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Bill· SS. 1447 (103rd)referred

Radio Consumer Information Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1993

Radio Consumer Information Act of 1993 - Amends the Consumer Leasing Act of 1976, the Truth in Lending Act of 1968, and the Truth in Savings Act of 1991 regarding disclosures in connection with advertisements, announcements, or solicitations made through radio.

Law· SS. 1406 (103rd)enacted

Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Plant Variety Protection Act to revise definitions and establish rules of construction concerning: (1) the sale and disposition of harvesting material, varieties, and hybrid seeds; (2) the filing of applications for the protection or entering of a variety in an official register; and (3) the basis of determining the distinctness of a variety or whether a variety is publicly known. Entitles breeders of sexually reproduced plant varieties (other than fungi or bacteria) (currently, other than fungi, bacteria, or first generation hybrids) who have reproduced a variety to plant variety protection if the variety is new, distinct, uniform, and stable. Provides that if two or more applicants for plant variety protection submit applications on the same filing date for indistinguishable varieties that fulfill the conditions for protection established by this Act, the applicant who first complies with this Act's requirements shall be entitled to protection to the exclusion of any other applicant. Issues a single protection certificate jointly to two or more applicants who comply with requirements on the same date for varieties that are indistinguishable. Lengthens the term of plant variety protection from 18 to 20 years from the date of issuance of the protection certificate (25 years for trees or vines). Adds the following activities to the list of actions which constitute infringement of an owner's right to plant variety protection if performed without an owner's authorization: (1) conditioning the variety for purposes of propagation; and (2) stocking the variety for any existing purpose which constitutes infringement. Permits owners to authorize the use of a variety subject to their own limitations. Provides that it shall not be an infringement of an owner's rights to perform any act: (1) concerning propagating material of a protected variety that has been marketed in the United States unless the act involves further propagation of the variety or involves an export into a country that does not protect such varieties of the plant genus or species (unless the export is for final consumption); or (2) done privately and for noncommercial purposes. Removes a provision that declares that it is not an infringement for a person whose primary farming occupation is the growing of crops for sale other than reproductive purposes to sell saved seed for reproductive purposes.

Bill· SS. 1405 (103rd)open

National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Definitions Title II: Compliance and Increased Participation Title III: Ratings and Incentives for Community Floodplain Management Programs Title IV: Mitigation of Flood and Erosion Risks Title V: Flood Insurance Task Force Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1993 - Title I: Definitions - Defines specified terms under the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 and the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968. Title II: Compliance and Increased Participation - Amends the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 to expand flood insurance purchase requirements for borrowers securing loans through the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, and Federal agency mortgage lenders. Requires residential real estate lenders to establish flood insurance premium escrow accounts. Requires Federal lenders and regulated lending institutions (banks, savings and loans, credit unions) to notify borrowers of special flood hazards and of the need to purchase and maintain flood insurance. Requires such entities, after 60 days' notice, to purchase such insurance on behalf of the borrower and charge the borrower for premium costs. Provides for review of special hazards determinations by the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Requires the Director to develop a standard flood hazard determination form for use in connection with loans for residential properties located in an area of special flood hazards and in which flood insurance is available. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to require regulated lending institutions to conduct examinations and report to the Congress with respect to compliance with the National Flood Insurance Program. Provides penalties for lenders who fail to require flood insurance, maintain escrow accounts, or provide appropriate borrower notification with respect to the need for flood insurance. Amends the Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council Act of 1978 to direct the Financial Examinations Council to coordinate with Federal entities for lending regulation to develop uniform lender standards. Title III: Ratings and Incentives for Community Floodplain Management Programs - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to provide for a community rating system and premium rate incentives for community floodplain management. Provides program funding. Title IV: Mitigation of Flood and Erosion Risks - Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to require the FEMA Director to coordinate all flood and erosion mitigation activities under the Federal Insurance Administrator. Provides funding for such activities. Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to require the FEMA Director to develop and implement a State and community flood and erosion mitigation financial assistance program for structures insured under such Act. Requires such activities to be technically feasible and cost-effective. Provides assistance limitations. Repeals (with a transition period) the current program for the purchase of certain insured properties, as well as the current program for the demolition or relocation of threatened structures. Limits flood insurance availability for properties in erosion hazard areas. Requires the FEMA Director to: (1) conduct a riverine erosion study; and (2) coordinate coastal zone management programs with the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and with the States. Title V: Flood Insurance Task Force - Establishes a two-year interagency Flood Insurance Task Force to: (1) develop standardized flood insurance enforcement procedures; (2) study Federal agency and secondary mortgage market assistance with respect to such enforcement; and (3) study the possibility of existing Federal and corporate flood insurance programs as models for new programs. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1978 to: (1) increase flood insurance coverage amounts for nonresidential, single family, and multifamily structures; (2) allow additional coverage for compliance with land use and control measures; (3) permit flood insurance private sector participation; and (4) require an assessment (and revision if necessary) of flood insurance maps (with identification of erosion hazard areas) at least every five years. Establishes the Technical Mapping Advisory Council to undertake certain activities with respect to the preparation, dissemination, and use of flood insurance rate maps. Provides additional funding for the preparation of such maps.

Bill· SS. 1425 (103rd)referred

USDA National Appeals Division Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

USDA National Appeals Division Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to establish and maintain a National Appeals Division within the Office of the Secretary to hear appeals of adverse decisions made by certain agencies within the Department of Agriculture. Requires the Secretary to develop a subject-matter index of all significant final determinations and make such index available to the public. Sets forth administrative appeal and transfer provisions. Authorizes appropriations.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 35 (103rd)referred

A concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress with respect to certain regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993

Requests the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to publish, within one year, proposed amended regulations that specify the components of an adequate operator training program and that provide that only trained employees be authorized to operate powered industrial trucks.

Bill· SS. 1359 (103rd)referred

National Food Stamp Anti-Counterfeiting Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1993

National Food Stamp Anti-Counterfeiting Act of 1993 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the domestic production of food stamp coupons.

Bill· SS. 1345 (103rd)open

Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1993

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.

Bill· SS. 1329 (103rd)open

A bill to provide for an investigation of the whereabouts of the United States citizens and others who have been missing from Cyprus since 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1993

Directs the President to: (1) investigate and report to the Congress on the whereabouts of U.S. citizens and others who have been missing from Cyprus since 1974; and (2) do everything possible to return such persons (including remains of those no longer alive) to their families.

Bill· SS. 1288 (103rd)open

National Aquaculture Development, Research, and Promotion Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1993

National Aquaculture Development, Commercialization, and Promotion Act of 1993 - Amends the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 to establish the Department of Agriculture as the lead Federal agency for the development of national policy and programs for private aquaculture. (Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) establish within the National Agricultural Library a National Aquaculture Information Center; (2) assign new aquaculture programs to the appropriate Federal agencies; and (3) use specified funds for aquaculture development, research and marketing, and export promotion programs. (Sec. 7) Authorizes the Secretary to pay the Federal share of grants and contracts for aquaculture commercialization research. (Sec. 8) Directs the Secretary to: (1) implement a national policy for private aquaculture; (2) implement a Department Aquaculture Plan; (3) revise the National Aquaculture Development Plan; and (4) treat private aquaculture as a form of agriculture. (Sec. 9) Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out grant and cooperative agreement programs to demonstrate aquaculture's application to environmental enhancement, including a pollution assessment program. (Sec. 10) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out grant and cooperative agreement programs for Native American fishpond revitalization. (Sec. 11) Directs the Secretary to provide disaster assistance to eligible aquaculture farmers for weather-related losses. (Secs. 12 and 13) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish aquaculture education programs in secondary and postsecondary vocational schools; and (2) support international aquaculture scientific exchanges. (Sec. 14) Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 15) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make aquaculture farmers eligible for farm credit assistance. (Sec. 16) Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to direct the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service to establish an international aquaculture information and data collection program. (Sec. 17) Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to make aquaculture farms eligible for the emergency conservation program.

Bill· SS. 1276 (103rd)open

Landmine Moratorium Extension Act of 1993

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.

Bill· SS. 1277 (103rd)referred

Dairy Equity Act

United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1993

Dairy Equity Act - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to equalize the minimum fluid milk price adjustments for all marketing areas. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study the desirability and feasibility of fortifying fluid milk with additional nonfat solids, including consumer acceptance of such action.

Law· SS. 1273 (103rd)enacted

Depository Institutions Disaster Relief Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1993

Disaster Credit Relief Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to cite circumstances under which a Federal banking regulatory agency may waive regulatory requirements for insured depository institutions located in federally declared major disaster areas. Limits the waivers to a three-year period. Requires such agency to give notice of the waiver in the Federal Register.

Bill· SS. 1263 (103rd)referred

Disaster Assistance Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance Subtitle A: Annual Crops Subtitle B: Orchards Subtitle C: Forest Crops Subtitle D: Administrative Provisions Title II: Rural Businesses Title III: Disaster Credit and Forbearance Disaster Assistance Act of 1993 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Annual Crops - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make 1993 disaster payments to producers of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, oilseeds, and other nonprogram crops. (Sec. 105) Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1993 crop year. (Sec. 106) Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. (Sec. 107) Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1994 and 1995 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1992-1993 crop losses. (Sec. 108) Requires the Secretary to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1993 farm yield for forage-use-crops. (Sec. 109) Limits assistance under this subtitle to $100,000. (Sec. 110) Prohibits double payments on replanted acreage. Authorizes: (1) the substitution of crop insurance program yields for 1993 disaster assistance eligibility purposes; and (2) the Secretary to determine a de minimis yield for each crop eligible for reduced yield disaster payments. (Sec. 112) Permits the planting of oilseeds on certain prevented planting acreage. Subtitle B: Orchards - Directs the Secretary to provide assistance (up to $25,000 per person) to eligible orchardists who lost more than 35 percent of their trees in 1993 to freeze, earthquake, or related condition. Subtitle C: Forest Crops - Directs the Secretary to provide assistance (up to $25,000 per person) to eligible tree farmers who lost more than 35 percent of their 1992-1993 tree seedlings to drought, earthquake, or related condition in 1993. Subtitle D: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for assistance under this title. Title II: Rural Businesses - Directs the Secretary to make loan guarantees to rural businesses (including Indian tribes and entities) affected by damaging weather in 1992 or 1993. Limits: (1) individual payments to $500,000; and (2) program guarantees to $200 million. Title III: Disaster Credit and Forbearance - Directs the Secretary to provide 1994 direct credit operating loans and loan guarantees to assist farmers who suffered major weather-caused crop losses in 1992 or 1993.

Bill· SS. 1268 (103rd)referred

Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act

United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1993

Retiree Health Benefits Protection Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to add rules governing litigation involving the termination or reduction of retiree health benefits.

Bill· SS. 1226 (103rd)referred

Readjustment Counseling Service Amendments of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1993

Readjustment Counseling Service Amendments of 1993 - Includes a Readjustment Counseling Service (RCS) as part of the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from altering or revising the organizational structure of RCS until the Secretary has notified specified congressional committees and 60 days have elapsed since such notification. Requires RCS budget information to be included annually in the President's budget submitted to the Congress. Outlines eligibility requirements for one of the Assistant Under Secretaries for Health in the Department, including at least three years of clinical experience and two years of administrative experience in RCS or other comparable mental health care counseling service. Makes such a qualified person the director of RCS. Directs the Secretary, upon the request of any veteran (currently, only veterans discharged or released from active duty but not otherwise eligible for such counseling) to furnish counseling in readjusting to civilian life. Allows the provision of counseling to survivors of members of the armed forces who die while serving on active duty or from a condition incurred or aggravated by military service. Provides for the confidentiality of the records of any patient of RCS, permitting disclosure only in specific limited circumstances. Establishes in the Department the Advisory Committee on Veteran Readjustment Counseling to perform advisory services with respect to veterans' readjustment, taking into special account Vietnam era veterans. Requires specified reports from the Advisory Committee and the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees a plan for the expansion of the Vietnam Veteran Resource Center program as established under prior law. Directs the Secretary to carry out and report to the Congress on a pilot program for the provision of health-related services to eligible veterans at readjustment counseling centers.

Bill· SS. 1210 (103rd)referred

A bill to amend the Agriculture Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make prevented planting disaster payments for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1993

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with regard to disaster payments for producers of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice to: (1) make prevented planting assistance available independent from crop insurance coverage; and (2) provide reduced yield disaster payments for any crop whose loss has created an economic emergency.

Bill· SS. 1159 (103rd)open

Women in the Armed Forces Commemorative Coins Act

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.

Bill· SS. 1154 (103rd)referred

A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide for the establishment of a Microenterprise Development Fund, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993

Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to establish a Microenterprise Development Fund within the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. Channels Fund monies through U.S. private and voluntary organizations, indigenous governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and credit union organizations. Earmarks Fund monies as follows: (1) 50 percent per fiscal year for poverty lending; and (2) five percent per fiscal year for research and evaluation of funded microenterprise activities. Requires the agency administrator to ensure that at least 60 percent of the borrowers of Fund monies are women.

Bill· SS. 1135 (103rd)referred

Food Stamp Quality Control System Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993

Food Stamp Quality Control System Act of 1993 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to revise the formula (and related provisions) for determining a State's liability for excessive food stamp payment errors. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the State food stamp agencies to conduct a joint study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on measurement error and uniformity in the food stamp program quality control error-rate estimation system.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 31 (103rd)open

A concurrent resolution concerning the emancipation of the Iranian Baha'i community.

United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993

Condemns the repressive anti-Baha'i policy adopted by the Government of Iran. Urges the Government of Iran to extend to the Baha'i community the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international covenants on human rights. Calls upon the President to continue to: (1) urge such Government to emancipate the Baha'i community by granting such rights; (2) emphasize that the United States regards the human rights practices of such Government, particularly its treatment of the Baha'is and other religious minorities, as a significant factor in the development of U.S.-Iranian relations; and (3) encourage other governments to continue to appeal to the Government of Iran and to cooperate with other governments and international organizations in efforts to protect the religious rights of the Baha'is and other minorities in Iran.

Bill· SS. 1111 (103rd)open

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorative Coin Act of 1994

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.

Bill· SS. 1106 (103rd)referred

A bill to amend certain provisions of title XVIII of the Social Security Act relating to end stage renal disease, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) increase the period during which group health plans are the primary payers for dialysis treatment furnished to individuals with end stage renal disease (ESRD) who are newly eligible for Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance); and (2) extend to three years (starting after 1996), on a phased in, graduated basis, the current one-year period following a transplant procedure during which Medicare covers immunosuppresive drug therapy for Medicare beneficiaries who have received organ transplants. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 to increase payments for dialysis treatments for ESRD patients.

Bill· SS. 1095 (103rd)referred

Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993

Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals to designate on their income tax returns a contribution of all or part of their tax refund to the Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust. Establishes in the Treasury the Hunger Emergency Assistance and Relief Trust to distribute hunger relief funds to qualified nonprofit hunger relief services organizations. Describes standards and procedures for the distribution of trust fund monies. Specifies a number of restrictions with respect to the activities of recipient organizations, including limitations on administrative expenses. Requires the Hunger Commission (established by this Act) to submit to specified congressional committees an annual report detailing trust fund expenditures. Establishes a Hunger Commission to administer the distribution of funds to qualified hunger relief services organizations on a matching grant basis. Permits a maximum award of $100,000 to any single qualified organization in any fiscal year. Requires that: (1) at least 50 percent of amounts received into the trust fund in any year be paid to qualified organizations; and (2) monies in the trust fund be distributed within 180 days of their receipt. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 1083 (103rd)referred

Veterans' Tax Fairness Act of 1993

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.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 27 (103rd)referred

Every Fifth Child Resolution

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.

Bill· SS. 1037 (103rd)reported

Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993

Justice for Wards Cove Workers Act - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to remove a provision excluding from application of the Act any disparate impact case filed before March 1, 1975, and decided after October 30, 1983. (Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio, 1989, held that, in cases brought under title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the burden is on the plaintiff to prove an employer had no business necessity for a practice with discriminatory effects.) Applies the amendments made by the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to a case that is subject to the removed provision in the same way such amendments apply to any other case brought under the employment discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Bill· SS. 1049 (103rd)open

Lechuguilla Cave Protection Act of 1993

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.

Bill· SS. 1030 (103rd)referred

Veterans Health Programs Improvement Act of 1994

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.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 26 (103rd)referred

Many Neighbors, One Earth Resolution

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.

Bill· SS. 985 (103rd)open

Minor Crop Pesticides Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993

Minor Crop Pesticides Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to define "minor use" as the use of a pesticide on an animal or a commercial agricultural crop or site or for the protection of public health where: (1) the use does not provide sufficient economic incentive to support registration; and (2) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not determined that the use presents an unreasonable adverse environmental effect. Prohibits data that relates solely to a minor use, without the permission of the original data submitter, from being considered by the Administrator to support a minor use application by another person for ten years following the submission of the data. Requires the Administrator, on the request of a registrant, to extend the deadline for the production of residue chemistry data required solely to support a minor use pesticide up to two years subject to specified conditions. Applies the same extension conditions to data for reregistrations. Permits the Administrator, with respect to the registration of a pesticide for a minor use, to waive applicable data requirements if such use does not have an adverse environmental effect. Provides for expedited review (within 180 days of submission) of applications to support minor use pesticide registrations. Requires the Administrator to conditionally amend a registration to permit additional minor uses even if data is insufficient if the applicant has submitted satisfactory data pertaining to the proposed minor use and amending such registration would not increase environmental risks. Authorizes the Administrator to conditionally register or amend the registration of a pesticide for a minor use if: (1) the active ingredient has been listed for reregistration; (2) the minor use was a registered use of a product that has been canceled, proposed for cancellation, or deleted as a use after December 24, 1988; and (3) the use requires only residue chemistry data for reregistration. Outlines additional requirements for conditional registrations. Directs the Administrator to establish a minor use program within the Office of Pesticide Programs. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a minor use grant program to ensure the availability of a minor use crop protection chemical. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 988 (103rd)referred

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993

Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for energy conservation expenditures by an electric or gas utility during a taxable year in connection with its trade or business, as long as the rates for the sale of such electricity or natural gas have been approved by the appropriate governing body.

Bill· SS. 970 (103rd)open

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to codify the rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of such veterans as such rates took effect of December 1, 1992, and to make a technical correction relating to the financing of discount points for certain veterans loans.

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993

Increases the rates of: (1) veterans' disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for veterans' dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children; and (5) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for disabled adult children. Makes a technical correction relating to the financing of discount points for certain veterans' loans.

Bill· SS. 973 (103rd)open

Television Violence Report Card Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993

Television Violence Report Card Act of 1993 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission to: (1) establish a program for evaluating and rating television programs, with respect to the extent of the violence contained in those programs, and sponsors, in terms of the extent to which they sponsor violent programs; and (2) publish each quarter in the Federal Register a Television Violence Report Card that reports such ratings.

Bill· SS. 923 (103rd)open

Comprehensive Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention Act

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.

Bill· SS. 925 (103rd)open

Native American Trust Fund Accounting and Management Reform Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: I: Trust Fund Interest Payments II: Indian Trust Fund Management Demonstration Program III: Recognition of Trust Responsibility IV: Training and Personnel V: Responsibility to Accounts for Indian Trust Funds Native American Trust Fund Accounting and Management Reform Act of 1993 - Title I: Trust Fund Interest Payments - Amends Federal law to change from discretionary to mandatory the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to invest Indian trust funds in debt obligations issued or guaranteed by the United States. Requires the Secretary to pay interest periodically on such deposited or invested funds to the appropriate Indian tribe or individual Indian. Repeals Federal law that relieves the United States from any liability relating to the interest payable on such invested funds. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to an Indian tribe or individual Indian in full satisfaction of any claim of such tribe or Indian for any interest owed on amounts deposited or invested on their behalf before the enactment of this Act. Title II: Indian Trust Fund Management Demonstration Program - Authorizes an Indian tribe to submit to the Secretary a demonstration plan for new approaches to management of tribal or individual funds held in trust by the United States and managed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for a tribe or its members. Sets forth: (1) plan approval criteria; and (2) Federal trust responsibility in the case of tribal trust fund management. Provides for voluntary withdrawal of program funds. Title III: Recognition of Trust Responsibility - Amends Federal law to require the Secretary to take specified actions to properly discharge U.S. trust responsibilities with regard to Indian funds investment. States that the Congress recognizes a trust responsibility with respect to natural resources on Indian reservations and trust lands. Title IV: Training and Personnel - Directs the Secretary to establish a trust fund management training program for Indians. Title V: Responsibility to Account for Indian Trust Funds - Requires the Secretary to: (1) account for daily and annual balances of Indian trust funds; and (2) provide periodic performance statements.