Rep. Studds, Gerry E. [D-MA-10]

An amendment to: 1) increase operating expense funds for the Coast Guard by $14,000,000 to be derived from appropriations for retired pay and 2) increase reserve training funds for the Coast Guard by $4,000,000 to be derived from appropriations from retired pay.

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An amendment to add to the power granted the Secretary of Transportation to assess and collect penalties for violations of the bill that he may collect the fines "until the matter is referred to the Attorney General".

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An amendment.

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An amendment.

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Amendments en bloc to authorize sums as as are necessary to 1) meet increases in salary, pay and other employee benefits authorized by law, and 2) to meet retirement and medical care benefits.

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An amendment to the Snyder amendment to provide that funds may not be used to operate Coast Guard facilities in: Mobile, Alabama; Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Rio Vista and Santa Barbara, California; Peoria, Illinois; Michigan City, Indiana; Morgan City, Louisiana; Annapolis, Maryland; Gulfport, Mississippi; Marblehead, Marietta, Grand River and Lorain, Ohio; Erie, Pennsylvania; Georgetown, South Carolina; Nashville , Tennessee; Galveston and Freeport, Texas; Chincoteague, Virginia; Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia; Kennewick, Washington, or Huntington, West Virginia.

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An amendment to increase funds for the operating expenses of the Coast Guard from $1,402,898,000 to $1,409,086,000. It also stipulates that funds may not be used to reduce the number of civilian employees of the Coast Guard below the level at the end of fiscal year 1981.

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An amendment to increase funds for the Coast Guard. The amendment increases from 1,402,898,000 dollars to 1,450,000,000 dollars funds for Coast Guard operating expenses. It increases from 391,000,000 dollars to 425,000,000 dollars funds for acquisition, construction, and improvements of aids to navigation, shore facilities, vessels, and aircraft. And it increases from 29,730,000 dollars to 33,000,000 dollars funds for research, development, test, and evaluation.

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An amendment to strike language that authorizes such sums as necessary to carry out the act and substitute language that requires the use of funds already provided the Departments of Commerce and Interior to carry out the act. The amendment also requires those departments to review the existing plan of the Commission and report on its review to Congress with recommendations.

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An amendment to reduce military assistance by $19.1 million and prohibit all military aid to El Salvador unless Congress concurs with the President's certification that El Salvador has removed those responsible for the death squads from the military and security forces and has established effective control over forces responsible for the death squads; has complied with Geneva Conventions regarding protection of civilians; is negotiating with the guerrillas, unless they refuse to participate; and has made progress in achieving other objectives specified in the bill.

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An amendment to increase Coast Guard research, development, test and evaluation funding from $22,000,000 to $23,500,000 and to provide that $500,000 be available only for the development and testing of a sealed electronic ocean dumping surveillance system.

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An amendment to make technical corrections and conforming changes.

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An amendment dealing with a temporary dump site for use by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority for dumping municipal sludge.

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An amendment adding that nothing in the bill is to affect or modify the rights or liabilities of anyone under other Federal statute with respect to damages caused by noncompliance with requirements of the bill or permits issued under the bill.

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An amendment to make changes in the Coast Guard funding provisions in the bill. It adds $15,000,000 to be made available from the Boat Safety Account and raises the ceiling from $782,200,000 to $785,000,000 for funds for FY'85 compensation and military benefits of military personnel of the Coast Guard.

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An amendment to establish an "innocent owner" defense for seizures and forfeitures under the Customs Act, similar to the provisions established in other laws. The defense allows the owners vessels and vehicles that have been seized in drug-related offenses to retain their property if the crime was committed without the owner's knowlege.

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Amendment provided new language for the plastic pollution research and control provisions.

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An amendment to strike language which allowed the transport of valueless material between points in the United States or out to the Exclusive Economic Zone within the purview of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920.

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An amendment comprised of a series of amendments en bloc to make technical changes in the bill.

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An amendment to extend the provisions of the bill until October 15, 1987.

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See Hayes of Louisiana amendment (A010) for description.

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An amendment in the nature of a substitute that would establish a national shellfish inspection program to be administered by the FDA (the bill establishes an inspection program for all fish, to be administered by the Department of Agriculture.) The amendment calls upon the FDA to establish standards for growing, harvesting, handling, processing, and shipping shellfish; and sets water quality standards for growing and harvesting shellfish. The amendment would direct the National Academy of Sciences to develop priorities for health standards for fish and fish products (including standards for chemical and microbiological contaminants, parasites, and toxins), and establishes a timetable for FDA to establish and implement regulatory standards based upon the recommendations of the Academy.

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Amendment allowed persons who appealed certain State determinations regarding the State's Coastal Zone Management plan to waive consideration of national interest arguments if they wish to do so in order to speed up the appeals process.

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An amendment to ensure that the designations of outstanding resource waters by a state coastal zone management agency take into account similar designations by the state water pollution control agency; to clarify that the provisions of the bill apply to water as well as land uses which affect coastal water quality.

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An amendment consisting of the text of H.R. 1113, the Office of Environmental Quality Authorization, which passed the House by voice vote on October 10, 1989. The amendment authorizes $3 million in funding for the Office for fiscal years 1991 and 1992 and requires all federal agencies to assess the environmental impact of their actions on areas outside the U.S. The amendment also specifies that current laws requiring the preparation of environmental impact statements shall apply to all federal agencies and independent regulatory commissions.

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Amendment deleted language which provided that none of the lands acquired under the bill could be included in the National Wildlife Refuge System unless full payments were made under the Refuge Revenue-Sharing Program.

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An amendment to create a revolving fund for natural resource damages.

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An amendment that would require the Coast Guard to determine whether or not "automatic pilots" should be used by vessels in confined waters.

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An amendment to eliminate liability ratchet for vessels using deepwater ports.

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An amendment to provide that any vessel or facility that fails to report a spill, or to assist as directed in its cleanup, could not use the defenses to liability set forth in the bill.

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An amendment to require the Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the State of Massachusetts, to develop procedures for staffing and maintaining the Boston Lighthouse in a manner consistent with its historic character and designation as a national landmark.

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An amendment to allow the Department of Defense to transfer housing properties within its jurisdiction to the Coast Guard.

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Amendment, as modified, authorizes $2 million in each of fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for a program of biological monitoring of pollution in Massachusetts, Cape Cod and Chesapeake Bays.

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Amendment in the nature of a substitute expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should actively seek compliance by all nations with the conservation and management measures for Atlantic bluefin tuna adopted by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).

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An amendment to allow a contractor's qualifications to be the primary consideration in NOAA's selection of contractors to produce nautical charts.

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An amendment consisting of several amendments offered en bloc, making technical corrections to the bill and adding to the bill the texts of the following five bills: H.R. 3786 (Recreational Boating Safety Improvements), H.R. 3821 (Passenger Vessel Development Act), H.R. 3282 (Towing Vessel Safety Act), H.R. 4477 (Boating Improvement Act), and H.R. 4959 (Coast Guard Regulatory Reform).

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An amendment to substitute the financing provisions of the bill by increasing from $1 billion to $1.35 billion the authorization for assistance contracts under proposed new maritime subsidy programs, funded by an increase in existing tonnage fees on vessels that arrive in U.S. ports.

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An amendment consisting of several amendments offered en bloc to establish a specific authorization level of $1.2 billion for the provisions of the bill relating to a new vessel operating subsidy for the Maritime Security Fleet program.

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An amendment consisting of several amendments made in order by the rule to do the following: 1. Waive maritime statutes to allow 19 private vessels to be documented for the purpose of engaging in domestic maritime commerce; 2. prohibit the Department of Transportation from approving the transfer of any U.S. oceangoing vessels over 3,000 tons to a foreign registry until January 1, 1995; 3. facilitate the integration of a new Coast Guard Reserve program at state maritime academies.

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An amendment to specify that tuna sold commercially in the U.S may only be labled as being caught using a "dolphin-safe" process if no dolphins are killed, chased, harassed, injured, or encircled with nets in the process of catching tuna.

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An amendment to ensure that current restrictions on the sale and transportation of undersized lobsters are maintained.

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Federal Law Enforcement Dependents Assistance Act of 1996

United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1996

Federal Law Enforcement Dependents Assistance Act of 1996 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide educational assistance to the dependents of civilian Federal law enforcement officers who are killed or are permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty. Authorizes the Attorney General to discontinue such assistance upon finding that the recipient fails to maintain satisfactory progress. Authorizes retroactive assistance to each eligible dependent of a Federal law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty on or after May 1, 1992. Authorizes appropriations.

Rescue Diver Training Act of 1996

United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1996

Rescue Diver Training Act of 1996 - Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to provide rescue diver training to selected Coast Guard personnel under the helicopter rescue swimming program of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1984.

To require full cost pricing for irrigation water delivered by the Bureau of Reclamation from new projects under new long-term contracts, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1996

Requires any Bureau of Reclamation contract entered into by the Secretary of the Interior with a district after the enactment of this Act for the delivery of irrigation water for a period in excess of one year for a new project (or new unit of an existing project) to provide for the delivery of such water at full cost to the district (as defined under the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982). Excepts from such requirements those project units: (1) for which water delivery has commenced prior to July 25, 1996; and (2) which have entered into a repayment contract or long-term water service contract for the delivery of water from such unit.

Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act Amendments of 1996

United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1996

Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act Amendments of 1996 - Amends the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act to extend it through FY 1999. Reauthorizes appropriations for: (1) allotments for States; (2) protection and advocacy of individual rights; (3) university-affiliated programs; and (4) projects of national significance.

Church Insurance Protection Act

United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1996

Church Insurance Protection Act - Prohibits an insurer from canceling, declining to renew, or requiring a higher premium or contribution for fire insurance for a religious property based on: (1) the race, color, religion, or national origin of property users; (2) the status of the property as religious property; (3) any previous arson against the property; or (4) any perceived arson threat. Places authority and responsibility for investigating and enforcing this Act in the Attorney General. Authorizes the Attorney General to begin a civil action. Authorizes preventive relief and mandates civil monetary damages.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exemption from income taxation for qualified State tuition programs.

United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1996

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from taxation a qualified State tuition program. Defines such a program.

To designate a United States Post Office to be located in Groton, Massachusetts, as the "Augusta 'Gusty' Hornblower United States Post Office".

United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1996

Designates the U.S. Post Office to be located at 80 Boston Road in Groton, Massachusetts, as the Augusta "Gusty" Hornblower United States Post Office.

Civil Rights Procedures Protection Act of 1996

United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1996

Civil Rights Procedures Protection Act of 1996 - Amends specified Federal civil rights statutes (including title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, the equal pay requirement under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) to prevent the involuntary application of arbitration to claims that arise from unlawful employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.

Expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to pediatric and adolescent AIDS.

United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1996

Declares, with regard to AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and substance abuse, the sense of the Congress concerning women, youth, families, extended family members, and other nonbiological relatives.