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United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993
Designates the week beginning October 25, 1993, as World Population Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1993
Designates the weeks beginning November 14, 1993, and November 13, 1994, as Geography Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
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 · 6 August 1993
National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality Reauthorization Act of 1993 - Amends the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality Act of 1986 to: (1) reauthorize and extend the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality (Commission); and (2) make changes regarding Commission duties, powers, and staff.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Essential Medicare Amendments of 1993 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to: (1) essential access community hospitals; (2) durable medical equipment; (3) standards for Medicare supplemental insurance policies; (4) expansion and revision of Medicare select policies; (5) psychology services in hospitals; and (6) reimbursement for clinical social worker services under Medicare. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 to reauthorize and extend the rural transition grant program. Amends SSA title XI to modify anti-kickback provisions. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) and the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to adjustments to discretionary spending limits. Addresses payment for anesthesia services furnished directly or concurrently to patients in providers.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Unincorporated Community Wastewater Treatment Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award grants for wastewater treatment to an unincorporated community that serves a population: (1) of 20,000 or fewer residents; and (2) with a median household income that is less than or equal to the median household income for non-metropolitan areas of the State in which the community is located. Sets the maximum Federal share of a grant at 75 percent of total project costs. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Increases from $200 to $500 the monthly special pension payable to persons named to the Medal of Honor Roll. Includes losses sustained on the resale of property in the net-value calculation for purposes of provisions regarding defaults on veterans' loans. Provides for a permanent extension of the authority of such provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Amends the Competitiveness Policy Council Act to rename it and to: (1) change the name of the Competitiveness Policy Council to the National Competitiveness Commission (Commission); and (2) reauthorize and extend the Commission. Amends the National Competitiveness Commission Act (as renamed) to make technical changes with respect to Commission duties, powers, staff, and reporting requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Designates September 1993 as Childhood Cancer Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Congress supports the strict interpretation by the United States of the Missile Technology Control Regime (i.e., the policy statement announced on April 16, 1987 between the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, and Japan to restrict the transfer of missiles or equipment or technology that could contribute to the design, development, or production of missiles capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction) concerning the inability to distinguish space launch vehicle technology from missile technology under the regime, and the inability to safeguard launch vehicle technology in a manner that would provide timely warning of its diversion to military purposes; and (2) the United States and the governments of other nations adhering to the Regime should be recognized for their success in restricting the export of space launch vehicle technology and of missile technology, and for the significant contribution made by the imposition of such restrictions in reducing the proliferation of missile technology capable of being used to deliver weapons of mass destruction.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: School-to-Work Opportunities Basic Program Components Title II: School-to-Work Opportunities System Development and Implementation Grants to States Subtitle A: State Development Grants Subtitle B: State Implementation Grants Title III: Federal Implementation Grants to Partnerships Title IV: National Programs Title V: General Provisions School-of-Work Opportunities Act of 1993 - Establishes a national framework for development of School-to-Work Opportunities systems in all States. Declares the congressional intent that the Secretaries of Education and of Labor jointly administer this Act in a flexible manner. Directs the Secretaries to jointly administer the programs established by this Act. Title I: School-to-Work Opportunities Basic Program Components - Requires School-to-Work Opportunities (SWO) programs to: (1) integrate work-based and school-based learning; (2) provide students with the opportunity to complete career majors; and (3) incorporate specified program components including work-based and school-based learning and connecting activities. Title II: School-to-Work Opportunities System Development and Implementation Grants to States - Subtitle A: State Development Grants - Authorizes the Secretaries to award development grants to applicant States to complete development of a comprehensive, statewide SWO system. (Such development may have begun with funds awarded under the Job Training Partnership Act and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act.) Subtitle B: State Implementation Grants - Allows States to apply to the Secretaries for competitive implementation grants, with applications containing: (1) plans for comprehensive, statewide SWO systems meeting content requirements; (2) descriptions of how funds will be allocated to local SWO partnerships; and (3) optional requests for waivers of certain statutory or regulatory requirements. Title III: Federal Implementation Grants to Partnerships - Authorizes the Secretaries to award competitive SWO implementation grants to partnerships in States that have not received State implementation grants. Authorizes the Secretaries to award grants to implement SWO programs in high poverty areas. (Such funds may be awarded in combination with funds appropriated for the Youth Fair Chance Program.) Title IV: National Program - Directs the Secretaries to provide for: (1) research, demonstration, and other projects; (2) performance outcomes and evaluation, in collaboration with States; and (3) training and technical assistance. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) State requests and responsibilities for waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; (2) such waivers by each of the Secretaries; (3) program safeguards, including nondisplacement of current workers; and (4) acceptance of gifts. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Colonia Assistance Authorization Act of 1993 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to transfer funds to another Federal agency or award grants to any appropriate entity or border State (Arizona, California, New Mexico, or Texas) to provide assistance to low-income communities in such areas that lack basic sanitation facilities for: (1) the conservation, development, use, and control of water; and (2) the construction or improvement of sewers, wastewater treatment works, and essential community facilities. Requires such funds to be used in communities subject to a significant health risk due to lack of access to a water supply system and wastewater treatment works. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1993
Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1993 - Provides land-grant status for tribally controlled community colleges, tribally controlled postsecondary vocational institutions, the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, and Haskell Indian Junior College. Authorizes appropriations, in lieu of public land donations, for such colleges and institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1993
National Community Garden Grant Program Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to award up to 100 community garden program grants. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1993
Designates the week of October 17 through 23, 1993, as National Radon Action Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1993
Designates August 1, 1993, as National Incest and Sexual Abuse Healing Day.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1993
Colonias Wastewater Treatment Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award a grant for wastewater treatment to a community that meets eligibility requirements of this Act or a political subdivision of a State acting on behalf of such community. Designates as an eligible community a community that: (1) is designated as a colonia and is located in the U.S.-Mexican border region; (2) is eligible to receive a grant on the basis of objective criteria; and (3) existed as a colonia before November 28, 1990. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1993
Graduate Reform Opportunities and Work Force Training in Health Act (GROWTH) - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Health Work Force Interagency Task Force to: (1) review and coordinate all Federal health work force development and training efforts; (2) make recommendations for coordinating Federal vocational education policy with national health work force needs and goals; (3) develop standards for programs on vocational education in the health care professions and procedures for program accountability; and (4) carry out other appropriate activities. Requires a report to the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes the use of grant or contract funds for training programs for primary health care in rural areas. Requires the Secretary to develop training programs for nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists and physician assistants designed to prepare trainees to staff tertiary care centers. Authorizes appropriations for the establishment of demonstration projects concerning the retraining of physicians in oversubscribed specialties. Requires a study on health work force needs, the results of which are to be reported to appropriate congressional committees. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise provisions concerning payments for direct graduate medical education costs, including: (1) establishing a national average direct medical education payment; (2) limiting the total number of medical residents eligible for such payments; and (3) providing a higher weighting factor for residents placed in a rural area. Establishes the National Health Care Work Force Board to: (1) recommend to the Secretary the residency training programs that should receive direct graduate medical education funding; (2) report to the Congress on a study of current and projected health care work force needs; and (3) present legislative proposals every three years on adjusting federally-funded residency positions and specialty residency positions.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1993
Landmine Moratorium Extension Act of 1993 - Declares that it is U.S. policy to seek international agreements prohibiting the sale, transfer, or export, and terminating the manufacture, possession, and use, of antipersonnel landmines. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should submit the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons to the Senate for ratification; and (2) the Administration should negotiate a modification of the Landmine Protocol under United Nations auspices or another international agreement to limit the sale, transfer, manufacture, and use of landmines. Prohibits for three years after this Act's enactment: (1) sales, financing, transfers, and the issuance of licenses under the Arms Export Control Act with respect to antipersonnel landmines; and (2) assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to the provision of such landmines.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1993
United States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act - Authorizes the President to conclude an agreement with Mexico to establish a binational commission to be known as the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission. Declares that it should be the duty of the Commission to: (1) conduct a needs assessment in the U.S.-Mexican border area to identify and resolve health problems that affect the general population of the area; (2) develop a plan to coordinate public and private efforts to educate the population about, and resolve, such health problems and develop programs to meet needs that are not being met; and (3) formulate recommendations for a fair method by which the government of one country would reimburse a public or private person in the other country for the cost of a health care service furnished to a citizen or resident alien of the first country who is unable to pay for the service. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1993
Designates August 1, 1993, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes the President to reassert America's commitment to the Helsinki Accords and requests him to: (1) convey to all signatories of the Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is a vital element of further progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (2) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of such process to address the major problems that remain.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1993
America Cares Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the America Cares Program to make grants for homeless assistance demonstration projects.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1993
Designates the first Monday in October of each year as Child Health Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
Women in the Armed Forces Commemorative Coins Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) mint and issue coins to commemorate the women who have served in the armed forces of the United States; and (2) transfer the surcharges received from coin sales to the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation to be used to create, endow, and dedicate the Women in the Armed Forces Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Honors the work and life of Cesar Chavez as one of the greatest leaders of human and civil rights advancement the United States has known.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1993
Designates August 1993 and August 1994 as National Scleroderma Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorative Coin Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a specified number of one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Mandates that the surcharges collected from the sale of such coins be paid to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund to help raise an endowment for the Memorial's maintenance and for the addition of names.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Quality Act of 1993 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for optional Medicaid coverage of case-management services to Medicaid-eligible individuals who sustain traumatic brain injuries, reside in a State with a case-management program meeting specified requirements, and meet other specified criteria. Requires States electing to provide such coverage to appoint a State coordinator to establish policies and standards for providing services, make necessary reports, supervise and coordinate services for eligible persons, and perform other specified duties. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish standards for reporting data on traumatic brain injuries and operation of registries of traumatic brain injuries for use by State coordinators. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Administrator of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research to study and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of traumatic brain injury interventions. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth population assistance authorities and requirements. Makes such assistance available to a country that: (1) accounts for a significant portion of the world's annual population increment; (2) has significant unmet needs for fertility regulation and requires foreign assistance to sustain quality family planning services; or (3) demonstrates a strong policy commitment to population stabilization through the expansion of reproductive choice. Prohibits nongovernmental and multilateral organizations from being subjected to requirements which are more restrictive than those applicable to foreign governments for such assistance. Makes funds available for: (1) the United Nations Population Fund if it agrees to prohibit the use of funds for coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization; and (2) the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training to further international cooperation in the development of fertility regulation technology. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to report annually to the Congress on allocations to population activities and, if such allocations total less than $1 million to set forth actions to encourage increased allocations. Establishes the Commission on World Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health to coordinate U.S. participation in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. Authorizes appropriations. Makes development assistance available on a priority basis for countries which have agreed to address specific education, literacy, and health issues. Authorizes the President to establish a grant program, to be known as the Safe Motherhood Initiative, to improve the access of girls and women to reproductive health care services. Earmarks amounts of development and economic assistance for programs in support of equalizing male and female levels of primary and secondary school enrollment. Authorizes appropriations for the Child Survival Fund, the Safe Motherhood Initiative, and for research on, and treatment and control of, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993
Veterans' Tax Fairness Act of 1993 - 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 · 28 May 1993
Every Fifth Child Resolution - Expresses the sense of the Congress that funding should be provided to: (1) begin a phase-in toward full funding of the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC) and of Head Start programs; and (2) expand the Job Corps program. Suggests specified amounts that should be made available for such programs in certain fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Leadership for Technology in Education Title II: School Technology Support Title III: Information Dissemination, Technology Training and Technical Assistance Title IV: Educational Technology Product Development, Production, and Distribution Title V: Educational Technology Research, Development and Assessment Title VI: Miscellaneous Technology for Education Act of 1993 - Title I: Leadership for Technology in Education - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish an Office of Educational Technology, to be administered by an Assistant Secretary for Educational Technology (Assistant Secretary). Authorizes appropriations. Establishes the National Commission on Technology in Education to advise the President and the Congress on appropriate national educational technology standards, technology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, and administrative resources and services for educational institutions. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: School Technology Support - Directs the Assistant Secretary to award grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) to develop systemic statewide plans to infuse modern technologies into educational programs to enhance student learning and staff development in support of the National Education Goals and State academic standards. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the General Education Provisions Act to direct the Assistant Secretary to establish a Division of Elementary and Secondary School Library Media Services within the Office. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Assistant Secretary to award grants to SEAs with approved plans to provide assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools having highest percentages of children in poverty and showing the greatest need for technology to purchase quality technology related equipment, technology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, and administrative support resources and services. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for guaranteed, insured, or reinsured loans to SEAs and LEAs to obtain resources for distance learning, computer networks and other technology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, and administrative support resources and services. Directs the Assistant Secretary and National Commission to compile and disseminate information on various successful models of integrating technology into education to assist SEAs, LEAs, and schools in developing systemic reform initiatives. Title III: Information Dissemination, Technology Training and Technical Assistance - Directs the Assistant Secretary, in cooperation with various government entities, to establish an electronic network for dissemination of educational information throughout the United States. Authorizes the Assistant Secretary to make competitive grants to regional educational technology assistance consortia to provide technical assistance, information resource management, staff development, and resource development. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Educational Technology Product Development, Production, and Distribution - Directs the Secretary of Education to ensure that a high priority is placed on funding projects that use technology-enhanced curricula, instruction, and administrative support resources and services, in making competitive awards of funds under any Federal education program. Technology for the Classroom Act of 1993 - Directs the Assistant Secretary to award competitive grants to eligible consortia to develop computer-based instructional programs or technology-enhanced systems for complete courses or units of study for a specific subject and grade level, if these are commercially unavailable in the local area. Requires each grantee to provide closed captioning, where appropriate. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Assistant Secretary to make grants to or contracts with eligible educational telecommunications partnerships to pay the Federal share of the cost of research, production, and distribution of instructional programming for students and staff development programming for teachers. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Star Schools Program Assistance Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Star Schools Program. Revises provisions for duration and amount of grants. Title V: Educational Technology Research, Development and Assessment - Authorizes the Assistant Secretary, in cooperation with various Federal entities, to support research on advanced learning technologies. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Assistant Secretary to make the following types of grants related to high performance educational computing and telecommunications networks: (1) requirements grants; (2) specifications grants; and (3) prototype development grants. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Assistant Secretary, through the Office, to: (1) conduct an annual assessment of the uses of technology in State and local educational programs; and (2) award grants for research on effectiveness of technology-enhanced education programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Directs the Assistant Secretary to study to evaluate, and report to the Congress on, the feasibility of several alternative models for providing systemic funding for schools throughout the Nation so they can acquire and maintain technology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, and administrative support resources and services. Provides for participation of private school children under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993
Lechuguilla Cave Protection Act of 1993 - Withdraws the Lechuguilla Cave Protection Area, New Mexico, from all forms of appropriation or disposal under the public land, mining, and material disposal laws and from operation of mineral and geothermal leasing laws. Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from permitting any new drilling within the Protection Area until the earlier of the effective date of a record of decision regarding the proposal to drill analyzed in the Dark Canyon Environmental Impact Statement or 12 months after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to suspend other activities under mineral or geothermal leases to prevent an adverse impact on significant cave resources of Carlsbad Caverns National Park and the Protection Area. Requires the Secretary to seek the agreement of the holder of a mineral or geothermal lease for termination of such lease or for restrictions on activities on covered lands to protect significant cave resources and, if an agreement is not reached, to take appropriate protective steps. Directs the Secretary to take additional steps to protect significant cave resources of Carlsbad Caverns National Park and the Protection Area, such as limiting or prohibiting access to or across Federal lands or prohibiting removal of any mineral, geological, or cave resources except for scientific purposes. Requires the Secretary to inform specified congressional committees of the need of additional protection authority.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Amends the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 and Federal veterans' benefits provisions to: (1) extend through December 31, 1998, the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide sexual trauma counseling at Department facilities as well as through non-Department providers; (2) remove a requirement that veterans seek such counseling within a specified period after discharge; (3) remove the current one-year limit on the length of such counseling; (4) make the provision of such counseling equal in priority to the provision of Department outpatient services; (5) authorize the Department to provide such counseling to all veterans (currently, only women); and (6) require (current law authorizes) the provision of a 24-hour toll-free telephone number for the provision of sexual trauma crisis counseling. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make certain reports with respect to: (1) the operation of the telephone hotline; and (2) the difficulties veterans encounter in obtaining from the Department determinations that disabilities relating to sexual trauma are service-connected. Modifies responsibilities of Department coordinators of women's services. Requires the Secretary to ensure that such coordinators are provided sufficient resources to carry out such responsibilities.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Authorizes the Senate Legal Counsel to represent the Committee on the Judiciary, its chairman, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, and the other members of the Committee in the case of Committee for Judicial Review v. The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Senator Orrin Hatch.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1993
Many Neighbors, One Earth Resolution - Urges the President to develop and implement a coordinated economic and development policy and program of action designed to promote broadbased, sustainable development. Specifies that such policy and program should have as principal objectives: (1) expanding economic opportunities; (2) meeting basic human needs; (3) promoting environmental protection and sustainable use of natural resources; and (4) promoting pluralism, democratic participation, and human rights. Specifies that such policy and program should involve all relevant international activities of the U.S. Government. Urges specific actions that the President should take, including: (1) working with the Congress to enact legislation providing for a post-Cold War foreign assistance program that would have as its primary purpose the promotion of sustainable development; (2) ensuring that development cooperation programs, conform to such objectives in ways that invigorate local community-based development through taking into account relevant local perspectives of its beneficiaries during the design, planning, implementation, and evaluation process for project and program assistance; (3) providing government-to-government assistance only to countries that exhibit a commitment to development that promotes such objectives, with priority to countries with the highest incidence of hunger and poverty; and (4) encouraging and supporting the efforts of countries to reduce their levels of military spending when such spending is disproportionate to security needs and spending on health, education, and environmental protection.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Breast and Cervical Cancer Information Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require each recipient of a grant or contract for family planning services to: (1) provide information (in a culturally competent manner) concerning breast and cervical cancer, including information on the need and skills for breast self-examinations; and (2) refer clients for breast and cervical cancer screening, treatment, or other services.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Art-in-Architecture Act of 1993 - Requires at least one half of one percent of funds made available for new construction, building purchase, acquisition, or prospectus-level repair and alteration projects to be made available for art projects for each Federal building, except when the Administrator of the General Services Administration or a designee may increase or decrease that percentage under specified conditions. Requires the preliminary planning and design of each new Federal building to include planning for art commissions. Directs the Administrator to commission works of art by living American artists to be placed in Federal buildings. Sets forth requirements for commission amount, selection standards, procedures, artwork maintenance, and registry of portfolios.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Requires the price charged for tobacco products sold in commissary stores, military exchanges, or ships' stores (commissaries) to be: (1) the prevailing price charged by private commercial businesses in the local retail market area in the case of commissaries located in the United States; and (2) the average amount charged by private commercial retail businesses in the United States in the case of commissaries located outside the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of the appropriate military department to use profits from such sales to promote the health and fitness of members of the armed forces and their dependents.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Designates October 1993 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993
Overseas Private Investment Corporation Indian Eligibility Act of 1993 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to consider an American Indian tribe (including Alaska Natives) to be a less developed country for purposes of Overseas Private Investment Corporation programs. Prohibits the use of such assistance for gaming activities.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Educational Exchange Programs Title II: Other Training and Exchange Programs Freedom Exchange and Training Act - Title I: Educational Exchange Programs - Requires the Director of the U.S. Information Agency to establish an exchange program with the independent states of the former Soviet Union and the Baltic states, under which the Director shall award competitive grants to eligible organizations to finance exchanges of: (1) secondary school students; (2) secondary school teachers and administrators; (3) postsecondary students (both college and graduate); and (4) college and university educators (the "sister" university program). Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Other Training and Exchange Programs - Directs the President to establish technical assistance and exchange programs with the independent states of the former Soviet Union and the Baltic States, which may be implemented by grants to eligible organizations or otherwise. Funds the following types of exchange, training, and technical assistance programs under this title: (1) public administration and governance; (2) modification or restructuring of laws and legal systems; (3) agriculture and agribusiness; (4) energy and environment; (5) health and medicine; (6) trade and investment; and (7) leaders training. Requires foreign participants to be sufficiently proficient in English to fulfill program purposes. Requires the Agency for International Development or another Government agency with appropriate experience and expertise to administer training and other exchange programs under this title. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1993
Designates October 1993 and October 1994 as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1993
Comprehensive Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish: (1) a comprehensive program to prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects and coordinate related Federal efforts; and (2) an Inter-Agency Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects. Provides for related research, technical assistance, grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts, surveillance and prevention programs, professional and public education, and diagnostic criteria. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1993
Designates July 1, 1993, as National NYSP (National Youth Sports Program) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1993
Directs the Federal Election Commission to make a grant to a specified consortium for a project to demonstrate the feasibility of telephone voting. Authorizes appropriations
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1993
Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Expansion Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the offset for rental real estate activities under passive activity rules to increase the rehabilitation credit under such rules. Allows the rehabilitation investment credit to offset a portion of tentative minimum tax.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1993
Firearm Victims Prevention Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on manufacturers of certain handguns, assault weapons, and ammunition. Imposes a retail excise tax on the sale, transfer, or other disposition of such weapons and ammunition. Establishes the Health Care Trust Fund to make grants to facilities providing medical care to gunshot victims. Amends the Federal criminal code to increase the license application fees for dealers in firearms. Appropriates to the Trust Fund certain revenue from the excise taxes and the increased fees.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1993
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to reauthorize and revise the program for instruction on the history and principles of democracy in the United States. Requires the program to foster civic responsibility and continue and expand the educational activities of the We the People...The Citizen and the Constitution program. Allows the use of funds for advanced training of teachers in civics and government, after the education program has been implemented. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1993
Fairness for Adopted Children Act - Establishes the National Advisory Council on Adoption (the Council), to be appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995. Terminates such Council after three years. Directs the Secretary of HHS to: (1) report to the Congress, within 30 days, on the status of the implementation of the adoption data collection system required under specified provisions of the Social Security Act; (2) report monthly to the Congress on the progress made in implementing such system; and (3) consult with the Council in developing regulations to carry out such reporting requirements. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to award grants to States to enable them to establish programs to provide maternal health certificates to eligible pregnant women who are residents of a maternity home, or on a waiting list or receiving out-patient services from a maternity home. Limits such women's income to 175 percent of the State poverty level, not including support received from parents, guardians, or the father of the child. Sets forth eligibility requirements for the maternity home, including that it have the capability to serve at least four pregnant women concurrently. Requires the use of certificates to pay the reasonable costs associated with residence in, or services of, the maternity home. Allows the use of certificates to cover expenses incurred during a period that ends not later than one month after the birth of the child. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish a program of fellowships for graduate study in social work, in innovative programs concerning the effects of adoption on the adopted children, their adoptive families, and their biological parents who make an adoption plan. Authorizes of appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995. Directs the Secretary of Education, within one year after enactment of this Act, to make grants to States to carry out adoption education programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to prohibit discrimination by insurance companies in the writing or executing of insurance policies on the basis of whether a child is adopted. Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate against an employee with respect to a term or condition of any leave benefit on the basis of the fact that a child of an employee is not a biological child. Amends the Social Security Act to provide payments to States for expenses incurred in placing a child with special needs in adoptive homes if the child is placed within three months of becoming available for adoption. Expresses the sense of the Congress that each State should adopt and enforce specified types of adoption laws, rules, or regulations.