United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1993
Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993 to make State workers' compensation laws the exclusive remedy for agricultural worker injuries under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for all cases in which a final judgment has not been entered before October 6, 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Yakima Basin Water Enhancement Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish and administer a Yakima River Basin Water Conservation Program for the purpose of evaluating and implementing measures to improve the availability of water supplies for irrigation and the protection and enhancement of fish and wildlife resources, including wetlands, while improving the quality of water in the Yakima River basin. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities for the purpose of carrying out this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish the Yakima River Basin Conservation Advisory Group. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for the implementation by the Yakima Indian Nation of: (1) an irrigation demonstration project on the Yakima Indian Reservation that shall provide for the construction of distribution and on-farm irrigation facilities to use water savings resulting from system improvements to the Wapato Irrigation Project; and (2) a Toppenish Creek corridor enhancement project to demonstrate integration of management of agricultural, fish, wildlife, and cultural resources to meet tribal objectives. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for initiation, operation, and maintenance of such projects and for implementation of system improvements to the Wapato Irrigation Project. Details the instream flows the Secretary is required to provide through the Yakima Project Superintendent, requiring flow increases (obtained through voluntary sale and leasing of water or water rights) to facilitate anadromous fish mitigation. Dedicates water savings resulting from improvements to the Wapato Irrigation Project to fish, wildlife, and on-reservation irrigation. Authorizes appropriations for Chandler Power Canal operations for the delivery of water to the Kennewick Division. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) modifying the radial gates at Cle Elum Dam to provide additional storage capacity in Lake Cle Elum; (2) providing for shoreline protection of the Lake; (3) constructing juvenile fish passage facilities at the Dam; (4) operation and maintenance responsibilities of the Federal Government for the Dam; and (5) environmental mitigation. Provides for the enhancement of water supplies for Yakima River Basin tributaries for fish and wildlife and irrigation purposes. Requires a study to determine the measures to be implemented to enhance water supplies for such purposes on Taneum Creek. Authorizes appropriations for such enhancement and for the Taneum Creek study. Makes implementation of this Act contingent upon compliance by the Secretary with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Authorizes appropriations for environmental compliance activities.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Maritime Competitiveness Act of 1993 - Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to establish the National Committee to Ensure a Strong and Competitive United States Maritime Industry. Terminates the Committee after transmittal of its report.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the accounting standards proposed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board will have grave economic consequences, particularly for businesses in new-growth sectors, which rely heavily on entrepreneurship; and (2) the Board should not change the current accounting rules by requiring that businesses deduct the value of stock options from profits.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Requests the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to publish, within one year, proposed amended regulations that specify the components of an adequate operator training program and that provide that only trained employees be authorized to operate powered industrial trucks.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1993
Natural Disaster Protection Act of 1993 - Amends the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to: (1) identify States that are prone to damages from hurricanes, windstorms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tidal waves, and flooding (natural disasters); and (2) designate the appropriate States as hurricane-prone, windstorm-prone, earthquake-prone, volcanic eruption-prone, or flood-prone. Requires the Governor of each State designated as hurricane-, windstorm-, or earthquake-prone to: (1) adopt the relevant natural disaster hazard mitigation portions of the newest building codes for such State for all new and substantially modified building construction in such State; and (2) certify that the local communities have adopted and are enforcing appropriate hazard mitigation building codes. Provides similar procedures for States designated as flood-prone. Requires each State designated as disaster-prone to develop a hazard mitigation plan with accompanying schedules for improving the State's ability to reduce the hazards of future natural disasters. Requires each State designated as disaster-prone to submit a completed plan to the Director within two years of such designation. Outlines State compliance procedures, and imposes penalties upon States and local communities for hazard mitigation plan noncompliance. Requires the Director to develop programs to carry out specified multihazard mitigation and emergency initiatives, especially as such initiatives relate to modern building codes, hazard mitigation technology, and emergency response operations. Establishes the Self-Sustaining Mitigation Fund for Federal and State support of hazard mitigation and emergency management activities, with amounts provided by the Director to each disaster-prone State for appropriate purposes. Establishes the Natural Disaster Mitigation and Planning Advisory Committee as an independent advisory committee to advise the Director on hazard mitigation and disaster planning, and to review hazard mitigation regulations issued by the Director. Requires the Director to establish and carry out a national multihazard insurance program (the Primary Insurance Program) to provide insurance against real or personal property loss in any State resulting from an earthquake or volcanic eruption. Requires the Director to evaluate the feasibility of including flood as a covered peril under the Primary Insurance Program. Requires an evaluation report. Outlines specified procedures for increased participation in the Federal flood insurance program under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, with a required report. Outlines further provisions with respect to the Primary Insurance Program, including program scope (initially limited to residential housing), terms and limitations, covered hazards, and insurance actuarial rates. Establishes in the Treasury the Primary Insurance Program Fund to carry out such Program. Provides for Fund uses, investments, and disbursements, authorizing the Director, when necessary, to borrow from the Treasury for Fund purposes. Requires the Director, in carrying out the Program, to provide certain insurance mitigation incentives, including the charging of lower premiums for residential property located in disaster-prone States. Requires the Director to make available to eligible entities excess reinsurance coverage for any direct and indirect losses that arise from a hurricane, earthquake, volcanic eruption, or tsunami (tidal wave). Outlines provisions concerning eligible entities and reinsurance coverage terms, limitations, and obligations, including the covered lines of insurance. Requires the establishment of actuarially sound rates for such coverage. Establishes in the Treasury the Reinsurance Fund for implementation of such reinsurance coverage. Requires the Director to develop a plan of operation to ensure the fair, reasonable, and equitable administration of the Primary Insurance Prograrm Fund, the Reinsurance Fund, and other activities outlined in this Act. Establishes the Federal Insurance and Reinsurance Advisory Committee as an independent committee and requires the plan to be submitted to such Committee for review and recommendations. Requires a Committee report.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Food Safety and Inspection Agency Title II: Transfer of Food Safety and Inspection Functions Title III: Commission on Food Safety and Inspection Title IV: General Provisions Food Safety and Inspection Agency Act of 1993 - Title I: Food Safety and Inspection Agency - Establishes the Food Safety and Inspection Agency (Agency), which shall include a Bureau of Food Safety and Inspection Statistics. Title II: Transfer of Food Safety and Inspection Functions - Transfers to the Agency specified functions relating to food safety and inspection carried out by the Secretaries of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Commerce, and the Interior. Title III: Commission on Food Safety and Inspection - Establishes a Commission on Food Safety and Inspection which shall develop a uniform system of risk-based food safety and inspection. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth reporting requirements and authorizations of appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1993
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to exchange certain reclamation lands located in the State of Washington with the Boise Cascade Corporation. Directs the Secretary to have appraisals made of each tract of land included in the exchange.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1993
Federal Forage Fee Act of 1993 - Subjects grazing operations on Federal land to applicable Federal, State, and local environmental and land use requirements. Sets forth a forage fee formula for lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1993
National Aquaculture Development, Commercialization, and Promotion Act of 1993 - Amends the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 to establish the Department of Agriculture as the lead Federal agency for the development of national policy and programs for private aquaculture. (Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) establish within the National Agricultural Library a National Aquaculture Information Center; (2) assign new aquaculture programs to the appropriate Federal agencies; and (3) use specified funds for aquaculture development, research and marketing, and export promotion programs. (Sec. 7) Authorizes the Secretary to pay the Federal share of grants and contracts for aquaculture commercialization research. (Sec. 8) Directs the Secretary to: (1) implement a national policy for private aquaculture; (2) implement a Department Aquaculture Plan; (3) revise the National Aquaculture Development Plan; and (4) treat private aquaculture as a form of agriculture. (Sec. 9) Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out grant and cooperative agreement programs to demonstrate aquaculture's application to environmental enhancement, including a pollution assessment program. (Sec. 10) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out grant and cooperative agreement programs for Native American fishpond revitalization. (Sec. 11) Directs the Secretary to provide disaster assistance to eligible aquaculture farmers for weather-related losses. (Secs. 12 and 13) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish aquaculture education programs in secondary and postsecondary vocational schools; and (2) support international aquaculture scientific exchanges. (Sec. 14) Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 15) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make aquaculture farmers eligible for farm credit assistance. (Sec. 16) Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to direct the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service to establish an international aquaculture information and data collection program. (Sec. 17) Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to make aquaculture farms eligible for the emergency conservation program.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1993
Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to prescribe guidelines under which the Secretary of the Treasury and the Rural Electrification Administrator (the Administrator) shall allow, upon a borrower's request, the prepayment or repricing of a loan made by the Federal Financing Bank and guaranteed by the Administrator. Authorizes appropriations as necessary to provide for the cost of prepayment premium waivers for such loans.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1993
Used Car Consumer Notification and Reporting Act - Amends the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to direct the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate regulations that establish uniform Federal requirements regarding the disclosure to consumers that a motor vehicle is a salvage or manufacturer buyback vehicle. Deems a violation of a regulation promulgated by the Secretary to be an unfair or deceptive practice for purposes of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Provides that this Act shall supersede any State law relating to disclosure of whether a vehicle is a salvage or manufacturer buyback vehicle to the extent that such law is inconsistent with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1993
Spending Reduction Act of 1993 - Establishes the Spending Reduction Commission to propose cost savings and changes in law to achieve at least $65 billion of budget outlay reductions for the budget year and each outyear until a balanced budget is reached. Sets forth the procedure for implementation of the Commission's recommendations by the Office of Management and Budget, the President, and the Congress. Makes budget outlay reductions permanent. Requires the Comptroller General to make a compliance report on this Act at the end of each congressional session.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1993
Federal Trade Commission Act Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to deny authority to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to: (1) find a method of competition unfair (in any action under the Sherman Act) if such method of competition would be held to constitute State action; and (2) study, investigate, or prosecute agricultural cooperatives for any action not in violation of antitrust Acts, or to study or investigate agricultural marketing orders. Repeals the authority of the FTC to pay attorney fees, expert witness fees, and other costs of participating in a rulemaking proceeding. Prohibits the FTC from instituting a civil action, in cases involving consent orders, to obtain civil penalties for unfair or deceptive acts or practices. Permits: (1) a district court to review certain FTC determinations of law which found an act or practice unfair or deceptive; (2) the FTC to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking for certain rules only where it has reason to believe that the unfair or deceptive acts or practices are prevalent; and (3) the FTC to issue civil investigative demands for physical evidence. Revises the effective dates for cease and desist orders issued by the FTC. Requires that an unfair act or practice be likely to cause substantial injury to consumers which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves and not outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or to competition. Denies the FTC authority to initiate any new rulemaking proceeding which results in a rule prohibiting commercial advertising on the basis that such advertising constitutes an unfair act or practice in or affecting commerce. Authorizes the court to: (1) summon any person, partnership, or corporation without regard to whether they reside or transact business in the district in which the suit is brought; and (2) serve process in any district. Specifies requirements for the service of process. Directs the FTC to submit semiannual reports in FY 1994 through 1996 to specified congressional committees on instances in which resale price maintenance or predatory pricing practices have been suspected or alleged. Prohibits the FTC from using any funds which are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the Act for FY 1994 through 1996 for the purpose of submitting statements to, appearing before, or intervening in the proceedings of, any Federal or State agency or State legislative body concerning proposed rules or legislation that the agency or legislative body is considering without notifying specified congressional committees as soon as possible. Directs the FTC to: (1) conduct an evaluation of the level of its personnel resources and the manner in which such resources are allocated; and (2) review its statutory responsibilities to identify matters within its jurisdiction where Federal enforcement is particularly necessary or desirable and those areas that might more effectively be enforced at the State or local level. Prohibits: (1) a credit repair organization from charging or receiving any money or other valuable consideration prior to completion of the services that such organization has agreed to perform for the consumer; and (2) a loan broker from receiving an advance fee in connection with arranging or attempting to arrange, offering to find for any individual, or advising any individual as to how to obtain, consumer credit; and making false or misleading representations or omitting any material fact in the offer or sale of such broker's services, or engaging in any act that operates as fraud or deception in connection with the offer or sale of such services. Specifies that any violation of such prohibitions shall be treated as a violation of a rule of the FTC issued pursuant to the Act and subject to FTC enforcement. Sets criminal penalties for violations. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
Women in the Armed Forces Commemorative Coins Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) mint and issue coins to commemorate the women who have served in the armed forces of the United States; and (2) transfer the surcharges received from coin sales to the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation to be used to create, endow, and dedicate the Women in the Armed Forces Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Reforestation Tax Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide taxpayers a partial inflation adjustment for the deduction from gross income for qualified timber gain. Allows such deduction in computing adjusted gross income. Excludes from conditions of the material participation rules, for purposes of the passive loss limitations, closely held timber activity if the aggregate hours devoted to management of the activity for any year is generally fewer than 100 hours. Increases the amount allowable as a deduction for amortization of reforestation expenditures and provides an inflation adjustment after calendar year 1994. Applies such inflation adjustment to the reforestation credit. Shortens the amortization period from 84 to 60 months.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1993
National Education Goal for Parental Participation Act - Directs the National Education Goals Panel to establish as an additional National Education Goal that, by the year 2000, every school and home will engage in partnerships that will increase parental involvement and participation in promoting the social, emotional, and academic growth of children.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorative Coin Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a specified number of one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Mandates that the surcharges collected from the sale of such coins be paid to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund to help raise an endowment for the Memorial's maintenance and for the addition of names.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993
Encourages U.S. leadership in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization. Calls on the President, the Secretary of State, and other representatives of the U.S. Government to take the opportunity presented by the scheduled chairing and hosting by the United States of the ministerial meeting of the organization in Seattle, Washington, on November 17 through 19, 1993, to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to make it an effective regional economic organization that reduces barriers to increased intra-regional trade through the harmonization of standards, trade, and investment policies.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993
Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Amendments Act of 1993 - Amends the Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) prohibit through 1995 the export of unprocessed timber from State and other public lands, or the purchase of such timber as a substitute for exported private land timber; and (2) administer such prohibitions. Authorizes a State, upon approval of the Secretary, to implement a program in lieu of the Federal one. Establishes civil penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1993
Every Fifth Child Resolution - Expresses the sense of the Congress that funding should be provided to: (1) begin a phase-in toward full funding of the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC) and of Head Start programs; and (2) expand the Job Corps program. Suggests specified amounts that should be made available for such programs in certain fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993
Bosnia and Herzegovina Self-Defense Act of 1993 - Directs the President to terminate the U.S. arms embargo of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina upon receipt of a request from such government for assistance in exercising its right of self-defense under the United Nations Charter. Authorizes the President to direct the drawdown of defense articles and services and military education and training to provide assistance to Bosnia and Herzegovina if it makes such request. Limits the amount of such assistance. Bars members of the U.S. armed forces who provide such assistance from performing combatant duties outside of the United States. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Youth Job Opportunities through Business Act (The Youth JOBS Act) - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to give priority to placement in private sector jobs under the summer youth employment and training program. Provides that retention in unsubsidized employment shall not be considered an appropriate factor in prescribing performance standards for such program. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the targeted jobs tax credit with respect to qualified summer youth employees by: (1) revising the age limitation to age 14 to 22 (currently 16 to 18); (2) increasing the amount of creditable wages from $3,000 to $3,500; (3) coordinating the credit with Federal summer youth employment programs; and (4) reducing certain paperwork burdens.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Community Regulatory Relief Act - Provides that any requirement under a Federal statute or regulation which creates a Federal mandate shall apply to State or local government only if all funds necessary to pay the direct costs incurred by the government in conducting the activity are provided by the Federal Government for the fiscal year in which the direct cost is incurred. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to analyze the effects of each bill or resolution on each state and local government's compliance with a Federal mandate. Requires each measure reported or considered in either House of the Congress to be accompanied by such an analyses. Requires reports by the Director to the President and the Congress estimating the direct costs of such compliance for each fiscal year in which a Federal mandate will be in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Minor Crop Pesticides Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to define "minor use" as the use of a pesticide on an animal or a commercial agricultural crop or site or for the protection of public health where: (1) the use does not provide sufficient economic incentive to support registration; and (2) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not determined that the use presents an unreasonable adverse environmental effect. Prohibits data that relates solely to a minor use, without the permission of the original data submitter, from being considered by the Administrator to support a minor use application by another person for ten years following the submission of the data. Requires the Administrator, on the request of a registrant, to extend the deadline for the production of residue chemistry data required solely to support a minor use pesticide up to two years subject to specified conditions. Applies the same extension conditions to data for reregistrations. Permits the Administrator, with respect to the registration of a pesticide for a minor use, to waive applicable data requirements if such use does not have an adverse environmental effect. Provides for expedited review (within 180 days of submission) of applications to support minor use pesticide registrations. Requires the Administrator to conditionally amend a registration to permit additional minor uses even if data is insufficient if the applicant has submitted satisfactory data pertaining to the proposed minor use and amending such registration would not increase environmental risks. Authorizes the Administrator to conditionally register or amend the registration of a pesticide for a minor use if: (1) the active ingredient has been listed for reregistration; (2) the minor use was a registered use of a product that has been canceled, proposed for cancellation, or deleted as a use after December 24, 1988; and (3) the use requires only residue chemistry data for reregistration. Outlines additional requirements for conditional registrations. Directs the Administrator to establish a minor use program within the Office of Pesticide Programs. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a minor use grant program to ensure the availability of a minor use crop protection chemical. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for energy conservation expenditures by an electric or gas utility during a taxable year in connection with its trade or business, as long as the rates for the sale of such electricity or natural gas have been approved by the appropriate governing body.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1993
Aviation Industry Revitalization Act of 1993 - Amends the Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to guarantee loans to eligible air carriers to finance their acquisition of new aircraft. Establishes the New Aircraft Guarantee Program Fund consisting of subsidy fees, annual administrative fees, and surcharges paid by the air carriers. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1993
Commends radio amateurs for their contributions to technical progress in electronics and for their emergency radio communications in times of disaster. Urges the Federal Communications Commission to continue and enhance the development of the amateur radio service as a public benefit by adopting rules and regulations which encourage the use of new technologies within the amateur radio service. Declares that reasonable accommodation should be made for effective operation of amateur radio from residences, private vehicles and public areas and that regulation at all levels of government should facilitate and encourage amateur radio operation as a public benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1993
Impact Aid Reauthorization Act of 1993 - Reauthorizes and revises Federal law relating to financial assistance for local educational agencies in areas affected by Federal activity (impact aid). Extends the authorization of appropriations and authorizes additional appropriations for deposit in a contingency fund. Requires certain reservations of funds for: (1) impact aid relating to Federal acquisition of real property; (2) the contingency fund; and (3) heavily impacted need areas. Requires forward funding. Adds a hold harmless provision under impact aid relating to Federal acquisition of real property, whereby no eligible local educational agency (LEA) shall receive less than 90 percent of the preceding year's amount in payment for any fiscal year. Revises impact aid relating to federally connected children with respect to computation of payments, giving various weights in the formula to different categories of such children (with more emphasis given to children living on Indian lands and children in special education programs). Revises provisions for sudden and substantial changes in attendance to include increases resulting from base closure or military realignment activities. Directs the Secretary of Education to report certain expenditures within 30 days and include certain costs in annual budget submissions. Authorizes appropriations. Revises the method of making Federal impact aid payments. Includes a learning opportunity threshold to allow eligible LEAs to provide all their children a basic opportunity to learn. Requires States to meet an adequacy threshold before they can apply for equalization of State aid payments to all LEAs. Establishes a National Advisory Panel on School Finance and Impact Aid Equalization. Directs the Secretary of Defense to reserve certain amounts to provide supplemental impact aid to LEAs in cases of high need related to military changes. Establishes the Department of Education Contingency Fund for special impact aid under certain conditions. Requires negotiated rulemaking under certain conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1993
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to reauthorize and revise the program for instruction on the history and principles of democracy in the United States. Requires the program to foster civic responsibility and continue and expand the educational activities of the We the People...The Citizen and the Constitution program. Allows the use of funds for advanced training of teachers in civics and government, after the education program has been implemented. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1993
Violence Reduction Training Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to entities for demonstration projects in which health care providers are trained to: (1) interview and identify victims of domestic violence or sexual assault; and (2) refer such victims to entities providing treatment services. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to educate health care providers and the public concerning domestic violence and assault. Provides for the conduct of epidemiological research on domestic violence and assault.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1993
Fairness for Adopted Children Act - Establishes the National Advisory Council on Adoption (the Council), to be appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995. Terminates such Council after three years. Directs the Secretary of HHS to: (1) report to the Congress, within 30 days, on the status of the implementation of the adoption data collection system required under specified provisions of the Social Security Act; (2) report monthly to the Congress on the progress made in implementing such system; and (3) consult with the Council in developing regulations to carry out such reporting requirements. Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary to award grants to States to enable them to establish programs to provide maternal health certificates to eligible pregnant women who are residents of a maternity home, or on a waiting list or receiving out-patient services from a maternity home. Limits such women's income to 175 percent of the State poverty level, not including support received from parents, guardians, or the father of the child. Sets forth eligibility requirements for the maternity home, including that it have the capability to serve at least four pregnant women concurrently. Requires the use of certificates to pay the reasonable costs associated with residence in, or services of, the maternity home. Allows the use of certificates to cover expenses incurred during a period that ends not later than one month after the birth of the child. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish a program of fellowships for graduate study in social work, in innovative programs concerning the effects of adoption on the adopted children, their adoptive families, and their biological parents who make an adoption plan. Authorizes of appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995. Directs the Secretary of Education, within one year after enactment of this Act, to make grants to States to carry out adoption education programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to prohibit discrimination by insurance companies in the writing or executing of insurance policies on the basis of whether a child is adopted. Makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate against an employee with respect to a term or condition of any leave benefit on the basis of the fact that a child of an employee is not a biological child. Amends the Social Security Act to provide payments to States for expenses incurred in placing a child with special needs in adoptive homes if the child is placed within three months of becoming available for adoption. Expresses the sense of the Congress that each State should adopt and enforce specified types of adoption laws, rules, or regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1993
High-Speed Rail Development Act of 1993 - Amends the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to authorize the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to designate as a high-speed rail corridor (HSR Corridor): (1) any corridor that serves two or more major metropolitan areas where high-speed rail offers the potential for cost-effective intercity public transportation; (2) upon application of a State Governor, any intercity rail corridor designated as a high-speed rail corridor under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991; and (3) any intercity rail corridor (other than the mainline of the corridor improved under title VII of such Act) that includes a significant segment where rail passenger service operates at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. Requires designated public agencies seeking financial assistance for development of an HSR Corridor to submit to the Secretary a corridor master plan identifying a coordinated program of improvements to permit the establishment of high-speed rail service in the corridor. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into financial assistance agreements with public agencies to fund eligible improvements to the infrastructure of an HSR Corridor for the purpose of developing high-speed rail service. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake research and development of steel-wheel-on-rail technologies for commercial application in high-speed rail service. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1993
Physician Assistant Incentive Act of 1993 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide increased Medicare reimbursement for physician assistants at 97 percent of the physician fee schedule amount for services performed, regardless of the location or practice setting. Provides for bonus payments for services provided by physician assistants in health professional shortage areas. Removes restrictions on the employment relationship required for reimbursement of physician assistants and nurse practitioners to allow for independent contractor relationships.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1993
Wetlands Simplification Act - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 (FSA) to provide that: (1) a technical determination with respect to wetland or converted wetland on agricultural lands (including the identification of wetland and the development of a wetland restoration or mitigation plan) shall be used in the administration of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) (thus giving the Soil Conservation Service sole Federal responsibility for making such determination); and (2) any area of agricultural land or any activities related to the land determined to be exempt from the requirements of FSA shall also be exempt from FWPCA requirements as long as such lands are used for agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1993
Arson Prevention Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to direct the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration, through the Office of Fire Prevention and Arson Control, to carry out a demonstration program to provide two-year grants to States for programs relating to arson research, prevention, and control. Sets forth State funding requirements and provides for additional renewal periods for such grants. Authorizes appropriations, including appropriations for the expansion of arson investigator training programs at the National Fire Academy and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center or through regional delivery sites.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1993
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define a "dietary supplement" as a food for special dietary use that includes a vitamin, a mineral, an herb, an amino acid, or another ingredient used to supplement the diet by increasing total dietary intake. Excludes a dietary supplement from the definition of the term "drug" and the term "food additive". Deems a dietary supplement adulterated if it presents a substantial and unreasonable risk of illness or injury. Deems a food misbranded unless the label lists the daily value of specified nutrients which shall reflect the daily intake of each nutrient that will promote optiomal health. Prohibits such value from being less than the U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance. Deems a dietary supplement misbranded unless it meets specified guidelines. Establishes an Office of Dietary Supplements within the National Institutes of Health. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1993
Hardrock Mining Reform Act of 1993 - Renames the Act of July 23, 1955, as the Surface Resources Act of 1955, and the Act of July 31, 1947, as the Materials Act of 1947. Sets forth fees for mining claim location and maintenance, including waivers and reduced fees for claimants holding fewer than 50 claims. Amends certain Federal mining law to limit the requirement that at least $100 worth of labor or improvements be performed annually on claims located after May 1872 to claims that are eligible for a waiver or reduced fee under this Act. Imposes royalties upon the production and sale of locatable minerals from any mining claim located after enactment of this Act. Establishes the Hardrock Mining Royalty Review Commission to review and report to certain congressional committees on the effect of such royalties upon the hardrock mining industry. Sets forth limitations upon federally issued mining patents. Prohibits mineral activities on Federal land that cause more than a minimal disturbance of surface resources unless a plan of operations has been approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Mandates that: (1) all operations under such plan be conducted in accordance with Federal and State environmental laws and be inspected quarterly for compliance and/or enforcement; (2) lands patented after enactment of this Act be subject to State and/or Federal mining reclamation laws; and (3) financial assurances for land reclamation be provided. Proscribes full- or part-time residential occupancy of a mining claim. Amends the Surface Resources Act of 1955 to subject certain mineral deposits to the disposal requirements of the Materials Act of 1947. Prescribes percentage guidelines for allocation of receipts received under this Act between the Federal Treasury and the applicable State treasury. Establishes the Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation program under which grants shall be made to eligible States for reclamation and restoration of land and water resources adversely affected by past hardrock mining. Directs the Secretary to approve any State abandoned minerals mine reclamation program upon finding that it has the means and necessary legislation to implement such program, and the program complies with this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1993
Prohibits an increase in the excise tax on the sale of non-jet aviation fuel and jet aviation fuel that is sold to a registered commercial aircraft operator for use in transporting passengers or cargo. Prohibits any direct or indirect tax on such fuels or the energy content of petroleum or petroleum products in the production of such fuels. Allows such aircraft operators to reclaim taxes attributable to aviation fuel used to transport passengers or cargo.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1993
Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to permit a qualified State or local development company that issues a debenture purchased by the Federal Financing Bank and guaranteed by the Small Business Administration, at the election of the small business borrower whose loan secures such debenture, to prepay the debenture by payment to the Bank of the unpaid principal balance, accrued interest, and repurchase premium amount (as determined under this Act). Prohibits any fees or penalties from being imposed against the issuer, borrower, or the Administration as a condition of prepayment under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1993
Egg Research and Consumer Information Improvement Act of 1993 - Amends the Egg Research and Consumer Information Act to: (1) increase the maximum assessment rate from ten cents per case of commercial eggs to 30 cents per case; (2) authorize the Egg Board to increase assessments subject to producer referendum; and (3) increase the trigger level for assessment exemptions from (producers of) 30,000 laying hens to 50,000 laying hens.
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