Bill· SS. 3328 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1992
Civilian Ex-Prisoner of War Health and Disability Benefits Act of 1992 - Entitles a former civilian prisoner of war (POW) to receive necessary medical care and disability benefits for any injury or disability resulting from the period of internment or hiding. Requires any presumptive medical and dental condition related to a period of internment provided for former military POWs to be extended to former civilian POWs and requires that it be considered to have been incurred in or aggravated by the period of internment or hiding regardless of the absence of any record of the injury. Establishes an advisory committee to be known as the Former Civilian Prisoner of War Committee.
Bill· SS. 3350 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1992
National Organ Donor and Awareness Campaign Act of 1992 - Mandates a national campaign to increase public awareness of organ transplantation, including development of a national clearinghouse. Requires research on the process by which individuals listed in the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network are selected and other matters relating to public education and promotion regarding organ donation. Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to establish a Network advisory committee. Increases the Network's annual funding cap. Modifies Network functions and its board of director's composition. Amends block grant provisions of the PHSA to mandate payments to health care facilities for the dispensing of immunosuppressive drugs to eligible transplant recipients. Authorizes appropriations. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove the one-year limitation on coverage of immunosuppressive drugs. Amends the PHSA to require, in making grants and contracts to increase the number of organ donors, inclusion of projects encouraging procurement from minority communities (including cultural, racial, and language minorities) and from other communities with below average donation rates. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 3344 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1992
Mature and Older Workers Act of 1992 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to authorize appropriations for programs under title II (Training Services for the Disadvantaged) and title IV (Federally Administered Programs). Defines a mature or older worker as one who is 40 years of age or older. Defines a younger worker as one who is age 22 through 39. Requires that private industry councils and State councils each include at least one representative of an agency or organization that by its organizational mission represents the interests of mature or older workers. Requires award of incentive grants to service delivery areas conducting Younger Workers programs and Youth Opportunity programs which exceed certain performance standards. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to include in the annual report to the Congress an analysis, for each State and on a nationwide basis, of the number of participants served under JTPA (and the type of services they received) who are in various age groups. Revises and renames title II part A as the Younger Workers Program (currently Adult and Youth Programs). Sets forth allotment and allocation requirements. Defines an economically disadvantaged younger worker. Sets forth requirements for individual eligibility, program design, authorized services, linkages to other Federal and other appropriate programs, and transfer of funds to other title II programs. Directs the Comptroller General to study and report on the number and percentage of assisted younger workers that remain employed for at least nine months after receiving such assistance. Revises and renames title II part B as the Mature or Older Workers Program. Sets forth allotment allocation (as well as recapture and reallotment) requirements. Defines an economically disadvantaged mature or older worker. Sets forth requirements for individual eligibility, program design, authorized services, job training plans, linkages to other Federal and other approprate programs, and transfer of funds to other title II programs. Directs the Comptroller General to study and report on the number and percentage of assisted adults who remain employed for at least nine months after receiving such assistance. Revises title II part C (currently part B) Summer Youth Employment and Training Programs, for economically disadvantaged youth. Adds enhancement of the citizenship skills of youth to the purposes of such programs. Provides for allotment and allocation, authorized uses of funds, limitations, comparable functions of agencies and officials, and program goals and objectives. Establishes a new part D, the Youth Opportunity Program, under title II of JTPA, for economically disadvantaged youth aged 16 through 21. Requires that least 50 percent of the participants in such program in each service delivery area be out-of-school youth. Requires that at least 70 percent of both the in-school and out-of-school participants be from specified targeted groups. Allows in-school participants to be age 14 through 21, if this is provided in the job training plan. Makes in-school youth also eligible if they participate in a compensatory education program under chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (even if they do not qualify as economically disadvantaged). Allows up to ten percent of program participants to be individuals who do not meet the economically disadvantaged (or compensatory education) eligibility requirement, but who face serious barriers to employment. Allows all students to participate in schoolwide projects for certain low-income schools. Requires Youth Opportunity programs to be operated on a year-round basis. Sets forth requirements for program design, authorized services, linkages with educational programs and with other Federal and other appropriate education and training programs, and transfer of funds to other title II programs.
Bill· SS. 3339 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1992
Supportive Services in Housing Act of 1992 - Title I: General Improvements to Programs Providing Housing for the Elderly - Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to establish in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) an office of Assistant Secretary for Supportive Housing to administer HUD supportive housing programs for the elderly and persons with disabilities. Requires the Secretary (Secretary) of HUD to: (1) review each HUD multifamily housing project for the elderly at least once every four years; and (2) review annually the adequacy of such projects' funding levels and geographic targeting of resources. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with local housing agencies to provide one-stop housing assistance application centers for elderly and disabled persons. Title II: Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly - Directs the Secretary to carry out a mixed-income demonstration project of housing for the elderly, including the provision of supportive services. Funds such project from assistance available under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959. Requires: (1) the selection of at least ten project applicants; and (2) annual program reports to the Congress. Title III: Revised Congregate Housing Services - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to redefine "frail elderly" for purposes of congregate housing services to mean an elderly person with any functional disability which may impair the person's ability to live independently. Gives assistance priority to persons with the greatest economic need and the greatest risk of being institutionalized. Title IV: Service Coordinators in Federally Assisted Housing - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to require congregate housing service coordinators to receive training in the aging process and related concerns. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide service coordinators for section 8 projects serving elderly persons. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to provide service coordinators for frail elderly persons in certain multifamily housing. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to authorize rural rental housing grants to provide service coordinators for frail persons. Authorizes appropriations. Makes related service coordinator revisions to the Housing Act of 1959 (section 202) and the United States Housing Act of 1937 (public housing). Title V: Mortgage Insurance for Assissted Living Facilities - Amends the National Housing Act to make assisted living facilities (as defined by this Act) for frail elderly persons eligible for mortgage insurance.
Law· SS. 3312 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1992
Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants or contracts to operate population-based, statewide cancer registries in order to collect certain data for each form of in-situ and invasive cancer except basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. Authorizes grants for planning the registries. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, directly or through grants and contracts, or both, to provide technical assistance to the States in the establishment and operation of statewide registries. Mandates a study on factors contributing to elevated rates of breast cancer mortality in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 3284 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1992
Authorizes the United States to participate in the Cascadia Corridor Commission to be established as a bilateral advisory commission in coordination with the Canadian Government and State, provincial, and local governments in the Cascadia region along Interstate 5/Highway 99 from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Eugene, Oregon. Authorizes the Commission to: (1) establish a forum to coordinate consideration of regional issues in the Cascadia region; and (2) develop a strategy for environmentally sound economic development in such region and submit such plan to the Congress, the Canadian Parliament, the legislature of British Columbia, and the State legislatures of Oregon and Washington. Requires the strategy to consider environmental management, urban development, transportation, communications, and education. Authorizes appropriations.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 352 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1992
Declares that the President should promptly seek the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly with the support of the United States on November 20, 1989.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 342 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1992
Designates May 2 through 8, 1993, as National Walking Week.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 340 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1992
Designates the week of February 14 through 20, 1993, as National Visiting Nurse Associations Week.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 338 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1992
Designates the week beginning October 24, 1992, as World Population Awareness Week.
Bill· SS. 3241 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1992
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie in recognition of his accomplishments as a musician. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 336 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1992
Designates the week beginning November 8, 1992, as Hire a Veteran Week.
Law· SS. 3224 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1992
Designates the U.S. courthouse to be constructed in Fargo, North Dakota, as the Quentin N. Burdick United States Courthouse.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 338 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1992
Expresses the profound sorrow of the Senate on the death of the Honorable Quentin N. Burdick of North Dakota.
Bill· SS. 3186 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Ethics in Referrals and Billing Act of 1992 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title on physician referral and billing. Prohibits, subject to exceptions, referrals and related billing by physicians involving an entity in which the physician (or an immediate family member) has a financial relationship. Requires each entity providing health-related items or services to disclose certain information concerning the entity's ownership. Declares that no individual, entity, or third party payor shall be required to pay for items or services in connection with a prohibited referral. Makes any person collecting such payments liable to the payor. Requires insurance payors to report violation patterns. Provides for civil fines for persons repeatedly presenting bills, physicians repeatedly making referrals, and persons acting in concert in violation. Allows for violations: (1) suspension, revocation, or limitation of laboratory certificates; and (2) exclusion from any program under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Makes it unlawful, subject to exception, for any: (1) person who furnishes ancillary health services to present a bill to any person other than the patient receiving the services; or (2) physician to present a bill to any ancillary service recipient unless the services where furnished personally or under the supervision of the referring physician or a member of that physician's group practice or by individuals employed by that physician or group practice. Makes any person collecting payments for such services liable to the payor. Provides for civil fines for persons repeatedly presenting bills in violation. Allows, for violations: (1) suspension, revocation, or limitation of laboratory certificates; and (2) exclusion from any pogram under Medicare.
Bill· SS. 3180 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
State Care Act of 1992 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to add a new title XXI, State Comprehensive Health Coverage And Cost Containment Demonstration Projects, establishing a program under which the State-Based Comprehensive Health Care Commission (established below) is required to select States to participate in health coverage and cost containment demonstration projects (State Care projects). Establishes the State-Based Comprehensive Health Care Commission (the Commission) to review, approve, and oversee State Care projects. Authorizes appropriations. Requires States desiring grants to develop State Care projects to establish a State Health Care Authority through which to develop such projects. Exempts from this requirement States that have enacted comprehensive health care plans (State Care plans) within 12 months of enactment of this Act. Establishes Federal standards for approval of applications for grants for demonstrations in up to ten States. Specifies State Care plan requirements, including those for standard and basic benefit packages, cost-control mechanisms, and quality control procedures. Details the various items and services which constitute each respective package. Sets limits on the amount, scope, and duration of certain benefits under the standard package. Details cost-sharing under the respective packages, and provides for limits on out-of-pocket package expenses. Authorizes the Commission to award grants to States receiving approval of a State Care project grant application for: (1) establishment of a data base infrastructure necessary to measure and evaluate State Care plan success in achieving cost containment and access goals; and (2) consolidation of health care budgeting, regulating, financing, and delivery responsibilities of the State. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits payments under Medicaid (SSA title XIX) for State Care project services if payment for them may be made under the State Care plan. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to pay to each State participating in a State Care project an amount equal to the amount of any payments that, as a result of such prohibition, were not made under Medicaid because payment was made under the State Care plan. Sets forth provisions governing the application of Medicare (SSA title XVIII) and ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) with respect to any approved State Care project. Requires periodic reports by the Commission to the Congress on the reforms undertaken in States participating in State Care projects, along with recommendations for increased Federal funding for reform initiatives and project grants. Requires additional Commission reports on continued financing of State Care plans and, if no national comprehensive health care system has been established, on establishing such a system that utilizes the experiences of State Care projects.
Bill· SS. 3184 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992
Private Pension Reform Act - Retirement 2000 - Title I: Portable Pension Accounts - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to establish portability requirements for qualified pension plans. Requires qualified plans to: (1) maintain portable pension accounts to receive transfers from other such plans or accounts; and (2) make transfers of an employee's eligible amounts to another portable pension account, at the election of the employee upon separation from service. Allows individuals to establish portable pension accounts on their own behalf for receiving and making transfers to other such accounts of their own or of qualified plans. Sets forth standards for portable pension accounts, including distribution requirements for permitted retirement income forms, participant's consent, spousal consent, asset control, and notice. Defines eligible amount with respect to any participant, for defined benefit plans and for defined contribution plans, to include employee contributions. Sets forth a formula for determining the present value of accrued benefits of a participant. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe by regulations one or more prototype portable pension accounts which would, upon adoption by any plan sponsor, constitute a portable pension account meeting such portability requirements. Requires that a plan sponsor of a portable pension account be at least one of the following: (1) an employer adopting such an account; (2) an employee association or organization sponsoring such an account on behalf of its members; (3) a registered investment advisor; (4) a bank; (5) an insurance company qualified to do so, but only if participants are fully covered under a State guaranty fund; or (6) a savings and loan association empowered by law to do so. Title II: Minimum Benefit Pension System- Amends ERISA to establish a minimum benefit pension system. Requires employers to establish and maintain minimum benefit pension plans which cover all employees who have completed one year of service (of at least 500 hours of service per employee). Establishes standards for minimum benefit pension plans. Requires employers who offer defined contribution plans to contribute to the minimum benefit not less than three percent (the applicable percentage) of the employee's compensation in the plan year. Requires that, in the case of a defined benefit plan, the minimum benefit be the greater of: (1) the present value of the participant's accrued benefit; or (2) the amount such benefit would have been if the employer had made the minimum three-percent-of-compensation contribution. Sets forth a special rule for contribution and benefit for part-time employees. Requires that each participant have a nonforfeitable (or vested) right to such minimum accrued benefits. Prohibits integrating (i.e. reducing or offsetting) the minimum benefit with any other benefits under pension plans maintained by the employer or with the participant's benefits under the Social Security Act. Directs the Secretary of Labor to appoint a National Retirement Board consisting of one representative of employers, one representative of employees, and one expert in the field of pension benefits. Authorizes the Board to make recommendations to increase the applicable percentage (three percent) if this is necessary to provide an adequate retirement income for plan participants. Makes such recommendations effective for plan years beginning after the recommendation or the date specified there, whichever is later, until a subsequent recommendation takes effect. Provides for a phase-in with lower applicable percentages for the first two plan years. Sets forth special rules for aggregation, transition (with an exception for large employees), and maintenance of effort. Imposes a civil penalty on the failure of an employer to maintain a minimum benefit pension plan with respect to any employee. Makes such penalty inapplicable if such failure was due to reasonable cause and not to willful neglect, and is corrected within 30 days. Make such minimum benefit plan requirements applicable to plan years beginning two years or more after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretaries of Labor and of the Treasury to issue regulations.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 332 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1992
Designates October 1992 as Country Music Month.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 330 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1992
Designates March 1993 as Irish-American Heritage Month.
Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 133 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1992
Congratulates the citizens of Israel on concluding fair and open democratic elections. Welcomes Prime Minister Rabin to the United States. Applauds his statements and actions encouraging active participation in the search for peace. Calls upon all parties in the region to actively and seriously engage in the peace process.
Law· SS. 3134 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1992
Ready to Learn Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to establish Ready to Learn Television programs to: (1) expand availability of educational and instructional video programming and supporting educational resources for preschool and elementary school children as a tool to improve school readiness; and (2) develop and distribute such programming and support materials for parents, child care providers, and educators of young children. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to implement such programs. Directs the Secretary, in administering them, to: (1) set priorities regarding educational needs of preschool and elementary school children; (2) award grants for development and dissemination of such educational and instructional programming and of training materials; (3) establish a Special Projects of National Significance program of grants to develop programming and to support materials to address learning needs of young children in English-limited households, and to increase literacy skills among parents to assist them in teaching their children; (4) establish within the Department of Education a clearinghouse for information, referrals, and model program materials; (5) coordinate activities with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make such programming and training materials available to other federally funded programs serving preschool and elementary school children; (6) consult with the Secretary of Commerce regarding what the educational and information needs of preschool and elementary school children are for purposes of implementing specified requirements of the Children's Television Act of 1990; and (7) coordinate activities funded under this Act with those of the National Endowment for Children's Educational Television established under the Communications Act of 1934. Sets forth requirements relating to awards of such grants for developing and distributing programming and training materials. Requires annual reports to the Secretary by grantees for programming and support materials development and distribution and biannual reports by the Secretary to relevant congressional committees on information and outreach for training parents and personnel. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with a public broadcasting entity to distribute educational video programming for preschool and elementary school children, parents, and child care providers, on at least one channel under a specified satellite interconnection. Designates such channel the Ready to Learn Channel. Authorizes appropriations for Ready to Learn Television programs. Requires at least 60 percent of such funds to be used for grants to develop and distribute educational programming for children. Amends the Head Start Act (the Act) to revise various provisions for the Head Start program (the program). Extends for one additional year the formula for distribution of certain quality improvement funds allocated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), thus extending local determination of the use of such funds over that period. Requires early childhood intervention programs under the program to include parental literacy training among the services they provide for parents. Establishes guidelines which the Secretary of HHS must consider in determining whether a local Head Start agency may receive a waiver or reduction of required non-Federal matching funds. Includes consideration of community lack of resources, whether the community is adversely affected by a major disaster, impacts of program costs in initial years or unanticipated increases in operating costs, and impact on the community if the program were forced to close there. Directs the Secretary of HHS to issue transportation safety regulations for all Head Start programs. Directs the Secretary of HHS to review each newly designated Head Start agency immediately after completion of its first year and to conduct followup reviews of Head Start agencies when appropriate. Revises provisions for designation of Head Start agencies to include consideration of the applicant agency's effectiveness based on: (1) its plan to provide, directly or through referral, child development and literacy skills training to parents of participating children; and (2) its plan (if it chooses to do so) for assisting younger siblings of participants to obtain health services from other sources. Requires Head Start agencies to provide, directly or through referral, child development and literacy skills training to parents of participating children. Requires such agencies to consider providing services to assist younger siblings of participants to obtain health services from other sources. Directs the Secretary of HHS to establish uniform procedures for Head Start agencies to request approval to purchase facilities to be used to carry out Head Start programs. Requires such request applications to include: (1) facility site description; (2) facility plans and specifications; (3) information demonstrating either that the purchase will result in a cost savings (compared to an alternative facility) or that there are no alternative facilities available; and (4) additional information and assurances that the Secretary of HHS requires. Makes certain technical amendments to the Act and to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 and the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990. Revises requirements for technical assistance, training, and staff qualifications. Provides for use of Head Start program funds to support an organization to administer a centralized child development and national assessment program leading to recognized credentials for personnel working in early child development and child care programs. (Current law allows administration of such program at the State or local level and limits such credentials to specialized or other personnel needed in connection with Head Start programs.) Directs the Secretary of HHS to: (1) develop a systematic approach to training Head Start personnel, including specific goals and objectives for program improvement and professional development, a process for continuing input from the Head Start community, and a strategy for delivering training and technical assistance; and (2) report on such approach to specified congressional committees. Authorizes the Secretary of HHS to provide (either directly or through grants) training for Head Start personnel in the use of the performing and visual arts and interactive programs using electronic media to enhance the learning experience of Head Start children.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 329 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1992
Designates February 4, 1993, and February 3, 1994, as National Women and Girls in Sports Day.
Bill· SS. 3098 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1992
Declares that it is U.S. policy to seek international agreements prohibiting the sale, transfer, or export; limiting the use; and terminating the production, possession, or deployment of antipersonnel landmines. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should seek to negotiate an international agreement or a modification of the 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 prohibit the sale, transfer, or export of antipersonnel landmines. Prohibits for a period of one year from this Act's enactment date: (1) sales, financing, transfers, and the issuance of licenses under the Arms Export Control with respect to antipersonnel landmines; and (2) assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to the provision of such landmines.
Bill· SS. 3088 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1992
Comprehensive Services for Youth Act of 1992 - Title I: School-Based or School-Linked Health and Social Services Center Grants - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (the Secretary), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (the Administrator), to award grants to eligible local community partnerships to coordinate and deliver comprehensive education, health, and social services to children or youth in school-based, school-linked, or community-based locations. Requires each such partnership to include: (1) a local health care provider with experience in delivering services to adolescents; (2) one or more local public schools; and (3) at least one community-based organization with a history of providing services to at-risk youth in the particular community. Requires broad-based community participation, through an expanded partnership or an advisory board, involving parents and youth to be served, teachers and other public shool and school board personnel, community-based organizations (particularly those serving minority youth), youth development and service organizations and interested business leaders. Requires targeting of the partnership's location and service to a community in which youth are exposed to a high risk environment. Describes high risk environment as having high rates of: (1) children in poverty or lacking access to health care; (2) dropouts and students retained in grade; (3) alcohol or drug abuse; (4) sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV); (5) teen pregnancy; (6) suicide; (7) community or gang violence; (8) youth unemployment; or (9) juvenile justice involvement. Requires partnership use of grant funds for coordination and delivery of specified core services at a school-based, school-linked, or community-based location or locations accessible to and used by at-risk children, youth, and their families. Sets forth such core services under the categories of: (1) comprehensive health, mental health, and social services; and (2) youth development and life planning services. Requires coordination among core services. Allows use of grant funds for coordination or co-location of core services with additional services identified in the comprehensive plan to enhance support available through the partnership service delivery network. Gives priority to grant applicants whose comprehensive services plan demonstrates: (1) continuity of access to core services on a year-round basis or beyond traditional school or service hours, either on site or through a backup referral system of community-based providers; and (2) the offer of services beyond the in-school population, including core services to out-of-school youth, to the extent practicable. Provides for an initial three-year grant period, and authorizes two-year extensions upon demonstration of substantial progress in integration of comprehensive services and improvement in health and education outcomes of the populations served. Sets forth application and plan requirements. Requires equitable geographic distribution of grants to both urban and rural communities. Sets minimum and maximum grant amounts. Sets forth provisions for Federal share, non-Federal share, and waivers of the latter. Requires grantees to use ten percent of such assistance to provide staff training (including teachers and school personnel) and to secure necessary technical assistance (through local community-based entities, to the maximum extent feasible). Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to award one-year nonrenewable planning grants to eligible entities that agree to establish a local community partnership to deliver comprehensive services. Sets forth application requirements. Requires use of such planning grants for: (1) assessments of needs and barriers to services; (2) for delivery planning and coordination of services; and (3) development of program goals and progress measurements. Limits to ten percent the portion of grant program funds which may be used for such planning grants. Limits the maximum amount of each planning grant. Title II: State and Local Coordinated Youth Services Grants - Subtitle A: Local Consortia Grants - Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to award grants to eligible consortia to coordinate and deliver comprehensive core education, health, and social services to at-risk youth through an integrated service delivery network directed by a consortium. Requires such consortia membership to include representatives from the local health department, local educational agency, health and social services providers and community-based organizations with a history of serving at-risk youth (including minority youth, dropouts, adolescent parents, and runaway or homeless youth), youth development organizations, juvenile justice personnel, and parents and the at-risk youth to be served. Requires specified financial or organizational commitments by consortium members. Subtitle B: Statewide Youth Services Center Grants - Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to award grants to eligible States to provide for coordination and delivery of comprehensive education, health, and social services to at-risk youth through the award of State grants to local community partnerships or corsortia. Requires States, to be eligible for such grants, to: (1) provide assurances of cooperative agreements among State education, health, and social services agencies concerning planned delivery of such comprehensive youth services; (2) demonstrate financial and organizational commitments; (3) currently support coordinated delivery of such services through a system of school-based, school-linked, or community-based comprehensive youth services centers; (4) document that services are prioritized among communities that have a high-risk environment for youth, as indicated by specified factors; and (5) meet certain application requirements. Subtitle C: Provisions Relating to Both Local and Statewide Grant Programs - Sets forth requirements for applications and use of grant funds for a consortium or State entity awarded a grant under subtitle A or B. Requires coordination and delivery of specified core services through a system of school-based, school-linked, or community-based youth centers to serve in-school and out-of-school youth and their families. Sets forth such core services under the categories of: (1) comprehensive health, mental health, and social services; and (2) youth development and life planning services. Requires coordination and co-location of delivery of existing core services into a broader system of health and social services centers accessible to in-school or out-of-school youth to use available resources more effectively before adding new resources or developing new services. Requires provision of outreach services to out-of-school youth (including adolescent parents and runaway and homeless youth), and coordination of core services with alternative education and job training and placement opportunities for such youth. Allows use of grant funds for: (1) coordination and co-location of core services with additional services to enhance the support available to at-risk youth and their families through the service delivery network; and (2) expansion of coordination and delivery of core services to the feeder elementary schools whose students will attend secondary schools currently providing core services. Sets forth grant application, plan formulation and content requirements. Provides for an initial three-year grant period, and authorizes two-year extensions upon demonstration of substantial progress in integration of comprehensive services and improvement in health and education outcomes of the youth served. Provides for an integration incentive. Authorizes the Secretary, in making a grant under this title, to make bonus amounts available as integration incentives. Specifies formulas for such bonuses. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to award one-year nonrenewable planning grants to consortia or States. Sets forth application requirements. Requires the use of such funds to: (1) establish an administrative mechanism to develop and implement a citywide, countywide, or statewide system of school-based, school-linked, or community-based comprehensive youth services centers; (2) assess needs and barriers to services; (3) develop program goals and progress measurements; and (4) develop a strategic plan for coordination and delivery of comprehensive services to youth at school-based, school-linked, or community-based locations. Limits to ten percent the portion of grant program funds which may be used for such planning grants. Limits the maximum amount of each planning grant. Title III: Implementation Provisions - Makes ineligible for title I funds any community that: (1) is currently receiving State funds to deliver co-located education, health, and social services; or (2) will receive funding from a State funded under subtitle B of title II. Allows such a currently funded community partnership to form a consortium to seek funding for an expanded citywide or countywide youth services network under subtitle A of title II. Requires a local consortium operating in a locality receiving State funding for delivery of such co-located services to include participation from the entities receiving such State funding. Makes eligible for continued funding, at the completion of its five-year grant period under title I, a partnership that has expanded into a citywide or countywide consortium (as described under subtitle A of title II) or has become part of a statewide network (as described under subtitle B of title II). Directs the Secretary to consult with the Secretary of Education in developing program regulations to implement this Act. Directs the Secretary to disseminate information on programs under this Act and on successful and model programs and to provide technical assistance. Requires such information and assistance to be provided directly through the Health Resources and Services Administration as the administering agency and other Department of HHS agencies with appropriate expertise, or through grants and contracts with nonprofit organizations. Requires the Secretary to collaborate with the Departments of Education and Labor and the Commission on National and Community Service, in such information and technical assistance efforts. Sets forth annual reporting requirements for entities receiving funds under this Act, including analyses of progress at the end of the third year. Sets forth maintenance-of-effort requirements. Authorizes appropriations for titles I and II and for special projects of national significance under title IV. Title IV: Federal Coordinated Youth Services Initiatives - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to establish and administer a special projects of national significance program to award direct grants to public and nonprofit private entities to fund model programs to integrate health and social services, including HIV prevention, provided to special populations of youth at risk. Bases grant awards on: (1) need to provide such services to such subpopulations; (2) need to assess effectiveness of a prevention or service model or collaboration strategy; and (3) potential replicability of proposed activities in other localities. Allows such special projects to include projects targeting youth who are: (1) runaway, homeless, or street youth; (2) immigrants or migrants; (3) in the juvenile justice system; (4) in foster care; (5) in gangs; (6) with a history of substance abuse; (7) with HIV disease; (8) adolescent parents; and (9) Native American. Amends the Augustus F. Hawkins Human Resources Reauthorization Act of 1990 to direct the Federal Council on Children, Youth, and Families to: (1) identify (and make recommendations to modify or eliminate) program regulations or practices that impede coordination and collaboration; (2) develop recommendations for creating jointly funded programs, unified assessments, eligibility, application procedures, and confidentiality regulations that facilitate information-sharing; and (3) make recommendations to the Congress on legislative action needed to facilitate coordination of educational, health, and social services for in-school and out-of-school youth. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress: (1) biannual reports, with summaries of annual grantee reports and progress assessments; and (2) a final evaluation report within four and a half years. Directs the Secretary to use the amount made available under specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act to conduct such evaluation.
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