United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1993
Independence Hall Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint a specified number of one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the national shrines of liberty, showing the Liberty Bell on one side and Independence Hall on the other. Mandates that 50 percent of the surcharges collected be distributed to: (1) the Treasury; and (2) the Independence Hall Preservation Fund to assist its efforts to meet certain funding needs of the Independence National Historic Park.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1993
Prescribes guidelines under which passengers may be transported in foreign-flag cruise vessels between ports in Alaska and between ports in Alaska and other U.S. ports.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
Women in the Armed Forces Commemorative Coins Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) mint and issue coins to commemorate the women who have served in the armed forces of the United States; and (2) transfer the surcharges received from coin sales to the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation to be used to create, endow, and dedicate the Women in the Armed Forces Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1993
Bars persons nominated by the President to serve in offices which require the advice and consent of the Senate from performing any function which is authorized by law to be performed by an officer of the United States before their appointments are approved by the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1993
Veterans' Hospice Services Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a pilot program to: (1) assess the feasibility and desirability of furnishing hospice care to terminally ill veterans; and (2) determine the most efficient and effective means of providing such care. Directs the Secretary to designate 15 to 30 Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities for hospice care demonstration projects. Allows such hospice care to be provided by Department medical facilities and personnel or by contract with a non-Department medical facility. Limits the amount paid for such care to amounts paid for hospice care programs under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Directs the Secretary, during the pilot program period of October 1, 1993, through December 31, 1998, to designate not fewer than ten Department medical facilities at which hospice care is being provided to furnish palliative care to such veterans. Provides for: (1) informing terminally ill veterans of their eligibility for hospice and palliative care; and (2) hospice program evaluation, assessment, and congressional reports by the Secretary and the Director of the Health Services Research and Development Service of the hospice care pilot program.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Condemns the repressive anti-Baha'i policy adopted by the Government of Iran. Urges the Government of Iran to extend to the Baha'i community the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international covenants on human rights. Calls upon the President to continue to: (1) urge such Government to emancipate the Baha'i community by granting such rights; (2) emphasize that the United States regards the human rights practices of such Government, particularly its treatment of the Baha'is and other religious minorities, as a significant factor in the development of U.S.-Iranian relations; and (3) encourage other governments to continue to appeal to the Government of Iran and to cooperate with other governments and international organizations in efforts to protect the religious rights of the Baha'is and other minorities in Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorative Coin Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a specified number of one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Mandates that the surcharges collected from the sale of such coins be paid to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund to help raise an endowment for the Memorial's maintenance and for the addition of names.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Designates July 25 through 31, 1993, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes the President to urge U.S. departments and agencies, interested organizations, groups, and individuals to fly the American flag at half-staff on July 27, 1993, in honor of the Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Congratulates the Anti-Defamation League as it celebrates its 80th anniversary in 1993 and commends it for effectively pursuing the goal of promoting greater tolerance among people throughout the world.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1993
Encourages U.S. leadership in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization. Calls on the President, the Secretary of State, and other representatives of the U.S. Government to take the opportunity presented by the scheduled chairing and hosting by the United States of the ministerial meeting of the organization in Seattle, Washington, on November 17 through 19, 1993, to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to make it an effective regional economic organization that reduces barriers to increased intra-regional trade through the harmonization of standards, trade, and investment policies.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993
State Offices of Rural Health Amendments of 1993 - Revises matching funds provisions of the program of grants to States for operation of offices of rural health (under the Public Health Service Act) to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services: (1) from making grants under the program unless the State agrees to provide non-Federal contributions towards specified costs, in cash, in an amount not less than one dollar for each dollar of Federal funds provided in the grant; and (2) in determining the amount of non-Federal contributions in cash that a State has provided, from including any amounts provided to the State by the Federal Government. Authorizes appropriations. Increases grant amounts that may be made before termination of the program.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1993
Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development Act - Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1986 to include Alaska Natives in a program for native culture and arts development.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Investment and Savings Incentives Subtitle A: Reductions in Cost of Capital and Tax Penalties on Investment Subtitle B: Investment in Business Subtitle C: Increased Savings Through Individual Retirement Accounts Subtitle D: Incentives for Private Businesses to Hire New Employees Title II: Deficit Reductions Subtitle A: Extension of the Caps on Discretionary Spending Subtitle B: Spending Cuts Real Jobs for America Act of 1993 - Title I: Investment and Savings Incentives - Subtitle A: Reductions in Cost of Capital and Tax Penalties on Investment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require indexing of certain assets (corporate stock, certain tangible property, and a principal residence) that have been held for more than three years at the time of sale or other transfer, solely for the purpose of determining gain or loss. Modifies the method of determining the depreciation deduction for certain personal property placed in service after June 30, 1993. Eliminates the depreciation adjustment for computing adjusted current earnings for such property. Subtitle B: Investment in Small Business - Increases the dollar limitation, with an inflation adjustment, on the deduction for expensing depreciable business assets. Subtitle C: Increased Savings Through Individual Retirement Accounts - Removes the limitation on the retirement savings deduction for active participants in certain pension plans. Provides a cost-of-living adjustment for such deduction. Allows individuals to establish individual retirement plus accounts with tax treatment similar to that for individual retirement plans. Makes contributions to such accounts nondeductible. Allows distributions from certain retirement plans without penalty to purchase first homes, pay higher education expenses and financially devastating medical expenses, and assist certain unemployed individuals. Treats certain disaster victims as first-time homebuyers. Requires contributions to an individual retirement plan (other than an individual retirement plus account) to be held for five years prior to distribution. Subtitle D: Incentives for Private Businesses to Hire New Employees - Allows employers a refundable credit for the employment taxes paid on the qualified wages of new employees hired during July 1, 1993, and June 30, 1994. Repeals the luxury excise tax on passenger vehicles, boats, aircraft, jewelry, and furs. Exempts from such tax parts for accessories installed for use on passenger vehicles by disabled individuals. Provides for the treatment of rental and nonrental real estate activities under the limitation on losses from passive activities. Title II: Deficit Reductions - Subtitle A: Extension of the Caps on Discretionary Spending - Reduces discretionary spending limits for the defense, international, and domestic categories for FY 1993 through 1995. Establishes the level of such limits for FY 1996 through 1998. Subtitle B: Spending Cuts - Rescinds a specified amount of budgetary resources for Federal administrative expenses. Eliminates the lump sum retirement benefit for Federal employees unless such employees have a life-threatening affliction or other critical medical condition. Requires employers to report group health plan information on wage forms. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish a data bank for the collection of information on Medicare secondary payer situations and health insurance information. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the reductions in discretionary spending required by this Act be achieved by reducing, modifying, eliminating, closing, or terminating specified Federal programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reporting on Nuclear Exports Title II: Sanctions for Nuclear Proliferation Title III: International Atomic Energy Agency Omnibus Nuclear Proliferation Control Act of 1993 - Title I: Reporting on Nuclear Exports - (Sec. 101) Amends the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 to revise requirements of the President's annual report on Government efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation. Title II: Sanctions for Nuclear Proliferation - (Sec. 201) Requires the President to prohibit the procurement of goods or services from any foreign or U.S. person who has materially and with requisite knowledge contributed, through the exports of goods or technology, to the efforts by any individual, group, or non-nuclear weapon state to acquire unsafeguarded special nuclear material or to use, develop, stockpile, or acquire any nuclear explosive device. Requires the President to impose sanctions unless he certifies to the Congress that a government has taken actions to terminate the involvement of a foreign person in such activities. Exempts certain products or services from sanctions, including essential defense articles and services, products and services provided under existing contracts, essential technology or information, and humanitarian items. Applies sanctions for at least 12 months and terminates sanctions only if the President certifies to the Congress that a person has ceased to, and will not in the future, aid in such prohibited activities. Grants the President waiver authority with respect to such sanctions. (Sec. 202) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to prohibit sales or leases of defense articles or services to any country that is in breach of its commitments to the United States under international agreements concerning nuclear nonproliferation. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to waive a prohibition on assistance to countries engaging in certain nuclear enrichment transfers with respect to Pakistan if to do so is in the national interest. (Sec. 203) Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international institutions to oppose any use of funds to promote the acquisition of unsafeguarded special nuclear material or the development, stockpiling, or use of nuclear explosive devices by non-nuclear weapon states. (Sec. 205) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 to impose specified prohibitions on financial institutions that the President has determined have materially and with requisite knowledge contributed to the efforts by any individual, group, or non-nuclear weapon state to acquire unsafeguarded nuclear material or to use, develop, stockpile, or acquire any nuclear explosive device. Authorizes the President to waive a prohibition under certain circumstances. (Sec. 206) Amends the Export-Import Bank Act to prohibit Export-Import Bank assistance to any country that has aided or abetted a non-nuclear weapon state in acquiring a nuclear explosive device or unsafeguarded nuclear material. (Sec. 207) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include within the list of activities that makes a country subject to sanctions the transfer or receipt (by a non-nuclear weapon state) of design information or components important for the development of a nuclear explosive device. Lists such sanctions. Title III: International Atomic Energy Agency - (Sec. 301) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should negotiate with other nations to achieve specified nuclear nonproliferation and safeguard objectives to enhance confidence in International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards and halt nuclear proliferation. (Sec. 302) Urges the President to negotiate with other nations to promote the early adoption of reforms in the implementation of IAEA safeguards.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1993
Youth Job Opportunities through Business Act (The Youth JOBS Act) - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to give priority to placement in private sector jobs under the summer youth employment and training program. Provides that retention in unsubsidized employment shall not be considered an appropriate factor in prescribing performance standards for such program. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the targeted jobs tax credit with respect to qualified summer youth employees by: (1) revising the age limitation to age 14 to 22 (currently 16 to 18); (2) increasing the amount of creditable wages from $3,000 to $3,500; (3) coordinating the credit with Federal summer youth employment programs; and (4) reducing certain paperwork burdens.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1993
Community Regulatory Relief Act - Provides that any requirement under a Federal statute or regulation which creates a Federal mandate shall apply to State or local government only if all funds necessary to pay the direct costs incurred by the government in conducting the activity are provided by the Federal Government for the fiscal year in which the direct cost is incurred. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to analyze the effects of each bill or resolution on each state and local government's compliance with a Federal mandate. Requires each measure reported or considered in either House of the Congress to be accompanied by such an analyses. Requires reports by the Director to the President and the Congress estimating the direct costs of such compliance for each fiscal year in which a Federal mandate will be in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993
Increases the rates of: (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. Makes a technical correction relating to the financing of discount points for certain veterans' loans.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1993
Television Violence Report Card Act of 1993 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission to: (1) establish a program for evaluating and rating television programs, with respect to the extent of the violence contained in those programs, and sponsors, in terms of the extent to which they sponsor violent programs; and (2) publish each quarter in the Federal Register a Television Violence Report Card that reports such ratings.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1993
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, surveillance and prevention programs, professional and public education, and diagnostic criteria. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1993
Commends radio amateurs for their contributions to technical progress in electronics and for their emergency radio communications in times of disaster. Urges the Federal Communications Commission to continue and enhance the development of the amateur radio service as a public benefit by adopting rules and regulations which encourage the use of new technologies within the amateur radio service. Declares that reasonable accommodation should be made for effective operation of amateur radio from residences, private vehicles and public areas and that regulation at all levels of government should facilitate and encourage amateur radio operation as a public benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1993
Alaska Peninsula Subsurface Consolidation Act of 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to consolidate the surface and subsurface estates of certain lands within three conservation system units on the Alaska Peninsula if the Secretary receives from Koniag, Incorporated, a timely tender of relinquishment of its rights to receive title to oil and gas rights and other interests in the subsurface estate of specified public lands. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a Koniag Account into which shall be deposited an amount equal to the value of such relinquished rights.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1993
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1993 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to revise generally provisions relating to the employment and reemployment rights of members of the uniformed services. States that a person's entitlement to rights and benefits under this Act is dependent upon an honorable discharge from the armed forces and, therefore, will be terminated in cases of a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge or a separation, release, or dismissal under conditions other than honorable. Prohibits the denial of initial employment, reemployment, retention in employment, promotion, or any benefit of employment by an employer against a person who is a member of, applies for membership in, or performs, has performed, applies to perform, or has an obligation to perform service in a uniformed service on the basis of such service or obligation. Prohibits an employer from discriminating in employment or taking any adverse employment action against any person who has acted to enforce a protection afforded by this Act. Excuses an employer from such reemployment requirements if changed circumstances make reemployment impossible or unreasonable or if reemployment would impose an undue hardship on such employer (with the burden of proof of such circumstances on the employer in such cases). Entitles any person absent from employment by reason of the performance of military service to the rights and benefits of this Act if: (1) the person has given advance notice of such service to the employer; (2) the cumulative length of such absence and any previous absences from employment by reason of military service does not exceed five years; and (3) the person reports or applies to such employer upon completion of such service in accordance with requirements enumerated under this Act. Excuses employer notice when precluded by military necessity or when otherwise impossible or unreasonable. Outlines certain conditions under which a person shall remain entitled to such employment and reemployment rights even though the cumulative length of military service exceeds five years. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) employee reporting requirements upon completion of military service, including the presentation of documentation of such military service to the employer; (2) the positions (same or substantially similar) to which the returning employee shall be entitled; and (3) reemployment rights of a person employed by the Federal Government before such military service. Entitles a person reemployed after military service to all seniority and other rights and benefits (including pension benefits and coverage under the appropriate health plan) that such person would have attained if the employment had not been interrupted by miliary service. Directs the Secretary of Labor to assist all eligible persons with respect to employment and reemployment rights and benefits. Outlines procedures for assistance, investigation of complaints, and enforcement of such rights and benefits against Federal, State, or private employers. Directs the Secretary to provide those persons performing qualifying military service, as well as their employers, with information relating to their reemployment and other rights, benefits, and obligations. Provides for the continuation of contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan for enrolled persons performing such military service.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1993
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define a "dietary supplement" as a food for special dietary use that includes a vitamin, a mineral, an herb, an amino acid, or another ingredient used to supplement the diet by increasing total dietary intake. Excludes a dietary supplement from the definition of the term "drug" and the term "food additive". Deems a dietary supplement adulterated if it presents a substantial and unreasonable risk of illness or injury. Deems a food misbranded unless the label lists the daily value of specified nutrients which shall reflect the daily intake of each nutrient that will promote optiomal health. Prohibits such value from being less than the U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance. Deems a dietary supplement misbranded unless it meets specified guidelines. Establishes an Office of Dietary Supplements within the National Institutes of Health. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1993
Hardrock Mining Reform Act of 1993 - Renames the Act of July 23, 1955, as the Surface Resources Act of 1955, and the Act of July 31, 1947, as the Materials Act of 1947. Sets forth fees for mining claim location and maintenance, including waivers and reduced fees for claimants holding fewer than 50 claims. Amends certain Federal mining law to limit the requirement that at least $100 worth of labor or improvements be performed annually on claims located after May 1872 to claims that are eligible for a waiver or reduced fee under this Act. Imposes royalties upon the production and sale of locatable minerals from any mining claim located after enactment of this Act. Establishes the Hardrock Mining Royalty Review Commission to review and report to certain congressional committees on the effect of such royalties upon the hardrock mining industry. Sets forth limitations upon federally issued mining patents. Prohibits mineral activities on Federal land that cause more than a minimal disturbance of surface resources unless a plan of operations has been approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Mandates that: (1) all operations under such plan be conducted in accordance with Federal and State environmental laws and be inspected quarterly for compliance and/or enforcement; (2) lands patented after enactment of this Act be subject to State and/or Federal mining reclamation laws; and (3) financial assurances for land reclamation be provided. Proscribes full- or part-time residential occupancy of a mining claim. Amends the Surface Resources Act of 1955 to subject certain mineral deposits to the disposal requirements of the Materials Act of 1947. Prescribes percentage guidelines for allocation of receipts received under this Act between the Federal Treasury and the applicable State treasury. Establishes the Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation program under which grants shall be made to eligible States for reclamation and restoration of land and water resources adversely affected by past hardrock mining. Directs the Secretary to approve any State abandoned minerals mine reclamation program upon finding that it has the means and necessary legislation to implement such program, and the program complies with this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1993
Amends the Japan-United States Friendship Act to authorize appropriations for the Japan-United States Friendship Trust Fund. Sets forth requirements for the members of the United States Panel of the Joint Committee on United States-Japan Cultural and Educational Cooperation. Requires certain investment duties of the Secretary of the Treasury involving the Fund to be taken at the direction of the Chairman of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission. Permits investments only in instruments of public debt with maturities suitable to the Fund's needs (currently, in interest-bearing obligations of or guaranteed by the United States).
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1993
Prohibits an increase in the excise tax on the sale of non-jet aviation fuel and jet aviation fuel that is sold to a registered commercial aircraft operator for use in transporting passengers or cargo. Prohibits any direct or indirect tax on such fuels or the energy content of petroleum or petroleum products in the production of such fuels. Allows such aircraft operators to reclaim taxes attributable to aviation fuel used to transport passengers or cargo.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1993
Revises the definition of "unit of general local government" for purposes of Federal payments in lieu of taxes to include any organized or unorganized borough in Alaska. (Currently, such definition includes any borough existing in Alaska on October 20, 1976.) Defines the boundary of any Alaska unorganized borough as the same as the census area boundaries used by the Secretary of Commerce in the decennial census.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1993
Condemns North Korea for its stated intention to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States and its international partners should take measured steps to compel North Korea to remain a party to the Treaty and to allow unconditional special inspections of apparent nuclear waste sites and other areas suspected of harboring a nuclear weapons-building program.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1993
Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to permit a qualified State or local development company that issues a debenture purchased by the Federal Financing Bank and guaranteed by the Small Business Administration, at the election of the small business borrower whose loan secures such debenture, to prepay the debenture by payment to the Bank of the unpaid principal balance, accrued interest, and repurchase premium amount (as determined under this Act). Prohibits any fees or penalties from being imposed against the issuer, borrower, or the Administration as a condition of prepayment under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1993
Terminates certain economic sanctions against Vietnam. Terminates the prohibition on the export and reexport of U.S. commodities and technical data to, and the import of certain goods from, such country. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to prescribe regulations imposing less restrictive export controls on such items to Vietnam, but no more restrictive than the controls for such items with respect to China.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1993
Product Liability Fairness Act - Declares that this Act applies to any civil action brought against a manufacturer or product seller, on any theory, for harm caused by a product. Excludes actions brought for loss or damage to a product or for commercial loss. States that: (1) this Act supersedes any State law only to the extent that this Act establishes an applicable rule of law; and (2) the provisions of title I shall not supersede or preempt any applicable State or Federal law. Title I: Expedited Judgments and Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures - Sets forth expedited settlement procedures, including: (1) the option of allowing either the claimant or the defendant to offer a judgment for a specific dollar amount as complete satisfaction of the claim; and (2) alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures. Establishes penalties for: (1) parties who refused an offer and did worse at trial; and (2) a defendant who refuses ADR and then loses at trial. Title II: Standards for Civil Actions - States that a person seeking to recover for harm caused by a product may bring a civil action against the product's manufacturer or product seller pursuant to applicable State or Federal law, except to the extent such law is inconsistent with this Act. Sets forth uniform standards for: (1) product seller liability; (2) the award of punitive damages; and (3) time limitations on liability. Bars punitive damages if the requirements of specified Federal laws have been met. Entitles an employer or workers' compensation insurer to the right of subrogation against a manufacturer or product seller to recover workers' compensation for harm caused to an employee by a product if a civil suit has been brought under this Act. Provides that each defendant shall only be liable for the amount of noneconomic loss proportionally caused. Provides a complete defense, in any civil action in which all defendants are manufacturers or product sellers, in cases where the claimant was under the influence of alcohol or drugs and was more than 50 percent responsible for the harm.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1993
Names the beach on Hog Island, Unalaska, Alaska, the Arkansas Beach in commemoration of the 206th Coast Artillery Regiment and the men who served and died during the air attacks on Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, on June 3 and 4, 1942.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1993
Equitable Health Care for Severe Mental Illnesses Act of 1993 - Declares that it is the policy of the United States that: (1) persons with severe mental illnesses must not be discriminated against in health care; and (2) health care coverage, provided through any financing, must provide for the treatment of severe mental illnesses in a way that is equitable and commensurate with that provided for other major illnesses. Requires health care coverage, in order to be considered nondiscriminatory and equitable under this Act, to cover services that are essential to the effective treatment of severe mental illnesses in a manner that: (1) is not more restrictive than coverage provided for other major physical illnesses; (2) provides adequate financial protection to the person requiring the medical treatment for a severe mental illness; and (3) is consistent with effective and common methods of controlling health care costs for other major physical illnesses.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1993
Port of Entry Inspections Improvement Act of 1993 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to create grounds for exclusion of an alien who: (1) uses or attempts to use a fraudulent document to enter the United States, or to board a common carrier for such purpose; or (2) uses a document to board a common carrier and then fails to present such document to an immigration official upon arrival at a U.S. port of entry. Prohibits the granting of asylum to an alien who is found to be using fraudulent entry documents or who fails to present entry-related documents, unless a specially trained immigration officer determines such actions were pursuant to departure from a country: (1) in which the alien had a credible fear of persecution; or (2) from which there was a significant danger that the alien would be returned to a country in which he or she would have a credible fear of persecution. Provides for port of entry exclusion and deportation without administrative or judicial appeal (except by a limited petition of habeas corpus) for such admission document fraud. Increases penalties for certain alien smuggling offenses. Creates a separate offense and penalty for an alien smuggler who seriously injures or jeopardizes the life of an alien.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Independent General Accounting Office Peer Review Committee Title II: General Accounting Office Reform General Accounting Office Reform Act of 1993 - Title I: Independent General Accounting Office Peer Review Committee - Establishes the Independent General Accounting Office Peer Review Committee to conduct a review of the organization, administration, management, and operations of the General Accounting Office (GAO), which includes selecting samples of GAO studies and subjecting them to independent, outside review of accuracy, fairness, and professionalism. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: General Accounting Office Reform - Limits GAO use of funds for consulting services for FY 1993 to 75 percent of the amount spent for such services in FY 1992. Requires annual Comptroller General reports to the Congress on GAO's internal control structure. Prohibits GAO studies, investigations, or audits which have not been requested by the Congress or a Federal agency or are not required by statute. Requires reimbursement for GAO assignments and details to congressional committees and offices and to Federal agencies. Provides for congressional committee and Congressional Research Service and other congressional agency review and comment with respect to GAO draft reports. Prohibits GAO personnel from performing official duties in a combat zone. Requires GAO reports to the Congress and the President on studies or audits of Federal agencies to note the subject agency's lack of review or comment on such report.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1993
Radio Free Asia Act of 1993 - Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize the Board for International Broadcasting to designate one organization constituted on the model of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Incorporated, to carry out radio broadcasting to China, Tibet, Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. Designates such broadcasts as Radio Free China. Increases the number of Board members. Limits terms of Board members who are presidential appointees to three years. Sets forth additional provisions concerning membership terms.
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