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United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1993
Designates August 1994 and August 1995 as National Slovak American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1993
Establishes within the Department of the Interior the Presidio Corporation to manage the leasing, maintenance, rehabilitation, repair, and improvement of the following properties within the Presidio in California leaseholds to which shall be transferred under this Act to the Corporation by the Secretary of the Interior: (1) the Letterman-LAIR complex; (2) Fort Scott; (3) Main Post; (4) Cavalry Stables; (5) Presidio Hill; (6) Wherry Housing; (7) East Housing; (8) the structures at Crissy Field; and (9) such other buildings within the Presidio as the Secretary determines appropriate. Requires the Corporation to establish competitive bidding procedures for issuance of leases and contracts under this Act. Reverts all interests and assets of the Corporation to the United States in the event the Corporation fails or defaults. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1993
Directs the President to declare June 7 through 14, 1994, as National Flag Celebration Week.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1993
Ballast Water Control Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study ballast water technologies that prevent aquatic nonindigenous species from being introduced and spread through ballast water in the Great Lakes and other U.S. waters. Requires the Secretary, based on such study, to identify technologies and practices for a ballast water management demonstration program to prevent such introduction and spread of aquatic nonindigenous species. Requires the retrofitting of vessels with such technologies to be performed in U.S. shipyards. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 October 1993
Establishes a toll-free number to inform consumers regarding: (1) whether a product is made in America; (2) where products may be purchased; and (3) the purchase of products. Allows registration of American-made products.
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make Internal Revenue Service employees personally liable for a portion of litigation costs resulting from arbitrary, capricious, or malicious acts. Increases (from $100,000 to $1 million) the limitation on recovery of civil damages for certain unauthorized collection actions. Places the burden of proof upon the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the issue of whether any person has been guilty of fraud with intent to evade tax.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1993
Amends Federal law with respect to the Civil Service and Federal Employees' Retirement Systems to provide that certain requirements relating to reemployed annuitants shall not apply with respect to postal retirees who are reemployed, on a temporary basis, as rural postmasters or rural letter carriers.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1993
Designates November of each year as National American Indian Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1993
Designates October 29, 1993, as National Firefighters Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1993
Designates the week beginning October 25, 1993, as World Population Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1993
Youth Handgun Safety Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) the sale, delivery, or transfer to a juvenile of a handgun or ammunition that is suitable for use only in a handgun; and (2) the possession by a juvenile of a handgun or such ammunition. Makes exceptions with respect to a transfer to, or possession by, a juvenile: (1) when the handgun is used in target practice under adult supervision, under specified conditions; (2) when the transfer occurs with the permission of a parent or legal guardian of the juvenile; and (3) in accordance with State and local law. Sets penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993
General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to set forth a 15-year statute of limitations within which a person may bring a civil action against an aircraft manufacturer for damages for death or injury or damage to property arising from an aircraft accident.
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: National Advisory Council on Adoption Title II: Adoption Data Collection System Title III: Adoption Education Programs Title IV: Adoption Benefits for Federal Employees and Military Personnel Title V: Adoption Tax Credit Title VI: Maternal Health Certificates Program Title VII: Rehabilitation Grants for Maternity Housing and Services Facilities Title VIII: Sense of Congress Regarding Changes in State Adoption Laws Omnibus Adoption Act of 1993 - Title I: National Advisory Council on Adoption - Establishes the National Advisory Council on Adoption to monitor program implementation under this Act and make recommendations to the Congress. Title II: Adoption Data Collection System - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to submit a status report to the Congress on implementation of a certain data collection system required under the Social Security Act. Title III: Adoption Education Programs - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award social work graduate school fellowships for work in innovative programs on the effects of adoption on the parties involved. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to the States for implementation of adoption education programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Adoption Benefits for Federal Employees and Military Personnel - Amends Federal law to set forth adoption benefits for Federal employees and military personnel. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Transportation to coordinate their efforts in implementing this Act and to consult with the National Advisory Council on Adoption. Title V: Adoption Tax Credit - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow adoption expenses as a credit against the individual income tax. Title VI: Maternal Health Certificates Program - Directs the Secretary to establish a maternal health certificates program to cover maternity and housing services facility expenses incurred by eligible pregnant women. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Rehabilitation Grants for Maternity Housing and Services Facilities - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to implement a grant program to assist eligible nonprofit entities to rehabilitate buildings for use as housing and services facilities for eligible pregnant women. Authorizes appropriations. Title VIII: Sense of Congress Regarding Changes in State Adoption Laws - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the States should adopt a specified statutory adoption scheme, including certain health plan benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
National Institute for the Environment Act - Establishes the National Institute for the Environment to: (1) increase scientific understanding of environmental issues by supporting scientific environmental research and other environmental programs; (2) assist decision-making on environmental issues by providing assessments of existing knowledge of such issues; (3) serve as the foremost provider of access to current scientific and technical information about the environment; (4) sponsor higher education and training in environmental fields; (5) support the development of methods and technologies that increase understanding of the environment and minimize adverse environmental impact; (6) evaluate the status and needs of the various environmental sciences and fields; (7) foster interchange of scientific information about the environment; (8) address emerging environmental issues and aspects of environmental problems; and (9) establish research priorities for environmental issues. Establishes a Governing Board for the Institute and an Interagency Advisory Committee to ensure that the environmental efforts of the Institute and Federal agencies are complementary. Makes scientists, engineers, and other researchers eligible to receive funding from the Institute.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
At-Birth Abandoned Infants Assistance Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988 to condition Federal project grants upon the existence of a State statutory scheme which effectuates: (1) the designation of preadoptive parents; (2) prompt placement of designated abandoned infants with preadoptive parents; and (3) expedited judicial proceedings to establish permanent parental rights for such preadoptive parents (thereby terminating the parental rights of all other persons with respect to that infant).
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
At-Birth Abandoned Baby Act of 1993 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require States to place babies abandoned at birth with preadoptive parents within 30 days of obtaining custody of such babies, and to find new preadoptive parents for such babies if the initial preadoptive parents do not petition the courts of the State within 90 days of receiving them for an expedited hearing to become their permanent adoptive parents. Treats such babies as children with special needs, thus qualifying their adoptive parents for adoption assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1993
Encourages Federal, State, and local governments to recognize July 28, 1993, as Parents Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1993
Interstate Transportation of Municipal Waste Act of 1993 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize a State Governor to prohibit the disposal of out-of-State municipal waste in any landfill or incinerator in the State. Exempts from a Governor's authority to prohibit the disposal of out-of-State waste: (1) landfills that received documented shipments of such waste in 1991 and are in compliance with Federal and State laws relating to design and location standards, leachate collection, groundwater monitoring, and financial assurance for closure and post-closure and corrective action; (2) proposed landfills that, prior to January 1, 1993, received an approval from the affected local government or solid waste planning unit to receive municipal waste generated outside the jurisdiction of the local government, planning unit, or State and a State notice of decision to grant a construction permit; or (3) incinerators that received documented shipments of such waste during 1991 and are in compliance with performance standards under the Clean Air Act and Federal and State laws relating to facility design, operations, and emissions. Authorizes State Governors, beginning in 1993, to further limit the quantity of out-of-State waste received for disposal, or the disposal of such waste, at specified landfills and incinerators. Applies the authorities of this Act to industrial waste to be disposed of at landfills or incinerators that receive municipal solid waste. Prohibits discrimination against shipments of out-of-State waste on the basis of State of origin. Authorizes a State Governor to limit or prohibit the exportation outside the State of municipal waste generated within the State.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1993
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) obstetrician-gynecologists should be designated as primary care providers for women in Federal laws relating to the provision of health care; and (2) legislative proposals that define primary care should include services performed by obstetrician-gynecologists in such definition.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1993
Directs the President to: (1) investigate and report to the Congress on the whereabouts of U.S. citizens and others who have been missing from Cyprus since 1974; and (2) do everything possible to return such persons (including remains of those no longer alive) to their families.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1993
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating September 1993 as Classical Music Month.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1993
Landmine Moratorium Extension Act of 1993 - Declares that it is U.S. policy to seek international agreements prohibiting the sale, transfer, or export, and terminating the manufacture, possession, and use, of antipersonnel landmines. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should submit the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed To Be Excessively Injurious or To Have Indiscriminate Effects to the Senate for ratification; and (2) the United States should negotiate a modification of the Landmine Protocol under United Nations auspices or another international agreement to limit the sale, transfer, manufacture, and use of landmines. Prohibits for three years after this Act's enactment: (1) sales, financing, transfers, and the issuance of licenses under the Arms Export Control Act with respect to antipersonnel landmines; and (2) assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to the provision of such landmines.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1993
Urges the Government of Iran to extend to the Baha'i community the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international covenants on human rights. Calls upon the President to continue to: (1) urge such Government to emancipate the Baha'i community by granting such rights; (2) emphasize that the United States regards the human rights practices of such Government, particularly its treatment of the Baha'is and other religious minorities, as a significant factor in the development of U.S.-Iranian relations; and (3) encourage other governments to continue to appeal to the Government of Iran and to cooperate with other governments and international organizations in efforts to protect the religious rights of the Baha'is and other minorities in Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1993
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should use its influence as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council to support the efforts of Greece, in its negotiations with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, to find a solution which promotes a cooperative relationship between the two countries.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1993
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit the issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing an air carrier to engage in air transportation to any applicant which is controlled by a person who has controlled one or more air carriers which have filed, in the aggregate, two or more petitions for bankruptcy.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1993
Amateur Radio Volunteer Services Act of 1993 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that an individual licensee in the Amateur Radio Service who provides volunteer services to the Federal Communications Commission in programs benefiting the Service shall not incur personal financial responsibility for any alleged damage, loss, or injury from any act or omission of the volunteer from the provision of such services if such: (1) individual was acting in good faith and within the scope of such individual's official function and duties; and (2) damage was not caused by willful and wanton misconduct by such individual.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1993
Space Advertising Prohibition Act - Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to prohibit the use of outer space for advertising purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1993
Great Lakes Federal Effectiveness Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a Great Lakes Research Council to: (1) prepare and provide to the Congress a report that promotes coordination of Federal research activities with respect to achieving protection of the Great Lakes and assesses and makes recommendations concerning research activities needed to fulfill the goals of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement; (2) identify topics for and participate in workshops and conferences on Great Lakes research issues; (3) make recommendations for the uniform collection of data for enhancing research and management protocols relating to the Great Lakes ecosystem; (4) make recommendations for the establishment of a multimedia data base for the ecosystem; and (5) ensure that findings and information regarding such research is disseminated in a timely manner.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1993
Great Lakes National Program Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to extend the deadline for the publication of the final Lakewide Management Plan for Lake Michigan and to establish publication deadlines for a final plan for Lake Superior and proposed plans for Lake Erie, Lake Huron, and Lake Ontario. Directs the Great Lakes National Program Office to: (1) conduct five demonstration projects of promising technologies to remedy contaminated sediments at appropriate sites; (2) conduct chemical, physical, and biological assessments of contaminated sediments at each area of concern and make recommendations on technologies to remedy contaminated sediments; and (3) report findings and recommendations to the Congress. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Great Lakes water quality program through FY 2000.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Countervailing and Antidumping Duty Amendments Title II: Market Access Provisions Title III: International Trade Negotiations Title IV: Other Miscellaneous Amendments Title V: Private Right of Action for Relief From Certain Forms of Anticompetitive Pricing Practices Title VI: Foreign Capital and Securities Markets Trade Equity and Fairness Act of 1993 - Title I: Countervailing and Antidumping Duty Amendments - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to direct the United States Customs Service, pursuant to the administering authority's direction, to assess an antidumping duty or countervailing duty for each entry of merchandise from the first U.S. purchaser that is independent of the exporter, manufacturer, producer, and certain other persons defined as an exporter. Prohibits such exporter, manufacturer, producer, or other person from absorbing or reimbursing duties to the first unrelated U.S. purchaser. (Sec. 102) Requires the administering authority to report annually to specified congressional committees on the number of administrative reviews commenced in the prior year, completed during the calendar year within 18 months of initiation, completed during the calendar year in longer than 18 months after initiation, and for each review that remains incomplete at the end of the calendar year more than 18 months after initiation, an estimated schedule for completion, including dates for preliminary and final determinations. (Sec. 103) Authorizes the International Trade Commission (ITC), in evaluating volume and price effects of imports with regard to determinations of material injury to a domestic market, to disregard, in its discretion, developments after the filing of an antidumping duty or countervailing duty petition. (Sec. 104) Prohibits the ITC from making an inference that there is no material injury if the volume of imports has decreased after the initiation of an antidumping duty or countervailing duty investigation. Directs the ITC to compare the price at which imported merchandise is sold to the ultimate consumer with the price at which like U.S. products are sold when evaluating the effect of such imports on prices of like U.S. products. (Sec. 105) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to report annually on certain liquidated and unliquidated imported merchandise. (Sec. 106) Requires the ITC, when determining whether a U.S. industry is threatened with material injury by reason of imports of merchandise, to consider among other relevant economic factors: (1) the actual and potential decline in order backlog of the domestic industry; and (2) monthly or quarterly trend information through the month of the filing of a petition. (Sec. 108) Requires the administering authority, with respect to the determination of foreign market value of imported merchandise under investigation, to determine whether sales in the home market of the country of exportation were made at less than the cost of producing such merchandise for all producers or exporters being investigated or reviewed. (Sec. 109) Requires the ITC, for purposes of determining material injury or its threat in antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations, to consider any previous injurious dumping or subsidization ("look-back") as an important factor in determining the domestic industry's vulnerability to continued or renewed material injury in cases where a petition has been previously filed with respect to a product or like product which was the basis of a final affirmative determination during the three years preceding the filing of such petition. Declares that concentration of subsidized or dumped imports exists with respect to a market if the percentage of subsidized or dumped imports to consumption and domestically produced like products in such market is clearly higher than the percentage is in the rest of the United States. (Sec. 110) Prohibits, for purposes of determining foreign market value of imported merchandise in antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations, any allowance to account for differences in input costs that are based on whether the end product made from the input is sold in the home market or exported. Prohibits any adjustment from being made to foreign market value because of adjustments made to the United States price. (Sec. 112) Requires all merchandise entered after an antidumping duty finding under bond and remaining unliquidated to be assessed interest from the date of entry to the date of liquidation. (Sec. 113) Requires the ITC to set forth procedures for the compensation of domestic producers who have been injured by foreign dumping. (Sec. 114) Declares diversionary input dumping to occur when: (1) a manufacturer incorporates into merchandise under an antidumping duty investigation a component which is the product of another country and which is the subject of an antidumping duty order or an international agreement to eliminate the effect of injurious imports (if entered into after an affirmative preliminary determination); and (2) the manufacturer under investigation purchased such component at a price which is less than the foreign market value. Requires the administering authority to investigate whether such dumping is occurring whenever it has reasonable grounds to believe that: (1) it is occurring; (2) it has a significant effect on the cost of producing the merchandise under investigation; and (3) official Government or other reliable trade statistics indicate that subsequent to the imposition of an antidumping duty order or implementation of an international agreement regarding such imports, shipments of such imports to the United States have increased either in quantity or market share. (Sec. 115) Sets forth, for purposes of determining the comparative benefit that has been bestowed upon a product used in the manufacture of merchandise which is the subject of a countervailing duty, specified factors that must be used as a basis for determining the price a manufacturer would otherwise pay for a product in obtaining it from an unsubsized seller. (Sec. 116) Directs the administering authority, if imported merchandise under investigation is produced in a nonmarket economy country, resold by a reseller in an intermediate country, and resold by such reseller at prices less than the cost of producing such merchandise, including costs of production for the nonmarket economy country, to determine the foreign market value of the merchandise on the basis of the value factors of production utilized in producing the merchandise in the country of production, plus an amount for general expenses and profit of the producer and reseller and the cost of containers, covering, and other expenses. (Sec. 117) Authorizes the disclosure of proprietary information that has been submitted to the administering authority or the ITC pursuant to an antidumping duty or countervailing duty proceeding to persons who are reviewing the propriety of the customs valuation on which customs duties were calculated for a deduction from the United States Price pursuant to a request from the administering authority. Requires the administering authority to refer to the Customs Service any claims that import duties required to be deducted from the United States Price are understated by reason of possible understatement of customs valuation. Requires the administering authority, in cases of undervaluation, to deduct such duties identified as properly owed for purposes of making its final determination. (Sec. 118) Directs the Secretary of Commerce and the ITC to transmit to the Congress a study, including recommendations, regarding the modification of standards with respect to making petitioning for countervailing and antidumping duty action less costly and more accessible for domestic petitioners. (Sec. 119) Requires the administering authority, whenever the cost of manufactuing merchandise which is the subject of a countervailing duty petition is significantly of U.S. origin (at least two percent of the manufacturing cost) and approximates or exceeds the U.S. content of the petitioner's product, to determine whether such petition is filed on behalf of a domestic industry. (Sec. 120) Requires, for purposes of determining the U.S. price of imported merchandise, that: (1) the purchase price and the exporter's sales price of such merchandise be adjusted by reducing the amount of any antidumping duty which the producer, exporter, or reseller pays on behalf of the importer, or reimburses to the importer either before or after assessment, including but not limited to transferring merchandise to a related importer at prices below cost of production plus normal profit; and (2) the exporter's sales price be adjusted by reducing, among other things, the amount of any reasonable profits from selling in the United States. (Sec. 122) Requires the appropriate customs officer, among other things, to reliquidate any entries that should have been subject to an antidumping or countervailing duty order but which were erroneously liquidated either by action of a foreign producer, exporter or importer, or by action of the Customs Service. Requires the Secretary, upon the request of an interested party to the petition, to provide access to the record of identified importers protected under an order with respect to all paper entries during the 12 months prior to a request or as to all documents connected with liquidations made during the same period. Requires an interested person to notify the Secretary of any discovered information that raises questions as to the proper administration of an antidumping or countervailing duty order. Authorizes such party to commence a civil action in the United States Court of International Trade for a review of a determination made by the Secretary or administering authority. (Sec. 123) Requires the administering authority to review any foreign producer identified by a domestic interested party, or where such party does not know the identity of the producers, the foreign producers supplying identified importers or purchaser of the imported product. (Sec. 124) Allows information released under protective order during an antidumping or countervailing duty investigation or administrative review by the administering authority to be maintained under such order during the pendency of such proceeding for purposes of identifying factual discrepancies between periods investigated or to allege relevant issues in subsequent administrative reviews, including the existence of a fictitious market or sales below cost of production. (Sec. 126) Prohibits, absent a finding of a fictitious market or compliance with certain requirements, the use of constructed value to determine foreign market value where the home market or third country markets account for at least ten percent by volume of exports to the United States. (Sec. 127) Makes unlawful the importation, the sale for importation, or the sale within the United States after importation by the owner, importer, or consignee of articles that: (1) have been grown, produced, processed, or mined pursuant to a valid patent where patent royalties paid are lower than those paid by agricultural, horticultural, or manufacturing operations in the United States; or (2) have been grown or treated with pesticides or other substances banned for use in the United States. (Sec. 128) Sets forth a timetable according to which the administering authority must initiate antidumping or countervailing duty investigations or issue preliminary or final determinations. Title II: Market Access Provisions - Directs the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to initiate a "Super 301" investigation of all acts, policies, and practices of Japan that affect the access of U.S. motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts to its market, including but not limited to: (1) acts, policies, and practices utilized in the Japanese automotive distribution system; (2) anticompetitie activities by private Japanese firms (including "Keiretsus"); (3) exclusionary business practices; and (4) testing requirements and other government regulations. (Sec. 201) Requires the USTR to negotiate with Japan for a trade agreement that: (1) eliminates such acts, policies, and practices; (2) provides enforcement of Japan's commitments under the Structural Impediments Initiative, the Market-Oriented Sector Specific agreements, and the Action Plan announced at the Tokyo Summit in January 1992 with respect to trade in, and purchase of, motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts; (3) establishes long term goals for the purchase of Japanese motor vehicle manufacturers of motor vehicle parts and accessories; (4) establishes procedures for the exchange of information between the United States and Japan that will permit the accurate assessment of the bilateral trade in motor vehicle parts; and (5) establishes private sector or government-sponsored review boards to resolve challenges to purchasing decisions by Japanese motor vehicle manufacturers with respect to compliance with identified specifications or competitiveness on price or other terms. Requires the USTR to report to the Congress if such negotiations prove unsuccessful. (Sec. 202) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend, through 1998, the "Super 301" program which identifies certain trade liberalization priority practices. Title III: International Trade Negotiations - Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to prohibit certain dispute settlement procedures with respect to the review of countervailing duty and antidumping actions taken by signatories to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) from allowing: (1) the review of issues not properly presented to the investigating authorities for resolution during the administrative proceedings; (2) the review of issues before the conclusion of the administrative proceedings; (3) the conducting of an independent de novo investigation of the circumstances leading to such actions; and (4) in cases where a signatory provides for the administrative or judicial review of factual issues with respect to countervailing duty and antidumping actions, the extension of the review beyond whether the laws and regulations of that signatory, and the interpretation of such laws and regulations, are consistent with GATT. (Sec. 302) Declares as one of the principal negotiating objectives of the United States the negotiation of multilateral rules to permit rapid realignment of capacity to demand in situations of global structural excess capacity. (Sec. 303) Declares that the amendments made by this Act apply with respect to goods imported into the United States from Mexico and Canada. (Sec. 304) Prohibits the President from entering into any trade agreement that requires changes in U.S. antidumping laws which would reduce their effectiveness as a remedy against injurious dumped imports. Prohibits the Government from condoning the use by foreign governments of trade distorting subsidies, including development subsidies, that cause material injury to U.S. industries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President review the provisions on antidumping contained in the Draft Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations proposed by the Director-General of the GATT on December 21, 1991, and seek changes in such provisions that are necessary to strengthen the effectiveness of U.S. antidumping laws, including, but not limited to, changes proposed by the United States in December 1992 and any changes needed to clarify the continuing right to cumulate and cross-cumulate imports under investigation. Title IV: Other Miscellaneous Amendments - Amends the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvement Act of 1982, as amended, to declare that specified sections of it concerning restraint of trade shall apply to export trade or export commerce with a foreign country, whether or not there is direct harm to consumers by reducing output or raising prices, if such conduct restrains U.S. export trade or export commerce with such foreign country, or any other foreign country. (Sec. 402) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize the President to impose tariffs on imported merchandise that is the product of any country that receives U.S. defense assistance so as to offset in whole or in part the cost of such assistance if such country: (1) has refused to contribute to its defense; (2) is a party to an agreement with the United States providing for such defense assistance; and (3) has had "Super 301" action taken against it within the last four years. (Sec. 403) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to change the time limits the ITC has to conclude and make a final determination with respect to any unfair trade practices investigation to the earliest practicable time after the publication of a notice to investigate. Requires the ITC within 30 days of the initiation of an investigation to establish a target date for its final determination. (Currently, not later than one year, 18 months in more complicated cases, after the date of publication.) Prohibits articles from being excluded from entry into the United States where the ITC determines that the owner, importer, or consignee of such an article has established a sufficient counterclaim to a determination by the ITC that an unfair trade practice exists. Authorizes the ITC to forfeit to the respondent any posted bond if it later determines that such respondent has not committed an unfair trade practice violation. Prohibits the ITC from issuing a permanent cease and desist if it determines that an owner, importer, or consignee of an article has established a sufficient counterclaim to a determination by the ITC that an unfair trade practice exists. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) the exclusion of articles from entry into the United States; and (2) the entry of articles under bond after ITC referral of violations to the President. Authorizes the ITC, upon the filing of a complaint for declaratory relief by the owner, importer, or consignee of an imported article in any case of actual controversy as to the existence of unfair trade practices, to declare the rights of parties, whether or not further relief is or could be sought. (Sec. 404) Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize a district court, in any civil action involving parties that are also parties in an unfair trade practices proceeding before the ITC, to stay, until the ITC determination becomes final, the civil action with respect to any claim that involves the same issues involved in the ITC proceeding. (Sec. 405) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the USTR, among other things, to identify those foreign countries that deny adequate substantive standards with respect to the protection of intellectual property rights. Declares that a foreign country denies adequate substantive standards if it enforces procedures under its patent approval system that result, among other practices in: (1) patent applications being subject to pre-grant opposition; (2) extended deferral (beyond three years) of patent examination; (3) an inordinately long period of time for patent application approval; (4) an inordinately short patent term measured either from the date of grant or from the date of filing; (5) an inordinate delay in obtaining judicial review of unavailability of judicial review for patent applications that are denied; or (6) unnecessarily narrow interpretations of patent claims by the authorities which determine patent validity and infringement. Requires a certain publication by the USTR to include information with respect to any act, policy, or practice of a foreign country that denies adequate protection of intellectual property rights and any information on action taken to eliminate such act, policy, or practice. (Sec. 406) Amends the National Cooperative Reserch Act of 1984 to change the term "joint research and development venture" to "joint research, development, or production venture." Adds to the definition of such new term any group of activities by two or more persons for the purpose of the production of any product, process, or service in a jointly owned or operated facility. Excludes certain activities from such definition. Declares that the worldwide capacity of suppliers to provide a product, process, or service shall be considered for purposes of determining a properly defined, relevant market with respect to the determination of the reasonableness of joint research, development, or production venture contracts in an antitrust action. Requires parties involved in a venture for the production of any product, process, or service to file by a certain deadline, certain identifying information with regard to the venture. (Sec. 407) Amends Federal law to make it an unfair method of competition for a wholesaler or retailer to sell a product by telephone, facsimile, or means where the purchaser does not see the article to be purchased without: (1) identifying the country of origin of such article; and (2) if such article is of foreign origin, indicating whether a domestic article is also available. (Sec. 408) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to revise a specified subheading relating to nonalloy iron and steel pipes and tubes to include nongalvanized forms of such products. Increases the duty on certain other iron and steel pipes and tubes. Imposes a duty on galvanized nonalloy iron and steel pipes and tubes having a specified thickness. Increases the duty on certain stainless steel pipes and tubes. Authorizes the USTR to negotiate compensation for claims made pursuant to the GATT, or any other trade agreement to which the United States is a party, as a result of the amendments made by this section. Declares that any staged reduction in the rate of duty that is proclaimed pursuant to the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement shall apply to such products. (Sec. 409) Requires the USTR, together with the Secretaries of Agriculture, of Labor, and of Transportation to report to the Congress on the horticultural industry with respect to: (1) the nature of patent protection, enforcement mechanisms, and royalty collection procedures; (2) the use on imports of pesticides banned from use on U.S. horticultural products; (3) worker rights in the countries of the major foreign suppliers of such products to the United States; and (4) the extent to which air fares between such countries and the United States, Europe, and Japan influence the direction of flower shipments from Central and South American countries. (Sec. 410) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to permanently apply the most favored nation rate to Mexican: (1) non-portable stoves or ranges; (2) refrigerators and combined refrigerator freezers; (3) household or laundry washing machines; and (4) drying machines. (Sec. 411) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to declare that concentration of subsidized or dumped imports exists with respect to a market if the percentage of such imports to consumption of imports and domestically produced like products in such market is clearly higher than the percentage in the rest of the United States. Title V: Private Actions For Relief From Certain Forms of Anticompetitive Pricing Practices - Amends Federal antitrust law to prohibit a person from selling a product for export to the United States, or selling it within the United States, at a price which does not permit the recovery of all costs (fixed and variable) in the production and sale of such product within a reasonable period of time, where such pricing practices cause material injury to another manufacturer the majority of whose sales occur in the United States. Authorizes an interested party whose business is materially injured by such imports to bring a civil action in any U.S. court having jurisdiction over the parties. Title VI: Foreign Capital and Securities Markets - Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the structure, operation, practice, and regulation of Japan's capital securities markets, including their implications for the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
Designates September 17, 1993, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Requires the display of the National League of Families POW/MIA flag at: (1) all national cemeteries and the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 31, 1993 (Memorial Day), September 17, 1993 (National POW/MIA Recognition Day), and November 11, 1993 (Veterans Day); and (2) the White House and the buildings containing the primary offices of the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Veterans Affairs and the Director of the Selective Service Commission (sic) on September 17, 1993 (National POW/MIA Recognition Day).
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1993
Vietnam Women's Memorial Coin Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue silver coins emblematic of the Vietnam Women's Memorial sculpture. Requires all surcharges received from the sale of such coins to be used for: (1) an endowment for the Memorial; (2) education and research concerning veterans and their families; and (3) the identification and documentation of women who served in the armed forces during the Vietnam era. Expresses the sense of the Congress that this coin program shall be self-sustaining and administered to result in no net cost to the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Equitable Escheatment Act of 1993 - Amends specified Federal law to prescribe guidelines under which unclaimed distributions of security interests shall be subject to the custodial taking (escheatment) by the State which contains the principal executive offices of either the issuer or the holder of those securities.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth population assistance authorities and requirements. Makes such assistance available to a country that: (1) accounts for a significant portion of the world's annual population increment; (2) has significant unmet needs for methods of contraception, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and obstetric and gynecological care and requires foreign assistance to sustain quality reproductive health services; or (3) demonstrates a strong commitment to population stabilization and reproductive health strategies. Prohibits nongovernmental and multilateral organizations from being subjected to requirements which are more restrictive than those applicable to foreign governments for such assistance. Makes funds available for: (1) the United Nations Population Fund if it agrees to prohibit the use of funds for coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization; and (2) the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training to further international cooperation in the development of contraceptive technology. Authorizes appropriations. Makes development assistance available on a priority basis for countries which have agreed to address specific education, literacy, and health issues. Authorizes the President to establish a grant program, to be known as the Safe Motherhood Initiative, to improve the access of girls and women to reproductive health care services. Earmarks amounts of development and economic assistance for programs in support of equalizing male and female levels of primary and secondary school enrollment. Authorizes appropriations for the Child Survival Fund, the Safe Motherhood Initiative, and for research on, and treatment and control of, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developing countries. Requires the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to report anually to the Congress on allocations to population activities and, if such allocations total less than $1 million, to set forth actions to encourage increased allocations. Establishes the Commission on World Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health to coordinate U.S. participation in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for certain actions to support the United Nations Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women and the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1993
Criminal Aliens Incarceration Act of 1993 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) to permit the deportation of an alien in Federal or State detention prior to sentence completion. Amends Federal law to require a court to issue a deportation order as part of the sentencing order for an alien convicted of an aggravated felony. Amends the Act to provide for such deportations. Provides for Federal incarceration, upon State request, of undocumented criminal aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Lupus Research Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to expand and intensify research and related activities of the Institute with respect to lupus. Requires the Director to: (1) coordinate such activities with similar activities conducted by other national research institutes and agencies of the National Institutes of Health; and (2) conduct or support research to expand the understanding of the causes of, and to find a cure for, lupus, including research to determine the reasons underlying the elevated prevalence of the disease among African-American and other women. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Designates September 9, 1993, and April 21, 1994, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Designates July 2, 1993, and July 2, 1994, as National Literacy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993
Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require all Federal agencies to use printing and writing paper containing at least ten percent postconsumer material. Authorizes Federal agencies that are in compliance with such requirement to use any monies received from the sale of materials collected for recycling for activities within their legal authority.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993
Designates the week beginning October 31, 1993, as National Health Information Management Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993
Designates October 1993 and October 1994 as National Down Syndrome Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Commends radio amateurs for their contributions to technical progress in electronics and for their emergency radio communications in times of disaster. Urges the Federal Communications Commission to continue and enhance the development of the amateur radio service as a public benefit by adopting rules and regulations which encourage the use of new technologies within the amateur radio service. Declares that reasonable accommodation should be made for effective operation of amateur radio from residences, private vehicles, and public areas and that regulation at all levels of government should facilitate and encourage amateur radio operation as a public benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Pornography Victims Protection Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code with respect to the prohibition against the sexual exploitation of children to add as a condition triggering Federal penalties that the person concerned knows that a minor was transported in interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of producing pornography. Makes it a criminal offense for any person to coerce, intimidate, or fraudulently induce an individual 18 years or older to engage in any sexually explicit conduct for the purposes of producing any visual depiction of such conduct. Grants the U.S. district courts jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this Act. Authorizes the Attorney General or any person threatened with loss or damage by such conduct to institute a civil suit. Provides for treble damages for a victim who suffers physical injury, emotional distress, or property damage. Imposes civil penalties for violation of the prohibition against sexual exploitation of children.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Maritime Security and Competitiveness Act of 1993 - Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to modify the Act's purposes, including ensuring the existence of a U.S.-documented fleet of the best-equipped, safest, and most modern vessels (currently, the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable type of vessels, constructed in the United States). Establishes the Maritime Security Fleet of active commercial vessels to enhance sea lift capabilities and maintain a presence in international commercial shipping of U.S.-documented vessels. Conditions Fleet enrollment on the vessel owner or operator having an operating agreement with the Secretary of Transportation. Regulates agreements with regard to vessels covered by an operating differential subsidy (ODS) contract. Regulates terms, including requiring annual payments by the Secretary to each contractor and that the vessel be made available in time of war or national emergency or as needed for national security, to be compensated at commercial rates. Restricts noncontiguous trade. Authorizes appropriations. Makes amounts available but unneeded for ODSs available for operating agreement payments. Prohibits new ODS contracts. Exempts bulk cargo vessels for which construction-differential subsidies (CDSs) have been paid from certain CDS operating restrictions when ODS contracts terminate. Relieves a contractor, under specified circumstances, from the application of provisions relating to: (1) ODS operating restrictions; (2) operation of competing foreign-flag vessels; (3) practices regarding coastwise service, salaries, officers, and employees; and (4) ODS essential service requirements. Prohibits formal orders continuing ODS payments for vessels over 25 years old. Revises definitions of: (1) "foreign commerce," "foreign trade," and "citizen of the United States" as they apply to the Act; and (2) "privately owned United States-flag commercial vessel" as it applies to provisions regarding transportation in American vessels of Government personnel and certain cargoes. Removes restrictions regarding: (1) mortgagees from provisions setting forth requirements for a vessel mortgage to qualify as a preferred mortgage; and (2) parties serving as trustees of mortgaged vessel interests. Amends the Shipping Act, 1916 to remove restrictions on mortgaging of a documented vessel to a non-U.S. citizen. Requires allowing a documented vessel to be placed under foreign registry if its owner documents at least one replacement vessel. Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to declare that the collective bargaining representative for officers or crew is an interested party in, and has standing to challenge, any proposed or final order, action, or rule of the Secretary under the Act. Mandates a study on the international competitiveness of U.S.-documented vessels.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Impeaches Robert F. Collins, a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, for bribery and high crimes and misdemeanors.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993
Fairness in Tobacco and Nicotine Regulation Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations governing the manufacture, distribution, sale, labeling, and advertising and promotion (manufacture) of tobacco products which are consistent with regulations governing other products which are ingested, but bars the Secretary from outlawing the sale and distribution of a tobacco product solely because tobacco causes disease. Sets minimum requirements pursuant to such regulations, including a prohibition on the sale or distribution of tobacco products to minors. Establishes in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the Tobacco and Nicotine Products Advisory Committee which shall review: (1) the available scientific evidence on the effects of tobacco products on human health, including the effects of environmental tobacco smoke on nonsmokers; (2) the manufacturing process of tobacco products; (3) the role of nicotine as part of the smoking habit; (4) the marketing and promotional techniques used by tobacco manufacturers; and (5) current Federal, State, and local laws governing the manufacture of tobacco products. Requires each tobacco product manufacturer to: (1) register with the Secretary; and (2) pay an annual fee determined by the Secretary based upon the total market share for each brand of tobacco product. Credits fees collected for a fiscal year to the appropriation account for salaries and expenses of the FDA. Amends: (1) the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act (FCLAA) and the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986 (CSTHEA) to modify warning labels to emphasize the addictive nature of smoking; and (2) the FFDCA to include tobacco products within recordkeeping requirements applicable to the interstate shipment and factory inspection of food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) modify the warning labels required by the FCLAA and CSTHEA if the modification in the content of the label does not weaken the health message and is in the best interests of the public health; and (2) increase the size and placement of such required labels.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1993
Designates July 1, 1993, as National NYSP (National Youth Sports Program) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1993
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy Act of 1993 - Declares that, in order to end nuclear proliferation and reduce current nuclear arsenals and supplies of weapons-usable nuclear materials, it shall be U.S. policy to pursue the following objectives: (1) encourage the Ukraine to ratify the START I treaty and Ukraine and Kazakhstan to vote to accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as non-nuclear weapon states; (2) encourage Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan to remove all nuclear weapons from their territory, accept International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards over nuclear facilities, and implement effective controls on nuclear exports; (3) reach an agreement with the Russian Federation to deactivate weapons to be withdrawn under START I and II, place all fissile material from weapons under bilateral or international controls, and arrange for inspections and data exchanges; (4) prepare for the ratification of START II by seeking the exchange of information; (5) conclude a multilateral comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty by early 1995; (6) ratify START II in the United States and encourage the Russian Federation to do the same; (7) conclude multilateral agreements to reduce nuclear arsenals; (8) reach agreement with the Russian Federation to halt the production of fissile material for weapons purposes and other worldwide agreements respecting such materials and the placement of all nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards; (9) strengthen IAEA safeguards and nuclear export controls; (10) reduce incentives for countries to pursue the acquisition of nuclear weapons by seeking to reduce regional tensions; (11) support the extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at the 1995 conference; (12) adopt a U.S. policy of "no first use" of nuclear weapons, reach agreement with other nuclear weapon states to adopt such a policy, and assist any country which is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty should weapons be initiated against such country; (13) conclude an agreement with the Russian Federation to dismantle all tactical nuclear weapons; and (14) sign the appropriate protocols to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1993
Directs the Secretary of the Army to develop a watershed management plan for the Deep River Basin, Indiana, which includes Deep River, Lake George, Turkey Creek, and other related tributaries in Indiana.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1993
Calls upon the Government of the Russian Federation to continue to remove its troops from the independent Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania through a firm, expeditious, and conscientiously observed schedule.