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United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1994
Honors three named Federal fire fighters who died on July 12, 1994, for their heroic efforts in attempting to fight a fire in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1994
Designates the month of November 1994 as National Native American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1994
Designates November 21, 1994, as National Military Families Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1994
Commends the United States 1994 World Cup soccer team for its outstanding efforts in the 1994 World Cup soccer tournament.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1994
Designates the week of November 6 through 12, 1994, as National Health Information Management Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1994
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make grants for the construction of publicly owned treatment works in the South Valley of Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Authorizes the Administrator to use $25 million of specified funds made available to EPA under the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994 to carry out such construction.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1994
Unlisted Trading Privileges Act of 1994 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to modify the guidelines under which a national securities exchange may extend unlisted trading privileges for corporate securities. Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to prescribe, as necessary, the time period after commencement of an initial public offering during which a national securities exchange is prohibited from extending unlisted trading privileges. Subjects the extension of unlisted trading privileges by a national securities exchange to Commission rules and/or approval. Provides for suspension and reinstatement of such privileges.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1994
World War II Peace Accords Commemorative Coin Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the 50th anniversary of the signing of the World War II peace accords on the U.S.S. Missouri should not go unrecognized at the national level; and (2) the United States should recognize such anniversary by minting and issuing a commemorative coin. Sets forth specifications for half dollar clad coins. Mandates that the surcharges received from the sale of such coins be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Admiral Nimitz Foundation for the purpose of preserving the Pacific War heritage of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1994
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Department of the Air Force jurisdiction and control of specified public lands located in Otero County, New Mexico, contiguous to Holloman Air Force Base to be used by the Secretary of the Air Force (Secretary) for the construction of new evaporation ponds to support a wastewater treatment facility at the Base. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) existing grazing rights on the transferred lands and the adjustment of grazing allotments; (2) compliance with environmental laws with respect to the use and management of such lands; (3) responsibility and liability for the cleanup of hazardous substances on such transferred lands; (4) mining; (5) rights-of-way; and (6) public access and uses. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring a permit for public access to such lands. Directs the Secretary to ensure that the entry gate to the transferred lands located along U.S. Highway 70 is open to the public.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1994
Defense Counterproliferation Act of 1994 - Directs the United States to establish an integrated program in the Department of Defense (DOD) to counter potential threats to U.S. interests that arise from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, as well as their associated components, facilities, and delivery systems). Directs the Secretary of Defense to designate the Deputy Secretary of Defense as program manager. Authorizes funds from DOD's FY 1995 appropriations for the program. Establishes a Counterproliferation Program Review Committee to: (1) optimize funding for, and ensure the development and deployment of, highly effective technologies and capabilities for the counterproliferation of such weapons; and (2) identify and eliminate undesirable redundancies or uncoordinated efforts in the development and deployment of such technologies and capabilities. Provides for Committee access to all appropriate information.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1994
Establishes the Special Subcommittee on Certain Allegations Concerning Whitewater Development Corporation, Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association, and Capital Management Services, Inc., and Related Issues within the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Declares that the purpose of such Subcommittee shall be to conduct an investigation into, and study matters related to: (1) Whitewater, Madison, Capital Management, the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, and Value Partners I; (2) the conduct and policies of specified Federal executive and regulatory agencies; and (3) the circumstances surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton's commodities-futures trading activities. Requires the Subcommittee to report its findings to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1994
Designates the second week of August 1994 and the second week of August 1995 as National United States Seafood Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1994
Designates August 1, 1994, 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 · 18 May 1994
Designates Sunday, October 9, 1994, as National Clergy Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1994
Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Act of 1994 - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to establish the Department of Energy Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program to provide fellowships within the National Laboratories to outstanding elementary or secondary school teachers of mathematics or science. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with a contractor to administer the Program. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1994
Equitable Communication Site Fee Act of 1994 - Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to direct the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to establish and collect annual fees for the use of radio, television, and commercial mobile radio communications sites located on public lands. Sets forth fee schedules, with required annual fee review by the National Forest Service (Service) and the Bureau of Land Management (Bureau), and provides for annual fee adjustments, with limitations. Requires additional fees for additional site users. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish and collect an annual fee for the use of television translator stations and FM translator stations located on public lands. Directs the: (1) Secretaries to establish an advisory group for each of the television, radio, and commercial mobile radio industries to determine the fair market value for the use of communications sites on public lands; and (2) Chief Forester of the Service and the Bureau Director to jointly establish an advisory committee to determine fair market values and next best alternative uses for private radio communications site users from public and private communications sites. Requires reports from each of the advisory committees.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Improving Private Health Insurance Subtitle A: Federal and State Roles Subtitle B: Health Plan Requirements Subtitle C: Improved Health Plan Delivery Title II: Tax and Reinforcement Provisions Subtitle A: General Tax Provisions Title III: Financing and Reforming Federal Programs Subtitle A: Medicare Subtitle B: Health Discount and Medicaid Reform Subtitle C: Increase in Tax on Tobacco Products Title IV: Improving Access in Rural Areas Title V: Other Health Care Cost Reduction Measures Subtitle A: Medical Liability Reform Subtitle B: Antitrust Provisions Subtitle C: Administrative Cost Savings Health Care Reform Act of 1994 - Title I: Improving Private Health Insurance - Subtitle A: Federal and State Roles - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish by regulation a process by which each State shall submit a health reform program for the Secretary to determine and certify whether it complies with the requirements of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to review such a program from time to time to certify continued compliance. (Sec. 102) Requires each State to ensure that health plans offered to individual residents meet this Act's requirements. Requires the Secretary of Labor to ensure that health plans established under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) meet certain requirements for accountable health plans under this Act. Requires the HHS Secretary to ensure that health plans in a State meet certain requirements of this Act if the State's health reform program is not certified or is decertified. (Sec. 103) Sets forth requirements any State health reform program must contain to be certified under this Act, including requirements for: (1) health plan market areas; (2) interstate coordination; (3) health plan regulation; (4) the absence of benefit mandates and managed care requirements; (5) small business purchasing pools; (6) health discount programs; and (7) medical liability reform. Requires the HHS Secretary to ensure that State health reform programs are consistent with: (1) a nationwide private health insurance system; (2) cost control based on cost-conscious consumers and fair competition among health plans; and (3) freedom for residents to choose and pay for health care providers and health insurance as they wish. Authorizes the Secretary to allow States to propose alterations of the framework of this Act if they are consistent with such principles, do not increase the Federal budget deficit, and meet other specified requirements. Prohibits the Secretary from certifying any State health reform program that proposes to create a single payer health insurance plan in any portion of the State. Mandates limits to Federal spending for health discounts to a certain level for States with no certified health reform program. Subtitle B: Health Plan Requirements - Sets forth requirements for certified health plans, including: (1) no more than six months exclusion of coverage for treatment of preexisting conditions; (2) specified small group market standards (among them guaranteed eligibility, renewability, and availability); and (3) parity coverage of severe mental illnesses. (Sec. 112) Sets forth additional requirements for accountable health plans (AHPs). Requires an AHP to: (1) provide all medically necessary and effective health benefits for a fixed premium for each enrollee for a specified period of time; and (2) collect and report to the plan's enrollees and the general public objective measures of the quality of the plan's health care, the impact of its health care on the health status of enrollees, and enrollee satisfaction with its cost, quality, and service. Allows an AHP to apply for a limit on enrollment in certain circumstances. Prohibits an AHP from denying, limiting, or conditioning plan coverage or benefits on the basis of an individual's health status, claims experience, or expected use of services. Requires an AHP, in the small group (under 51 employees) market, to charge a standard premium for all eligible individuals in a market area, adjusting only for age and family status. Requires an AHP to: (1) maintain a system of continuous quality assurance and improvement meeting specified criteria; and (2) comply with a prescribed process by which it shall provide the appropriate regulatory authority (in an electronic form) with certain standardized information on quality, health outcomes, and enrollee satisfaction. Requires an AHP to: (1) comply with specified market conduct standards; (2) comply with specified medical liability reform and administrative cost reduction requirements; (3) maintain procedures for hearing and resolving enrollee grievances; (4) meet certain financial solvency standards; and (5) participate (if not self-insured under ERISA) in State health discount programs for poor and low-income individuals and employees. Requires any health plan offering services that must be obtained from participating providers to make available an alternative insurance plan (which may charge a higher premium) that provides for a point of service option under which: (1) an enrollee may select any licensed health care provider to obtain services; and (2) the plan shall pay such provider at least half the services' cost. (Sec. 113) Directs the HHS Secretary to issue regulations establishing: (1) a standard benefits package meeting certain coverage and cost-sharing arrangement requirements; and (2) an alternative benefits package that may be necessary for determining health discounts for low-income eligible individuals and employees. Subtitle C: Improved Health Plan Delivery - Requires each small group purchasing pool in a health plan market area in a State to provide a process for eligible employees of eligible small employers, and eligible individuals not entitled to health discounts, to have the opportunity to select annually from among competing AHPs offering the standard benefits package (and, for poor eligible employees, the nominal cost-sharing benefits package) at an adjusted community rate for the coverage period. Specifies pool requirements and prohibitions. (Sec. 122) Requires each employer to: (1) offer each eligible employee enrollment in an AHP with a standard benefits package serving the employee's residential (or employment) area, both on an individual and a family basis and, if required, the alternative point of service insurance plan; (2) provide, at the employee's option, for deduction of premiums from wages or other compensation; and (3) make available, if the employer is an eligible small employer, an AHP providing the nominal cost-sharing benefits package. Sets forth civil money penalties for failure to offer coverage or provide for wage deduction. Title II: Tax and Enforcement Provisions - Subtitle A: General Tax Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that gross income of an employee does not include employer-provided coverage under an accountable health plan or a certified health plan. Includes in such gross income excess employer contributions to the health plans. (Sec. 202) Allows a business expense deduction for the costs of such health plans. Makes permanent the deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Increases such deduction to 100 percent of expenses (currently, 25 percent of expenses). Makes such deduction applicable to an accountable health plan or a certified health plan. Title III: Financing and Reforming Federal Programs - Subtitle A: Medicare - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to replace current provisions for payments to health maintenance organizations and competitive medical plans with provisions generally allowing Medicare beneficiaries enrolled under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) an annual choice of enrolling under certain conditions in: (1) any of the various competing Medicare health plans certified as meeting specified requirements and under contract with the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Medicare market area established where they reside; (2) an employer-sponsored health plan; or (3) the Medicare fee-for-service coverage otherwise provided under SSA title XVIII. Allows such individuals to choose supplementary benefits offered by either a Medicare supplemental policy or any of the plans above. (Sec. 302) Amends SSA title XVIII part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) to provide for the establishment of competitive acquisition areas within which the Secretary will award contracts under certain conditions to providers for furnishing fee-for-service items and services in such area. Directs the Secretary to use a competitive process to contract with centers of excellence for cataract surgery, coronary artery by-pass surgery, and other services determined appropriate for individuals enrolled in the fee-for-service option. Describes the payment basis for such services. Makes various specified technical changes with regard to Medicare physician, hospital, and skilled nursing facility payments, including changes involving secondary payer situations and payments for physician services furnished by high-cost hospital medical staffs. Directs the Secretary to discontinue Medicare payments to hospital service providers for reasonable costs relating to unrecovered costs associated with unpaid deductibles and co-payments incurred under Medicare. Imposes co-payments for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests and certain home health visits. Provides for reduced payments for home health services and hospital outpatient services. (Sec. 303) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the annual recapture of a portion of an individual's subsidized Medicare health plan premium for high-income and certain other individuals enrolled above. (Sec. 304) Directs the Secretary to take specified actions providing for Medicare administrative simplification, including consolidating the fee-for-service administration. Subtitle B: Health Discount and Medicaid Reform - Requires each State, to obtain certification, to include in its health reform plan a State administered program under which eligible persons shall receive premium assistance ("health discounts") for purchasing health care coverage from AHPs. (Sec. 312) Requires a State health discount program to allow each eligible individual who otherwise meets entitlement criteria to: (1) select from among competing AHPs in his or her residential market area based on the price and quality of the competing AHPs; and (2) use the discount to which such individual is entitled only to offset the AHP premium charged for the benefits package selected. Specifies general program requirements, including a formula for determining benchmark monthly premiums and discounts. Authorizes a State to contract with small group purchasing pools to administer portions of the health discount program. (Sec. 313) Declares that health discounts shall be financed with: (1) available Federal spending; (2) required State Medicaid maintenance of effort spending and State matching amounts; and (3) optional State supplementation. Prescribes formulae for the first two financing sources. (Sec. 321) Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to terminate on December 31, 1994, the authority to furnish acute care services to Medicaid-eligible individuals. Excepts qualified Medicare beneficiaries from this termination. Requires each State plan to include as a mandatory benefit the payment of premiums for qualified Medicare beneficiaries to Medicare health plans. Subtitle C: Increase in Tax on Tobacco Products - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products. (Sec. 332) Imposes a civil penalty on any person who sells, relands, or receives tobacco products labeled for export. Restricts the importation of previously exported tobacco products. (Sec. 333) Imposes an excise tax on the manufacture or importation of roll-your-own tobacco. Title IV: Improving Access in Rural Areas - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend authorized appropriations for community health centers and the National Health Service Corps for FY 1995 through 1998. (Sec. 403) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for primary health services providers who practice in frontier, rural, and urban underserved areas for a mandatory period. Excludes from gross income National Health Service Corps loan repayments. Title V: Other Health Care Cost Reduction Measures - Subtitle A: Medical Liability Reform - Directs the HHS Secretary to develop and publish medical liability reform standards that States must meet to be certified, including standards for binding alternative medical injury claims dispute resolution systems. Specifies limits on liability damages that may be awarded. Requires an AHP to identify clearly for plan purchasers the individuals or entity that will be responsible for any such liability. (Sec. 502) Directs the Secretary, by certain deadlines, to issue regulations to: (1) establish the criteria and procedures for determining whether a State has met the medical liability reform standards set by this subtitle; and (2) establish the criteria for certifying medical practice guidelines. Subtitle B: Antitrust Provisions - Directs the President to provide for the development and publication of guidelines on the application of antitrust laws to AHPs. Requires the Attorney General to establish a review process under which an AHP (or organization that proposes to establish an AHP) may obtain a prompt opinion from the Department of Justice on the AHP's conformity with the antitrust laws. Specifies that if the Department determines that an AHP conforms with the antitrust laws, it shall not be liable under such laws regarding the development and operation of the AHP, as reviewed by the Department. (Sec. 512) Provides for the issuance of certificates of public advantage by the Attorney General to eligible health care collaborative efforts which, if followed, exempt such efforts from antitrust liability. Subtitle C: Administrative Cost Savings - Directs the Secretary to establish data and transaction standards, conventions, and requirements that permit the electronic interchange of any health care data necessary for the efficient and effective administration of the health care system, including standards for: (1) financial and administrative transactions; (2) quality measurement indicators; and (3) patient care records. (Sec. 522) Declares that no AHP may be certified unless it complies with such standards.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1994
Designates February 2, 1995, and February 1, 1996, as National Women and Girls in Sports Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1994
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 · 5 May 1994
Designates October 1994 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1994
Community Improvement Volunteer Act of 1994 - Provides for waivers of the prevailing-wage-setting requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act with respect to volunteers who perform services under the Library Services and Construction Act, the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, or migrant health centers or community health centers provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Prohibits approval of any expense, benefit, or fee being paid to such volunteers which has the effect of undermining labor standards by creating downward pressure on prevailing wages in the local construction industry. Directs the Secretary of Labor to report to the appropriate congressional committees on such waivers for volunteers on such projects and make recommendations with respect to other Davis-Bacon-related Acts that could be addressed to permit volunteer work.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1994
Meat and Poultry Products Inspection Amendments of 1994 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to: (1) permit State inspected meat and meat products to be sold or transported in interstate commerce; (2) permit the Secretary of Agriculture to use State inspectors; (3) permit State inspected meat products to be used in the preparation of products processed in federally inspected facilities; and (4) prohibit the imposition of additional or different State facilities or marketing and labeling requirements than apply under such Act. Amends the Poultry Products Inspection Act to make similar amendments for poultry and poultry products.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1994
Amends Federal law (known as the Intergovernmental Personnel Act) to treat the assignment of: (1) a Federal agency employee to another organization (especially a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC)) in the same way as an assignment of a Federal agency employee to a State or local government; and (2) an employee of another organization (especially an FFRDC) in the same way as an assignment of a State or local government employee to a Federal agency.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1994
Designates 1995 as Jazz Centennial Year.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1994
United Negro College Fund 50th Anniversary Resolution - Designates May 8 through 14, 1994, as United Negro College Fund Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Private Securities Litigation Title II: Financial Disclosure Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1994 - 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 · 24 March 1994
Designates October 16 through 22, 1994, as National Character Counts Week.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Designates October 2 through 8, 1994, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1994
Designates the week beginning June 13 as National Parkinson's Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1994
United States Botanic Garden Commemorative Coin Act of 1995 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) issue one-dollar silver coins for a one-year period to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the founding of the United States Botanic Garden; and (2) distribute all surcharges from the coin sales to the National Fund for the United States Botanic Garden.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Use of Federal Funds for State Employment Training Activities Title II: Development of State Employment Training Systems Subtitle A: Commission on Employment and Training Subtitle B: Consolidation of Employment Training Programs Job Training Consolidation Act of 1994 - Consolidates Federal employment and training programs. Grants waivers to States and localities to coordinate program services during a transition period. Establishes a national commission to develop a national policy for a comprehensive system of such services, with State and local responsibility for, and private sector involvement in, design and implementation of such services. Title I: Use of Federal Funds for State Employment Training Activities - Allows States and localities that receive formula assistance for covered activities under specified Federal employment training programs, or certain discretionary assistance, or States that apply for funds for trade adjustment assistance services, to: (1) use such assistance to develop a comprehensive statewide employment training system; or (2) use assistance that would otherwise have been used for two or more covered activities to address unemployed persons' high priority needs for employment training services, improve efficiency in delivery of covered activities, or combine or eliminate overlapping or duplicative activities. (Sec. 105) Requires State and locality reports on use of such assistance. Title II: Development of State Employment Training Systems - Subtitle A: Commission on Employment and Training - Establishes the Commission on Employment and Training. (Sec. 204) Terminates the Commission after its report. (Sec. 205) Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Consolidation of Employment and Training Programs - Repeals, 29 months after enactment of this Act, the following: (1) the Job Training Partnership Act; (2) the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act; (3) certain literacy programs under the Adult Education Act; (4) the JOBS program for AFDC recipients under the Social Security Act; (5) trade adjustment assistance services under the Trade Act of 1974; (6) the Wagner-Peyser Act (employment services); (7) vocational rehabilitation services under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; (8) employment and training program provisions under the Food Stamp Act of 1977; (9) the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980; (10) the State legalization impact assistance grant program under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986; (11) education, training, and community services programs under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; and (12) community service employment for older Americans under the Older Americans Act of 1965. (Sec. 212) Directs the Commission on Employment and Training to conduct a study to: (1) develop a single, coherent national policy to guide federally funded employment training efforts; (2) review specified programs and reports, and examine strategies to consolidate or eliminate the programs and activities scheduled to be repealed to create a single, comprehensive employment training system that gives States maximum flexibility and leads to single, integrated approaches to providing information on all available employment training services and to job training that involves private employers in locally established initiatives; (3) examine strategies involving private employers in local training linked to available employment opportunities; (4) determine the best administrative structure for such system, and the agency to conduct Federal oversight; (5) examine strategies for a national online labor market information system; and (6) determine standards for Federal measurement of program effectiveness, State provision of effective services, and a common terminology. Requires the Commission to submit: (1) a report on such study and recommendations to specified congressional committees; and (2) to the Congress, a draft of a joint resolution to consolidate or eliminate the covered programs and activities to create the national system, implement the strategies, establish or designate the agency and the structure, establish the labor market information system, and implement the standards. (Sec. 213) Sets forth an expedited procedure for congressional consideration of the Commission's proposed reforms in its draft of the joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1994
Designates April 24 through 30, 1994, as National Crime Victims' Rights Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1994
Designates May 30 through June 6, 1994, as a Time for the National Observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1994
Designates July 27 of each year as National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1994
Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1994 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in the case of specified contaminants listed in the Federal Register for which national primary drinking water regulations have not been issued, to: (1) publish maximum contaminant level (MCL) goals and issue such regulations for those contaminants that occur in drinking water at a level of public health concern; and (2) eliminate monitoring, compliance, and enforcement requirements for those contaminants that do not occur in drinking water at levels of public health concern. (Current law requires the promulgation of such goals and regulations for specified numbers of such contaminants by certain dates.) (Sec. 4) Directs the Administrator to promulgate such goals and regulations for new contaminants every five years. Requires the Administrator to identify best technology treatment techniques that may be used to meet MCLs for public water systems serving fewer than 1,000, between 1,000 and 10,000, and more than 10,000 people. Directs the Administrator to promulgate national primary drinking water regulations for radionuclides, disinfection and corrosion byproducts, and sulfate. (Sec. 7) Revises provisions concerning variances from such regulations to permit the issuance of a variance by a State only if the water system cannot afford to install the best available technology to meet the MCL and it is not feasible for the system to connect with another source of water that will meet the standards. Requires variances to be reviewed by the State at least every three years. (Sec. 8) Repeals provisions that authorize States to exempt public water systems from requirements respecting MCLs or treatment techniques. (Sec. 9) Prohibits treated drinking water from being removed from a public water system or routed through any device or pipes outside the system and returned to the system. Includes such action in the definition of "tampering," a violation for which criminal penalties are imposed. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to pipes and devices totally within the control of one or more public water systems or to connections between water mains. (Sec. 11) Requires (currently, authorizes) the Administrator to conduct research relating to diseases and other impairments resulting from contaminants in drinking water or to the provision of a safe supply of drinking water. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 12) Extends the authorization of appropriations for grants for State public water system supervision programs. (Sec. 13) Requires the Administrator to promulgate revised regulations every five years that list up to 30 unregulated contaminants to be monitored by public water systems. Directs the Administrator to assemble a national drinking water occurrence data base to include information on the occurrence of regulated and unregulated contaminants. (Sec. 16) Requires the Administrator to make capitalization grants to States to establish State drinking water treatment revolving loan funds. Reserves the following amounts from such grants: (1) one percent for financial assistance to Indian tribes for the improvement of public water systems; and (2) .5 percent to respond to public health emergencies. Sets aside specified dollar amounts for rural small drinking water systems technical assistance programs and drinking water health effects research. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants for public water system improvement to the District of Columbia and specified U.S. territories. Requires 15 percent of amounts in a State loan fund to be available solely for assistance to public water systems that serve fewer than 10,000 individuals. Directs States to prepare intended use plans prior to receiving grants. Requires priority for the use of funds to be given to systems that are in violation of a national primary drinking water regulation. Requires the Administrator to submit quadrennially to the Congress a survey of the needs of facilities eligible for State loan fund assistance. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 17) Permits the Administrator to provide financial assistance to minority communities with economic hardship for eligible wastewater treatment projects. (Sec. 18) Authorizes the Administrator 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 (colonias) 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 attributable to lack of access to a water supply system or wastewater treatment works. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1994
Congratulates Phil Rizzuto on the occasion of his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1994
Santa Fe National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 1994 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to modify the boundary of the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico to include land acquired by exchange with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Allows the Secretary to transfer land within the National Forest to the BLM to offset the value of BLM land acquired. Prohibits the Secretary from transferring any land or interest in land within the boundary of the National Forest that is acquired pursuant to the boundary expansion. Authorizes the Secretary to convey to the State of New Mexico easements donated to, and accepted by, the United States. Requires land acquired by the boundary expansion to be managed consistent with the terms and conditions of any easement donated to, and accepted by, the United States with respect to any such land.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1994
Designates May 29 through June 4, 1994, as Pediatric and Adolescent AIDS Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1994
National Highway System Designation Act of 1994 - Designates the most recent National Highway System 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 an existing route segment 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.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1994
Designates the month of September 1994 as National Sewing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1994
National Security Budgeting and Deficit Control Act of 1994 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to extend the caps on defense and nondefense discretionary spending through FY 1998.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1994
Social Security Disability and Rehabilitation Act of 1994 - Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require individuals on drugs or alcohol to: (1) undergo, or be scheduled for, appropriate treatment for substance abuse if it is reasonably available; (2) comply with the terms of such treatment; and (3) have a qualified governmental representative payee in order to receive disability benefits under the social security disability insurance (SSDI) and SSI programs. Sets up a monitoring and testing program under each such title for ensuring such compliance, with benefits terminated or suspended in cases of noncompliance, and with all disability benefits related to substance abuse terminated after three years. Requires the proceeds derived from criminal activities to support substance abuse to be considered substantial gainful activity. Revises penalty provisions, with changes providing for the exclusion of SSDI and SSI program defrauders from such programs and other Federal health and social services programs. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) assure that every individual on drugs or alcohol who is receiving SSDI or SSI disability benefits be given high priority for treatment through entities supported by State substance abuse block grants; and (2) provide for the establishment of referral and monitoring agencies for each State for carrying out treatment requirements under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1994
1995 Special Olympics World Games Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the 1995 Special Olympics World Games. Mandates that the surcharges collected from the sale of such coins be paid to the 1995 Special Olympics World Games Organizing Committee, Inc.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1994
Designates March 20, 1994, as National Agriculture Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1994
Forest Service Equity Study Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study the National Forest Service's regional funding allocation system. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1994
Designates March 25, 1994, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reform of the Senate Title II: Reform of the House of Representatives Title III: Reform of the Congress Subtitle A: Budget Process Subtitle B: Staffing; Administration; and Support Agencies Subtitle C: Abolishing the Joint Committees Subtitle D: Legislative and Executive Relations Title IV: Effective Date Legislative Reorganization Act of 1994 - Title I: Reform of the Senate - Amends rule XXIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate to require appointments to standing and all other committees to be made by the majority and minority leader for each member of their respective parties, subject to any rules adopted by the respective party caucuses. (Sec. 102) Amends rule XXV to revise the structure of the standing, special, and select committees of the Senate (leaving their assignment undesignated). Lists the committees as: (1) Appropriations; (2) Armed Services; (3) Finance; (4) Foreign Relations; (5) Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; (6) Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; (7) Commerce, Science, and Transportation; (8) Energy and Natural Resources; (9) Environment and Public Works; (10) Governmental Affairs; (11) Judiciary; (12) Labor and Human Resources; (13) Aging; (14) Budget; (15) Indian Affairs; (16) Rules and Administration; (17) Small Business; (18) Veterans' Affairs; (19) Ethics; and (20) Intelligence. Modifies the number of: (1) committees and subcommittees on which a Senator may serve as a member or as the chairperson; and (2) subcommittees a committee may establish. Waives these limitations upon the adoption by an affirmative yea and nay vote of a privileged resolution (without an amendment) offered by the majority leader with the minority leader's approval that designates the Senator or Senators receiving the waiver. Limits the debate on the resolution to one hour equally divided. Requires: (1) the majority and minority leaders to notify the chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration within 30 days after the convening of a Congress if the number of majority and minority members of a Senate committee for such Congress each fall below 50 percent of the number of such members serving on the committee at the end of the 102d Congress; (2) the Committee to report a resolution to the Senate abolishing such committee after receiving the notice; and (3) the majority and minority leaders to adjust the membership of other committees to provide for members of the abolished committee. (Sec. 103) Amends rule XXVI to designate Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday for committee and subcommittee meetings and hearings. Prohibits a subcommittee from meeting at the time its committee is meeting. Requires the consent of the majority and minority leaders before the committee or its subcommittee can conduct business on a day other than the day designated by this Act. (Sec. 104) Prohibits a proxy vote from being cast by a member of any committee if it effects the result of the vote. (Sec. 105) Requires each Senate committee chairman to publish semi-annually in the Congressional Record the committee attendance and voting records of each member of the committee. (Sec. 106) Amends rule XXII to require an affirmative three-fifths vote for post-cloture appeals from the decision of the Presiding Officer, except on a measure or motion to amend the Senate rules, in which case a necessary affirmative vote shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting. Amends rule VIII to limit debate to two hours on a motion to proceed to the consideration of a measure made by the majority leader or his designee after the first two hours of a new legislative day. Makes a motion to proceed to any motion, resolution, or proposal to change any of the Standing Rules of the Senate debatable without this limitation. Amends rule XXII to charge the time consumed by a quorum call to the Senator who requested it under cloture. Amends rule XXVIII to dispense with the reading of a conference report (if such report is printed and available one day prior to the motion to consider) before determining a question of proceeding to its consideration. Amends rule XV to prohibit (on a point of order made by any Senator) an amendment expressing the sense of the Senate or the sense of the Congress, or an amendment thereto, from being received unless the amendment is signed by at least ten Senators. (Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary of the Senate: (1) by January 1, 1995, and each year thereafter through 1998, to certify and publish in the Congressional Record a list identifying each Senator who has used less than the amount allocated to his or her personal office during the preceding fiscal year and the amount of such unused allocation; and (2) by January 1, 1999, and each year thereafter, to notify each Senator of the difference between the total obligations incurred by his or her personal office and the allocations for administrative expenses, legislative assistants, and clerk hire available to the Member for the preceding fiscal year. Authorizes the Member to direct the Secretary to submit a rescission request for such amount from unobligated balances for that fiscal year. Requires the Senate committees to include a plan to reduce the disparity between appropriations and allocations to Members when they conduct the performance review required by this Act. Title II: Reform of the House of Representatives - (Bill text to be supplied at a later date.) Title III: Reform of the Congress - Subtitle A: Budget Process - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to revise the Federal and congressional budget processes by establishing a two-year budgeting and appropriations cycle and timetable. Defines the budget biennium as the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year. Devotes the first session of any Congress to the budget resolution and to appropriations decisions, retaining current deadlines in most cases. Changes certain deadlines to conform to the biennial scheme. Devotes each second session to authorization activity, subject to specified deadlines. Conforms provisions governing the President's budget to the biennial framework. Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to conform to the biennial framework. Prohibits the House or Senate from considering any legislation that authorizes appropriations for a period of less than two fiscal years, unless the activity for which the funds are to be spent is of less than two years duration. Requires the Congressional Budget Office to make quarterly budget reports to the House and Senate Committees on the Budget. Provides for permanently extending the rule on extraneous matter in reconciliation legislation and applies such rule to conference reports. Directs the Comptroller General to give priority to congressional requests for audits and evaluations of Government programs and activities during the second session of each Congress. Subtitle B: Staffing; Administration; and Support Agencies - Requires the Senate Committees on Rules and Administration and Appropriations and the appropriate House committees or task force to submit to the leadership of their respective Houses a performance review together with any necessary implementing legislation to achieve efficiencies, economies, and reductions in the total number of full time equivalent (FTE) positions in the legislative branch comparable to those proposed and implemented for the executive branch in the President's National Performance Review. Requires the reductions to be made from a base of the total number of FTEs in the legislative branch on the date of introduction of S.Con. Res. 57 (102d Congress, 1st Session), establishing the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress. (Sec. 332) Requires the following entities to be authorized by the enactment every eighth year of an Act to authorize appropriations for that office for the next eight fiscal years: (1) the General Accounting Office (GAO) beginning with FY 1997; (2) the Library of Congress (LOC) beginning with FY 1999; (3) the Government Printing Office (GPO) beginning with FY 2001; and (4) the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) beginning with FY 2003. Vests jurisdiction over the required authorizations in the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the appropriate House committee. Requires each instrumentality of the Congress providing support to the Congress to prepare an annual report by December 31 detailing the cost to the instrumentality of providing support to each Senate committee and Senator. Requires the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the appropriate House committee to study and report to their respective Houses concerning the feasibility of establishing a voucher allocation system for committees using the services of such instrumentalities. Repeals provisions authorizing appropriations for GAO, CBO, LOC, GPO, and OTA. (Sec. 333) Requires the cost of the service on detail to a congressional committee or the personal office of a Member of Congress of a person who is regularly employed by an instrumentality of the Congress (GAO, CBO, LOC, GPO, or OTA) or an executive agency to be fully reimbursed to the instrumentality or agency by the committee or personal office that receives the service. Subtitle C: Abolishing the Joint Committees - Part I: Joint Economic Committee - Abolishes the Joint Economic Committee and transfers its responsibility to the Senate Budget Committee and the appropriate House committee to review the President's Economic Report. Part II: Joint Committee on Taxation - Abolishes the Joint Committee on Taxation. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to: (1) require CBO to provide technical guidance to the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Ways and Means with respect to taxation and tax legislation; and (2) perform the responsibilities formerly assigned to the abolished Joint Committee. Requires the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the appropriate House committee to report to the Congress a plan for the transfer of the Joint Committee's responsibilities and staff. Part III: Joint Committee on the Library of Congress - Abolishes the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress. Transfers the responsibilities of the Joint Committee to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the appropriate House committee. Part IV: Joint Committee on Printing - Repeals provisions of Federal law establishing the Joint Committee on Printing. Transfers all duties, authorities, responsibilities, and functions of the Joint Committee to the Public Printer except that the Committee's legislative oversight shall be performed by the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the Committee on House Administration. (Sec. 372) Revises provisions of Federal law to abolish the position of Deputy Public Printer. Requires the President to nominate and, by and with the consent of the Senate, appoint a Legislative Deputy Public Printer (who shall also serve as the Superintendent of Documents for no additional compensation), an Executive Deputy Public Printer, and a Judicial Deputy Public Printer. Requires all GPO duties relating to the legislative, executive, and judicial branch to be performed by the appropriate Deputy Public Printer. (Sec. 373) Requires the Public Printer to include in the annual business-type budget program for the operations under the GPO revolving fund a report on: (1) the printing costs of each branch of the Government; (2) a cost comparison of specified Government publications; and (3) the cost of all authorized individual printing orders. (Sec. 375) Authorizes an executive department or agency to order individual printing orders if the cost is not more than $1,500 and the work is printed by any executive department or agency or the work is printed under a contract by a non-Federal commercial source. Requires any Federal officer who orders or contracts for an individual printing order to require the printing to deliver a sufficient number of any document printed under such order or contract to the Superintendent of Documents for inclusion in the depository program. (Sec. 376) Requires each Federal department and agency to submit by November 1 of each year to the Public Printer a report of its cost of publishing Government publications in the preceding fiscal year. Exempts GPO and publications published under contract with a non-Federal commercial source. Subtitle D: Legislative and Executive Relations - Makes it the responsibility of each standing congressional committee: (1) by March 1 in the first session of each Congress to submit Committee Review Agendas that list the discretionary programs, entitlement programs, and tax expenditures under the committee's jurisdiction which it intends to review during that Congress and three Congresses thereafter; (2) coordinate with other congressional committees having jurisdiction over related programs; (3) prepare a separate section in its oversight agenda that summarizes what actions and recommendations occurred with respect to implementing the agenda for that Congress; (4) transmit its oversight agenda to the Committee on House Administration and the Committee on Rules and Administration for consideration during the committee funding process; and (5) adopt legislative procedures to assure that any recommendation proposed by the appropriate standing committee is considered by the full Senate or House of Representatives. Requires each congressional committee to hold hearings during each Congress to review appropriate reports relating to executive agency activities over which the Committee has oversight responsibility, including reports of the Inspector General, the GAO, and agency audits. (Sec. 382) Provides that any law requiring an executive agency to report to the Congress shall be effective for not longer than five years. Title IV: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective January 1, 1995, and applicable to bienniums beginning after FY 1995.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1994
Prohibits the Department of Transportation or any other Federal department, agency, or instrumentality from requiring any State or political subdivision thereof to convert highway signs to metric units.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1994
Designates April 1994 as Civil War History Month.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1994
Peace Powers Act of 1994 - Amends the United Nations Participation Act to prohibit the President from subordinating any element of the armed forces participating in a United Nations peacekeeping activity to the command or operational control of any foreign nationals unless he submits specified documents to the appropriate congressional committees or the Congress enacts an Act or joint resolution authorizing such subordination. Lists as the specified documents determinations by the President that: (1) the proposed subordination is in the national security interest (along with a justification for such determination); (2) the unit commanders of the armed forces proposed for subordination will retain the ability to report independently to higher U.S. military authorities; (3) the United States will retain authority to withdraw the armed forces from the operation at any time and to take any action to protect such forces if endangered; (4) the armed forces will remain under U.S. administrative command for purposes of discipline and evaluation; and (5) the proposed foreign command arrangement does not violate the Constitution. (Sec. 5) Provides for notification to the Congress of proposed participation in, or expenditure of funds for, United Nations peacekeeping activities and other related matters. (Sec. 9) Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the anticipated budget for, and U.S. contributions to, United Nations peacekeeping activities. (Sec. 11) Revises provisions that authorize the President to waive reimbursement from the United Nations for U.S. participation in peacekeeping activities. Permits the Secretary of Defense to authorize such a waiver if an emergency exists, subject to congressional notification requirements. Bars U.S. contributions to United Nations peacekeeping activities, beginning in FY 1995, until the Secretary certifies to the Congress that the United Nations has reimbursed the Department of Defense (DOD) directly for all goods and services provided on a reimbursable basis for such activities. (Sec. 12) Limits the availability of funds made available to DOD for United Nations peacekeeping activities, beginning in FY 1996, unless the Congress has by law specifically made funds available for such purposes. (Sec. 13) Declares that, effective FY 1996, the Congress does not intend to make funds available for payment of U.S. contributions to such activities that exceed 25 percent of the total of such contributions of all countries unless the Congress enacts a statute specifically authorizing a greater percentage contribution. (Sec. 14) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds to pay U.S. contributions for such activities unless the Secretary of State certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that U.S. manufacturers and suppliers are being given equal opportunities to provide equipment, services, and material for such activities. (Sec. 16) Permits intelligence to be provided to the United Nations only pursuant to specified agreements and advance notification to the Congress. (Sec. 17) Withholds, beginning in FY 1995, 50 percent of the funds for U.S. contributions for United Nations peacekeeping activities unless the President makes a specified certification regarding the establishment of an Office of Inspector General within the United Nations.