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Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]

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Bill· SS. 1872 (102nd)reported

Better Access to Affordable Health Care Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1991

Better Access to Affordable Health Care Act of 1991 - Title I: Improvements in Health Insurance Affordability for Small Employers - Amends the Internal Revenue code to raise from 25 to 100 percent the deduction for self-employed individuals for health insurance premiums and makes the deduction permanent. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to make grants to up to 15 States for the establishment and operation of small employer health insurance purchasing programs. Permits grant funds to be used to finance administrative costs associated with developing and operating a group purchasing program for small employers. Authorizes appropriations. Requires a report to the Congress from the Secretary concerning the feasibility of establishing a requirement that health insurers must make available plans providing that payments to providers be made using Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) payment rules. Title II: Improvements in Health Insurance for Small Employers - Amends the Social Security Act to add a new title, Title XXI: Standards for Small Employer Health Insurance and Certification of Managed Care Plans. Directs the Secretary to request the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to develop model standards and regulations concerning requirements for health insurance plans for small employers. Requires such plans to provide for: (1) guaranteed eligibility; (2) guaranteed availability; and (3) guaranteed renewability. Prohibits: (1) an insurer from refusing to renew or terminate a plan, except for nonpayment of premiums, fraud, or failure to maintain minimum participation rates; and (2) for certain services, discrimination based on health status. Sets limits controlling the variation of premium charges permitted among all small employers insured by an insurer. Requires the full disclosure of an insurer's rating practices. Requires a health insurance plan for small employers to offer: (1) both a standard and basic benefit package; and (2) a managed care option, if the insurer also offers such an option to other employers. Provides, under both the standard and basic package, for coverage of: (1) inpatient and outpatient hospital care; (2) inpatient and outpatient physician services; (3) diagnostic tests; and (4) preventive services. Provides, in addition, under the standard plan: (1) for the coverage of certain mental health care; (2) that, except as specified, there will be no limits on the amount, scope, or duration of benefits, and (3) for specified limits on deductibles, copayment, coinsurance, and out-of-pocket expenses. Provides under the basic plan that: (1) premiums, deductibles, copayments, or other cost-sharing may be imposed, but does not specify in what amounts; and (2) there shall be an out-of-pocket limit, but does not specify such limit. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax of 25 percent of gross premiums on the issuer of any health insurance plan to a small employer, if the plan does not meet the requirements of title XXI. Sets forth study and reporting requirements. Title III: Improvements in Portability of Private Health Insurance - Imposes an excise tax of $100 per day, with respect to a covered individual, on a group health plan for its failure to provide coverage for a preexisting condition, subject to stated exceptions. Title IV: Health Care Cost Containment - Establishes a Health Care Cost Commission which shall report annually to the President and the Congress on national health care costs. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, under title XXI of the Social Security Act, to establish a process for the certification of managed care plans and utilization review programs. Sets forth requirements for certification. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Administrator of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research to develop outcomes research and practice parameters for mental health services, including at least the diagnosis and treatment of childhood attention deficit syndrome disorders and manic depression. Amends Part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to authorize appropriations for research outcomes of health care services and procedures. Title V: Medicare Prevention Benefits - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish frequency and payment limits for screening for fecal-occult blood tests and screening flexible sigmoidoscopies. Amends Medicare part C (Miscellaneous Provisions) to provide coverage for tetanus-diphtheria boosters and their administration. Provides Medicare coverage for well-child services, which include routine office visits, immunizations, laboratory tests, and preventive dental care. Expands the coverage of a screening mammography to provide for one such screening annually for all covered women over age 49. Directs the Secretary to establish and provide for a series of ongoing demonstration projects which provide coverage for specified preventive services, including: (1) glaucoma screening; (2) cholesterol screening; (3) osteoporosis screening and treatment; (4) screening services for pregnant women; (5) assessments for individuals beginning at age 65 or 75; and (5) other appropriate services. Authorizes appropriations.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 202 (102nd)passed

A resolution to appoint a special independent counsel to investigate, utilizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the General Accounting Office, and any other Government department or agency as may be appropriate, recent unauthorized disclosures of nonpublic confidential information.

United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1991

Establishes an Office of Temporary Special Independent Counsel, to be directed by a special independent counsel, to investigate, utilizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the General Accounting Office, and any other Government department or agency as may be appropriate, unauthorized disclosures of nonpublic confidential information during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings and the Charles Keating investigation. Directs the counsel to report investigation findings to the Majority and Minority Leaders for appropriate action.

Bill· SS. 1863 (102nd)open

A bill to provide for the establishment of a program that shall facilitate, on a voluntary request basis, the reunion of birth parents and adopted individuals, birth siblings, or birth grandparents of adopted individuals, through a centralized computer network, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1991

Authorizes establishment of the National Voluntary Reunion Registry to facilitate on a voluntary mutual request basis the reunion of adopted persons with birth parents, siblings, and grandparents. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 1838 (102nd)referred

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a limitation on use of claim sampling to deny claims or recover overpayments under medicare.

United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1991

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the use of claim sampling to deny claims or recover overpayments under Medicare except when fraud has been determined, in which case claim sampling may be used for the purpose of assessing civil monetary penalties.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 198 (102nd)open

A resolution amending Senate Resolution 62 of the One Hundred Second Congress to authorize the Committee on Foreign Relations to exercise certain investigatory powers in connection with its inquiry into the release of the United States hostages in Iran.

United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1991

Amends Senate Resolution 62, 102d Congress, to increase the authorization of expenditures for all Standing Committees of the Senate (including Aging, Intelligence, and Indian Affairs) for March 1, 1991, through February 29, 1992. Increases the maximum: (1) authorization for expenditures by the Committee on Foreign Relations for such period; and (2) amount to be expended for its procurement of consultant services. Provides for the inquiry of such Committee's Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs into allegations that private U.S. citizens acted to delay the release of U.S. hostages in Iran until after the 1980 presidential election.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 197 (102nd)passed

A resolution to authorize testimony by and representation of a former Senate employee.

United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1991

Authorizes Jack Blum (a former special counsel to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations) to testify to Federal and State officials about information obtained by the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, during its investigation, relating to the Bank of Credit and Commerce International and other financial institutions. Authorizes the Senate Legal Counsel to represent him with respect to such testimony.

Bill· SS. 1810 (102nd)referred

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Implementation Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1991

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Implementation Act of 1991 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase the conversion factor for physicians' services for each of the years after 1993 through 1996 by one-fourth of the percentage by which the conversion factor may have been decreased due to an adjustment for asymmetry in 1992; (2) prohibit the Secretary, in determining the conversion factor for 1992, from assuming that changes in the volume and intensity of physician services in response to the implementation of the new payment system for such services would increase the estimated aggregate physician expenditures by more than one percent; (3) make any reduction to the conversion factor due to assumed volume and intensity changes equally applicable to the adjusted historical payment base; (4) permit separate payment to physicians for interpretation of electrocardiograms (EKGs) provided during office vists; (5) direct the Secretary to: (a) establish separate fee schedule amounts for the interpretation of EKGs; (b) adjust the relative values in the fee schedule for physician visits to reflect separate payments for EKG interpretation; (c) establish EKG practice guidelines for dissemination to physicians along with other educational information relating to EKG use; (d) develop a profile for EKG use by physicians; and (e) study EKG utilization and costs for a report to the Congress; and (6) make the new payment system for physicians nonapplicable to services furnished on or after January 1, 1992, by a physician who was in his or her first, second, or third year of practice in 1991 and to whom the payment rules under the new system did not apply in that year. Prohibits the Secretary from issuing final regulations before July 1, 1993, which change the methodology for determining: (1) the amount of time that may be billed for anesthesia services; and (2) the amount paid for drugs and biologicals furnished incident to physicians' services. Requires the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment to conduct a study and report to the Congress on whether payments for anesthesia services should be based on a particular unit of time according to the medical procedure with respect to which the service is furnished. Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study and report to the Congress with respect to payment for drugs and biologicals furnished incident to physicians' services and payment for multiple surgical procedures; and (2) provide for pilot projects for developing Medicare volume performance standards other than at the national level. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the pilot projects.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 186 (102nd)passed

A resolution relative to Haiti.

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1991

Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the President should make clear that the United States supports the restoration of the democratically elected government of President Aristide in Haiti; (2) all U.S. assistance to the Haitian Government should remain suspended until democratic government is restored; (3) the Haitian military should respect the human rights of the Haitian people; (4) the Organization of American States should be commended for condemning the coup and for its Santiago commitment creating a new automatic mechanism to respond to the interruption of legitimate elected government; and (5) the international community should take all appropriate action to restore democratic government in Haiti.

Bill· SS. 1722 (102nd)open

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1991

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 - Establishes an emergency unemployment compensation program. Allows any State to enter into and participate in an agreement with the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) under which the State agency which administers the State unemployment compensation law will make payments of emergency unemployment compensation: (1) to individuals who have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under State law, have no rights to such regular compensation or any additional State or Federal compensation, and are not receiving Canadian compensation; and (2) for any week of unemployment beginning in the individual's eligibility period. Sets forth provisions relating to exhaustion of regular benefits and weekly amount of emergency benefits equal to regular benefits. Authorizes a State Governor, in a period of a seven or eight percent total unemployment rate in that State (as defined under this Act), to elect to trigger off an extended compensation period to provide emergency unemployment compensation to individuals who have exhausted their rights to regular compensation under State law. Requires a State, under such an agreement, to establish an emergency unemployment compensation account with respect to the benefit year of each eligible individual who files an application. Limits benefit payments to not more than the amount in the individual's account. Sets forth formulas for determining the amount in such account. Provides that the applicable limit in such account shall be equal to: (1) 20 for an eight-percent period, i.e. one triggered by a total unemployment rate (TUR) of eight percent or more in the State, seasonally adjusted, for the most recent six calendar months with available data; (2) 13 for a seven-percent period; (3) seven for a six-percent period; and (4) four for any other period. Sets forth special rules relating to such applicable limits. Requires reduction in such account by the amount of extended benefits received by the individual relating to the same benefit year under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970. Sets the weekly benefit amount at the amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable under the State law to the individual for such week for total unemployment. Provides for determination of periods and applicable triggers. Provides for a minimum period of at least 13 weeks. Provides, in general, that no emergency unemployment compensation shall be payable to any individual under this Act for any week beginning: (1) before the later of October 6, 1991, or the first week following the week in which an agreement under this Act is entered into; or (2) after July 4, 1992. Sets forth transition and reachback provisions for the eligibility of certain individuals for such benefits, as exceptions to such general rule. Provides for payments to States having such agreements for emergency unemployment compensation. Sets forth financing provisions. Requires that funds in the extended unemployment compensation account of the Unemployment Trust Fund be used to make payments to States having agreements under this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to fraud and overpayments. Defines the eligible period under this Act. Provides that in no event shall an individual's period of eligibility include any weeks after the 39th week after the end of the benefit year for which the individual exhausted rights to regular compensation or extended compensation. Amends specified Federal law to repeal certain limitations on payment of unemployment compensation to former members of the armed forces. Reduces the length of required active duty by reserves for purposes of such payment. Amends the Social Security Act to establish an Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation. Directs the Secretary to establish such a council by February 1, 1992, and every fourth year thereafter. Requires each such council to evaluate the unemployment compensation program. Sets forth membership and staff provisions. Requires each council to report to the President and the Congress by Feburuary 1 of the second year following the year in which it is required to be established. Requires the first Council report to include findings and recommendations on determining eligibility for extended unemployment benefits on the basis of unemployment statistics for regions, States, or subdivisions of States. Designates as emergency requirements, pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), all direct spending amounts provided, and all appropriations authorized by this Act (for all fiscal years). Provides that this Act shall not take effect unless, by its enactment date, the President submits to the Congress a written designation of all such direct spending amounts and authorized appropriations as such emergency requirements.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 193 (102nd)referred

A joint resolution to establish a commission to commemorate the bicentennial of the establishment of the Democratic Party of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1991

Establishes a Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States' Democratic Party (Commission) to coordinate ceremonial events and related activities during the calendar year of 1992. Directs the Commission to report on its activities to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate at the time of its termination on February 13, 1993.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 178 (102nd)passed

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on Chinese political prisoners and Chinese prisons.

United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1991

Urges the President to: (1) communicate to the leadership of the Government of the People's Republic of China the concern of the Congress and the American people for Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming and to call for their immediate release from prison; and (2) request the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) to urge Beijing officials to provide quality medical care for them and for all political prisoners and to dispatch representatives of the UN Human Rights Commission to China to assess and report on the treatment of political prisoners and the condition of Chinese prisons.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 179 (102nd)passed

A resolution to authorize the production of records by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs.

United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1991

Authorizes the chairman and ranking minority member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, acting jointly, to provide to regulatory and law enforcement entities requesting access, records of the subcommittee's investigation of allegations of fraud in the insurance and reinsurance industries.

Bill· SS. 1648 (102nd)referred

Area Health Education Centers Reauthorization Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1991

Area Health Education Centers Reauthorization Act of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to specify a term of six years for agreements establishing area health education centers (AHECs). Modifies the purposes of AHECs, including serving high-impact areas and States as well as border areas close to Mexico. Mandates, if available in the area, participation of a school of public health. Authorizes agreements for the planning, development, and operation of State-supported AHECs. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 191 (102nd)open

A joint resolution approving the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) to the products of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1991

Approves the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored nation treatment) to the products of the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania transmitted to the Congress by the President on August 2, 1991.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 167 (102nd)passed

A resolution to authorize the Senate Legal Counsel to represent Senate defendants and to appear as amicus curiae in the name of the Senate in lawsuits brought by Alcee L. Hastings in regard to his impeachment trial.

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1991

Authorizes the Senate Legal Counsel to represent the Senate and any other Senate parties in Alcee L. Hastings v. United States of America, et al., filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, or in any similar lawsuit filed by former Judge Hastings to challenge his impeachment trial, conviction, or removal from office. Authorizes the Senate Legal Counsel to appear as amicus curiae in the name of the Senate in Alcee L. Hastings v. United States of America, filed in the United States Claims Court, in the case filed in the District Court, or in any similar lawsuit filed by the former Judge, in order to defend the Senate's sole constitutional power to try impeachments.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 58 (102nd)open

A resolution to waive the provisions of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 which require the adjournment of the House and Senate by July 31st.

United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1991

Waives provisions of Federal law (which require adjournment by July 31 of each year) to prohibit the Senate and the House of Representatives from adjourning for a period in excess of three days, or adjourning sine die, until both Houses of Congress adopt a concurrent resolution providing either for an adjournment (in excess of three days) to a day certain, or for an adjournment sine die.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 160 (102nd)passed

A resolution to authorize testimony by and representation of Members of the Senate in In re American Continental Corporation/Lincoln Savings & Loan Securities Litigation.

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1991

Authorizes Senator John Glen and Senator John McCain to testify in In re American Continental Corporation/Lincoln Savings & Loan Securities Litigation, except when the attendance is necessary at the Senate and except concerning matters for which a privilege should be asserted. Authorizes the Senate Legal Counsel to represent the Senators in connection with their testimony in such case.

Law· SS. 1563 (102nd)enacted

National Sea Grant College Program Authorization Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1991

National Sea Grant College Program Authorization Act of 1991 - Amends the National Sea Grant College Program Act (Sea Grant Act) to authorize appropriations to carry out the Act. Repeals provisions of the Sea Grant Act authorizing grants and contracts for a sea grant strategic research plan. Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 (Aquatic Nuisance Act) to generally authorize appropriations for grants under the Sea Grant Act. (Currently, the provisions of the Aquatic Nuisance Act being amended here authorize appropriations only for grants for the sea grant research plan under the Sea Grant Act.)

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 159 (102nd)passed

A resolution to authorize the production of documents by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs.

United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1991

Authorizes the chairman and ranking minority member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, acting jointly, to provide to the investigations officer appointed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York records of the Subcommittee's investigation of the handling of the labor fraud investigation of Jackie Presser, former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Bill· SS. 1554 (102nd)open

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 - Establishes an emergency unemployment compensation program. Allows any State to enter into and participate in an agreement with the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) under which the State agency which administers the State unemployment compensation law will make payments of emergency unemployment compensation: (1) to individuals who have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under State law, have no rights to such regular compensation or any additional State or Federal compensation, and are not receving Canadian compensation; and (2) for any week of unemployment beginning in the individual's eligibility period. Sets forth provisions relating to exhaustion of regular benefits and weekly amount of emergency benefits equal to regular benefits. Requires a State, under such an agreement, to establish an emergency unemployment compensation account with respect to the benefit year of each eligible individual who files an application. Limits benefit payments to not more than the amount in the individual's account. Sets forth formulas for determining the amount in such account. Provides that such amount shall be equal to the lesser of: (1) 100 percent of the total amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable to the individual with respect to the most recent regular benefit year; or (2) the applicable limit times the average weekly benefit amount for the benefit year. Sets the applicable limit at: (1) 20 for an eight-percent period, i.e. one triggered by a total unemployment rate (TUR) of eight percent or more in the State, seasonally adjusted, for the most recent six calendar months with available data; (2) 13 for a seven-percent period; (3) seven for a six-percent period; and (4) four for any other period. Sets forth special rules relating to such applicable limits. Requires reduction in such account by the amount of extended benefits received by the individual relating to the same benefit year under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970. Sets the weekly benefit amount at the amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable under the State law to the individual for such week for total unemployment. Provides for determination of periods and applicable triggers. Sets forth transition and reachback provisions for the eligibility of certain individuals for such benefits. Provides for payments to States having such agreements for emergency unemployment compensation. Sets forth financing provisions. Requires that funds in the extended unemployment compensation account of the Unemployment Trust Fund be used to make payments to States having agreements under this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to fraud and overpayments. Amends specified Federal law to repeal certain limitations on payment of unemployment compensation to former members of the armed forces. Reduces the length of required active duty by reserves for purposes of such payment. Sets forth reachback provisions. Amends the Social Security Act to establish an Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation. Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish such a council by February 1, 1992, and every fourth year thereafter. Requires each such council to evaluate the unemployment compensation program. Sets forth membership and staff provisions. Requires each council to report to the President and the Congress by January 1 of the second year following the year in which it is required to be established. Designates as emergency requirements, pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, all direct spending amounts provided, and all appropriations authorized, by this Act (for all fiscal years). Provides that this Act shall not take effect unless, by its enactment date, the President submits to the Congress a written designation of all such direct spending amounts and authorized appropriations as such emergency requirements.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 157 (102nd)passed

A resolution to authorize representation of employees of the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991

Authorizes the Senate Legal Counsel to represent present and former Senate employees regarding the provision of information in connection with the inquiry of the Department of Justice relating to the conduct of Senator Dave Durenberger.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 158 (102nd)passed

A resolution to authorize testimony by and representation of former employee of the Senate in In re American Continental Corporation/Lincoln Savings and Laon Securities Litigation.

United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991

Authorizes Kenneth A. McLean, a former Senate employee, to testify in In re American Continental Corporation/Lincoln Savings and Loan Securities Litigation, except concerning matters for which a privilege should be asserted. Authorizes the Senate Legal Counsel to represent such former employee in connection with his testimony in such case.

Bill· SS. 1520 (102nd)referred

Medicare and Medicaid Chronic Care Amendments Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991

Medicare and Medicaid Chronic Care Amendments Act of 1991 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) eliminate the requirement that the coinsurance rate for Medicare post-hospital extended care services equal 1/8th of the inpatient hospital deductible; (2) set the Medicare coinsurance amount for such services at $65.00 a day beginning in calendar year 1992; and (3) maintain such amount until the coinsurance rate equals 20 percent of the national average per diem cost recognized under Medicare for such services. Covers up to 42 consecutive days of nursing and home health aide services. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to the Congress on the impact of eliminating the three-day prior hospitalization requirement for Medicare coverage of post-hospital extended care services. Requires the Secretary to: (1) enter into agreements with at least three peer review organizations to review the prior hospital stay requirement; and (2) report to the Congress on review results. Authorizes five five-year demonstration projects under the Medicaid program (title XIX of the Social Security Act) to provide for the operation of adult day care centers located in elderly housing facilities financed under the Housing Act of 1959 in order to reduce the risk of institutionalization and provide respite to families who care for the elderly at home. Outlines project requirements, project application contents, individual eligibility criteria, financing and other provisions concerning such projects. Requires the Secretary to evaluate the effectiveness of each demonstration project and submit a report summarizing the evaluation to specified congressional committees.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 156 (102nd)passed

A resolution authorizing the committee on Rules and Administration to provide legal representation to certain present or former employees on the staff of Senator D'amato.

United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991

Authorizes the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to pay out of the Senate's contingent fund, the legal expenses for any present or former employee on the staff of Senator D'Amato for private representation with respect to official actions and responsibilities before the grand jury in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Bill· SS. 1498 (102nd)referred

Base Community Recovery Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1991

Base Community Recovery Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat any former employee of a Federal military installation whose job was terminated by reason of its closing or realignment as a member of a targeted group for purposes of the target jobs credit allowed to employers. Allows such employees a terminated employee tax credit of up to ten percent of wages attributable to private employment within the base closure region for one year. Reduces the depreciation recapture rate for businesses that acquire buildings on such bases, and increases the amount which may be expensed for the cost of new equipment placed in service. Prescribes the treatment of qualified base closure bonds by: (1) making termination dates for qualified small issue bonds inapplicable to them; (2) not taking into account certain capital expenditures; and (3) increasing the State ceiling on the volume cap.