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United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1999
Declares that Congress should actively oversee the Health Care Financing Administration's administration of the Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) home health benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1999
Expresses the sense of Congress that : (1) treatment by means of manual manipulation of the spine to correct a subluxation is a unique chiropractic service which Congress recognizes as a Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act (SSA)) part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) benefit; (2) it is the unequivocal intent of Congress to ensure that every Medicare+Choice beneficiary under SSA title XVIII part C has access to all services covered under the original Medicare part B fee-for-service program; and (3) as a covered Medicare part B service, such treatment provided by a doctor of chiropractic is a guaranteed service for Medicare+Choice beneficiaries.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1999
Authorizes the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) to permit temporary construction and other work on the Capitol grounds that may be necessary for construction of a building on Constitution Avenue, N.W., between 2nd Street, N.W., and Louisiana Avenue, N.W., beginning August 6, 1999, and ending October 31, 2001, or for a longer period if the AOC determines it necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that a Mental Health Advisory Committee should be established to probe the serious national dimensions of the mentally ill.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Declares that Congress urges financial institutions to: (1) promote environmentally responsible dry and wet cleaning processes; and (2) work with business enterprises to provide streams of capital to protect the environment.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 2000
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) a Liberty Day should be celebrated annually in the United States as a remembrance of both the freedom that Americans were given in the Declaration of Independence and the rights and liberties that Americans were given in the Constitution; and (2) elected and previously-elected representatives of the people who voluntarily give of their time to speak to Americans about those founding documents deserve our thanks.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1999
Calls for the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee to recommend and the U.S. Postal Service to prepare to issue a commemorative postage stamp in 2002 recognizing the 4-H Youth Development Program's centennial.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1999
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that all peace officers slain in the line of duty should be honored and recognized.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1999
Declares that the House of Representatives recognizes the social significance of mental illness issues and fully supports the White House Conference on Mental Health.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1999
Calls upon the President: (1) not to participate in any international negotiation in which antidumping or antisubsidy rules are part of the negotiating agenda; (2) to refrain from submitting for congressional approval agreements that require changes to the current antidumping and countervailing duty laws and enforcement policies of the United States; and (3) to enforce the antidumping and countervailing duty laws vigorously in all pending and future cases.
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1999
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is to be commended for its pivotal role in preserving trans-Atlantic peace and stability; (2) the NATO allies, at the Summit meeting to be held in Washington, D.C., in April, 1999, should articulate a concrete vision for the Alliance in the 21st century; (3) the Alliance must recognize and act upon the threat posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism by intensifying consultations among political and military leaders, and deploying comprehensive capabilities to counter such threats to the international community; (4) the Alliance should pace, not pause, the process of NATO enlargement and remain prepared to extend invitations for accession negotiations to appropriate European democracies, while strengthening its relations with Russia and the Ukraine as essential partners in building long-term peace in the Euro-Atlantic area; and (5) the Alliance should fully support the North Atlantic Assembly's activities in enhancing and stabilizing democracy in Central and Eastern Europe nations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1999
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the direct popular election of the President and the Vice President.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1999
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the U.S. flag.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 2000
Calls upon the President to: (1) take all appropriate action to provide relief from injury caused by steel imports; and (2) immediately request the U.S. Trade Commission to commence an expedited investigation for positive adjustment of such steel imports under section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2000
Requires the American flags on all Federal office buildings to be lowered to half-staff each year in honor of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service in Emittsburg, Maryland.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Affordable Housing Opportunity Act of 1999 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase, and link to the cost-of-living adjustment, the State low-income housing credit ceiling.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Amends Federal law to exclude the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund from the Federal and congressional budgets, and exempt it from any general budget limitation imposed by statute on U.S. budget outlays and from certain orders issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Treatment of Children's Deformities Act of 1998 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code to set standards requiring that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for treatment of a minor child's congenital or developmental deformity or disorder due to trauma, infection, tumor, or disease.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Stop Sweatshops Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to make garment industry manufacturers civilly liable for sweatshop conditions maintained by their contractors. Sets forth civil penalties for violation of recordkeeping and payroll accounting requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Access to Quality Care Subtitle A: Promoting Quality Care by Ensuring Access to Health Care Professionals Subtitle B: Promoting Quality Care by Ensuring Access to Health Care Services Subtitle C: Promoting Quality Care by Ensuring Fair Resolution of Grievances Subtitle D: Promoting Quality Care by Ensuring Fair Plan Administration Subtitle E: Definitions Title II: Application of Quality Care Standards to Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Coverage Under Public Health Service Act Title III: Amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 Title IV: Effective Dates; Coordination in Implementation Access to Quality Care Act of 1999 - Title I: Access to Quality Care - Subtitle A: Promoting Quality Care by Ensuring Access to Health Care Professionals - Requires a health care insurer offering health care coverage through a network of contracted professionals and providers to offer at a reasonable premium an enrollment option for non-network coverage unless such option is otherwise available to enrollees. (Sec. 102) Requires a group health plan and a health insurance issuer to provide for enrollee choice of personal health professional and access to adequate types of care. Subtitle B: Promoting Quality Care by Ensuring Access to Health Care Services - Requires a group health care plan and a health care insurer to provide for: (1) specialist care; (2) continuity of care; (3) emergency room services; (4) obstetric and gynecological services; and (5) pediatric services. Subtitle C: Promoting Quality Care by Ensuring Fair Resolution of Grievances - Sets forth internal and external review procedures, including: (1) enrollee notice of adverse coverage determinations; (2) time limits for benefit determinations and internal appeals; (3) physician review of initial coverage determinations; (4) independent medical expert review of initial review determinations, and penalties for denial of such review. Subtitle D: Promoting Quality Care by Ensuring Fair Plan Administration - Prohibits a group health professional or provider plan from offering incentives to reduce or limit medically necessary services with respect to a specific enrollee. (Sec. 133) Sets forth specified enrollee information access requirements, including: (1) plan description, limitations, and benefits; (2) enrollee costs; (3) dispute resolution procedures; (4) network characteristics; (5) care management; (6) inclusion of drugs and biologicals in formularies; (7) preauthorization and utilization review procedures; (8) accreditation status of health insurance issuers and service providers; and (9) performance criteria. (Sec. 138) Requires a group health plan and a health insurance issuer to establish a quality assessment program. Subtitle E: Definitions - Defines specified terms. (Sec. 152) States that nothing in this title shall be construed to preempt State law with respect to health insurance issuers or group health plans. Title II: Application of Quality Care Standards to Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Coverage under Public Health Service Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to apply quality care provisions under title I of this Act to group health plan and health insurance coverage under such Act. Title III: Amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Income Act of 1974 (ERISA) to apply quality care provisions under title I of this Act to group health plan and health insurance coverage under such Act. (Sec. 302) Permits certain actions under State law (rather than under ERISA) involving health insurance enrollees, but stipulates that such actions are not authorized against an employer or other plan sponsor, with specified exceptions. Title IV: Effective Dates; Coordination in Implementation - Sets forth specified effective dates under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Black Lung Benefits Survivors Equity Act of 1999 - Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act to eliminate the exception (with respect to a claim filed after the effective date of the Black Lung Benefits Amendments of 1981) to the prohibition against requiring eligible survivors of a miner determined to be eligible for black lung benefits to file a new claim or refile or otherwise revalidate the miner's claim.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Military Retirement Equity Act of 1999 - Permits retired members of the armed forces to be paid retirement pay concurrently with compensation for any service-connected disability if the person's entitlement to retired pay is based solely on age, length of service (at least 20 years), or both. Reduces the retirement pay of individuals receiving both types of pay by a specified percentage of the disability compensation which decreases as the disability rating increases. Prohibits any reduction in the retirement pay of a disabled person when the disability rating is total.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 1999 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group health insurance coverage, with regard to hospital stays in connection with breast cancer treatment, from: (1) covering less than 48 hours after mastectomies or less than 24 hours after lymph node dissections; or (2) requiring plan or issuer authorization for prescribing any length of stay. Prohibits: (1) denying eligibility, enrollment, or renewal to avoid these requirements; (2) providing payments or rebates to women; or (3) penalizing or providing incentives to providers. Applies the same requirements to issuers in the individual market.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1999
National Infrastructure Development Act of 1999 - Establishes as a wholly owned Government corporation: (1) the National Infrastructure Development Corporation (NIDC), which shall make new sources of financing available (including public benefit bonds) for the development of infrastructure facilities; and (2) the National Infrastructure Insurance Corporation (NIIC), which shall be a subsidiary of NIDC issuing insurance, reinsurance and related undertakings with respect to obligations for development of such facilities. Requires NIDC and NIIC to conduct their respective businesses as self-supporting entities. Directs the boards of directors of each to establish criteria for determining eligibility for financial assistance. Provides for: (1) initial targeting of ready-to-go projects; (2) development risk insurance; (3) the discretion of NIDC and NIIC to provide assistance; (4) final decisions on providing assistance to be made by an independent investment committee; and (5) capitalization, organization, and management of NIDC and NIIC. Requires the NIDC to prepare and revise as necessary a strategic plan for the transition of NIDC and all its subsidiaries to a Government-sponsored enterprise, and for the sale or transfer to investors other than the Federal Government of NIDC's voting securities. Authorizes appropriations.