United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Reporting and Staggered Issuance for Households on Reservations Title II: Access to Retail Food Stores by Food Stamp Households Food Stamp Program Improvements Act of 1994 - Title I: Reporting and Staggered Issuance for Households on Reservations - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to: (1) permit a State to require periodic reporting by migrant or seasonal farmworker households; and (2) set forth conditions under which a State may require such reporting for reservation households. Provides for staggered food stamp issuances on reservations. Requires a General Accounting Office study and report on tribal organization administration of the food stamp program. Title II: Access to Retail Food Stores by Food Stamp Households - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to: (1) redefine "retail food store"; and (2) define "staple foods." Expands the use and disclosure of information provided by retail and wholesale food concerns to include Federal and State law enforcement and investigative agencies. Requires demonstration projects to test innovative activities directed at coupon trafficking. Continues program eligibility for establishments or house-to-house trade routes currently authorized to accept food stamps. Requires a report on the impact of this Act on retail store program participation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1994
Extends the compliance date for certain provisions of the worker protection standard with respect to pesticide safety requirements under the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) from April 15, 1994, to January 1, 1995. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) develop and distribute pesticide safety training materials that convey, at a minimum, information set forth in the CFR; and (2) assist the appropriate Federal, State, and tribal agencies in implementing required pesticide safety training programs. Provides that until January 1, 1995, the labeling requirements set forth for pesticides and devices in the CFR that are due to become effective on April 21, 1994, may be enforced only in a State that has established a worker protection program with respect to such pesticides and devices and for purposes of enforcing such a program. Considers State worker protection programs to have met CFR requirements until January 1, 1995, after which time the Administrator shall reassess such programs. Directs pesticide registrants, beginning April 22, 1994, to provide information for point-of-sale notification to inform purchasers of pesticides that the applicable compliance date for labeling is January 1, 1995.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Alien Smuggling Control Title II: Port of Entry Inspections Title III: Penalties for Document Fraud and Misrepresentation Title IV: Asylum Reform Title V: Illegal Immigration and Border Security Title VI: Border Crossing User Fee Title VII: Detention of Illegal Aliens Title VIII: Public Benefits Abuse Title IX: Work Authorization Verification Title X: Numerical Limitations on Admission of Aliens into the United States Title XI: Miscellaneous Provisions Comprehensive Immigration and Asylum Reform Act of 1994 - Title I: Alien Smuggling Control - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) increase the penalty for alien smuggling; (2) provide an additional penalty for a smuggler who subjects an alien to a substantial risk of death or bodily harm; and (3) subject any smuggler to the death penalty for causing the death of an alien. (Sec. 103) Makes it a crime to smuggle aliens for the purpose of committing crimes in the United States. (Sec. 104) Adds smuggling to RICO. (Sec. 105) Expands Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) seizure authority to permit the seizure of any property used for smuggling or harboring aliens. (Sec. 106) Grants the INS wiretap authority for alien smuggling investigations. (Sec. 111) Expands the definition of aggravated felony for purposes of the immigration laws to include firearms violations, child pornography, RICO violations, and specified other crimes. (Sec. 112) Presumes deportable any alien convicted of an aggravated felony. Provides for the elimination of an administrative hearing for an alien convicted of an aggravated felony who is not lawfully admitted for permanent resident or is a conditional permanent residence. Eliminates other specified deportation procedures for such aliens. (Sec. 113) Permits a U.S. district court to enter a judicial order of deportation at the time of sentencing an alien. (Sec. 114) Restricts certain defenses to deportation available for certain criminal aliens. (Sec. 115) Increases criminal and civil penalties for failing to depart. Title II: Port of Entry Inspections - Makes excludable any alien who presents forged, stolen, altered, or counterfeit documents. Excepts those with a credible fear of persecution or of return to persecution who used such documents. Defines credible fear of persecution or of return to persecution. (Sec. 203) Restricts judicial review to limited habeas corpus proceedings. Title III: Penalties for Document Fraud and Misrepresentation - Increases penalties for fraud and misuse of immigration documents and government issued identification documents. (Sec. 302) Establishes civil and criminal penalties for the preparers of false documents. (Sec. 303) Makes it unlawful to present fraudulent documents before boarding a common carrier or upon arrival. Title IV: Asylum and Reform - Places limits on an asylum applicant's authority to work. (Sec. 403) Grants the Attorney General authority for two years for a program to address the asylum backlog. (Sec. 405) Precludes counting any time in deportation proceedings towards the seven consecutive years defense. Title V: Illegal Immigration and Border Security - Provides for the hiring of 125 additional INS investigators and support staff. Provides additional funding for deportation costs. Title VI: Border Crossing User Fee - Providers for the imposition of fees at ports of entry sufficient to cover the INS's costs of maintaining and operating port of entry facilities. Requires fees to be deposited in the Land Border User Fee Account. Provides for the funding of 100 additional Border Patrol agents and support personnel from the Account. Title VII: Detention of Illegal Aliens - Provides for a two year pilot program of using closed military bases for the detention of illegal aliens. Title VIII: Public Benefits Abuse - Prohibits any unlawful alien from receiving any financial benefits under any Federal program except for specified emergency health care or child nutrition programs. (Sec. 802) Attributes sponsor income to family preference aliens. Title IX: Work Authorization Verification - Provides for the development and implementation of a counterfeit-resistant system to verify work eligibility and Federally-funded public assistance benefits eligibility for all individuals within the United States. Prohibits any document which may be issued under such program from being used as a national identification card. Title X: Numerical Limitations on Admission of Aliens into the United States - Reduces worldwide immigration during FY 1995 through 1999. Limits numerically the number of refugees that may be admitted in any year, unless the Congress enacts an exception. Title XI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for the availability of information for use in criminal prosecutions. Provides for communications between Federal agencies and the INS.
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.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1994
United States-Canada Grain Trade Settlement Act of 1994 - Directs the President, by six months after enactment of this Act, to notify the Government of Canada of U.S. intent to terminate the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement (CFTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), unless the President certifies to the Congress that Canada has agreed to: (1) establish a method for determining the sale price of Canadian grain exports to the United States and the Canadian Wheat Board's acquisition price for such grain; (2) establish procedures for obtaining the data necessary to implement such method; (3) eliminate all transportation subsidies on agricultural goods originating in Canada and shipped for consumption to the United States; and (4) clarify the CFTA meaning of acquisition price so that the term includes the value of any transportation subsidy applied to grain entering the United States, all direct payments to producers by the Canadian Wheat Board or any government agency for such grain, and any other payments or subsidy incurred by the Board, any government agency, or any private interest in the acquisition, handling, storage, and transportation of the grain. Directs the President immediately to pursue negotiations to reach such an agreement. Requires the President immediately to impose a 50 percent tariff on all imports from Canada of wheat, durum, and barley. Authorizes the President to terminate such tariff and take action to reinstate the CFTA and the NAFTA with respect to Canada whenever Canada has entered such an agreement. Declares that such agreement shall supersede the corresponding provisions of the CFTA and the NAFTA, and shall be incorporated in and become part of them as reinstated.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Protection and Advancement of Universal Service Title II: Telecommunications Investment Title III: Regulatory Reform Title IV: Authorized Activities of Bell Operating Companies Title V: Regulatory Parity Between Telephone and Cable Companies Title VI: Customer Control Over Information Title VII: Media Diversity Communications Act of 1994 - Title I: Protection and Advancement of Universal Service - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 (the Act) to provide as U.S. national and international communications policy goals: (1) equal access to basic telecommunications services at reasonable rates; (2) the development and availability of new technologies; (3) equal access to diverse sources of information; and (4) the use of telecommunications services and technology to promote the exchange of ideas, economic welfare and quality of life, and the protection of control over an individual's use of such services. (Sec. 102) Requires every common carrier engaged in interstate, intrastate, or foreign communication by wire or radio to preserve and advance universal telecommunications service. Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to set forth (and periodically revise) guidelines for the definition of universal service, delegating to each State the primary responsibilities of defining such term and ensuring that universal service goals are met. Allows direct assistance to telecommunications carriers to be considered by the States as a means of providing universal service. Requires each State to act within two years or the FCC would assume such responsibility. (Sec. 103) Requires all telecommunications carriers that use public rights of way to permit the following entities to obtain access to intrastate and interstate services provided by such carriers at preferential rates: educational and health care institutions, State and local governments, public broadcast stations, libraries and other public entities, community newspapers, and broadcasters in the smallest markets. Provides related FCC rulemaking responsibilities. Title II: Telecommunications Investment - Amends the Act to require the FCC to take appropriate action to ensure that State regulatory authorities achieve the goal of ensuring that telecommunications carriers provide consumers in rural and noncompetitive markets with access to high quality, interoperable telecommunications network facilities and capabilities at reasonable, nondiscriminatory rates. Provides FCC preemptive authority over conflicting State or local statutes or regulations in such regard. Encourages States to implement regulatory incentives for the development of high quality telecommunications network facilities and capabilities. Encourages telecommunications carriers and equipment manufacturers to develop standards which ensure the interconnection and interoperability of such networks. Allows the FCC to develop such standards when industry participants fail to do so. Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations: (1) that permit joint coordinated network planning, design, and cooperative implementation among all telecommunications carriers in the provision of public switched network infrastructure and services; and (2) that require a local exchange carrier to share public switched network infrastructure and functions with requesting carriers which lack the economies of scale or scope for the required function. Requires the FCC and the States to ensure that advances in network capabilities and telecommunications services deployed by carriers are designed to be accessible to individuals with disabilities. Requires the FCC to: (1) publish annually a survey of the deployment of technologies on a State-by-State basis; and (2) develop regulations to allocate a local exchange carrier's costs of deploying broadband telecommunications facilities between local exchange service and competitive services. Title III: Regulatory Reform - Prohibits, after a specified conditional date, a State or local statute, regulation, or requirement from having the effect of prohibiting the ability of an entity to provide interstate or intrastate telecommunications services, or discriminating among telecommunications carriers. Allows an electric, gas, water, or steam utility to provide telecommunications services. Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations that require each telecommunications carrier to provide upon request to any telecommunications equipment manufacturer or entity certain interconnection services and nondiscriminatory access to facilities, as well as information necessary for interoperability. Requires consumers to be informed of telecommunications alternatives among competing service providers. Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations ensuring telecommunications number portability (the ability of telecommunications service users to retain existing numbers without adverse effects when switching from one telecommunications carrier to another). Allows the FCC to provide regulatory flexibility to ensure that carriers with small market power can effectively compete for the provision of telecommunications services with larger entities. Directs the FCC, and encourages the States, to permit carriers pricing flexibility in competitive service or geographic markets. Requires FCC implementing regulations. Title IV: Authorizes Activities of Bell Operating Companies - Subtitle A: Telecommunications Equipment Research and Manufacturing Competition - Telecommunications Equipment Research and Manufacturing Competition Act of 1994 - Amends the Act to authorize a Bell operating company (BOC), through an affiliate, to manufacture and provide telecommunications equipment and to manufacture customer premises equipment, except that no BOC may engage in such manufacturing with an unaffiliated BOC or affiliates thereof. (Sec. 403) Allows such manufacturing or provision to be conducted only through an affiliate that is separate from any BOC. Requires the FCC to prescribe regulations ensuring the separability of such an affiliate. Requires the affiliate to conduct all of its manufacturing, and have all of its customer premises equipment manufactured, within the United States, with an exception after a good faith effort to do so. Requires each such affiliate to make available to all regulated local telephone exchange carriers, without discrimination or preference, any telecommunications equipment (including upgrades) manufactured by such affiliate for use with the public telecommunications network, so long as each purchaser does not manufacture such equipment or agrees to make available to the BOC or any of its affiliates any telecommunications equipment manufactured by such purchaser or any of its affiliates. Directs the FCC to require that each BOC maintain and file with the FCC complete information with respect to the protocols and technical requirements for connection with and use of its telephone exchange service facilities. Prohibits a BOC from disclosing any such information to its affiliates unless such information is immediately so filed. Directs the FCC to prescribe appropriate regulations ensuring open and equal competition between a BOC that has a manufacturing affiliate and other manufacturers of telecommunications and customer premises equipment. Allows a BOC and its affiliate to engage in close collaboration with any such manufacturer during the design and development of hardware and software relating to such equipment. Provides FCC administration and enforcement authority with respect to this subtitle. Requires annual audits of BOCs with manufacturing affiliates, with audit review by the FCC. (Sec. 404) Amends the Act to increase from $6,000 to $10,000 the daily fine for failure to keep or submit any required telecommunications carrier records. Subtitle B: Regulation of Alarm Services and Electronic Publishing by Bell Operating Companies - Amends the Act to prohibit a BOC or its affiliates from providing alarm monitoring services for the protection of life, safety, or property. Allows a BOC to transport alarm monitoring service signals, but on a common carrier basis only. Allows a BOC or its affiliate, after five and one half years after the enactment of this Act, to petition the FCC for permission to provide alarm monitoring services. Authorizes the FCC to grant such permission beginning six years from the enactment of this Act, after certain findings by the FCC and the Department of Justice. Requires FCC regulation of such services. Provides expedited consideration of complaints arising from a BOC's provision of such services, and remedies. (Sec. 452) Prohibits a BOC or its affiliate from providing electronic publishing that is disseminated by means of the basic telephone service of the BOC or affiliate. Allows a separated affiliate or joint venture to engage in electronic publishing if certain requirements are met concerning the separate business aspect of the separated affiliate or joint venture. Outlines specified requirements of a BOC under common ownership or control with a separated affiliate or joint venture which ensure that any transactions between the BOC and the separated affiliate or joint venture involving the provision of personnel, facilities, or services to aid in electronic publishing are offered on an equal basis to all unaffiliated entities. Requires annual compliance reviews. Prohibits a BOC or its affiliate from providing to any electronic publisher, including separated affiliates or joint ventures, customer proprietary network information for electronic publishing use that is disseminated by the basic telephone service of the BOC or its affiliate unless such information is made equally available to all electronic publishers. Outlines permissible joint activities between a BOC and its separated affiliate, joint venture, or affiliate, including joint telemarketing, nondiscriminatory teaming or business arrangements, and electronic publishing joint ventures. (Sec. 453) Requires a written contract, recorded in the books and auditable, for transactions related to the provision of electronic publishing between: (1) a BOC and any affiliate; and (2) a BOC affiliate and a separated affiliate. Prohibits a BOC from having officers, employees, property, or facilities in common with any entity whose principal business is electronic publishing. Requires a BOC to provide equally to all entities any facilities, services, or telephone information disseminated through the BOC's basic telephone service which is provided to an entity that engages in electronic publishing. Provides a private right of action for violations of such electronic publishing requirements. Subtitle C: Information Services - Requires BOCs or affiliates to make any gateway service available to all subscribers under nondiscriminatory rates and terms and to offer such services to all information services on a nondiscriminatory basis as well. Defines a "gateway service" as an information service that, at the request of the provider of an electronic publishing or other information service, provides a subscriber with access to such service, utilizing the following functions: data transmission, address translation, billing information, protocol conversion, and introductory information content. Directs the FCC to prescribe cost allocation regulations to prevent any BOC or affiliate that offers services that have market power from using revenues from such services to subsidize competitive information services. Restricts State regulation of information services, except as provided in title VI. Subtitle D: InterLATA Telecommunications Services - Authorizes a BOC to engage in the provision of inter local access and transport area (LATA) (as defined in United States v. Western Electric Company ) telecommunications services subject to specified requirements. Requires the company, as part of such requirements, to demonstrate that there is no possibility of using market power in a telephone exchange and exchange access service market to impede competition. Authorizes Bell companies or affiliates to: (1) own and operate receive-only antennas, satellite master antenna television facilities, satellite earth stations, and interLATA distribution facilities solely for purposes of providing cable service; and (2) engage in interLATA telecommunications service for purposes of one-way transmission of video and audio programming solely for cable service. Permits such companies or their cellular affiliates to provide: (1) authorized interLATA service for cellular mobile radio services; (2) intersystem handoff across LATA boundaries of cellular mobile radio transmissions between adjacent cellular systems; and (3) the routing of cellular transmissions between their cellular systems and a cellular system located in another LATA for purposes of completing a call to one of its out-of-region cellular customers. Requires the FCC to prescribe uniform equal access and long distance presubscription requirements for providers of all cellular and two-way wireless services. Title V: Regulatory Parity Between Telephone and Cable Companies - Revises provisions concerning ownership restrictions to prohibit local exchange carriers subject to title II of the Act from: (1) acquiring more than a five percent interest in any cable system that is providing service within the carrier's telephone exchange service area and is owned by an unaffiliated person; or (2) entering into a joint venture or partnership with a cable operator to provide video programming to subscribers within the telephone exchange service area. Prohibits such carriers from providing video programming (cable) directly to subscribers in its telephone exchange service area unless: (1) such programming is provided through a separate subsidiary; and (2) the FCC finds that the carrier's service is in compliance with specified regulations governing telecommunications competition under this Act. Bars such carriers from engaging in activities that subsidize its video programming operations. Exempts a carrier from such prohibitions if the carrier has no market power in its telephone service area. Establishes similar conditions for cable operators with respect to the provision of telecommunications services. (Sec. 503) Requires subsidiaries to maintain separation from local exchange carriers in terms of operation, commercial activities, and recordkeeping. Requires carriers to establish cost allocation systems that prohibit the costs of providing competitive services from being subsidized by revenue from telephone exchange services. Directs the FCC to ensure that the economic risks associated with the provision of competitive services by a carrier are not borne by the customers of telephone exchange services in the event of a business loss or failure. Title VI: Customer Control Over Information - Prohibits a local exchange carrier, except upon the customer's request, from: (1) using customer proprietary network information in the provision of any service other than telephone exchange or toll service, in the identification or solicitation of potential customers for any service other than the service from which such information is derived, or in the provision of customer premises equipment; or (2) disclosing such information to any affiliate of, or any other person that is not an employee of, such common carrier. Requires the common carrier to: (1) disclose such information to any customer designee at the customer's request; (2) notify the FCC of the availability of aggregate customer proprietary information it provides to an affiliate or to its personnel that are engaged in providing any service that is not necessary to the provision of telephone exchange service or customer premises equipment or to any other person who is not an employee or affiliate; and (3) provide such aggregate information on reasonable terms and conditions to any other service or equipment provider, upon reasonable request. Prohibits the common carrier from discriminating between affiliated and unaffiliated service or equipment providers in providing individual and aggregate or compiled information. States that this Act shall not be construed to prohibit the disclosure of proprietary information as necessary to render, bill, and collect for telephone exchange or toll service or for any other telecommunications service that the customer has requested. Requires a carrier that provides subscriber list information to any affiliated or unaffiliated service provider or person to provide such list on a timely and unbundled basis, under nondiscriminatory and reasonable rates, terms, and conditions, upon reasonable request. Requires any common carrier or affiliate providing automatic number identification (ANI) services to any person to provide such services under a contract or tariff containing telephone subscriber information requirements that: (1) permit such person to use the information provided for billing and collection, completion of the customer's call or transaction, or for services directly related to the customer's call or transaction; (2) prohibit such person from reusing or selling the information provided without the customer's consent; and (3) prohibit such person from disclosing, without the customer's consent, any information derived from such service for any purpose other than performing the services or transactions that are the subject of the customer's call ensuring network performance, security, and the effectiveness of call delivery, compiling, using, and disclosing aggregate information, and complying with applicable law or legal process. Directs the FCC to commence a proceeding to: (1) examine the impact on the privacy rights and remedies of consumers of the integration into interconnected communications networks of wireless telephone, cable, satellite, and other technologies; (2) examine the impact that the globalization of integrated communications networks has on the international dissemination of consumer information and the privacy rights and remedies to protect consumers; (3) propose changes in the FCC's regulations to ensure that consumer privacy rights are protected in new telecommunications services; and (4) prepare recommendations to the Congress for any legislative changes required to correct defects in privacy rights and remedies. Title VII: Media Diversity - Requires the FCC to modify or remove national and local ownership rules on radio and television broadcast stations as necessary to ensure that broadcasters are able to compete fairly with other media providers and that the public receives information from a diversity of media sources. (Sec. 702) Directs the FCC to review a certain ownership restriction with respect to cable operators and report to the Congress on whether such restriction serves the public interest. (Sec. 703) Requires the FCC to complete a notice and comment proceeding to consider the applicability of the FCC's rules regarding network non-duplication protection and syndicated exclusivity protection to other multichannel video programming providers. (Sec. 704) Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations to permit broadcasters to make use of the broadcast spectrum that they are licensed to use for services related to the programming services which they are authorized to provide. Authorizes the FCC, to the extent that the broadcast licensee provides commercial services using broadcast spectrum, to collect a fee from the licensee.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1994
Prohibits the Department of Transportation or any other Federal department, agency, or instrumentality from requiring any State or political subdivision thereof to convert highway signs to metric units.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1994
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer to elect to include in income crop insurance proceeds and disaster payments in the year of the disaster or in the following year.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1994
Amends the Flood Control Act of 1968 to allow user fees to be collected at lakes and reservoirs under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) only from users of highly developed facilities requiring continuous presence of maintenance and supervision personnel and to prohibit the collection of such fees for access to or use of water areas, shoreland, sites, drives, or boat launching ramps which are undeveloped or lightly developed or where no mechanical or hydraulic equipment is provided. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to require, at each Corps lake or reservoir at which camping is permitted, the provision of at least one campground with minimal facilities where no charge shall be imposed.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1994
Peace Powers Act of 1994 - Amends the United Nations Participation Act to prohibit the President from subordinating any element of the armed forces participating in a United Nations peacekeeping activity to the command or operational control of any foreign nationals unless he submits specified documents to the appropriate congressional committees or the Congress enacts an Act or joint resolution authorizing such subordination. Lists as the specified documents determinations by the President that: (1) the proposed subordination is in the national security interest (along with a justification for such determination); (2) the unit commanders of the armed forces proposed for subordination will retain the ability to report independently to higher U.S. military authorities; (3) the United States will retain authority to withdraw the armed forces from the operation at any time and to take any action to protect such forces if endangered; (4) the armed forces will remain under U.S. administrative command for purposes of discipline and evaluation; and (5) the proposed foreign command arrangement does not violate the Constitution. (Sec. 5) Provides for notification to the Congress of proposed participation in, or expenditure of funds for, United Nations peacekeeping activities and other related matters. (Sec. 9) Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the anticipated budget for, and U.S. contributions to, United Nations peacekeeping activities. (Sec. 11) Revises provisions that authorize the President to waive reimbursement from the United Nations for U.S. participation in peacekeeping activities. Permits the Secretary of Defense to authorize such a waiver if an emergency exists, subject to congressional notification requirements. Bars U.S. contributions to United Nations peacekeeping activities, beginning in FY 1995, until the Secretary certifies to the Congress that the United Nations has reimbursed the Department of Defense (DOD) directly for all goods and services provided on a reimbursable basis for such activities. (Sec. 12) Limits the availability of funds made available to DOD for United Nations peacekeeping activities, beginning in FY 1996, unless the Congress has by law specifically made funds available for such purposes. (Sec. 13) Declares that, effective FY 1996, the Congress does not intend to make funds available for payment of U.S. contributions to such activities that exceed 25 percent of the total of such contributions of all countries unless the Congress enacts a statute specifically authorizing a greater percentage contribution. (Sec. 14) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds to pay U.S. contributions for such activities unless the Secretary of State certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that U.S. manufacturers and suppliers are being given equal opportunities to provide equipment, services, and material for such activities. (Sec. 16) Permits intelligence to be provided to the United Nations only pursuant to specified agreements and advance notification to the Congress. (Sec. 17) Withholds, beginning in FY 1995, 50 percent of the funds for U.S. contributions for United Nations peacekeeping activities unless the President makes a specified certification regarding the establishment of an Office of Inspector General within the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1994
Increases, beginning on October 1, 1994, the annual authorization of appropriations for the Belle Fourche irrigation project, including recreation and fish and wildlife measures, within the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin program.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 22 November 1993
Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act Amendments of 1991 to: (1) extend the exemption from food stamp program monthly reporting systems for households residing on Indian reservations; (2) extend requirements regarding staggered issuance of food stamp coupons; and (3) provide extended eligibility to an establishment or house-to-house trade route to accept and redeem food coupons solely because the establishment or trade route does not meet the definition of a "retail food store" under the Food Stamp Act of 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers primarily engaged in a farming-related business an investment tax credit for a percentage of: (1) the costs of agricultural environmental property; and (2) the amount allowed as a deduction for soil and water conservation expenditures.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1993
Amends the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 to delay the effective date of the change in the point of imposition of the tax on diesel fuel from January 1, 1994, to: (1) July 1, 1994; or (2) the 60th day after final regulations are prescribed. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow vendors of diesel fuel sold for any nontaxable use to claim tax refunds on behalf of ultimate users. Provides a similar rule for vendors of gasoline sold to State and local governments.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1993
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) obstetrician-gynecologists should be included as primary care providers for women in Federal laws relating to the provision of health care; and (2) legislative proposals that define primary care should include primary care services performed by obstetrician-gynecologists in such definition.
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1993
United States Military Academy Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half dollar clad coins emblematic of the U.S. Military Academy. Mandates that surcharges collected from coin sales be paid to the Association of Graduates, U.S. Military Academy, to assist its efforts to provide direct support to the Corps of Cadets, U.S. Military Academy.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to apply the special treatment of livestock sold or involuntarily converted on account of drought conditions to livestock sold or converted because of drought, flood, or other weather-related conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the retroactive application of income, estate, and gift tax rate increases. Requires a reduction in administrative expenses of Federal departments and agencies for FY 1994 through 1996.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1993
Calls for: (1) the President to encourage the United Nations (UN) to permit representatives of Taiwan to participate fully in UN activities; and (2) cabinet-level exchanges between Taiwan and the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1993
Prohibits funds from being expended for deployment of U.S. armed forces outside the United States under United Nations command unless the use of funds for such deployment is expressly authorized in a law enacted after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1993
Satellite Carrier Compulsory License Extension Act of 1993 - Amends copyright law with respect to satellite carrier compulsory licenses to require the subscriber information list submitted by a satellite carrier that makes secondary transmissions of a primary transmission by a network station to include the names of the subscribers. Requires, upon the request of a network, such a satellite carrier to conduct, jointly with the network, measurements of the reception of over-the-air television broadcast signals of network-affiliated stations. Prescribes guidelines for conducting such measurements. Revises: (1) the formula used by the satellite carrier to compute the royalty fee to be deposited semiannually with the Register of Copyrights; and (2) dates and procedures regarding the adjustment of such royalty fee. Makes provisions governing such royal fees permanent. Defines, for purposes of cable and satellite carrier compulsory license provisions, "network station" as a television broadcast station, including any translator station or terrestrial satellite station that rebroadcasts all or substantially all of the programming broadcast by a network station, that is owned or operated by or affiliated with, one or more of the U.S. television networks which offer an interconnected program service on a regular basis for 15 or more hours per week to at least 25 of its affiliated television licensees in ten or more States. Revises the definition of: (1) "satellite carrier" to specify that such a carrier operates in the Fixed Satellite Service or the Direct Broadcast Satellite Service; and (2) "cable system" to include a facility that makes secondary transmissions of broadcast signals by microwave cables and terrestrially based transmission paths.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1993
Air Service Termination Notice Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit an air carrier (except in a sudden and unforeseen financial emergency) from terminating air service to any point without first giving the Secretary of Transportation, appropriate State agency, and affected community at least 90 days' notice before such termination. Sets forth civil penalties for violation of this prohibition.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1993
General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to set forth a 15-year statute of limitations within which a person may bring a civil action against an aircraft manufacturer for damages for death or injury or damage to property arising from an aircraft accident.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1993
Radio Consumer Information Act of 1993 - Amends the Consumer Leasing Act of 1976, the Truth in Lending Act of 1968, and the Truth in Savings Act of 1991 regarding disclosures in connection with advertisements, announcements, or solicitations made through radio.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Plant Variety Protection Act to revise definitions and establish rules of construction concerning: (1) the sale and disposition of harvesting material, varieties, and hybrid seeds; (2) the filing of applications for the protection or entering of a variety in an official register; and (3) the basis of determining the distinctness of a variety or whether a variety is publicly known. Entitles breeders of sexually reproduced plant varieties (other than fungi or bacteria) (currently, other than fungi, bacteria, or first generation hybrids) who have reproduced a variety to plant variety protection if the variety is new, distinct, uniform, and stable. Provides that if two or more applicants for plant variety protection submit applications on the same filing date for indistinguishable varieties that fulfill the conditions for protection established by this Act, the applicant who first complies with this Act's requirements shall be entitled to protection to the exclusion of any other applicant. Issues a single protection certificate jointly to two or more applicants who comply with requirements on the same date for varieties that are indistinguishable. Lengthens the term of plant variety protection from 18 to 20 years from the date of issuance of the protection certificate (25 years for trees or vines). Adds the following activities to the list of actions which constitute infringement of an owner's right to plant variety protection if performed without an owner's authorization: (1) conditioning the variety for purposes of propagation; and (2) stocking the variety for any existing purpose which constitutes infringement. Permits owners to authorize the use of a variety subject to their own limitations. Provides that it shall not be an infringement of an owner's rights to perform any act: (1) concerning propagating material of a protected variety that has been marketed in the United States unless the act involves further propagation of the variety or involves an export into a country that does not protect such varieties of the plant genus or species (unless the export is for final consumption); or (2) done privately and for noncommercial purposes. Removes a provision that declares that it is not an infringement for a person whose primary farming occupation is the growing of crops for sale other than reproductive purposes to sell saved seed for reproductive purposes.
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