United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1994
Ryan White CARE Reauthorization Act of 1994 - Amends the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act of 1990 (title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act) to limit the grant program for emergency relief for areas with substantial need for services to eligible areas with a population of at least 500,000 individuals. Requires an HIV health services planning council (which advises on the distribution of such grants) to be reflective of the demographics of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in an eligible area, with particular consideration given to disproportionately affected and historically underserved groups. Revises the method of distributing such grants and extends authorized appropriations for them until FY 2000. Revises the care grant program that makes funds available for individuals and families with the HIV disease. Authorizes the award of supplemental grants to eligible entities to enhance community-based care, treatment, and supportive services through the development and operation of consortia and innovative approaches. Extends authorized appropriations for such grant program through FY 2000. Requires the establishment of grievance procedures to address allegations of egregious violations of title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to coordinate the planning and implementation of Federal HIV programs to facilitate the development of a complete continuum of HIV-related services for individuals with HIV disease and those at risk of such disease. Extends authorized appropriations for early intervention services until FY 2000. Extends authorized appropriations until FY 2000 for grants for coordinated services and access to research for children, youth, women, and families (formerly known as demonstration grants for research and services for pediatric patients regarding acquired immune deficiency syndrome). Makes appropriations available for special projects of national significance program to award direct grants to public and nonprofit private entities to fund special programs for the care and treatment of individuals with HIV disease.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1994
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should issue an Executive order to promote and expand Federal assistance to Indian institutions of higher education and foster advancement of the National Education Goals in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act for Indians.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1994
Homeowners Insurance Disclosure Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish annual disclosure requirements for non-commercial insurers (providers of homeowners, dwelling fire, allied lines, and other personal lines of insurance), including: (1) the availability, affordability and type of insurance coverage by Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), and the region, race, and gender of policyholders; (2) the racial characteristics and location by MSA of the principal place of business of current and terminated insurance agents; and (3) for designated insurers, the total number of policies, exposures, nonrenewals, and racial characteristics of licensed agents, and the aggregate loss experience. Provides for disclosure requirements for certain non-designated insurers. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the availability, affordability, and quality of types of commercial insurance for residential properties and small businesses in urban areas. Instructs the Secretary to establish requirements for insurers to report annually on the availability, affordability, and quality or type of insurance in designated rural areas. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain disclosure requirements if the States collect equivalent information. Directs the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council to determine the extent to which private mortgage insurers disclose to the public and regulatory agencies information that is equivalent to that required under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975. Requires noncompliant insurers to submit the requisite information to the Secretary. Prescribes guidelines for information compilation and maintenance and for a public availability and access system. Prescribes guidelines for disclosures by insurers to applicants and policyholders, stating the reasons that an insurance application was declined. Authorizes the Secretary to provide immunity to insurers, agents, and brokers regarding their communication of a cancellation, denial, or nonrenewal of insurance. Sets forth enforcement guidelines, including civil penalties and injunctions. Directs the Secretary to establish a task force on insurance agency appointments to report to certain congressional committees on the appointment and retention of inner-city and minority agents representing property and casualty insurers. Instructs the Secretary to study and report to certain congressional committees on insurance industry practices regarding: (1) prescreening of insurance applicants; (2) meeting of the property and casualty insurance needs of the residential and small business community in low- and moderate-income and minority neighborhoods; (3) disparate claims treatment of policyholders based on race, gender, and income level; (4) basing of premium amounts on the territory in which the insured risk is located; and (5) the feasibility of establishing community reinvestment requirements for insurers comparable to those applicable to depository institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1994
Designates the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 231 W. Lafayette in Detroit, Michigan, as the Theodore Levin Federal Building and United States Courthouse.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1994
Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Act of 1994 - Reaffirms Federal recognition and rights of the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (in the State of Michigan), including Federal services, benefits, and tribal lands.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1994
Amends the Clean Air Act to remove a condition on the treatment of ozone nonattainment areas as rural transport areas that permits such treatment only if the nonattainment area does not include, or is not adjacent to, a metropolitan statistical or consolidated metropolitan statistical area.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Retirement Savings Incentives Subtitle A: Restoration of IRA Deduction Subtitle B: Nondeductible Tax-Free IRAs Title II: Penalty-Free Distributions Title III: Aid to Families With Dependent Children Savings and Investment Incentive Act of 1994 - Title I: Retirement Savings Incentives - Subtitle A: Restoration of IRA Deduction - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to remove the limitation on the deductibility of contributions to individual retirement plans (IRAs) by active participants in employer-maintained plans, thereby restoring the IRA deduction. Provides an inflation adjustment after 1995. Allows certain spouses a full deduction for contributions to an IRA. Makes certain coins and bullion ineligible as collectible investments for purposes of distributions from an IRA. Subtitle B: Nondeductible Tax-Free IRAs - Allows individuals to establish individual retirement plus (IRA plus) accounts with tax treatment similar to that for individual retirement plans. Makes contributions to such accounts nondeductible. Title II: Penalty-Free Distributions - 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. Title III: Aid to Families with Dependent Children - Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of title IV of the Social Security Act to exclude from AFDC eligibility determinations certain income and resources that are to be used for education, training, and employability purposes. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the Congress on a revision of the AFDC limit on automobiles in order to increase the employability of AFDC recipients.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1994
Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Research, Education, and Assistance Act of 1994 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health to establish a council to coordinate Parkinson's research activities. Directs: (1) the council to convene a National Consensus Conference on Parkinson's Disease and Related Neuro-degenerative Disorders to aid in the development of a broad-based strategy for identifying the cause of and treating such disorders; and (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and annually submit to specified congressional committees a coordinated research agenda and to provide for the establishment of ten Parkinson's Research Centers. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) award feasibility study grants to support the development of preliminary data sufficient to provide the basis for the submission of applications for independent research support grants or establishment of a Center; and (2) award grants to appropriate institutions for the provision of training and continuing education concerning health and long-term care of individuals with Parkinson's. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a grant program to support scientists who have distinguished themselves in the field of Parkinson's research; (2) a registry for screening and collecting patient and family data that may be useful in determining incidence and possible risk factors concerning Parkinson's; and (3) a national education program designed to foster a national focus on Parkinson's and the care of those with Parkinson's. Sets forth application requirements. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1994
Derivatives Supervision Act of 1994 - Prohibits a regulated entity from engaging in derivatives transactions either for its own account or for any speculative purpose. (Sec. 4) Requires the Federal financial institutions regulatory agencies to jointly establish principles and standards for the supervision of regulated entities and major dealers engaged in derivatives financial instruments activities (including capital, accounting, disclosures, and internal controls structures). (Sec. 5) Includes specified disclosure requirements in statutory calls of condition. (Sec. 6) Prohibits a regulated entity or a major dealer from engaging in derivatives activities unless: (1) it has a prescribed management control plan (including direct oversight by senior executive officers); and (2) its board of directors periodically reviews compliance with such plan. (Sec. 7) Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to bring within the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) any major dealer whose derivative financial instruments activities are not subject to regulation by a Federal financial institutions regulatory agency. (Sec. 8) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to encourage governments, central banks, and regulatory authorities of other industrialized countries to implement comparable supervisory schemes for derivative financial instruments transactions. (Sec. 9) Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to: (1) permit a subsidiary of a bank holding company to conduct derivative activities for its own account if it is neither an insured depository institution nor a subsidiary of an insured depository institution; (2) prohibit the capital of such subsidiary from being included in the consolidated capital of its parent bank holding company for purposes of determining such company's compliance with capital requirements; and (3) direct the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to promulgate regulations for such a subsidiary consistent with the mandate for regulatory coordination. (Sec. 10) Requires the Federal financial institutions regulatory agencies to promulgate certain regulations governing regulated entities and major dealers in order to reduce the risk of potential systemic financial market failure due to derivatives activities. (Sec. 11) Amends the following Acts to reflect the provisions of this Act: (1) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act; (2) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act; and (3) the Federal bankruptcy code. (Sec. 12) Requires each Federal financial institutions regulatory agency to issue consistent regulations governing derivative financial instruments activities for purposes of implementing this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1994
Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Act of 1994 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of specified prostate cancer screening services and certain drug treatments for such cancer. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish fee schedules for such services. Amends Federal law to cover such screening and treatment services for veterans as a preventive health service. Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for certain public health programs related to prostate cancer research and education. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research to: (1) conduct and support prostate cancer health services and screening and treatment procedures; and (2) provide for the development, periodic review, and updating of clinically relevant guidelines, standards of quality, performance measures, and medical review criteria.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Assistance for the Homeless Title II: Public and Indian Housing Subtitle A: Enhanced Flexibility for Public Housing Agencies Subtitle B: Severely Distressed Public Housing Program Subtitle C: Anti-Crime Initiatives Subtitle D: Authorizations and Extensions Subtitle E: Applicability Subtitle F: Termination of Certain Assisted Housing Programs Subtitle G: Midnight Basketball League Training and Partnership Subtitle H: Miscellaneous Provisions Title III: Homeownership Subtitle A: Expanded Single Family Homeownership Opportunities Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Provisions Subtitle C: Authorizations Title IV: Section 8 Rental Assistance Title V: Home Investment Partnerships Title VI: Multifamily and Supportive Housing Subtitle A: Preservation Subtitle B: Renewal of Expiring Section 8 Contracts Subtitle C: Other Section 8 Program Amendments Subtitle D: Supportive Housing Subtitle E: Miscellaneous Provisions Title VII: Community and Economic Development Title VIII: Nonjudicial Foreclosure of Defaulted Single Family Mortgages Title IX: Rural Housing Title X: Regulatory and Miscellaneous Programs Housing Choice and Community Investment Act of 1994 - Title I: Assistance for the Homeless - Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Housing Assistance Reorganization Act of 1994 - Replaces specified homeless assistance programs with a program of grants for comprehensive assistance for homeless individuals and families. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Public and Indian Housing - Subtitle A: Enhanced Flexibility for Public Housing Agencies - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make public housing direct loans. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 202) Authorizes the use of modernization funds for replacement housing. (Sec. 205) Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to permit homeless families with children to use early childhood development program services. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 206) Authorizes an entrepreneurial public housing agency (PHA) and resident management corporation (RMC) demonstration program. (Sec. 209) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize the sale of public housing to nonprofit organizations to facilitate resident homeownership. Subtitle B: Severely Distressed Public Housing Program - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise the severely distressed housing program, including grant level increases. Subtitle C: Anti-Crime Initiatives - Amends the Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Act of 1990 to establish a community partnerships against crime program of grants to PHAs and owners of federally assisted low-income housing, entitled the Community Partnerships Against Crime Act of 1994. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 223) Directs law enforcement entities to make criminal records available to requesting PHAs for screening and eviction purposes. Subtitle D: Authorizations and Extensions - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to increase budget authority for specified public and Indian housing programs. (Sec. 232) Authorizes appropriations for: (1) public housing operating subsidies; (2) the family self-sufficiency program; (3) family investment and economic opportunity centers; (4) the resident management and tenant opportunity program; and (5) the Indian housing loan guarantee program. Subtitle E: Applicability - Applies specified public housing provisions to Indian housing. Subtitle F: Termination of Certain Assisted Housing Programs - Terminates specified public and Indian housing programs. Subtitle G: Midnight Basketball League Training and Partnership - Midnight Basketball League Training and Partnership Act - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to provide grants for midnight basketball league training and partnership programs. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle H: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for the deregulation of public housing agencies. Title III: Homeownership - Subtitle A: Expanded Single Family Homeownership Opportunities - Amends the National Housing Act to revise: (1) single family mortgage limits; and (2) refinancing procedures for qualifying Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-held mortgages. (Sec. 303) Authorizes innovative affordable housing demonstration programs through the use of alternative financing instruments. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 304) Establishes a single family risk-sharing mortgage insurance program. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to revise the national homeownership fund demonstration and to cite such provisions as the " National Homeownership Fund Demonstration Act". Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 313) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to expand the energy efficient mortgages pilot program. Subtitle C: Authorizations - Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to authorize an aggregate amount of guaranteed loan principal under the mortgage-backed security program. (Sec. 322) Amends the National Housing Act to authorize an aggregate amount of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance. (Sec. 323) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize appropriations for the HOPE programs. (Sec. 324) Amends the National Housing Act to extend the home equity conversion mortgage program. Title IV: Section 8 Rental Assistance - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to merge the section 8 public housing certificate and voucher programs into a single revised certificate program. (Sec. 403) Increases budget authority for family unification assistance. Title V: Home Investment Partnerships - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize HOME program loan guarantees. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Multifamily and Supportive Housing - Subtitle A: Preservation - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to authorize appropriations for low-income housing preservation. Subtitle B: Renewal of Expiring Section 8 Contracts - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize the Secretary to enter into new section 8 construction and rehabilitation contracts. (Sec. 614) Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to tenants in units with expiring contracts. Authorizes appropriations for activities under this subtitle. Subtitle C: Other Section 8 Program Amendments - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide incentives for multifamily mortgage refinancing. (Sec. 633) Authorizes civil penalties for violation of section 8 housing assistance payment contracts. Subtitle D: Supportive Housing - Authorizes appropriations for supportive housing service coordinators. (Sec. 643) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations for: (1) supportive housing for the elderly; and (2) supportive housing for persons with disabilities. (Sec. 645) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize appropriations for persons with AIDS. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to authorize appropriations for the flexible subsidy program. (Sec. 653) Extends the multifamily mortgage credit demonstration program. (Sec. 655) Amends the National Housing Act to authorize civil penalties against general partners and certain managing agents of multifamily housing projects. (Sec. 658) Authorizes appropriations for the general insurance fund and the special risk insurance fund. (Sec. 659) Increases FHA mortgage insurance limits for multifamily housing in high cost areas. Title VII: Community and Economic Development - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the Secretary to make grants to stimulate economic development in specified investment areas (LIFT program). Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 702) Authorizes, and authorizes appropriations for, a colonias assistance program. (Sec. 703) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to extend the colonias community development block grant (CDBG) set-aside. (Sec. 704) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize CDBG appropriations. (Sec. 707) Amends the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 to authorize appropriations for the community viability fund. (Sec. 708) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations for: (1) the community investment corporation demonstration program; and (2) the national cities in schools program. (Sec. 710) Authorizes appropriations for water and wastewater projects for cities with special needs (defined to include minority communities with special needs). (Sec. 711) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to temporarily prohibit recapture or reduction of UDAG funds. Title VIII: Nonjudicial Foreclosure of Defaulted Single Family Mortgages - Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994 - Authorizes the Secretary to foreclose defaulted single family mortgages. Title IX: Rural Housing - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to authorize appropriations for specified rural housing and related programs. (Sec. 902) States that Indian tribes and entities are eligible for rural housing assistance. (Sec. 903) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Treasury escrow fund for rural housing loan payments. (Sec. 905) Extends set-aside authority for targeted rural areas and colonias (and increases colonia set-sides). (Sec. 906) Amends the rural housing for the elderly or handicapped program to: (1) reduce maximum loan periods; and (2) extend nonprofit entity set-asides. (Sec. 907) Permits migrant farmworker project rental assistance to be used for operating expenses. (Sec. 908) Makes manufactured home parks eligible for building site loans for cooperatives. (Sec. 911) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a rural housing capacity demonstration program for Native Americans and Alaskan Natives. Title X: Regulatory and Miscellaneous Programs - Amends the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations, including specified set-asides, for lead-based paint reduction activities. (Sec. 1005) Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 to authorize appropriations for HUD research and development. (Sec. 1007) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to authorize appropriations for the fair housing initiatives program. (Sec. 1008) Amends the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 to authorize civil money penalties for reporting violations by nonsupervised lending institutions. (Sec. 1009) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize appropriations for the Youthbuild program. (Sec. 1010) Amends the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act to authorize appropriations for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. (Sec. 1011) Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to authorize appropriations for HUD salaries and expenses. (Sec. 1013) Amends the National Housing Act to authorize civil money penalties for improper participation in the origination of title I (housing renovation and modernization) loans. (Sec. 1014) Cancels specified public facilities loan indebtedness of Lockport Township, Illinois. (Sec. 1015) Establishes the National Commission on the Future of the Federal Housing Administration. Sets aside Commission funding. Terminates the Commission 12 months after appointment of all its members.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1994
Worker Rights and Labor Standards Trade Act of 1994 - Directs the President to seek the establishment of: (1) a working party within the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to examine the relationship of fundamental internationally recognized worker rights to the articles of the GATT; and (2) a standing committee on worker rights within the World Trade Organization to which the functions of the working group shall be transferred.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1994
Amends Federal transportation law to provide that the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), in approving an application of a rail carrier for the construction and operation of railroad lines, shall require that a fair and equitable arrangement for the protection of the affected railroad employees' interests be no less protective of and beneficial to their interests than those established under other specified Federal provisions. Prohibits the ICC from approving the sale or the offer of financial assistance to a rail carrier to avoid the abandonment and discontinuance of railroad line transportation unless it certifies that such employees' interests will be protected.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1994
Provides for the printing as a Senate document a collection of statements made in tribute to the late First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1994
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994 - Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation by covered entities, including employing authorities of the House of Representatives, employing offices of the Senate, and instrumentalities of the Congress. Declares that: (1) this Act does not apply to the provision of employee benefits for the benefit of an employee's partner; and (2) a disparate impact does not establish a prima facie violation of this Act. Prohibits quotas and preferential treatment. Declares that this Act does not apply to: (1) religious organizations (except in their for-profit activities); (2) the armed forces; or (3) laws creating special rights or preferences for veterans. Provides for enforcement. Disallows State and Federal immunity. Allows recovery of attorney's fees. Prohibits retaliation and coercion. Requires posting notices for employees and applicants.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1994
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should actively seek: (1) an international agreement prohibiting the production, possession, transfer, and use of antipersonnel landmines; and (2) in the interim, international agreements to further limit the production, possession, transfer, and use of such landmines. Expresses the sense of the Congress that a U.S. moratorium on the purchase and production of such landmines would encourage other nations to adopt similar measures. Establishes such moratorium for a one-year period beginning 90 days after enactment of this Act. Calls for the President to urge other nations to adopt such a moratorium. Allows the moratorium to be extended. Earmarks funds authorized under the current Department of Defense Authorization Act for improving landmine detection and neutralization. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for International Development and the Secretary of State to jointly submit to the Congress a report containing an analysis of the social, economic, and environmental costs and effects of the use of antipersonnel landmines. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the Congress on the total number of U.S. military personnel killed or wounded by such landmines during World War II, the Korean conflict, the Vietnam era, and the Persian Gulf War.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1994
Children's Ombudsman Act - Amends title IV (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of the Social Security Act to provide for three-year grants to State agencies to establish and operate an Office of the State Children's Ombudsman. Requires such an Office to identify, investigate, and resolve complaints made by, or on behalf of, AFDC recipients or their parents or guardians about actions or inaction by children's services providers, public agencies, or health and social service agencies that may adversely affect the health, safety, welfare, or rights of such recipients. Specifies related Office responsibilities, including reviewing pertinent Federal, State, and local laws and recommending changes. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Export Controls Title II: Environmental Export Promotion Act of 1994 Export Administration and Enhancement Act of 1994 - Title I: Export Controls - Export Administration Act of 1994 - Sets forth congressional findings and policies with respect to export controls on goods and technology. (Sec. 104) Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to require any type of validated or general license for the export of goods and technology. Declares that authority or permission to export may not be required under this Act except to carry out its export policies. Declares that the President shall direct appropriate agencies to review annually the impact of export control policies. Requires the Secretary to establish a Control List which shall: (1) consist of dual-use goods and technology on which export and reexport controls are imposed under this title; (2) identify countries and end-users within countries to which exports and reexports are controlled; and (3) specify validated license requirements. Requires the Secretary, on the basis of the annual review, to develop U.S. proposals to revise multilateral regime control lists. Requires the Secretary to: (1) seek comments from the public concerning changes to the Control List and keep it apprised of changes in export control policy and procedures with a view to encouraging trade; (2) meet regularly with businesses affected by export controls; and (3) appoint technical advisory committees. Makes the Secretary of Defense primarily responsible for establishing and maintaining the Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL), identifying equipment and technologies critical to the design, development, test, production, stockpiling, or use of weapons of mass destruction and other significant military capabilities, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, and manned and unmanned weapons delivery vehicles. (Sec. 105) Authorizes the President to prohibit or curtail the export of any item (commodity, technology or software), and restrict the financing, transporting, or other servicing or transfer facilitation with respect to such export, in order to carry out the policies of this Act. Directs the President to seek U.S. membership in multilateral arrangements for the same purposes. Permits export controls of any such item if it is determined that: (1) such controls are essential to advancing the national security, nonproliferation, or foreign policies of the United States; and (2) like-minded States have agreed with such controls. Directs the Secretary of State, in order to create effective multilateral export controls and strengthen the controls imposed by export control regimes, to pursue negotiations with other members of each such regime to establish a verifiable export control system by regime members. Provides for control implementation, enforcement, sanctions, and statutes of limitations sufficient to deter potential violations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should seek to: (1) prevent arms and other sensitive exports to Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Libya, and any other nation certified as supporting international terrorism or contributing to tensions in the Middle East; (2) further the process of engaging countries formerly proscribed by the Coordinating Committee (COCOM) in the establishment of effective export control systems and in combating global proliferation of weapons and sensitive dual-use technology; and (3) close gaps in existing nonproliferation regimes. Requires the Secretary and the Secretaries of State and of Defense to: (1) report biannually to specified congressional committees on their progress toward establishment of a successor regime to the COCOM; and (2) certify to the Congress any establishment of a successor regime that serves U.S. national security interests. Directs the President to determine annually whether the national interest requires termination of unilateral controls or maintenance of them for an additional 12-month period. Prohibits a unilateral control from being imposed, expanded, or extended until the Secretary has reported specified justifications to the Congress. Directs the Secretary of State to continually seek support for unilateral export controls by other countries and by effective multilateral control regimes. Directs the Secretary to place on the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Annex to the Control List and require a license for the export of: (1) certain dual-use items that would provide a material contribution to missile technology or chemical or biological weapons; and (2) any items that an exporter knows are destined for a project for the design, development, or manufacture of such items, especially in a country that is not an MTCR adherent. Directs the Secretary of State to identify countries that have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism. Prohibits the export or reexport of goods or technologies controlled for national security and nonproliferation reasons to such countries. Requires a license for the export or reexport of such items to such countries not specifically included on the national security and nonproliferation control list, if the Secretary of State has determined an item could contribute to the military potential of such country, or enhance its ability to support such terrorism. Requires a license for the export of crime control and detection equipment, except with respect to specified countries. Declares it is U.S. policy that no U.S. exporter should be competitively disadvantaged because of export controls unless relief from such controls would create a risk to the national security, nonproliferation, or foreign policy interests of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary, on his or her own initiative or upon petition by any person, to grant relief from such controls on grounds of: (1) foreign availability of an item from non-U.S. sources, thereby rendering license requirements ineffective in achieving control purposes; (2) ineffective controls; or (3) competitive disadvantage owing to inconsistent controls by the governments of foreign suppliers. Authorizes the President to impose certain sanctions on foreign suppliers if it is determined that sources of foreign availability are undermining U.S. unilateral or multilateral controls and pose a significant threat to the national security or nonproliferation interests of the United States. Requires the Secretary of State to pursue negotiations with the appropriate foreign countries to eliminate such foreign availability or competitive disadvantage. Directs the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees annually of the status of all relief petitions. Requires the Secretary to publish a list of: (1) parties denied export privileges; (2) parties sanctioned for prohibited proliferation; (3) specially designated nationals under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act; and (4) other parties for whom licenses will be presumptively denied. Declares that this title does not authorize the imposition of export controls on donations of items for humanitarian purposes. Declares that a license shall not be required for spare parts that are exported to replace parts that were in a good that was lawfully exported from the United States. Requires the President to submit to specified congressional committees a report assessing the current and future international market for computer software with encryption. (Sec. 106) Authorizes the President to prohibit or impose quantitative restrictions on the export of goods and technology that are domestically in short supply. Directs the Secretary to monitor exports, and contracts for exports, of goods in cases where the volume of such exports in relation to domestic supply may contribute to an increase in domestic prices or a domestic shortage, and such increase or shortage has, or may have, a serious adverse impact on the economy. Prohibits the export of Alaskan North Slope oil, except under specified conditions. Prohibits the President from imposing quantitative restrictions based on short supply controls on agricultural commodities (including fats and oils or animal hides or skins) without the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture. Requires the President, if such controls are imposed, to report on such action to the Congress, which may approve or terminate it. Authorizes the exemption from such short supply limitations of items exported or imported pursuant to a barter agreement. Prohibits the exportation of unprocessed western red cedar logs (Thuja plicata) harvested from Federal or State lands (except in Alaska). (Sec. 107) Directs the President to issue regulations that prohibit, with specified exceptions, U.S. persons from supporting any boycott imposed by a foreign country against a country that is friendly to the United States and that is not itself the object of a U.S. boycott. (Sec. 108) Specifies procedures for the processing of export license applications, including the screening, referral, approval or denial, and review of such applications. Establishes the Committee on Export Control Policy as an advisory committee. (Sec. 109) Sets forth both civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act. (Sec. 110) Makes the Secretary responsible for providing policy guidance on the enforcement of this Act. Sets forth requirements with respect to: (1) the forfeiture of goods and tangible items lawfully seized by the United States for violations of this Act; (2) undercover investigative operations of the Office of Export Enforcement of the Department of Commerce; and (3) a financial audit and report to the Congress on each undercover investigative operation. (Sec. 111) Directs the President to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration who shall perform all functions of the Secretary under this Act. Sets forth requirements for: (1) nondisclosure of confidential information; (2) disclosure of information to the Congress and the General Accounting Office (GAO); (3) penalties for disclosure of confidential information; and (4) public opportunity for comment on regulations imposing export controls. Declares that an export license may not be required for the export of a commodity solely because it contains parts or components subject to export control if such parts or components: (1) are essential to the functioning of the good; (2) are customarily included in the sales of the item in non-target countries; and (3) compose not more than 25 percent of the total value of the good, unless the good itself would make a significant contribution to the military or proliferation potential of a target country or end user which would prove detrimental to U.S. national security. Declares that, with respect to unilateral controls, the President may not, except in specified circumstances, prohibit the export or reexport of items in the performance of a contract entered into, or under a validated license issued, before the effective date of such controls, or the date on which the President reports to the Congress on the intention to impose controls on such exports or reexports. (Sec. 112) Requires the President to impose certain sanctions on U.S. or foreign persons who knowingly export, or attempt to export, any missile technology item on the MTCR Annex. (Sec. 113) Requires the President to impose certain sanctions on any foreign person who knowingly and materially contributes to the efforts of any government, project, or entity to use, design, develop, produce or stockpile chemical or biological weapons. (Sec. 115) Amends the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to prohibit public disclosure, except in the national interest, of confidential information connected with the authorization to export goods and technology (including export licenses and multilateral agreements to export). (Sec. 116) Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Environmental Export Promotion Act of 1994 - Environmental Export Promotion Act of 1994 - Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee to advise and guide the Environmental Trade Promotion Working Group in the development and administration of programs to expand U.S. exports of environmental technologies, goods, and services. Requires the Working Group to assess annually which foreign countries have markets with the greatest potential for such exports, and select five of them as priority countries for the application of U.S. Government export promotion resources. Requires the Working Group to create annual plans for each priority country, detailing ways to increase U.S. environmental exports to such country. Directs the Secretary to assign a specialist in environmental technologies to the office of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service in each of the five priority countries, and authorize similar assignments in any countries that are promising markets for such exports. Specifies the duties of such specialists. Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) a mechanism to give environmental technology and international environmental marketplace training to Commercial Service Officers assigned to one-stop shops and to district offices in districts with large numbers of environmental businesses; and (2) ensure that such officers receive appropriate training under such mechanism. Directs the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC) to establish not less than one international regional environmental initiative to coordinate Federal activities to build environmental partnerships between the United States and the geographic region outside the United States for which such an initiative is established. Specifies TPCC activities in carrying out such initiative. Directs the Working Group to maintain an environmental technologies project advocacy calendar, updated quarterly, identifying and providing information on significant project opportunities for U.S. environmental businesses in foreign markets and trade promotion events. Authorizes the Secretary to provide matching funds for the establishment in the United States of regional environmental business and technology cooperation centers that will draw upon the expertise of the private sector, institutions of higher education, and existing Federal programs to provide export promotion assistance related to environmental technologies, goods, and services.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1994
Persian Gulf War Veterans' Compensation Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) develop and implement a uniform case assessment protocol to ensure thorough assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of all Persian Gulf War (War) veterans suffering from illnesses the origins of which are currently unkown but which may be attributable to service in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during such War; (2) develop case definitions or diagnoses for such illnesses; and (3) implement a comprehensive outreach program, including a newsletter and a toll-free telephone number, to inform War veterans and their families of the medical care and other benefits that may be provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs as a result of service in such War. Directs the Secretary to pay compensation to a War veteran suffering from a disability resulting from an undiagnosed illness if such disability becomes manifest to a degree of ten percent or more within three years of separation from active military service. Provides exceptions to the payment of such compensation (i.e., when there is a preponderance of evidence to show that the disability was not incurred during such service or occurred after such service). Allows the Secretary to cease such payments after providing specified congressional committees with a scientific report showing that such disabilities are not connected to service in the War. Directs the Secretary to enter into: (1) an agreement with the Secretary of Defense for access to all clinical data on War veterans who remain on active duty, and to continually compile such data (with a required annual report); and (2) a contract for the conduct of an epidemiological study designed to assess the short- and long-term health consequences of service in such War (with appropriate oversight, a status report, and annual and final reports). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1995 through 2000 for such study. Authorizes appropriations to the Department for FY 1995 through 1998 for the conduct of research to advance the understanding of health risks and effects of service in the Gulf during such War and the means of treating such health effects.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1994
Fairness for Adopting Families Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual income tax deduction for qualified adoption expenses. Makes deductible reasonable and necessary expenses that are directly related to a legal adoption of any child if the adoption has been arranged by a State, local, or other nonprofit agency or through a private placement. Excludes from an employee's gross income any amounts paid on behalf of the employee by an employer pursuant to a qualified adoption assistance program. Limits both the deduction and the exclusion to $5,000 ($7,000 in the case of an international adoption). Reduces the amount when the taxpayer's income exceeds $60,000. Permits an employer to treat an adoption assistance program as a statutory employee benefit plan, thus making the employer's contributions to such a program tax deductible as business expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1994
Social Security Disability Amendments Act of 1994 - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to: (1) disregard the deemed income and resources of an ineligible spouse when determining the continued eligibility of the disabled spouse for Medicaid; (2) provide that individual Plans for Achieving Self Support (PASS) shall be deemed approved unless disallowed within 60 days by the Social Security Administration; (3) disregard the income and/or resources received by a PASS recipient for the purpose of achieving housing or career goals; (4) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations that consider both individual career and housing goals, and the difficulty of achieving self-support; (5) treat certain grant, scholarship, or fellowship income as earned income according to a certain formula; and (6) retain SSI eligibility for students temporarily outside the United States who demonstrate that their absence is to conduct studies as part of an educational program sponsored by an educational institution in the United States and designed to prepare the individual for gainful employment.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Judicial Proceedings Title II: Limitations on Disclosure of Protected Health Information Health Care Privacy Protection Act - Title I: Judicial Proceedings - Amends the Federal criminal code to set penalties for knowingly: (1) obtaining protected health information relating to an individual; or (2) disclosing protected health information to another person. Sets penalties with respect to a person who, for purposes not authorized under the Health Security Act: (1) requires the display or use of, or uses, a health security card; or (2) requires the disclosure or use of, or uses, the unique identifier number. Title II: Limitations on Disclosure of Protected Health Information - Permits a health information trustee to disclose protected health information to: (1) an officer, employee, or agent of the trustee only for a purpose that is compatible with and related to the purpose for which the information was collected or received; and (2) a person other than an officer only for a purpose that is authorized under this Act. Limits every disclosure of protected health information by a health information trustee to the minimum amount of information necessary. (Sec. 203) Authorizes a health information trustee to disclose protected health information pursuant to an authorization executed by the individual who is the subject of the information if specified requirements are met. Prohibits (with exceptions) such trustee from requesting that an individual provide to any person such an authorization on a day on which: (1) the trustee provides health care to such individual; or (2) in the case of a trustee that is a health facility, the individual is admitted into the facility as a resident or inpatient. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) time limits on authorizations; (2) revocation or amendment of authorizations; (3) model authorizations; (4) effect of authorization on privileges; (5) additional requirements of trustee, including maintaining a copy of the authorization; and (6) subpoenas. (Sec. 204) Authorizes the disclosure of protected health information, subject to specified restrictions: (1) in connection with treatment and payment; (2) to a health oversight agency for a purpose authorized by law; and (3) for use in an action against or investigation of an individual relating to receipt of health care or health care payment or involving a fraudulent health claim. (Sec. 206) Sets forth provisions regarding the disclosure of protected health information: (1) to next of kin; (2) to others (directory information); and (3) to assist in the identification of a dead person. (Sec. 207) Establishes requirements with respect to the reporting of protected health information: (1) to a public health authority; (2) in emergency circumstances; (3) for judicial and administrative purposes; (4) for use in a health research project; (5) to a law enforcement agency; and (6) pursuant to subpoena or warrant. (Sec. 216) Requires a health information trustee to maintain reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to: (1) ensure the integrity and confidentiality of protected health information created or received by the trustee; and (2) protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to the security or integrity of such information. (Sec. 217) Sets forth: (1) provisions permitting inspection of protected health information by a health care provider or health benefit plan, with exceptions; and (2) procedures for the amendment of protected health information. (Sec. 220) Directs the Attorney General to promulgate standards with respect to the creation, transmission, receipt, and maintenance, in electronic form, of each written document required or authorized under this title. (Sec. 221) Sets forth provisions regarding the rights of incompetents and minors. (Sec. 223) Grants immunity to: (1) a health information trustee for permissible disclosures and for good faith reliance on a certification by a government authority or other person; and (2) members of an institutional review board and the parent institution under specified circumstances. (Sec. 226) Establishes civil penalties to be imposed upon health information trustees who violate this Act. Permits aggrieved individuals to bring civil actions for relief.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1994
Public Braodcasting Act of 1994 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to extend through FY 1999 the authorization of appropriations for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1994
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) any health care reform legislation that is enacted should contain provisions that ensure that qualified poison control centers are adequately compensated; and (2) a national commission should be established to study the delivery and funding of poison control services.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1994
Congressional Accountability Act - Makes specified Federal statutes (or provisions thereof) applicable to the offices and employees of the legislative branch of the Federal Government, including (with exceptions): (1) the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA); (2) the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA); (3) the Civil Rights Act of 1964; (4) the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; (5) the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA); (6) the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; (7) the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993; (8) the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988; (9) the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act; (10) the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); (11) the Privacy Act of 1974 (Privacy Act); and (12) provisions governing Federal labor-management relations. (Sec. 3) Establishes in the legislative branch an Office of Compliance. Provides for a Board of Directors: (1) to issue regulations that specify the manner in which provisions of this Act shall be implemented to ensure compliance; (2) when proposing regulations, to recommend to the Congress any needed changes in or repeals of existing law to accommodate the application of such provision to its employees and offices; and (3) to study provisions of Federal law relating to employment, personnel actions, or availability of information to the public that are similar to such provision and that do not apply to congressional offices or employees, and recommend to the Congress whether any of those provisions should be applied to congressional offices or employees. Sets forth congressional disapproval procedures with respect to the issuance of regulations of, and rulemaking by, the Office. Requires the Board to carry out a program to inform Members of Congress, congressional employees, and heads of congressional offices as to the provisions, including remedies, made applicable to the legislative branch. (Sec. 5) Sets forth procedures for consideration of alleged violations of civil rights and personnel requirements, including: (1) step I, counseling; (2) step II, mediation; and (3) at the election of the employee alleging the violation, step IIIA, formal complaint and hearing by a hearing board, and step IV, judicial review of a hearing board decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, or step IIIB, a civil action in a U.S. district court. (Sec. 11) Sets forth procedures for consideration of alleged violations relating to: (1) information requirements; and (2) labor management and occupational health and safety requirements. (Sec. 13) Makes FOIA and the Privacy Act inapplicable to specified offices, including the personnel offices of Members of Congress, congressional committees, and the offices of any caucus or partisan organization related to the Congress. (Sec. 15) Treats intimidation of, or reprisal against, a congressional employee by any Member or officer of the Congress, any head of a congressional office, or any congressional employee, because of the exercise of a right under this Act, as an unlawful employment practice. (Sec. 16) Sets forth provisions regarding confidentiality with respect to counseling, mediation, hearings, release of records for judicial review, and access by congressional committees. (Sec. 17) Requires the Office, on a regular basis and at least once during each Congress, to request that the Secretary of Labor and the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board detail to the Office such personnel as necessary to inspect the facilities of the legislative branch to ensure compliance with OSHA, FLSA, and ADA. (Sec. 18) Requires the executive director of the office (appointed by the chairperson of the Board) to: (1) collect information with respect to complaints filed under this Act; and (2) submit for publication in the Congressional Record a report containing such information, without identifying parties by name. (Sec. 19) Specifies that it shall not be a violation to consider the party affiliation, domicile, or political compatibility with the employing office of an employee with respect to employment decisions issued under this Act. (Sec. 20) Prohibits a congressional employee from commencing a judicial proceeding to redress practices prohibited under this Act, except as provided in this Act. (Sec. 22) Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1994
Welcomes the 150 Ensemble Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of Hellenic Radio and Television, under the direction of Mikis Theodorakis, to the United States and applauds their talent and enthusiasm for their work. Acknowledges the musical contributions of Theodorakis and supports his effort to promote human rights, raise awareness of environmental issues, and end child hunger.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1994
Expresses appreciation for Mikis Theodorakis' musical contributions and his efforts to promote human rights, raise awareness of environmental issues, and end child hunger. Welcomes him to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Assistance for the Homeless Subtitle A: Reorganization of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act Subtitle B: Emergency Food and Shelter Title II: Public and Indian Housing; Cross-Cutting Authorizations Subtitle A: Enhance Flexibility for Public Housing Agencies Subtitle B: Severely Distressed Public Housing Program Subtitle C: Anti-Crime Initiatives Subtitle D: Authorizations and Extensions Subtitle E: Applicability Title III: Homeownership; FHA Mortgage Insurance Authorizations Subtitle A: Expand Single Family Homeownership Opportunities Subtitle B: National Homeownership Fund Demonstration Subtitle C: Authorizations Title IV: Economic Opportunity; Expansion of Affordable Housing Subtitle A: Economic Opportunity Economic Opportunities for Residents in HUD-Assisted Programs (sic) Subtitle B: Section 8 Initiatives Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Title V: Preservation and Production Title VI: Expansion of Fair Housing Metropolitan Areawide Strategy Demonstration Title VII: Community Development and Empowerment Subtitle A: Neighborhood Leveraged Investments for Tomorrow (LIFT) Program Authorization Subtitle B: Community Viability Fund Subtitle C: Colonias Assistance Program Authorization Subtitle D: Zone Economic Development Initiative Authorization Subtitle E: Authorization of Appropriations Title VIII: Management Reform Subtitle A: Improve the Allocation and Use of Assistance Subtitle B: Office of Public and Indian Housing Subtitle C: Office of Housing Subtitle D: Office of Community Planning and Development Management Information Systems Subtitle E: Nonjudicial Foreclosure of Defaulted Single Family Mortgages Title IX: Miscellaneous Housing Choice and Community Investment Act of 1994 - Title I: Assistance for the Homeless - Subtitle A: Reorganization of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act - Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Housing Assistance Reorganization Act of 1994 - Authorizes appropriations for comprehensive assistance systems for homeless individuals and families. (Sec. 106) Reorganizes the following programs under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act into a combined matching grant program: (1) emergency shelters; (2) transitional housing; (3) safe havens; (4) single room occupancy dwellings; (5) shelter plus care; and (6) rural homeless housing assistance. Includes a permanent housing component in such program. (Sec. 115) Amends the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 to authorize appropriations for the innovative homeless program. Subtitle B: Emergency Food and Shelter - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to transfer the emergency food and shelter program from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Authorizes program appropriations. Title II: Public and Indian Housing; Cross-Cutting Authorizations - Subtitle A: Enhance Flexibility for Public Housing Agencies - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize direct modernization and replacement loans for public housing agencies (PHAs). Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 202) Authorizes PHAs to use modernization funds for replacement housing. (Sec. 204) Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 with regard to the early childhood development program to: (1) authorize grants for the expansion or refunding of pre-existing child care centers; and (2) permit homeless families with children to use program services. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 205) Authorizes an entrepreneurial PHA and resident management corporation (RMC) demonstration program. Authorizes appropriations for program evaluations. (Sec. 208) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize the sale of public housing to nonprofit organizations to facilitate resident homeownership. Subtitle B: Severely Distressed Public Housing Program - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise the severely distressed housing program, including: (1) redefining severely distressed housing; (2) increasing planning grant levels; and (3) including community service and support service activities. Subtitle C: Anti-Crime Initiatives - Community Partnerships Against Crime Act of 1994 - Amends the Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Act of 1990 to establish a community partnerships against crime program of grants to PHAs and owners of federally assisted low-income housing. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 222) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize PHAs and assisted housing owners to ban guns. (Sec. 223) Directs law enforcement entities to make criminal records available to requesting PHAs for screening and eviction purposes. Subtitle D: Authorizations and Extensions - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to increase budget authority for specified public and Indian housing programs. (Sec. 232) Authorizes appropriations for: (1) public housing operating subsidies; (2) the family self-sufficiency program; (3) public housing family investment centers; (4) the revised congregate services program; and (5) the Indian housing loan guarantee program. Subtitle E: Applicability - Applies specified public housing provisions to Indian housing. Title III: Homeownership; FHA Mortgage Insurance Authorizations - Subtitle A: Expand Single Family Homeownership Opportunities - National Homeownership Fund Demonstration Act - Amends the National Housing Act to make Federal Housing Administration (FHA) home loan insurance available in targeted revitalization areas to low- and moderate-income first-time homebuyers. (Sec. 302) Revises FHA single family mortgage limits. (Sec. 303) Creates a streamlined refinancing procedure for qualifying HUD-held mortgages. (Sec. 304) Authorizes innovative affordable housing demonstration programs through the use of alternative financing instruments. (Sec. 305) Amends the National Housing Act to establish a single family risk-sharing mortgage insurance program. (Sec. 306) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1968 to expand, and authorize appropriations for, housing counseling services. Subtitle B: National Homeownership Fund Demonstration - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to revise the national homeownership fund demonstration. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Authorizations - Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to authorize appropriations for the flexible subsidy program. (Sec. 322) Authorizes appropriations for specified multifamily housing program service coordinators. (Sec. 323) Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to authorize an aggregate amount of guaranteed loan principal under the mortgage-backed security program. (Sec. 324) Amends the National Housing Act to authorize an aggregate amount of FHA mortgage insurance. Title IV: Economic Opportunity; Expansion of Affordable Housing - Subtitle A: Economic Opportunity Economic Opportunities for Residents in HUD-Assisted Programs (sic) - Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to provide grants for Economic Opportunity Centers to link low-income residents with employment generated by housing and community development assistance. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 402) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise and expand the resident management program. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Section 8 Initiatives - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to merge the section 8 public housing certificate and voucher programs into a single revised certificate program. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations for: (1) the supportive housing for the elderly program; and (2) the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program. (Sec. 424) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize appropriations for: (1) the HOPE homeownership program; (2) the Youthbuild program; and (3) housing for persons with AIDS. Title V: Preservation and Production - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to authorize appropriations for the low-income housing preservation program. (Sec. 504) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize HOME program loan guarantees. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 506) Amends the National Housing Act to extend the termination date for certain insured mortgage auctions. (Sec. 507) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to extend: (1) the FHA multifamily risk-sharing pilot program; and (2) the housing finance agency pilot program. Title VI: Expansion of Fair Housing Metropolitan Areawide Strategy Demonstration - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out through local government a demonstration program of assisted housing availability in three metropolitan areas. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 604) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to authorize appropriations for the fair housing initiatives program. (Sec. 605) Amends the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 to authorize civil money penalties for reporting violations by nonsupervised lending institutions. Title VII: Community Development and Empowerment - Subtitle A: Neighborhood Leveraged Investments for Tomorrow (LIFT) Program Authorization - Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance for neighborhood revitalization and competitive project-based grants to stimulate public and private investment, employment, and creation of essential services in disadvantaged communities (LIFT program). Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Community Viability Fund - Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to authorize a program of grants for: (1) strategic planning and urban design; and (2) community institution building and neighborhood development. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Colonias Assistance Program Authorization - Authorizes, and authorizes appropriations for, a colonias assistance program, including creation of model programs. (Sec. 727) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to extend the colonias community development block grant (CDBG) set-aside. Subtitle D: Zone Economic Development Initiative Authorization - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to localities with designated Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities to implement community revitalization strategies. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 737) Authorizes appropriations for activities under this subtitle. Subtitle E: Authorization of Appropriations - Amends the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 to authorize appropriations for the capacity building for community development and affordable housing program. (Sec. 742) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for: (1) the CDBG program; (2) special purpose grants including insular areas, historically Black colleges, technical assistance, university activities, readjustments, and work study programs; and (3) the economic development initiative. Title VIII: Management Reform - Subtitle A: Improve the Allocation and Use of Assistance - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to section 8 housing to: (1) limit rental increases for rents exceeding fair market rent levels; (2) provide high interest mortgage refinancing incentives; and (3) provide preference for working families. Subtitle B: Office of Public and Indian Housing - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to set aside funds for oversight and technical assistance activities with respect to the public and Indian housing modernization program. Subtitle C: Office of Housing - Amends the National Housing Act with respect to: (1) lower-income family homeownership refinancing; (2) elimination of multifamily development program mortgage insurance; and (3) project manager indemnification. Subtitle D: Office of Community Planning and Development Management Information Systems - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to set aside CDBG funds for management information systems. Subtitle E: Nonjudicial Foreclosure of Defaulted Single Family Mortgages - Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994 - Authorizes and establishes procedures for the Secretary to foreclose defaulted single family mortgages. Title IX: Miscellaneous - Amends the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 to: (1) set aside funds for technical assistance and capacity building; (2) expand research authority; and (3) authorize appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1994
Bank and Thrift Statute of Limitations Clarification Act of 1994 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to provide that the statute of limitations regarding an action brought by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as conservator or receiver begins to run with the date of its appointment in that capacity, regardless of whether the claim was barred by State law at the date of such appointment (unless the claim was barred more than five years before).
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1994
Poverty Data Improvement Act of 1994 - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to biennially produce and publish data relating to the incidence of poverty for each State, county or borough, and local government, including Alaska native villages, (compiled from the most recent decennial census and for each school district). Authorizes such data to be produced by means of sampling, estimation, or any other method that the Secretary determines will produce current, comprehensive, and reliable data. Authorizes the Secretary to aggregate school districts if reliable data could not otherwise be produced for each school district, but only to the extent necessary to achieve reliability. Requires such data to be appropriately identified and accompanied by a detailed explanation as to how and why aggregation was used (including the measures taken to minimize any such aggregation). Requires the Secretary, if unable to produce and publish such data for any area, to report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on each government or school district excluded and the reasons therefor.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1994
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Amendments Act - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act to cover employers of 50 or more employees (currently 100). Covers single-site plant closings or mass layoffs affecting 25 or more employees (currently 500 or more, or 50 or more if this comprises one-third of the workers at the site). Eliminates the single-site requirement for plant closings or mass layoffs affecting 100 or more employees, thus covering such closings or layoffs by one employer regardless of the number of sites involved. Specifies that the 90-day aggregate rule covers all related layoffs within that period, whether or not they are each above or below the threshold levels. Extends coverage to part-time employees. (Sec. 3) Revises the notice period based on the number of employees affected: (1) 25-49, 30 days; (2) 50-99, 60 days; and (3) 100 or more, 90 days. (The current period is 60 days.) Requires employer notice to each affected employee (as well as to the employee representative, if there is one). (Sec. 4) Revises and adds enforcement requirements. Adds to employer liability for violations: (1) interest on back pay owed; and (2) an additional amount as liquidated damages equal to the back pay and interest. Limits a good faith exemption to reduction of liability for interest and for a civil penalty. Allows aggrieved employees to enforce employer liability by bringing suit and/or filing a complaint with the Secretary of Labor. Directs the Secretary to investigate and resolve such complaints. Authorizes the Secretary to bring civil actions on behalf of the employee for back pay, interest, benefits, and liquidated damages. Establishes a two-year statute of limitations. (Sec. 5) Requires employers to post notices to employees of pertinent provisions of the Act and information on filing complaints. Establishes fines for willful violations of such posting requirement.
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