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United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1992
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1994, the duty on capillary membrane material.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1992
Midwest Dairy Equity Act - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to establish: (1) a uniform class I milk price adjustment of $1.80 per hundredweight for all marketing areas; and (2) the minimum fluid beverage milk price at $13.20 per hundredweight. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the desirability and effects of fortifying beverage milk with nonfat solids; and (2) establish manufacturing allowances of $1.37 per hundredweight of milk for butter and nonfat dry milk, and $1.52 per hundredweight for cheese.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1992
Older Americans Act Amendments of 1992 - Title I: Objectives and Definitions - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 (OAA) to make as an OAA objective the provision of support to family members and other persons providing voluntary care to older individuals needing long-term care services. Adds the definitions of various terms to OAA, including "elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation." Title II: Administration - Adds to the prohibition against delegation of Commissioner on Aging functions to any other officer not directly responsible to the Commissioner those functions of the Commissioner carried out through regional offices. Adds the following as new functions of the Associate Commissioner on American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian Aging: (1) promoting coordination between programs established under OAA titles III (Grants for State and Community Programs on Aging) and VI (Grants for Native Americans); (2) acting as an advocate for Native Americans with the Indian Health Service; and (3) collecting and disseminating information regarding elder abuse, in-home care, health programs, and other problems unique to Native Americans. Establishes the Office of Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs in the Administration on Aging (AOA), to be headed by an Associate Commissioner for Ombudsman Programs who shall serve as an advocate on behalf of long-term care facility residents within HHS and with other Federal departments and agencies. Directs the AOA Commissioner to: (1) establish and operate the National Ombudsman Resource Center to provide training, technical assistance, and information to State Long-Term Care Ombudsmen, analyze laws, regulations, programs, and practices, and provide assistance regarding recruitment and retention of volunteer ombudsmen; (2) issue regulations, and conduct strict monitoring of State compliance with requirements in effect, to prohibit conflicts of interest; (3) encourage, and provide technical assistance to, States and area agencies on aging (State and area agencies) to carry out outreach with respect to assistance under the SSI and Medicaid programs (titles XVI and XIX respectively of the Social Security Act (SSA)) and food stamp program; (5) establish information and assistance services as priority services; (6) develop guidelines for area agencies to follow in choosing and evaluating legal assistance providers and developers; (7) develop a model job description for legal assistance developers; (8) study ways in which Federal funds might be more effectively targeted to older low-income minorities and older rural residents to better meet the needs of States with a disproportionate number of older individuals in greatest need, as well as States with disproportionate numbers of older individuals generally; and (9) take other specified actions, including those with respect to establishing the National Center on Elder Abuse and the National Aging Information Center. Outlines funding requirements for the National Ombudsman Resource Center and the National Center on Elder Abuse. Requires the AOA Commissioner to coordinate, advise, consult and cooperate with the Secretary of Labor in carrying out the Community Service Employment Program for Older Americans and with ACTION in carrying out OAA. Requires the Labor Secretary to consult and cooperate with the AOA Commissioner in carrying out the Job Training Partnership Act. Requires the head of each Federal entity administering programs and services substantially related to OAA objectives to collaborate with the AOA Commissioner and develop an analysis of the impact of such programs and services on older individuals (with particular attention on older low-income minority individuals), and on the functions and responsibilities of State and area agencies. Includes as programs related to the purposes of OAA the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Programs under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. Requires the AOA Commissioner to consult and coordinate with State agencies, area agencies on aging, and Native American grant recipients in the development of Federal goals, regulations, program instructions, and policies under OAA. Establishes class memberships for individuals newly appointed to serve on the Federal Council on the Aging. Makes it a duty of the Council to advise the AOA Commissioner directly on matters affecting the special needs of older individuals for services and assistance under OAA. Authorizes appropriations. Makes mandatory currently discretionary interim Council reports to the President. Provides for a nutrition officer with responsibility over nutrition services provided under OAA title III. Revises program evaluation provisions. Requires that the annual report on the long-term care ombudsman program be compiled by March 1 of each year, rather than by January 15 as is currently required. Authorizes the AOA Commissioner and the Secretary of Agriculture to provide technical assistance and appropriate material to agencies carrying out nutrition education programs. Authorizes appropriations for OAA program administrative expenses and AOA salaries and expenses. Requires the AOA Commissioner to study and report to specified congressional committees on the effectiveness of State long-term care ombudsman programs. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to arrange to establish study committees working through the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to the Congress on: (1) the quality of board and care facilities for older individuals; and (2) the quality of home care services to them. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: State and Community Programs on Aging - Amends OAA title III to add: (1) to the list of purposes for such title the securing of the opportunity for older individuals to receive managed in-home and community-based long-term care services; and (2) to the list of entities that are to cooperate with State and area agencies other State agencies, including those that administer home and community programs, and organizations representing or employing older individuals or their families. Modifies the definition of "comprehensive and coordinated system." Authorizes appropriations. Revises allotment provisions. Sets a minimum annual allotment of $50,000 per State for supportive activities for caretakers. Mandates withholding of allotments for those States which have not had their intrastate funding formula approved. Adds provisions with respect to outreach demonstration projects and volunteer services coordinators. Makes the designated State agency primarily responsible for the planning, policy development, administration, coordination, priority setting, and evaluation of all State activities related to OAA objectives. Requires that the intrastate funding formula be developed in consultation with area agencies and take into account older individuals distributed both throughout the State and, with respect to older individuals in greatest need, among agency planning and services areas, with particular attention to older low-income minority individuals. Requires submission of such formula to the AOA Commissioner, who shall approve it, rather than review and comment upon it as currently required, once it is found to fulfill OAA requirements. Requires the designated State agency to provide assurances that it will require the use of outreach efforts to identify individuals eligible for OAA assistance and inform them of the availability of such assistance. Requires the designated State agency to: (1) set specific goals for each planning and service area for providing services to older low-income minority individuals; (2) provide assurance that it will undertake specific program development, advocacy, and outreach efforts focused on the needs of such minority individuals; and (3) provide a description of its efforts in this regard. Declares that whenever a State agency initiates an action or proceeding to revoke the designation of an area agency, designate an additional planning and service area, divide the State into different such areas, or otherwise affect planning and service area boundaries, it must establish and follow procedures to provide due process to affected parties. Revises area and State plan provisions. Revises provisions concerning the transfer of funds between: (1) supportive and nutrition services programs; and (2) congregate and home delivered nutrition services programs. Allows the AOA Commissioner to reimburse States for supplies in the event of a major disaster declared by the President in accordance with the Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. Requires the AOA Commissioner to advance at least 75 percent of the disaster relief reimbursement to the State within five days of the President's disaster declaration. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to maintain, for FY 1992, a level of assistance equal to the greater of: (1) a per meal reimbursement rate equal to the amount appropriated, divided by the number of meals served in the preceding fiscal year; or (2) 61 cents per meal. Provides for Consumer Price Index adjustment of the 61 cents per meal for FY 1993 and subsequent fiscal years. Provides that in each fiscal year the final reimbursement claims shall be adjusted to use the full amount appropriated for that fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for the surplus commodities distribution program. Directs the AOA Commissioner to require entities that provide in-home services to promote specified rights of the older individual who receives such services. Adds certain new supportive services to the list of those currently authorized under OAA title III. Allows congregate and home delivered nutrition projects to operate in rural areas at a frequency that is less than the frequency currently required. Repeals certain dietary requirements for such projects. Requires the AOA Commissioner to consult with representatives from the Dietary Managers Association in developing criteria for furnishing meals under home delivered nutrition projects. Adds two new subparts entitled "School-Based Meals for Volunteer Older Individuals and Multigenerational Programs" and "General Provisions" to part C (Nutrition Services) of OAA title III under which: (1) a new program will provide meals to older individuals who do volunteer work in public schools; and (2) current nutrition projects will provide meals that comply with certain dietary guidelines and allowances. Authorizes the addition of other in-home services (as defined under area and State plans) to the list of in-home services currently authorized under OAA title III. Gives OAA title III part F (Preventive Health Services) the new name "Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Services" and adds additional services which may be provided under it. States that the services provided under such part shall not include those for which payment may be made under SSA title XVIII (Medicare). Modifies and shifts to a new OAA title VII (Allotments for Vulnerable Elder Rights Protection Activities) the OAA title III part G program for the prevention of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older individuals. Repeals the old part G program. Adds a new part G program entitled "Supportive Activities for Caretakers Who Provide In-Home Services to Frail Older Individuals" under which the AOA Commissioner shall carry out a State grant program to provide supportive activities for caretakers who provide in-home services to frail older individuals. Lists those activities which constitute supportive activities. Includes the maintenance of lists of individuals who provide respite services as a supportive activity. Title IV: Training, Research, and Discretionary Projects and Programs - Amends OAA title IV (Training, Research, and Discretionary Projects and Programs) to require the AOA Commissioner to: (1) consult annually with State and area agencies, Native American grant recipients, and other entities and individuals in developing priorities for grants and contracts; and (2) ensure that grants and contracts are evaluated for their benefit to older individuals and OAA programs and comply with OAA requirements. Makes such education and training projects emphasize attracting minority personnel to the field of aging in order to help meet critical shortages of adequately training personnel for programs in that field. Makes it a purpose of grants and contracts to provide education and training for practitioners in the field of gerontology. Makes in-service training emphasize using culturally sensitive practices to respond to the needs of older individuals. Provides for training of service providers with respect to aging and the problems of older individuals. Adds schools of social work and psychology to the list of schools which multidisciplinary centers of gerontology are required to help develop training programs in the field of aging. Revises provisions with respect to demonstration projects and special projects in comprehensive long-term care. Allows legal assistance agencies to participate in ombudsman and advocacy demonstration projects for developmental disabilities and mental illness. Authorizes demonstration projects to provide: (1) older individuals with multigeneration activities; and (2) supportive services to older individuals who are residents in federally assisted housing projects. Authorizes the AOA Commissioner to award grants to eligible communities (with a preference for applicants experienced in operating community programs and programs meeting the independent living needs of older individuals) to establish neighborhood senior care programs, in order to encourage professionals to provide volunteer services to local residents who are older individuals and who might otherwise have to be admitted to nursing homes and hospitals. Requires the AOA Commissioner, to the extent appropriations are available, to contract for the establishment of a technical resource center that will: (1) assist the Commissioner in developing criteria for, and in awarding grants to communities to establish, neighborhood senior care programs; (2) assist communities interested in establishing such a program; (3) provide ongoing analysis of such programs and provide program data to the AOA Commissioner; (4) serve as a liaison to State agencies; and (5) take any further actions as required. Authorizes the AOA Commissioner to make grants to selected agencies and organizations to support improvement of information and assistance services, and systems of services, operated at State and local levels. Requires the AOA Commissioner to: (1) establish and carry out senior transportation demonstration programs for the purpose of improving the mobility of, and transportation services for, older individuals; and (2) make grants to or enter into contracts with eligible entities to establish and operate Resource Centers on Native American Elders. Requires such Centers to: (1) gather information and perform research on priority areas of concern regarding older Native Americans; (2) provide for dissemination of research results; and (3) provide technical assistance and training to entities that provide services to older Native Americans. Requires the AOA Commissioner to make grants for: (1) services for older individuals with developmental disabilities and for older individuals with caretaker responsibilities for developmentally disabled children; (2) housing ombudsman programs; and (3) foreclosure and eviction assistance and relief services. Authorizes demonstration projects that generate non-Federal resources in order to increase resources available to provide additional services under OAA title III. Requires the AOA Commissioner to make grants to institutions of higher education, historically black colleges or universities, Hispanic Centers of Excellence in Applied Gerontology, and other educational institutions that serve the needs of minority students, to provide education and training to prepare students for careers in the field of aging. Requires the AOA Commissioner to establish and carry out pension rights demonstration projects. Authorizes appropriations. Revises provisions respecting demonstration project grant payments and AOA Commissioner responsibilities. Title V: Community Service Employment for Older Americans - Amends the Older American Community Service Employment Act (OAA title IX) to make miscellaneous and technical amendments with respect to employment projects. Authorizes appropriations. Provides that assistance under such Act shall not be construed to be financial assistance for purposes related to the Immigration and Nationality Act. Title VI: Grants For Native Americans - Amends OAA title X (Grants for Native Americans) to require applicants for grants under parts A (Indian Program) and B (Native Hawaiian Program) to assure that they will coordinate services under OAA titles III and X in same geographical area. Provides for the distribution of OAA title X grant funds among: (1) tribal organizations; and (2) organizations serving Native Hawaiians. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Vulnerable Elder Rights Protection Activities - Adds to OAA the new title VII (Allotments for Vulnerable Elder Rights Protection Activities) referenced above in title III of this Act. Establishes ombudsman programs, programs for prevention of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, a State elder rights and legal assistance development program, and an outreach, counseling, and assistance program. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the AOA Commissioner to make allotments to States to pay for the cost of carrying out vulnerable elder rights protection activities. Directs the AOA Commissioner to make grants for vulnerable elder rights protection activities with respect to Native Americans. Authorizes appropriations. Title VIII: Amendments to Other Laws; Related Matters - Requires the Director of the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control to collect and report on certain demographic information on home health care aides and nursing home nurse aids, as well as information on the role of such aides in providing institution-based and home-based long-term care. Requires the Labor Secretary to: (1) collect, and prepare a report containing, certain information on home health care aides, including information on conditions of employment and employment benefits with respect to such aides; and (2) collect and prepare a report containing similar information with respect to nursing home nurse aides. Requires the Director's and Secretary's reports to be transmitted to the AOA Commissioner. Requires the AOA Commissioner to review such reports, then submit them to appropriate congressional committees along with comments and findings. Requires the Labor Secretary to include a separate occupation code for each such aide in Labor wage surveys conducted after enactment of this Act. Amends the National School Lunch Act to revise the definition of "adult day care center" to include entities licensed to provide adult day care services to individuals in a group living arrangement. Native American Programs Act Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 (NAPA) to transfer from the HHS Secretary to the Commissioner of the Administration to Native Americans (established by this Act) authority for financial assistance to Native American projects. Makes private agencies serving Alaska Native organizations in urban or rural areas not associated with an Alaska Native village eligible for financial assistance. Makes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs of Hawaii (Office) the sole recipient of grants from the Commissioner referenced below for a currently authorized revolving loan fund for economic development in Hawaii. Repeals the termination date for such loan fund (thus making it permanent). Requires the Office to provide matching non-Federal contributions to the fund for each grant. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals provisions that require unneeded monies in the fund to be deposited as miscellaneous receipts in the Treasury. Revises associated congressional reporting requirements. Establishes in HHS the Administration for Native Americans (Administration), which shall be headed by a Commissioner (Commissioner), and in the Office of the Secretary (Secretary) the Intra-Departmental Council on Native American Affairs (Council). Makes the Administration responsible for carrying out programs under NAPA. Makes the Commissioner the chairperson of the Council. Requires the Commissioner to advise the HHS Secretary on all matters affecting Native Americans that involve HHS. Requires the Council to: (1) prepare a plan to allow tribal governments and other eligible Native American organizations to consolidate HHS grants; and (2) designate a single office to oversee and audit such grants. Revises technical assistance and training provisions. Modifies appeal and evaluation provisions. Adds congressional reporting requirements regarding social and economic conditions of Native Amerians. Extends employment preference to individuals who are eligible for NAPA assistance. Revises administrative provisions. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) demonstration projects to conduct research related to Native American studies and Indian policy development; (2) continued development of a detailed plan for a National Center for Native American Studies and Indian Policy Development; and (2) specified provisions of NAPA. Amends the Older Americans Act Amendments of 1987 to require the President to convene a White House Conference on Aging before January 1, 1995. Authorizes appropriations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that such Conference should consider the impact of the social security earnings test on older individuals who are employed. Title IX: General Provisions - Provides that any authority to enter into contracts under this Act shall be effective only to the extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts. Requires the HHS Secretary to issue proposed regulations to carry out the amendments made by titles I through VII of this Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that a recipient of Federal financial assistance awarded under this Act for equipment or product purchases should use such assistance to purchase American-made equipment or products. Sets forth effective dates of provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1992
Abused Military Dependents Protection Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of a military department, upon application, to pay an annuity to an eligible spouse or former spouse of a member of the armed forces under the jurisdiction of that Secretary (spouse). Provides that a spouse is eligible to receive an annuity if: (1) after the member becomes eligible to be retired on the basis of years of service, the member's eligibility to receive retired or retainer pay is terminated as a result of misconduct of the member or former member involving abuse of a dependent; and (2) the spouse was the victim of the abuse and was married to the member at the time of that abuse or is a natural or adopted parent of a dependent child of the member who was the victim of the abuse. Makes such provisions applicable with respect to terminations of eligibility to receive retired or retainer pay as a result of a conviction by a court-martial or an administrative separation from the armed forces. Sets forth: (1) a formula for determining the amount of the annuity payable to such spouse, based on the number of years of marriage to such member; and (2) provisions with respect to termination of entitlement to such annuity. Directs the Secretary of a military department concerned to pay indemnity compensation to an eligible dependent of a member of the armed forces under the jurisdiction of that Secretary who, before becoming eligible to be retired from the armed forces on the basis of years of service, is: (1) convicted by a court-martial for an offense involving abuse of a dependent if the court-martial convening authority or a higher competent authority approves a dishonorable discharge, bad-conduct discharge, or dismissal of the member as a result of that conviction; or (2) separated from the armed forces under adverse conditions, as a result of misconduct involving abuse of a dependent. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) eligibility determinations; (2) amount of compensation; (3) period of payment; (4) commencement of payment; (5) termination of payment; and (6) offset of payments. Entitles spouses, while receiving an annuity or indemnity compensation pursuant to this Act, to: (1) receive medical and dental care to the same extent as a dependent of a retired member of the armed forces; (2) use the commissary and exchange stores on the same basis as a dependent of a retired member of the armed forces; and (3) receive any other benefits that a dependent of a retired member is entitled to receive. Sets forth further limitations with respect to such annuities and indemnity compensation. Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study to: (1) determine the number of persons who became eligible to receive an annuity pursuant to this Act as of each of FY 1980 through 1992; (2) estimate the number of persons who will become eligible to receive an annuity during each of FY 1993 through 2000; (3) determine, for each of FY 1980 through 1992, the number of members of the armed forces who, after having completed between one and 20 years of service, were approved in that fiscal year for discharge or dismissal from the armed forces as a result of abuse of a spouse or dependent child; and (4) estimate, for each of FY 1993 through 2000, the number of members of the armed forces who, after having completed between one and 20 years of service in that fiscal year, will be approved in such fiscal year for discharge or dismissal from the armed forces as a result of abuse of a spouse or dependent child.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1992
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Quality Act of 1992 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for optional Medicaid coverage of services provided through a State case management program that meets specified requirements to Medicaid-eligible individuals who sustain traumatic brain injuries. Describes the services provided under such a program. Specifies criteria related to the eligibility of individuals and service providers to participate in such a program. Requires that an individual reside in a State that has designated a State coordinator for traumatic brain injuries in order to receive services under this Act. Requires such coordinator to establish policies and standards for providing services, make necessary reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, supervise and coordinate services for persons with traumatic brain injuries, and perform other specified duties, including establishing an advisory committee. Makes such coordinator responsible for a program of activities related to preventing and reducing the rate of traumatic brain injuries in the State. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, to establish standards for the reporting of data on traumatic brain injuries and the operation of registries of traumatic brain injuries for coordinator use. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Administrator for Health Care Policy and Research to conduct a study on the effectiveness of traumatic brain injury interventions. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 1992 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, to conduct a study concerning traumatic brain injury. Requires the study to seek to: (1) determine the major causes of traumatic brain injury; (2) identify common therapeutic interventions which are used for the rehabilitation of individuals with traumatic brain injuries; (3) determine the preventive efforts that are being used by States and non-profit agencies to reduce the occurrence of such injuries; (4) identify effective treatment and long-term rehabilitation services needed to meet the needs of individuals with traumatic brain injuries; (5) develop practice guidelines for the treatment of traumatic brain injury; and (6) determine whether there is a need for national standards for helmets used by bicyclists and others. Requires the results of such study to be reported to the Congress not later than three years after enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary to biennially prepare a report containing recommendations for the prevention of traumatic brain injuries, including identifying States that have mandated helmet laws for bicyclists and others. Requires such report to be disseminated to State health officers. Makes the Director responsible for gathering data concerning the number of individuals surviving traumatic brain injury and regarding the cost of such injuries. Requires the Director to establish a uniform reporting system under which hospitals and State and local health-related agencies will report on matters including: (1) the occurrence of traumatic brain injuries; (2) the amount of traumatic brain injury research, training, and services; (3) the identification of States and localities that have approved mandated helmet use laws; and (4) the health insurance status of individuals with such injuries. Requires the reporting system to permit the Director to make an accurate assessment of resource needs, provide a basis for the allocation of resources, and track survivors of traumatic brain injury from the provision of initial health care through long-term rehabilitation. Directs the Director to determine which Federal, State, local or other entities collect data on traumatic brain injury and the means by which such entities collect the data. Authorizes the Director to enter into cooperative agreements with other agencies, and to provide assistance to other entities with responsibility for data collection, to establish traumatic brain injury as a specific reportable condition in existing and future reporting systems. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to State and local entities, and to public or non-profit private entities, to support: (1) special prevention and public awareness initiative projects; (2) model traumatic brain injury prevention, research and support programs; (3) projects that study the service needs of individuals with traumatic brain injury; and (4) projects involving grants for service coordination. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance to public and private nonprofit entities to reduce the incidence of traumatic brain injury through the establishment and effectuation of prevention projects. Sets forth eligibility requirements. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health, to provide assistance to public and private nonprofit entities to support the conduct of basic and applied research concerning traumatic brain injury, especially with respect to the biomechanics of brain injury, the molecular and cellular characteristics of primary and secondary injury to the brain and the development of improved experimental brain injury models. Specifies the research to be conducted. Directs the Secretary to award grants to States for the establishment of Statewide protection and advocacy demonstration projects for individuals affected by traumatic brain injury. Sets forth eligibility requirements. Requires each State that receives assistance under this Act to establish a consumer-controlled advisory board within the Department of Health or Human Services of the State or within another department as designated by the chief executive officer of the State. Directs an advisory board to coordinate communications with and between Federal, State and local agencies, citizen's groups, private industry and labor and nonprofit organizations and to encourage citizen participation through public hearings and other types of community outreach programs. Requires each State to establish a services coordination program to identify the services required to prevent the institutionalization or to minimize the need for residential rehabilitation in the case of traumatic brain injuries. Sets forth the requirements for such program. Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions of this Act for FY 1993 through 1995. Designates October 1992 as National Head Injury Month.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1992
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the prohibition against separate billing for electrocardiogram interpretations. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make separate payment under the Medicare fee schedule for any such interpretations performed or ordered to be performed as part of or in conjunction with a visit to or a consultation with a physician. Provides for adjustment of medical visit and consultation relative values so as not to include relative value units for electrocardiogram interpretation in the relative value for medical visits and consultations. Sets forth guidelines for the adjustment of Medicare fee schedule amounts to reflect the separate payment for electrocardiogram interpretations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1992
Military Separation Retirement Benefits Act of 1992 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow rollovers into individual retirement accounts of military separation pay.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1992
Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (the Act) to extend the authorization of appropriations and revise various provisions for vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities. Title I: Terminology - Revises terminology under the Act. Changes "individuals with handicaps" to "individuals with a vocational disability." Changes "the blind" (or "the deaf") to "persons who are blind (or deaf)." Changes references to "rehabilitation engineering services" to "assistive technology devices and services," (and defines such term). Refers to the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board as the Access Board. Title II: Program Amendments - Decreases the Federal share of program costs under the basic State vocational rehabilitation grant. Includes, under State plan requirements, specific plans for coordination with educational agencies in the provision of transition services specified in the individual education programs of students with disabilities. Includes services to students to assist in the transition from school to employment among authorized vocational and other training services. Makes discretionary (rather than mandatory) the program of demonstration grants for model statewide transitional planning services. Requires, as part of client participation in the development of the individualized written rehabilitation program (IWRP), that each IWRP include the views of the individual with a vocational disability, or, if appropriate, such individual's parents or guardians, along with documentation of the individual's involvement in selecting a vocational objective and the services to be provided to attain that objective. Requires development and implementation of evaluation standards and performance indicators for the vocational rehabilitation program under title I of the Act, in accordance with specified procedures. Requires annual State reports to the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (the Commissioner) on the extent of State compliance with such standards and indicators. Directs the Commissioner and any State whose performance is below established standards to jointly develop a program improvement plan. Directs the Commissioner biannually to review such State's program improvement efforts, request further revisions where necessary, and continue such review until satisfactory performance is sustained for more than one year. Requires reductions or terminations of payments to any State failing to enter into or comply with a necessary performance improvement plan. Directs the Commissioner in the annual report to the Congress, an analysis of program performance, with relative State performance, based on such standards and indicators. Revises provisions relating to State allotments and State maintenance of efforts. Adds client assistance information requirements. Requires all programs, projects, and facilities that provide services to individuals under the Act to advise such individuals or their guardians or legal representatives of the availability and purposes of the client assistance program, including information on how to seek assistance under it. Revises provisions for supported employment. Requires an assessment of an individual's potential for supported employment to determine whether it may be reasonably expected that the individual can benefit in terms of employability. Requires that provision of certain authorized on-going support services by a designated State unit be limited in duration to a period of time prescribed by the Commissioner. Requires that extended on-going support be provided by other State agencies and private organizations or any other available source. Repeals outdated provisions relating to a study of the needs of American Indians with disabilities. Revises provisions relating to use of funds under title II (Research and Training) of the Act by the Director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Revises provisions for discretionary grants for Rehabilitation Technology (currently Engineering) Research Centers and for Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers. Requires that both such types of centers be operated in affiliation with institutions of higher education. Requires any project or demonstration assisted by a discretionary grant for spinal cord injury research to: (1) establish on an appropriate regional basis, multidisciplinary system of providing vocational and other rehabilitation services specifically designed to meet the special need of individuals with spinal cord injuries, including acute care as well as periodic inpatient and outpatient followup and services; and (2) demonstrate and evaluate benefits and costs of such system, improved methods and equipment essential for individuals, and methods of community outreach for such individuals and community education in connection with their problems. Revises service work requirements for recipients of personnel training scholarships. Adds provisions for discretionary grants by the Commissioner for demonstration projects to increase client choice in the rehabilitation process, including the choice of providers of vocational rehabilitation services, under title III (Special Federal Responsibilities) of the Act. Revises provisions for special recreational programs. Includes vocational skills development under authorized activities of such programs. Sets a maximum grant period of three years. Requires grant applicants to describe how they will continue the service program after Federal assistance ends. Sets forth requirements for maintenance of service levels during the three-year project period. Sets the Federal share at 80, 60, and 40 percent, respectively, during the first, second, and third year. Includes the Department of Commerce among the agencies represented on the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, and increases the number of Board members by one. Revises Board terms of office, functions, investigations, interagency arrangements, reports, and acceptance of gifts. Revises electronic and information technology accessibility guidelines. Revises provisions for Projects With Industry Program grants, under title VI (Employment Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities) of the Act. Revises title VII of the Act, Comprehensive Services for Independent Living. Establishes a State Independent Living Council in each State receiving title VII assistance. Requires recipients of title VII grant programs assistance to provide for: (1) individual written independent living rehabilitation plans for each individual with a severe disability eligible for title VII independent living services; (2) due process protection providing opportunity for review of determinations made concerning the provision or denial of title VII services; and (3) affirmative action employment of individuals with a severe disability by State rehabilitation agencies and facilities and under Federal contracts and subcontracts. Gives priority of services under title VII to individuals not served by other provisions of the Act. Extends the authorization of appropriations for various programs under the Act. Title III: Amendments to the Helen Keller National Center Act - Amends the Helen Keller National Center Act to extend its authorization of appropriations. Provides for training family members of individuals who are deaf-blind, at the Center or elsewhere, to assist them to provide and obtain appropriate services for the individual. Includes under the definition of an individual who is deaf-blind one who is determined to be so through functional and performance assessment, even if no accurate measure of hearing and vision loss can be obtained due to cognitive or behavioral constraints. Title IV: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to authorize the Secretary of Education, in making specified grants, to provide for training or retraining of regular education teachers who instruct individuals who are deaf, but are not certified as teachers of such individuals, in order to meet the communication needs of such individuals. Title V: Amendments to the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988 - Amends the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988 to make certain changes in language with respect to public or private agencies and organizations, including institutions of higher education. Title VI: Other Amendments - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (the Act) with respect to provisions relating to employment under Federal contracts. Provides that standards applied under title I of the Act and employment provisions of title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) shall be the same as those applied to complaints alleging non-affirmative action employment discrimination which would also be actionable under title I of ADA. Provides that, for employment under Federal contracts, homosexuality and bisexuality are not impairments and therefore are not disabilities, and the term disability does not include: (1) various sexual behavior disorders; (2) compulsive gambling, kleptomania or pyromania; or (3) psychoactive substance use disorders resulting from current illegal use of drugs. Title VII: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1992
Repeals a Federal prohibition on the payment of compensation to a veteran who has neither spouse, child, nor dependent parent, who is rated by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs as being incompetent, and whose estate exceeds $25,000, until the estate's value is reduced to less than $10,000.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1992
Designates October 30, 1992, as Refugee Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1992
Medical and Health Insurance Information Reform Act of 1992 - Adds a new title XXII, Medical And Health Insurance Information Reform, to the Social Security Act (SSA). Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in order to assure the availability of comparative value information to health care purchasers, to determine whether each State is developing and implementing a health care value information program. Enumerates the criteria for State programs. Provides that if the Secretary finds that a State has not developed or implemented a health care value information program that comports with such criteria, the Secretary must take necessary actions to implement a comparable program in the State. Allows fees to be charged for the informational materials provided pursuant to such program. Directs the head of any Federal agency with responsibility for the provision of health insurance or health care services to develop and make comparative value information available to States, health care providers, and consumers. Directs the Secretary to promulgate requirements for health insurers to furnish periodically to the Secretary, on a sample basis, health care data relevant to health care services research. Requires the Secretary to make available, under the Freedom of Information Act, all Medicare (SSA title XVIII) claims records, without regard to the consent of the physician or other individual who furnished the item or service in question. Maintains in force Privacy Act protections against the release of information that identifies Medicare beneficiaries. Applies this new requirement for release of records only to information received after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary, directly or through grant or contract, to develop model systems: (1) for gathering health care cost, quality, and outcomes data; and (2) for analyzing such data in a manner that would allow valid comparisons among providers and among health plans. Requires the Secretary to support and evaluate experiments with different approaches to achieve the most cost-effective method. Provides that, when appropriate, the Secretary may establish standards for data gathering in order to facilitate analysis and comparisons across the nation. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to enable them to plan and initiate implementation of their health care information programs. Authorizes appropriations. Nullifies any State law which requires medical or health insurance records (including billing information) to be kept in written, rather than electronic, form. Directs the Secretary, after taking into consideration the Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Model Act of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), to promulgate requirements concerning health insurance information privacy and confidentiality. Includes among such requirements that information identifying individuals shall not be redisclosed (with such limited exceptions as the Secretary may provide) except to the extent necessary to carry out the purpose for which the information was collected. Requires the Secretary to take into consideration specified principles concerning information that identifies individuals when promulgating such requirements. Directs the Secretary to determine whether problems relating to standards for the electronic receipt and transmission of health insurance information cause significant administrative costs. Requires the Secretary, if such costs are generated, to promulgate standards for the electronic receipt and transmission of claims, payment, eligibility, and enrollment information (including privacy and confidentiality protection requirements). Directs the Secretary to determine whether problems relating to the receipt and transmission of health insurance eligibility verification cause significant administrative costs. Requires the Secretary, if such costs are generated, to promulgate requirements for the receipt and transmission of health insurance eligibility verification. Directs the Secretary to determine whether the proportion of health insurance claims and payment information received and transmitted by paper will continue to cause significant administrative costs. Directs the Secretary, if such costs are generated, to require a specified proportion of (or all of) such information to be received and transmitted electronically (with such exceptions as the Secretary might specify). Directs the Secretary to promulgate requirements for the format and content of basic claim forms under health insurance plans. Directs the Secretary to determine whether the variety of information requested by health insurers (in addition to information requested in basic claims forms) causes administrative costs disproportionate to the benefits derived. Requires the Secretary, if such costs are generated, to publish recommendations concerning what additional information should be allowed to be requested and in what format. Directs the Secretary, after consulting with the NAIC, to promulgate rules for determining the relative liability of insurers and the priority of payment when several health insurance policies cover the same individual. Directs the Secretary to determine whether problems relating to the transfer of information among health insurers that cover the same individual cause significant mistaken payments or administrative costs. Requires the Secretary, if such payments or costs are generated, to promulgate requirements concerning the transfer among insurers (and annual updating) of information (which may include requirements for the use of unique identifiers, and for the listing of all individuals covered under a health insurance plan). Directs the Secretary to determine, for each State, whether there were in effect State requirements substantially the same as those enumerated below and whether the State effectively enforced them. Applies the requirements enumerated below to administrators of self-insured employee plans. Provides for Federal backup authority to be effective in a States (with respect to a section) only if the Secretary makes a negative finding with respect to certain requirements or if the State does not provide sufficient information to enable the Secretary to make the determination. Requires health insurers (in States that do not have an equivalent program) to: (1) meet the Federal requirements concerning the protection of privacy and confidentiality; (2) use social security numbers for their beneficiaries and Medicare unique identifiers for each providers that furnishes items and services; (3) meet the standards and requirements (if any) concerning the receipt and transmission of health insurance information; (4) meet the requirements concerning the form and content of health insurance claim forms; (5) follow the rules determining the priority of payment when several health insurance policies cover the same individual; and (6) meet the requirements (if any) concerning the furnishing of information among insurers. Requires the Secretary, after consulting with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and others, to promulgate requirements for hospitals concerning electronic medical data. Specifies the data sets to be included in such requirements. Permits the Secretary, after consulting with ANSI and others, to promulgate requirements for health care entities other than hospitals concerning electronic medical data. Requires hospitals that participate in the Medicare program to maintain an electronic patient care information system that meets certain data set requirements promulgated by the Secretary for hospitals, and to transmit data electronically to the Secretary, peer review organizations, carriers, and intermediaries, from the appropriate data sets. Permits waivers of such requirements for hospitals in the process of developing an electronic patient care information system, for small rural hospitals, and for certain hospitals that agree to subject their data transfer processes to specified quality assurance procedures. Permits Federal agencies to require electronic transmission of data elements utilized for certain agency health care or research programs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to subject insurers to an excise tax for any failure to comply with requirements under SSA new title XXII respecting health insurance. Specifies the amount of such tax for administrator of self-insured employee welfare benefit plans and other insurers. Provides that the excise tax generally shall not apply if the violation could not have been discovered through the exercise of reasonable diligence, or if the violation was corrected within 30 days after it had been discovered. Gives the Secretary authority to waive the tax if the violations were due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect, to the extent payment of the tax would be excessive relative to the failure involved. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to: (1) community organizations or coalitions of health care providers, insurers, and purchasers to establish, and document the efficacy of, communication links between the information systems of health insurers and of health care providers; and (2) public and private non-profit entities for the development of regional- and community- based clinical information systems, and for the development and testing of certain ambulatory care data sets. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Designates November 13, 1992, as Vietnam Veterans Memorial 10th Anniversary Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Designates the second Sunday in October 1992 as National Children's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1992
Designates the week of November 30 through December 6, 1992, as National Education First Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1992
DES Education and Research Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish a program for the conduct and support of research and training, the dissemination of health information, and other measures with respect to the diagnosis and treatment of conditions associated with exposure to the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES). Mandates: (1) programs to educate health professionals and the public; and (2) longitudinal studies. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1992
Health Freedom Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define "dietary supplement" as an article that: (1) includes, and is intended to supplement the diet with, a vitamin, mineral, herb, or another similar nutritional substance; or (2) is intended for ingestion in tablet, capsule, or liquid form, or another similar form. Provides that a dietary supplement shall not be considered to be a drug solely because: (1) of the potency of a substance in such supplement; and (2) the labeling or advertising for the supplement contains a claim, or provides information, concerning the potency of a substance in the supplement, or contains a health claim of the type permitted under this Act. Specifies that: (1) a substance in a dietary supplement is not a food additive if the substance is identified in the labeling of the dietary supplement as a substance provided by the product to supplement the diet; and (2) an article that is a dietary supplement may be described as a dietary supplement in labeling or advertising. Permits labeling or advertising for such a supplement to include a claim or other information that characterizes the relationship of the supplement, or the presence or absence of one or more of the substances provided by the supplement, to a disease or health-related condition, if: (1) such claim or other information is truthful and not misleading; and (2) there is scientific evidence, whether published or unpublished, that provides a reasonable basis for such claim or other information. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from establishing any requirement that such a claim or other information that meets the requirements of this Act be approved by or conform to a regulation issued by the Secretary before the claim or information may be used. Provides that, if the Secretary asserts that labeling or advertising for a dietary supplement includes a claim or other information that fails to comply with the Act, the manufacturer (or other specified parties) may bring an action to secure a declaratory judgment regarding the validity of the assertion and obtain any other means of judicial relief authorized by law.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1992
All-Soy Ink Printing Act of 1992 - Requires that all federally performed or procured printing be done with all-soy inks and pigment vehicles as soon as commercially cost competitive. Requires that all solicitations for printing and binding services made by the Government Printing Office encourage the use of ink with soy-based pigment vehicles.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Tax Extension Act of 1992 - Title I: Extension of Certain Expiring Tax Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend from August 1, 1992, until August 1, 1993, the provisions governing the allocation of research and experimental expenditures for purposes of determining sources of income. Extends the following provisions from June 30, 1992, until December 31, 1993: (1) the tax credit for increasing research activities; (2) the targeted jobs credit; (3) the authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds and qualified mortgage credit certificates; (4) the authority to issue qualified small issue bonds to finance manufactuiring facilities and farm property; (5) employer-provided educational assistance; (6) the tax exclusion for employer-provided group legal services plans; (7) the energy investment credit for solar and geothermal property; (8) the credit for clinical testing expenses for certain drugs for rare diseases or conditions; and (9) health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Extends the low-income housing credit until December 31, 1993, with modifications. Expands the ten-year anti-churning rule waiver to certain projects substantially assisted, financed, or operated under the National Housing Act. Allows units occupied by certain full-time students to qualify for such credit. Authorizes the Treasury Department to waive penalties for certain de minimis errors and recertifications. Provides that certain community service facilities in projects in qualified census tracts are included in eligible basis as functionally related and subordinate facilities. Requires housing credit agencies, in determining whether the credit allocated to a building exceeds the amount necessary to assure the project's feasibility, to consider the reasonableness of total project costs and the appropriateness of amenities. Allows certain building owners to elect to use apartment size or family size in determining the credit's gross rent limitation. Provides for the tax treatment of resale price control and subsidy lien programs under mortgage revenue bond provisions. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the five-year occupancy requirement under the tax-exempt mortgage revenue bond program any two-family residence which: (1) is a targeted area residence; or (2) is located in an area designated as an economic development zone or enterprise zone by Federal or State law. Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to extend, from October 1, 1992, until January 1, 1994, the authority to transfer income tax revenues attributable to the taxation of tier railroad retirement benefits to the railroad retirement account. Extends the termination date of the nonconventional source fuels credit for one year. Repeals the tax preference for the appreciated property charitable deduction during 1992 and 1993. Requires a report by the Secrretary of the Treasury to certain congressional committees on an advance valuation procedure. Title II: Repeal of Certain Luxury Excise Taxes; Imposition of Tax on Diesel Fuel Used in Noncommercial Boats - Repeals the luxury excise tax on boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs. Provides an inflation adjustment for the threshold amount on which luxury vehicles are taxed. Terminates the luxury tax on passenger vehicles after December 31, 1999. Extends the diesel fuels excise tax to diesel fuel used in noncommercial boats. Exempts from such tax diesel fuel used for fisheries or commercial navigation. Retains diesel fuel taxes in the general Treasury (instead of the Highway Trust Fund and the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund).
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Designates the week beginning November 8, 1992, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Designates February 21 through February 27, 1993, as American Wine Appreciation Week. Commends the winegrape and fruit growers and vintners of the United States for the production of high quality agricultural products.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1992
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 1995, the suspension of duty on in-line roller skate boots.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1992
Designates July 1992 as National Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1992
Designates October 1992 as Polish-American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1992
Designates October 1992 as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1992
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the direct election of the President and Vice President and eliminates the electoral college. Declares that the times, places, and manner of holding presidential elections and entitlement to inclusion on the ballot shall be prescribed by State law, but that the Congress may by law make or alter such regulations. States that the days for such elections shall be determined by the Congress and shall be uniform throughout the United States. Requires the Congress to prescribe the times, places, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Requires such elections, other than runoff elections, to be held not later than the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November and the results declared no later than 30 days after the date of the election. Authorizes the Congress to provide for the case of death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before an election and for the case of the death of either the President-elect or Vice President-elect.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1992
Title I: Extension of Unemployment Benefits - Amends the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-164, as amended) to extend the emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) program. Changes the EUC program termination date (currently July 4, 1992) to March 6, 1993. Provides for phaseout reductions of such benefits for weeks beginning after June 12, 1992, and for weeks beginning after January 3, 1993. (Provides, therefore, up to: (1) 33 weeks of EUC benefits in certain high-unemployment States and 26 weeks in all other States, respectively, for claimants for weeks beginning prior to June 13, 1992; (2) 20 or 13 weeks, respectively, for new claimants for weeks beginning on or after such date; and (3) 10 or 7 weeks, respectively, for new claimants for weeks beginning on or after January 3, 1993, until March 6, 1993.) Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to authorize certain advances to the extended unemployment compensation account to pay for emergency unemployment compensation benefits. Amends SSA to require the first Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation to study and report with recommendations (by February 1, 1993) on certain proposed permanent changes in the extended benefits program under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970. Title II: Revenue Provisions - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to apply mark-to-market accounting method rules for certain securities held by dealers in securities (with specified exceptions for certain types of securities such as those held for investment or as a hedge). Requires taking into account for tax deduction determinations: (1) certain Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) assistance as compensation for loss; and (2) any FSLIC assistance for any debt for determining whether such debt is worthless and in determining the amount of any addition to a reserve for bad debts arising from such worthlessness or partial worthlessness. Revises the IRC for individual estimated tax payments. Changes (for taxable year years 1993 through 1996) from 100 to 115 percent of the preceding year's tax liability the amount of the timely estimated payaments which an individual must make to qualify for a "safe harbor" alternative in making such estimated payments. Repeals special rules which denied the use of such last year's liability safe harbor for certain individuals with significant increases in tax liability from one year to the next. Subtitle B: Alternative Taxable Years - Revises the IRC with respect to electing alternative taxable years. Allows a partnership, S corporation, or personal service corporation to elect a taxable year other than the required taxable year if the annual financial statements (if any) of the entity used for credit purposes or provided to the partners, shareholders, or other proprietors of the entity are based on a fiscal year ending in the same month as the taxable year elected. Increases the amount of the required payment that must be made by a partnership or S corporation that elects a taxable year other than the required taxable year. Requires an additional payment for any taxable year that a partnership or S corporation first makes or changes a taxable year election to increase the deferral period.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1992
Designates July 2, 1992, as National Literacy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1992
Designates the week beginning October 4, 1992, as National Aviation Education Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1992
Civil War Battlefield Commemorative Coin Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a specified number of five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Civil War battlefield preservation. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Requires that all sales include a surcharge of $35 per coin for the five-dollar coins, $7 per coin for the one-dollar coins, and $1 per coin for the half-dollar coins. Requires that all surcharges be paid to the Civil War Battlefield Foundation for the preservation of historically significant Civil War battlefields.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1992
Economic Equity Act - Title I: Employment Opportunities - Subtitle A: Women in Apprenticeship Occupations and Nontraditional Occupations Act - Women in Apprenticeship Occupations and Nontraditional Occupations Act - Mandates: (1) a program to provide technical assistance to employers and labor unions to assist in preparing the workplace to employ women in apprenticeable occupations and other nontraditional occupations. Authorizes grants to community-based organizations to deliver the technical assistance; and (2) an outreach program to employers to inform employers of the availability of the technical assistance. Mandates a report to the appropriate congressional committees on the participation of women in apprenticeable and nontraditional occupations. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Commission on the Advancement of Women in the Science and Engineering Work Forces Act - Commission on the Advancement of Women in the Science and Engineering Work Forces Act - Establishes the Commission on the Advancement of Women in the Science and Engineering Work Forces. Subtitle C: Women and Minorities in Science and Mathematics - Women and Minorities in Science and Mathematics Act of 1992 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 with regard to women and minorities who are underrepresented in science and mathematics to mandate grants and contracts for education programs. Modifies existing provisions regarding: (1) off-campus programs; (2) adult and continuing education staff development; (3) research and research application in adult and continuing education; (4) the "talent search" and "upward bound" programs; (5) midcareer teacher retraining; (6) school, college, and university partnerships; (7) professional development resource centers; (8) congressional teacher scholarships; (9) model and cooperative education; (10) graduate education program; (11) Harris fellowships; (12) graduate assistance in areas of national needs; (13) the Minority Science Improvement Program; and (14) science and engineering access programs. Subtitle D: Worker Retraining - Worker Retraining Act of 1992 - Mandates grants to not more than ten States to plan, establish, and operate retraining initiatives to allow low-income individuals to advance from low skill to higher skill positions. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Women in Business - Subtitle A: Act for Microenterprise - Act for Microenterprise - Amends the Social Security Act to exclude business assets from consideration in determining: (1) eligibility for aid and services to needy families with children (AFDC); and (2) income and resources in connection with provisions relating to supplemental security income (SSI). Excludes income from a business with five or fewer employees, during the first year of the business, from consideration in determining the amount of aid under AFDC and SSI. Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to require approval of any State law making unemployment compensation payable to individuals starting microenterprises. Requires State law to entitle an individual performing services in a microenterprise to receive regular or extended unemployment compensation. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to allow assistance under certain provisions of the Act to be used for: (1) loans to commercial enterprises with five or fewer employees, one or more of whom own the enterprise; and (2) counseling, technical assistance, educational programs, planning, and training to facilitate such commercial enterprises. Amends the Small Business Act to set forth congressional findings regarding microenterprises and implementation of loan programs under specified provisions of the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act to add references to microenterprise loans to provisions defining "qualified thrift investments." Requires each appropriate Federal banking agency to establish a division to be known as the Microenterprise Technical and Operations Office to offer technical assistance, training, outreach, and other support. Subtitle B: Microlend for the Future Act - Microlend for the Future Act - Authorizes the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to make loans and grants to community-based organizations for the startup and expansion of microenterprises, with the organizations using the loans to make loans and the grants to provide technical assistance to microenterprises. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Women's Business Procurement Assistance Act of 1992 - Women's Business Procurement Assistance Act of 1992 - Amends the Small Business Act to add references to small businesses owned and controlled by women to provisions concerning: (1) Government-wide goals for participation of small businesses in procurement; (2) U.S. policy on small business participation in Federal procurement and on timely payment by prime contractors to small business subcontractors; and (3) a clause required to be included in Federal agency contracts. Requires that each Federal agency having procurement powers: (1) designate a specialist responsible for programs to assist small businesses owned and controlled by women; and (2) engage in affirmative efforts to identify and solicit offers from such businesses and from small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Establishes in the Small Business Administration the Office of Women's Business Ownership. Subtitle D: Equal Surety Bond Opportunity Act - Equal Surety Bond Opportunity Act of 1992 - Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from approving a company as a surety unless it complies with the requirements of Federal law, as amended by this subtitle. Requires a surety company to notify a bond applicant of the reasons for an adverse action on the application. Prohibits discrimination against applicants: (1) on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, disability, or age; (2) because the applicant exercised any right under Federal law relating to sureties and surety bonds; or (3) because the applicant previously obtained a bond through specified means. Provides for civil penalties. Subtitle E: Small Business Access to Surety Bonding Survey Act of 1992 - Small Business Access to Surety Bonding Survey Act of 1992 - Requires the Comptroller General to conduct a survey and report to specified congressional committees on the experiences of businesses, especially small businesses, in obtaining surety bonds from corporate surety firms. Title III: Economic Justice - Subtitle A: Pay Equity Technical Assistance Act - Pay Equity Technical Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to carry out a continuing program regarding reducing or eliminating, conducting research on, and providing technical assistance concerning wage disparities based on sex, race, or national origin. Subtitle B: Legislative Pay Equity Study - Declares that it is congressional policy that persons employed in the legislative branch shall receive equal pay for comparable work. Establishes the Commission on Employment Discrimination in the Legislative Branch. Subtitle C: Federal Council on Women Act - Federal Council on Women Act - Establishes in the legislative branch the Federal Council on Women to make recommendations on a wide range of issues and concerns relating to women. Subtitle D: Assured Minimum Child Support Projects - Child Support Assurance Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to not more than six States to establish or improve a system of assured minimum child support payments. Requires the custodial parent to have, or be in the process of obtaining, a child support award, or to have "good cause" in order to qualify for the program. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Social Services Block Grants - Social Services Block Grant Restoration Act of 1992 - Amends title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act to authorize increased appropriations under such title. Title IV: Retirement Equity - Subtitle A: Military Retired Pay - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to apply amendments relating to retired pay to any divorces, dissolutions of marriage, annulments, and legal separations (currently, to any such events that occur more than 90 days after enactment of this Act). Subtitle B: Social Security Equity - Social Security Equity Act of 1992 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require, subject to certain requirements, that the combined earnings of an individual and his or her spouse, during their marriage, be divided equally for determining OASDI benefits. Title V: Equal Remedies Act of 1992 - Equal Remedies Act of 1992 - Amends Federal law relating to damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination to remove provisions limiting certain compensatory damages.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Congratulates the residents of Jerusalem and the people of Israel on the 25th anniversary of the reunification of that city. Urges that: (1) Jerusalem remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected; and (2) the President and Secretary of State issue an unequivocal statement in support of such principle.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1992
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to preserve until 1997 the current methodology (based on units of actual time) for determining the amount of time that may be billed for anesthesia services. Requires the General Accounting Office to study and report to the Congress and the Physician Payment Review Commission on any changes over a specified period in billing patterns for anesthesia services. Provides for evaluation of such report by the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Recognizes and honors the actions of those who risked their lives to protect their fellow man during the Holocaust of the Second World War. Calls upon the President to issue a proclamation honoring such individuals for their actions in saving thousands of Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1992
Designates the week of October 18 through 24, 1992, as National Radon Action Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1992
Designates the week beginning November 1, 1992, as National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1992
Authorizes the Thomas Paine National Historical Association to construct a Heroic Statue honoring Thomas Paine on the U.S. Capitol Grounds.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Small Business Access to Surety Bonding Survey Act of 1992 - Requires the Comptroller General to conduct a survey and report to specified congressional committees on the experiences of businesses, especially small businesses, in obtaining surety bonds from corporate surety firms.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to exempt rail locomotives and railway freight cars on which no duty is owed and certain other railway freight cars from entry or release requirements established for imported merchandise under the Tariff Act of 1930.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Directs the Postmaster General to issue a commemorative postage stamp in honor of American POWs/MIAs.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1992
Designates the week beginning July 26, 1992, as Lyme Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1992
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1994, the duty on internally lighted ornamental porcelain and ceramic miniatures of buildings, including, but not limited to, cottages, houses, and churches and associated accessories and figurines specially designed primarily for display during the Christmas holiday season.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1992
Child Support Tax Equity Act of 1992 - Declares that nothing in this Act should be construed to affect the right of an individual or State to receive child support payments or the obligation of an individual to pay child support. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonbusiness bad debt deduction for unpaid child support payments. Limits such deduction to $10,000 per child. Allows such deduction to taxpayers whose gross income does not exceed $40,000 and who are owed payments of at least $500. Requires payments to be delinquent during the entire taxable year. Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for amounts under this Act. Requires subsequent payments to be included in the gross income of the recipient. Requires any taxable unpaid child support payments of a taxpayer to be treated as amounts includible in gross income by reason of the discharge of indebtedness of the taxpayer. Allows a deduction for subsequently made payments.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1992
John Heinz Competitive Excellence Award Act of 1992 - Establishes the John Heinz Excellence Award, to be evidenced by a national medal coined and provided to the U.S. Senate by the U.S. Mint. Allows two such separate awards to be presented annually (one to a qualifying individual, including Federal, State, or local government employees, and one to a qualifying organization, institution, or business). Prohibits presentation of an award within a category in a given year if there is no qualified individual, organization, institution, or business recommended by the selection panel established by this Act. Sets forth qualification criteria for such awards. Requires the Senate majority and minority leaders to present such award to an individual and an organization, institution, or business that has demonstrated excellence in promoting U.S. industrial competitiveness in the international marketplace through technological innovation, productivity improvement, or improved competitive strategies. Directs the Office of Technology Assessment to: (1) ensure that all nominees receive a detailed summary of any evaluation conducted of such nominee; and (2) make available to the nominee and the public a summary of each award winner's competitiveness strategy (excluding proprietary information unless the award winner consents).
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1992
Truth in Budgeting Act of 1992 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for the treatment of intragovernmental transactions involving certain trust funds, including various Social Security, railroad, and Federal retirement funds. Requires revenues that are dedicated by law to a particular trust fund to be offset against total budget authority and outlays of that trust fund. Requires interest paid by the Government to a trust fund on its investments in Government securities or guaranteed securities to be offset against the budget authority and outlays of the trust fund receiving the payment. Requires a Federal entity's payments as an employer into a trust fund to be offset against the budget authority and outlays of the trust fund receiving the payment.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1992
National Children's Advocacy Program Act of 1992 - Requires the Director of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, in coordination with the Director of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, to establish a national children's advocacy program of centers to provide information, services, and assistance so that communities can establish multidisciplinary programs that respond to child abuse. Provides for solicitation of proposals from applicants to operate such centers, proposal criteria, management plans, selection of proposals, funding of the centers, and program coordination. Requires regular monitoring and evaluation of each center's activities, annual reports, discontinuation of funding in cases of failure to implement program activities, and solicitation of new proposals upon discontinuation of funding for any center. Requires the two Directors to: (1) establish a children's advocacy advisory board to develop identified goals and program objectives; and (2) review annually the solicitation and selection process and program activities of each center. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to send to the Congress an annual, detailed review of the progress of such program activities. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1992
Designates October 4 through 10, 1992, as Mental Illness Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1992
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Government should support appropriate loan guarantees to Israel for refugee absorption.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1992
Designates August 4, 1992, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1992
National Triad Program Act - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Justice to conduct a national assessment of: (1) the nature and extent of crimes against the elderly; (2) the needs of law enforcement, health, and social service organizations in working to prevent, identify, investigate, and provide assistance to victims of such crimes; and (3) promising strategies to respond effectively to those challenges. Specifies that such assessment shall address: (1) the analysis and synthesis of data from a range of sources; (2) the problems of elderly who are living alone or in high crime areas and who are abused and neglected, and the fear of victimization; (3) the identification of strategies and techniques that have been shown to be effective or which show promise; (4) the analysis of the factors that enhance or inhibit development of a coordinated response by law enforcement, health care, and social service providers; and (5) the research agenda needed to develop a comprehensive understanding of the problems of crimes against the elderly. Requires the Director to disseminate the results of such assessment. Authorizes the Director to make awards to coalitions of local law enforcement agencies, victim service providers, and organizations representing the elderly for pilot programs and field tests of promising strategies and models for forging partnerships for crime prevention and service provision. Specifies that pilot programs funded under this Act may include existing general service coalitions of law enforcement, victim service, and elder advocate organizations that wish to use additional funds to work at a particular problem in their community or to target a particular geographic area in need of intensive services. Authorizes the Director to make awards to: (1) coalitions of national law enforcement, victim service, and elder advocate organizations for training and technical assistance in implementing pilot programs; (2) research organizations to investigate the types of elder victimization shown by the assessment to present particularly critical problems or emerging crimes about which little is known, to evaluate the effectiveness of selected pilot programs, and to conduct research and development identified as being critical; and (3) public service advertising coalitions to increase public awareness of, and promote ideas or programs to prevent, crimes against the elderly. Authorizes appropriations.