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Bill· SS. 2042 (103rd)referred

A bill to remove the United States arms embargo of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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.

Bill· SS. 2031 (103rd)referred

Merchant Marine Academy Reform Act of 1994

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.

Bill· SS. 1993 (103rd)referred

A bill to remove the restrictions on the export of Alaskan North Slope oil, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1994

Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to repeal restrictions on the export of Alaskan North Slope oil. Provides that exports of such oil shall: (1) be transported in U.S. documented vessels (if initially transported by pipeline over a specified right-of-way); and (2) not be subject to restrictions contained in other specified Acts.

Bill· SS. 1974 (103rd)open

VA State Health Care Reform Pilot Program Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994

VA State Health Care Reform Pilot Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out pilot programs on the participation of the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system in the health care systems of States that have adopted comprehensive health benefit plans. Allows up to five States to be used for such pilot programs. Requires the Secretary to provide benefits to persons through the Department health care system in such a State as if such system were a provider of benefits under the State plan. Prohibits a State from refusing Department participation in a State health benefit plan unless the chief executive officer of such State certifies that the Department plan or its facilities are inadequate to meet the State health benefit plan. Requires the Secretary to designate a health system director for each State in which a pilot program is carried out. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any necessary administrative reorganization of Department health care systems or facilities in a program State. Allows the Secretary to exclude Department facilities from participation in a pilot program. Authorizes a health system director to enter into contracts and agreements for the provision of health care services and related services in connection with the pilot program. Excludes such contracts and agreements from certain Federal law. Requires review by the Central Office of the Department of contracts and agreements of $250,000 or more. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) the use of Department personnel in a pilot program; (2) eligible persons; and (3) copayments and other charges (and their waiver with respect to certain veterans). Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Reform Fund to be used for pilot program purposes, with a separate account established for each program. Requires the Secretary to collect, and report to specified congressional committees concerning, information with respect to the provision of health care benefits under each pilot program.

Bill· SS. 1958 (103rd)reported

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to exclude certain payments received under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act from the determination of annual income for purposes of eligibility for veterans pension.

United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1994

Excludes payments of cash, stock, land, or other interests received from a Native Corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act from annual income for purposes of the determination of eligibility for veterans' pensions.

Bill· SS. 1948 (103rd)open

Counterintelligence and Security Enhancements Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1994

Counterintelligence and Security Enhancements Act of 1994 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to prohibit a person from becoming an employee of an agency within the U.S. intelligence community unless the person: (1) authorizes the disclosure of tax returns; (2) agrees to allow an investigative agency to inspect financial accounts valued at over $10,000; and (3) agrees to the inspection of such person's foreign travel records. Sets forth additional requirements for critical intelligence positions, including requirements for information with respect to the nature, location, and material changes to accounts valued at over $10,000 and information with respect to foreign travel unrelated to official duties. Requires authorized investigative agencies to periodically review all information so obtained and notify the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) upon an indication of the loss or compromise of critical intelligence information. Provides for: (1) requests by authorized investigative agencies for appropriate information from governmental entities; (2) protection of the confidentiality of such information; and (3) investigative agency liability for unlawful disclosure of such information. Empowers the FBI Director with overall responsibility for conducting counterintelligence and law enforcement investigations involving persons in critical intelligence positions. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence to report to the congressional intelligence committees on the effectiveness of such investigative activities. Requires implementation of such provisions with respect to current employees in the intelligence community as well as congressional staff having access to critical intelligence information. Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide for the disclosure to the FBI of consumer credit reports (CRs) for counterintelligence purposes if the FBI Director certifies that such records are necessary for an investigation and there is reason to believe that the person for whom the CR is sought is a foreign power or agent. Sets forth provisions governing, with respect to such disclosures by a credit reporting agency: (1) the disclosure of identifying information to the FBI; (2) confidentiality requirements concerning such disclosure; (3) the payment of fees by the FBI for such disclosures; (4) limits on the dissemination of information contained in the CRs; (5) disciplinary actions for disclosure violations (with an exception for a good faith disclosure); and (6) remedies (including injunctive relief). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide FBI access to tax returns for counterintelligence purposes. Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the Attorney General to award individuals who provide information which leads to an arrest or conviction with respect to an act of espionage. Provides U.S. court jurisdiction to try cases involving acts of espionage by a U.S. citizen outside the United States. Makes the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material a misdemeanor criminal offense. Allows for the forfeiture of property for violation of certain espionage laws.

Law· SS. 1927 (103rd)enacted

Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1994

Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, as of December 1, 1994, to increase the rates of and limitations on: (1) veterans' disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for veterans' dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children; and (5) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for disabled adult children. Requires such increases to be the same percentage as the increase in benefit amounts payable under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to certain persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death. Requires the Secretary to publish such rate increases and limitations in the Federal Register at the same time that OASDI benefit increases are required to be published.

Bill· SS. 1920 (103rd)referred

Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1994

Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1994 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in the case of specified contaminants listed in the Federal Register for which national primary drinking water regulations have not been issued, to: (1) publish maximum contaminant level (MCL) goals and issue such regulations for those contaminants that occur in drinking water at a level of public health concern; and (2) eliminate monitoring, compliance, and enforcement requirements for those contaminants that do not occur in drinking water at levels of public health concern. (Current law requires the promulgation of such goals and regulations for specified numbers of such contaminants by certain dates.) (Sec. 4) Directs the Administrator to promulgate such goals and regulations for new contaminants every five years. Requires the Administrator to identify best technology treatment techniques that may be used to meet MCLs for public water systems serving fewer than 1,000, between 1,000 and 10,000, and more than 10,000 people. Directs the Administrator to promulgate national primary drinking water regulations for radionuclides, disinfection and corrosion byproducts, and sulfate. (Sec. 7) Revises provisions concerning variances from such regulations to permit the issuance of a variance by a State only if the water system cannot afford to install the best available technology to meet the MCL and it is not feasible for the system to connect with another source of water that will meet the standards. Requires variances to be reviewed by the State at least every three years. (Sec. 8) Repeals provisions that authorize States to exempt public water systems from requirements respecting MCLs or treatment techniques. (Sec. 9) Prohibits treated drinking water from being removed from a public water system or routed through any device or pipes outside the system and returned to the system. Includes such action in the definition of "tampering," a violation for which criminal penalties are imposed. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to pipes and devices totally within the control of one or more public water systems or to connections between water mains. (Sec. 11) Requires (currently, authorizes) the Administrator to conduct research relating to diseases and other impairments resulting from contaminants in drinking water or to the provision of a safe supply of drinking water. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 12) Extends the authorization of appropriations for grants for State public water system supervision programs. (Sec. 13) Requires the Administrator to promulgate revised regulations every five years that list up to 30 unregulated contaminants to be monitored by public water systems. Directs the Administrator to assemble a national drinking water occurrence data base to include information on the occurrence of regulated and unregulated contaminants. (Sec. 16) Requires the Administrator to make capitalization grants to States to establish State drinking water treatment revolving loan funds. Reserves the following amounts from such grants: (1) one percent for financial assistance to Indian tribes for the improvement of public water systems; and (2) .5 percent to respond to public health emergencies. Sets aside specified dollar amounts for rural small drinking water systems technical assistance programs and drinking water health effects research. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants for public water system improvement to the District of Columbia and specified U.S. territories. Requires 15 percent of amounts in a State loan fund to be available solely for assistance to public water systems that serve fewer than 10,000 individuals. Directs States to prepare intended use plans prior to receiving grants. Requires priority for the use of funds to be given to systems that are in violation of a national primary drinking water regulation. Requires the Administrator to submit quadrennially to the Congress a survey of the needs of facilities eligible for State loan fund assistance. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 17) Permits the Administrator to provide financial assistance to minority communities with economic hardship for eligible wastewater treatment projects. (Sec. 18) Authorizes the Administrator to transfer funds to another Federal agency or award grants to any appropriate entity or border State (Arizona, California, New Mexico, or Texas) to provide assistance to low-income communities (colonias) in such areas that lack basic sanitation facilities for: (1) the conservation, development, use, and control of water; and (2) the construction or improvement of sewers, wastewater treatment works, and essential community facilities. Requires such funds to be used in communities subject to a significant health risk attributable to lack of access to a water supply system or wastewater treatment works. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 1915 (103rd)referred

Private Property Owners Bill of Rights

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1994

Private Property Owners Bill of Rights - Requires Federal agency heads to: (1) comply with applicable State and tribal government laws in implementing and enforcing the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) and the permitting program for dredged or filled material under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA); (2) administer and implement the Acts in a manner that least affects the private property owners' constitutional and other legal rights; (3) develop and implement rules and regulations for ensuring that such rights are protected when making any final decision that restricts the use of private property; (4) obtain the consent of the property owner and provide appropriate notice before entering privately-owned property in order to collect information on it; and (5) give the property owner an opportunity to review and dispute the data collected before using it to implement or enforce any of the Acts. Amends ESA and FWPCA to provide for administrative appeals of certain actions, including those related to the denial of permits and the imposition of administrative penalties. Entitles a private property owner deprived of 50 percent or more of the fair market value or the economically viable use of a portion of property as a consequence of a final qualified agency action to receive compensation upon request in accordance with specified guidelines. Amends ESA to require the Secretary of the Interior to notify all private property owners or lessees of property subject to a management agreement and provide an appropriate opportunity for their participation in such an agreement when the Secretary enters into it with any non-Federal person establishing restrictions on property use.

Law· SS. 1904 (103rd)enacted

Board of Veterans' Appeals Administrative Procedures Improvement Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1994

Amends Federal law pertaining to the Board of Veterans' Appeals to: (1) remove the 65-person limitation for the Board; (2) allow the Chairman of the Board to designate employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs to serve as acting members of the Board for a period not to exceed 90 days; and (3) include information concerning such acting members and the number of cases they handled in a required annual report on Board activities. Allows proceedings assigned to the Board to be assigned to one or more members. (Current law requires such decisions by a minimum three-member group.) Outlines provisions relating to: (1) decision reconsideration as ordered by the Chairman; (2) the correction of obvious errors upon Board motion; and (3) appeals procedures.

Bill· SS. 1887 (103rd)open

National Highway System Designation Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1994

National Highway System Designation Act of 1994 - Designates the most recent National Highway System as submitted by the Secretary of Transportation to be the National Highway System (NHS). Authorizes the Secretary, at the request of a State, to add a new route segment to the NHS (including a new intermodal connection) or delete an existing route segment if the total mileage of the NHS, including any route segment or connection proposed to be added, does not exceed 165,000 miles. Requires each State making a request for a change in the NHS to establish that each change has been identified by the State, in cooperation with local officials, pursuant to applicable transportation planning activities for metropolitan areas and statewide planning processes. Authorizes the Secretary to approve such a request upon determining that the change meets the criteria established for, and enhances the national transportation characteristics of, the NHS.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 183 (103rd)passed

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the action taken by the Government of France against United States seafood products is a totally unwarranted action that is having severe repercussions on United States seafood producers and, in general, the United States fishing industry.

United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1994

Calls upon the Government of France to stop immediately its harassment of U.S. seafood producers and products. Demands that the Government of France compensate U.S. companies that have had seafood products damaged by its actions. Calls upon the President to identify appropriate forms of sanctions that can be taken against the Government of France for its violation of international trade agreements.

Bill· SS. 1875 (103rd)referred

National Security Budgeting and Deficit Control Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1994

National Security Budgeting and Deficit Control Act of 1994 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to extend the caps on defense and nondefense discretionary spending through FY 1998.

Bill· SS. 1867 (103rd)referred

Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1994

Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1994 - Waives the English language naturalization requirement for certain aliens (or their spouses or widows) who served with special guerilla units in Laos. Provides for naturalization under the Immigration and Nationality Act through such service.

Bill· SS. 1860 (103rd)referred

1995 Special Olympics World Games Commemorative Coin Act

United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1994

1995 Special Olympics World Games Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the 1995 Special Olympics World Games. Mandates that the surcharges collected from the sale of such coins be paid to the 1995 Special Olympics World Games Organizing Committee, Inc.

Bill· SS. 1843 (103rd)referred

Government Downsizing, Performance, and Accountability Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Saving the Taxpayers Money Subtitle A: Specific Spending Cuts Subtitle B: Reducing the Size of Government Subtitle C: Eliminating Government Printing Monopoly Title II: Streamlining the Federal Bureaucracy Subtitle A: Department of Agriculture Reorganization Subtitle B: Procurement Streamlining Subtitle C: Other Streamlining Reforms Title III: Improving Government Performance and Accountability Title IV: Improving the Legislative Process Title V: Enforcement Government Downsizing, Performance, and Accountability Act of 1994 - Title I: Saving The Taxpayers Money - Subtitle A: Specific Spending Cuts - Rescinds 7.5 percent of remaining FY 1994 appropriations for the legislative branch (except the House of Representatives and the Executive Office of the President). (Sec. 1003) Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to limit annual cost of living adjustments (COLAs) for Members of Congress to those for other Federal employees. (Sec. 1004) Rescinds certain FY 1994 appropriations to provide for reductions in FY 1994 budgetary outlays for, and thereafter through FY 1996 sets general obligational limits on, various specified agency administrative expenses (except Department of Defense (DOD) and other specified expenses), as determined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). (Sec. 1005) Makes specified rescissions in current FY 1994 appropriations for: (1) the Agency for International Development's (AID) Development Assistance Fund; (2) Department of State Diplomatic and Consular Programs; and (3) salaries and expenses of the United States Information Agency (USIA) and USIA's North/South Center. (Sec. 1006) Raises the minimum threshold for application of the prevailing wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act from $2,000 to $100,000 for Federal or District of Columbia contracts within the geographical limits of the 48 contiguous States. Prohibits artificially splitting contracts above the $100,000 threshold into contracts smaller than $100,000 for the purpose of evading such Act. (Sec. 1007) Permits the use of funds under the Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 1994 to implement or administer certain regulations pertaining to utilization of helpers on Federal construction projects subject to the Davis-Bacon Act. (Sec. 1008) Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to phase-in through FY 1998 a ten percent reduction in Federal funding for the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities. Requires a phase-in of eight percent funding reductions for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (Sec. 1009) Places a one-year moratorium on construction of new Federal buildings and agency leasing of building space, except construction of buildings primarily used for education, and certain pending projects. Rescinds a specified amount of FY 1994 obligational authority from the Federal Buildings Fund for new construction and acquisitions. (Sec. 1010) Makes specified rescissions of FY 1994 funding for: (1) the Appalachian Regional Commission; (2) the Legal Services Corporation; (3) community development block grant programs; (4) the Tennessee Valley Authority; (5) public housing; (6) the Economic Development Administration; (7) the International Developmental Association (IDA); (8) the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and (9) United Nations (UN) peacekeeping. (Sec. 1012) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to reauthorize at slightly increased levels and extend through FY 1998 the community development grant program for States, local governments, and Indian tribes. (Sec. 1014) Replaces programs providing Federal assistance for the construction of new non-Indian-related public housing with a tenant-based voucher assistance program. (Sec. 1016) Expands the program which assists Federal employees permanently disabled on the job in order to help them find new employment. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to expand the Federal Employees' Compensation Act Periodic Roll Management Projects to all offices of the Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Program. Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1994 to impose limitations on the availability of funding for the IDA in FY 1994 and 1995. (Sec. 1018) Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to allow the use of any cogeneration process for other than federally owned buildings or other federally owned facilities when entering into contracts for achieving energy savings at Federal agencies. (Sec. 1019) Amends the National Housing Act to revise mortgage refinancing provisions to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to use amounts recaptured under such provisions for the refinancing incentives and costs payments authorized under them. Subtitle B: Reducing the Size of Government - Alaska Power Administration Sale Authorization Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy, in accordance with specified purchase agreements, to sell: (1) the Snettisham Hydroelectric Project to Alaska; and (2) the Eklutna Hydroelectric Project to the Anchorage Municipal Light and Power, the Chugach Electric Association, Inc., and the Matanuska Electric Association, Inc. (Sec. 1101) Directs the Secretary to: (1) close out the Alaska Power Administration; (2) report to the Congress on the sales; and (3) return to the Treasury unused balances of funds appropriated for the Alaska Power Administration. Repeals specified Federal law concerning water resources investigations in Alaska by the Secretary of the Interior. (Sec. 1102) Rescinds a specified amount of funds available for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fleet for research. (Sec. 1103) Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to phase-out and close certain Department of Veterans Affairs supply depots in New Jersey, Illinois, and California and transfer funding back to the Treasury. (Sec. 1104) Repeals the State Justice Institute Act of 1984, thereby terminating the State Justice Institute. Rescinds half the FY 1994 appropriations for salaries and expenses of the State Justice Institute. (Sec. 1105) Eliminates the National Small Business Tree Planting Program. (Sec. 1106) Amends Federal law to: (1) permit DOD to contract for certain non-core functions such as data processing, billing, and payroll; (2) authorize appropriations out of a special fund credited with a portion of the delinquent debts collected in order to improve debt collection activities; (3) allow the U.S. Customs Service to utilize private debt collection companies; (4) subject the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, and the U.S. Customs Service to statutorily prescribed debt collection reporting requirements; and (5) repeal requirements pertaining to Department of Justice contracting for private legal services in connection with indebtedness cases. Subtitle C: Eliminating Government Printing Monopoly - Government Information Dissemination and Printing Improvement Act of 1994 - Transfers the position of Superintendent of Documents (SD) and all its functions to the Library of Congress, to be carried out by an official of the same title under the direction of the Librarian of Congress. (Sec. 1202) Revokes all existing authorized printing plant charters. (Sec. 1203) Requires all Government publications to be available for use throughout the Government. (Sec. 1204) Requires each department, agency, and other entity of the Government to: (1) establish a comprehensive inventory of its publications; (2) make it available via the electronic directory; and (3) furnish its publications to the SD. (Sec. 1205) Imposes additional specified responsibilities on the: (1) Public Printer with respect to the executive and judicial branches; and (2) SD with respect to dissemination of Government publications. (Sec. 1206) Requires the head of a Government department, agency, or entity to furnish any of its publications to the SD. (Sec. 1207) Requires the SD to make Government publications available to designated depository libraries and State libraries. Title II: Streamlining The Federal Bureaucracy - Subtitle A: Department of Agriculture Reorganization - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) consolidate field, regional, and national offices within the Department of Agriculture; and (2) reduce personnel in order to achieve a specified expenditure reduction by FY 2000. Subtitle B: Procurement Streamlining - Replaces armed forces provisions giving preference to nondevelopmental items in supply procurements with provisions for the acquisition of commercial items (property regularly used by the general public or non-governmental entities for non-governmental purposes) in equipment or supply procurements. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to develop and acquire non-commercial equipment or supplies only if no commercial items are available. Makes cost accounting standards under the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (OFPPA) inapplicable to acquisitions of commercial items. (Sec. 2052) Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (FPASA) to make similar changes with respect to civilian agency acquisitions. (Sec. 2061) Amends OFPPA to raise the small purchase threshold (renamed the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT)) to $100,000. Makes the same change with regard to armed services acquisitions, except with regard to the contingency operation exception for certain contracts and purchases. Extends the new threshold under OFPPA to FPASA. (Sec. 2066) Requires simplified procedures under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) for SAT acquisitions. (Sec. 2068) Amends OFPPA and the Small Business Act to: (1) repeal references to "the small purchase threshold" and continue existing notice thresholds for procurements over $25,000 (except that the requirement to allow 30 days for bid and proposal submission would apply only to contracts or orders in excess of SAT); and (2) prescribe additional contents for notices with respect to contracts between $25,000 and $100,000. (Sec. 2071) Exempts: (1) subject agency (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Coast Guard, DOD, and respective military departments) contracts below SAT from contingent fee certifications, prohibitions on limiting subcontractor direct sales and doing business with certain contractors, and requirements for audits, supplier and supply source identification, and use of U.S. vessels for supply transportation; (2) civilian agency contracts below SAT from similar requirements with regard to subcontractor direct sales; (3) prime contracts below SAT from procedural and other requirements of the Anti-Kickback Act of 1986; and (4) contracts below SAT from the Miller Act (MA), the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act, Service Contract Act of 1965, and Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988, requirements regarding certain disabled veterans, and specified requirements under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Buy American Act, and Davis-Bacon Act. Requires the FAR to provide various alternative payment protections, including payment bonds, for suppliers of labor and materials on certain contracts under MA. (Sec. 2081) Requires the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to review the FAR to identify and amend regulations applicable to acquisitions below SAT. Requires agency heads to take similar action with respect to applicable supplemental regulations, policies, and procedures. Subtitle C: Other Streamlining Reforms - Amends the Copeland Act to require employers on contracts covered by the Davis-Bacon Act to certify compliance with applicable labor law standards at least once monthly, instead of weekly, to the Department of Labor. (Sec. 2102) Consolidates into the Block Grants to States for Social Services program under title XX of the Social Security Act (SSA) various social services programs under the Community Services Block Grant Act, the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990, titles III (Grants for State and Community Programs on Aging) and VII (Nutrition Program for the Elderly) of the Older Americans Act of 1965, the State Dependent Care Development Grants Act, and the SSA title IV part A (Aid to Families With Dependent Children) program for at-risk children. (Sec. 2103) Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to revise the contractor system under Medicare, including eliminating the Railroad Retirement Board's authority to contract for processing the Medicare claims of railroad retirees, in order to provide for increased flexibility in contracting for Medicare claims processing. (Sec. 2104) Amends SSA title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) to restructure the current program for death information exchange: (1) to use, for example, a Federal Clearinghouse on Death Information as the vehicle for all such exchanges; and (2) in the case of individuals with respect to whom federally funded benefits are provided by (or through) a Federal or State agency other than under SSA, to require such agency to pay a set fee to cover all costs connected with the provision of such information for them. Ends the exemption from Internal Revenue Code requirements for Social Security Administration sharing of State collected death information with Federal, State, and local agencies granted to two States under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993. (Sec. 2105) Amends SSA title II to earmark specified levels of administrative funding for continuing disability reviews of disabled beneficiaries. (Sec. 2106) Amends SSA title XI to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to use the Medicare and Medicaid Coverage Data Bank (renamed the Health Care Coverage Data Bank) to determine whether veterans receiving VA health care benefits have private insurance. (Sec. 2107) Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to revise requirements for the management and disposition of Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-held multifamily properties and mortgages. Title III: Improving Government Performance and Accountability - Requires that all authorization and appropriation legislation contain performance goals for any programs they fund. Provides for waivers from such requirement under certain conditions. (Sec. 3002) Amends Federal civil service law to: (1) link Federal within-grade pay increases to job performance; (2) provide for the modification of reduction-in-force (RIF) regulations to give an employee's efficiency or performance rating greater weight than tenure of employment and length of service during a RIF. (Sec. 3003) Requires the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board to recommend comprehensive and uniform Federal accounting and financial standards to the Congress and the President. (Sec. 3005) Revises current law regarding annual agency financial statements and agency audits, with changes requiring audited statements covering all accounts and associated activities of each office, bureau, and activity of the concerned agency. (Sec. 3006) Amends the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA) to: (1) make it a felony to lie on FECA benefit applications; (2) bar from FECA program participation those individuals convicted of defrauding it; and (3) generally cut off FECA benefits to individuals in correctional facilities who have been convicted of a felony. (Sec. 3007) Allows Federal agencies to reduce employees or positions below mandated personnel levels. Title IV: Improving the Legislative Process - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require that each line-item in an appropriations bill and each tax expenditure in a revenue bill be enrolled as a separate bill to be presented to the President (effectively giving the President line-item veto authority over such measures while ensuring that the override provisions of the U.S. Constitution apply). (Sec. 4002) Amends rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate to allow a point of order against reception or consideration of any appropriations bill or amendment containing a provision that has not been previously authorized by law within the preceding five years. (Sec. 4003) Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make congressional consideration of emergency legislation subject to the same budgetary points of order and super-majority waiver requirements as other legislation. Title V: Enforcement - Provides that none of the changes in direct spending and receipts resulting from this Act shall be reflected in OMB estimates under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Directs the Director of OMB, upon enactment of this Act, to make specified downward adjustments in discretionary spending limits under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for FY 1994 through 1999. Makes specified reductions in budget outlays and authority for the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Authorizes and directs each Committee on Appropriations to adjust its suballocations among its subcommittees for FY 1994 to reflect the lower allocations provided above. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to provide for the establishment of a defense firewall through FY 1998.

Bill· SS. 1842 (103rd)referred

A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to exempt a State from certain penalties for failing to meet requirements relating to motorcycle helmet laws if the State has in effect a motorcycle safety program, and to delay the effective date of certain penalties for States that fail to meet certain requirements for motorcycle safety and passenger vehicle safety laws, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1994

Delays the effective date for imposition of penalties upon States that do not have in effect safety belt and motorcycle helmet traffic safety programs. Exempts a State from certain penalties for failing to meet requirements relating to motorcycle helmet laws if the State has in effect a motorcycle safety program.

Bill· SS. 1836 (103rd)referred

A bill for the relief of John Mitchell.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1994

Directs the President to award a medal of honor to a named individual for outstanding service to the Nation during World War II, notwithstanding time limitations otherwise applicable.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 60 (103rd)referred

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that a postage stamp should be issued to honor the 100th anniversary of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1994

Expresses the sense of the Congress that a postage stamp should be issued to honor the 100th anniversary of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States and that the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee of the U.S. Postal Service should make such recommendation to the Postmaster General.

Bill· SS. 1821 (103rd)referred

Comprehensive Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1994

Comprehensive Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish: (1) a comprehensive program to prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects and coordinate related Federal efforts; and (2) an Inter-Agency Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects. Provides for related research, technical assistance, grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts, prevention programs, professional and public education, and diagnostic criteria. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 1805 (103rd)referred

A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to eliminate the disparity between the periods of delay provided for civilian and military retiree cost-of-living adjustments in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1994

Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to provide that the initial month for which a cost of living increase in retired pay that becomes effective on December 1 of 1993 through 1995 is payable shall be March of the following year.

Bill· SS. 1795 (103rd)open

Welfare Reform Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Applicant Job Search, Voucher Program, Transition and Work Program, Etc. Title II: Provisions Relating to Paternity Establishment Title III: Child Support Enforcement Title IV: Expansion of Statutory Flexibility of States Title V: Expedited State Waiver Authority Title VI: Welfare Restrictions for Aliens Title VII: Miscellaneous Welfare Reform Act of 1994 - Title I: Applicant Job Search, Voucher Program, Transition and Work Program, Etc. - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) require State AFDC plans to require AFDC applicants to search for a job while their application for AFDC is being processed; (2) make reimbursable job search expenses for transportation and child care; and (3) require the State to have in effect an employment voucher program under which eligible individuals receiving AFDC or food stamps shall receive vouchers in lieu of such benefits after they have obtained employment with a qualified employer. (Sec. 103) Amends SSA title IV part F (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program) (JOBS) to require State JOBS programs to include specified transition and work supplementation components. Amends the community work experience and work supplementation programs. (Sec. 104) Revises State AFDC plan requirements for: (1) sanctions for an individual's failure to participate in the JOBS program; and (2) exemptions from JOBS program participation requirements. (Sec. 106) Increases State JOBS program and work program participation rates with regard to AFDC-eligible individuals and unemployed parents, respectively. Extends to all States the option to limit AFDC-UP (AFDC for Unemployed Parents). (Sec. 107) Provides for additional payments to States for JOBS programs. Title II: Provisions Relating to Paternity Establishment - Amends SSA title IV part A to provide for reduction of AFDC for the parents or guardians of children whose paternity is not established. (Sec. 202) Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to require each State to have in effect laws requiring outreach to pregnant, unmarried women regarding paternity establishment and eligibility for benefits under Federal and State programs, including assistance under AFDC. (Sec. 203) Increases the paternity establishment percentage. Title III: Child Support Enforcement - Makes various specified changes with regard to State child support order registries, the Parent Locator Service, regulations for sharing child support information, income withholding orders, and noncustodial parents with child support arrearages who are applying for, or are already on, AFDC. Title IV: Expansion of Statutory Flexibility of States - Amends SSA title IV part A to give States the option to: (1) disallow the increases or decreases in AFDC payments that are mandated by this Act on the basis of childhood preventive health care examinations and immunizations; (2) increase or decrease AFDC payments on the basis of attendance at educational or vocational training institutions; (3) deny AFDC for additional children; (4) provide for a married couple transitional benefit in cases where an AFDC recipient marries an individual who is not a parent of the recipient's child and the resulting family would become ineligible for AFDC by reason of the marriage; (5) treat families moving interstate who apply for AFDC in their new State of residence, where they have resided for less than one year, under the AFDC rules of their former State of residence; (6) condition the receipt of AFDC on the recipient's attendance at appropriate parenting and money management classes; (7) deny AFDC to unmarried individuals under 18 who are pregnant or have a dependent child (if the State does not opt to deny AFDC eligibility in such case, then it must require that the individuals live at home to be AFDC-eligible); and (8) disregard certain savings of a family on AFDC designated for education in determining eligibility for AFDC. (Sec. 401) Requires States to conduct appropriate education and outreach activities designed to increase public awareness of the importance of preventive health care and immunizations for pre-school children. Requires the Surgeon General to issue, and periodically revise, recommendations for the immunization of children under six. Title V: Expedited State Waiver Authority - Establishes an Interagency Waiver Request Board to provide a focal point within the Federal Government for the development and coordination of waiver requests designed to improve opportunities for low-income individuals and families. (Sec. 502) Prescribes contents of applications to implement Federal assistance plans, as well as the review, approval, implementation, and evaluation processes. (Sec. 505) Requires any entity applying for plan approval to establish a Public-Private Partnership Committee to advise it on plan development and implementation. Title VI: Welfare Restrictions for Aliens - Prohibits, generally, the payment of direct Federal financial benefits, food stamps, and unemployment benefits to individuals who are not U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or refugees. (Sec. 601) Requires any lawful alien receiving any such benefits for over one year to be reported to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and be treated as a public charge for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act with regard to deportation for failing to notify the Attorney General of a current address. Deems the income and resources of any person who agrees to sponsor and provide support to a lawful alien as unearned income and resources of such alien until the alien is naturalized as an U.S. citizen. (Sec. 602) Amends SSA title IV part A to require State AFDC agencies to provide INS with information on illegal aliens. Title VII: Miscellaneous - Amends SSA title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to prohibit the payment of OASDI benefits to individuals confined by court order to public institutions pursuant to verdicts of not guilty by reason of insanity (or other similar finding) or guilty, but insane. (Sec. 702) Amends SSA title IV part A to require AFDC applicants and recipients to undergo any necessary substance abuse treatment and submit to unannounced drug tests afterwards as a condition of receiving AFDC. (Sec. 703) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) conduct research projects to evaluate education and training programs with respect to participation in the AFDC program; (2) conduct demonstration projects and report to the Congress on whether providing benefits based on need through the use of electronic cards and automatic teller machines would reduce administrative costs and fraud; and (3) establish a commission to determine the cost and feasibility of creating an interstate system to compare the social security numbers of all AFDC recipients in order to identify those recipients receiving AFDC from multiple States. (Sec. 705) Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to make: (1) ineligible for SSI benefits individuals receiving SSI on the basis of a disability caused by illegal drugs who are on illegal drugs or refuse to be tested for such; and (2) changes with regard to government agencies as paid representative payees (RPs) and RP fees. (Sec. 706) Amends SSA title IV part A to: (1) make State AFDC fraud control programs mandatory; and (2) permanently bar individuals found guilty of fraud in connection with the AFDC program from being considered in determining their families' eligibility for AFDC.

Bill· SS. 1784 (103rd)open

To restore the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska to the Department of the Interior list of Indian entities recognized and eligible to receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs.

United States · United States Congress · 24 November 1993

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to restore the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska as an Indian entity recognized to receive services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Bill· SS. 1758 (103rd)referred

Stewardship Endowment Fund Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1993

Stewardship Endowment Fund Act of 1993 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to establish in the Treasury a Stewardship Endowment Fund to facilitate the restoration of natural resources in Alaska injured as a result of the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill.

Bill· SS. 1743 (103rd)open

Consumer Choice Health Security Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Tax and Insurance Provisions Subtitle A: Tax Treatment of Health Care Expenses Subtitle B: Insurance Provisions Subtitle C: Employer Provisions Subtitle D: Federal Preemption Subtitle E: Report Title II: Medicare and Medicaid Reforms Subtitle A: Medicare Subtitle B: Medicaid Title III: Health Care Liability Reform Title IV: Administrative Cost Savings Subtitle A: Standardization of Claims Processing Subtitle B: Electronic Medical Data Standards Subtitle C: Development and Distribution of Comparative Value Information Subtitle D: Preemption of State Quill Pen Laws Title V: Anti-Fraud Subtitle A: Criminal Prosecution of Health Care Fraud Subtitle B: Coordination of Health Care Anti-Fraud and Abuse Activities Title VI: Antitrust Provisions Title VII: Long-Term Care Consumer Choice Health Security Act of 1994 - Title I: Tax and Insurance Provisions - Subtitle A: Tax Treatment of Health Care Expenses - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for health care expenses based upon percentages of qualified health insurance premiums and adjusted gross income. Provides advance payments of such credit by employers. (Sec. 102) Allows individuals a tax credit for a percentage of contributions made to a medical care savings account established for the benefit of an eligible individual. Exempts such accounts from taxation. Establishes an excise tax for excess contributions to medical care savings accounts and makes such accounts subject to the tax on prohibited transactions. (Sec. 103) Terminates the medical expense deduction and the exclusion for employer-provided health insurance. Subtitle B: Insurance Provisions - Part I: Federally Qualified Health Insurance Plans - Sets forth requirements for federally qualified health insurance plans, including coverage for acute medical care, cost-sharing, premium rating practices, and guaranteed issuance and renewability. Part II: Certification of Federally Qualified Health Insurance Plans - Requires States to meet standards for regulatory programs for the certification of federally qualified health insurance plans. Subtitle C: Employer Provisions - Requires employers to: (1) withhold health insurance premiums from employee wages and remit such premiums to the employee's chosen insurer; and (2) notify employees of their right to claim an advance refundable tax credit for such premiums. (Sec. 122) Provides for the conversion and continuation of existing insurance plans to required coverage under this Act. (Sec. 125) Establishes the Benefits Cash Out Commission to propose a procedure under which individuals may cash out Federal health benefits. Provides for congressional consideration of such proposal prior to its implementation. (Sec. 126) Imposes excise taxes on employers and health insurance carriers for noncompliance with this Act. Subtitle D: Federal Preemption - Preempts specified State laws concerning health insurance. Subtitle E: Report - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the Congress five years after the enactment of this Act on certain aspects of health insurance coverage. Title II: Medicare and Medicaid Reforms - Subtitle A: Medicare - Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the feasibility of allowing future Medicare beneficiaries to elect to receive certificates with which to purchase private health insurance coverage instead of receiving Medicare benefits. (Sec. 202) Eliminates disproportionate share hospital payments under Medicare. (Sec. 203) Provides for a reduction in the adjustment for indirect medical education costs under Medicare. (Sec. 204) Imposes copayments for laboratory services, certain home health visits, and skilled nursing facility services provided under Medicare. (Sec. 207) Moves payment updates to January for all payment rates under Medicare's hospital insurance program. (Sec. 208) Accelerates the transition to prospective rates for facility costs in hospital outpatient departments. Subtitle B: Medicaid - Places a cap on Federal payments for acute medical services furnished under a State's Medicaid program. (Sec. 212) Provides for waivers from Medicaid requirements in order to establish acute medical services programs. (Sec. 213) Terminates disproportionate share hospital payments under Medicaid. (Sec. 214) Directs the Secretary to provide grants to States for programs to provide health insurance coverage, acute medical services, preventive care, and disease prevention services to low-income individuals. Title III: Health Care Liability Reform - Health Care Liability Reform Act of 1994 - Limits payments, damages, and attorney's fees in health care malpractice actions and claims. (Sec. 304) Declares that a manufacturer or seller of a health care product shall not be strictly liable for injury from: (1) a defect in the design of the product; or (2) a failure to warn or instruct regarding a risk posed by the product that was not known or reasonably knowable. (Sec. 305) Limits the amount of noneconomic damages that may be awarded in a health care malpractice claim or a health care product liability claim. Allows several liability for noneconomic loss and for punitive damages. (Sec. 306) Allows punitive damages to be awarded only if the claimant establishes that the harm suffered was the result of conduct manifesting conscious, flagrant indifference to the health of those harmed by the product. Disallows punitive damages against a product approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Title IV: Administrative Cost Savings - Subtitle A: Standardization of Claims Processing - Directs the Secretary to adopt standards relating to: (1) data elements for use in paper and electronic claims processing under health benefit plans and in utilization review and management of care; (2) uniform claims forms; and (3) uniform electronic transmission of the data elements. (Sec. 402) Authorizes the Secretary, two years after standards are adopted for classes of services upon determining that a significant number of claims for benefits for such services under health benefit plans are not being submitted in accordance with such standards, to require that all providers of such services submit claims to health benefit plans in accordance with such standards. (Sec. 403) Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for the ongoing receipt and review of comments and suggestions for changes in the standards adopted and promulgated; (2) establish a schedule for the periodic review of such standards; and (3) revise such standards. Subtitle B: Electronic Medical Data Standards - Directs the Secretary to promulgate standards for hospitals concerning electronic medical data, including standards for transmission of such data and confidentiality of patient-specific information. Authorizes the Secretary to periodically revise such standards. (Sec. 412) Sets forth requirements with respect to: (1) the sharing of hospital information under Medicare; (2) waiver of such requirements; and (3) application of such requirements to hospitals of the Department of Veterans Affairs. (Sec. 413) Authorizes the head of a Federal agency to require a provider to present and transmit a required data element electronically in accordance with applicable presentation or transmission standards. (Sec. 414) Sets forth limitations on data requirements where standards with respect to data elements are in effect. (Sec. 415) Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory commission on the standards established under this part and operational concerns about the implementation of such standards. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Development and Distribution of Comparative Value Information - Directs the Secretary to determine whether each State is developing and implementing a health care value information program that meets specified criteria and a specified schedule. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make grants to enable each State to plan development and initiate implementation of its health care value information program; and (2) recover the amount of such a grant by offset against any other amount payable to the State under the Social Security Act under specified circumstances. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 422) Directs the Secretary to take actions necessary to implement a comparable program in a State that fails to develop or implement a health care value information program in accordance with such criteria and schedule. Authorizes the Secretary to charge fees for the information materials provided pursuant to such a program. (Sec. 423) Directs the head of each Federal agency with responsibility for the provision of health insurance or health care services to individuals to develop health care value information relating to each program that such head administers and covering the same types of data that a State program meeting such criteria would provide. Subtitle D: Preemption of State Quill Pen Laws - Specifies that, effective January 1, 1996, no effect shall be given to any provision of State law that requires medical or health insurance records (including billing information) to be maintained in written, rather than electronic, form. Title V: Anti-Fraud - Subtitle A: Criminal Prosecution of Health Care Fraud - Amends the Federal criminal code to impose penalties upon a health care provider that knowingly engages in any scheme or artifice to defraud a person in connection with the provision of health care. (Sec. 502) Authorizes the Attorney General to pay a reward of up to $10,000 to a person who furnishes information unknown to the Government relating to a possible prosecution for health care fraud, with exceptions. Subtitle B: Coordination of Health Care Anti-Fraud and Abuse Activities - Amends the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) the application of Federal health anti-fraud and abuse sanctions to all fraud and abuse against any health insurance plan; and (2) treble damages for making or causing to be made false statements or representatives involving Medicare or State health care programs, for illegal remuneration, and for false statements or representatives with respect to the condition or operation of health care institutions. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with State and local health care officials, to: (1) identify opportunities for the satisfaction of community service obligations that a court may impose upon the conviction of a criminal offense involving Medicare or State health care programs; and (2) make information concerning such opportunities available to Federal and State law enforcement officers and State and local health care officials. Title VI: Antitrust Provisions - Exempts from the antitrust laws specified "safe harbor" activities related to the provision of health care services. Sets forth provisions regarding the award of attorney's fees and costs of suit to the prevailing party in an action based on a claim involving activity found to be exempt. (Sec. 602) Lists as safe harbors specified: (1) activities relating to health care services of combinations of health care providers with market share below a specified threshold; (2) activities of medical self-regulatory entities relating to standard setting or enforcement activities not conducted for purposes of financial gain; (3) participation of a health care provider in a written survey of the prices of services, reimbursement levels, or the compensation and benefits of employees and personnel; (4) activities relating to health care joint ventures for high technology and costly equipment and services; (5) activities relating to hospital mergers; (6) joint purchasing arrangements; and (7) negotiations. (Sec. 603) Directs the Attorney General to publish a notice in the Federal Register soliciting proposals for additional safe harbors and to review and report to the Congress on proposed safe harbors. Sets forth criteria in establishing safe harbors, including: (1) the extent to which a competitive or collaborative activity will accomplish an increase in health care access and quality, the establishment of cost efficiencies, and increased ability of health care facilities to provide services in medically underserved areas or to underserved populations; and (2) whether designation as a safe harbor will result in specified desirable outcomes. (Sec. 604) Directs the Attorney General to issue certificates of review for providers of health care services and to assist persons in applying for such certificates. Sets forth provisions regarding applications for, revocation of, and review of determinations regarding such certificates. Limits the disclosure of information. (Sec. 605) Sets forth provisions regarding notifications providing for a reduction in certain penalties under the antitrust laws for health care cooperative ventures. (Sec. 606) Directs the Attorney General to: (1) review the safe harbors and certificates of review periodically and (2) promulgate such rules, regulations, and guidelines as necessary to carry out provisions of this title. Title VII: Long-Term Care - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income certain amounts withdrawn from individual retirement accounts and certain employer cash or deferred arrangements to pay long-term care premiums. (Sec. 702) Provides for the nonrecognition of gain or loss on the exchange of any life insurance contract or an endowment or annuity contract for a long-term care insurance contract. (Sec. 703) Provides for the exclusion as a death benefit of any amount paid or advanced to an individual under a life insurance contract because such individual is terminally ill or chronically and has been permanently confined to ill and qualified facility.

Bill· SS. 1768 (103rd)referred

A bill to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1993

Treats certain lands (Kageet Point) as acreage allotted to the Chugach Alaska Corporation for the purpose of making selections under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Ratifies specified conveyances to the Caswell and Montana Creek Native Associations as full entitlements under such Act. Amends the Act with respect to requirements, administration, and revenues of mining claims patented to a Regional Corporation. Authorizes appropriations for technical assistance to Village Corporations to implement conveyances under the Act. Provides a one-year land allotment period for certain Native Alaskan veterans of the Korean conflict or the Vietnam era. Authorizes Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated, to transfer Wrangell Institute in Wrangell, Alaska, to the General Services Administration in exchange for the restoration of specified bidding credits to the corporation's property account. Makes technical corrections to provisions concerning lapsed mining claims located with the boundaries of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.

Bill· SS. 1756 (103rd)referred

Commercial Fisheries Waste Reduction Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1993

Commercial Fisheries Waste Reduction Act of 1993 - Amends the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act to require fishery management plans to contain measures which encourage the non-wasteful taking of fishery resources, including the reduction of discards of fish and fish parts.

Bill· SS. 1686 (103rd)referred

ANCSA Land Transfer Equity Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1993

ANCSA Land Transfer Equity Act of 1993 - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide for the settlement of claims arising from the contamination of transferred lands by either contaminant removal or land replacement. States that the United States shall assume all liabilities and obligations arising from such contaminated land transfers.

Bill· SS. 1687 (103rd)open

Environmental Flexible Funding Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1993

Environmental Flexible Funding Act of 1993 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an environmental medium grant program to authorize consolidated grants to States (in lieu of individual grants under Federal environmental laws) to fund programs relating to pollution prevention, control, and abatement and related environmental activities. Authorizes a State, in carrying out a consolidated grant program, to exercise the authorities it would otherwise exercise under an individual grant program. Requires grants to be awarded to address the pollution prevention, control, and abatement problems and related environmental problems of one area of environmental concern on a statewide basis in accordance with a priority work plan developed by the State. Limits a consolidated grant to the amount that would otherwise be awarded under individual grant program authorities. Requires States to pay 50 percent of program costs. Authorizes the Administrator to reduce or disapprove a grant based on a State's failure to make satisfactory progress in achieving performance measures. Directs the Administrator to establish a multi-media environmental grant program to assist States in designing and carrying out pollution prevention, control, and abatement programs and related environmental programs that affect two or more areas of environmental concern. Applies the same cost-sharing and progress conditions to such grants as are applicable to medium grants. Authorizes the Administrator, on the request of a State Governor, to transfer up to 20 percent of the amount that would otherwise be awarded to the State pursuant to individual grant authorities or grant authorities under this Act and award the funds as a supplemental amount subject to the same requirements of such grants.

Bill· SS. 1728 (103rd)referred

Commercial Mortgage Capital Availability Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1993

Commercial Mortgage Capital Availability Act of 1993 - Sets forth a regulatory scheme under which qualified insured depository institutions meeting prescribed reserve and capital requirements may execute mortgage loan transfers with a recourse arrangement. Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to modify the definition of "mortgage related security" to include notes directly secured by a first lien on real estate with commercial structures located upon it (thus bringing such securities within the purview of the Act). Directs the Secretary of Labor to exempt commercial mortgage related securities transactions from: (1) certain restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974; and (2) certain taxes imposed under the Internal Revenue Code.

Bill· SS. 1715 (103rd)referred

Equitable Escheatment Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1993

Equitable Escheatment Act of 1993 - Amends specified Federal law to prescribe guidelines under which unclaimed distributions of security interests shall be subject to the custodial taking (escheatment) by the State which contains the principal executive offices of either the issuer or the holder of those securities.