United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1996
Commends the men and women who have served or are presently serving in the American Foreign Service and honors those who have given their lives in the line of duty. Designates the first Friday in May 1996 as American Foreign Service Day.
United States · United States Congress · 22 December 1995
Urges the Secretary of State, in deciding whether to renew the ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to Lebanon, to: (1) expand the present humanitarian waiver provisions to permit American citizens of Lebanese descent to travel to Lebanon for family reunification purposes; (2) create a new waiver category for U.S. business personnel who wish to travel there on business; (3) change the Lebanon travel ban to a travel advisory; and (4) identify those conditions within Lebanon that are of risk to U.S. citizens and provide suggestions for Lebanon to ameliorate those risks.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1995
Captive Exotic Animal Protection Act of 1995 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit and set penalties for knowingly transferring, transporting, or possessing a confined exotic animal for purposes of allowing the killing or injuring of that animal for entertainment or the collection of a trophy.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1995
Congratulates Frederick P. Hitz on his five-year anniversary as the first statutory Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General. Expresses support for the Office of the CIA Inspector General.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1995
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to revise the definition of "domestic industry" and "like or directly competitive article" with respect to investigations by the International Trade Commission (ITC) to determine whether perishable agricultural products are being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to be a substantial cause (or threat) of serious injury to the domestic industry producing an article like or directly competitive with such imported products. Authorizes the ITC, in the case of one or more domestic producers who produce a like or directly competitive perishable agricultural product during a particular growing season, to limit the domestic industry to those producers if they sell all or almost all of their production of the article in that growing season and the demand for the article is not supplied, to any substantial degree, by other domestic producers of the article who produce the article in a different growing season. Requires the ITC, with respect to perishable agricultural products, to limit provisional import relief to imported articles that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, during the same growing season as the like or directly competitive product.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1995
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to subject imported tomatoes to certain domestic packing requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 6 November 1995
Condemns the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Extends condolences to his family and to all the people of Israel. Expresses admiration for his historic contributions and support for the government of Acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Reaffirms a commitment to the process of building a just and lasting peace between Israel and its neighbors. Provides for the adjournment of the Senate as a further mark of respect for Rabin.
United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1995
Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Implementation Act of 1995 - Declares it to be U.S. policy that: (1) Jerusalem remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic religious group are protected; (2) Jerusalem be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel; and (3) the U.S. Embassy in Israel be relocated to Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999. States that not more than 50 percent of the funds appropriated for FY 1999 to the Department of State for "Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad" may be obligated in the fiscal year until the Secretary of State determines, and reports to the Congress, that the Embassy has opened. Makes specified amounts of such funds available until expended in certain fiscal years only for construction and other costs associated with relocating the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Requires the Secretary of State to report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate on: (1) the Department of State's plan to implement this Act; and (2) progress made toward opening the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1995
Access to Emergency Medical Services Act of 1995 - Requires a health plan that provides any emergency services coverage to cover emergency services furnished to a plan enrollee without regard to: (1) whether the provider has an arrangement with the plan; and (2) prior authorization. Mandates prompt payment in a reasonable and appropriate amount and prohibits cost-sharing greater for hospital emergency services than for other settings. Requires specified measures relating to the timeliness of prior authorization determinations regarding needed care identified in initial evaluations. Prohibits plans from discouraging appropriate use of the 911 emergency telephone number or from denying coverage or payment for an item or service solely on the basis that an enrollee uses the number. Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require health maintenance organizations, competitive medical plans, and managed care plans to meet the requirements of this paragraph. Allows State laws that provide protections exceeding those of this Act. Provides for civil money penalties for violations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Senate Election Spending Limits and Benefits Title II: Reduction of Special Interest Influence Subtitle A: Elimination of Political Action Committees From Federal Election Activities Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Soft Money of Political Parties Subtitle C: Soft Money of Persons Other Than Political Parties Subtitle D: Contributions Subtitle E: Additional Contribution Limits Subtitle F: Independent Expenditures Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions Senate Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1995 - Title I: Senate Election Spending Limits and Benefits - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to set forth Senate election spending limits and benefits. Entitles complying candidates to specified: (1) broadcast discounts and free time; and (2) postage reductions. (Sec. 103) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to: (1) provide for preemption only in situations beyond a station's control; and (2) extend the license revocation provision for failure to provide access to cable systems. Title II: Reduction of Special Interest Influence - Subtitle A: Elimination of Political Action Committees From Federal Election Activities - Amends FECA to prohibit Federal election activities by political action committees (as defined by this Act). States that if such ban is not in effect: (1) a committee's contributions to a candidate shall not exceed limits applicable to an individual; and (2) a candidate may not accept more than 20 percent of contributions from committee sources. Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Soft Money of Political Parties - Amends FECA to set forth soft money contribution and reporting provisions. Subtitle C: Soft Money of Persons Other Than Political Parties - Amends FECA to set forth reporting requirements for persons other than political parties (with exceptions for candidate's authorized committees or independent expenditures) who disburse more than $2000 for political activities. Subtitle D: Contributions - Amends FECA to set forth conditions under which contributions to a candidate made by a person through an intermediary or conduit shall be treated as having come from the person or from the intermediary. Subtitle E: Additional Prohibitions on Contributions - Requires candidates to raise at least 60 percent of their contributions from in-State individuals in order to be in FECA compliance. Subtitle F: Independent Expenditures - Amends FECA to redefine "independent expenditure." Includes within the definition of "contribution" certain expenditures containing express advocacy made by a candidate or candidate's representative. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends FECA to prohibit the personal use of campaign funds. (Sec. 302) Sets forth political advertising provisions for print and broadcast or cablecast communications. (Sec. 303) Authorizes the Federal Election Commission to: (1) prescribe regulations for computer and facsimile reporting; and (2) conduct random post-election audits to ensure voluntary FECA compliance. (Sec. 305) Prohibits franked mass mailings by a Member in his or her election year (unless such Member will not be a candidate for any Federal office). (Sec. 306) Grants the Commission injunctive relief authority. (Sec. 308) Provides for direct appeal to the United States Supreme Court from any judicial ruling on the constitutionality of any provision of this Act. (Sec. 309) Revises certain political committee reporting requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1995
Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1995 - Establishes in the Treasury the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Specifies that any individual who submits to the Attorney General written medical documentation that the individual has a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection shall receive $125,000 from amounts available in the Fund if the individual: (1) has a blood-clotting disorder and was treated with blood-clotting agents between January 1, 1980, and December 31, 1987; (2) is the lawful spouse of such individual or the former lawful spouse and was the lawful spouse of the individual at any time after a date within such period on which the individual was treated; or (3) acquired the HIV infection through perinatal transmission from a parent who is such an individual. Requires that a claim for payment be filed with the Attorney General by or on behalf of such individual and that the Attorney General determine that the claim meets the requirements of this Act. Specifies that a claim under this Act shall not be assignable or transferable. Sets limits regarding the number of claims per victim. Prohibits the Attorney General from paying claims filed under this Act unless filed within three years after this Act's enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Health Care Access, Portability, and Renewability Subtitle A: Group Health Plan Rules Subtitle B: Individual Health Plan Rules Subtitle C: COBRA Clarifications Subtitle D: Private Health Plan Purchasing Coalitions Title II: Application and Enforcement of Standards Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions Health Insurance Reform Act of 1995 - Title I: Health Care Access, Portability, and Renewability - Subtitle A: Group Health Plan Rules - Prohibits insurers from declining to provide coverage, and plans from establishing certain types of requirements, based on health status, medical condition, and similar factors. (Sec. 102) Mandates plan renewability, except for nonpayment of premiums, termination of the plan, or other specified reasons. (Sec. 103) Regulates the circumstances in which a plan may impose a benefit limitation or exclusion because of a preexisting condition. Allows State laws that limit preexisting conditions to shorter periods than the provisions of this paragraph. (Sec. 104) Mandates special enrollment periods for individuals who have certain types of changes in family composition or employment status. (Sec. 105) Regulates disclosures an insurer must make to a small employer (as defined in State law, or employers with not more than 50 employees if not defined in State law). Subtitle B: Individual Health Plan Rules - Prohibits an insurer from establishing, for an individual in a period of previous qualifying coverage, eligibility, continuation, or enrollment requirements based on health status, medical condition, and similar factors. (Sec. 111) Mandates renewability of coverage for individuals, except for nonpayment of premiums, misrepresentation of material fact, or termination of the plan. (Sec. 112) Requires that State law in effect on, or enacted after, enactment of this Act apply in lieu of the standards above in this subtitle unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines that the State law is not as effective in providing access. (Sec. 113) Mandates a study and report on ensuring the availability of health insurance to individuals, the need for Federal premium variation standards, and the effectiveness of this Act and State laws in stabilizing the small group health insurance market by providing for the broad pooling of risk. Subtitle C: COBRA Clarifications - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to modify continuation coverage requirements. Subtitle D: Private Health Plan Purchasing Coalitions - Requires a State to certify health plan purchasing coalitions (HPPCs) meeting the requirements of this paragraph. Provides for Federal certification if a State fails to do so. Regulates HPPC organization, duties, and activities. Preempts, for a HPPC meeting these requirements, State fictitious group laws, State rating requirement laws (subject to exception), and other State laws in direct conflict. Applies to HPPCs the requirements of ERISA provisions relating to fiduciary responsibility and administration and enforcement. Title II: Application and Enforcement of Standards - Deems a requirement or standard under this Act imposed on: (1) a plan to be imposed on the insurer; and (2) a self-insured plan to be imposed on the plan sponsor. (Sec. 202) Requires each State to mandate that each plan in the State meet the standards under this Act pursuant to an enforcement plan filed by the State with the Secretary of Labor. Directs the Secretary, for self-insured health plans, to enforce the standards under this Act. Subjects failing plans to civil enforcement under specified ERISA provisions. Provides for Federal enforcement if a State fails to do so. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow a health maintenance organization, if notified by a member that a medical savings account has been established for the member and if the member requests, to reduce the basic health services payment by requiring the payment of a deductible for basic health services. Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that the Congress should take steps to further the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1995
Calls on France to abide by the international moratorium on nuclear testing, refrain from conducting its announced testing, and prepare to close its underground nuclear testing sites at the Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1995
Historic Homeownership Assistance Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 20 percent of the qualified rehabilitation expenditures made by a taxpayer with respect to a certified historic structure which has been substantially rehabilitated and which is owned by the taxpayer and used as his or her principal residence. Allows the credit for such expenditures to be taken by a purchaser of the rehabilitated home. Permits, in lieu of the credit, a historic rehabilitation mortgage credit certificate, which shall be transferred to a lender in exchange for a reduction in the rate of interest on the loan secured by the building.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1995
Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act of 1995 - Requires a health plan to provide maternity benefits for a minimum hospital stay for a mother and her newborn following the birth of the child. Provides an exception for home births. Prohibits a health plan from modifying the terms and conditions of coverage if the enrollee requests less than minimum coverage. Requires a health plan to provide written notice, prominently positioned in any literature or correspondence, to each enrollee regarding the coverage required by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1995
Rural Health Improvement Act of 1995 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to replace the essential access community hospital (EACH) program with grants to States for Medicare rural hospital flexibility programs for the purpose of: (1) ensuring rural community access to health care services through designated critical access hospitals limiting the scope of available inpatient acute care services; (2) providing more appropriate and flexible staffing and licensure standards; (3) enhancing hospital financial security by requiring Medicare reimbursement on a reasonable cost basis; and (4) promoting linkages between such hospitals and broader programs for development and transition to integrated provider networks. Specifies requirements of such a program. Continues payments to designated EACHs. Authorizes appropriations. Makes various specified amendments under Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) related to rural primary care and critical access hospitals. Creates within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) an Assistant Secretary for Rural Health to: (1) head an independent Office of Rural Health Policy; and (2) report directly to the HHS Secretary on the implications of national health care reforms for rural areas. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) use of telemedicine services can increase rural resident access to specialized health services; and (2) although such services are furnished to Medicare beneficiaries nationwide, service providers are not reimbursed for them under Medicare. Makes it the purpose of this Act to improve rural Medicare beneficiary access to such services by requiring Medicare reimbursement for them pursuant to a methodology developed by the HHS Secretary and submitted to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1995
George Washington Commemorative Coin Act - Requires the Secretary of Treasury to mint and issue five-dollar gold coins emblematic of George Washington. Mandates that the design for the coins shall be: (1) selected by the Secretary after consultation with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the Commission of Fine Arts; and (2) reviewed by the Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee. Provides for the distribution of coin sale surcharges to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1995
Coastal States Protection Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease for mineral exploration, development, or production on submerged lands of the Outer Continental Shelf that are seaward of, or adjacent to, specified lands under a State or Federal lease moratorium.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1995
Directs the President to support, at the 1995 United Nations review conference, proposals to modify Protocol II to the 1980 Conventional Weapons Convention to implement the U.S. goal of the elimination of antipersonnel landmines. Declares a U.S. moratorium, for a one year period beginning three years after enactment of this Act, on the use of such landmines except along internationally recognized national borders within a perimeter marked area monitored by military personnel and protected by adequate means to ensure the exclusion of civilians. Urges the President to encourage other nations to join in such moratorium. Prohibits the United States from selling, licensing for export, or transferring any defense article or service to a foreign country that sells, exports, or transfers antipersonnel landmines. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition, after notice to the Congress, if an emergency exists which makes such waiver vital to the interest of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1995
Commends Captain Scott F. O'Grady for his heroic conduct after being shot down by Bosnian Serb forces. Commends the U.S. and NATO forces involved in Capt. O'Grady's rescue. Expresses the sense of the Senate that U.S. and NATO air crews should not be put at risk over Bosnia unless all necessary actions to address the threat posed by hostile Serbian air defenses are taken.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1995
Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1995 - Amends the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 to prohibit possessing or, knowingly or with reckless disregard for the safety of another, discharging (or attempting to discharge) a firearm that has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce (thus providing the jurisdictional basis for regulation under the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution) in a school zone.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Commemorative Coin Programs Title II: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Maintenance Fund United States Commemorative Coin Act of 1995 - Title I: Commemorative Coin Programs - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue gold and-or silver coins: (1) emblematic of the Bicentennial of the United States; (2) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations and the role of President Harry S. Truman; (3) to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Smithsonian Institution; (4) to commemorate the public opening of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.; (5) to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the establishment of Yellowstone National Park as the first National Park in the United States; and (6) to recognize the sacrifices of law enforcement officers and their families in preserving public safety. Provides for the distribution of surcharges from the sale of coins. (Sec. 102) Mandates that the design for the coins be: (1) selected by the Secretary after consultation with the appropriate recipient organizations and the Commission of Fine Arts; and (2) reviewed by the Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee. Title II: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Maintenance Fund - Establishes the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Maintenance Fund as a revolving fund administered by the Secretary of the Interior to be used for specified purposes, including: (1) for the maintenance, security, and repair of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.; (2) to periodically add to the Memorial the names of law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty; and (3) to provide educational scholarships to the immediate family members of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty whose names appear on the Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1995
Medicaid Managed Care Act of 1995 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) authorize States to require certain Medicaid-eligible individuals to enroll in a managed care arrangement with an eligible provider of their choice under contract with the State to furnish them with any medically necessary health care items or services on a prepaid basis as a condition of receiving Medicaid assistance; and (2) add anti-fraud and sanctions provisions applicable to eligible managed care providers.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1995
Medicare Dependent Hospital Relief Act of 1995 - Directs the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission to: (1) develop separate applicable percentage increases for Medicare dependent and certain non-Medicare dependent hospitals to ensure that the average annual Medicare margins of the two hospitals are equalized while ensuring budget neutrality; and (2) include in each of its March reports to the Congress the percentage increases for the upcoming fiscal year, as well as recommendations on methods for ensuring that Medicare beneficiaries who receive Medicare dependent hospital services have the same access and quality of care as those beneficiaries furnished with certain non-Medicare dependent hospital services.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1995
Water Desalinization Research and Development Act of 1995 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to conduct a basic research and development program which shall: (1) conduct, encourage, and promote fundamental scientific research and basic studies to develop the best and most economical processes and methods for converting saline and nonusable nonsaline water into usable water; (2) study methods for the recovery of byproducts resulting from the desalinization or reclamation of water which would offset the costs of treatment and reduce the environmental impact from such byproducts; and (3) prepare a management plan for conducting the program. Requires: (1) coordination of activities with certain other Federal agencies; and (2) availability to the general public of all research results and findings. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of the Army to jointly: (1) conduct a desalinization development program; and (2) design and construct desalinization facilities for such program. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) the selection of appropriate facilities for such program; (2) a maximum Federal cost of $10 million for the initial cost of a facility; (3) operation, maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation of a facility to be performed by the facility sponsor; and (4) miscellaneous administrative authorities of both Secretaries with respect to such program. Requests the President to instruct the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) to sponsor an international desalinization conference within one year after the enactment of this Act. Provides conference funding from AID funds. Directs the Secretary to provide annual reports to the President and the Congress with respect to the administration of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 through 2000 for: (1) the research and development program; and (2) the desalinization development program.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1995
Minor Use Crop Protection Act of 1995 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to define "minor use" as the use of a pesticide on an animal or commercial agricultural crop or site or for public health protection where: (1) the total U.S. acreage for the crop is fewer than 300,000 acres; or (2) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines that the use does not provide sufficient economic incentive to support the initial or continuing registration of a pesticide for such use and there are insufficient alternatives available for the use, any one of the alternatives poses greater environmental or health risks, or the pesticide plays or will play a significant part in managing pest resistance or in an integrated pest management program. Extends the period of exclusive data use for data submitted to support original registration applications for pesticides for an additional year for each three minor uses registered after this Act's enactment and before the expiration of the period of exclusive use, up to a total of three additional years for all minor uses registered by the Administrator if the Administrator determines that: (1) there are insufficient alternatives available for the use or any one of the alternatives poses greater environmental or health risks; or (2) the pesticide plays or will play a significant part in managing pest resistance or in an integrated pest management program. Requires the Administrator, upon the request of a registrant, to extend the deadline for the production of residue chemistry data required solely to support a minor use subject to specified conditions. Applies the same extension conditions to data for reregistrations. Authorizes the Administrator to modify or revoke such extensions if the use may cause unreasonable adverse environmental effects. Permits the Administrator, in handling the registration of a pesticide for a minor use, to waive applicable data requirements if the absence of data will not prevent the Administrator from determining the risk presented by the pesticide and that the risk would not have an adverse environmental effect. Provides for expedited review (within one year of submission) of applications to support minor use pesticide registrations. Provides a procedure for meeting data requirements where a registrant has voluntarily cancelled a registration and another application is pending for registration of a pesticide that is for a minor use and is identical or substantially similar to, or for an identical or substantially similar use as, the cancelled pesticide. Directs the Administrator to establish a minor use program. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Department of Agriculture minor use program and a separate matching fund program. Requires the matching fund program to be utilized to ensure the continued availability of minor use crop protection chemicals. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1995
Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to exempt from criminal penalties for illegal remunerations any payments made by: (1) a State agency to a health insurer or health maintenance organization with respect to participants in a State Medicaid demonstration project; and (2) a health insurer or health maintenance organization (HMO) to a sales representative or licensed insurance agent for servicing, marketing, or enrolling project participants in a health plan offered by such insurer or HMO.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1995
Gambling Impact Study Commission Act - Establishes the Gambling Impact Study Commission to study, and report to the President and the Congress, all matters relating to the impact of gambling on States, political subdivisions of States, and Native American tribes, and possible alternative sources of revenue for them. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1995
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that if a U.S. citizen relinquishes citizenship, all property held by such citizen at the time immediately before relinquishment shall be treated as sold at such time for its fair market value and any gain or loss shall be subject to U.S. income tax. Allows an expatriate to elect to have property made subject to tax in the same manner as if the individual were a U.S. citizen if the individual: (1) provides security for payment of tax; (2) consents to waiver of treaty rights that would preclude tax assessment or collection; and (3) complies with other requirements prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Excludes $600,000 in gain from taxation. Limits the amount of estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes in the event of such an election. Excepts U.S. real property interests and interest in certain retirement plans. Prescribes rules for the treatment of an expatriate's interests in a trust. Terminates, on the date on which property held by an individual is treated as sold under this Act, any deferral of recognition of income or gain and any extension of time for payment of tax. Imposes a tentative tax, immediately before the expatriation date, on income required to be included equal to the amount that would be imposed if the taxable year were a short taxable year ending on the expatriation date. Treats as the basis of property of a nonresident alien individual who becomes a U.S. citizen or resident, for purposes of determining gain or loss, the property's fair market value on the date on which: (1) the individual becomes a citizen or resident; or (2) the property first becomes subject to tax by reason of being used in a trade or business or by reason of becoming a U.S. real property interest.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1995
Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Research, Assistance, and Education Act of 1995 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to mandate a program for the conduct and support of research and training, the dissemination of health information, and other programs regarding Parkinson's disease. Establishes the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Parkinson's Disease. Requires Core Center Grants to encourage the development of innovative multidisciplinary research and provide training concerning Parkinson's, designating each grant recipient as a Morris K. Udall Center for Research on Parkinson's Disease. Authorizes establishment of the National Parkinson's Disease Data System to collect, store, analyze, retrieve, and disseminate data. Establishes: (1) the National Parkinson's Disease Information Clearinghouse; (2) a grant program to support scientists who have distinguished themselves in Parkinson's research; and (3) a national education program to foster a national focus on Parkinson's and the care of those with Parkinson's. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Noxious Weeds Title II: State Terminal Inspection Federal Noxious Weed Control Improvement Act of 1995 - Title I: Noxious Weeds - Amends the Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 to retitle such Act as the Foreign and Federal Noxious Weed Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to maintain a Federal noxious weed list. States that listings shall be made by regulation (including private party petitions for inclusion or removal) or by temporary emergency designation. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a classification system and integrated management plan for foreign and Federal noxious weeds; and (2) a Noxious Weed Technical Advisory Panel. Increases monetary penalties for violations of such Act. Requires each Federal agency to develop an undesirable plant management plan and designate a coordinating office to control such plants on lands under its jurisdiction. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: State Terminal Inspection - Amends the Terminal Inspection Act to include animals and other organisms in the scope of inspections under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1995
National African American Museum Act - Establishes within the Smithsonian Institution the National African American Museum to be operated as a center for scholarship and a location for museum training, public education, exhibits, and collection and study of items and materials relating to the life, art, history, and culture of African Americans. Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, reconstruct, and renovate the Arts and Industries Building to house the Museum. Establishes a Board of Trustees of the Museum in the Smithsonian Institution. Directs the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to appoint a Director to manage the Museum.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1995
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, from the date of enactment of this Act until December 31, 2000, to establish research corporations within the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Removes the requirement that such corporations must, within a four-year period after their establishment, be recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt organization specifically under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or be dissolved (thereby allowing such corporation to remain established if it is so recognized under any Code provision).
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Water Resources Projects Title II: Project-Related Provisions Title III: General Provisions Water Resources Development Act of 1995 - Title I: Water Resources Projects - Authorizes specified projects throughout the United States for storm damage reduction, flood control, navigation, shoreline erosion protection, hydropower, and bluff stabilization, providing a total cost limit in each case and, in most cases, the estimated Federal and non-Federal share of such cost. Modifies specified projects authorized under previous water resources development Acts. (Sec. 103) Deauthorizes portions of specified water resources development projects (projects). (Sec. 104) Directs the Secretary of the Army to carry out or review certain studies for flood control, navigation, wildlife habitat improvement, and other projects. Title II: Project-Related Provisions - Directs the Secretary to accept certain in-kind contributions for the project at Morgan Point, Arkansas. (Sec. 202) Requires the project for flood control and power generation at White River Basin Lakes, Arkansas and Missouri, to include recreation and fish and wildlife mitigation within project purposes to the extent they do not adversely affect existing project purposes. (Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary to carry out the construction of a turbine bypass at Pine Flat Dam, Kings River, California. (Sec. 204) Modifies the project for Central and Southern Florida to authorize the Secretary to implement a plan of improvement contained in a certain report, at a specified total cost. Provides the Federal share of various costs under the project. (Sec. 205) Modifies the project for flood protection of West Palm Beach, Florida, to provide for the construction of an enlarged stormwater retention area in accordance with a plan of improvement for such project. Requires the additional work authorized under the project to be accomplished at full Federal cost. (Sec. 206) Deems the Greenville Inner Harbor Channel, Mississippi, to be a portion of the navigable waters of the United States, and therefore included among the navigable waters for which the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) maintains a ten-foot navigable channel. (Sec. 207) Directs the Secretary to work cooperatively with Mississippi and the city of Sardis in the management of existing and proposed land leases for the economic development of Sardis Lake, Mississippi. (Sec. 208) Directs the Secretary to undertake certain construction activities at Libby Dam, Montana. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 209) Authorizes the Secretary to expend Federal funds as necessary to complete the small flood control project at Malta, Montana. (Sec. 210) Directs the Secretary to provide periodic beach nourishment for Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey, for a 50-year period. Places at 35 percent the non-Federal share of such cost. (Sec. 211) Directs the Secretary to place sand dredged from the Fire Island Inlet, New York, on a specified shoreline in Suffolk County, New York. (Sec. 212) Directs the Secretary to maintain a specified minimum conservation pool level at the Wister Lake project in LeFlore County, Oklahoma. (Sec. 213) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to direct the Secretary to remove a sunken barge from waters offshore of the Narragansett Town Beach in Narragansett, Rhode Island, at a specified total cost. (Sec. 214) Directs the Secretary to incorporate a specified water channel into the navigation project for Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island. (Sec. 215) Requires Federal participation in the maintenance of the Rudee Inlet in Virginia Beach, Virginia, to continue for the life of the project. (Sec. 216) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary to budget for FY 1996 specified funds to be paid to Virginia Beach, Virginia, for certain beach nourishment activities undertaken by the city from 1986 through 1993. Title III: General Provisions - Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to set at 25 percent the non-Federal share of environmental protection and restoration project costs under such Act. (Sec. 302) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1988 to require the Secretary to provide appropriate protections for a specified period against the dissemination of information developed as a result of a research or development activity conducted by the Corps that is likely to be subject to a cooperative research and development (R&D) agreement within two years after its development and which would be considered a trade secret or privileged or confidential information if obtained from a non-Federal party participating in a cooperative R&D agreement under the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980. (Sec. 303) Makes permanent (currently ends after FY 1994) the authorization of appropriations for maintaining and periodically updating information relating to a national inventory of dams. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the Secretary, after making specified determinations, to take necessary actions to increase the efficiency of energy production or the capacity, or both, of a hydroelectric power generating facility of a project. (Sec. 305) Authorizes the Secretary to make lump-sum payments of the Federal share of the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs of a Corps project for which the non-Federal interests are responsible for performing the project's operation, maintenance, replacement, and rehabilitation. Requires, before such payments may be made, a binding agreement under which the non-Federal interests agree to perform such functions. (Sec. 306) Requires any proposal submitted to the Congress by the Secretary for the modification of an existing project requiring the removal of one or more project features that would significantly and adversely impact authorized project purposes or outputs to include the recommendation that the non-Federal interests provide 50 percent of the cost of such modification, including the cost of acquiring additional land for such modification. (Sec. 307) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of: (1) 1990 to terminate a technical advisory committee established under such Act to provide recommendations with respect to reservoir management; and (2) 1986 to add project planning and design information to a list of information required to be submitted to certain officials with respect to projects deauthorized under such Act. (Sec. 309) Amends the Flood Control Act of 1950 to repeal a provision authorizing the Secretary to allot certain funds for Corps participation in international engineering and scientific conferences. (Sec. 310) Authorizes the Secretary, in carrying out R&D in support of the Army civil works program, to utilize contracts and cooperative R&D agreements with, and grants to, non-Federal entities. Requires such agreements to have or use the potential for commercial application. (Sec. 311) Authorizes the Secretary to engage in activities in support of other Federal agencies or international organizations to address problems of national significance. Provides funding. (Sec. 312) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to: (1) authorize the Secretary to determine if the operation of a project has contributed to the degradation of environmental quality; (2) repeal provisions limiting the non-Federal share of a project modification, as well as the total cost of an environmental improvement project modification without specific congressional authorization; and (3) authorize the Secretary to carry out environmental restoration measures upon a positive determination of environmental degradation, providing funding for such measures. (Sec. 313) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of: (1) 1990 to repeal a specified termination date with respect to the Secretary's authority to remove contaminated sediments as part of the O&M of a navigation project; and (2) 1986 to limit to 50 percent the non-Federal share of the estimate of the cost of feasibility studies undertaken under such Act. (Sec. 315) Amends the Act commonly referred to as the River and Harbor Act of 1899 to: (1) increase the fines for the wrongful deposit of refuse; and (2) require the owner of a vessel which is blocking navigation in any navigable U.S. waters, within 24 hours after an order to stop or delay navigation there due to such blockage, to begin removal of the vessel using the most expeditious means available. (Sec. 316) Amends Federal flood control provisions to direct the Secretary to prepare and provide to appropriate non-Federal interests a manual describing the maintenance and upkeep responsibilities that the Corps requires of a non-Federal interest in order to receive financial assistance under such Act. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 317) Directs the Secretary to obtain the services of an independent consultant in order to receive a risk-based analysis relating to certain aspects of flood damage reduction studies, minimum engineering and safety standards, and policy changes necessitated by such studies. Directs the Secretary to establish a task force to oversee and review the analysis. Terminates the task force two years after enactment of this Act. Limits the risk-based techniques to be used under the studies. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 318) Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to: (1) provide a goal, and require an annual report to the Congress, with respect to a sediments decontamination technology project under such Act; and (2) increase after FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for such project. (Sec. 319) Amends the River and Harbor Act of 1958 to include the control and eradication of the melaleuca tree within a program for the control of aquatic plant growths. (Sec. 320) Directs the Secretary to design and construct shoreline protection measures for the coastline adjacent to Faulkner Island Lighthouse, Connecticut, at a specified total cost. (Sec. 321) Designates lock and dam four on the Red River Waterway, Louisiana, as the Russell B. Long Lock and Dam. (Sec. 322) Directs the Secretary to transfer a specified sum to Maryland for use in constructing an access road to the William Jennings Randolph Lake in Garrett County, Maryland. (Sec. 323) Directs the Secretary to enter into necessary arrangements, contracts, and leases for purposes of the rehabilitation, renovation, preservation, and maintenance of the New York State canal system and related facilities. Provides estimated Federal and non-Federal shares of the cost of such improvements. (Sec. 324) Directs the Secretary to replace a certain bulkhead at the Quonset Point-Davisville Industrial Park in Rhode Island, at a specified total cost. (Sec. 325) Authorizes the Corps Chief of Engineers to modernize the Washington Aqueduct in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Chief to enter into contracts with public water supply customers under which the customer repays a pro rata share of the principal and interest of the Corps debt for such modernization. Provides contract conditions and borrowing authority. (Sec. 326) Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program to provide environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Requires any project receiving such assistance to be publicly owned, operated and maintained. Requires local cooperation agreements with non-Federal interests before the provision of such assistance. Places at 75 percent the Federal share of total project costs. Prohibits the provision of such assistance from affecting the applicability of other Federal and State laws and agreements that would otherwise apply to a project. Requires the Secretary to establish at least one project for the receipt of such assistance in each of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Requires a report on program results. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996. (Sec. 327) Makes technical corrections to the Water Resources Development Act of 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1995
Ryan White CARE Reauthorization Act of 1995 - Amends title XXVI (HIV Health Care Services Program) of the Public Health Service Act regarding emergency relief for areas with a substantial need for services. Changes requirements for grants to metropolitan areas having large numbers of cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Modifies the composition, chairperson requirements, and duties of local human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) health services planning councils. Revises requirements for supplemental grants. Alters the method for determining the amount of each grant, the mandated uses of the grants, and application requirements. Allows a single application for initial and supplemental grants and authorizes both to be made as a single grant. Mandates (currently, allows) technical assistance. Authorizes planning grants. Amends provisions relating to the care grant program to change the uses of HIV care consortia grants and consortium application requirements. Mandates establishment of a recommended minimum formulary of pharmaceutical drug therapies approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Revises: (1) State duties in using grant funds to provide treatments; (2) State application requirements; and (3) planning, evaluation, and administration requirements. Mandates (currently, allows) technical assistance. Mandates grievance procedures to address allegations of egregious violations of title XXVI. Requires coordination of the planning and implementation of Federal HIV programs by the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Amends early intervention services provisions to: (1) require grant recipients to provide a continuum of primary care; and (2) modify other requirements regarding uses of grant funds. Authorizes planning grants to entities that are not direct primary care providers to enable them to provide HIV primary care services. Authorizes appropriations for early intervention grants. Replaces provisions mandating demonstration grants for research and services for pediatric AIDS patients with provisions mandating grants for primary care for out-patient care and support services to children, youth, women with HIV disease, and the families of those individuals and for facilitating the participation of such individuals in research. Requires procedures for the protection of human subjects. Prohibits conditioning services on research participation. Authorizes appropriations. Reserves a specified portion of the amounts appropriated under other parts of title XXVI to administer a special projects of national significance program to award direct grants for special programs for the care and treatment of individuals with HIV disease. Repeals current provisions relating to special projects of national significance. Replaces provisions of the Public Health Service Act authorizing grants and contracts to train the faculty of specified types of health professions schools regarding providing for the health care needs of individuals with HIV disease with provisions authorizing grants and contracts to train health personnel, including community providers, in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of HIV infection and disease. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 4) Amends title XXVI provisions relating to emergency relief for areas with a substantial need for services to modify the formula for determining the amount of grants. (Sec. 5) Amends provisions relating to the care grant program to change the formula regarding minimum grant allotments. (Sec. 6) Authorizes appropriations to make grants under title XXVI provisions relating to: (1) emergency relief for areas with a substantial need for services; and (2) the care grant program. Mandates development and implementation of a methodology for adjusting the percentages allocated to those parts. Repeals existing authorizations of appropriations for those parts.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1995
Provides that officers in the grades of lieutenant general or vice admiral and above who have served at least three years in such position shall be automatically retired in the highest grade satisfactorily served. Repeals Federal provisions requiring Senate confirmation of such retirement.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1995
Major League Baseball Antitrust Reform Act of 1995 - Amends the Clayton Act to make the antitrust laws applicable to the business of professional major league baseball. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the applicability of antitrust laws to: (1) professional baseball's amateur draft, the minor league reserve clause, the Professional Baseball Agreement, or any other matter relating to the minor leagues; (2) any restraint by professional baseball on franchise relocation; or (3) the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1995
Veterans' Hospice Care Services Act of 1995 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a pilot program to: (1) assess the feasibility and desirability of furnishing hospice care to terminally ill veterans; and (2) determine the most efficient and effective means of providing such care. Directs the Secretary to designate 15 to 30 Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities for hospice care demonstration projects. Allows such hospice care to be provided by Department medical facilities and personnel or by contract with a non-Department medical facility. Limits the amount paid for such care to amounts paid for hospice care programs under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Directs the Secretary, during the pilot program period of October 1, 1995, through December 31, 2000, to designate no fewer than ten Department medical facilities at which hospice care is being provided to furnish palliative care to such veterans. Provides for: (1) informing terminally ill veterans of their eligibility for hospice and palliative care; and (2) hospice program evaluation, assessment, and congressional reports by the Secretary and the Under Secretary for Health of the hospice care pilot program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1996 through 1999.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Rechargeable Battery Recycling Act Title II: Mercury-Containing Battery Management Act Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to provide information on the proper handling and disposal of used regulated batteries and rechargeable consumer products with nonremovable batteries. Defines a "regulated battery" as a rechargeable battery that contains a cadmium or lead electrode or contains other electrode chemistries and is the subject of a specified determination by the Administrator. Establishes civil penalties for violations of this Act. Sets forth recordkeeping requirements and establishes access authorities for the Administrator. Authorizes appropriations. Title I: Rechargeable Battery Recycling Act - Rechargeable Battery Recycling Act - Prohibits any person from selling for use in the United States a regulated battery or a rechargeable consumer product ready for retail sale and manufactured on or after 12 months after this Act's enactment date unless: (1) the battery is easily removable from the product or is sold separately; and (2) the rechargeable consumer product and the battery are labeled in accordance with this Act. Sets forth labeling requirements, including that the label contain a statement that the battery must be recycled or disposed of properly. Authorizes the Administrator, upon determining that other rechargeable batteries having electrode chemistries different from regulated batteries are toxic and may cause substantial harm if discarded for land disposal or incineration, to promulgate requirements for: (1) labeling such batteries and related products; and (2) easy removability of regulated batteries from rechargeable consumer products designed to contain such batteries. Provides for exemptions from this Act's requirements under certain conditions. Title II: Mercury-Containing Battery Management Act - Mercury-Containing Battery Management Act - Prohibits the sale or offering for sale or promotional purposes of: (1) alkaline-manganese batteries manufactured on or after January 1, 1996, with a mercury content that was intentionally introduced (limits the content in alkaline-manganese button cells to 25 milligrams of mercury per button cell); (2) zinc carbon batteries manufactured on or after January 1, 1996, that contain mercury that was intentionally introduced; (3) button cell mercuric-oxide batteries for use in the United States on or after January 1, 1996; and (4) any mercuric-oxide battery on or after January 1, 1996, unless the manufacturer identifies a collection site that has all required Federal, State, and local government approvals, to which persons may send such batteries for recycling or disposal and informs its purchasers of such site and of a telephone number to get information about sending such batteries for recycling or disposal. Authorizes the Administrator, upon the petition of a person that proposes a new use for a battery technology or the use of a battery described in this title in a new product, to exempt such new use or product from this title if there exist safeguards to ensure that the battery or product will not be disposed of in an incinerator, composting facility, or landfill (other than a facility regulated under subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act).
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1995
VA State Health Care Reform Pilot Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out pilot programs on the participation of the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system in the health care systems of States that have adopted comprehensive health benefit plans. Allows up to five States to be used for such pilot programs. Requires the Secretary to provide benefits to persons through the Department health care system in such a State as if such system were a provider of benefits under the State plan. Prohibits a State from refusing Department participation in a State health benefit plan unless the chief executive officer of such State certifies that the Department plan or its facilities are inadequate to meet the State health benefit plan. Requires the Secretary to designate a health system director for each State in which a pilot program is carried out. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any necessary administrative reorganization of Department health care systems or facilities in a program State. Allows the Secretary to exclude Department facilities from participation in a pilot program. Authorizes a health system director to enter into contracts and agreements for the provision of health care and related services in connection with the pilot program. Excludes such contracts and agreements from certain Federal law. Requires review by the Central Office of the Department of contracts and agreements of $250,000 or more. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) the use of Department personnel in a pilot program; (2) eligible persons; and (3) copayments and other charges (and their waiver with respect to certain veterans). Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Reform Fund to be used for pilot program purposes, with a separate account established for each program. Requires the Secretary to collect, and report to specified congressional committees concerning, information with respect to the provision of health care benefits under each pilot program.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1995
Consumer and Main Street Protection Act of 1995 - Authorizes States to require a person who is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the State to collect and remit a State sales tax, a local sales tax, or both, with respect to tangible personal property if: (1) the destination of the tangible personal property is in the State; (2) during the preceding year, the person has gross receipts from sales of such tangible personal property in the United States exceeding $3 million or in the State exceeding $100,000; and (3) the State, on behalf of its local jurisdictions, collects and administers all local sales taxes imposed pursuant to this Act. Provides for treatment of local sales taxes, return and remittance requirements, and application of State law. Provides that a State shall not have power to require any person to collect a State or local sales tax unless the State has a toll-free telephone service to provide information relating to the collection of such tax.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1995
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of documentation for two named vessels for employment in the coastwise trade of the United States.
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