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United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Designates the week beginning September 18, 1994, as National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Amends the National School Lunch Act to remove the requirement that schools participating in the school lunch program offer students specified types of fluid milk (while retaining the requirement that they offer fluid milk).
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Line-Item Veto Title II: Capital Gains Title III: Social Security Earnings Test Title IV: Urban Tax Enterprise Zones and Rural Development Investment Zones Subtitle A: Designation and Tax Incentives Subtitle B: Redevelopment Bonds for Tax Enterprise Zones Subtitle C: Credit for Contributions to Certain Community Development Corporations Subtitle D: Indian Employment and Investment Subtitle E: Study Title V: Workfare Title I: Line Item Veto - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to grant the President legislative line item veto rescission authority. Authorizes the President to rescind all or part of any budget authority if the President determines that such rescission: (1) would help balance the Federal budget, reduce the Federal budget deficit, or reduce the public debt; (2) will not impair any essential Government functions; and (3) will not harm the national interest. Requires the President to notify the Congress of such a rescission by special message. Makes such a rescission effective unless the Congress, during a review period of 20 calendar days, enacts a rescission disapproval bill. Describes: (1) information to be included in the President's message; and (2) procedures to govern consideration of rescission disapproval legislation in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Title II: Capital Gains - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for gain on investments in new small business stock (seed capital) held for at least five years. Establishes special rules for such investments. Provides for determining the maximum capital gains rate for small business net capital gain or seed capital gain. Treats capital gains on the sale of such stock as a preference item for purposes of the minimum tax. Title III: Social Security Earnings Test - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to increase the retirement test exempt amount and lower the reduction factor with respect to certain earnings. Title IV: Urban Tax Enterprise Zones and Rural Development Investment Zones - Declares it to be the purpose of this title to establish a demonstration program of providing incentives for the creation of tax enterprise zones in order to: (1) revitalize economically and physically distressed areas; (2) promote meaningful employment for zone residents; and (3) encourage individuals to reside in the zones in which they are employed. Subtitle A: Designation and Tax Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of tax enterprise zones during calendar years after 1992 and before 1998: (1) by the Secretary of Housing and urban Development, in the case of an urban tax enterprise zone; and (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, in the case of a rural development investment zone. Sets forth the eligibility criteria for such designation for urban tax enterprise zones and for rural development investment zones. Allows an enterprise zone employment credit to small employers as a general business credit of 15 percent of the qualified zone wages. Allows a deduction for the purchase of enterprise zone stock paid in cash. Excludes from gross income 50 percent of qualified capital gain recognized on the sale or exchange of a new qualified zone asset held for more than five years. Subtitle B: Redevelopment Bonds for Tax Enterprise Zones - Sets forth special rules for tax-exempt redevelopment bonds which provide financing for tax enterprise zones for the first 60-month period after a zone is so designated. Subtitle C: Credit for Contributions to Certain Community Development Corporations - Allows a general business tax credit for contributions to selected community development corporations to provide employment of, and business opportunities for, low-income individuals who are residents of the operational areas of the community. Subtitle D: Indian Employment and Investment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish an Indian reservation credit as a tax credit for investment in qualified Indian reservation property. Allows businesses an employment credit of ten percent (30 percent in the case of an employer with at least 85 percent Indian employees) of the sum of the qualified wages and qualified employee health insurance costs paid or incurred during a taxable year. Subtitle E: Study - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the appropriate Secretary, to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to report to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance on the effectiveness of the incentives provided by this subtitle in achieving its purposes. Title V: Workfare - Requires the Secretary of Labor to report to the Congress on a comprehensive legislative proposal which would require adults receiving aid to families with dependent children under the Social Security Act to enter the workforce within two years of receiving such aid.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Link-up for Learning Grant Act - Establishes a program of demonstration grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) in partnership with other eligible entities for coordinated educational and other student support services for at-risk youth. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award such grants to eligible entities to pay the Federal share of costs of specified activities. Sets forth special considerations in awarding grants. Allows such grants to be for up to three years, subject to satisfactory progress. Makes eligible to apply for such a grant (provided that at least one LEA in the partnership is eligible to receive chapter 1 financial assistance for educationally disadvantaged children): (1) at least one LEA in partnership with at least one public agency; (2) at least one nonprofit organization, institution of higher education, or private enterprise in partnership with at least one LEA; or (3) an LEA that is receiving assistance under the Head Start Transition Project Act in partnership with any designated Head Start agency. Requires eligible entities, to serve: (1) educationally deprived students, students eligible to be counted under chapter 1, or students in chapter 1 schoolwide projects, and their family members; and (2) any school, grade span, or program area if the project design is of adequate size, scope, and quality. Requires each eligible entity desiring a grant to establish a coordinated services advisory council to develop its application. Establishes a Federal Interagency Task Force to: (1) identify and eliminate program regulations or practices impeding coordination and collaboration; and (2) develop and implement plans for jointly funded programs, unified eligibility and application procedures, and confidentiality regulations that facilitate information sharing. Directs the Secretary of Education to study and report to the Congress on grantees under this Act to identify regulatory and legislative obstacles to coordinated support services and innovative procedures and programs. Limits the Federal share of project costs to 50 percent. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
National Writing Project Reauthorization Act of 1993 - Amends the Education Council Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-62) to extend the authorization of appropriations for the National Writing Project. Revises provisions relating to the National Writing Project, including provisions for Federal share, evaluation, and research and development activities.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Medicare Amendments of 1993 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to: (1) essential access community hospitals; (2) Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals; (3) payments for electrocardiogram interpretation and new physicians and practitioners; (4) prohibitions on carrier forum shopping; and (5) the treatment of nebulizers and aspirators. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1987 to reauthorize and extend the rural transition grant program. Amends OBRAs of 1990 and 1994 to, respectively, provide for an extension of rural hospital demonstration projects and regional referral centers.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Private Property Rights Act of 1993 - Provides that no regulations promulgated by an executive agency shall become effective until the Attorney General certifies that the agency which issued them is in compliance with Executive Order 12630 to assess the potential for the taking of private property in the course of Federal regulatory activity, with the goal of minimizing such where possible. Provides for limited judicial review of actions under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Older Americans' Freedom to Work Act of 1993 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to remove the limitation on the amount of outside income (earnings test) which beneficiaries who have attained retirement age may earn without incurring a reduction in benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Economic and Employment Impact Act - Directs the Comptroller General to prepare an economic and employment impact statement to accompany each bill, resolution, or conference report before it may be reported or otherwise considered on the floor of either House of Congress. Requires such statement to: (1) state the extent to which enactment of such legislation would result in increased costs to the private sector, individuals, or State and local governments; and (2) include a detailed assessment of the annual impact of such legislation on consumer and business costs, employment, the Gross Domestic Product, and other specified criteria. Provides that such statement may consist of a brief summary assessment if preliminary analysis indicates that the aggregate effect of the legislation is less than $100 million or 10,000 jobs in national employment. Authorizes the Congress to waive the requirements at any time in which a declaration of war is in effect or in response to a national security emergency at the request of the President. Provides that it shall not be in order in either House of Congress to consider any legislation that does not include such a statement. Allows such point of order to be waived. Requires each regulation and proposed regulation promulgated by an executive department or agency to be accompanied by such a statement and published with such statement in the Federal Register. Authorizes the President to waive the requirements of this paragraph at any time in which a declaration of war is in effect or in response to a national security emergency. Amends rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate to repeal provisions concerning congressional committee reports accompanying bills and resolutions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the luxury excise tax on boats.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
General Aviation Accident Liability Standards Act of 1993 - Declares that this Act supersedes any State law regarding liability for general aviation accidents. Establishes guidelines for uniform standards of liability of general aviation manufacturers for general aviation accidents, including the principle of comparative responsibility. Establishes, with specified exceptions, a limitation of actions period of 20 years from delivery of aircraft or harm-causing part to the purchaser for general aviation civil liability brought against a general aviation manufacturer. Permits the award of punitive damages if a claimant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the harm suffered was the direct result of conduct manifesting conscious, flagrant indifference to safety. Establishes a two-year limitation of actions period for actions arising out of a general aviation accident. Confers original jurisdiction upon the Federal district courts, concurrently with State courts, for all civil actions that exceed $50,000 for harm arising out of a general aviation accident. Provides procedures for removal from State to Federal district courts of such actions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Safe Streets for Women Subtitle A: Federal Penalties for Sex Crimes Subtitle B: Law Enforcement and Prosecution Grants to Reduce Violent Crimes Against Women Subtitle C: Safety for Women in Public Transit and Public Parks Subtitle D: National Commission on Violence Against Women Subtitle E: New Evidentiary Rules Subtitle F: Assistance to Victims of Sexual Assault Title II: Safe Homes for Women Subtitle A: Family Violence Prevention and Services Act Amendments Subtitle B: Interstate Enforcement Subtitle C: Arrest in Spousal Abuse Cases Subtitle D: Funding for Shelters Subtitle E: Family Violence Prevention and Services Act Amendments Subtitle F: Youth Education and Domestic Violence Subtitle G: Confidentiality for Abused Persons Subtitle H: Technical Amendments Subtitle I: Data and Research Title III: Civil Rights Title IV: Safe Campuses for Women Title V: Equal Justice for Women in the Courts Act Subtitle A: Education and Training for Judges and Court Personnel in State Courts Subtitle B: Education and Training for Judges and Court Personnel in Federal Courts Violence Against Women Act of 1993 - Title I: Safe Streets for Women - Safe Streets for Women Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Federal Penalties for Sex Crimes - Amends the Federal criminal code to: (1) authorize judges to increase sentences for repeat sex offenders to up to twice that otherwise authorized by statute; and (2) require the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend sentencing guidelines to increase the base offense level applicable to criminal sexual abuse. (Sec. 113) Requires that a court order restitution for violations of Federal sexual abuse laws. (Sec. 114) Authorizes appropriations to U.S. Attorneys to appoint victim/witness counselors for the prosecution of sex crimes and domestic violence crimes. Subtitle B: Law Enforcement and Prosecution Grants to Reduce Violent Crimes Against Women - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to make grants to areas of high intensity crime against women. Authorizes the Director to make general grants to: (1) States to reduce violent crimes against women; and (2) Indian tribes to reduce violent crimes against women in Indian country. Subtitle C: Safety for Women in Public Transit and Public Parks - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to direct the Secretary of Transportation, from funds authorized under existing provisions, to make capital grants for the prevention of crime and to increase security in existing and future public transportation systems. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and loans to States and local public bodies to increase the safety of public transportation through lighting, camera surveillance, security phones, or other projects. Directs the Secretary to provide grants and loans to study ways to reduce violent crimes against women in public transit through better design or operation of public transit systems. (Sec. 132) Amends: (1) the National Park System Improvements in Administration Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance to reduce violent crime in the National Park System; and (2) the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to direct such Secretary to provide grants for capital improvements and other measures to increase safety in urban parks and recreation areas. Subtitle D: National Commission on Violence Against Women - Establishes the National Commission on Violence Against Women to promote a national policy on violent crime against women and to make recommendations on reducing such crime. Subtitle E: New Evidentiary Rules - Amends the Federal Rules of Evidence to exclude, in criminal cases other than sex offense cases, reputation or opinion evidence of the past sexual behavior of a victim from admission into evidence. Allows other types of evidence of a victim's past sexual behavior in accordance with specified procedures if its probative value outweighs the danger of unfair prejudice. (Sec. 152) Makes reputation or opinion evidence of the plaintiff's past sexual behavior inadmissible in a civil action involving allegations of actionable sexual misconduct. Makes other types of evidence of a plaintiff's past sexual behavior admissible in accordance with specified procedures if its probative value outweighs the danger of unfair prejudice. (Sec. 154) Makes evidence of an alleged victim's clothing, in a criminal case under Federal laws relating to sexual abuse, inadmissible to show that the victim incited or invited the offense. Subtitle F: Assistance to Victims of Sexual Assault - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow States to use amounts transferred by the State under block grant provisions for rape prevention and education programs conducted by rape crisis centers or similar nongovernmental nonprofit entities. (Sec. 162) Requires grant recipients under this title to incur the full cost of forensic medical exams for victims of sexual assault. (Sec. 163) Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to private, nonprofit agencies for street-based outreach and education for female runaway, homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to or are at risk of being subjected to sexual abuse. (Sec. 164) Amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to provide for a victim's right to make a statement at the sentencing of a criminal defendant in cases involving a crime of violence or sexual abuse. Title II: Safe Homes for Women - Safe Homes for Women Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Family Violence Prevention and Services Act Amendments - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to authorize the Secretary of HHS to award grants to one or more private, nonprofit entities to provide for the operation of a national, toll-free telephone hotline to provide information and assistance to victims of domestic violence. Subtitle B: Interstate Enforcement - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide for a Federal term of imprisonment or fine, in addition to any State penalties, for any person who: (1) in the course of or as a result of travelling across State lines injures his or her spouse or intimate partner (partner); (2) crosses State lines for the purpose of harassing, intimidating, or injuring a partner and who injures such partner; (3) causes a partner to cross State lines by force, coercion, duress, or fraud and who injures such partner; or (4) commits such acts in violation of a valid protection order issued by a State. Provides for temporary protection orders while a case under these provisions is pending. Mandates that a court order restitution to the victim of an offense under this Act. Requires, provided certain conditions are met, that a protection order issued by the court of one State be accorded full faith and credit by the court of another State. Subtitle C: Arrest in Spousal Abuse Cases - Amends the FVPSA to authorize the Secretary of HHS to make grants, with regard to spousal abuse, to: (1) implement pro-arrest programs and policies in police departments and improve case tracking; (2) centralize police enforcement, prosecution, or judicial responsibility for cases in one group of officers, prosecutors, or judges; (3) coordinate computer tracking systems to ensure communication between police, prosecutors, and both criminal and family courts; and (4) educate judges to improve judicial handling of cases. Subtitle D: Funding for Shelters - Amends the FVPSA to authorize appropriations to carry out that Act. Subtitle E: Family Violence Prevention and Services Act Amendments - Amends the FVPSA to require that: (1) applications for State demonstration grants include a plan to address the needs of underserved populations; and (2) upon completion of activities funded, the State grantee file a performance report explaining the activities carried out together with an assessment of the effectiveness of such activities. Subtitle F: Youth Education and Domestic Violence - Amends the FVPSA to direct the Secretary of Education to select, implement, and evaluate four model programs for education of young people about domestic violence and violence among intimate partners, with one program for each of primary, middle, and secondary schools, and institutions of higher education. Subtitle G: Confidentiality for Abused Persons - Requires the U.S. Postal Service to promulgate regulations to secure the confidentiality of abused persons' addresses. Subtitle H: Technical Amendments - Amends the FVPSA to: (1) include among the duties of State domestic violence coalitions to work with local domestic violence programs and providers of direct services to encourage appropriate responses to domestic violence within the State; and (2) make technical amendments to such Act. Subtitle I: Data and Research - Requires: (1) the Director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to request the National Academy of Sciences to enter into a contract to develop a research agenda to increase the understanding and control of violence against women; (2) the NIJ to study and report to the States and the Congress on how the States may collect centralized databases on the incidence of domestic violence offenses within a State; and (3) the Secretary of HHS to conduct a study to obtain a national projection of the incidence of injuries resulting from domestic violence, the cost of injuries to health care facilities, and recommend health care strategies for reducing the incidence and cost of such injuries. Title III: Civil Rights - Civil Rights Remedies for Gender-Motivated Violence Act - Declares that all persons within the United States shall have the right to be free from crimes of violence motivated by the victim's gender. Makes any person, including a person who acts under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State, who deprives another of such right, liable to the injured party in an action for compensatory and punitive damages, injunctive and declaratory relief, and such other relief as the court deems appropriate. (Sec. 303) Allows the awarding of attorney's fees in actions to enforce this title. (Sec. 304) Expresses the sense of the Senate that news media, law enforcement officers, and other persons should exercise restraint, and respect a rape victim's privacy, by not disclosing the victim's identity to the general public or facilitating such disclosure without the victim's consent. Title IV: Safe Campuses for Women - Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1992 to authorize appropriations for grants for campus sexual offenses education and prevention programs. Title V: Equal Justice for Women in the Courts Act of 1993 - Equal Justice for Women in the Courts Act of 1993 - Subtitle A: Education and Training for Judges and Court Personnel in State Courts - Authorizes the State Justice Institute to make grants for model programs to be used by States in training judges and court personnel in State laws on rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, and other crimes of violence motivated by the victim's gender. Subtitle B: Education and Training for Judges and Court Personnel in Federal Courts - Encourages the circuit judicial councils to conduct studies of any instances of gender bias in legal proceedings in their respective circuits. Authorizes the Federal Judicial Center to include in its educational and training programs information on issues related to gender bias in the courts. (Sec. 522) Directs the Judicial Conference to allocate funds (as specified) to Federal circuit courts that: (1) undertake studies under this subtitle in their circuits; or (2) implement reforms recommended as a result of such studies in their own or other circuits, including education and training.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reduction of Special Interest Influence Subtitle A: Elimination of Political Action Committees from Federal Election Activities Subtitle B: Ban on Soft Money in Federal Elections Subtitle C: Other Activities Title II: Increase of Competition in Politics Title III: Reduction of Campaign Costs Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions Subtitle A: Federal Election Commission Enforcement Authority Subtitle B: Other Provisions Comprehensive Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1993 - Title I: Reduction of Special Interest Influence - Subtitle A: Elimination of Political Action Committees from Federal Election Activities - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to prohibit Federal election activities by political action committees. Subtitle B: Ban on Soft Money in Federal Elections - (Sec. 111) Bans the use of soft money (any amount raised or contributed outside of source restrictions, contribution limits, and requirements of FECA) to influence any Federal election. (Sec. 112) Imposes information disclosure and mixed activity financial allocation requirements upon party committees. (Sec. 113) Permits a labor organization to make political communications and establish and solicit contributions for a separate segregated political fund only if it meets specified requirements concerning the employees it represents. (Sec. 115) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny tax-exempt status for certain politically active organizations. Subtitle C: Other Activities - (Secs. 121 through 123) Modifies contribution provisions for individuals, political parties, and intermediaries. (Sec. 124) Sets forth requirements for disclosure of independent expenditures through broadcast communications. Title II: Increase of Competition in Politics - (Sec. 201) Allows a congressional or senatorial campaign committee of a national political party to make specified contributions (seed money) to a non-incumbent Federal candidate (other than President or Vice President). (Sec. 202) Requires a candidate to file with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and each other qualifying candidate a declaration of whether or not he or she intends to spend more than $250,000 from personal funds for the primary and general election. Allows the opponents of a candidate intending to exceed such limit to accept larger contributions from individuals. (Sec. 203) Prohibits franked mass mailings during an election year by a Member of Congress. (Sec. 204) Sets forth standards for congressional redistricting and reapportionment. (Sec. 205) Sets forth criminal penalties for using the mail, broadcast media, or interstate commerce to deprive or defraud citizens of the honest services of government officials or for fraudulently conducted elections. Title III: Reduction of Campaign Costs - Sets forth congressional findings regarding discounts for political broadcasts. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit any broadcast licensee from preempting the use of of broadcasting time purchased by a qualified candidate. Title IV: Miscellaenous Provisions - Subtitle A: Federal Election Commission Enforcement Authority - (Secs. 401 through 412) Revises FECA enforcement provisions. Sets forth FEC injunctive relief authority. Increases specified penalties and makes certain discretionary penalties mandatory. Provides a specified private right of action. Subtitle B: Other Provisions - Requires disclosure of debt settlement and loan security agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Constitutional Amendment - Requires a balanced Federal budget, unless a three-fifths roll call vote of both Houses of Congress provides for a specific excess of outlays over receipts. Prohibits an increase in the public debt limit except by a three-fifths roll call vote by both Houses of Congress. Requires the President to submit a balanced budget to the Congress. Prohibits any bill to increase revenue from becoming law unless by a majority roll call vote of both Houses.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Declares the desire of the Senate that criminal proceedings be brought against all persons suspected of responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including mass rape, in Bosnia. Calls on all parties to the applicable international conventions to: (1) identify alleged offenders of crimes against humanity in Bosnia; and (2) submit such offenders for prosecution before its own courts, or extradite them to another contracting party or an international tribunal if the requesting party has jurisdiction and sufficient grounds for prosecution.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Amends rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate to revise current committee structure by designating the following standing committees of the Senate: (1) National Priorities; (2) Agricultural Policy; (3) Defense Policy; (4) Commercial Policy; (5) Economic Policy; (6) Energy Policy; (7) Environmental Policy; (8) Foreign Policy; (9) Governmental Policy; (10) Judicial Policy; (11) Social Policy; (12) Native American Programs; (13) Senior American Programs; (14) Veteran American Programs; and (15) Entrepreneurial American Programs. Maintains the committees on Rules, Ethics, and Intelligence. Sets forth procedures for making committee assignments. Provides that each standing committee shall be responsible for appropriations legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1992
Intermodal Safe Container Transportation Act of 1992 - Amends Federal law to require any person at or before tendering to an initial carrier any container or trailer for intermodal transportation with a projected gross cargo weight (including packing material and pallets) of more than 10,000 pounds, to certify to the carrier in writing the actual gross cargo weight and a reasonable description of the container's or trailer's contents. Requires prior notification to the carrier of projected gross cargo weight and the contents description. Makes it unlawful for a carrier or its agent, a customs broker, freight forwarder, warehouseman, or terminal operator to fail to forward such a certification to a subsequent carrier transporting the container or trailer in intermodal transportation. Makes it unlawful for any person: (1) to coerce or attempt to coerce a person providing such transportation to transport such loaded container or trailer before receiving the required certification; or (2) knowing that such weight limits are exceeded, to coerce or attempt to coerce any carrier to transport the container or trailer, or to operate the tractor-trailer combination in violation of such limits. Makes it unlawful for a motor carrier to transport such container or trailer before receiving such certification. Provides for State enforcement and for liens for posted bonds, fines, penalties, costs, and expenses. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to assess and report to specified congressional committees on: (1) existing data and data collection needs (along with any recommendations for improving data collection) with respect to the movement in intermodal transportation of loaded containers and trailers (including those containing perishable agricultural commodities) in violation of this Act and State highway motor vehicle weight laws; and (2) the legal and practical impediments to such data collection.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1992
Designates October 24, 1992, through November 1, 1992, as National Red Ribbon Week for a Drug Free America.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1992
Authorizes the United States to participate in the Cascadia Corridor Commission to be established as a bilateral advisory commission in coordination with the Canadian Government and State, provincial, and local governments in the Cascadia region along Interstate 5/Highway 99 from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Eugene, Oregon. Authorizes the Commission to: (1) establish a forum to coordinate consideration of regional issues in the Cascadia region; and (2) develop a strategy for environmentally sound economic development in such region and submit such plan to the Congress, the Canadian Parliament, the legislature of British Columbia, and the State legislatures of Oregon and Washington. Requires the strategy to consider environmental management, urban development, transportation, communications, and education. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1992
Designates May 2 through 8, 1993, as National Walking Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1992
Family Leave Tax Credit Act of 1992 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer an income tax credit for 20 percent of qualified employee compensation with respect to an employee who is on family leave. Defines family leave as leave in connection with the birth of a child, the placement of a child with the employee for adoption or foster care, the care of a child, spouse, or parent with a serious health condition, or the treatment of a serious health condition which makes the employee unable to perform the functions of his or her position. Limits such credit to employers with 500 or fewer employees, the amount of qualified compensation, and the maximum period for the use of such leave.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1992
Criminal Aliens Impact and Removal Act of 1992 - Title I: Deportation - Directs the Attorney General to transfer specified funds to meet deportation case backlogs. Authorizes the Attorney General to implement a nationwide criminal alien tracking system. Provides grants for State and local participation. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of State together with the Attorney General to enter into an agreement with any foreign country for the incarceration in such country of an individual who is: (1) a national of that country; and (2) subject to U.S. deportation based upon a criminal conviction. Gives priority to countries with greater numbers of such aliens. States that any such agreement shall not preclude U.S. financial contributions for incarceration costs. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act, with regard to an alien convicted of an aggravated felony, to prohibit: (1) suspension of deportation and adjustment of status; (2) admission for an otherwise excludable charge of marijuana possession; (3) adjustment of status for a person inspected and admitted into the United States; and (4) registration for lawful entry. Directs the Attorney General to submit the report on the Five State Criminal Alien model to the appropriate congressional committees within six months of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to report to the appropriate congressional committees regarding the Prisoner Transfer Treaty with Mexico. Title II: Enforcement - Provides for the forfeiture of an alien's property for: (1) failure to submit to deportation; and (2) smuggling or document falsification. Directs the Attorney General to transfer the liquidated assets of such property to the Criminal Alien Identification, Incarceration, and Removal Fund (established by this Act). Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the registration of aliens on criminal (felony) probation or parole. Subjects an alien to a civil fine and deportation for failure to supply the required information. Subjects to a civil fine: (1) a person 18 years or older who induces an alien to commit an aggravated felony; (2) an alien who commits such a crime; and (3) a person who unlawfully transports an alien. Establishes in the Treasury the Criminal Alien Identification, Incarceration, and Removal Fund. Title III: Border Enforcement - Authorizes appropriations for increased personnel levels for: (1) the Border Patrol, including a specified assignment of agents for the San Diego Sector; and (2) the Immigration and Naturalization Service antismuggling program. Authorizes additional appropriations for Border Patrol: (1) equipment maintenance; and (2) equipment, training, vehicles, and support services. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide Border Patrol personnel training with respect to the rights and varied cultural backgrounds of aliens and citizens. Authorizes appropriations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Attorney General should initiate discussions with Mexico and Canada with regard to the smuggling of aliens into the United States. Amends Federal law to authorize the use of the Federal Asset Forfeiture Fund for Border Patrol personnel costs. Title IV: State and Local Government Relief - Directs the Attorney General to take custody of excludable and deportable aliens convicted by State or municipal courts and incarcerate them in Federal prisons, unless an agreement exists for State or local compensation. Directs the Secretary of Defense to transfer three closed military installations to the Department of Justice for alien incarceration. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to designate at least three States and ten local jurisdictions as High Intensity Criminal Alien Population Areas. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1992
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should immediately call for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council for the purpose of terminating, with regard to Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia, the arms embargo imposed on all states in the former Yugoslavia pursuant to Security Council Resolution 713.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1992
Designates the U.S. courthouse to be constructed in Fargo, North Dakota, as the Quentin N. Burdick United States Courthouse.
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1992
Expresses the profound sorrow of the Senate on the death of the Honorable Quentin N. Burdick of North Dakota.
United States · United States Congress · 7 August 1992
Native American Veterans' Memorial Establishment Act - Authorizes the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian to design, construct, and maintain a National Native American Veterans' Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1992
Chemical Control Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (Comprehensive Act) to: (1) replace references to "listed precursor chemicals" with "list I chemicals" and "listed essential chemicals" with "list II chemicals"; and (2) revise the definition of "regulated person" to include individuals who act as brokers or traders for international transactions involving a listed chemical, tableting machine, or encapsulating machine. Redefines "regulated transaction" to: (1) include international transactions involving shipment of a threshold amount of a listed chemical; and (2) exclude any transaction in a chemical mixture (current law) which the Attorney General has designated as exempt based on a finding that the mixture is formulated in such a way that it cannot be easily used in the illicit production of a controlled substance and that the listed chemical or chemicals contained in the mixture cannot be readily recovered. Removes the exemption for products in which ephedrine is the only active medicinal ingredient in therapeutic amounts. Permits the Attorney General to remove by regulation the exemption for other drugs containing listed chemicals if it is determined that they are being diverted for use in the illicit production of a controlled substance. Sets forth criteria for making such determination. Permits manufactures to retain exemptions for specific drug products if they can demonstrate that such a product is manufactured and distributed in a way which prevents diversion. Provides registration requirements for list I chemicals, including the authority to revoke or deny based on public interest grounds, immediate suspension in cases of imminent danger to the public health or safety, and criminal penalties for distribution, importation, or exportation without the required registration. Specifies that registration is not required for distribution, importation, or exportation of drug products containing list I chemicals covered by the legal drug exemption. Requires each regulated person that manufactures a listed chemical to report annually to the Attorney General information concerning listed chemicals manufactured by such regulated person. Makes any person located in the United States who is a broker or trader for an international transaction in a listed chemical that is a regulated transaction solely because of that person's involvement as broker or trader, with respect to that transaction, subject to all of the notification, reporting, recordkeeping, and other requirements placed upon exporters of listed chemicals by the Comprehensive Act. Provides for exemption authority and additional penalties. Authorizes the Attorney General to reduce controls on the importation of specified chemicals by modifying or eliminating the advance notice requirement. Adds specific criminal penalties for: (1) attempting to evade reporting requirements by falsely claiming that a shipment is destined for a country for which a waiver has been established; and (2) smuggling of listed chemicals. Amends list I to add benzaldehyde and nitroethane, and delete D-lysergic acid, N-ethylephedrine, and N-ethylpseudoephedrine. Eliminates "regular supplier" status and creates "regular importer" status. Modifies the definition of "controlled premises" to include places where listed chemicals or records relating to the manufacture, distribution, or disposition of listed chemicals are maintained. Makes it a felony for a person who possesses a listed chemical with intent that it be used in the illegal manufacture of a controlled substance to manage the listed chemical or waste from the manufacture of a controlled substance other than as required under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Specifies that, in addition to a penalty that may be imposed for the illegal manufacture, possession, or distribution of a listed chemical or toxic residue of a clandestine laboratory, a person who violates such prohibition shall be assessed costs of the initial cleanup and disposal of the listed chemical and contaminated property and the cost of restoring property damaged by exposure to such chemical. Subjects listed chemicals to the same forfeiture provisions which apply to controlled substances. Amends the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make available to the Attorney General information in the national practitioner data bank.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1992
Omnibus Adoption Assistance and Maternal Health Certificates 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, including specific assurances relating to such system; (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 and assurances. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations as necessary, including appropriate requirements and incentives to ensure that the data collection system functions reliably throughout the United States. Requires the system to: (1) avoid unnecessary diversions of resources from agencies responsible for adoption and foster care; (2) use uniform definitions and methodologies; (3) include data concerning public and private agencies that receive Federal assistance and voluntary information of non-Federal agencies; and (4) provide certain other demographic characteristics. 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. Limits such certificates to $80 per day in the case of a resident and $50 per day in the case of out-patient services. Establishes a matching requirement for the State agency and/or the maternity home equal to the amount of the certificates. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Council, to issue regulations to carry out such program. 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. Directs the Secretary of Education to award up to 50 such fellowships. Sets forth provisions for student selection procedures, stipends, payments to institutions, fellowship conditions, consultation with the Council, and an authorization 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. Sets forth provisions for grants amounts, applications and agreements, program guidelines, consultation with the Council, and an authorization of 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. Provides injunctive relief for such discrimination. 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, which include provisions for: (1) disclosure of all relevant information, including background information (except actual identification of the child or biological parents), to the prospective adoptive parent, with criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure; (2) pre-placement investigations of the prospective adoptive parent; (3) disclosure to the court of all costs incurred by or on behalf of each party to the adoption; (4) guaranteed adequate legal representation for the biological mother; (5) filing of a petition for adoption with the appropriate court within one year after placement; and (6) coverage by the health plan of the adoptive parent of pregnancy and childbirth expenses (excluding surrogate parenting arrangements) for the child and the biological mother, or for any dependent child of the plan enrollee, and plan coverage of pre-existing conditions of adoptive children.
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 · 2 July 1992
Small Business Innovation Development Amendment Act of 1992 - Amends the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 to extend the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program from October 1, 1993, to October 1, 2000. Amends the Small Business Act regarding small business eligibility for Federal agency research and development awards to include in the three-phase evaluation process determining the technological feasibility of ideas those ideas which appear to have commercial potential. Prescribes minimum SBIR expenditure amounts for FY 1992 through 1997 and after. Requires each Federal agency that is required to establish an SBIR program to: (1) determine unilaterally research topics within its SBIR solicitations, giving special consideration to topics which permit substantial applicant participation in research project formulation; and (2) make payments in full to SBIR funding agreement recipients, subject to specified audit deadlines. Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (the Administrator) to modify directives for the conduct of general SBIR policy to provide for: (1) rights to data; (2) continued use of agency property; (3) follow-on contracts; and (4) increased amounts of Phase 1 awards. Repeals the requirement for an annual report by the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Provides that if a Federal agency required to establish an SBIR program makes an SBIR solicitation award for which it shall provide written justification of such award in its next annual report. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on specified aspects of SBIR program implementation. Includes Department of Defense (DOD) activities in the extension of programs under this Act and requires the evaluation process for research and development awards to consider the commercial potential of ideas. Revises the definition of "extramural budget" to remove an exclusion that provides that such definition shall not include amounts of DOD obligated solely for operational systems development. Increases the amount required to be expended by DOD for SBIR. Establishes a maximum amount for SBIR contracts awarded by DOD in the first phase.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Radio Free China Act of 1992 - Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize the Board for International Broadcasting to designate one organization constituted on the model of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Incorporated, to carry out radio broadcasting to China. Designates such broadcasts as Radio Free China. Increases the number of Board members. Limits terms of Board members who are presidential appointees to three years. Sets forth additional provisions concerning membership terms.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
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 (Bank) and guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA), 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 any prepayment penalties. Provides that in the case of prepayment of a debenture under this Act in which a new debenture is issued by a qualified State or local development company and guaranteed by the SBA, the guarantee of the original debenture shall transfer to the new debenture, but shall not be treated as new credit authority. Requires the full faith and credit of the United States to be pledged to the payment of all guaranteed debenture amounts. Permits the issuer to require the borrower to pay certain optional fees with respect to such prepayment. Provides that if a borrower defaults on a loan securing a debenture guaranteed by the SBA, the SBA's guarantee shall be extinguished by payment to the Bank of the remaining principal balance plus accrued interest at the coupon rate on the debenture.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1992
Minor Crop Protection Assistance Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to define "minor use" as the use of a pesticide on a commercial agricultural crop or site where: (1) the total U.S. acreage for the crop is less than 300,000 acres; (2) the acreage expected to be treated as a result of that use is less than 300,000 acres annually or the agricultural crop represents production from less than 300,000 acres annually; (3) the use does not provide sufficient economic incentive to support initial or continuing registration; and (4) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not determined that the use presents an unreasonable adverse environmental effect. Permits the Administrator, in handling the registration of a pesticide for a minor use, to waive applicable data requirements if determined that the absence of data will not prevent the Administrator from determining the incremental risk presented by the minor use and that such risk would have 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. Terminates the exclusive use of such data if the registration is voluntarily cancelled or if the data are used to support a nonminor use. Provides for expedited review (within six months of submission) of applications to support minor use pesticide registrations. Grants registrants who make good faith requests for minor use waivers regarding required data and whose requests are denied a full time period for providing such data. Requires the Administrator, upon the request of a registrant, to extend the deadline for the production of data required solely to support a minor use pesticide up to four years if the registrant provides data to support other uses of the pesticide and a schedule to assure that the data production will be completed before the expiration of the extension. Applies the same extension conditions to data for reregistrations. 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. Prohibits amendments if the pesticide meets or exceeds risk criteria associated with human dietary exposure and other specified conditions. Provides for extensions of minor use registration and data submission deadlines in cases where a registrant is not providing data to support a minor use but is providing data in a timely fashion to support other uses. Requires the Administrator, when a minor use registration application is filed no later than two years after another registrant voluntarily cancels registration for a similar use, to evaluate such application as if the voluntary cancellation had not yet taken place for purposes of data use, subject to environmental risk considerations. Directs the Administrator to assure coordination of minor use issues through the establishment of a minor use program within the Office of Pesticide Programs. Establishes and authorizes funding for a Department of Agriculture matching fund minor use program. Requires the program to be used to ensure the continued availability of minor use crop protection chemicals, including the data to support minor use pesticide registrations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1992
Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 - Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to Cuba. Declares that the President should encourage countries that conduct trade with Cuba to restrict their trade and credit regulations with Cuba in a manner consistent with this Act. Authorizes the President to impose the following sanctions against countries that provide assistance to Cuba: (1) ineligibility for assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control Act; (2) a prohibition on agreements with the United States for the establishment of free trade areas; and (3) ineligibility for forgiveness or reduction of debt owed to the U.S. Government. Terminates such sanctions if the President reports to the Congress that Cuba has met conditions established under this Act concerning democracy, human rights, and a free market economy. Prohibits restrictions on the export to Cuba of medicines, subject to specified conditions and inspection requirements. Permits telecommunications services between the United States and Cuba. Requires the U.S. Postal Service to provide direct mail service to and from Cuba. Authorizes the President to provide assistance to promote nonviolent democratic change in Cuba. Prohibits the issuance of licenses for certain transactions between U.S.-controlled firms in third countries and Cuba. Bars domestic concerns from receiving a tax deduction for the portion of the deductible expenses of such concerns which are allocated or apportioned to income derived from Cuba. Prohibits vessels which enter Cuba to engage in trade from loading or unloading any freight in the United States within 180 days after departure from Cuba. Prohibits: (1) vessels carrying goods or passengers to or from Cuba or carrying goods in which a Cuban national has an interest from entering a U.S. port, except as authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury; and (2) specified commodities authorized to be exported under a general license from being exported under such a license to any such vessels. Directs the President to establish strict limits on remittances to Cuba by U.S. persons for purposes of financing the travel of Cubans to the United States to assure that such remittances are not used by the Cuban Government as a means of gaining access to U.S. currency. Declares that food, medicine, and medical supplies for humanitarian purposes should be made available to Cuba under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 if the President certifies to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Government of Cuba: (1) has made a commitment to hold free and fair elections for a new government within six months and is proceeding to implement that decision; (2) has made a commitment to respect and is respecting human rights and basic democratic freedoms; and (3) is not providing weapons or funds to any group in any other country that seeks the violent overthrow of the government of such country. Waives sanctions against Cuba under this Act if the President reports to the Congress that Cuba: (1) has held free and fair elections conducted under internationally recognized observers; (2) has permitted opposition parties ample time to campaign for such elections and has permitted full access to the media to all candidates; (3) is showing respect for basic civil liberties and human rights; (4) is moving toward establishing a free market economic system; and (5) has committed itself to constitutional change that would ensure regular free and fair elections. Requires the President, if he makes such report, to take the following actions with respect to a freely-elected Cuban Government: (1) encourage the admission of such government to international organizations and financial institutions; (2) provide emergency relief during Cuba's transition to a viable economic system; (3) take steps to end the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba; and (4) enter into negotiations for a trade agreement with Cuba. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to exercise the authorities of the Trading With the Enemy Act in enforcing this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Trading With the Enemy Act to authorize the Secretary to impose a civil penalty on violators of such Act. Provides for forfeiture of any property or vessel that is the subject of a violation. Requires the Department of the Treasury to establish a branch of the Office of Foreign Assets Control in Miami, Florida.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1992
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing any national primary drinking water regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act (the Act) or any similar regulation until this Act's requirements are met and legislation that extends the authorization of the Act is enacted. Requires the Administrator to study and report to the Congress on: (1) each final regulation that has been promulgated under the Act and regulatory alternatives that reflect a range of levels of safety or direct health benefits; (2) any health effect an alternative would prevent and the system-level incremental cost of each alternative; (3) the contaminants listed pursuant to the Act for purposes of considering revisions to the list, taking into account anticipated adverse health effects of the contaminant, the risk or safety factors associated with the maximum contaminant level, and whether the contaminant may occur in public water systems; (4) compliance deadlines; (5) whether a regulation should apply exclusively to small public water systems; and (6) recommended alternatives to ensure that States and political subdivisions meet funding needs to carry out the Act. Directs the Administrator, if a primary drinking water regulation is justifiable to protect human health, to implement or promulgate such regulation without regard to the requirements of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that woman's soccer should be a medal sport at the 1996 centennial Olympic games in Atlanta, Georgia.
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 · 18 June 1992
Designates the second Sunday in October 1992 as National Children's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1992
Pacific Yew Act - Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to pursue a conservation-management policy with respect to National Forest System and other public lands containing Pacific yew that will combine long-term conservation with sustainable yew harvests for the manufacture of taxol (a cancer treatment drug derived from the yew.) Requires timber sales to be conducted in accord with such policy. Directs the Secretaries to: (1) inventory Pacific yew on lands under their jurisdiction; (2) encourage and assist in research regarding the ecology of the Pacific yew, development of alternative methods of procuring taxol, and propagation of Pacific yew and other yew species in agricultural or commercial settings; and (3) ensure collection of Pacific yew resources in a fashion that minimizes illegal harvests and maintains the yew's taxol properties. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell Pacific yew to qualifying persons for manufacturing of taxol in the United States. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to determine and notify the appropriate Secretaries when sufficient medical quantities of taxol are available from sources other than Pacific yew harvested from Federal lands. Terminates the requirements of this Act upon such notification.
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 · 11 June 1992
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for a runoff election for the offices of the President and Vice President if no candidate receives a majority of electoral college votes.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Northern Spotted Owl Preservation and Northwest Economic Stabilization Act of 1992 - States that it is the purpose of this Act to set forth a plan to preserve the northern spotted owl (owl) while minimizing to the greatest extent possible the related loss of jobs and revenues. Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to: (1) adopt amendments to land and resource management plans to implement such purpose; (2) conduct timber sales and harvesting, prior to such amendments' completion, in accordance with a certain northern spotted owl preservation plan; and (3) amend such plans with regard to certain National Forest timber harvest rotations, silviculture systems, and land withdrawals. Establishes owl protection zones of between ten and 100 acres around each nesting tree. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement the Northern Spotted Owl Preservation Plan-Draft, not withstanding any other provision of law. Directs the Secretaries to manage certain lands under their respective jurisdictions in Washington, Oregon, and California in accordance with such Plan. Subjects any person who hunts, injures, or collects an owl to specified civil and criminal penalties under the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Sets forth congressional reporting requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
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 · 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 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 · 14 May 1992
Weed and Seed Implementation Act of 1992 - Directs the Attorney General, in cooperation with other Federal agencies, to: (1) provide local communities with weed and seed program technical assistance; and (2) enter into weed and seed agreements with State, local, and private nonprofit entities to promote neighborhood revitalization. Directs the Attorney General to establish a Weed and Seed Council which shall: (1) review submitted weed and seed plans; (2) coordinate funding, services, and technical assistance; and (3) evaluate program impact in designated communities. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) intergovernmental weed and seed agreements; and (2) specified programs under the authority of the Secretary of Education. Obligates specified funds for weed and seed plans under the authority of: (1) the Department of Housing and Urban Development; (2) the Departments of Labor and of Health and Human Services; (3) the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC); and (4) other Federal law. Authorizes permanent appropriations for weed and seed programs beginning with FY 1994. Obligates specified funds for weed and seed programs in enterprise and nonenterprise zones.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1992
Designates October 1992 as Polish-American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1992
Designates July 2, 1992, as National Literacy Day.
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 · 6 May 1992
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, upon request by the State of Washington, to review the State's implementation of specified recommendations of the Commission on Old Growth Alternatives for Washington's Forest Trust Lands (including recommendations concerning the northern spotted owl and the establishment of an Olympic Experimental State Forest). Authorizes the State of Washington to submit to the Secretary a management and research plan for the Olympic Experimental State Forest.