United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1995
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense or the Army to award a military decoration to any person for an act, achievement, or service performed in the Ia Drang Valley (Pleiku) campaign in Vietnam during the Vietnam War while serving on active Army duty. Directs the Secretary of the Army to: (1) review all recommendations for such awards received within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, including those received before such enactment; and (2) report to specified congressional committees concerning review findings, recommendations, and any final actions taken with respect to such awards.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1995
Rural Health Improvement Act of 1995 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to replace the essential access community hospital (EACH) program with grants to States for Medicare rural hospital flexibility programs for the purpose of: (1) ensuring rural community access to health care services through designated critical access hospitals limiting the scope of available inpatient acute care services; (2) providing more appropriate and flexible staffing and licensure standards; (3) enhancing hospital financial security by requiring Medicare reimbursement on a reasonable cost basis; and (4) promoting linkages between such hospitals and broader programs for development and transition to integrated provider networks. Specifies requirements of such a program. Continues payments to designated EACHs. Authorizes appropriations. Makes various specified amendments under Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) related to rural primary care and critical access hospitals. Creates within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) an Assistant Secretary for Rural Health to: (1) head an independent Office of Rural Health Policy; and (2) report directly to the HHS Secretary on the implications of national health care reforms for rural areas. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) use of telemedicine services can increase rural resident access to specialized health services; and (2) although such services are furnished to Medicare beneficiaries nationwide, service providers are not reimbursed for them under Medicare. Makes it the purpose of this Act to improve rural Medicare beneficiary access to such services by requiring Medicare reimbursement for them pursuant to a methodology developed by the HHS Secretary and submitted to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1995
Black Revolutionary War Patriots Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the design selected by the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Foundation for the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial in Washington, D.C. Directs that coin sale surcharges be paid to the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Foundation to establish an endowment to support construction of the Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1995
Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 1995 - Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation by covered entities, including an employing authority to which specified provisions of the Government Employee Rights Act of 1991 or the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 apply. Declares that: (1) this Act does not apply to the provision of employee benefits for the benefit of an employee's partner; and (2) a disparate impact does not establish a prima facie violation of this Act. Prohibits quotas and preferential treatment. Declares that this Act does not apply to: (1) religious organizations (except in their for-profit activities); (2) the armed forces; or (3) laws creating special rights or preferences for veterans. Provides for enforcement. Disallows State immunity. Makes the United States liable for all remedies (except punitive damages) to the same extent as a private person. Allows recovery of attorney's fees. Prohibits retaliation and coercion. Requires posting notices for employees and applicants.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Small Business Advocacy Review Title II: Peer Review Survey Small Business Advocacy Act of 1995 - Title I: Small Business Advocacy Review - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to designate an EPA employee who is a member of the Senior Executive Service and whose immediate supervisor is appointed by the President to serve as the chairperson of each Environmental Small Business Advocacy Review Panel established under this Act. Directs the Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) of the Department of Labor to designate an OSHA employee with such qualifications to serve as the chairperson of each Occupational Safety and Health Small Business Advocacy Review Panel established under this Act. Directs the appropriate chairperson, with respect to a proposed Federal agency rule (other than agency organization, management, or personnel rules), to determine whether such rule is significant (has an impact on small business and has an annual aggregate impact on government and the private sector of at least $50 million) and, if so, to notify the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget and the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to appoint review panel members for evaluation of the rule. Requires each chairperson to notify panel members of the intent of an agency to issue a final rule, and to solicit comments from the panel with respect to the rule's effect on small business. Provides review panel administrative, procedural, and personnel matters. Directs each chairperson to submit to the appropriate Federal agency employees responsible for carrying out a significant rule and to the appropriate congressional committees a report containing the findings and recommendations of the review panel for such rule and a recommendation of whether to conduct a cross-section survey of the small businesses impacted by the rule. Prohibits: (1) the judicial review of review panel activities; or (2) the publication of a rule in the Federal Register until the appropriate chairperson has had an adequate opportunity for its review under this Act. Title II: Peer Review Survey - Provides that, if a review panel recommends that a survey be conducted, the Federal agency involved shall contract with a private sector firm or organization to conduct the survey. Requires the availability of survey results to each interested Federal agency and, upon request, to any other interested party.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1995
Commends Captain Scott F. O'Grady for his heroic conduct after being shot down by Bosnian Serb forces. Commends the U.S. and NATO forces involved in Capt. O'Grady's rescue. Expresses the sense of the Senate that U.S. and NATO air crews should not be put at risk over Bosnia unless all necessary actions to address the threat posed by hostile Serbian air defenses are taken.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1995
Amends the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the following water reclamation and reuse projects: the North San Diego County Area Water Recycling Project, the Calleguas Municipal Water District Water Recycling Project, the Central Valley Water Recycling Project, the St. George Area Water Recycling Project, the Watonsville Area Water Recycling Project, the Southern Nevada Water Recycling Project, the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area Water Reclamation and Reuse Study, and the El Paso Water Reclamation and Reuse Project. Limits the Federal share to 25 percent of the total cost of a project. Authorizes the Secretary to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the Long Beach Desalination and Research Development Project in Los Angeles County, California, and the Las Vegas Area Shallow Aquifer Desalination Research and Development Project in Clark County, Nevada. Limits the Federal share of project costs to 50 percent. Prohibits the Secretary from providing operation and maintenance funds for any of such projects.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Commemorative Coin Programs Title II: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Maintenance Fund United States Commemorative Coin Act of 1995 - Title I: Commemorative Coin Programs - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue gold and-or silver coins: (1) emblematic of the Bicentennial of the United States; (2) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations and the role of President Harry S. Truman; (3) to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Smithsonian Institution; (4) to commemorate the public opening of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.; (5) to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the establishment of Yellowstone National Park as the first National Park in the United States; and (6) to recognize the sacrifices of law enforcement officers and their families in preserving public safety. Provides for the distribution of surcharges from the sale of coins. (Sec. 102) Mandates that the design for the coins be: (1) selected by the Secretary after consultation with the appropriate recipient organizations and the Commission of Fine Arts; and (2) reviewed by the Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee. Title II: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Maintenance Fund - Establishes the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Maintenance Fund as a revolving fund administered by the Secretary of the Interior to be used for specified purposes, including: (1) for the maintenance, security, and repair of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.; (2) to periodically add to the Memorial the names of law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty; and (3) to provide educational scholarships to the immediate family members of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty whose names appear on the Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1995
Primary Care Health Practitioner Incentive Act of 1995 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, with respect to payments for medical and other health services, to cover services which would be physicians' services if furnished by a physician but: (1) which are performed by a clinical nurse specialist working in collaboration with a physician; and (2) which the clinical nurse specialist is legally authorized to perform by the State. Eliminates the requirement, with respect to such services performed by a nurse practitioner, that they be performed in a skilled nursing facility or other specified nursing facility. Covers, in addition, other services and supplies incidental to such services. Revises the formula for payment from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund for such services (thereby increasing such payment). Repeals the rural area restriction on services performed by nurse practitioners or clinical nurse specialists for which direct payment may be made. Requires a ten percent bonus payment from the Fund for services of a nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist furnished in a health professional shortage area.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1995
James Madison Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue commemorative one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the 250th anniversary of the birth of James Madison and the life and achievements of the fourth President of the United States. Requires the Secretary to turn over proceeds from surcharges to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to be used to: (1) establish an endowment as a permanent source for Montpelier (home of James Madison and a museum); and (2) fund capital restoration projects at Montpelier.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reorganization Compacts Title II: Amendment to the Indian Self-Determination Act Title III: Reform of the Regulations of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Bureau of Indian Affairs Reorganization Act of 1995 - Title I: Reorganization Compacts - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to enter into compacts with the appropriate Indian tribes to reorganize the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) at the area, agency, and central office levels, with any attendant savings to be allocated among the tribes. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Amendment to the Indian Self-Determination Act - Amends the Indian Self-Determination Act, as amended by the Tribal Self-Governance Act of 1994, to: (1) direct the Secretary to establish a program of tribal participation in BIA budget requests; and (2) direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a similar program for the Indian Health Service. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Reform of the Regulations of the Bureau of Indian Affairs - Directs the Secretary to: (1) review the BIA Manual; and (2) establish a related regulatory task force which shall include tribal representatives from each of the 12 BIA areas. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Eligible Shareholders of S Corporation Subtitle A: Number of Shareholders Subtitle B: Persons Allowed as Shareholders Subtitle C: Other Provisions Title II: Qualification and Eligibility Requirements for S Corporations Subtitle A: One Class of Stock Subtitle B: Elections and Terminations Subtitle C: Other Provisions Title III: Taxation of S Corporation Shareholders Title IV: Effective Date S Corporation Reform Act of 1995 - Title I: Eligible Shareholders of S Corporation - Subtitle A: Number of Shareholders - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from 35 to 50 the maximum number of shareholders of an S corporation (electing small business corporation). Allows members of a family to be treated as one shareholder. Subtitle B: Persons Allowed as Shareholders - Allows the following entities to be shareholders of S corporations: (1) certain tax-exempt organizations; (2) financial institutions that do not use the reserve method of accounting for bad debts; (3) nonresident aliens; and (4) certain small business trusts. Subtitle C: Other Provisions - Extends the post-death qualification for certain trusts to be permitted as shareholders from 60 days to two years. Title II: Qualification and Eligibility Requirements for S Corporations - Subtitle A: One Class of Stock - Allows an S corporation to issue qualified preferred stock. Permits financial institutions to hold safe harbor debt. Subtitle B: Elections and Terminations - Revises the rules on inadvertent terminations by certain trusts of the election to be an S corporation. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to treat certain late elections as timely and to provide an automatic waiver procedure for certain inadvertent terminations. Expands the post-termination transition period until 120 days after a determination is made that the election had terminated in a prior year. Repeals the characterization of excessive passive investment income as a termination event. Increases the tax imposed on such excessive income. Subtitle C: Other Provisions - Permits an S corporation to wholly own the stock of a subsidiary. Provides for the treatment of distributions during loss years. Provides a consent dividend for S corporation elections to by-pass amounts in the accumulated adjustments account when making distributions. Eliminates the rule treating an S corporation as an individual in its capacity as shareholder of another corporation for purposes of subchapter C. Eliminates the pre-1983 earnings and profits accumulated by a corporation that was an S corporation for any taxable year beginning before January 1, 1983, and is so characterized for its first taxable year after December 31, 1995. Allows S corporations to make charitable contributions of inventory and scientific property. Repeals the requirement that partnership rules apply for fringe benefit purposes (making C corporation rules applicable). Provides for the application to two-percent shareholders of S corporations of the rules regarding deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Title III: Taxation of S Corporation Shareholders - Applies the exemption from the excise tax on pension plan prohibited transactions to plans providing benefits for S corporation shareholder-employees (as defined before the effective date of the Subchapter S Revision Act of 1982). Treats losses on liquidations of S corporations as ordinary to the extent the loss created by ordinary income pass-through triggered the liquidation. Title IV: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 1995.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1995
Condemns the bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Sends condolences to the families. Commends rescue and volunteer workers, law enforcement officials, and the President. Urges the President to use all necessary means to find and punish the perpetrators. Supports the President's and Attorney General's position that Federal prosecutors will seek the maximum penalty allowed by law, including the death penalty, for those responsible. Declares that the Senate will expeditiously approve legislation to strengthen the authority and resources of all Federal agencies involved in combating such acts of terrorism.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1995
Gambling Impact Study Commission Act - Establishes the Gambling Impact Study Commission to study, and report to the President and the Congress, all matters relating to the impact of gambling on States, political subdivisions of States, and Native American tribes, and possible alternative sources of revenue for them. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1995
Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Research, Assistance, and Education Act of 1995 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to mandate a program for the conduct and support of research and training, the dissemination of health information, and other programs regarding Parkinson's disease. Establishes the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Parkinson's Disease. Requires Core Center Grants to encourage the development of innovative multidisciplinary research and provide training concerning Parkinson's, designating each grant recipient as a Morris K. Udall Center for Research on Parkinson's Disease. Authorizes establishment of the National Parkinson's Disease Data System to collect, store, analyze, retrieve, and disseminate data. Establishes: (1) the National Parkinson's Disease Information Clearinghouse; (2) a grant program to support scientists who have distinguished themselves in Parkinson's research; and (3) a national education program to foster a national focus on Parkinson's and the care of those with Parkinson's. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1995
Santa Fe National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 1995 - Modifies and expands the boundary of the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to exchange public lands and interests managed by the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for private lands and interests within the Forest. Withdraws acquired lands from all public land, mining, and mineral and geothermal leasing laws. Requires the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to identify federally-owned lands and interests within the boundary of the Forest on the enactment of this Act which are suitable for transfer to, and administration by, BLM. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer such identified lands to the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director. Modifies the boundary of the Forest to exclude such transferred lands. Requires the lands to be managed as public lands as defined in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. Requires lands acquired by the Secretaries under this Act to be added to and administered as part of the Forest in accordance with National Forest System laws. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to manage such lands primarily to preserve open space and scenic values and to preclude development.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1995
National African American Museum Act - Establishes within the Smithsonian Institution the National African American Museum to be operated as a center for scholarship and a location for museum training, public education, exhibits, and collection and study of items and materials relating to the life, art, history, and culture of African Americans. Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, reconstruct, and renovate the Arts and Industries Building to house the Museum. Establishes a Board of Trustees of the Museum in the Smithsonian Institution. Directs the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to appoint a Director to manage the Museum.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1995
Ryan White CARE Reauthorization Act of 1995 - Amends title XXVI (HIV Health Care Services Program) of the Public Health Service Act regarding emergency relief for areas with a substantial need for services. Changes requirements for grants to metropolitan areas having large numbers of cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Modifies the composition, chairperson requirements, and duties of local human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) health services planning councils. Revises requirements for supplemental grants. Alters the method for determining the amount of each grant, the mandated uses of the grants, and application requirements. Allows a single application for initial and supplemental grants and authorizes both to be made as a single grant. Mandates (currently, allows) technical assistance. Authorizes planning grants. Amends provisions relating to the care grant program to change the uses of HIV care consortia grants and consortium application requirements. Mandates establishment of a recommended minimum formulary of pharmaceutical drug therapies approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Revises: (1) State duties in using grant funds to provide treatments; (2) State application requirements; and (3) planning, evaluation, and administration requirements. Mandates (currently, allows) technical assistance. Mandates grievance procedures to address allegations of egregious violations of title XXVI. Requires coordination of the planning and implementation of Federal HIV programs by the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Amends early intervention services provisions to: (1) require grant recipients to provide a continuum of primary care; and (2) modify other requirements regarding uses of grant funds. Authorizes planning grants to entities that are not direct primary care providers to enable them to provide HIV primary care services. Authorizes appropriations for early intervention grants. Replaces provisions mandating demonstration grants for research and services for pediatric AIDS patients with provisions mandating grants for primary care for out-patient care and support services to children, youth, women with HIV disease, and the families of those individuals and for facilitating the participation of such individuals in research. Requires procedures for the protection of human subjects. Prohibits conditioning services on research participation. Authorizes appropriations. Reserves a specified portion of the amounts appropriated under other parts of title XXVI to administer a special projects of national significance program to award direct grants for special programs for the care and treatment of individuals with HIV disease. Repeals current provisions relating to special projects of national significance. Replaces provisions of the Public Health Service Act authorizing grants and contracts to train the faculty of specified types of health professions schools regarding providing for the health care needs of individuals with HIV disease with provisions authorizing grants and contracts to train health personnel, including community providers, in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of HIV infection and disease. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 4) Amends title XXVI provisions relating to emergency relief for areas with a substantial need for services to modify the formula for determining the amount of grants. (Sec. 5) Amends provisions relating to the care grant program to change the formula regarding minimum grant allotments. (Sec. 6) Authorizes appropriations to make grants under title XXVI provisions relating to: (1) emergency relief for areas with a substantial need for services; and (2) the care grant program. Mandates development and implementation of a methodology for adjusting the percentages allocated to those parts. Repeals existing authorizations of appropriations for those parts.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1995
Child Custody Reform Act of 1995 - Revises provisions of the Federal judicial code (regarding full faith and credit given to child custody determinations) to provide that the jurisdiction of a court of a State that has made a child custody determination continues as long as such State remains the residence of the child or of any contestant. Specifies that such continuing jurisdiction shall be subject to any applicable provision of law of the State that issued the initial custody determination when such State law establishes limitations on continuing jurisdiction when a child is absent from such State. Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand the Federal Parent Locator Service to establish a national network to allow State courts to identify every proceeding relating to child custody jurisdiction filed before any court of the United States or of any State. Specifies that information identifying custody determinations from other countries will also be accepted for filing in the registry. Authorizes appropriations. Expresses the sense of the Senate that local governments should take full advantage of the Local Crime Prevention Block Grant Program (established under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) to establish supervised visitation centers for children who have been removed from their parents and placed outside the home as a result of abuse or neglect or other risk of harm to them, and for children whose parents are separated or divorced and the children are at risk because of physical or mental abuse or domestic violence.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1995
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to declare, with respect to returning residents and nonresidents arriving in the United States from another country contiguous to the United States with which the United States has a free trade agreement, that the amount of the exemption from duty shall not exceed an amount equal to the exemption for personal and household effects acquired in the United States provided by such country to residents returning to, or nonresidents arriving in, such country.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1995
Confers jurisdiction upon the United States Court of Federal Claims with respect to certain land claims of the Pueblo of Isleta Indian Tribe of New Mexico.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1995
Amends the National Trails System Act to require the Secretary of the Interior to study for designation as a national scenic trail: (1) the Old Spanish Trail, beginning in Santa Fe, New Mexico, proceeding through Colorado and Utah and ending in Los Angeles, California; and (2) the Northern Branch of such trail, beginning near Espanola, New Mexico, proceeding through Colorado, and ending near Crescent Junction, Utah.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1995
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to recognize as a tax-exempt organization any legal entity created by a State or political subdivision to establish a risk pool to provide health insurance coverage for certain persons who are unable to obtain private health insurance.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1995
Victims of Abuse Access to Health Insurance Act - Prohibits health insurers from discriminating against an individual or group because the individual is or may be a victim of domestic violence. Prohibits considering a condition or injury resulting from domestic violence as a pre-existing condition. Mandates civil and criminal penalties and provides for injunctive relief and compensatory and punitive damages. Declares that, for the purposes of the McCarran-Ferguson Act, this Act specifically relates to the business of insurance.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1995
Exempts certain transmission line facilities associated with the El Vado Hydroelectric Project in New Mexico from the hydroelectric licensing provisions of part I of the Federal Power Act and from the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1995
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) obstetrician-gynecologists should be included as primary care providers for women in Federal laws relating to the provision of health care; and (2) legislative proposals that define primary care should include primary care services performed by obstetrician-gynecologists in such definition.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1995
Medicare Diabetes Outpatient Self-Management Training Act of 1995 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of diabetes outpatient self-management training services.
United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1995
National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 - Designates the most recent National Highway System (as of the date of this Act's enactment) as submitted by the Secretary of Transportation to be the National Highway System (NHS). Authorizes the Secretary, at the request of a State, to add a new route segment to the NHS (including a new intermodal connection) or delete a route segment in existence on the date of the request if the total mileage of the NHS, including any route segment or connection proposed to be added, does not exceed 165,000 miles. Requires each State making a request for a change in the NHS to establish that each change has been identified by the State, in cooperation with local officials, pursuant to applicable transportation planning activities for metropolitan areas and statewide planning processes. Authorizes the Secretary to approve such a request upon determining that the change meets the criteria established for, and enhances the national transportation characteristics of, the NHS. Authorizes the obligation of funds for capital and operating costs for traffic monitoring, management, and control facilities and programs (currently, for startup costs for traffic management and control if such costs are limited as specified). Increases the percentage (from 40 to 60) of apportionments that may be transferred from the apportionment under one section to the apportionment under any other if requested by the State highway department and approved by the Secretary as being in the public interest. Revises provisions regarding the Federal share for: (1) highways, bridges, and tunnels to make such share a percentage determined by the State, but not to exceed 80 percent; and (2) bicycle transportation facilities and pedestrian walkways to make such share a sum to be determined according to a specified formula. Authorizes individuals to donate funds, materials, or services in connection with activities eligible for Federal assistance under Federal highway provisions. Directs that, in the case of such an activity with respect to which the Federal Government and the State share in paying the cost, any donated funds or the fair market value of any donated materials or services that are accepted and incorporated into the activity by the State highway agency shall be credited against the State share. Bars any State from being required to: (1) erect any highway sign that establishes any speed limit, distance, or other measurement using the metric system; or (2) modify any highway sign that establishes any such measurement so that the sign uses the metric system. Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to set a time limit for obligation of funds for intelligent vehicle-highway systems projects. Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate such funds if they are not obligated by the specified date.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1995
Authorizes the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to establish a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., in the District of Columbia and its environs. Prohibits the United States from paying any expense of establishing the memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1995
Professional Baseball Antitrust Reform Act of 1995 - Amends the Clayton Act to make the antitrust laws applicable to the business of organized professional major league baseball with respect to labor- management relations. Specifies that this Act shall not affect: (1) the outcome of any antitrust litigation based on any area or activity of the business of professional baseball other than the area of, or an activity relating to, relations between labor and management of major league baseball; (2) the application of the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961; or (3) the applicability or nonapplicability of the antitrust laws to professional baseball's amateur draft, the minor league reserve clause, the Professional Baseball Agreement, or any other matter relating to the minor leagues. Makes the nonstatutory labor exemption from the antitrust laws inapplicable to any term or condition that: (11) is unilaterally imposed or maintained by any party that has been subject to an agreement between the owners of major league baseball and the labor organization representing the players of major league baseball; and (2) differs substantially from the provisions of the basic agreement between the two parties that expired on December 31, 1993. Specifies that nothing in this Act shall affect the scope or application of the nonstatutory labor exemption from the antitrust laws, that "term or condition" does not include a strike or lockout, and that this provision shall not apply to conduct that is incidental to or occurs after the mutual adoption of an agreement between the owners and the labor organization representing the players of major league baseball to replace the December 31, 1993, agreement, but shall apply to other conduct occurring before the adoption of such an agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1995
Working Wage Increase Act of 1995 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the minimum wage per hour to: (1) $4.70 during the year beginning July 4, 1995; and (2) $5.15 after July 3, 1996.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1995
Rio Puerco Watershed Act of 1995 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) establish a clearinghouse for research and information on management within the Rio Puerco Drainage Basin; (2) establish an inventory of best management practices and related monitoring activities that have been or may be implemented within the Rio Puerco Watershed Project; and (3) provide support to the Rio Puerco Management Committee to identify objectives, monitor results of ongoing projects, and develop alternative watershed management plans for the Rio Puerco Drainage Basin based on best management practices. Directs the Secretary to prepare a report of appropriate alternatives for the improvement of watershed conditions in the Rio Puerco Drainage Basin. Establishes the Rio Puerco Management Committee to: (1) advise the Secretary on the development and implementation of the management program; and (2) serve as a forum of information concerning the watershed and implementation of best management practices. Terminates the Committee ten years after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to specified congressional committees on the implementation of this Act; and (2) study and report to such committees on habitat conditions of the Rio Grande from Caballo Lake to Sunland Park, New Mexico. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1995
White Sands Fair Compensation Act of 1995 - Establishes in the Department of Defense (DOD) the White Sands Fair Compensation Commission. Provides for claims to the Commission for full compensation for the taking by DOD for use as the White Sands Missile Range of property of individuals who were engaged in ranching activities at the time of the taking or who possessed a mining claim in such property and who claim that the amount paid for such taking was not full compensation. Requires claims to be filed within 14 months after the enactment of this Act. Provides for: (1) Commission evaluation of claims; (2) rules for the valuation of real property involved; (3) priority in claim evaluation for individuals owning the property continuously from 1941 until the taking of the property in 1975; (4) appellate and notification procedures; and (5) payment by the Secretary of Defense of appropriate amounts to such individuals. Terminates the Commission 14 months after the completion of all evaluations. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) Commission activities; and (2) the payment of claims.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1995
Childrens' Media Protection Act of 1995 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) prescribe rules for the rating of violence levels in television programming, including rules for the transmission of signals containing specifications for blocking violent programming; and (2) require television sets with picture screens of 13 inches or more to be equipped with blocking circuitry and enable viewers to block display of all programs with a common rating. Prohibits any person from shipping, manufacturing, assembling, or importing any television not so equipped. Requires performance standards for blocking technology. (Sec. 6) Directs the FCC to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to prescribe a prohibition on the broadcast on commercial television and any public telecommunications entities between six o'clock a.m. and ten o'clock p.m., inclusively, of programming that contains gratuitous violence. (Sec. 7) Directs the FCC, in granting an application for a television broadcast license, to impose conditions which ensure that the applicant complies with the standards for children's television programming as established under the Children's Television Act of 1990 and otherwise serves the educational and informational needs of children through its overall programming. Prohibits a cable franchise award or renewal unless the cable operator complies with such standards.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1995
Veterans' Tax Fairness Act of 1995 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any veterans' allowance or benefit administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1995
Equal Remedies Act of 1995 - Amends Federal law relating to damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination to remove the limits on the dollar amount of damages awardable for pecuniary and nonpecuniary losses and punitive damages.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1995
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 · 25 January 1995
Expresses sympathies to Japan and the citizens of Kobe and Osaka for losses suffered as a result of the earthquake of January 17, 1995, and support to the people of Japan as they rebuild. Pledges support for their efforts in the face of this disaster.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1995
Bisti-De-Na-Zin Wilderness Expansion and Fossil Forest Protection Act - Amends the San Juan Wilderness Protection Act of 1984 to incorporate additional lands in New Mexico into the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness. Withdraws such lands from all forms of appropriation under the mining laws and from disposition under laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing and mineral material sales. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue coal leases in New Mexico in exchange for any preference right coal lease application on such lands after a determination has been made by the Secretary that the applicant is entitled to a preference right lease and that the exchange is in the public interest. Provides for the exchange of State and Navajo Indian lands located in the wilderness for other lands. Establishes the Fossil Forest Research Natural Area within New Mexico. Makes such area subject to the same withdrawal requirements and coal preference rights as the wilderness area designated under this Act. Prohibits livestock grazing in the Area. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, to develop a baseline inventory of all categories of fossil resources within the Area and to conduct monitoring surveys. Requires the Secretary to submit a management plan for the Area to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to include: (1) a plan for the implementation of a cooperative program with other agencies for laboratory and field interpretation and public education; (2) provisions for vehicle management; (3) procedures for the excavation and collection of fossil remains; and (4) mitigation and reclamation standards for activities that disturb the surface to the detriment of scenic and environmental values.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Private Securities Litigation Title II: Financial Disclosure Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 - Title I: Private Securities Litigation - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Act) to prohibit brokers or dealers from soliciting or accepting referral fees from an attorney for obtaining the representation of a customer in any implied private action. Prohibits the use of disgorgement funds resulting from actions brought by the Securities Exchange Commission (the Commission) to pay legal expenses incurred by private parties seeking distribution of such funds. Modifies the guidelines for class action litigation, including: (1) recovery by named plaintiffs in the same manner as all other members of the class; (2) court determination of conflicts of interest on the part of counsel with a beneficial interest in the securities that are the subject of the litigation; (3) restrictions on settlements under seal; (4) restrictions on payment of attorney's fees from settlement funds; (5) disclosure of settlement terms to class members; (6) special verdicts; and (7) the threshold enabling a plaintiff to obtain certification as representative for the class. Prescribes procedural guidelines for alternative dispute resolution. Establishes a limitations period for implied private rights of action. Provides for a court-appointed guardian ad litem or class action steering committee to oversee counsel and settlement offers for the plaintiff class. Delineates the requirements for securities fraud actions. Amends the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute to exclude from its purview an action involving fraud in the sale of securities. Title II: Financial Disclosure - Directs the Commission to re-examine the regulatory and judicial framework with respect to predictive statements ("forward-looking statements") concerning the future economic performance of an issuer of securities. Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to prescribe litigation procedures governing safe harbors for forward-looking statements. Modifies requirements for audits conducted by an independent public accountant of an issuer's financial statements to include procedures to: (1) detect illegal acts; (2) identify related party transactions material to financial statements; and (3) evaluate an issuer's ability to continue as a going concern. Sets forth notification and reporting guidelines for a public accountant who detects illegal activities during the course of an audit. Limits such auditor's liability for complying with such guidelines. Establishes civil penalties for an auditor's noncompliance with this Act. Modifies the allocation of damages scheme to distinguish between primary degrees of responsibility and the application of proportionate liability. Directs the Commission to establish a Public Auditing Self-Disciplinary Board (the Board). Prohibits a public accounting firm from furnishing an accountant's report on any document required to be filed with the Commission unless it has registered with the Board. Requires the Board to establish guidelines for: (1) investigations and disciplinary proceedings against public accounting firms; and (2) criteria for certification of public accountant peer review organizations. Grants the Commission responsibility for oversight of the Board. Includes within Board jurisdiction a foreign public accounting firm that furnishes accountant's reports on any document required to be filed with the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 13 January 1995
Chacoan Outliers Protection Act of 1995 - Designates eight new outlying areas as Chaco Culture Archaeological Protection Sites associated with Chacoan Anasazi Indian culture in the San Juan Basin and surrounding areas of New Mexico and Colorado. Expands the boundaries and removes or reduces the acreage of certain existing Sites. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) use a combination of land acquisition authority and cooperative agreements to protect archeological resources at such sites as remain in private ownership; and (2) assist the Navajo Nation in the protection and management of such Sites as are located on lands of the Navajos through a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement entered into pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1995
Transfers without consideration a specified parcel of land within the Wheeler Peak Wilderness, Carson National Forest, to the Pueblo de Taos Reservation, New Mexico.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1995
Comprehensive Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish a comprehensive Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects prevention program, including an education and public awareness program, an applied epidemiologic research and prevention program, support for and the conducting of basic research, a procedure for disseminating diagnostic criteria, and an Inter-Agency Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects. Provides for related technical assistance, grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and professional education. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1995
Lost Creek Land Exchange Act of 1995 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire certain lands owned by the Brand S Corporation and located in the Lost Creek area of the Deerlodge National Forest and within the Gallatin National Forest (to be added to and administered as part of such National Forests) in exchange for certain lands within such National Forests and specified timber rights on Deerlodge National Forest lands. Exempts the Wineglass Tract from such exchange unless measures are in place to protect the scenic, wildlife, and open space values of the Tract. Directs the Secretary to improve legal public road access to Gallatin National Forest System lands between West Pine Creek and Big Creek. Prohibits the Secretary from acquiring lands under this Act if it is determined that such lands have become contaminated with hazardous substances. Releases the United States from any responsibility or liability with respect to hazardous wastes or other substances placed on any of the lands covered by this Act after their transfer to the ownership of another party. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed as either diminishing or increasing any U.S. responsibility or liability based on the condition of such lands on the date of such transfer.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1995
Amends Federal law to prohibit any State from imposing an income tax on the pension income of any individual who is not a resident or domiciliary of that State.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1994
National Trails System Act Amendments of 1994 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that in order to address problems resulting from the multijurisdictional nature of governmental authority concerning the protection of national scenic and historic trails, the head of each Federal agency with jurisdiction over such trails should: (1) cooperate with States, political subdivisions, and private persons with an interest in the trails to pursue trail development; and (2) be granted authority to protect lands critical to the completion of such trails. Amends the National Trails System Act to prohibit the Federal Government from acquiring, without the consent of the owner, any land or interest in land outside of the exterior boundaries of any federally administered area for the Potomac Heritage Trail. Places the same condition on the acquisition of lands or interests for the Nez Perce National Historic Trail (from Oregon to Montana). Prohibits funds from being expended for the acquisition of land or interests outside existing Federal lands for the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, the North Country National Scenic Trail, the Ice Age National Scenic Trail, the Oregon National Historic Trail, the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, or the Iditarod National Historic Trail except with the consent of the owner of the lands or interests. (Current law prohibits funds from being expended for such purposes without such exception.)
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