United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1995
Environmental Risk Evaluation Act of 1995 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) rank sources of pollution with respect to the relative degree of risk of adverse effects on human health, the environment, and public welfare; (2) evaluate the private and public costs associated with each pollution source and the costs and benefits of complying with regulations designed to protect against risks associated with such pollution; and (3) evaluate the public and private costs and benefits associated with other Federal actions with impacts on human health, the environment, or public welfare. Requires the Administrator to identify opportunities to achieve risk reduction through modifications in environmental regulations and programs and other Federal actions with impacts on health, the environment, or public welfare. Directs the Administrator to: (1) identify the major uncertainties associated with the risks and explain the meaning of the uncertainties in terms of interpreting the ranking and evaluation; and (2) determine the type and nature of research that would likely reduce such uncertainties and the cost of conducting such research. Requires the Administrator to consider and estimate the monetary and other values of the benefits associated with reducing risk to health and the environment. Establishes triennial reporting requirements with respect to rankings and evaluations and requires such reports to evaluate risk management decisions under Federal environmental laws that present inherent and unavoidable choices between competing risks. Provides for review of reports by the Science Advisory Board prior to submission.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1995
Aggregate Intelligence Budget Disclosure Act of 1995 - Directs the President to include in each year's budget request submitted to the Congress a separate, unclassified statement of the total amount of budget outlays for the preceding fiscal year for national and tactical intelligence activities.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1995
Poverty Data Correction Act of 1995 - 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, 1996 for calendar year 1995 and to be updated annually thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Short Title Title II: Abolition of the Central Intelligence Agency Abolition of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1995 - Title I: Short Title - Cites this Act as the Abolition of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1995. Title II: Abolition of the Central Intelligence Agency - States as the purpose of this title to unify the formulation and execution of U.S. foreign policy by providing overall authority over intelligence activities to the Secretary of State. Requires, within two years after enactment of this Act, the transfer to the Secretary of all the functions, powers, and duties of the Directors of Central Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency and any officer or component of such Agency. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress a plan to effectuate such transfers.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1995
National Pastime Preservation Act of 1995 - Amends the Clayton Act to make the antitrust laws applicable to the business of organized professional baseball, except as provided in the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1994
Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to provide that the exemption from provisions of such Act applicable to elected State and local officials shall not apply to all persons holding a judicial office (thus including judges under the definition of employee and affording them protection under such Act).
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1994
American Heritage Areas Partnership Program Act of 1994 - Establishes the American Heritage Areas Partnership Program within the Department of the Interior, consisting of such Areas designated by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) evaluate combinations of resources best preserved, interpreted, stabilized, and managed as American Heritage Areas under a partnership model; (2) evaluate nominated Areas; (3) advise State and local governments, nonprofit organizations, or other appropriate entities as to suitable methods of recognizing and preserving thematically and geographically linked natural, historic, and cultural resources and recreational opportunities; (4) provide technical assistance and grants for nominating areas for inclusion in the Program, for developing compacts for nominated Areas and management plans for designated Areas, and for undertaking capital projects and improvements; and (5) consider any designated Heritage Area for nomination to the World Heritage List if the Area meets the nomination qualification. Provides that an area may be designated as an American Heritage Area only by an Act of the Congress. Conditions such designation on the Secretary's approval of an Area feasibility study and compact. Provides that the designation of the Area shall not: (1) signify that it is included in, or eligible for, inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places; or (2) preclude nomination to, or inclusion in, the Register of any district, site, building, structure, or object located within the Area. (Sec. 6) Authorizes the Secretary to make matching grants and provide technical assistance to: (1) assist in studies to identify the feasibility of establishing a heritage area; (2) prepare compacts outlining the objectives, boundaries, and management structure of the heritage area; (3) prepare management plans for designated Areas; and (4) provide support for early actions as part of the development of such Areas. Specifies contents of Area feasibility studies, compacts, and management plans. (Sec. 7) Authorizes the management entities named in the compacts for Areas to receive Federal funds in support of cooperative partnerships to prepare and implement the management plans and otherwise perform the functions contemplated in this Act. Sets forth eligibility requirements for such entities. Requires each such entity to submit to the Secretary a management plan within five years after the date of designation of an Area. Makes the entity eligible to receive funds appropriated through this Act for ten years after such date. (Sec. 8) Requires the Secretary to: (1) report to the Congress on the Program annually; (2) monitor the welfare of the Areas whose eligibility for Federal funding has expired; and (3) provide the public with information on Program components. (Sec. 9) Permits adoption and implementation of land use plans for a designated Area by local governments or authorized management entities. (Sec. 10) Authorizes appropriations. Specifies fund limitations.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1994
Ryan White CARE Reauthorization Act of 1994 - Amends the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act of 1990 (title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act) to limit the grant program for emergency relief for areas with substantial need for services to eligible areas with a population of at least 500,000 individuals. Requires an HIV health services planning council (which advises on the distribution of such grants) to be reflective of the demographics of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in an eligible area, with particular consideration given to disproportionately affected and historically underserved groups. Revises the method of distributing such grants and extends authorized appropriations for them until FY 2000. Revises the care grant program that makes funds available for individuals and families with the HIV disease. Authorizes the award of supplemental grants to eligible entities to enhance community-based care, treatment, and supportive services through the development and operation of consortia and innovative approaches. Extends authorized appropriations for such grant program through FY 2000. Requires the establishment of grievance procedures to address allegations of egregious violations of title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to coordinate the planning and implementation of Federal HIV programs to facilitate the development of a complete continuum of HIV-related services for individuals with HIV disease and those at risk of such disease. Extends authorized appropriations for early intervention services until FY 2000. Extends authorized appropriations until FY 2000 for grants for coordinated services and access to research for children, youth, women, and families (formerly known as demonstration grants for research and services for pediatric patients regarding acquired immune deficiency syndrome). Makes appropriations available for special projects of national significance program to award direct grants to public and nonprofit private entities to fund special programs for the care and treatment of individuals with HIV disease.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Approval of, and General Provisions Relating to, the Uruguay Round Agreements Subtitle A: Approval of Agreements and Related Provisions Subtitle B: Tariff Modifications Subtitle C: Uruguay Round Implementation and Dispute Settlement Subtitle D: Related Provisions Title II: Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Provisions Subtitle A: General Provisions Subtitle B: Subsidies Provisions Subtitle C: Effective Date Title III: Additional Implementation of Agreements Subtitle A: Safeguards Subtitle B: Foreign Trade Barriers and Unfair Trade Practices Subtitle C: Unfair Practices in Import Trade Subtitle D: Textiles Subtitle E: Government Procurement Subtitle F: Technical Barriers to Trade Title IV: Agriculture-Related Provisions Subtitle A: Agriculture Subtitle B: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Subtitle C: Standards Subtitle D: General Effective Date Title V: Intellectual Property Subtitle A: Copyright Provisions Subtitle B: Trademark Provisions Subtitle C: Patent Provisions Title VI: Related Provisions Subtitle A: Expiring Provisions Subtitle B: Certain Customs Provisions Subtitle C: Conforming Amendments Title VII: Revenue Provisions Subtitle A: Withholding Tax Provisions Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Estimated Taxes and Payments and Deposits of Taxes Subtitle C: Earned Income Tax Credit Subtitle D: Provisions Relating to Retirement Benefits Subtitle E: Other Provisions Subtitle F: Pension Plan Funding and Premiums Title VIII: Pioneer Preferences Uruguay Round Agreements Act - Title I: Approval of, and General Provisions Relating to, the Uruguay Round Agreements - Subtitle A: Approval of Agreements and Related Provisions - Declares that the Congress approves: (1) the Uruguay Round Agreements entered into on April 15, 1994, pursuant to the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); and (2) a statement of administrative action proposed to implement such agreements that was submitted to the Congress on September 27, 1994. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 102) Prohibits any provision of the Uruguay Round Agreements that is inconsistent with any U.S. law from having any effect. Sets forth provisions governing the Agreements and their effect on State laws and private remedies. Subtitle B: Tariff Modifications - Grants the President, in addition to his other powers to enter into trade agreements regarding trade barriers, the authority to proclaim other modifications of any duty, staged rate reduction, or additional duties as may be necessary to carry out Schedule XX (United States annexed to the Marrakesh Protocol to GATT). (Sec. 112) Amends the Customs and Trade Act of 1990 to declare that the duty on foreign repairs made to U.S.-flag vessels shall not apply to the cost of equipment or spare parts for repairs made to certain U.S.-flag LASH (Lighter Aboard Ship) barges or cargo vessels that enter the United States on or after the date the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement enters into force. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to declare that such duty shall not apply to the cost of spare parts necessarily installed on such vessels before they first enter the United States, but only if a duty is paid under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States upon first entry into the United States on each spare part purchased in, or imported from, a foreign country. (Sec. 113) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary) to liquidate or reliquidate and refund any duties that were paid on: (1) certain agglomerated stone tiles entered into the United States on or after January 1, 1989, and before October 1, 1990; and (2) clomiphene citrate entered into the United States after December 31, 1988, and before January 1, 1993. (Sec. 114) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to grant duty-free treatment to: (1) unimproved wool and other wool not finer than 46s; (2) octadecyl isocyanate; and (3) 5-chloro-2-(2,4- dichlorophenoxy)phenol. (Sec. 115) Sets forth consultation and layover requirements for actions proclaimed by the President. Subtitle C: Uruguay Round Implementation and Dispute Settlement - Sets forth provisions governing: (1) implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreements; (2) WTO dispute settlement panels; (3) review of WTO operations; (4) increased transparency of the costs and benefits of trade policy actions; and (5) access to the WTO dispute settlement process. (Sec. 128) Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to revise the composition of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations to include representatives from nongovernmental environmental and conservation organizations. Subtitle D: Related Provisions - Directs the President to seek the establishment in the GATT 1947 (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, dated October 30, 1947) and in the WTO of a working party to examine internationally recognized worker rights as they relate to the articles, objectives, and related instruments of such agreement and organization. (Sec. 133) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States Trade Representative (USTR) should oppose the admission for membership into the WTO of any country that supports the boycotting of another country. (Sec. 134) Urges the President to develop a comprehensive trade and development policy for African countries. (Sec. 135) Declares that the principal U.S. negotiating objective in the extended negotiations on financial services to be conducted under the auspices of the WTO is to seek to secure commitments from developed and developing countries to reduce or eliminate barriers to the supply of financial services as the condition for the United States: (1) offering commitments to provide national treatment and market access in each of the financial services subsectors; and (2) making such commitments on a most-favored-nation basis. Declares that the principal U.S. negotiating objective in the extended negotiations on basic telecommunications services is to obtain the opening on a nondiscriminatory basis of foreign markets for basic telecommunications services through facilities-based competition or through the resale of services on existing networks. Declares the principal U.S. negotiating objectives in the extended negotiations on trade in civil aircraft are, among other things, to obtain: (1) competitive opportunities for U.S. exports in foreign markets equivalent to those afforded to foreign products in the United States; (2) the reduction or elimination of tariff and nontariff barriers, including through expanded membership in the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft and in the US-EC bilateral agreement for large civil aircraft; and (3) increased transparency with respect to foreign subsidy programs in the civil aircraft sector, maintaining vigorous and effective disciplines on subsidies practices under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (Subsidies Agreement). (Sec. 136) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the tax on imported perfumes that contain distilled spirits. Grants a drawback (refund) of tax paid on distilled spirits used in the manufacture of imported perfumes. (Sec. 137) Requires unliquidated imported nonrubber footwear from Brazil which is subject to Treasury Decision 74-233, dated September 9, 1974, and which was entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or before October 28, 1981, to be assessed countervailing duties at rates equal to the amount of the cash deposit of the estimated countervailing duties required on such footwear at the time of entry or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption. Title II: Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Provisions - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require the administering authority, upon receipt of a petition filed requesting a countervailing duty or antidumping duty proceeding, to: (1) notify the exporting country named in the petition by delivering a public version of the petition; and (2) with respect to a countervailing duty proceeding, provide any exporting country named in the petition that is a Subsidies Agreement country an opportunity for consultations. (Sec. 212) Revises provisions regarding countervailing duty and antidumping duty petition determinations with respect to: (1) whether the petition has been filed by or on behalf of an industry; (2) extension of time for filing a petition; (3) polling to determine industry support; (4) comments by interested parties; and (5) termination of a petition where imports of the subject merchandise have been determined negligible. Reduces from 85 days to 65 days after a countervailing duty investigation is initiated the deadline by which the administering authority must determine, based on available information, whether a subsidy is being provided with respect to merchandise which is the subject of such investigation. Reduces the time period on other countervailing duty and antidumping duty determinations. (Sec. 213) Requires the administering authority, whenever making a preliminary or final antidumping duty determination with respect to imported merchandise, to disregard any weighted average dumping margin that is de minimis (less than two percent ad valorem or the equivalent specific rate for such merchandise). (Sec. 214) Requires the International Trade Commission (ITC), whenever there is an affirmative countervailing or antidumping duty finding, to include in its final determination a finding as to whether the subject imports are likely to seriously undermine the remedial affect of the countervailing or antidumping duty order. Revises provisions regarding critical circumstances determinations in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings to require the administering authority to base its determinations on: (1) available information; and (2) in antidumping duty cases, whether there is a history of dumping and material injury by reason of dumped imports in the United States and elsewhere of the subject merchandise. (Sec. 216) Requires the administering authority with respect to countervailing and antidumping duty cases to provide exporters who would have been subject to agreements to eliminate the injurious effect of, or subsidies provided on, their exports, the reasons for not accepting such agreements and an opportunity for them to submit comments. (Sec. 217) Authorizes the administering authority and the ITC to use records compiled in a previously filed and withdrawn countervailing or antidumping duty petition in any subsequent investigation initiated pursuant to any new petitions filed within three months after such withdrawal. (Sec. 218) Sets forth special rules for: (1) countervailing and antidumping duty investigations with respect to agreements to eliminate the injurious effect of, or subsidies provided on, exports that are sold in a regional industry (domestic producers within a region who are treated as a separate industry); and (2) assessment of countervailing or antidumping duties on specific exporters in affirmative regional industry determinations. (Sec. 219) Requires the administering authority, whenever an affirmative antidumping determination is made, to make a preliminary and final determination of: (1) the estimated weighted average dumping margin for each exporter individually investigated; and (2) the estimated all-others rate for all exporters not individually investigated. Requires the administering authority to order the posting of bond for the subject merchandise based on the estimates above. (Sec. 220) Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) the periodic review of countervailing or antidumping duty orders or notice of suspension of a countervailing or antidumping duty investigation; (2) determinations of antidumping or countervailing duties; (3) revocation of countervailing or antidumping duty orders; (4) termination of suspended countervailing or antidumping duty investigations; (5) administering authority determinations of whether revocation of an order, or termination of a suspended investigation, would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry, or a countervailable subsidy, or of dumping; (6) revised factors to be considered in threat of injury determinations; (7) negligible imports; (8) cumulation for determining material injury and threat of material injury to an industry; (9) consideration of post-petition information in countervailing or antidumping duty investigations; (10) determination of the normal value of subject merchandise; (11) opportunity for industrial users and consumers of subject merchandise to comment; (12) publication of countervailing or antidumping duty determinations; (13) conduct of countervailing or antidumping duty investigations and the administrative review of such investigations; and (14) antidumping duty petitions by WTO member countries. Subtitle B: Subsidies Provisions - Part 1: Countervailable Subsidies - Defines the term "countervailable subsidy" as a financial contribution, any form of income or price support, or any direct or indirect payment by the government of a country or any public entity within a country's territory to a person or a funding mechanism to provide a financial contribution to a person, thereby conferring a benefit. Part 2: Repeal of Section 303 and Conforming Amendments - Repeals a provision of the Tariff Act of 1930 concerning countervailing duties. (Sec. 262) Authorizes the imposition of a countervailing duty (equal to the amount of the net countervailable subsidy) on subject imported merchandise if: (1) the administering authority determines that a foreign country provides a countervailable subsidy with respect to such merchandise; and (2) in the case of merchandise imported from a Subsidies Agreement country, the ITC determines that a U.S. industry is materially injured or is threatened with material injury, or the establishment of a U.S. industry is materially retarded by reasons of such imported merchandise. (Sec. 263) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) de minimis countervailable subsidies; (2) determination of countervailable, all-others, and country-wide subsidy rates; and (3) the definition of "developing and least-developed countries". Part 3: Section 303 Injury Investigations - Requires the ITC, upon a request from an interested party for an injury investigation with respect to a countervailing duty order which applies to merchandise that is a product of a Subsidies Agreement country, to initiate an investigation to determine whether a U.S. industry is likely to be materially injured by such merchandise if such order is revoked. Part 4: Enforcement of United States Rights Under the Subsidies Agreement - Requires the administering authority to provide information to the public upon request, and, to the extent feasible, assistance and advice to interested parties concerning remedies and procedures under the Subsidies Agreement. Requires the administering authority to notify the USTR with respect to its determination that a class or kind of merchandise is benefiting from a subsidy prohibited under the Agreement. Sets forth provisions requiring the withdrawal of such subsidy or the imposition of countermeasures. Subtitle C: Effective Date - Sets forth effective dates. Title III: Additional Implementation of Agreements - Subtitle A: Safeguards - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 regarding: (1) confidentiality of business information furnished to the ITC with respect to petitions requesting import relief from injury caused by import competition; (2) disclosure of such information under protective order; (3) time limits with respect to ITC import injury determinations in critical circumstances cases and import relief provided by the President; (4) productivity as a factor in ITC import relief determinations; and (5) limits with respect to the duration of import relief actions. Subtitle B: Foreign Trade Barriers and Unfair Trade Practices - Requires a certain USTR report on foreign trade barriers to include a section on foreign anticompetitive practices that adversely affect the export of U.S. goods or services. (Sec. 313) Requires the USTR to take into account the history of intellectual property practices of a foreign country and the history of U.S. efforts to achieve adequate intellectual property protection in identifying priority foreign countries. (Sec. 314) Revises the definition of an unreasonable foreign act, policy, or practice to include the denial of nondiscriminatory market access opportunities for U.S. persons that rely upon intellectual property protection. Requires the USTR to include in a certain report identifying U.S. trade liberalization priorities a review of U.S. trade expansion priorities. Revises factors to be included in such report. Requires the USTR to negotiate an agreement with foreign priority countries that eliminates the unreasonable trade practice or, if elimination is not feasible, that provides compensatory benefits. Sets forth U.S. objectives with respect to the protection of intellectual property rights. Subtitle C: Unfair Practices in Import Trade - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to set forth provisions with respect to: (1) the conclusion of ITC unfair trade practices determinations; (2) entry under bond of merchandise suspected of being manufactured as a result of an unfair trade practice; (3) cease and desist orders with respect to such merchandise; (4) access to confidential information submitted to the ITC in its investigation; (5) stays of actions pending before the ITC; and (6) jurisdiction of counterclaims filed in unfair trade practices cases. Subtitle D: Textiles - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to publish in the Federal Register a list of products to be integrated as set out in the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing. (Sec. 333) Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register a list of manufacturers or exporters located outside the United States who fraudulently imported textile or apparel merchandise into the United States in violation of U.S. customs laws. Requires the President to publish a list of countries who have transshipped textile or apparel products or have engaged in activities designed to evade U.S. quotas on such products. (Sec. 334) Requires the Secretary to prescribe rules implementing specified principles for determining the origin of textiles and apparel products. Subtitle E: Government Procurement - Amends the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 to extend from one year to 18 months following the initiation of dispute settlement procedures with respect to the Agreement on Government Procurement the period of time during which the President shall not take action to limit Government procurement for a participant if specified conditions are met. Extends the time period of dispute resolution procedures before certain sanctions are imposed on a signatory country for not complying with such procedures. (Sec. 342) Repeals the mandate for a study of the economic effects of the waiver of Buy American requirements in the procurement of products in labor surplus areas prior to certain trade renegotiations. (Sec. 343) Revises such Act with respect to reciprocal competitive procurement practices and the authority to bar the procurement of U.S. products from non-designated countries. Subtitle F: Technical Barriers to Trade - Declares that nothing under the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 regarding customs duties and technical barriers to trade may be construed to: (1) prohibit a Federal agency from engaging in standards-related activities, including activities related to safety, the protection of human, animal, or plant life or health, the environment, or consumers; or (2) limit a Federal agency's authority to determine the level of safety it considers appropriate in such areas. Title IV: Agriculture-Related Provisions - Subtitle A: Agriculture - Part 1: Market Access - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to prohibit any quantitative limitation or fee from being imposed under such Act with respect to any product of a WTO member. (Sec. 402) Repeals specified sections of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 regarding import restrictions on cheese and chocolate crumbs. Amends the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 to eliminate provisions authorizing the President to prohibit the entry of quota cheese. (Sec. 403) Repeals the Meat Import Act of 1979. (Sec. 404) Requires the President, in implementing the tariff-rate quotas set out in Schedule XX, to take necessary action to ensure that agricultural imports do not disrupt the orderly marketing of commodities in the United States. Sets forth provisions with respect to the application of tariff-rate quotas to imported agricultural products. (Sec. 405) Requires the President to publish in the Federal Register: (1) a list of special safeguard agricultural goods; and (2) a trigger level and price for such goods. Requires a duty to be imposed on such imports of such goods. Part II: Exports - Export Enhancement Program Amendments of 1994 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to require the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to carry out an export enhancement program to encourage the commercial sale of U.S. agricultural commodities in world markets at competitive prices. Extends funding levels for such program through FY 2001. (Sec. 411) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the authority of the dairy export incentive program through FY 2001. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell dairy products for export consistent with U.S. obligations under the Uruguay Round Agreements, if their sale will not interfere with the usual marketings of the United States nor disrupt world prices of agricultural commodities and patterns of commercial trade. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should consult other donor nations to consider appropriate levels of food aid commitments to meet the legitimate needs of developing countries; and (2) the United States should increase its contribution of bone fide food assistance to developing countries consistent with the Agreement on Agriculture. Part III: Other Provisions - Increases the maximum tariff rate the President may impose on imported tobacco. (Sec. 422) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to require producers, purchasers, and exporters of 1994 through 1998 price supported crops of tobacco to remit to the CCC a certain nonrefundable marketing assessment. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide a drawback (refund) on any tobacco that is subject to the over-quota rate of duty established under a tariff-rate quota. (Sec. 423) Authorizes the President to proclaim a reduction or elimination of any duty with respect to cigar binder and filler tobacco, wrapper tobacco, or oriental tobacco. (Sec. 424) Requires the President to report to the Congress on the extent to which Canada is complying with the Uruguay Round Agreements with respect to dairy and poultry products and with its related obligations under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). (Sec. 425) Secretary of Agriculture to study and report to the Congress on the effects of the Uruguay Round Agreements on the Federal milk marketing order system. (Sec. 426) Requires the CCC to use certain funds for export promotion. foreign market development, export credit financing, and promotion of the development, commercialization, and marketing of products resulting from alternative uses of agricultural commodities. Subtitle B: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures - Amends the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 to require the standards information center of the Department of Commerce, among other things, to make available to the public documents and information regarding: (1) general application of sanitary or phytosanitary measures by Federal and State agencies; and (2) participation of Federal and State governments and nongovernmental bodies in international and regional standardizing bodies and conformity assessment systems, and in bilateral and multilateral arrangements regarding standards-related measures. (Sec. 431) Amends Federal law to exclude Mexico from certain requirements requiring pest inspection of Mexican railroad cars that enter the United States. Amends the Federal Plant Pest Act and the Plant Quarantine Act to repeal the current requirement of permits for the importation or interstate movement of plant pests and nursery stock. Allows such importation or movement (in the mails or otherwise) only in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture to prevent the dissemination into the United States, or interstate, of such pests, plant diseases, or insect pests. Amends the Honeybee Act to repeal the statutory prohibition but authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit the importation of honeybees and honeybee semen into or through the United States in order to prevent the spread of diseases and parasites harmful to honeybees, the introduction of genetically undesirable honeybee germ plasm, or the introduction and spread of undesirable honeybee species or subspecies and honeybee semen. Amends the Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 to revise the prohibition on the importation or interstate movement of noxious weeds. Amends Federal law to repeal the statutory prohibition but authorize the Secretary of Agriculture by regulation to prohibit or restrict the importation of cattle, sheep, or other ruminants, or swine that are diseased or infected with any disease, or that have been exposed to an infection, into or through the United States in order to prevent the dissemination of disease into the United States. Changes from mandatory to discretionary the Secretary of Agriculture's authority to: (1) cause the inspection of imported animals for contagious diseases or infection; and (2) establish an international animal quarantine station. Revises the Federal Meat Inspection Act with respect to a certification by the Secretary of Agriculture that foreign plants that export meat carcasses or meat products have complied with inspection requirements. (Sec. 432) Amends the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 to require the President to designate an agency to be responsible for informing the public of the sanitary and phytosanitary standard-setting activities of each international standard-setting organization. Prohibits an agency from making a determination that a foreign sanitary or phytosanitary measure is equivalent to a U.S. sanitary or phytosanitary measure unless it determines that such foreign measure provides at least the same level of sanitary or phytosanitary protection as the U.S. measure. Subtitle C: Standards - Amends the Federal Seed Act to repeal certain seed staining requirements. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to publish, with the reasons for it, any determination that foreign seed of alfalfa or red clover is not adapted for general agricultural use in the United States. Subtitle D: General Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this title. Title V: Intellectual Property - Subtitle A: Copyright Provisions - Amends the Computer Software Rental Amendments Act of 1990 to repeal the termination date of a prohibition on unauthorized commercial rental or leasing of computer programs. (Sec. 512) Amends Federal copyright law to apply existing remedies for copyright infringement where a person, without the consent of a performer: (1) fixes the sound or images of a live musical performance in a copy or phonorecord or reproduces phonorecords or copies of such a performance from an unauthorized fixation; (2) communicates to the public the sounds or images of such a performance; or (3) distributes, sells, rents, or traffics (or offers to engage in such activities) any copy or phonorecord fixed without such consent. (Sec. 513) Amends the Federal criminal code to impose criminal penalties for activities described in Section 512 that are pursued for commercial advantage or private financial gain. (Sec. 514) Replaces provisions regarding copyright in certain motion pictures with those concerning copyright in restored works. Declares that copyright subsists in restored works and vests automatically on the date of restoration. Provides that any work in which copyright is restored shall subsist for the remainder of the term of copyright that the work would have otherwise been granted in the United States if the work never entered the public domain in the United States. Provides that any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the Alien Property Custodian and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof is not a restored work. Declares that a restored work vests initially in the author or initial rightholder of the work as determined by the law of the source country of the work. Authorizes any person owning copyright or an exclusive right in a restored work to file a notice of intent with the Copyright Office to enforce that copyright or right against reliance parties or serve such notice directly. Defines a "reliance party" as any person who: (1) engages in acts, before the source country becomes an eligible country (a country that is a World Trade Organization (WTO) member country, adheres to the Bern Convention, or is subject to a presidential proclamation of protection), which would have violated exclusive rights in copyrighted works if the restored work had been subject to copyright protection and continues to engage in such acts after the source country becomes an eligible country; (2) makes or acquires copies or phonorecords of the work before the source country becomes an eligible country; or (3) as the result of the sale or other disposition of a derivative work or significant assets of a person described in (1) or (2), is a successor, assignee, or licensee of such a person. Sets forth remedies for infringement of copyrights in restored works. Permits the President, whenever a foreign nation extends to U.S. authors restored copyright protection on substantially the same basis as provided under this Act, to extend restored protection by proclamation to any work: (1) of which one or more of the authors is a national, domiciliary, or sovereign authority of such nation; or (2) which was first published in such nation. Subtitle B: Trademark Provisions - Amends the Trademark Act of 1946 to consider nonuse of a mark for three (currently, two) consecutive years to be prima facie evidence of abandonment. (Sec. 522) Makes trademarks regarding geographic indications, when first used in connection with wines or spirits one year after the WTO Agreement's enactment date, nonregistrable if the geographic indication is a place other than the origin of the goods. Subtitle C: Patent Provisions - Amends Federal patent law to extend U.S. intellectual property protections to inventions that are made in other countries by persons who are domiciled in a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) country or WTO member country and who are serving in any other country in connection with operations by or on behalf of the United States, a NAFTA country, or a WTO member country. (Sec. 532) Revises Federal patent law to establish a 20-year patent term from the date of filing. Provides that, if the issuance of an original patent is delayed because of a proceeding regarding situations where a patent application would interfere with a pending application or with an unexpired patent, the term of the patent shall be extended for the period of delay up to five years. Provides the same extension for delays due to appellate review by the Board of Patent Appeals or a Federal court. Requires the term of a patent that is in force or results from an application filed within six months after this Act's enactment date to be the greater of the 20-year term or 17 years from grant, subject to any terminal disclaimers. Sets forth provisions with respect to the filing of a provisional application for a patent. Specifies that a provisional application shall not be entitled to the right of priority of any other application or the benefit of an earlier filing date in the United States. Directs the Commissioner of the Patent and Trademark Office to charge a $150 filing fee on each provisional application for an original patent. (Sec. 533) Deems offering to sell or import a patented invention into the United States to be patent infringement. Title VI: Related Provisions - Subtitle A: Expiring Provisions - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend, through July 31, 1995, duty-free treatment of the products of beneficiary developing countries under the Generalized System of Preferences. (Sec. 601) Requires certain articles that enter the United States after September 30, 1994, and before the enactment of this Act, to be liquidated or reliquidated as free of duty and a refund to be paid with respect to such entries. (Sec. 602) Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through January 1, 2007, the requirement that the Secretaries of Commerce and of the Interior: (1) verify the wages paid by each producer to permanent residents of the U.S. insular possessions during the preceding year; and (2) issue to each producer a production incentive certificate for the applicable amount. Extends the authority of the production incentive certificate, number PIC-EV-89. Subtitle B: Certain Customs Provisions - Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to revise provisions concerning the reimbursement of certain customs user fees. (Sec. 612) Increases the customs user fees for certain imported merchandise. Subtitle C: Conforming Amendments - Amends Federal trade laws to make conforming amendments. Title VII: Revenue Provisions - Subtitle A: Withholding Tax Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to require tax withholding on payments made to a member of an Indian tribe from profits from gaming activity. (Sec. 702) Provides for voluntary withholding on specified Federal payments and on unemployment compensation. Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Estimated Taxes and Payments and Deposits of Taxes - Requires amounts included in gross income for foreign shareholders and controlled foreign corporations to be taken into account in computing annualized income installments. (Sec. 712) Specifies time requirements for the deposit of certain excise taxes. (Sec. 713) Reduces the rate of interest to be paid on certain corporate overpayments. Subtitle C: Earned Income Tax Credit - Makes military personnel stationed outside the United States eligible for the earned income credit. (Sec. 722) Makes certain nonresident aliens ineligible for such tax credit. (Sec. 723) Disregards the income of inmates at penal institutions in determining such tax credit. Subtitle D: Provisions Relating to Retirement Benefits - Extends the authority to transfer excess pension assets to retiree health benefit accounts. (Sec. 733) Increases the percentage of social security benefits paid to nonresidents that must be included in gross income. Subtitle E: Other Provisions - Provides for partnership distributions of marketable securities. (Sec. 742) Requires taxpayer identification numbers at birth. (Sec. 743) Extends the authority of the Internal Revenue Service to impose certain user fees. (Sec. 744) Removes the reduction of the understatement penalty for corporations for items attributable to tax shelters. Subtitle F: Pension Plan Funding and Premiums - Retirement Protection Act of 1994 - Amends requirements for pension plan funding, including: (1) minimum funding, revising additional funding requirements for single-employer plans; (2) limitation on changes in current liability assumptions; (3) anticipation of bargained benefit increases; (4) modification of the quarterly contribution requirement; and (5) exceptions to the excise tax on nondeductible contributions. (Sec. 761) Makes similar amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) for pension plan funding. (Sec. 766) Prohibits benefit increases or other changes which increase plan liabilities where a plan sponsor is in bankruptcy. (Sec. 767) Amends IRC and ERISA with respect to: (1) single sum distributions; and (2) adjustments to the lien for missed minimum funding contributions. (Sec. 771) Amends title IV (Plan Termination Insurance) of ERISA to revise requirements relating to reportable events. (Sec. 772) Requires that specified additional information be furnished to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). (Sec. 773) Revises provisions for enforcement of minimum funding requirements. (Sec. 774) Phases out the variable rate premium cap. (Sec. 775) Requires the plan administrator of a plan subject to a specified additional premium to notify plan participants and beneficiaries of the plan's funding status and the limits on the PBGC's guaranty should the plan terminate while underfunded. (Sec. 776) Adds provisions relating to missing participants. (Sec. 777) Revises provisions relating to modification of the maximum guarantee for disability benefits. (Sec. 781) Sets forth effective dates for this Act. Title VIII: Pioneer Preferences - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from awarding licenses pursuant to preferential treatment accorded by the FCC to persons who make significant contributions to the development of a new telecommunications service or technology, except in accordance with this title. (Sec. 801) Requires the FCC to recover for the public a portion of the value of the public spectrum resource made available to such persons by requiring them, as a condition for receipt of licenses, to agree to pay a specified sum. Provides for such payments to be made in a lump sum or in guaranteed installment payments, with or without royalty payments, over a period of up to five years. Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations specifying the procedures and criteria by which it will evaluate applications for such preferential treatment in licensing. Requires such regulations to: (1) specify the procedures and criteria by which the significance of such contributions will be determined; (2) include procedures to prevent unjust enrichment by ensuring that the value of the contribution justifies any reduction in amounts paid for licenses; and (3) be inapplicable to applications that have been accepted for filing before September 1, 1994. Sets forth requirements with respect to treatment of broadband licenses awarded pursuant to preferential treatment accorded in the Third Report and Order in General Docket 90-314, including that the FCC: (1) not reconsider the award of such specified preferences and not delay the granting of licenses based on such awards; (2) not alter the bandwidth or service areas designated for such licenses in such Report and Order; (3) use the broadband licenses in the personal communications services for blocks A and B for the 20 largest markets (ranked by population) in which no applicant has obtained preferential treatment; (4) permit installment payments over a period of five years subject to specified conditions; and (5) recover an amount equal to $400 million for such licenses. Terminates the FCC's authority to provide preferential treatment as described by this title on September 30, 1998. Applies this title to any licenses issued on or after August 1, 1994, pursuant to preferential treatment procedures.
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Library of Congress Revolving Fund Title II: Cataloging Products and Services Title III: Retention of Proceeds of Certain Sales and Restitution Payments Title IV: Amendments Relating to the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board Title V: Support and Reimbursement of Arbitration Panels Library of Congress Financial Reform Act of 1994 - Title I: Library of Congress Revolving Fund - Establishes in the Treasury the Library of Congress Revolving Fund. Makes such Fund available to the Librarian of Congress for: (1) preparation of research reports, translations, and analytical studies for Federal agencies; (2) centralized acquisition of publications, information services, and Library materials, and training in library and information services, for federal agencies; (3) decimal classification development; (4) gift shop activities; (5) document location, copying and delivery services, and international interlibrary lending; (6) centralized acquisition activities for libraries participating in the Library's overseas programs; and (7) special events and programs. Authorizes the Librarian to: (1) establish Fund service units to carry out such activities; and (2) make such library products and services available for purchase through the units at prices that do not exceed levels necessary to recover the production and distribution costs. Credits to the Fund appropriations for such activities and all amounts received by such units with respect to such activities. Title II: Cataloging Products and Services - Authorizes the Librarian to make cataloging products and services, created by the Library, available for purchase at prices that do not exceed the distribution costs. Requires receipts to be deposited in the Treasury and credited to the Library's salaries and expenses appropriation. Title III: Retention of Proceeds of Certain Sales and Restitution Payments - Authorizes the Librarian to sell personal property that is excess to the collections or the exchange and donation programs of the Library. Prohibits the sale of: (1) personal property received by the Library as a gift or otherwise under a written acceptance or other written agreement by the Library that prohibits such sale; (2) audio books and other items for the blind or the physically handicapped; or (3) products of the Congressional Research Service. Authorizes the Librarian to sell copies, phonorecords, or identifying material deposited in the Copyright Office only if: (1) the articles are sold as scrap for recycling; (2) the Library has owned the articles for at least five years and there is no reasonable likelihood that the later resale or commercial use by the purchaser will materially impair the market value of the work; or (3) the copyright has expired. Specifies restrictions on the sale of such copyright deposits. Authorizes the Librarian to accept payments for lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed books and other materials from the Library's collection if such payments are: (1) ordered by any judicial or administrative authority; or (2) received from a borrower or other Library user. Establishes in the Treasury a fund consisting of the proceeds of sales of excess property or copyright deposits and restitution payments described under this title. Provides that account funds shall be available to the Librarian for the acquisition of books and other materials for the collections of the Library, including the costs of administering the national and international acquisition programs of the Library. Title IV: Amendments Relating to the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board - Appoints the vice chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library to the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board. Increases the amount that may be on deposit in the Library's permanent loan account in the Treasury to $30 million. Allows gifts or bequests accepted by the Librarian to be invested or reinvested if agreed to by the Librarian and the Board, in the same manner as provided for trust funds given or bequeathed to the Board. Title V: Support and Reimbursement of Arbitration Panels - Revises the purposes of Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels to include making determinations concerning the adjustment of copyright royalty fees for secondary transmissions by satellite carriers and network stations. Directs the Librarian to provide by regulation for the reimbursement of arbitrators on the panels. Requires each arbitrator to be an independent contractor acting on behalf of the United States and to be paid pursuant to a signed agreement between the Library and the arbitrator. Provides that provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1994 that require a personnel reduction by one for each vacancy created by reason of a voluntary separation under such Act (whether by retirement or resignation) shall not apply to Library positions required for the administration of compulsory licensing.
United States · United States Congress · 23 August 1994
Urges the Secretary of State to: (1) apply consistent criteria in determining whether to restrict the use of U.S. passports in any country; and (2) in deciding whether to extend the ban on the use of such passports in Lebanon, give paramount consideration to the need to ensure the safety of U.S. citizens and full consideration to the improved security situation in Lebanon, to the effect of the ban on opportunities for U.S. businesses, to the impact of the ban on U.S. interests in Lebanon and the Middle East, and to whether U.S. interests would be more effectively served by removing the ban and instituting a travel advisory for Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1994
Condemns the: (1) worldwide targeting of Jewish communities by terrorists determined to disrupt the Middle East peace process; and (2) continued use of violence to pursue political objectives. Commends the people of Argentina, Panama, and Great Britain for the outrage they expressed in response to terrorist acts in July of 1994 against targets in such countries. Recognizes the efforts of such countries to investigate such incidents. Urges their governments to commit any resources necessary to apprehend the perpetrators and to adopt measures to prevent a recurrence of such acts.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Health Insurance and Delivery Systems Reform Subtitle A: Federal Standards for State Regulatory Programs Subtitle B: Coordination With Other Provisions of Law Title II: Coverage Title III: Premium and Cost-Sharing Assistance Title IV: Administrative Simplification and Privacy Title V: Malpractice and Fraud Subtitle A: Federal Tort Reform Subtitle B: Expanded Efforts to Combat Health Care Fraud and Abuse Affecting Federal Outlay Programs Title VI: Medicare, Medical Education, and Medicaid Subtitle A: Medicare Subtitle B: Medical Education Subtitle C: Home and Community-Based Services Subtitle D: Medicaid Program Title VII: Revenue Provisions Subtitle A: Financing Provisions Subtitle B: Tax Treatment of Employer-Provided Health Care Subtitle C: Deduction for Individuals Purchasing Own Health Insurance Subtitle D: Exempt Organizations Subtitle E: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance and Services Subtitle F: Health Care Trust Funds Subtitle G: Other Revenue Provisions Subtitle H: Ensuring Health Care Financing Health Security Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to achieve universal health insurance coverage through: (1) subsidies for the purchase of health insurance; (2) affordable standardized health insurance; (3) elimination of exclusionary practices by health insurance companies; (4) a permanent National Health Commission for recommending periodically to the Congress how to increase the number of people covered by health insurance; (5) reduction of health costs through more open competitive markets and continued advances in medical education and research; and (6) health care provided under Medicare and Medicaid and health programs of the Departments of Defense and of Veterans Affairs, and the Indian Health Service. Title I: Health Insurance and Delivery Systems Reform - Subtitle A: Federal Standards for State Regulatory Programs - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to add a new title XXI under which States are required to establish accreditation, certification, enforcement, and information programs for certifying all health plans and long-term care policies (except multistate self-insured health plans which will be certified by the Secretary of Labor) issued, sold, offered for sale, or operated in the State that meet certain standards incorporating specified requirements, such as those pertaining to community rating, preexisting conditions, and a patient's right to self-determination in health care services, as certified standard, nonstandard, or supplemental health plans or certified long-term care policies in order to participate in Medicaid. (Sec. 101) Requires establishment of such programs also for: (1) enforcing applicable standards for such plans and policies; (2) providing consumers in the State with comparative value information on the performance of all health plans in each community rating area established in the State; (3) designating State health plan service areas for purposes of access to essential community providers, delivery of benefits, and improved access to underserved areas; (4) providing for reinsurance, risk adjustment, and cost-sharing adjustment programs; (5) specifying an annual general enrollment period; (6) providing for a premium approval process for long-term care policies; (7) providing for the certification of workplace wellness programs; (8) enforcing employer responsibilities with regard to employee access to standard plans; (9) oversight of purchasing cooperatives; (10) supporting quality assurances for measuring access to and appropriateness of health care services provided to consumers; (11) supporting development of community health networks and plans; (12) supporting development of community health networks and plans; (13) providing coordination between health plans and automobile medical liability policies; (14) developing remedy and enforcement mechanisms (including early resolution programs) as described for dealing with complaints involving health plans, collecting any civil monetary penalties assessed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) under such program, and for handling civil actions brought to invalidate any provision of this Act; and (15) conforming State laws and procedures to the rules regarding fraud and medical malpractice under SSA title XI. Directs the Secretary to initially determine and approve the compliance of such State programs with the Federal guidelines under this new title and periodically review such State programs to determine if they continue to comply with such guidelines. Provides funding for such programs. Sets forth requirements relating to: (1) possessions of the United States; (2) State single-payer systems; and (3) treatment of certain State laws. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop certification criteria for workplace wellness programs; and (2) certify certain private accreditation entities. Describes the various benefit packages and the categories of items and services included in them (such as mental illness and substance abuse services as well as family planning services and services for pregnant women). Prescribes general cost-sharing under the standard benefits package. Creates in HHS a National Health Benefits Board to: (1) establish cost-sharing schedules to be provided by standard packages; and (2) define the standards to be used by a health plan in determining whether an item or service under certain categories of health care items and services is medically necessary or appropriate for an enrollee in the plan. Outlines the process for congressional consideration of any Board recommendations to modify standard benefit packages and cost-sharing assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth special provisions relating to abortion and religious beliefs, providing that nothing under this new title shall be construed to require the creation or maintenance of abortion clinics or other abortion providers within a State or any region of a State. Details general employer responsibilities pertaining to payroll deductions and other specified matters in enrolling their employees in certified standard health plans. Lists specific duties of purchasing cooperatives, which include making enrollment information available, enrolling community-rated individuals in certified standard health plans, and collecting and forwarding plan premiums to the plan, as well as specific requirements governing the organization and operation of purchasing cooperatives. Provides for access to standard health benefit plan coverage through qualified association plans. Sets forth special rules for church and multiemployer plans. Requires the Secretary to direct the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and the Health Care Financing Administration to support and conduct research on the effects of health care reform on health care delivery systems and methods for risk adjustment. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to award grants to States or community-based, independent, not-for-profit organizations that have submitted applications to establish demonstration projects that provide certified standard health plans with the technical assistance to implement the results of quality improvement research into medical practice. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to the Congress which: (1) reviews the results of the quality improvement research grants; (2) evaluates consumer information programs established by participating States; (3) tracks the evolution of national performance measures and other research; and (4) evaluates State, regional, and national trends on quality of health care. Allows the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with: (1) eligible public or private non-profit consortia for the development of community health groups (i.e. certified community health plans or community health networks); and (2) community health groups for their operation. Authorizes the Secretary to make certain types of financial assistance available to a community health group or isolated rural facility applying for capital assistance. Directs the Secretary to: (1) award grants to eligible entities to establish demonstration projects to promote telemedicine and other uses of the telecommunications network in rural areas; and (2) establish the Interagency Task Force on Rural Telemedicine to, among other things, identify specific uses for telemedicine that have proven to be effective and review the policy of the Health Care Financing Administration relating to reimbursement for telemedicine services. Subtitle B: Coordination With Other Provisions of Law - Eliminates immunity from antitrust suits under provisions commonly known as the McCarran-Ferguson Act with respect to health insurance. (Sec. 112) Elevates the position of the Director of the Office of Rural Health to the position of the Assistant Secretary for Rural Health and expands that official's duties. (Sec. 113) Permits the Secretary of Labor to issue special reporting and disclosure rules for employer group health plans and make other conforming amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Repeals ERISA provisions on multiple employer welfare arrangements. Title II: Coverage - Amends SSA to add a new title XXII under which is established the National Health Care Commission to monitor and respond to: (1) trends in health insurance coverage; and (2) changes in per-capita premiums and other indicators of health care inflation. Requires the Commission to report to the Congress biennially on the status of health insurance coverage in the nation and the national goal of universal coverage. Authorizes appropriations. Provides that if 95 percent of the resident population is not covered by 2002, the Commission shall submit to the Congress an implementing bill which such statutory provisions as the Commission determines are necessary or appropriate to implement recommendations developed by it to achieve that target. Title III: Premium and Cost-Sharing Assistance - Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to require State Medicaid plans to provide for a State program furnishing premium and cost-sharing assistance in accordance with a new Medicaid part B (State Programs for Premium and Cost-Sharing Assistance), which includes a grant program for providing cost-sharing assistance for certain individuals with incomes above 100 percent of the poverty line. Title IV: Administrative Simplification and Privacy - Amends SSA title XI to: (1) delay employer reporting requirements under Medicare and Medicaid Coverage Data Bank provisions; (2) terminate the Bank, effective January 1, 1996; (3) provide for administration simplification in the health care system, including Medicaid and Medicare, through an information network developed according to certain specified data element standards and requirements for electronic transmission and accessing of certain health information; (4) direct the Secretary to establish standards for certifying health information network services as qualified services and for establishing the form of health security cards issued by health plans and the information to be encoded electronically on such cards; (5) provide penalties for failure to comply with data element standards and requirements and for misuse of health security cards and personal health identifiers; (6) provide billing rules for clinical laboratory services; (7) establish the Health Care Information Advisory Committee for advising the Secretary and the Congress with respect to the health information network and network operations; (8) provide for demonstration projects to promote development and use of electronically integrated community-based clinical information systems and computerized patient medical records; (9) provide for privacy of health information; and (10) authorize appropriations. Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to repeal provisions requiring the identification of secondary payer situations. Title V: Malpractice and Fraud - Subtitle A: Federal Tort Reform - Amends SSA title XI to provide for Federal medical malpractice provisions preempting inconsistent State laws (with specified exceptions) for governing malpractice actions brought in State or Federal courts (except with regard to actions arising from a vaccine-related injury or death covered under the Public Health Service Act) without establishing any new basis for bringing malpractice in Federal courts. Requires: (1) States participating under new SSA title XXI to establish alternative dispute resolution procedures for settling medical malpractice claims; and (2) any such claims to have gone through and reached final resolution under such procedures in order for any medical malpractice liability action to be brought with respect to such claim in a participating State. Authorizes the Secretary to provide funds to one or more eligible participating States to establish no-fault medical liability system demonstration projects to replace the common law tort liability system for medical injuries. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Expanded Efforts to Control Health Care Fraud and Abuse Affecting Federal Outlay Programs - Amends SSA title XI to provide for additional measures for controlling health care fraud and abuse affecting Federal outlay programs, among other means by: (1) mandating a joint program by the Secretary and the Attorney General to coordinate Federal, State, and local law enforcement programs to control fraud and abuse affecting Federal outlay programs; (2) providing qualified immunity to individuals providing information to such officials on health care fraud or abuse; (3) establishing the HHS Office of Inspector General Asset Forfeiture Proceeds Fund, consisting of all proceeds from forfeitures that have been transferred to the HHS Inspector General (IG) from the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture Fund and available to the IG for investigation expenses; (4) allowing rewards for information leading to possible prosecution for a Federal health care offense; and (5) making revisions with regard to civil monetary penalties for health care fraud and abuse, including increasing such penalties, and with regard to private rights of action and mandatory exclusion from health care program participation. (Sec. 531) Amends Federal criminal code and (Civil False Claims Act) provisions, covering health care fraud as well as theft and embezzlement, false statements, and bribery and graft in connection with health care, and false claims for payments by health plans in order to conform to the changes made above under SSA. Title VI: Medicare, Medical Education, and Medicaid - Subtitle A: Medicare - Amends SSA title XVIII to replace provisions on payments to health maintenance organizations and competitive medical plans with provisions on payments to certain certified standard health plans, modifying provisions with regard to risk-contracting. (Sec. 611) Makes various specified changes in provisions related to Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance) and concerned with: (1) inpatient hospital services updates for prospective payment system hospitals; (2) payment reductions for capital-related costs for inpatient hospital services; (3) disproportionate share payment reductions; (4) payment methodology for rehabilitation and long-term care hospitals; (5) new designations of new long-term hospitals; (6) extension of the freeze on updates to routine service cost limits for skilled nursing facilities; (7) payments for sole community hospitals with teaching programs and multihospital campuses; (8) Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals; (9) the rural health transition grant program; (10) a new limited service hospital program replacing the essential access community hospital program; (11) rural primary care hospitals and medical assistance facilities; and (12) termination of indirect medical education payments. (Sec. 622) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on subacute care. (Sec. 631) Makes various specified changes in provisions related to Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) and concerned with: (1) updates for physicians' services; (2) volume performance standard rates of increase; (3) limitations on payment for physicians' services relating to inpatient stays in certain hospitals; (4) underserved area bonus payments; (5) development and implementation of resource-based methodology for practice expenses; (6) demonstration projects for Medicare State-based performance standard rate of increase; (7) elimination of formula-driven overpayments for certain outpatient hospital services; (8) eye or eye and ear hospitals; (9) imposition of coinsurance on laboratory services; (10) competition acquisition for items and services and laboratory services; (11) expanded coverage for physician assistants and nurse practitioners; and (12) general part B premiums. (Sec. 651) Makes various specified changes in provisions related to Medicare parts A and B and concerned with: (1) Medicare as secondary payer; (2) physician referral exceptions; (3) Medicare supplemental policies; (4) reductions in routine cost limits for home health services; (5) termination of graduate medical education payments; and (6) extension of social health maintenance organization demonstrations. (Sec. 653) Requires the Secretary to use a competitive process to contract with centers of excellence for cataract surgery and coronary artery by-pass surgery with payment under Medicare to be made for services subject to such contracts on the basis of specified negotiated or all-inclusive rates. (Sec. 659) Requires the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and the Physician Payment Review Commission to each study and report to the Congress on Medicare spending. (Sec. 660) Directs the Secretary to develop a process to ensure that Medicare claims are submitted first by Medicare, Medicare supplemental policies, and other policies that provide supplemental benefits under Medicare before providers can submit claims to Medicare beneficiaries. Subtitle B: Medical Education - Amends SSA title XVIII to add a new part D (Medical Education) providing Federal payments to: (1) qualified applicants of approved physician and dental training programs and graduate nurse training programs; (2) medical schools for certain costs; and (3) academic health centers and other eligible institutions. Establishes the Graduate Medical Education and Academic Health Centers and Biomedical and Behavioral Research Trust Fund Advisory Committee to study and report to the Congress on operations of the Graduate Medical Education and Academic Health Centers Trust Fund, and the Biomedical and Behavioral Research Trust Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Home and Community-Based Services - Amends SSA title XIX to add new parts: (1) C (State Programs for Home and Community-Based Services for Individuals with Disabilities) under which each State with an approved plan for home and community-based services for individuals with disabilities can receive Federal payments to provide such services to such individuals; and (2) D (Payments to Hospitals Serving Vulnerable Populations). Subtitle D: Medicaid Program - (Sec. 671) Limits: (1) coverage under Medicaid of items and services covered under the standard benefits package; and (2) State expenditures to certified health plans. Provides that no certified health plan with a Medicaid contract could have more than 50 percent of its enrollment composed of SSI-Medicaid recipients. (Sec. 673) Replaces disproportionate share hospital payment provisions with provisions relating to payments to hospitals serving vulnerable populations. (Sec. 674) Sets forth Medicaid long-term care provisions, including provisions for payments for personal care services and frail elderly services. (Sec. 675) Provides for an increased resource disregard for individuals receiving certain services. (Sec. 676) Increases the number of frail elderly demonstration project waivers. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986 to provide for the development of waiver protocols and model certification guidelines for an organization operating a demonstration project under such a waiver. (Sec. 677) Eliminates the: (1) requirement of prior institutionalization with respect to habilitation services furnished under a waiver for home or community-based services; and (2) rule regarding availability of beds in certain institutions. (Sec. 679) Provides for Medicaid coverage of all certified nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist services. Title VII: Revenue Provisions - Subtitle A: Financing Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products. Applies such increase to tobacco products manufactured and sold in Puerto Rico. Increases such taxes for a temporary period for the funding of subsidies for children and pregnant women. (Sec. 703) Imposes an excise tax on the manufacture or importation of roll-your-own tobacco. (Sec. 705) Imposes a tax: (1) on a percentage of premiums received under taxable health insurance policies; and (2) on a percentage of amounts received for health-related administrative services. Imposes on self-insured plans a monthly tax on a percentage of the accident or health coverage expenditures and direct administrative expenditures. (Sec. 706) Imposes a 25 percent tax on high cost health plans to be paid by the issuer or the plan sponsor. Makes such tax non-deductible. (Sec. 711) Provides for the recapture of certain health care subsidies received by high-income individuals. Transfers such amounts to the Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. (Sec. 715) Increases the excise tax on certain hollow point and large caliber handgun ammunition. (Sec. 716) Requires certain shareholders of S corporations and limited partners who materially participate in corporate activities to include their share of income or loss from such corporation when determining net earnings from self-employment. (Sec. 717) Provides for extending Medicare coverage and applying the hospital insurance tax to all State and local government employees. Subtitle B: Tax Treatment of Employer-Provided Health Care - Imposes a tax on employer-provided health benefits that do not meet the requirements for permitted coverage. (Sec. 722) Includes in gross income health insurance coverage provided through flexible spending arrangements. (Sec. 723) Extends the deduction for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals until December 31, 1995. Subtitle C: Deduction for Individuals Purchasing Own Health Insurance - Allows a full deduction for the costs to individuals who purchase their own health insurance. Allows such deduction against the gross income of the individual. Subtitle D: Exempt Organizations - Sets forth qualification and disclosure requirements for tax-exempt health care organizations. (Sec. 742) Imposes an excise tax on the beneficiary of a taxable insurement and on the management of the participating tax-exempt health care organization. (Sec. 743) Provides for the treatment of health maintenance organizations, parent organizations, and health insurance purchasing cooperatives as tax-exempt entities. (Sec. 744) Provides for the taxation as an insurance company other than a life insurance company of certain organizations that provide health insurance and other prepaid health care services. (Sec. 746) Provides a tax exemption for certain qualified high risk insurance pools. (Sec. 748) Provides for the tax treatment of bonds of certain nonprofit tax-exempt organizations in a manner similar to governmental bonds. Subtitle E: Tax Treatment of Long-Term Care Insurance and Services - Treats qualified long-term care services as medical care for purposes of the medical expense deduction. (Sec. 752) Provides for the treatment of long-term care insurance as accident and health insurance. (Sec. 753) Allows accelerated death benefits under life insurance contracts to be paid to terminally ill individuals. Subtitle F: Health Care Trust Funds - Establishes the following trust funds to finance health-related programs: (1) the Health Security Trust Fund; (2) the Graduate Medical Education and Academic Health Centers Trust fund; and (3) the Biomedical and Behavioral Research Trust fund. Provides funding for such Trust Funds through tax and assessments made under this Act. Subtitle G: Other Revenue Provisions - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to submit to specified congressional committees a legislative proposal providing statutory standards for the classification of workers as employees or independent contractors. (Sec. 772) Increases the penalty for failure to file correct information for returns involving payments for services. (Sec. 775) Allows a tax credit for certain primary health services providers that practice in health professional shortage areas. (Sec. 776) Increases the amount allowed to be expensed as a depreciable business asset if such asset is medical equipment. (Sec. 781) Requires additional reserves for post-retirement medical and life insurance benefits to cover not less than ten years of the working lives of covered employees and to be maintained as separate accounts. (Sec. 783) Allows a tax credit for the cost of personal assistance services required by certain employed individuals. Limits the amount of such credit and provides a cost-of-living adjustment. (Sec. 785) Makes the limit on annual deferrals inapplicable in the case of an individual covered under an excess benefit arrangement maintained by a tax-exempt group medical practice. Subtitle H: Ensuring Health Care Financing - Sets forth provision to ensure that programs under this Act and unanticipated increases in other Federal health spending do not increase the Federal deficit.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1994
Smithsonian Institution Sesquicentennial Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue five-dollar gold coins and one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the scientific, educational, and cultural significance of the Smithsonian Institution. Mandates that: (1) all but a certain portion of surcharges received from coin sales be paid by the Secretary to the Smithsonian Institution to support programming related to the 150th anniversary and general activities of the Smithsonian Institution; and (2) a certain portion of such surcharges be dedicated to supporting the operation and activities of the National Numismatic Collection at the National Museum of American History.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1994
Defines the term "disease," for purposes of determining the relationship between undiagnosed illness and disease for purposes of entitlement to veterans' disability compensation, as any deviation from or interruption of the normal structure or function of any part, organ, or system of the body that is manifested by a symptom or sign the etiology, pathology, and prognosis for which is known or unknown. Requires due consideration to be given to the common or shared experiences, medical symptoms, or signs of other veterans who were engaged in similar service and who exhibit similar medical symptoms or signs.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1994
Economic Development Reauthorization Act of 1994 - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for grants to public works facilities through FY 1997. Repeals a limitation on financial assistance for sewer and other waste disposal facilities. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) conduct projects to demonstrate methods of assisting isolated small businesses to access small business services provided by Federal, State, and local governments; and (2) establish three business outreach centers. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Strategic Economic Development Planning and Policy within the Economic Development Administration. Establishes a Federal Coordinating Council for Economic Development to develop a government wide strategic plan for economic development. Authorizes appropriations. Requires applicants for economic development assistance to certify that a redevelopment area meets at least one criterion regarding per capita income, unemployment rates, job losses, population growth, employment declines, concentrations of low-income individuals, or outmigration. Voids designations of redevelopment areas made before this Act's enactment. Revises annual review provisions to permit assistance to a project only if the applicant has submitted an overall economic development plan or investment strategy to the Secretary for approval. Provides for approval of existing economic development plans and programs to the maximum extent practicable. Directs the Assistant Secretary for Economic Development to publish guidelines to expedite the processing of applications for assistance under this Act. Requires the Secretary to develop a general, simplified application form for grant assistance under this Act that may be used by all Federal agencies that provide such assistance. Directs the Secretary to conduct biennial evaluations of university centers and economic development districts receiving grant assistance to assess performance and contribution toward job creation. Authorizes assistance to be available for projects on military installations to be closed or realigned or for communities adversely affected by such closure or realignment. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1994
Provides for the printing as a Senate document a collection of statements made in tribute to the late First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1994
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the U.S. Government should: (1) enunciate a policy to promote democracy in Burma; (2) encourage members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at the July meetings in Bangkok to join U.S. efforts to seek the immediate release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners, achieve the transfer of power to the winners of the 1990 democratic election, join the U.S. arms embargo against Burma, and end human rights abuses perpetrated by the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC); (3) indicate continued U.S. opposition to SLORC participation in ASEAN; (4) work to implement United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolution 48/150 and pledge to seek international sanctions through the UN and the appointment of a special envoy; (5) oppose commercial arrangements and foreign aid and financial assistance from international finance institutions that only provide financial support for the SLORC; (6) encourage the Government of Thailand to allow Burmese political leaders and refugees to continue their efforts to bring democratic change to Burma without fear of harassment or other pressure; (7) continue the current policy of not sending an ambassador to Rangoon until the SLORC has taken steps to end human rights abuses and transfer power to the democratically elected leaders of Burma; and (8) investigate claims of forced repatriation of Rohingya refugees.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1994
Recognizes the American Academy in Rome, Italy, for its contributions to America's cultural and intellectual life on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its founding.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1994
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994 - Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation by covered entities, including employing authorities of the House of Representatives, employing offices of the Senate, and instrumentalities of the Congress. Declares that: (1) this Act does not apply to the provision of employee benefits for the benefit of an employee's partner; and (2) a disparate impact does not establish a prima facie violation of this Act. Prohibits quotas and preferential treatment. Declares that this Act does not apply to: (1) religious organizations (except in their for-profit activities); (2) the armed forces; or (3) laws creating special rights or preferences for veterans. Provides for enforcement. Disallows State and Federal immunity. Allows recovery of attorney's fees. Prohibits retaliation and coercion. Requires posting notices for employees and applicants.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1994
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should actively seek: (1) an international agreement prohibiting the production, possession, transfer, and use of antipersonnel landmines; and (2) in the interim, international agreements to further limit the production, possession, transfer, and use of such landmines. Expresses the sense of the Congress that a U.S. moratorium on the purchase and production of such landmines would encourage other nations to adopt similar measures. Establishes such moratorium for a one-year period beginning 90 days after enactment of this Act. Calls for the President to urge other nations to adopt such a moratorium. Allows the moratorium to be extended. Earmarks funds authorized under the current Department of Defense Authorization Act for improving landmine detection and neutralization. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for International Development and the Secretary of State to jointly submit to the Congress a report containing an analysis of the social, economic, and environmental costs and effects of the use of antipersonnel landmines. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the Congress on the total number of U.S. military personnel killed or wounded by such landmines during World War II, the Korean conflict, the Vietnam era, and the Persian Gulf War.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: JOBS Title II: WORK Title III: Child Care Title IV: Provisions with Multi-Program Applicability Title V: Prevention of Dependency Title VI: Child Support Enforcement Title VII: Improving Government Assistance and Preventing Fraud Title VIII: Self Employment/Microenterprise Demonstrations Title IX: Financing Title X: Effective Dates Work and Responsibility Act of 1994 - Title I: JOBS - Amends parts A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) and F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) (JOBS) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to revise the Federal welfare system for the purpose of making AFDC a transitional program with the goal of enabling participants to achieve maximum economic independence and self-sufficiency by, among other changes, imposing time-limited AFDC benefits and requiring participation in modified and new State-administered job training and subsidized employment programs that have been designed to eventually move them into the permanent work force and prepare them for a life without welfare by enabling them to get work experience and by requiring them to perform job searches for suitable nonsubsidized employment. (Sec. 101) Modifies current AFDC and JOBS participation requirements. Requires all AFDC recipients (including minor custodial parents not attending school full time) who are able to participate in the JOBS program to so participate, starting in FY 1996 or 1997 on a phased-in basis with custodial parents (including such minor parents) born in 1972 or later, and continuing thereafter with any such additional classes of parents of dependent children or other AFDC applicants or recipients. Requires a recipient unable to participate in the JOBS program because of a third trimester pregnancy, temporary incapacity, or other specified reason, to participate in related preparatory activities the State in appropriate cases may require pursuant to the recipient's employability plan, in order to prepare the recipient for full JOBS participation. Requires suspension for up to six months of the AFDC benefits of a family with a member who is required to participate in JOBS but refuses without good cause to accept the required number of weekly hours of employment offered by a public or private sector employer under the program. Grants States the option of continuing AFDC to the dependent children of any family with a parent who is required to participate in JOBS but fails without good cause to do so and is cut off AFDC for the period specified under current law, while preserving their eligibility under SSA title XIX (Medicaid). Directs the applicable State agency to provide appropriate counseling and other supportive services to assist the parent in addressing such failure. Requires custodial parents below age 20 who do not have a high school diploma (or its equivalent), and are required to participate in JOBS, to participate in an educational activity, regardless of State resource availability as currently conditioned under law. Allows States to apply AFDC sanctions to any individual required to get substance abuse treatment as a condition of JOBS participation who fails to get such treatment. (Sec. 102) Requires the States to implement statewide within two years of initial implementation in FY 1996 or 1997 modified JOBS programs that, with respect to the AFDC recipients required to participate in JOBS, provide for an assessment of such recipient's literacy skills and for expanded education, optional free substance abuse treatment, mandatory job search, and self-employment (including microenterprise) preparation services, in addition to the currently authorized child care and other supportive services. Requires such State JOBS programs to provide any other appropriate services or activities detailed in the recipient's individualized employability plan which the State agrees to provide and the recipient agrees to participate in by signing a personal responsibility agreement, in order to prepare the recipient for either permanent unsubsidized employment or temporary subsidized employment through the new WORK program. Requires such JOBS programs to address participant training for child care providers and nontraditional employment positions. Requires such JOBS programs to require employability plans to: (1) indicate the overall time for achieving their employment goals; and (2) be extended whenever the 24 month limit on AFDC benefits is extended. Subjects them to periodic review and revision to reflect the recipient's progress towards meeting such goals. (Continues with further modifications in the JOBS program as provided below under title II of this Act.) (Sec. 103) Revises JOBS program provisions on dispute resolution and service provision, with changes in the latter provisions: (1) extending their applicability (although modified, and along with additional specified wage, benefit, and working condition requirements) to the WORK program; (2) specifying the components of grievance procedures for resolving regular employee complaints alleging violations of worker displacement prohibitions or other specified work-related requirements; (3) requiring written notification of labor organizations when JOBS program participants are assigned to regular employment positions; (4) establishing an alternative expedited grievance procedure for complaints involving such an assignment; and (5) providing for binding arbitration for adverse grievance decisions. Changes earned income disregards and the limit on Federal reimbursement for State expenditures under work supplementation program provisions. (Sec. 104) Requires the States to generally limit AFDC benefits to 24 months, subject to extension for certain educational purposes, unless they have opted to participate in a limited number of demonstrations using alternative limits. (Sec. 105) Places administrative jurisdiction of the WORK program under the Assistant Secretary for Family Support in the Department of Health and Human Services. Title II: WORK - Adds to SSA title IV part G the WORK program. Requires States to have new programs requiring former JOBS participants who have been cut off AFDC after 24 months without receiving an extension or finding suitable employment to: (1) register with the applicable State agency for an approprate Work assignment of up to one year in the local area, involving placement in a temporary position in a subsidized private or public sector job (including ones as community service and child care providers) that gives them the experience for eventually finding a nonsubsidized job; and (2) conduct job searches for suitable nonsubsidized employment after completing an assignment while awaiting assignment to the next WORK job. (Sec. 201) Allows registrants to receive supplemental AFDC benefits in addition to their WORK earnings, as well as have their Medicaid-eligibility preserved while participating in WORK. Prohibits the upward adjustment of the amount of such supplemental benefits because of any failure to work the required hours for each assignment. Requires the aplicable State agency to conduct a comprehensive assessment at periodic intervals and either reassign the WORK participant to JOBS for additional training or to another assignment if he or she cannot find unsubsidized employment. Details other program provisions, chief among them provisions for: (1) local WORK advisory boards for advising administering agencies; (2) child care and other supportive services; (3) sanctions, hearings, and evaluations following WORK violations; and (4) optional joint JOBS and WORK administration and provision of program services through one-stop career centers. (Sec. 202) Revises current JOBS funding provisions, among other changes: (1) increasing the capped JOBS entitlement beginning in FY 1996, with the level of such entitlement specified for FY 2005 and each fiscal year thereafter adjusted for inflation; (2) limiting entitlement payments under JOBS to a State according to the average monthly number of adult recipients in the State for the preceding fiscal year relative to the number in all States (no longer factoring in the amount allotted to the State for FY 1987); (3) including enhanced Federal matching in the formulae for determining Federal payment with respect to a State's JOBS, WORK, and associated child care support expenditures; (4) establishing similar separate funding for the WORK program and specified set-asides under both programs for Indian tribes and Alaska Native organizations; and (5) earmarking specified funds for use by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to provide to States requesting additional funding for JOBS or WORK in the following fiscal year beyond that which was originally allocated and subsequently reallocated. (Sec. 204) Requires the States to implement modified JOBS programs as described above that, additionally, provide: (1) at the State's option, for a separate program for job training and employment opportunities for non-custodial parents without requiring their participation in JOBS or WORK in order to participate in the separate program; (2) for revised components for Indian tribes and Alaska Native organizations, among other changes, making such components applicable to such entities applying to conduct WORK programs, and to provide funding for Indian and Alaska Native child care under the AFDC, JOBS, and WORK programs; and (3) for special rules for territories regarding applicability of the 24 month limit on AFDC benefits and the WORK program. (Sec. 205) Amends SSA title XI to remove WORK and "at-risk" family child care from the territorial cap. (Sec. 207) Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to exempt earnings from WORK employment from being: (1) subject to Federal income and unemployment taxes; and (2) treated as earned income or qualified wages for purposes of the earned income and targeted jobs tax credits. Title III: Child Care - Makes various specified changes with regard to AFDC's child care support programs, including those largely conforming to the provisions of this Act concerning child care support for JOBS and WORK participants. Provides, in addition, for transitional child care for individuals leaving the WORK program. Provides also, with respect to AFDC recipients, JOBS and WORK participants, transitional child care recipients, and "at-risk" families, for parental rights and child care health and safety standards consistent with those under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (Child Care Block Grant Act), including requirements for proper child immunizations and protection against toxic substances and weapons at sites where child care is provided. (Sec. 302) Provides for: (1) family cost-sharing for transitional and "at-risk" family child care consistent with the methodology used under the Child Care Block Grant Act; (2) "at-risk" family child care only in cases where the family involved is not eligible for other SSA title IV part A child care support programs, and regardless of whether they need child care in order to work; and (3) modified State payment and Federal reimbursement rules, among other changes making State licensing and monitoring activities with respect to child care providers reimbursable as an administrative cost. (Sec. 304) Provides for: (1) optional administration of AFDC's child care support programs by the lead State agency designated under the Child Care Block Grant Act; (2) establishment of a set-aside in the "at-risk" family child care support program for improving the quality and increasing the supply of appropriate child care for low-income communities; (3) increased Federal funding for the "at-risk" family child care support program as well as a new enhanced Federal match for that program consistent with that for other SSA title IV part A services; and (4) reallotment of unused "at-risk" funds to States with expenditures exceeding applicable limits. (Sec. 307) Provides for offering working AFDC families a supplement if certain earned income disregard provisions are applied in order to guarantee child care. Title IV: Provisions with Multi-Program Applicability - Revises current JOBS performance standards and AFDC quality control and management information system provisions. Provides for: (1) an outcome-based performance standards system for measuring the extent to which JOBS and WORK help participants and their families move towards self-sufficiency and economic well-being and away from welfare; and (2) an expanded quality control system, as well as new State automated systems, for use in assessing the State's performance in administering its AFDC, JOBS, WORK and child care support programs, by applying such standards and in assisting the States in monitoring participants, processing payments, providing services, managing information, and performing the other operations involved in administering such programs. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 403) Amends AFDC to require the Secretary to establish and maintain an automated National Welfare Receipt Registry of information on current and past AFDC and WORK participants for assisting States in administering their AFDC, JOBS, and WORK plans. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 404) Earmarks funding out of the capped JOBS and WORK entitlements above for specified demonstration projects, studies, and other activities related to the programs created and modified by this Act and involving, for instance: (1) JOBS placements in positions with significant retention rates; (2) WORK programs conducted outside the State's AFDC program; (3) State Work Support Agencies for assisting former AFDC recipients in retaining unsubsidized employment; and (4) parenting skills for noncustodial parents. (Sec. 405) Requires the Secretary and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, beginning in FY 1998, to make certain certifications over a six-year period regarding the use of the component databases of the National Welfare Reform Information Clearinghouse (established under title VI of this Act) by State and Federal agencies. Requires the Director to determine whether Federal agencies have used such databases for reducing waste, fraud, and abuse in their programs in order to achieve the mandatory spending reductions assumed in the cost estimates accompanying this Act. Specifies required reductions in mandatory spending for the succeeding fiscal year if the Director certifies before the close of the current fiscal year that despite the full use of such databases mandatory spending was not reduced by the projected amount. Title V: Prevention of Dependency - Amends AFDC and JOBS to make various specified changes designed to prevent welfare dependency, including changes relating to: (1) supervised living arrangements for unmarried minor parents with dependent children and pregnant women; (2) State options to limit AFDC benefit increases for families on AFDC who have additional children, and to conduct a program of montary incentives and penalties to encourage teen custodial parents and pregnant women to complete high school and participate in parenting activities; and (3) case management for teen custodial parents on AFDC. (Sec. 505) Amends SSA title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) to provide for: (1) grants for development of school-based programs in high risk areas for promoting adolescent personal responsibility and character development with emphasis on drug use and pregnancy prevention; (2) grants for carrying out similar demonstration projects providing comprehensive services for promoting educational advancement, improving community stability, and developing employment opportunities in addition to focusing on personal responsibility and drug use and pregnancy prevention; and (3) establishment by appropriate Federal officials of the National Clearinghouse on Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Programs for disseminating information on and performing other specified functions, including sponsoring training institutes, with regard to adolescent pregnancy prevention programs. Title VI: Child Support Enforcement - Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to revise the Federal child support and paternity establishment system and related IRC and other provisions to mandate among other things: (1) centralized collection and disbursement (including interstate collection and disbursement) of child support payments through a new single statewide automated system linked to a central registry of all child support orders established or modified in the State involved subject to wage withholding; and (2) a National Welfare Reform Information Clearinghouse composed of specified automated registries and directories (including an expanded Federal Parent Locator Service) containing employment, locate, and other specified types of information for assisting the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in verifying employment and States in administering their AFDC, JOBS, WORK, and child support and paternity establishment programs, verifying the income and eligibility of Medicaid, food stamp, and SSI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSA title XVI) program participants, and ruling on unemployment and worker compensation claims. (Sec. 601) Mandates: (1) outreach for voluntarily establishing paternity and facilitating access to child support enforcement services; (2) annual State reviews of and reports on child support and paternity establishment programs for use by Federal auditors in assessing program performance using new Government standards; and (3) increased Federal matching payments for such programs. Includes among such changes new State plan requirements regarding: (1) AFDC recipient cooperation in State efforts to establish paternity and secure support; (2) distribution of support payments; (3) due process rights; (4) privacy safeguards; and (5) State and local agency program staff and contractor training. (Sec. 612) Revises provisions on: (1) State incentive payments, providing for performance-based incentive adjustments to the Federal matching rate for payments to a particular State; and (2) reductions in State AFDC payments for certain failures, adding specific failures to achieve appropriate levels of performance in paternity establishment and child support enforcement or to submit complete or reliable data, and conditioning the effectiveness of such reductions on the State's failure to take sufficient corrective action in the succeeding fiscal year to achieve compliance. (Sec. 615) Requires the Secretary to conduct staffing studies for a report to the Congress. (Sec. 616) Earmarks specified funding for Federal technical assistance, training, research, demonstrations, and other activities assisting State child support and paternity establishment programs. (Sec. 617) Makes specified changes with regard to: (1) annual congressional reports on all SSA title IV part D activities; and (2) data collection and reporting. (Sec. 623) Revises State law requirements regarding: (1) income withholding; (2) locate networks; (3) labor union cooperation in such State efforts; (4) use of social security numbers on child support and paternity orders and other specified party records; (5) modification of child support orders (including uniform interstate enforcement and modification of such orders); (6) expedited administrative and judicial procedures for establishing paternity (including before the child is born) and establishing, modifying, and enforcing support obligations; (7) imposition of motor vehicle title liens and other specified actions for support arrearages (including mandatory credit bureau reporting of all arrearages); (8) arrearage statute of limitations and interest and penalties; and (9) visitation rights. (Sec. 625) Directs the Secretary to establish a National Welfare Reform Information Clearinghouse and an automated National Directory of New Hires. (Sec. 627) Directs the Secretary to conduct studies on: (1) (and make grants to States for demonstrations involving) certain locate activities; and (2) the use of tax return information for modifying child support orders. (Sec. 642) Provides for: (1) a reduction in State AFDC payments for failure to establish paternity promptly; and (2) State options to provide for incentive payments to families to encourage paternity establishment. Directs the Secretary to authorize certain State demonstrations involving financial incentives for paternity establishment. (Sec. 651) Authorizes the Secretary to establish: (1) a revolving loan fund for program improvements to increase child support collections; and (2) the National Commission on Child Support Guidelines to determine whether a national child support guideline is advisable and develop one for congressional consideration if it is. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 662) Amends IRC to make specified changes with regard to the IRS tax refund offset program and collection of arrearages, among other changes: (1) eliminating the disparities between AFDC and non-AFDC cases; and (2) prohibiting additional fees for updating open case arrearages. (Sec. 664) Consolidates and revises provisions for collecting support from Federal employees and members of the armed forces. (Sec. 672) Modifies support obligation treatment under the Federal bankruptcy code. (Sec. 673) Provides for passport denial in cases involving child support arrearages exceeding $5,000. (Sec. 681) Directs the Secretary to make grants for State demonstrations to determine the effectiveness of programs to provide assured levels of child support to custodial parents of children whose paternity and support obligations have been established. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 691) Authorizes appropriations for State absent parent access and visitation programs. Title VII: Improving Government Assistance and Preventing Fraud - Amends AFDC, the Family Support Act of 1988, the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (Food Stamp Act), SSA title XI, and the IRC to make various specified changes in income disregard, resource exclusion, and other provisions under the Federal welfare system that are designed to: (1) simplify administration, for example, by changing the policy of obtaining citizenship declarations from each family member in cases where a single family is applying for AFDC, and by conforming program rules between AFDC and the food stamp program on the treatment of educational assistance; and (2) prevent fraud by allowing State agencies to use the IRS to collect AFDC overpayments from Federal tax refunds. (Sec. 731) Individual Development Account Demonstration Act of 1994 - States that it is U.S. policy to: (1) eliminate barriers that prevent AFDC recipients from becoming self-sufficient through self-employment and asset accumulation; (2) identify and implement cost-effective strategies to encourage saving and entrepreneurship among low-income families that have the potential to reduce Federal spending on transfers and services to them; (3) enhance private-sector opportunities for such families by enabling them to use their own resources through expanded business investment, job creation, home ownership, and human capital investment; and (4) expand the capacity of local organizations to provide asset-related services, such as savings mechanisms and loan funds, that help people to help themselves. (Sec. 732) Provides for the establishment of State and local demonstration projects designed to determine: (1) the social, psychological, and economic effects of providing low-income individuals with the opportunity to accumulate assets and develop and use entrepreneurial skills; and (2) the extent to which an asset-based assistance policy may be used to enable such individuals to achieve economic self-sufficiency. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 734) Amends the IRC to allow the establishment of individual development accounts (IDAs) by or on behalf of an eligible individual for the purpose of accumulating funds to pay his or her qualified expenses. Establishes an annual limit on such contributions (except contributions to IDAs established under the demonstration projects above), and a limit on total contributions for all years of $10,000. Defines qualified expenses as those for: (1) post-secondary education expenses; (2) a first-home purchase; and (3) business capitalization. Declares that contributions to IDAs are not subject to the gift tax or the tax on prohibited transactions. (Sec. 741) Provides for State demonstrations under which participating residents will receive advanced earned income payments from a responsible State agency in lieu of receiving them from an employer. Authorizes appropriations. Title VIII: Self-Employment/Microenterprise Demonstrations - Directs the Secretary and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, subject to available funding, to jointly develop a self-employment/microenterprise demonstration program for welfare recipients and low-income individuals. Authorizes appropriations. Title IX: Financing - Caps AFDC's emergency assistance program. (Sec. 902) Establishes uniform eligibility criteria under AFDC, SSI, and Medicaid for all categories of aliens, including those lawfully admitted for permanent residence. (Sec. 903) Makes the current five-year period of sponsor responsibility permanent law under SSI and increases sponsor periods under AFDC and food stamps to five years, among other changes in AFDC, SSI, and food stamp alien eligibility rules, which include changes disqualifying after five years certain aliens with sponsors having income in excess of applicable limits. (Sec. 904) Amends the National School Lunch Act, among other things, to: (1) establish a two-tiered reimbursement structure for family or group day care homes; (2) provide family or group day care home sponsoring organizations with additional funding for administrative expenses for each home located in a low-income area; and (3) require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide State assistance grants. (Sec. 905) Amends the Food Stamp Act to extend expiring provisions reducing the percentage of recovered food stamp overpayments retainable by State agencies. (Sec. 906) Make persons receiving in excess of $100,000 in off-farm adjusted gross income ineligible for Commodity Credit Corporation crop subsidies. (Sec. 907) Amends the IRC to: (1)extend the expiring corporate environmental income tax used to finance the Hazardous Substance Superfund; (2) extend the earned income tax credit to military personnel on extended active duty abroad; and (3) deny such credit for non-resident aliens. (Sec. 908) Amends the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970 to extend railroad safety inspection fees permanently. (Sec. 911) Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to extend certain customs fees. Title X: Effective Dates - Specifies the effective dates of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1994
Designates August 1, 1994, 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 · 17 May 1994
Public Braodcasting Act of 1994 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to extend through FY 1999 the authorization of appropriations for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1994
Prohibits imposing any charge or fee, except those already in effect at the time of enactment of this Act, for tuition, room, or board for U.S. citizens attending the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1994
Congratulates the people of South Africa and their leaders on the results of their first democratic election. Expresses the hope of all Americans that South Africa and its citizens continue on the road to freedom and national unity.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1994
Prohibits the President or any other member of the executive branch from interfering with the transfer of arms to the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Requires the President to terminate the U.S. arms embargo of such government upon receipt from such government of a request for assistance in exercising its right of self-defense under the United Nations Charter.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1994
Merchant Marine Academy Reform Act of 1994 - Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to prohibit any tuition or charge for room or board from being imposed in connection with attendance at the Merchant Marine Academy (other than for items or services for which charges are already imposed). Expresses the sense of the Senate that no charges or fees should be imposed for attendance at the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, or the United States Coast Guard Academy.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1994
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire specified lands and interests (including development rights and easements) in the properties located at Hyde Park, New York, that were owned by Franklin D. Roosevelt or his family at the time of death, to be added to and administered as part of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt National Historic Site or the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, as appropriate. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1994
Adds specified lands to the Women's Rights National Historical Park in New York. Provides that funds available to the Secretary of the Interior for the Park shall be available to establish and administer education, research facilities, and programs on the history of women's rights within the Park pursuant to cooperative agreements with appropriate public or private entities. Extends the Women's Rights National Historical Park Advisory Commission to the year 2005. Increases the limit on the authorization of appropriations for the Park.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1994
Lower East Side Tenement Museum National Historic Site Act of 1994 - Designates the Lower East Side Tenement Museum at 97 Orchard Street, New York, New York, as a National Historic Site. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the Site with donated or appropriated funds, to enter into cooperative agreements with the Museum designed to assure preservation and interpretation of the Site, and to acquire properties owned, operated, or required by the Museum. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1994
Poverty Data Improvement Act of 1994 - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to biennially produce and publish data relating to the incidence of poverty for each State, county or borough, and local government, including Alaska native villages, (compiled from the most recent decennial census and for each school district). Authorizes such data to be produced by means of sampling, estimation, or any other method that the Secretary determines will produce current, comprehensive, and reliable data. Authorizes the Secretary to aggregate school districts if reliable data could not otherwise be produced for each school district, but only to the extent necessary to achieve reliability. Requires such data to be appropriately identified and accompanied by a detailed explanation as to how and why aggregation was used (including the measures taken to minimize any such aggregation). Requires the Secretary, if unable to produce and publish such data for any area, to report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on each government or school district excluded and the reasons therefor.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic Building Restoration and Preservation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to historically black colleges and universities for the preservation and restoration of historic buildings and structures on their campuses. Requires a grantee to covenant, for the period of time specified by the Secretary, that: (1) no alteration shall be made to the property with respect to which the grant is made without the concurrence of the Secretary; and (2) reasonable public access to such property shall be permitted for interpretive and educational purposes. Limits the Federal share of a grant for a building or structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places to 50 percent of the cost of the grant project. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the cost-share requirement if an extreme emergency exists or if such a waiver is in the public interest to assure the preservation of historically significant resources. Directs the Secretary to make such grants from amounts made available to carry out the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. Limits amounts made available for this Act for FY 1995 through 1998. Earmarks funds for FY 1995 for grants to: (1) Fisk University; and (2) historically black colleges and universities identified for inclusion in the Department of the Interior Historically Black College and University Historic Preservation Initiative.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Declares that the Senate: (1) congratulates Israel and Egypt on the 15th anniversary of the signing of the historic Treaty of Peace between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel; (2) commends Israel and Egypt for their fortitude and commitment to international peace and regional stability; and (3) reaffirms its support for Israel and Egypt as they continue to pursue a lasting peace in the Middle East.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment Title II: Retraining Income Support and Flexibility in Unemployment Compensation Title III: One-Stop Career Center System Title IV: National Labor Market Information System Title V: Reinvention Labs for Job Training for the Economically Disadvantaged Reemployment Act of 1994 - Establishes: (1) a comprehensive program for worker reemployment; (2) retraining income support and flexibility in unemployment compensation; (3) a one-stop career center system; (4) a national labor market information system; and (5) reinvention labs for job training for the economically disadvantaged. (Sec. 4) Authorizes appropriations for titles I, III, and IV of this Act. Title I: Comprehensive Program for Worker Reemployment - Allots funds among States and reserves certain funds for national activities. (Sec. 103) Makes certain permanently laid-off workers and long-term unemployed individuals (as well as workers facing imminent plant shutdowns and self-employed individuals unemployed because of community economic conditions or natural disasters) eligible for services under this title. Makes dislocated homemakers eligible if a State Governor deems this appropriate and certain conditions are met. Part A: State and Substate Delivery System - Makes States responsible for administrative and management systems under this title. (Sec. 112) Requires the Governor to designate or establish a dislocated worker unit at the State level, with specified rapid response, information, and coordination functions. Directs such unit to coordinate with substate grantees and career centers, and to promote worker-management transition assistance committees. Provides for rapid response coverage of certain layoffs, State funding of preliminary assessments of worker buyouts of plants, prohibition of State transfer of rapid response functions, and Federal oversight of such functions. (Sec. 113) Requires the Governor to develop and maintain a comprehensive labor market information system in the State that meets certain requirements relating to the national system of effective labor market information. (Sec. 114) Requires the Governor to coordinate programs under this title with the worker profiling system under the Social Security Act and the retraining income support program under this Act. (Sec. 115) Authorizes the Governor to award supplementary grants to eligible entities to provide authorized services to eligible individuals in areas of the State experiencing substantial increases in numbers of such individuals due to plant closures, base closures, and mass layoffs. Allows such grant funds to be used to establish additional service centers, including on-site transition centers. (Sec. 116) Authorizes the Governor to award job retention project grants for: (1) upgrading skills of workers at risk of permanent layoff; and (2) retraining workers in new technologies and work processes to help convert or restructure businesses into high performance work organizations and avert plant closings or substantial layoffs. Requires State and employer contributions. Requires consultation with unions. (Sec. 117) Requires establishment of substate area administrative structures. (Sec. 118) Requires each designated substate grantee to establish one or more career centers in that area. Allows additional, temporary on-site transition centers. (Sec. 119) Authorizes the use of substate area funds for the following services for eligible individuals: (1) basic reemployment services; (2) intensive reemployment services; (3) education and training services; (4) retraining income support; (5) supportive services; and (6) supplemental wage allowances for older workers. (Sec. 120) Allows a career center to issue a certificate of continuing eligibility for services to eligible individuals who are accepting employment at a significantly lower wage than their previous one or in an occupation significantly different from their previous one. Part B: Federal Service Delivery System - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a program of national discretionary grants to address large-scale economic dislocations resulting from plant closures, base closures, or mass layoffs. Allows the use of such grants to: (1) provide comprehensive planning services to assist communities in addressing and reducing the impact of an economic dislocation; and (2) establish on-site transition centers. (Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary to make funds available for disaster relief employment assistance to States for substate allocation. (Sec. 133) Directs the Secretary to provide for: (1) evaluation of programs under this title; (2) research on addressing economic dislocation, facilitating the transition of permanently laid-off workers to reemployment, and upgrading skills of employed workers; and (3) demonstration projects to develop and improve methods of addressing economic dislocation and promoting worker adjustment. (Sec. 134) Directs the Secretary to provide staff training and technical assistance to various entities to enhance their capacity to develop and deliver adjustment assistance services to workers, and to avert plant closings or substantial layoffs. Requires integration of such activities with those of the Capacity Building and Information and Dissemination Network. (Sec. 135) Directs the Secretary to provide for delivery of programs, activities, and services under this title in any State that chooses not to participate. Part C: Performance Standards and Quality Assurance Systems - Directs the Secretary to establish a process, including an annual meeting, in each State to promote development of a customer service compact among parties administering programs under this title. (Sec. 152) Directs the Secretary to prescribe performance standards relating separately to the substate grantees and the career centers. Directs Governors to prescribe adjustments to such standards and award incentive grants to grantees and centers exceeding such standards. (Sec. 153) Requires each substate grantee to establish methods for obtaining customer feedback from eligible individuals and employers who have received services from a career center. (Sec. 154) Makes providers of education and training services eligible to receive funds under this title if they are eligible to participate under student aid provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 or are determined eligible under alternative procedures established by Governors, and if they provide performance-based information. Exempts on-the-job training providers from such requirements. Part D: General Requirements - Sets forth general requirements for programs under this title, including provisions for benefits, labor standards, and grievance procedures. Part E: Fiscal Administrative Provisions - Sets forth various administrative provisions, including ones for program year, prompt allocation of funds, monitoring, fiscal controls and sanctions, reports, recordkeeping, and investigations, administrative adjudication, nondiscrimination, judicial review, nondiscrimination, and criminal provisions. Part F: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for transition, on July 1, 1995, to programs authorized under this title from the following programs, which this Act repeals, under employment and training assistance for dislocated workers provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA): (1) Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance program; (2) Defense Conversion Adjustment Program; (3) Defense Diversification Program; and (4) Clean Air Employment Transition Assistance Program. Terminates the Disaster Relief Employment Assistance program under JTPA. Title II: Retraining Income Support and Flexibility in Unemployment Compensation - Part A: Retraining Income Support Program - Establishes a retraining income support program to assist permanently laid-off individuals participating in long-term training programs. (Sec. 202) Sets forth eligibility requirements for tenured workers (who have been employed for more than three years before being permanently laid off) and for trade-impacted workers. Provides, at a later date, for additional eligibility coverage for workers who have been employed for more than one year but less than three years before being permanently laid-off. (Sec. 203) Sets forth formulae for determining weekly amounts of such assistance. (Sec. 204) Limits the maximum duration of such assistance to: (1) 52 weeks for individuals with three years or more of job tenure; and (2) 26 weeks for individuals with less than three years of job tenure. Provides for coordination with the extended unemployment compensation benefit program. (Sec. 205) Provides for agreements with States, administration absent State agreement, liabilities of certifying and disbursing officers, fraud and recovery of overpayments, and penalties. Part B: Retraining Income Support Account - Amends the Social Security Act to establish a Retraining Income Support Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. Provides for transfers to such Account and transfers to States. (Sec. 222) Provides for funds to assist States in administering cash benefits for retraining income support. Part C: Financing Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to raise the rate of the Federal unemployment tax. (Sec. 232) Provides for voluntary withholding of Federal individual income tax on unemployment and other benefits, including retraining income support. Requires States to provide for a system for deduction and withholding of Federal individual income tax from unemployment compensation upon the recipient's voluntary request. Part D: Integration of Trade-Impacted Workers into the Comprehensive Reemployment System - Phases out the trade adjustment assistance program. (Sec. 242) Establishes within the Department of Labor a temporary, transitional certification program to integrate trade-impacted workers into the comprehensive system of worker reemployment and retraining income support. Part E: Unemployment Compensation Flexibility - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow States, under their unemployment compensation programs, to conduct: (1) short-time compensation programs; (2) reemployment bonus programs. (Sec. 253) Amends the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act to repeal a sunset provision which would terminate the self-employment assistance program after five years. (Thus this Act extends such program indefinitely.) Title III: One-Stop Career Center System - Part A: Components of Voluntary One-Stop Career Center System - Requires a State's one-stop career center system, in order to receive a grant or waiver under this title, to include: (1) local workforce investment boards; (2) one-stop career centers established in accordance with specified procedures; (3) provision of specified services; (4) participation of specified Federal programs; (5) operating agreements for such centers; (6) quality assurance systems; and (6) a State Human Resource Investment Council. (Sec. 312) Directs the Governor to designate one-stop service areas within the State. Directs local officials to establish a workforce investment board for each such area. (Sec. 313) Directs the Governor and local officials to jointly select a consortium option or a multiple independent operator option as the method for establishing one-stop career centers for each service area. (Sec. 314) Requires each center to make available: (1) certain basic services to the public free of charge; and (2) certain intensive services to participants in the title I comprehensive program for worker reemployment who are unable to obtain employment through the basic services (and, optionally, to other individuals in accordance with the written agreement). Authorizes each center to provide specialized services to employers and additional services specified in the agreement. Authorizes charging fees under specified conditions, with all program income to be used to expand or enhance services. (Sec. 315) Requires the following programs to be made available to participants through the centers (and to participate in operation of such centers as parties to the agreement): (1) comprehensive programs for worker reemployment under title I of this Act; (2) Wagner-Peyser Act programs (employment services); (3) job counseling, training, and placement for veterans; (4) training services for the disadvantaged under title II of JTPA; (5) community service employment for older Americans programs under title V of the Older Americans Act; and (6) programs authorized under Federal and State unemployment compensation laws. Allows other human resource programs to provide services through and participate in operation of the centers, under specified conditions, including the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills program for AFDC recipients, the Food Stamp Employment and Training program, the Job Corps, veterans' employment programs under JTPA, and programs under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, Adult Education Act, Vocational Rehabilitation Act, and School-to-Work Opportunities Act. (Sec. 316) Sets forth requirements for operating agreements and quality assurance systems. (Sec. 318) Requires each State to establish a State human resource investment council that meets specified JTPA requirements and carries out certain additional functions including advising on development and implementation of the one-stop career center system. Part B: Grants and Waivers to Promote the Development and Implementation of One-Stop Career Center System - Authorizes the Secretary to establish programs of competitive grants to States for planning and development and for implementation of comprehensive statewide networks of one-stop career centers. (Sec. 333) Allows a State, at any point during such development or implementation, to request from the Secretary a waiver of one or more statutory or regulatory provisions. Sets forth waiver criteria. Subjects to such waiver authority the mandatory participating programs of the centers. (Sec. 334) Provides for pooling of administrative resources. Part C: Additional Activities in Support of One-Stop Career Center Systems - Directs the Secretary to establish a process, with each State implementing the one-stop career center system, including an annual meeting, to promote development of a customer service compact among the parties administering the system. (Sec. 335) Makes each State implementing such a system responsible for administration, management, monitoring, and technical assistance. (Sec. 336) Makes the Secretary responsible for monitoring compliance, staff training and technical assistance (integrated with the Capacity Building and Information Dissemination Network under JTPA), a national logo and name, and evaluation of one-stop career center programs. Part D: Effective Date - Sets forth effective dates for this title and for performance standards. Title IV: National Labor Market Information System - Directs the Secretary to develop, in coordination with other Federal, State, and local entities, a strategy to establish a nationwide system of local labor market information. (Sec. 403) Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with such other entities and public-private partnerships, to develop such system to make available specified types of information. Requires certain technical standards, consumer reports, and evaluation. (Sec. 404) Directs the Secretary to provide for coordination and integration of such system and appropriate dissemination of information. Title V: Reinvention Labs for Job Training for the Economically Disadvantaged - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to establish a five-year Reinvention Labs program to: (1) encourage innovative program designs to improve provision of services to and labor market outcomes for economically disadvantaged youth and adults; (2) develop, through service delivery areas (SDAs) and States, knowledge of effective approaches to providing employment and training to the economically disadvantaged; and (3) provide SDAs with increased flexibility in operating job training programs, in exchange for greater accountability. (Sec. 501) Sets forth requirements for SDA applications for waivers of Federal requirements relating to JTPA programs for employment and training of the economically disadvantaged. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain of such requirements under specified conditions and to provide technical assistance to SDAs, States, and service providers for Reinvention Labs programs. (Sec. 502) Modifies the definition of tuition under JTPA.
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