6) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; (7) the United States Customs Service; (8) the United States Mint; (9) the Bureau of the Public Debt; (10) the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); and (11) the United States Secret Service. Directs the IRS to institute and maintain a training program to insure that IRS employees are trained in taxpayers' rights, in dealing courteously with the taxpayers, and in cross-cultural relations. Requires appropriated funds attributable to efficiency savings for FY 1993 to be withheld from obligation unless the estimated savings are not achieved. Prohibits funds appropriated under this title from being used for the collection of any underpayment of tax, unless collected under specified procedures. Requires the IRS and the National Finance Center (NFC) to reimburse the Financial Management Service (FMS) for postage costs the FMS incurs to make check payments on behalf of the IRS and the NFC. Title II: Postal Service - Postal Service Appropriations Act, 1993 - Makes appropriations to the Postal Service Fund for FY 1993. Prohibits an increase in postage rates during FY 1993, except for reduced rate third-class pieces other than letter shape. Title III: Executive Office of the President - Executive Office Appropriations Act, 1993 - Makes appropriations for FY 1993 for the Executive Office of the President, for salaries and/or operating expenses of the following: (1) compensation of the President; (2) the executive residence at the White House; (3) the Office of Administration; (4) the White House Office; (5) the official residence of the Vice President; (6) the provision of special assistance to the President; (7) the Council of Economic Advisers; (8) the Office of Policy Development; (9) the National Security Council; (10) the Office of Management and Budget; (11) the Office of Federal Procurement Policy; (12) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and (13) unanticipated needs. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 - Makes appropriations for FY 1993 for the following independent agencies: (1) the Administrative Conference of the United States; (2) the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; (3) the Committee for Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped; (4) the Federal Election Commission; and (5) the Citizens' Commission on Public Service and Compensation. Makes funds deposited in the Federal Buildings Fund available for specified purchases of the General Services Administration (GSA), limiting the availability of such funds for certain programs, construction projects, purchases, and repairs and alterations of GSA. Makes appropriations to GSA for FY 1993 for: (1) the Federal Supply Service; (2) the Federal Property Resources Service; (3) general management and administration; (4) the Information Resources Management Service; (5) the Office of Inspector General; (6) allowances and office staff for former Presidents; and (7) expenses to carry out any presidential transition. Limits the amount of funds that may be transferred between appropriations within the GSA, requiring such proposed transfers to be submitted to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees for approval. Authorizes agencies to make rent payments to GSA for lease space relating to expansion needs at commercial equivalent rates specified under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Authorizes appropriations out of the Federal Buildings Fund. Requires the specific approval of the Congress before the obligation or expenditure of funds for the sale, excessing, surplusing, or disposal of lands in the vicinity of Norfolk Lake, Arkansas, and lands in the vicinity of Bull Shoals Lake, Arkansas, both administered by the Corps of Engineers. Authorizes the reimbursement of travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses incurred for training classes, conferences, or other meetings in connection with the provision of child care services by persons employed to provide such services for Federal agencies. Authorizes the fund for real property management to receive any revenues, collections, or other income during a fiscal year related to energy savings to remain available for Federal energy management improvement programs authorized by law or deemed appropriate by the Administrator of GSA. Authorizes an increase in office space of the Federal Office Building in San Francisco, California. Provides for a transfer of land from the United States to Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University. Makes appropriations for FY 1993 for the following purposes: (1) the National Archives and Records Administration; (2) the Office of Government Ethics; and (3) the Office of Personnel Management. Makes appropriations for FY 1993 for the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the United States Tax Court, and the Office of Special Counsel. Title V: General Provisions (this Act) - Sets forth certain prohibitions and limitations on the use of appropriations made under this Act. Prohibits any of the funds made available under this Act from being used for any of the following: (1) for administrative expenses in closing the GSA Federal Information Center in Sacramento, California; (2) for the purpose of eliminating any existing requirements for sureties on customs bonds; (3) for the funding of any activity or the payment of any Government employee which would prohibit the enforcement of a specified provision of the 1930 Tariff Act; and (4) to transfer control over the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Glynco, Georgia, Marana, Arizona, and Artesia, New Mexico, out of the Treasury Department. Prohibits the use of any part of an appropriation made in this Act for the payment of the salary of any officer or employee of the U.S. Postal Service who in any way interferes with another employee's ability to communicate with any member or committee of the Congress in connection with any matter pertaining to the employment of such officers or employees with the Postal Service. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the use of any funds appropriated under this Act to pay for an abortion, or to fund any Federal health plan which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions. Authorizes the Administrator of GSA to acquire space for the United States Courts in Tacoma, Washington, at the site of Union Station in that city. Provides for the payment of achievement awards. Prohibits the use of funds to contract out positions or downgrade the position classification of the United States Mint Police Force and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police Force. Authorizes the United States Secret Service to accept donations of money to offset costs incurred while protecting former Presidents and their spouses when traveling for the purpose of making an appearance or speech for a payment of money or any thing of value. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act or any other Act: (1) to withdraw the designation of the Virginia Inland Port at Front Royal, Virginia, as a United States Customs Service port of entry; or (2) to transfer mail processing capabilities from the Las Cruces, New Mexico, postal facility. Requires the Postal Service to recognize the rapid rate of population growth in Las Cruces and to automate such facility. Prohibits the use of funds to reduce the rank or rate of pay of a career appointee in the Senior Executive Service upon reassignment or transfer. Prohibits the use of funds to award a Federal agency lease in the Omaha, Nebraska - Council Bluffs, Iowa, geographical area which does not meet specified criteria. Protects the employment rights of Federal employees who return to their civilian jobs after assignment with the Armed Forces. Prohibits the use of U.S. Customs Service funds to collect or impose any land border processing fee at ports of entry along the United States-Mexico border. Limits the expenditures of funds for travel expenses. Requires the Postal Service Fund to make residual payments into the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Employees Health Benefits Fund. Amends Federal law concerning costs associated with the provision of child care services by Federal agencies. Amends Federal law to allow the IRS to procure the services of attorneys for use in litigating actions under the Internal Revenue Code to which a foreign-controlled corporation is a party. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to implement, administer, enforce, or otherwise carry out any change in the terms or conditions governing Federal health benefits which would only affect Medicare beneficiaries in a certain manner. Provides for the conveyance of certain land to Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Allows the conveyance of certain land in the Shenandoah National Park to the Secretary of the Treasury for use as a United States Customs Service Canine Enforcement Training Center. Requires closed captioning for television commercials of presidential or vice presidential candidates who are eligible to receive amounts from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. Amends Federal criminal provisions to increase the penalties for transporting, importing, and failing to mark goods made with forced labor. Amends the Federal Alcohol Administration Act to authorize the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to prohibit the use of the names of deceased individuals of public prominence if such use would degrade or disparage the reputation of such individuals. Prohibits the use of funds for the Council on Competitiveness or any successor organization. Title VI: General Provisions (Departments, Agencies, and Corporations) - Sets forth certain requirements for and prohibitions and limitations on the use of appropriations made by this Act. Allows the use of funds to pay travel to the United States for the immediate family of employees serving abroad in cases of death or life threatening illness of such employees. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of any FY 1993 appropriations by any Federal agency or instrumentality unless it has in place and administers in good faith a drug-free workplace policy. Requires Federal employing agencies to make deposits into the Federal Employees Compensation Account of the Unemployment Trust Fund not later than 30 days after the Department of Labor has billed such agencies. Authorizes the reimbursement of travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses incurred for training classes, conferences, or other meetings in connection with the provision of child care services for Federal employees. Prohibits any part of any funds appropriated in this or any other Act from being used to pay the salary of any officer or employee of the Government whose post of duty is in the continental United States, unless such person: (1) is a citizen of the United States; (2) has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States; (3) is a person owing allegiance to the United States; (4) is a lawfully-admitted alien from Poland, Cuba, South Vietnam, or the Baltic countries; or (5) is a South Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee paroled in the United States after January 1, 1975. States exceptions and provides penalties for those persons submitting false affidavits under this provision. Prohibits funds from any appropriation in the current year from being paid to a person for filling a position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve such nomination. Authorizes the use of foreign credits owed to or owned by the United States for any purpose for which appropriations are made for the current year, only when the appropriate reimbursement is made to the Treasury from the agency concerned. Prohibits funds available pursuant to this Act from being used to implement any regulation which has been disapproved by a resolution duly adopted under the laws of the United States. Prohibits any funds made available under this Act from being used to plan, implement, or administer: (1) any reduction in the number of regions, districts, or entry processing locations of the U.S. Customs Service; or (2) any consolidation or centralization of duty assessment or appraisement functions of any offices of such Service. Requires the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations before an executive agency purchases, constructs, and/or leases any additional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, for the purposes of conducting Federal law enforcement training. Sets forth the conditions under which Federal agencies may procure automatic data processing equipment other than through the procurement known as FTS2000. Sets forth conditions for the use of Federal grant money to finance the acquisition of goods or services with an aggregate value in excess of $500,000. Authorizes the use of funds for the interagency funding of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications initiatives which benefit multiple government entities. Allows the use of funds by participants in the Federal Flexiplace Project to install telephone lines, necessary equipment, and pay monthly charges, in any private residence or apartment. Commends Representative Edward R. Roybal on his record of distinguished service.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1992
Directs that, in the administration of any benefits program established by or under Federal law which requires the use of data obtained in the most recent decennial census, the 1990 adjusted census data be considered the official data for such census.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1992
Amends the Small Business Act to permit extended participation by disadvantaged small business concerns in business development programs.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1992
Long-Term Health Care Program Act of 1992 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to add a new part C, Long-Term Care Program. Makes U.S. citizens and resident aliens with limited capacity to perform daily living activities or a mental impairment eligible for specified long-term care benefits. Specifies the scope and duration of such benefits. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to contract with State or other entities to establish: (1) Long-Term Care Screening Agencies for determining the eligibility of individuals for part C benefits; and (2) Long-Term Care Case Management Agencies for providing case management services for eligible individuals, developing individual care plans, and assisting individuals in choosing qualified providers to carry out the care plan. Specifies the qualifications for home- and community-based service providers. Provides for payments to such providers as well as to Case Management Agencies and nursing facilities. Sets forth requirements for certification of service providers. Establishes the Home- and Community-Based Care Advisory Council to: (1) assist the Secretary in assuring the prompt and efficient implementation of new part C; (2) regularly review that implementation; and (3) recommend to the Secretary and the Congress any necessary modifications of the program. Sets forth requirements qualified providers must meet in order to receive funding for the provision of: (1) home- or community-based services; and (2) durable medical equipment services. Sets forth quality assurance requirements agencies must meet in order to receive funding for the provision of case management services under new part C. Directs the Secretary to develop and implement a standard and extended survey of home care agencies certified to receive payments for services under this Act. Directs the Secretary to promulgate a consumers' bill of rights recognizing specified rights of consumers of long-term care which may be asserted by the consumer or his or her representative or guardian. Requires utilization and quality control peer review organizations to establish and appoint members to a quality assurance board that will monitor the quality of care provided in the area served by the organization. Provides for low-income assistance for individuals entitled to part C benefits for room and board payments. Sets forth administrative provisions. Creates in the Treasury the Long-Term Care Trust Fund to hold the revenues generated under title II of this Act for financing the new long-term care program. Requires major efforts by peer review organizations on quality assurance activities with respect to long-term care. Sets forth additional provisions relating to quality assurance. Revises provisions respecting the hospital discharge planning process. Eliminates overlapping mandatory long-term care benefits under the Medicaid program under title XIX of the Social Security Act. Title II: Financing - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate the limit on wages and self-employment income subject to FICA and railroad retirement taxes; and (2) increase hospital insurance tax rates. Title III: Grants And Demonstration Projects - Directs the Secretary to make grants to schools of nursing, social work, allied health, and public health of accredited universities to develop and conduct programs to train individuals in the provision, supervision, planning, and analysis of home- and community-based care and nursing facility services for the elderly, disabled, and chronically ill children and in the administration of such programs. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for grants for home health aides, model consumer training programs, and centers for long-term care planning and technical assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to conduct demonstration projects to determine the relative effectiveness, cost, and impact on quality of long-term home care of using different models of providing and reimbursing long-term home care services for seriously mentally ill individuals and family caregivers. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Medicare program to set forth special rules for frail elderly demonstration projects and similar projects.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Urges the President to take prompt diplomatic action to ensure that joint efforts by the United States and Mexico to combat illegal drug trafficking continue at the high level of cooperation that exists currently.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1992
International Dolphin Conservation Act of 1992 - Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to authorize entering into international agreements establishing a global moratorium, for at least five years, prohibiting harvesting tuna using purse seine nets deployed on or to encircle dolphins or other marine mammals. Allows moratorium termination with respect to the United States before the year 2000 only if the Secretary of Commerce so recommends and the Congress approves. Specifies elements to be contained in such agreements, including requirements for: (1) research regarding tuna fishing methods; (2) review of research proposals by a competent regional organization; (3) the conduct of research by dedicated vessels, approved and observed by a component regional organization; (4) specified limits on the number of research sets and the total annual dolphin mortality; (5) establishment by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission of a panel to report on limit compliance and an Advisory Board to guide research; (6) fair funding mechanisms for the research; (7) use of the proceeds from harvested tuna for the research; and (8) limiting use of U.S. funds to research on fishing methods not involving setting nets on dolphins. Requires review of all research proposals by the Marine Mammal Commission. Requires the Secretary, in certain circumstances, to recommend to the Congress whether the moratorium should be terminated. Prohibits a ban on the importation of yellowfin tuna or yellowfin tuna products from a country which implements the moratorium and meets other requirements. Mandates such a ban regarding countries which do not implement the moratorium and the other requirements. Mandates, a specified period after the tuna ban, a ban on the importation of all fish and fish products, except shrimp and shrimp products, from a country that still fails to implement all the requirements. Imposes additional restrictions on the general permit issued to the American Tunaboat Association, including: (1) limiting total dolphin mortalities; (2) prohibiting deploying purse seine nets on or encircling dolphin schools including certain types of dolphin; and (3) terminating the permit on a specified date. Declares that an international agreement under this Act shall not supersede any provisions of the Act requiring a permit. Makes unlawful certain acts, including: (1) selling, purchasing, or transporting in the United States any tuna or tuna product that is not dolphin safe; (2) purposefully setting a purse seine net on or to encircle any marine mammal; or (3) prohibiting, resisting, or interfering with inspections. Imposes civil and criminal penalties and subjects vessels, cargo, and fish to forfeiture for violations. Defines dolphin safe to mean: (1) not harvested using driftnets; and (2) depending on where harvested, either dolphin safe under specified provisions of the Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act or certified as not harvested using purse seine nets set on or encircling dolphins. Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions mandating inclusion in the agreements of research programs. Amends the Tuna Conventions Act of 1950 to require that, of the U.S. representatives on the International Commission for the Scientific Investigation of Tuna and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, at least one be chosen from a national conservation, environmental, or animal welfare nongovernmental organization. Requires that the members of a related advisory committee be selected, in addition to other sources, from such an organization. Amends the South Pacific Tuna Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations to carry out a specified Treaty on Fisheries Between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the Government of the United States of America and to carry out the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1992
United States Boxing Commission Act of 1992 - Establishes in the Department of Labor the United States Boxing Commission, which shall establish minimum Federal boxing standards for professional boxing. Requires States seeking to regulate professional boxing to submit to the Commission a State boxing plan meeting specified requirements. Prohibits a professional boxing match from being in a State which: (1) does not have an approved boxing plan; or (2) has an approved boxing plan, if the Commission determines there are reasonable grounds for belief that Federal boxing standards are not being met in connection with such match. Sets forth enforcement provisions. Requires the Commission to determine an appropriate registration fee for funding the Commission. Directs the Commission to make grants, provide technical assistance, or both, to assist States in: (1) implementing their approved boxing plans; and (2) providing for a life, accident, and health insurance fund for professional boxers and others involved in professional boxing. Requires the Commission to establish a national computer data base for the collection, storage, and retrieval of certain boxing information. Directs the Commission to enter into discussions with foreign professional boxing organizations to propose adoption of standards similar to the minimum Federal boxing standards to professional boxing matches in foreign countries. Requires the Commission to reimburse the United States for amounts appropriated to it. Prohibits the Commission from: (1) entering into contracts for the television distribution of professional boxing matches; or (2) promoting professional boxing matches or rank professional boxers. Sets forth Commission powers. Requires the Comptroller General to: (1) conduct, and to submit to the Congress, a study to recommend to the Commission an appropriate amount for its registration fee; and (2) audit annually the finances of the Commission. Requires the Commission to submit annual reports to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1992
International Refugee Protection Act of 1992 - States that: (1) the Congress affirms that U.S. obligations under certain international refugee agreements have applied to U.S. actions with respect to persons outside U.S. territorial boundaries; and (2) the United States shall refrain from the involuntary return of refugees to their home country from boundaries outside the United States or from the territorial waters of such home country, with specified exceptions.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1992
Housing for the Elderly Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I: General Improvements to Programs Providing Housing for the Elderly - Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to establish in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a position of Assistant Secretary for Supportive Housing to administer the supportive housing programs of HUD, including programs for the elderly and the disabled. Directs the Secretary (Secretary) of HUD, through the Assistant Secretary for Supportive Housing, to review and report to the Congress with regard to: (1) HUD multifamily projects and services, including projects and local housing markets for the elderly; and (2) the adequacy of HUD funding and geographic targeting of resources for housing for the elderly. Requires each unit in newly constructed assisted housing for the elderly to be protected by an automatic sprinkler system and smoke detector. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study and report to the Congress with respect to fire safety levels in HUD housing for the elderly; and (2) enter into agreements with local housing agencies to provide one-stop housing assistance applications for elderly persons and persons with disabilities. Title II: Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to extend authorization of appropriation authority, with regard to housing for very low-income elderly persons for: (1) capital advances; and (2) rental assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to use residential receipts and replacement reserves for maintenance and services. Creates separate tenant rent contribution formulas for efficiency units and for one or more bedroom units. Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to permit owners to accomodate shared housing arrangements in design flexibility and tenant selection. Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program of mixed-income housing for the elderly, including the provision of supportive services. Title III: Revised Congregate Housing Services - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to extend authorization of appropriations for congregate housing. Authorizes the Secretary to set aside specified congregate housing appropriations for supportive services under the HOPE for elderly independence program. Revises the definition of "frail elderly" for congregate housing purposes. Sets forth applicant priority provisions. Title IV: Service Coordinators in Federally Assisted Housing - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to require congregate housing service coordinators to receive specified training with respect to elderly persons' services. Provides for such service coordinators' services under the following federally assisted housing programs: (1) congregate housing; (2) project-based section 8 housing; (3) multifamily housing; (4) rural rental housing; (5) supportive housing for the elderly (section 202); and (6) public housing. Title V: Home Repair Programs - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to obligate specified HOME investment partnership appropriations for the model home repair for the elderly and disabled program. Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to authorize appropriations for grants and loans for rural housing repair for very low-income elderly families. Title VI: Mortgage Insurance for Assisted Living Facilities - Amends the National Housing Act to make assisted living facilities for frail elderly persons eligible for mortgage insurance.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1992
Provides for the printing of the book entitled "Year of the American Indian, 1992: Congressional Recognition and Appreciation" (prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing) as a House document.
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1992
Designates March 1993 as Irish-American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1992
Designates the week beginning November 8, 1992, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1992
States it shall be U.S. policy that: (1) President Aristide should be reinstated as President of Haiti; (2) the United States will coordinate with the Organization of American States to implement the Haitian trade embargo; and (3) humanitarian assistance to Haitians will be extended and their forced repatriation will cease. Provides for temporary protected status for certain Haitian nationals. Directs the President to: (1) notify Haiti of U.S. intentions to terminate the migrant interdiction agreement between the two countries; and (2) expand processing facilities for Haitians seeking U.S. protection. Excludes from U.S. entry certain Haitians who directly or indirectly assisted the overthrow of President Aristide or who participated in terrorist acts against the Haitian people.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Designates February 21 through 27, 1993, as American Wine Appreciation Week. Commends the winegrape and fruit growers and vintners of the United States for the production of high quality agricultural products.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Designates September 1992 as Childhood Cancer Month.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1992
Prohibits a member of the armed forces or person seeking to become a member from being discriminated against by the armed forces on the basis of sexual orientation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1992
Designates September 10, 1992, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1992
Designates the week beginning February 14, 1993, as National Visiting Nurse Associations Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1992
Civil War Battlefield Commemorative Coin Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a specified number of five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Civil War battlefield preservation. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Requires that all sales include a surcharge of $35 per coin for the five-dollar coins, $7 per coin for the one-dollar coins, and $1 per coin for the half-dollar coins. Requires that all surcharges be paid to the Civil War Battlefield Foundation for the preservation of historically significant Civil War battlefields.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1992, for Disaster Assistance To Meet Urgent Needs Because of Calamities Such as Those Which Occurred in Los Angeles and Chicago - Makes dire supplemental appropriations for FY 1992 for: (1) the disaster loans program account of the Small Business Administration; and (2) the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for disaster relief and the disaster assistance direct loan program account.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1992
Designates September 18, 1992, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Requires the POW/MIA flag to be flown on a flagstaff of the White House, the Departments of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs, the Selective Service Commission, each national cemetery, and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on such day. Requires the flag to be flown on a flagstaff of each national cemetery and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 30, 1992 (Memorial Day), and on November 11, 1992 (Veterans Day). States that the flag shall be displayed as a symbol of national concern and commitment to resolving the fates of Americans still prisoner, missing, and unaccounted for.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Multiple Employer Self-Insurance Enforcement Act of 1992 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to revise the applicability of title I (Protection of Employee Benefit Rights) to: (1) multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs); and (2) employee leasing welfare arrangements. Provides for certification requirements and revises provisions relating to State regulation of both such types of arrangements. Sets forth special preemption rules governing treatment and State regulation of MEWAs. Requires certain disclosures, by any MEWA which is not fully insured, to participating employers, participants, and beneficiaries. Provides for administrative adjudication of MEWA benefit claims. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to: (1) provide for an Office of Special Counsel for MEWA Affairs in the Department of Labor; and (2) appoint a Special Counsel as head of such Office. Sets forth requirements for: (1) filing of charges; (2) investigation by the Special Counsel, including an Early Resolution Program; (3) review by an administrative law judge; (4) standards of review by the Wage and Employee Benefits Appeals Board (currently, the Wage Appeals Board); (5) time limitations for review by such Board; (6) service of notice and decision; (7) exhaustion of administrative remedies; (8) final and appealable decisions; and (9) review by the appropriate U.S. Court of Appeals. Provides for State regulation of MEWAs by restricting the preemption of State laws regarding them. Provides for unlimited applicability of State insurance laws to MEWAs that are not fully insured. Provides for an exemption from State laws for MEWAs which provide medical care benefits solely (exclusive of occupational illness injury benefits), and which are not fully-insured, but which meet specified certification requirements or an approved qualified model for State certification procedures superseding such requirements. Makes State laws applicable to: (1) enforcement of such certification requirements or qualified State certification procedures; (2) the services of a contract administrator or any other third party services procured by a MEWA; and (3) collection of necessary information. Provides for treatment of certified MEWAs as employee welfare benefit plans, for specified purposes. Sets forth requirements for certification of MEWAs. Directs the Secretary to issue a certificate of operation for MEWAs that are not fully insured if they meet the specified requirements for: (1) location of participants or beneficiaries in two or more States or in States not requiring specific standards; (2) complete and accurate application; (3) minimum coverage of at least 500 participants and beneficiaries; (4) sponsors; (5) sponsor membership of all participating employers; (6) control by an operating committee under a trust agreement; (7) (upon certificate issuance) identification of all individuals commencing coverage as active or retired owners, officers, directors, or employees of, or partners in, participating employers, or beneficiaries of such individuals; (8) treatment of the sponsor as the plan sponsor; and (9) certain reserves and excess/stop loss coverage. Sets forth requirements for application for certification, including filing fee and comment period, and information relating to: (1) identification of the MEWA sponsor, operating committee members, participating employers, and all participants and beneficiaries; (2) States in which the MEWA is intended to do business; (3) evidence of meeting bonding requirements; (4) plan documents; (5) agreements with service providers; and (6) a funding report (including reserves and excess/stop loss coverage, the adequacy of contribution rates, current and projected values of assets and liabilities, costs of coverage to be charged and other expenses). Requires denial of a certificate to any MEWA subject to disqualification for its sponsor's or any other associated person's: (1) intentional material misstatements in the application; (2) previous misrepresentations or fraud; (3) previous misappropriation or conversion of funds; (4) disqualification for service under fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA; (5) previous failures to appear before the Secretary; (6) previous denial, suspension, or revocation of certificate; and (7) other violations. Sets forth additional filing requirements for MEWA certification, including: (1) notice of material changes in information required by the application; (2) annual reports; (3) quarterly financial statements; (4) quarterly reserves statements; (5) engagement of a qualified actuary; (6) filing certificates of operation with States; and (7) notification of expansion of operation in a State (with annual reports to the Secretary to insure compliance with this notification requirement). Requires each certified MEWA to maintain specified claims reserves and surplus accounts. Allows State enforcement of such requirements. Sets certain solvency requirements for certified MEWAs, specified amounts (depending on the number of covered individuals) of aggregate and specific excess/stop loss coverage from a State-licensed insurer, including: (1) coverage in the event of termination of the MEWA; (2) a participating employer's fund; (3) State enforcement of such requirements; and (4) approval of such excess/stop loss coverage and related terms by the Secretary as a prerequisite for certification. Requires operating committees of certified MEWAs to take certain corrective actions to: (1) avoid suspension or revocation of certification; (2) give notice of a likely termination of the MEWA and develop plans for the timely payment of all benefits for which the MEWA is obligated; and (3) in specified cases of failure to comply with certain requirements, take other actions required by the State insurance commissioner to terminate the MEWA and ensure the timely payment of all benefits for which the MEWA is obligated. Allows State enforcement of such corrective action requirements. Provides for expiration of MEWA certificates of operation after three years, and renewal by application. Authorizes the Secretary to suspend or revoke such certificates in specified circumstances. Requires the Secretary to provide for publication and notice of all such expirations, suspensions, or revocations. Authorizes State insurance commissioners to exercise the Secretary's powers of suspension and revocation. Makes such State actions effective: (1) with respect to participants and beneficiaries located in that State; and (2) only after notification to the Secretary and all other State insurance commissioners. Allows State law to provide for rehabilitation, supervision, or liquidation of MEWAs in cases of specified findings or of suspensions, revocations, or expirations of certification. Requires supporting statements for any suspension or revocation decision by the Secretary or a State insurance commissioner. Requires notice and opportunity for a hearing for review before a suspension or revocation becomes effective. Requires surrender of certificates which expire or are suspended or revoked. Sets forth requirements and procedures for review of actions of the Secretary with respect to certification, including decisions on applications and suspensions or revocations of certificates. Allows participating employers of an MEWA to use the alternative method of distributing plan summaries by sending them by first class mail to the last known addresses of participants and beneficiaries. Sets forth conditions of ERISA title I applicability to employee leasing welfare arrangements (ELWAs). Requires ELWAs to have fully insured group health plans for all employees whose services are provided under the ELWA, unless the ELWA meets certain exemption requirements or meets requirements of an approved qualified model for State certification procedures superceding such exemption requirements. Includes under such exemption requirements: (1) a minimum three-year lessor tenure; (2) solicitation restrictions; (3) creation of an employment relationship, involving disclosure statements, informed consent, and informed recruitment of the lessee's employees; (4) a requisite employer-employee relationship under the ELWA, with specified characteristics; and (5) additional requirements under specified provisions for MEWAs which are applicable to ELWAs. Makes expiration, suspension, and revocation provisions for MEWA certificates also applicable to ELWA certificates. Provides for treatment of ELWAs as employee welfare benefit plans for specified purposes. Modifies the definition of MEWA to: (1) include certain collectively bargained arrangements; (2) add to special rules relating to control groups and joint ventures; (3) include ELWAs, except those which meet applicable requirements for exemption added by this Act. Adds other requirements relating to MEWAs and ELWAs, including: (1) insured status reports for determinations of insured status, and enforcement of such reporting requirements by civil penalty; (2) actions by States in Federal court to enjoin violations of specified requirements; (3) criminal penalties for certain willful misrepresentations; and (4) inapplicability of certain requirements to group health plans maintained under ELWAs. Requires timely issuance by the Secretary of regulations under specified ERISA provisions for MEWAs. Provides for treatment of existing MEWAs as certified during the pendency of the application for certification. Provides for continuation of such treatment until the exhaustion of certain administrative remedies. Provides for termination of such treatment upon State intervention. Sets forth requirements for issuance and approval of a qualified model for State certification procedures. Provides that, if the National Association of Insurance Commissions (NAIC) develops and submits to the Congress such a model within one year after enactment of this Act, then such model will go into effect as approved by the Congress by enactment of a joint resolution. Sets forth requirements for: (1) development of model standards; and (2) terms, discharge, consideration, and rules for such joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Amends the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to require the two judges appointed by the President for the District Court of the Virgin Islands to be selected from a list containing the names of five qualified individuals provided by the Governor of the Virgin Islands.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Western Hemisphere Environmental, Labor, and Agricultural Standards Act of 1992 - Declares that any free-trade area agreement negotiated under the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (OTCA) in furtherance of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative with any country in the Western Hemisphere outside North America must include the achievement of certain environmental, labor, and agricultural standards as principal negotiating objectives in addition to any other OTCA mandates. Sets forth worker rights and standards, including among others: (1) freedom of association and the right to organize free and independent unions, bargain collectively, and strike; (2) certain minimum ages for the employment of children in specified circumstances; (3) the right to a healthy working environment; (4) equal protection; and (5) humane standards of wages and hours of work. Sets forth principal negotiating objectives for environmental quality and protection, including among others: (1) protection of the integrity of ecosystems; (2) a process for full public disclosures of kinds, quantities, and risks of toxic chemical and hazardous substance discharges; and (3) prevention of the export of toxic and hazardous substances and products, and of products manufactured, extracted, or grown under environmental or workplace safety and health conditions that undermine comparable standards in the importing country. Requires adoption, in any such agreement, of the principle that systematic denial or practical negation of such labor and environmental standards constitutes an actionable unfair trade practice. Requires any such agreement to establish a comprehensive dispute resolution process with specified provisions, including one for a multilateral commission with authority to investigate, adjudicate, and issue timely binding judgments. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to establish, through the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology, an interagency committee to provide technical assistance to U.S. experts on the multilateral dispute resolution commission.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
North American Environmental, Labor, and Agricultural Standards Act of 1992 - Declares that any free-trade area trade agreement negotiated under the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (OTCA) with Canada and Mexico (NAFTA) must include the achievement of certain environmental, labor, and agricultural standards as principal negotiating objectives in addition to any other OTCA mandates. Sets forth worker rights and standards, including among others: (1) freedom of association and the right to organize free and independent unions, bargain collectively, and strike; (2) certain minimum ages for the employment of children in specified circumstances; (3) the right to a healthy working environment; (4) equal protection; and (5) humane standards of wages and hours of work. Sets forth principal negotiating objectives for environmental quality and protection, including among others: (1) protection of the integrity of ecosystems; (2) a process for full public disclosure of kinds, quantities, and risks of toxic chemical and hazardous substance discharges; and (3) prevention of the export of toxic and hazardous substances and products, and of products manufactured, extracted, or grown under environmental or workplace safety and health conditions that undermine comparable standards in the importing country. Requires adoption, in any such agreement, of the principle that systematic denial or practical negation of such labor and environmental standards constitutes an actionable unfair trade practice. Requires any such agreement to establish a comprehensive dispute resolution process with specified provisions, including one for a trinational commission with authority to investigate, adjudicate, and issue timely binding judgments. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to establish, through the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology, an interagency committee to provide technical assistance to U.S. experts on the trinational dispute resolution commission.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Designates the second Sunday in October 1992 as National Children's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1992
Designates October 24 through November 1, 1992, as National Red Ribbon Week for a Drug Free America. Recognize the hard work and dedication of those involved in combatting substance abuse.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1992
Designates January 8, 1993, as Elvis Presley Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1992
Global Climate Protection Act - Directs the President to promulgate final regulations that will achieve stabilization of carbon dioxide emissions by January 1, 2000. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to evaluate and report biennially to the Congress on the progress made pursuant to such regulations. Directs the President to promulgate additional regulations to achieve stabilization if the Administrator finds that the regulations will not achieve stabilization. Permits citizen suits against officers of the United States for failures to perform duties in accordance with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1992
Prohibits a Government motor vehicle or driver from being assigned to a Member of the House because he or she is a political party whip.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1992
Designates the week beginning October 25, 1992, as World Population Awareness Week.