United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1993
Condemns the attempted coup d'etat in Burundi and the murder of President Ndadaye. Commends: (1) the people of Burundi for their commitment to democracy; and (2) the Clinton Administration for its prompt condemnation of the October 21, 1993, coup and for the immediate suspension of foreign assistance to Burundi. Urges the people of Burundi to help end ethnic strife. Encourages them to continue their commitment to ethnic reconciliation and democracy. Calls upon: (1) the Organization of African Unity (OAU) to support the continuation of democracy and the end of ethnic strife in Burundi; and (2) the international community to assist the OAU in its efforts to strengthen democracy in Burundi and to address the humanitarian needs of Burundian refugees in Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zaire.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1993
Commends the Government of Italy on its commitment to halting software piracy. Congratulates the Guardia di Finanza, the Carabinieri, and the Italian national police for their continuing antipiracy actions. Expresses hope that the Italian authorities will continue to prosecute software laws rigorously and that copyright agencies around the world will follow Italy's example.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Establishment of New Independent Agency Title II: Conforming Amendments and Rules of Construction Social Security Administration Independence Act of 1993 - Title I: Establishment of New Independent Agency - Amends title VII (Administration) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish an independent Social Security Administration, headed by a Commissioner, to administer the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income program under SSA titles II and XVI. Establishes a Social Security Advisory Board to advise the Commissioner on policies related to such programs. Transfers to the Administration all functions carried out by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) pertaining to such programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Conforming Amendments - Makes conforming amendments to SSA and other Federal laws. Replaces the Advisory Council on Social Security with an Advisory Council on Hospital and Supplemental Medical Insurance. Sets forth rules of construction.
United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1993
World Summit for Children Implementation Act of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that specified amounts should be appropriated for FY 1994 and 1995 to achieve full participation in the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children under the Child Nutrition Act (WIC program) and the Head Start program. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for contributions to the United Nation's Children's Fund and for the Child Survival Fund. Expresses the sense of the Congress that authority should be granted to the President to exercise specified debt forgiveness for least developed countries that are pursuing economic policy reforms to promote long-term development. Earmarks development assistance funds for FY 1994 and 1995 for the Vitamin A Deficiency Program. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for: (1) iodine and iron fortification programs; and (2) prevention, care, and control programs related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developing countries. Earmarks development and economic assistance funds for FY 1994 and 1995 for programs in support of basic education. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1994 and 1995 for population assistance activities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that specified amounts should be appropriated for FY 1994 and 1995 for migration and refugee assistance. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the World Bank to: (1) ensure that poverty reduction and support of basic human needs become a higher priority within the Bank; (2) ensure that the majority of water and sanitation projects fall within targeted interventions against poverty; and (3) increase the proportion of total Bank lending which supports primary health care and basic education, with a minimum of five percent of total lending devoted to each area. Requires the President to call upon other governments to provide their share of resources required to achieve the World Summit for Children goals by the year 2000.
United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1993
Cancer Screening Incentive Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for expenditures (not paid by insurance or otherwise) incurred by the taxpayer for qualified cancer screening tests.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1993
Designates December 7, 1993, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Requests the President to urge that the U.S. flag be flown at half staff on December 7, 1993, in honor of the individuals who died as a result of their service at Pearl Harbor.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1993
Calls for: (1) the President to encourage the United Nations (UN) to permit representatives of Taiwan to participate fully in UN activities; and (2) cabinet-level exchanges between Taiwan and the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act Title III: Amendments to Other Acts Improving America's Schools Act of 1993 - Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise and reauthorize ESEA. (Sec. 101) Establishes a title I program for Helping Children in Need Meet High Standards, which revises and reauthorizes some of the current title I chapter 1 programs of Financial Assistance to Meet the Special Educational Needs of Children. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) grants under the basic program; (2) Even Start; (3) education of migratory children; (4) education for neglected or delinquent youth; (5) capital expenses; (6) school improvement; and (7) Federal activities. Requires any State desiring to receive a grant (under the basic program for making high-poverty schools work) to submit State plans that are integrated with that State's plan under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act or with other State plans under this Act. Requires each State plan to describe high-quality standards for all children that will be used by the State, it local educational agencies (LEAs), and its schools to carry out this Act, including challenging content standards in the core academic subjects and challenging performance standards, as well as assessment provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a process for peer review and Secretarial approval. Requires LEAs receiving subgrants to have plans with standards and assessments provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Provides for State approval and shared program responsibility of schools and the LEA in deciding on schoolwide programs and targeted assistance schools. Allows an LEA to only use basic program funds in eligible school attendance areas in which the percentage of children from low-income families is at least as high as that in the LEA as a whole. Sets forth formulas for ranking eligible school attendance areas for purposes of such funding in various cases where there are insufficient funds. Sets forth criteria which a school must meet in order for the LEA to use basic program funds to upgrade the entire educational program at an eligible school (schoolwide programs). Provides that in participating schools that are ineligible for a schoolwide program or that choose not to operate a schoolwide program, an LEA may use basic program funds only for targeted assistance programs that provide services to eligible children identified as having the greatest need for special assistance (targeted assistance schools). Sets forth criteria for eligible children at such schools. Sets forth requirements for parental involvement and for participation of children enrolled in private schools. Provides for assessment and school and district improvement, including local review, designation of Distinguished Schools, school improvement identification, State review and LEA improvement, State establishment of a corps of Distinguished Educators, and State allocations for school improvement. Revises formulas for allocations of funds. Revises Even Start Family Literacy Programs to increase program services and high-poverty-area targeting and include teenage parents. Revises Education of Migratory Children to restrict eligibility to children who have moved within the previous two years. Revises Education of Neglected and Delinquent Youth to require a 20-hour instructional week. Eliminates title I provisions for the National Commission on Migrant Education, rural technical assistance centers, current chapter 2 State block grants under the partnership for educational improvement, national diffusion network, and law-related education. Eliminates under title I, but provides elsewhere for, evaluation and technical assistance and blue ribbon schools. Provides, later in this Act, for programs for handicapped children to be combined with programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Establishes a new ESEA title II, Improving Teaching and Learning, with a new part A, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program, to support professional development of elementary and secondary school teachers in core academic subjects. (This replaces the current Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act programs.) Gives priority for professional development in mathematics and science. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new title II part B, Support and Assistance for ESEA Programs. (This replaces the current Foreign Languages Assistance Act programs.) Includes under such technical assistance program comprehensive regional centers and technology-based technical assistance. Provides for information collection, evaluation, and transition. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new ESEA title III, Expanding Opportunities for Learning. (The current title III, Magnet Schools Assistance, is transferred to a new title V, Promoting Equity.) Authorizes appropriations for the following title III parts: (A) Putting Technology to Work for All Students, including educational technology research, development, and demonstration, an Office of Educational Technology, a national long-range plan, and Federal leadership, as well as a revised Star Schools Program; (B) a revised and renamed Fund for the Improvement of Education (currently under title IV as the Secretary's Fund for Innovation in Education); (C) a revised Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education Program (currently under title IV); (D) a new Charter Schools program to increase public school choice through grants for innovative programs and exemptions from regulations that limit school operational and management flexibility; (E) an expanded Arts in Education program; and (F) the Inexpensive Book Distribution Program. Establishes as ESEA title IV a Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program, which replaces and revises the current title V Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act program. (The current title IV Special Programs are replaced as follows: (1) Women's Educational Equity, Gifted and Talented Children, Immigrant Education, and the Secretary's Fund for Innovation are transferred to other titles; and (2) Ellender Fellowships and certain Territorial Assistance are eliminated.) The new program includes: (1) State Grants for Drug and Violence Prevention Programs at State and local levels, including coordinating councils; (2) Postsecondary Drug and Violence Prevention Programs, including higher education institution grants and a national center; and (3) national programs. Establishes as ESEA title V, Promoting Equity, which authorizes appropriations for parts: (A) a revised Magnet Schools Assistance program; (B) a new Equalization Assistance program which provides technical and other assistance, including research, regarding school finance equity; and (C) a revised Women's Educational Equity program. Establishes a new ESEA title VI, Indian Education, which adds revised Indian Education Act programs to ESEA. (Eliminates the current title VI provisions for Projects and Programs Designed to Address School Dropout Problems and to Strengthen Basic Education.) Authorizes appropriations for the following title VI programs: (1) formula grants to LEAs; (2) discretionary programs to improve achievement of Indian children, through grants to Indian-controlled schools and demonstration grants; (3) professional development and adult education programs; (4) national activities and grants to States; and (5) Federal administration through the Office of Indian Education and the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. Revises ESEA title VII, Bilingual Education Programs, while transferring the Emergency Immigrant Education Program to title VII from title IV. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) financial assistance for bilingual education, including enhancement grants and comprehensive district grants; (2) research and evaluation, including academic excellence awards, State grants, and the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education; (3) professional development, including grants to higher education institutions, State educational agencies, and LEAs, and academic fellowships; and (4) the Emergency Immigrant Education Program. Establishes a new ESEA title VIII, Impact Aid. (The current impact aid laws are repealed later in this Act.) Revises the impact aid to LEAs by: (1) terminating payments for children whose parents either live on Federal land or work for the Federal Government; and (2) changing the payment formula for those children whose parents work for the Federal Government and live on Federal property, and those who live on Indian lands. Authorizes appropriations. Revises ESEA General Provisions, transferring them from title X to title IX. Provides for: (1) flexibility in the use of administrative and other funds, through consolidation of State administrative funds for elementary and secondary education programs and consolidation of funds for local administration; (2) coordination of programs, including consolidated State and local applications; (3) waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; and (4) certain uniform provisions. Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act - Part A: Applicability of the General Education Provisions Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise applicability and other aspects. Part B: The Department of Education - Revises GEPA with respect to functions of the Department of Education, including an Office of Private Education. Part C: Appropriations and Evaluations - Revises GEPA with respect to availability of appropriations, contingent extension of programs, and biennial evaluation report. Part D: Administration of Education Program - Revises GEPA with respect to joint funding of programs, information collection and dissemination, review of application, use of withheld funds, applications, regulations, reduction of record retention requirements, and equity for students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries. Part E: Advisory Committees - Repeals specified GEPA provisions relating to Advisory Councils. Part F: Enforcement - Repeal specified GEPA provisions relating to use of recovered funds. Part G: Related Amendments to Other Acts - Makes related amendments to the Department of Education Organization Act and the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Part H: Conforming Amendments - Makes conforming amendments to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and to HEA. Title III: Amendments to Other Acts - Part A: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to revise provisions for allocations. Combines the current ESEA title I chapter I State agency program for the handicapped with the IDEA programs of grants to States and for infants and toddlers with disabilities. Part B: Amendments to the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to revise provisions with respect to grants for State literacy initiatives and grants for State and local activities for the education of homeless children and youth. Authorizes appropriations. Part C: Repeal of Impact Aid Statutes - Repeals certain Federal laws for impact aid. (Impact aid provisions are added to ESEA earlier in this Act.)
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1993
Higher Education Technical Amendments Act of 1993 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to make certain technical corrections and conforming amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1993
South African Democratic Transition Support Act of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to U.S. policy towards South Africa. Repeals specified provisions of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, providing for a total repeal of such Act when the President certifies to the Congress that an interim government that was elected on a nonracial basis through free and fair elections has taken office in South Africa. Urges all State or local governments and private entities in the United States to rescind any restrictions on economic interactions with South Africa. Authorizes the President to provide development and economic support fund assistance to support the transition to nonracial democracy in South Africa. Prohibits such assistance to the Government of South Africa unless the President certifies to the Congress that an interim government elected on a nonracial basis through free and fair elections has taken office. Exempts from such prohibition assistance to the Transitional Executive Council, South African higher education institutions, and any other entity that would promote the transition to nonracial democracy. Declares that the President should: (1) negotiate a tax treaty with South Africa; (2) initiate negotiations with the South African Government to provide for Overseas Private Investment Corporation programs in such country; (3) conclude cooperative agreements with South Africa on various issues; and (4) encourage other donors to expand their activities in support of the transition to nonracial democracy. States that: (1) the Director of the Trade and Development Agency should provide additional funds for projects in South Africa; (2) the Export-Import Bank should expand its activities in connection with exports to South Africa; and (3) the Director of the U.S. Information Agency should use his authorities to promote the transition to nonracial democracy. Requires the heads of Federal Government agencies, in procuring goods or services, to make affirmative efforts to assist business enterprises having more than 50 percent ownership by nonwhite South Africans. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of international financial institutions to urge financial assistance to South Africa to support the transition to democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1993
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) play an active role in promoting the public awareness of, and improving the political, social, and economic conditions of, indigenous peoples; (2) address the rights and improve social and economic conditions of its own indigenous peoples; (3) support the United Nations in its efforts to establish international standards on the rights of indigenous peoples; and (4) urge the United Nations to proclaim an International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1993
Satellite Carrier Compulsory License Extension Act of 1993 - Amends copyright law with respect to satellite carrier compulsory licenses to require the subscriber information list submitted by a satellite carrier that makes secondary transmissions of a primary transmission by a network station to include the names of the subscribers. Requires, upon the request of a network, such a satellite carrier to conduct, jointly with the network, measurements of the reception of over-the-air television broadcast signals of network-affiliated stations. Prescribes guidelines for conducting such measurements. Revises: (1) the formula used by the satellite carrier to compute the royalty fee to be deposited semiannually with the Register of Copyrights; and (2) dates and procedures regarding the adjustment of such royalty fee. Makes provisions governing such royal fees permanent. Defines, for purposes of cable and satellite carrier compulsory license provisions, "network station" as a television broadcast station, including any translator station or terrestrial satellite station that rebroadcasts all or substantially all of the programming broadcast by a network station, that is owned or operated by or affiliated with, one or more of the U.S. television networks which offer an interconnected program service on a regular basis for 15 or more hours per week to at least 25 of its affiliated television licensees in ten or more States. Revises the definition of: (1) "satellite carrier" to specify that such a carrier operates in the Fixed Satellite Service or the Direct Broadcast Satellite Service; and (2) "cable system" to include a facility that makes secondary transmissions of broadcast signals by microwave cables and terrestrially based transmission paths.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Rural School Improvement Title II: School Building Repair and Renovation Title III: Evaluation of Results Title IV: General Provisions Rural Schools of America (RSA) Act of 1993 - Title I: Rural School Improvement - Establishes, and authorizes appropriations for, a rural school improvement (RSI) grants program to help meet national educational goals. (Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary of Education, under such program, to: (1) reserve specified funds for competitive grant awards to exemplary school programs; and (2) make allotments to State educational agencies (SEAs), for suballotment to local educational agencies (LEAs), based on relative Chapter 1 funding (for educationally disadvantaged students under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965). Requires recipient LEAs to make subgrants to community-based organizations or nonprofit partnerships between the LEA, local colleges or universities, or area-wide collaboratives of private sector businesses. (Sec. 103) Sets forth: (1) requirements for applications, local planning, uses of funds, accountability, and local advisory groups; and (2) special rules for ranking schools within an LEA by need, flexibility, and coordination with Chapter 1 planning. (Sec. 107) Authorizes incentive awards to individual schools that demonstrate exemplary progress. (Sec. 108) Directs the Secretary to report on the impact of Federal regulations, guidelines, and policies on rural public schools. Title II: School Building Repair and Renovation - Establishes, and authorizes appropriations for, a program of assistance for rural school building repair and renovation. (Sec. 202) Allots program funds to SEAs based on relative Chapter 1 funding, with suballotments to LEAs based on number of: (1) children from families below the poverty line; (2) school buildings used for instructional purposes; and (3) school buildings more than 25 years old used for instructional purposes. (Sec. 204) Requires eligible LEAs to use half of their suballotment for programs for school building repair and renovation, and half for programs for school environmental concerns and safety improvements. Authorizes SEA waivers of such requirement. Applies Davis-Bacon Act requirements to such programs. Title III: Evaluation of Results - Establishes, and authorizes appropriations for, a program of rural school research and evaluation. (Sec. 302) Directs the Secretary to establish for each region a National Rural Regional Education Research Center, to be operated by the appropriate regional educational laboratory. (Sec. 303) Requires each Center to make direct grants to rural LEAs in its region participating in a program assisted under title I of this Act, to conduct local schoool district research and evaluation of efforts toward meeting the national education goals. Title IV: General Provisions - Establishes the Interagency Council on Rural Schools. (Sec. 402) Directs the President to conduct a White House Conference on Rural Education. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 403) Requires eligible LEAs to use Federal funds received under this Act only to supplement but not supplant non-Federal funds.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1993
General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to set forth a 15-year statute of limitations within which a person may bring a civil action against an aircraft manufacturer for damages for death or injury or damage to property arising from an aircraft accident.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1993
Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993 to make State workers' compensation laws the exclusive remedy for agricultural worker injuries under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for all cases in which a final judgment has not been entered before October 6, 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1993
Requests the President to place in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, a memorial cairn honoring the victims of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Poverty Data Correction Act of 1993 - Requires any data relating to the incidence of poverty produced or published by or for the Secretary of Commerce for subnational areas to be corrected for differences in the cost of living and data produced for State and sub-State areas to be corrected for differences in the cost of living for at least all States of the United States. Requires such corrected data to be published in 1995 and biennially thereafter. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop or cause to be developed a State cost-of-living index which ranks and assigns an index value to each State using data on wage, housing, and other costs relevant to the cost of living; and (2) multiply the Federal Government's statistical poverty thresholds by the index value for each State's cost of living to produce State poverty thresholds for each State. Requires the State cost-of-living index and resulting State poverty thresholds to be published before September 30, 1994, for calendar year 1993 and to be updated annually thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Requests the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to publish, within one year, proposed amended regulations that specify the components of an adequate operator training program and that provide that only trained employees be authorized to operate powered industrial trucks.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: School-to-Work Opportunities Basic Program Components Title II: School-to-Work Opportunities System Development and Implementation Grants to States Subtitle A: State Development Grants Subtitle B: State Implementation Grants Title III: Federal Implementation Grants to Partnerships Title IV: National Programs Title V: General Provisions School-of-Work Opportunities Act of 1993 - Establishes a national framework for development of School-to-Work Opportunities systems in all States. Declares the congressional intent that the Secretaries of Education and of Labor jointly administer this Act in a flexible manner. Directs the Secretaries to jointly administer the programs established by this Act. Title I: School-to-Work Opportunities Basic Program Components - Requires School-to-Work Opportunities (SWO) programs to: (1) integrate work-based and school-based learning; (2) provide students with the opportunity to complete career majors; and (3) incorporate specified program components including work-based and school-based learning and connecting activities. Title II: School-to-Work Opportunities System Development and Implementation Grants to States - Subtitle A: State Development Grants - Authorizes the Secretaries to award development grants to applicant States to complete development of a comprehensive, statewide SWO system. (Such development may have begun with funds awarded under the Job Training Partnership Act and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act.) Subtitle B: State Implementation Grants - Allows States to apply to the Secretaries for competitive implementation grants, with applications containing: (1) plans for comprehensive, statewide SWO systems meeting content requirements; (2) descriptions of how funds will be allocated to local SWO partnerships; and (3) optional requests for waivers of certain statutory or regulatory requirements. Title III: Federal Implementation Grants to Partnerships - Authorizes the Secretaries to award competitive SWO implementation grants to partnerships in States that have not received State implementation grants. Authorizes the Secretaries to award grants to implement SWO programs in high poverty areas. (Such funds may be awarded in combination with funds appropriated for the Youth Fair Chance Program.) Title IV: National Program - Directs the Secretaries to provide for: (1) research, demonstration, and other projects; (2) performance outcomes and evaluation, in collaboration with States; and (3) training and technical assistance. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) State requests and responsibilities for waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; (2) such waivers by each of the Secretaries; (3) program safeguards, including nondisplacement of current workers; and (4) acceptance of gifts. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1993
Natural Disaster Protection Act of 1993 - Amends the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to: (1) identify States that are prone to damages from hurricanes, windstorms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tidal waves, and flooding (natural disasters); and (2) designate the appropriate States as hurricane-prone, windstorm-prone, earthquake-prone, volcanic eruption-prone, or flood-prone. Requires the Governor of each State designated as hurricane-, windstorm-, or earthquake-prone to: (1) adopt the relevant natural disaster hazard mitigation portions of the newest building codes for such State for all new and substantially modified building construction in such State; and (2) certify that the local communities have adopted and are enforcing appropriate hazard mitigation building codes. Provides similar procedures for States designated as flood-prone. Requires each State designated as disaster-prone to develop a hazard mitigation plan with accompanying schedules for improving the State's ability to reduce the hazards of future natural disasters. Requires each State designated as disaster-prone to submit a completed plan to the Director within two years of such designation. Outlines State compliance procedures, and imposes penalties upon States and local communities for hazard mitigation plan noncompliance. Requires the Director to develop programs to carry out specified multihazard mitigation and emergency initiatives, especially as such initiatives relate to modern building codes, hazard mitigation technology, and emergency response operations. Establishes the Self-Sustaining Mitigation Fund for Federal and State support of hazard mitigation and emergency management activities, with amounts provided by the Director to each disaster-prone State for appropriate purposes. Establishes the Natural Disaster Mitigation and Planning Advisory Committee as an independent advisory committee to advise the Director on hazard mitigation and disaster planning, and to review hazard mitigation regulations issued by the Director. Requires the Director to establish and carry out a national multihazard insurance program (the Primary Insurance Program) to provide insurance against real or personal property loss in any State resulting from an earthquake or volcanic eruption. Requires the Director to evaluate the feasibility of including flood as a covered peril under the Primary Insurance Program. Requires an evaluation report. Outlines specified procedures for increased participation in the Federal flood insurance program under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, with a required report. Outlines further provisions with respect to the Primary Insurance Program, including program scope (initially limited to residential housing), terms and limitations, covered hazards, and insurance actuarial rates. Establishes in the Treasury the Primary Insurance Program Fund to carry out such Program. Provides for Fund uses, investments, and disbursements, authorizing the Director, when necessary, to borrow from the Treasury for Fund purposes. Requires the Director, in carrying out the Program, to provide certain insurance mitigation incentives, including the charging of lower premiums for residential property located in disaster-prone States. Requires the Director to make available to eligible entities excess reinsurance coverage for any direct and indirect losses that arise from a hurricane, earthquake, volcanic eruption, or tsunami (tidal wave). Outlines provisions concerning eligible entities and reinsurance coverage terms, limitations, and obligations, including the covered lines of insurance. Requires the establishment of actuarially sound rates for such coverage. Establishes in the Treasury the Reinsurance Fund for implementation of such reinsurance coverage. Requires the Director to develop a plan of operation to ensure the fair, reasonable, and equitable administration of the Primary Insurance Prograrm Fund, the Reinsurance Fund, and other activities outlined in this Act. Establishes the Federal Insurance and Reinsurance Advisory Committee as an independent committee and requires the plan to be submitted to such Committee for review and recommendations. Requires a Committee report.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1993
Workplace Leave Fairness Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide that the length of an employee's leave of absence (even if it is only part of one day), or an employee's being subject to specified types of employer management policies or practices, shall not disqualify that employee from the exemption from minimum wage and maximum hours requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1993
Champlain Valley Heritage Study Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study and report to specified congressional committees on the natural, historic, and cultural resources associated with specified sites located in the area around the upper Hudson River, Lake Champlain, and Lake George that are thematically linked to the important history of conflict and cooperation that occurred between the time of aboriginal settlement through significant eras of North American history from earliest European settlement through the end of the American Civil War and Canadian Confederation (1867). Requires an assessment of the feasibility of designating the sites as part of a national or international heritage corridor to be included in such study. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: General Provisions Title II: Federal Assistance for Priority Area Activities for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Title III: Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights Title IV: University Affiliated Programs Title V: Projects of National Significance Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act Amendments of 1993 - Title I: General Provisions - Amends the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act to repeal provisions regarding: (1) the Federal share of projects for persons with developmental disabilities; and (2) Federal recovery of funds for facilities which are sold or cease to be facilities for persons with developmental disabilities. (Sec. 108) Revises reporting requirements. Title II: Federal Assistance for Priority Area Activities for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities - Revises State plan requirements to require plans to: (1) provide for a State Developmental Disabilities Council; (2) contain a comprehensive review and analysis of the extent to which services and supports are available to individuals with such disabilities and their families; and (3) provide specified objectives and assurances with respect to use of funds, financial participation, conflicts of interest, a poverty areas, program standards, individualized services, human rights, minority participation, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded reports, volunteers, employee protections, and staff assignments. (Sec. 204) Repeals habilitation plan provisions. (Sec. 205) Replaces provisions concerning State Planning Councils with provisions requiring States to establish State Developmental Disabilities Councils in order to receive Federal assistance. Requires a Council to: (1) serve as an advocate for individuals with developmental disabilities and conduct programs to carry out the purposes of this Act; (2) examine the need for Federal and State priority areas to address assistance for such individuals; (3) develop and implement the State plan by supporting the Federal priority area of employment and other priority areas through systemic change, capacity building, and specified advocacy activities; (4) review the appropriateness of the State agency designated to support the Council; and (5) prepare reports, approve and implement budgets, and carry out staff hiring and assignments. Sets forth provisions concerning State agencies designated to support the Councils. (Sec. 206) Revises provisions concerning State allotments, including allotment formulas for assistance to U.S. territories and States. (Sec. 207) Prohibits the Federal share of all projects in a State supported by an allotment from exceeding 75 percent of the aggregate costs of such projects or 90 and 100 percent, respectively, for projects targeting individuals with developmental disabilities who live in poverty areas and projects to implement State plan priority activities. (Sec. 212) Extends the authorization of appropriations for allotments through FY 1996. (Sec. 213) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to specified congressional committees on: (1) the allotment formula in effect prior to this Act's enactment to determine whether the formula is consistent with the purposes of this Act; and (2) alternative formulas for allocating funds. Title III: Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights - Makes technical amendments to provisions concerning State systems to protect the rights of individuals with developmental disabilities. Expands the list of system requirements to include requirements that a system: (1) have access to any resident who has a developmental disability in a facility that is providing assistance to such resident; (2) hire and maintain sufficient numbers and types of staff to carry out the system's functions, except that such State shall not apply hiring freezes, reductions in force, or other policies that negatively affect the provision of staff support to the system or restrict travel to training and technical assistance activities; and (3) have the authority to educate policymakers. Revises allotment formulas. Requires the Secretary, in any case in which amounts appropriated for a fiscal year exceed $24.5 million, to: (1) use up to two percent to provide technical assistance to eligible systems; and (2) provide grants to American Indian Consortiums to provide protection and advocacy services. Directs the Secretary to provide advance public notice of any Federal programmatic and administrative review and solicit public comment on the system through such notice. (Sec. 143) Extends the authorization of appropriations for allotments for systems through FY 1996. Title IV: University Affiliated Programs - Revises provisions concerning the purpose and scope of university affiliated programs (UAPs) for individuals with developmental disabilities. (Sec. 403) Limits grants for UAPs to a period of five years. Revises provisions concerning grants for training personnel. Sets forth requirements for training projects in the following areas of national significance: (1) early intervention; (2) aging; (3) community services; (4) positive behavioral supports; (5) assistive technology services; and (6) the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Sec. 404) Revises provisions concerning application requirements for such grants. Includes individuals with developmental disabilities within the membership of consumer advisory committees required to be established under UAPs. Limits the Federal share of projects to 75 percent of the total cost (90 percent for projects which target individuals in poverty areas). (Sec. 405) Establishes priorities for the awarding of grants, with first priority to be given to existing State UAPs. (Sec. 406) Extends the authorization of appropriations for grants through FY 1996. Limits the amount of funds to be used for peer review. Title V: Projects of National Significance - Requires the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, public or nonprofit private entities for projects of national significance relating to individuals with developmental disabilities to: (1) support ongoing data collection; and (2) provide technical assistance that expands or improves the effectiveness of State Developmental Disabilities Councils, protection and advocacy programs, and UAPs. Authorizes the Secretary to make such grants and contracts to conduct other nationally significant initiatives that hold promise of improving opportunities for such individuals. Provides for a special initiative to investigate the expansion of Council activities to individuals with severe disabilities other than developmental disabilities. (Sec. 504) Extends the authorization of appropriations for such projects through FY 1996.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Grants to States Title II: Programs of National Significance Technology-Related Assistance Act Amendments of 1993 - (Sec. 3) Amends the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988 (the Act) to authorize and revise the Act and its programs of grants to States and programs of national significance. Requires as a matter of U.S. policy: (1) full participation of the individuals assisted; (2) support for involvement of their parents, family members, guardians, advocates, or authorized representatives; and (3) support for individual and systemic advocacy and community involvement. Title I: Grants to States - (Sec. 101) Requires grants to States to support systemic change and advocacy activities, particularly development and implementation of: (1) State, regional, and local laws and practices to improve access to and funding for assistive technology devices and services; (2) strategies to overcome barriers to funding, especially for underserved groups; and (3) strategies for enhancing the ability of individuals with disabilities and their family members and representatives to advocate successfully for access to and funding for assistive technology devices and services. Authorizes activities to increase access to and funding for assistive technology, as well as support for individual case management or representation, interagency coordination, and outreach. (Sec. 102) Requires the three-year development grants to support systemic change and advocacy activities in developing and implementing consumer-responsive statewide programs. Requires designation of a lead agency. (Sec. 103) Allows award of an additional extension grant to any State demonstrating significant progress in meeting the goals of the initial extension grant, as well as describing steps it will take to continue such program on a permanent basis and future funding options for this. (Sec. 104) Revises progress criteria and reporting requirements. Provides for change of protection and advocacy services provider. (Sec. 106) Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Programs of National Significance - (Sec. 201) Directs the Secretary of Education to conduct a pilot project to develop and test a national classification system for assistive technology devices and services. (Sec. 202) Revises requirements for training and public awareness projects to include community-based organizations and rural areas. Requires applications to describe strategies to recruit and train persons to provide technology-related assistance to increase the diversity of such persons and the numbers of individuals with disabilities and from minority groups who are able to provide such assistance. (Sec. 203) Revises requirements for demonstration and innovation projects to provide for examination and evaluation of alternative direct loan programs. (Sec. 204) Authorizes appropriations for programs of national significance. (Sec. 205) Repeals provisions for: (1) a national information and program referral network; and (2) public awareness projects.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1993
Landmine Moratorium Extension Act of 1993 - Declares that it is U.S. policy to seek international agreements prohibiting the sale, transfer, or export, and terminating the manufacture, possession, and use, of antipersonnel landmines. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should submit the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons to the Senate for ratification; and (2) the Administration should negotiate a modification of the Landmine Protocol under United Nations auspices or another international agreement to limit the sale, transfer, manufacture, and use of landmines. Prohibits for three years after this Act's enactment: (1) sales, financing, transfers, and the issuance of licenses under the Arms Export Control Act with respect to antipersonnel landmines; and (2) assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to the provision of such landmines.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1993
Disability Rights in American Foreign Policy Act of 1993 - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to promote recognition of the human rights of people with disabilities and the elimination of discrimination against such people. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include within the Secretary of State's annual human rights report an examination of discrimination toward people with disabilities.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1993
Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for: (1) the prevention, control, and elimination of tuberculosis; (2) research, demonstration projects, public information, and education concerning the prevention, control, and elimination of tuberculosis; and (3) research relating to tuberculosis through the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Amends the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize appropriations for a tuberculosis drug and device research program.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1993
Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments of 1993 - Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to extend the authorization of appropriations. Amends the Museum Services to extend the authorization of appropriations, including funds for: (1) grants to museums to increase and improve services; and (2) functions of the Institute of Museum Services (within the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities).
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1993
Designates August 1, 1993, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes the President to reassert America's commitment to the Helsinki Accords and requests him to: (1) convey to all signatories of the Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is a vital element of further progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (2) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of such process to address the major problems that remain.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1993
Urges the United States Trade Representative to insist that any trade agreement negotiated pursuant to the Uruguay Round provide U.S. copyright-based industries with: (1) equal access to the markets of nations that are parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); (2) opportunities to obtain government funding; (3) adequate copyright protection, including recognition of contractual rights and protection against piracy and counterfeiting of copyright materials; and (4) a mechanism to resolve disputes concerning market access, national treatment, and copyright protection.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
Women in the Armed Forces Commemorative Coins Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) mint and issue coins to commemorate the women who have served in the armed forces of the United States; and (2) transfer the surcharges received from coin sales to the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation to be used to create, endow, and dedicate the Women in the Armed Forces Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1993
Space Advertising Prohibition Act - Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to prohibit the use of outer space for advertising purposes. Prohibits the importation into the United States of goods manufactured, assembled, distributed, or sold by any person who is, or has been, engaged in space advertising.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993
Veterans' Hospice Services Act of 1993 - 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, 1993, through December 31, 1998, to designate not 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 Director of the Health Services Research and Development Service of the hospice care pilot program.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Safe School Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to eligible local educational agencies for projects to achieve National Education Goal Six by helping to ensure that all schools are safe and free of violence. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to use certain reserved funds to conduct national leadership activities such as research, program development and evaluation, data collection, public awareness activities, training and technical assistance, and peer review of applications under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Extends eligibility for burial in a national cemetery to any member or former member of the armed forces (and his or her dependents) who has performed at least 20 years of service under honorable conditions and who is eligible for retired pay.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Condemns the repressive anti-Baha'i policy adopted by the Government of Iran. Urges the Government of Iran to extend to the Baha'i community the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international covenants on human rights. Calls upon the President to continue to: (1) urge such Government to emancipate the Baha'i community by granting such rights; (2) emphasize that the United States regards the human rights practices of such Government, particularly its treatment of the Baha'is and other religious minorities, as a significant factor in the development of U.S.-Iranian relations; and (3) encourage other governments to continue to appeal to the Government of Iran and to cooperate with other governments and international organizations in efforts to protect the religious rights of the Baha'is and other minorities in Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
International Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth population assistance authorities and requirements. Makes such assistance available to a country that: (1) accounts for a significant portion of the world's annual population increment; (2) has significant unmet needs for fertility regulation and requires foreign assistance to sustain quality family planning services; or (3) demonstrates a strong policy commitment to population stabilization through the expansion of reproductive choice. Prohibits nongovernmental and multilateral organizations from being subjected to requirements which are more restrictive than those applicable to foreign governments for such assistance. Makes funds available for: (1) the United Nations Population Fund if it agrees to prohibit the use of funds for coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization; and (2) the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training to further international cooperation in the development of fertility regulation technology. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to report annually to the Congress on allocations to population activities and, if such allocations total less than $1 million to set forth actions to encourage increased allocations. Establishes the Commission on World Population Stabilization and Reproductive Health to coordinate U.S. participation in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. Authorizes appropriations. Makes development assistance available on a priority basis for countries which have agreed to address specific education, literacy, and health issues. Authorizes the President to establish a grant program, to be known as the Safe Motherhood Initiative, to improve the access of girls and women to reproductive health care services. Earmarks amounts of development and economic assistance for programs in support of equalizing male and female levels of primary and secondary school enrollment. Authorizes appropriations for the Child Survival Fund, the Safe Motherhood Initiative, and for research on, and treatment and control of, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developing countries.
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