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United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends Federal law to deny annuity benefits to a Member of Congress convicted of a State or Federal felony. Authorizes the restoration of such annuity: (1) if the individual is pardoned by the Governor in the case of a felony under State law; or (2) in the case of a reversal.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Garnishment Equalization Act of 1993 - Provides for the treatment of Federal pay in the same manner as non-Federal pay with respect to garnishment. Allows administrative costs to be included in such garnishment.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Procompetitiveness and Antiboycott Act of 1993 - Directs the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to discuss with representatives from other OECD member countries and to report to the Congress on: (1) the extent to which business enterprises comply with the boycott of Israel by Arab countries; (2) the effectiveness, with respect to the secondary boycott, of antiboycott laws of countries that have them; (3) the extent to which the secondary boycott has skewed trade and investment globally as well as in the Middle East; (4) the extent to which business enterprises not complying with the boycott are placed at a competitive disadvantage; (5) the extent to which the secondary boycott contradicts OECD trade and investment policy; and (6) the development of guidelines, comparable to the prohibitions set forth under the Export Administration Act of 1979, that OECD countries can agree on to eliminate compliance with the boycott. Requires the United States Trade Representative to enter into discussions with representatives from member countries of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and to report to the Congress on the extent to which: (1) the secondary boycott of Israel has distorted trade; (2) members of and observers to the GATT encourage actions, including the furnishing of information or entering into agreements, which support the boycott; (3) the GATT should work to eliminate the secondary boycott; and (4) GATT articles can be used to eliminate compliance with such boycott. Requires the President to report to the Congress on progress made to end the boycott. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to report to the Congress on OECD countries that encourage or fail to discourage compliance with such boycott.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to: (1) repeal the current licensing requirements for exports of dual use items to countries whose governments support international terrorism; and (2) prohibit such exports outright. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition if: (1) the export transaction is determined essential to U.S. national security interests; and (2) the President consults with specified congressional committees about the proposed transaction and submits the reason for such waiver to the Congress in writing. Requires denial of a license to export any chemical or biological weapons if the ultimate consignee is a country whose government has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on all visits to the United States by any official of any such government.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Federal Mandate Relief Act of 1993 - Provides that any requirement under a Federal statute or regulation that a State or local government conduct an activity (including a requirement that a government meet national standards in providing a service) shall apply to the government only if all funds necessary to pay the direct costs incurred by the government in conducting the activity are provided by the Federal Government.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Health Care Cost Containment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals to deduct the full amount of unreimbursed medical and dental expenses. (Current law allows a deduction for such expenses that exceed a certain percentage of adjusted gross income.) Requires the losing party in a medical care liability suit to pay limited amounts of the winning party's litigation expenses. Prohibits noneconomic damages (other than punitive damages) in such suits. Requires punitive damages to be paid to the unit of local government having primary responsibility for paying for indigent health services. Requires those amounts to be used for care for individuals entitled to assistance under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Applies this Act to any medical care liability suit in any State or Federal court, except vaccine-related matters. Supersedes inconsistent State laws.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Language of Government Act of 1993 - Declares English to be the official language of the U.S. Government. States that the Government has an affirmative obligation to preserve and enhance the role of English as the official language. Requires the Government to conduct its official business in English. Prohibits anyone from being denied Government services because they communicate in English.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Life Imprisonment for Egregious Recidivists Act of 1993 - 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. Specifies that this provision shall not be construed to prevent the imposition of the death penalty.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Merchant Mariners Fairness Act of 1993 - Provides that certain qualified service of a member of the U.S. merchant marine, including a vessel crewmember of the U.S. Army Transport Service, during World War II constituted active military service for purposes of eligibility for various veterans' benefits under the GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977. Requires the Secretary of Defense to issue an honorable discharge under such Act to each merchant marine member whose qualified service warrants such a discharge. Prohibits the payment of any retroactive benefits under this Act. Mandates a processing fee for any benefit application for such qualified service.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 1993 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to grant the President legislative line item veto rescission authority. Makes such a rescission effective unless the Congress, during a review period of 20 calendar days, enacts a rescission disapproval bill.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Reproductive Health Equity Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, the Peace Corps Act, the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, and other Federal laws covering armed forces personnel and dependents, certain veterans, Federal employees' health benefits, and Federal penal and correctional institutions to provide that services related to abortion be made available to the same extent as are other pregnancy-related services under federally-funded programs. Repeals provisions of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act requiring submission of a resource allocation plan to the Congress by December 17, 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Freedom from Government Competition Act of 1992 (sic) - Requires Federal agencies to obtain all goods and services necessary for or beneficial to the accomplishment of their authorized functions by procurement from private sources unless: (1) the goods or services are required by law to be produced or performed, respectively, by the agency; or (2) the head of the agency determines and certifies to the Congress that Government production, manufacture, or provision of a good or service is necessary for national defense, that a good or service is so inherently governmental in nature that it is in the public interest to require production or performance by a Government employee, or that there is no private source capable of providing the good or service. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to study and report to the Congress on: (1) agency activities which are inconsistent with such requirements; and (2) a schedule for transferring such activities to the private sector.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Systematic Application of Value Engineering Act of 1993 - Requires Federal agencies to apply value engineering, at a minimum, to identify and implement opportunities to reduce capital and operation costs and improve and maintain optimum quality of construction, administrative, program, acquisition, and grant projects. Requires Inspector General audits of reported agency savings attributable to such value engineering.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Paperwork Reduction in Health Care Act of 1993 - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to: (1) identify, inventory, and assess the Federal paperwork burden associated with health care services; and (2) establish a goal for reducing such burden in each of FY 1994 through 1997 by at least five percent of the preceding fiscal year's paperwork burden.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
White House Personnel Reauthorization Act of 1993 - Revises Federal law with respect to the office and compensation of the President and related matters. Requires the President to submit to the Congress reports on: (1) expenditures of executive branch entities made by or on behalf of the President, Vice President, or any component of the Executive Office of the President; (2) how amounts appropriated pursuant to such law were obligated or expended; and (3) the utilization of Government aircraft. Requires such reports to be made available to the public. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Morris K. Udall Wilderness Act of 1993 - Designates specified lands in Alaska as the Arctic Coastal Plain Wilderness and a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that the Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the act of physical desecration of the U.S. flag and to set criminal penalties for such act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress and the President, prior to each fiscal year, to agree on an estimate of total receipts for that fiscal year by enactment of a law devoted solely to that subject. Prohibits outlays for that year from exceeding this amount unless the Congress, by a three-fifths roll call vote of each House, authorizes a specific excess of outlays over receipts. Requires a two-thirds roll call vote of each House to increase the public debt. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget to the Congress. Requires a two-thirds roll call vote of the total membership of each House before any bill to increase revenue may become law. Waives these provisions when a declaration of war is in effect. Grants the President the authority to disapprove any appropriation or provision and approval any other appropriation or provision in the same appropriation bill.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement in which total Federal outlays do not exceed total receipts, unless a three-fifths vote of both Houses authorizes a specific excess. Limits the rate of increase in receipts in the statement to that of the increase in national income in the previous calendar year, unless law is enacted solely to approve specific additional receipts. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget. Authorizes waiver of these provisions in time of war. Sets a permanent limit on the amount of Federal public debt, prohibiting any increase unless legislation enacted by a three-fifths majority of both Houses become law.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits a person who has been elected to: (1) the Senate two times from being eligible for election or appointment to the Senate; and (2) the House of Representatives six times from being eligible for election to the House.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits bills and joint resolutions containing more than a single subject from being presented to the President.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Grants the President authority to disapprove or reduce any item of appropriation in an appropriation bill. Requires a three-fifths vote of each House to override such a disapproval or reduction.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Grants the President line item veto authority with respect to appropriations bills.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Designates April 9, 1993, and April 9, 1994, as National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order to put the question upon final passage of any bill or resolution until printed copies of the measure have been available for all Members for at least one day. Provides for the suspension of this Act for a particular bill or resolution in a national emergency upon the joint request of the Speaker and Minority Leader and with an affirmative two-thirds vote.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit any bill, resolution, or amendment that contains more than a single subject from being received or considered in the House. Permits a question of order to be raised at any time on the number of subjects in a measure or amendment. Requires the single subject to be expressed in the measure's title. Makes an exception for legislation that complies, consolidates, revises, or rearranges the statutory law.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Declares that the Congress opposes any attempt to lower the estate tax exemption or raise the effective rate of taxes on estates because such measures contradict the fundamental goal of the United States Government of encouraging long-term private saving through which productive investment that promotes economic growth can be realized.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1992
Taxpayer Debt Buy-Down Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals with adjusted income tax liability to designate on their tax returns that a portion of such liability (not to exceed ten percent) be used to reduce the public debt. Establishes a Public Debt Reduction Trust Fund for the deposit of designated amounts. Makes amounts in such Trust Fund available only to pay at maturity, or to redeem or buy before maturity, any obligation of the Federal Government included in the public debt. Prohibits the reissuance of any obligation which is paid, redeemed, or bought with amounts from the Trust Fund. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide for the sequestration of amounts designated to the Trust Fund. Specifies accounts exempt from such sequestration. Includes aggregated amounts designated to the Trust Fund and amounts sequestered to reduce the public debt in sequestration preview and final reports.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1992
Taxpayer Protection, Deposit Insurance Reform, and Regulatory Relief Act of 1992 - Title I: 100 Percent Cross-Guarantees - Subtitle A: Definitions - Sets forth definitions relating to depository institutions, non-depository guarantors, affiliates, financial terms, and funds. Subtitle B: Cross-Guarantee Process - Sets forth a cross-guarantee mechanism whose purpose is to: (1) protect the full amount of deposits by prohibiting depository institutions from operating without a cross-guarantee contract issued by syndicates of guarantors; (2) charge risk-sensitive premiums for the guarantees provided; (3) establish a self-regulating system with stop-loss mechanisms; and (4) regulate the cross-guarantee marketplace only to the extent of maintaining its soundness and viability (but not the solvency of any individual depository institution regardless of its size). Includes a stop-loss limit for losses of a guaranteed party as a direct guarantor of other guaranteed parties. Requires the cross-guarantor's contract obligations to be independent of the obligations of any other party under the contract. Prohibits direct guarantors under any cross-guarantee or stop-loss contract from obtaining collateral for cross-guarantee obligations. Sets forth the requirements for: (1) cross-guarantee contracts; (2) stop-loss contracts; (3) direct guarantors; and (4) cross-guarantee and stop-loss syndicates. Declares that any action arising under a cross-guarantee or stop-loss contract shall be deemed to arise under Federal law. Confers original jurisdiction upon the Federal courts for any action arising under such contracts. Subtitle C: Powers and Duties of the FDIC - Grants the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) exclusive enforcement, regulatory, and approval authority over the cross-guarantee process. Outlines the FDIC approval process for cross-guarantee and stop-loss contracts. Requires the FDIC to provide for the incorporation of a stock, for-profit corporation to establish and maintain a central electronic repository for: cross-guarantee, stop-loss, and group cross-guarantee syndicate contracts. Mandates that the repository files be directly accessible to any direct guarantor, guaranteed party, syndicate agent, and other eligible persons. Precludes any cross-guarantee or stop-loss contract from taking effect until it is in such repository file. Vests management authority for the repository in a board of directors. Prohibits closed loop situations (i.e., a group of institutions guarantee each other without sharing such risk with outside guarantors). Requires syndicate agents under a cross guarantee contract to submit periodic status reports to the FDIC regarding guaranteed depository institutions. Cites conditions under which the FDIC must appoint itself conservator or receiver for a depository institution guaranteed under a cross-guarantee contract. Establishes an FDIC- administered cross-guarantee backup fund to pay for: (1) the administrative expenses incurred in regulating the cross-guarantee system and providing deposit insurance; and (2) any loss incurred by a depositor in connection with an insured deposit at a depository institution. States that deposits in any guaranteed depository institution shall be insured against loss to the same extent as deposits are insured against loss by the FDIC (as in effect before the date of enactment of this Act) if the FDIC cannot recover adequate funds to pay for any loss due to the appointment or receiver under this Act. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires the FDIC to: (1) ensure that all deposit-taking institutions, with specified exceptions, become guaranteed under a cross-guarantee contract; and (2) establish the Cross-Guarantee Advisory Committee to advise the FDIC Board of Directors regarding the operation and regulation of the cross-guarantee process. Declares that no collateral is required for lending by any Federal Reserve Bank to a guaranteed company. Requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to submit annual status reports to certain congressional committees regarding losses incurred as a result of lending within the cross-guarantee system. Permits a cross-guarantee company or banking office to advertise that deposits and certain other liabilities under an FDIC-approved cross-guarantee contract are fully guaranteed against loss. Subtitle E: Transition to 100 Percent Cross-Guarantee Process - Sets forth a conversion schedule to implement an eight-year transition period for the cross-guarantee system, which shall become effective when a specified minimum number of FDIC-approved cross-guarantee contracts and total assets are approved. Requires the FDIC immediately to appoint a conservator or receiver for any depository institution which has not complied with such schedule. Prescribes guidelines for severance pay and related benefits for former State and Federal banking agency employees. Title II: Amendments to Other Laws - Amends Federal banking laws to conform with the provisions of this Act, including amendments relating to: (1) national banks; (2) Federal Reserve System member banks; (3) savings associations; (4) savings and loan holding companies; (5) the FDIC; and (6) Federal bankruptcy law.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1992
Amends Federal bankruptcy law to preclude from a discharge in bankruptcy any debt for a claim by a governmental entity or other qualified person for removal or remedial action costs for which the debtor is liable under specified environmental protection laws.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1992
Amends the Federal criminal code to provide that anyone at least 18 years of age who uses a child to commit, or to assist in avoiding detection or apprehension for a Federal offense, shall: (1) after a previous conviction for such an offense has become final, be subject to three times the maximum imprisonment and three times the maximum fine otherwise provided for the Federal offense in which the child is used; and (2) in any other case, be subject to twice the maximum imprisonment and twice the maximum fine for such offense.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1992
Thomas Nast Home National Historic Park Study Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study and report to specified congressional committees on the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Thomas Nast Home (known as the Villa Fontana) in Morristown, New Jersey, as a unit of the National Park System. Authorizes appropriations.
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
Prohibits the proposed sale of F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia described in the certification transmitted to the Congress on September 14, 1992 (transmittal number 92-42), unless the President certifies to the Congress that such country renounces and no longer observes the boycott of Israel by Arab countries.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Establishes the Commission on Information Technology and Paperwork Reduction in order to minimize the information reporting burden imposed by the Federal Government, consistent with the needs of the Government for information for policy purposes. Lists specific Commission functions, which include the study and review of former Commission on Paperwork recommendations for paperwork reduction. Requires a final Commission report to the Congress and the President with a review of both its findings and recommendations for statutory and other changes needed to minimize Federal reporting requirements. Requires action by the Office of Management and Budget with respect to Commission recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Designates May 2 through 8, 1993, as National Walking Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1992
Designates December 1, 1992, as World AIDS Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1992
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all individuals with adjusted income tax liability to designate on their tax returns that a portion of such liability (not to exceed ten percent) be used to reduce the public debt. Establishes a Public Debt Reduction Trust Fund for the deposit of designated amounts. Makes amounts in such Trust Fund available only to pay at maturity, or to redeem or buy before maturity, any obligation of the Federal Government included in the public debt. Prohibits the reissuance of any obligation which is paid, redeemed, or bought with amounts from the Trust Fund. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to provide for the sequestration of amounts designated to the Trust Fund. Specifies accounts exempt from such sequestration. Includes aggregated amounts designated to the Trust Fund and amounts sequestered to reduce the public debt in sequestration preview and final reports.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Makes additional appropriations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for peer review activities and activities to reduce waste and fraud under the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Combined Welfare Administration Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make a combined grant to States for administrative costs necessary to carry out the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act, the Medicaid program under title XIX of the Social Security Act, and the Food Stamp program. Eliminates enhanced Federal payments for State administrative activities under such programs. Provides for allotment and payment of funds under such grant program, as well as State reports on the intended use of such allotments. Sets forth audit requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Federal Workforce Efficiency Act - Limits the total number of civilian employees in an executive agency to the number of employees at the end of the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted. Directs the head of each executive agency to establish a program which shall provide for: (1) cash awards for any managerial or supervisory personnel whose personal efforts result in significant savings to the Government that are attributable to personnel reductions or increased personnel efficiency; (2) education or training for managerial or supervisory personnel to promote better awareness and use of the authorities available to them to improve worker efficiency and productivity; and (3) other similar measures. Sets a limit on the amount of such an award. Provides for a reduction in executive agency budgets with respect to employee salaries over a two year period by five percent per fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) consolidate the functions and activities of the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, the Cooperative State Research Service, and the Federal Extension Service; and (2) establish in the Department a unified Agriculture Research and Extension Service. Authorizes appropriations for such Service.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Repeals the Rural Electrification Act of 1936. Requires the cash sale to private investors of outstanding loans made under such Act. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize loans to electric power cooperative associations unable to secure credit at reasonable rates elsewhere.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Overhead Reduction Act of 1992 - Requires a reduction in executive agency overhead costs over a four year period by six percent per year.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Designates October 8, 1992, as National Firefighters Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Comprehensive Community Bank Burden Reduction Act of 1992 - Title I: Purposes - Sets forth the purposes of this Act. Title II: Supervisory Reforms - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to extend from 18 months to twenty-four months the annual on-site examination cycle for certain small-sized insured depository institutions. Authorizes the appropriate Federal banking agency to exempt small-sized institutions within a depository institution holding company from statutory examination requirements if the agency is satisfied that adequate internal controls and examination procedures exist within the holding company structure. Modifies statutory auditing and reporting requirements in order to reduce the regulatory costs incurred by insured depository institutions, including Federal Credit Unions. Repeals regulatory standards for safety and soundness. Exempts from bank branch closure notice requirements specified branches and automated teller machines. Directs the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council to review risk-based capital rules and compliance requirements with respect to their cost burden upon community banks. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to modify the aggregate statutory limits on insider lending. Repeals the statutory mandate with respect to the regulation of interbank risks. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to modify the approval process with respect to the activities of insured state banks. Directs Federal banking regulatory agencies to coordinate their regulations and interpretation with one another to achieve uniformity. Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to: (1) authorize Federal financial institution regulatory agencies and the Resolution Trust Corporation to establish levels below which a certified or licensed appraiser shall not be required in connection with Federal real estate-related transactions; and (2) prohibit States from requiring State-certified or State-licensed appraisers for such transactions. Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 to set forth self-certification guidelines for regulated financial institutions. Requires the appropriate Federal financial supervisory agency to investigate any allegation filed against a regulated financial institution regarding whether it is helping to meet the credit needs of its community. Modifies the regulatory guidelines for such institutions. Exempts from the jurisdictional purview of such Act certain wholesale financial institutions and credit card banks. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to modify the statutory standards for attachment of assets and other injunctive relief regarding depository institutions. Requires each appropriate Federal banking agency to conduct a paperwork reduction review with respect to the extent to which regulations require insured depository institutions to produce unnecessary internal written polices, and eliminate such requirements, if appropriate. Modifies the guidelines for the assessment base for deposit insurance premiums. Requires an appropriate Federal banking agency to include a detailed corroborating statement with its certification that a rule will not have a significant economic impact upon a substantial number of small depository institutions. Requires each appropriate Federal banking agency to establish a separate Office of Regulatory Quality to determine and monitor the quality of its regulatory activities. Title III: Non-Supervisory Reforms - Subtitle A: Expedited Funds Availability and Electronic Transfers - Amends the Expedited Funds Availability Act to modify the funds availability schedules for certain checks deposited at automated teller machines. Makes the availability schedule for new accounts applicable during the 90-day (currently 30-day) period beginning on the date the account is established. Authorizes the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) to establish rules regarding losses and liability among depository institutions and other entities participating in the payments system, including States and political subdivisions on which checks are drawn. Subtitle B: Amendments to the Truth in Lending Act - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to: (1) exempt from its purview credit transactions involving consumers whose income or net worth exceeds specified thresholds; and (2) declare that unintentional errors which do not materially understate the cost to the obligor of certain credit transactions will not negate the effective delivery of certain disclosure requirements concerning the debtor's right of rescission. Subtitle C: Truth-In-Savings Amendments - Establishes a temporary regulatory compliance moratorium for certain small-sized depository institutions. Requires the Board to conduct a cost benefit analysis and report to the Congress on the impact of regulatory compliance upon small-sized depository institutions and their customers. Subtitle D: Homeownership Amendments - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to require lenders who finance the purchase of residential real estate to provide certain information booklets to borrowers within three business days after the application is received unless the lender denies application within such time period. Amends the Home Mortgage Disclosurer Act of 1974 to repeal the exemption granted certain small-sized depository institutions with respect to certain home mortgage disclosure requirements. Amends the Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987 to apply the definition of "adjustable rate mortgage loan" to certain consumer loans. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to repeal the notification requirement regarding the availability of homeownership counseling for eligible homeowners who fail to make timely payments.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Designates the Federal building located at 200 Federal Plaza in Paterson, New Jersey, as the Robert A. Roe Federal Building.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1992
Terminates the Space Station Freedom program.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1992
Amends the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to require that any costs of construction incurred after September 30, 1992, which are allocated to irrigation and beyond the ability of water users to repay, and which may be repaid by revenues from power marketed by the Western Area Power Administration, be repaid within 40 years of the in-service date of the irrigation project, division, or development unit, upon terms no less favorable to the Government than payment in equal annual installments. Specifies that any increase in wholesale power rates charged by reason of such provision may not exceed one mil per kilowatt-hour per year. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to make determinations of irrigators' ability to pay construction charges allocated to irrigation at least every five years (except where expressly precluded by contract) and to adjust the amount of such charges accordingly. Specifies that each new or renewed contract entered into by the Secretary shall provide for the recomputation of the irrigator's ability to pay and the repayment of any additional charges resulting from prior adjustments.