Bill· SS. 2528 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Locate and Case Tracking Title II: Establishment Title III: Parentage Title IV: Enforcement Title V: Collection and Distribution Title VI: Federal Role Title VII: State Role Child Support Responsibility Act of 1994 - Title I: Locate and Case Tracking - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to establish a Federal registry of child support orders and or modifications issued by any State court or administrative order. Provides for State access to such registry. (Sec. 102)Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to include among the functions of the Federal Parent Locator System: (1) establishing parentage; and (2) establishing, modifying, enforcing child support obligations. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide prompt access to the Secretary of all Federal income tax returns filed by individuals. Instructs the Secretary to expand the Parent Locator Service to establish a national network based on the comprehensive statewide child support enforcement systems to expand State access to the national parent locator network. (Sec. 103) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a national reporting system on employees and their child support obligations through the mandatory inclusion of certain child support information on W-4 forms (including the availability of health care insurance). (Sec. 104) Requires State plans for child and spousal support to have in effect statutory mechanisms which: (1) establish a child support order registry to transmit abstracts of State child support orders to the Federal Registry and distribute child support proceeds withheld from a delinquent parent's wages; and (2) allow an individual to bring an action against an employer or State official for noncompliance with this Act. Prescribes parameters for direct wage withholding, State agency access to various data bases, and expanded interaction with the National Parent Locator Network. (Sec. 105) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to integrate child support obligations and payments within the structure of income tax returns, including: (1) assessment and collection of child support arrearages; and (2) payment to State registries of child support amounts collected by the Secretary of the Treasury. Title II: Establishment - Amends part D of SSA title IV (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to set forth procedural guidelines for service of process on Federal employees and members of the armed services in connection with proceedings relating to child support and parentage obligations. (Sec. 204) Establishes the National Child Support Guidelines Commission to: (1) study and report to the Congress on the advisability of a national child support guideline; (2) develop such a guideline, if advisable. (Sec. 205) Includes among the requisite components of approved State plans: (1) a specified duration of child support; (2) electronic transmittal of State documents; (3) telephonic appearance in interstate cases; (4) uniform terms in child support orders; (5) social security numbers on marriage licenses, divorce decrees, parentage decrees, and birth certificates; (6) administrative subpoena powers; (7) State-conducted surveys and outreach programs for underserved populations; and (8) State guidelines for child health care insurance. (Sec. 213) Amends the Federal judicial code to set forth rules governing modification of sister State child support orders. Title III: Parentage - Requires approved State plans to include prescribed procedures for paternity acknowledgment. Title IV: Enforcement - Requires approved State plans to include prescribed procedures for garnishment of wages for parents in arrears for child support, including: (1) Federal death benefits; (2) black lung benefits; (3) veterans benefits, and (4) workers' compensation. (Sec. 404) Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to provide that: (1) its garnishment restrictions neither pre-empt State law, nor exempt any person from complying with State or Federal laws permitting garnishment for the purpose of securing child support; and (2) a garnishment intended to satisfy a child support debt takes priority over competing debts owed to the Federal government. (Sec. 405) Mandates that approved State plans include procedures to satisfy child support arrearages which: (1) prohibit a State court from applying the doctrine of election of remedies to prevent a custodial parent from collecting child support from the noncustodial parent; (2) prohibit State and Federal occupational licensing or regulating agencies from issuing or renewing occupational, professional or business licenses to individuals who fail to appear or are delinquent in child support cases; (3) prohibit State motor vehicle departments from issuing or renewing a driver's license or vehicle registration to such individuals; (4) require placement of child support liens on certificates of vehicle title; (5) permit attachment of bank accounts; (6) impose liens upon lottery winnings, insurance, court and other settlements; (7) presume fraudulent intent in any property transfer; (8) permit attachment of public and private retirement plans; (9) eliminate statutes of limitations in child support cases; and (10) require child support enforcement agencies to assess and collect interest on child support judgments. (Sec. 418) Amends Federal bankruptcy law to: (1) except from its automatic stay provisions proceedings establishing parentage and debts for child support; (2) require a bankruptcy plan to provide for full payment when due of debts for child support; (3) declare that a debt for child support includes State public debts and assigned child support based on provision of expenditures with respect to aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) and foster care and adoption assistance; (4) include among prioritized claims allowed unsecured claims for child support; (5) preclude a debtor from avoiding the fixing of judicial liens for child support; (6) except from discharge a debt pursuant to divorce or separation; and (7) prohibit trustee avoidance of a transfer that was a bona fide payment of a debt for child support. (Sec. 419) Prescribes procedural mandates for the Secretary of Defense to cooperate with the States in the enforcement of child support obligations of members and former members of the Armed Forces. (Sec. 420) Requires each State to have in effect laws which adopt the officially approved version of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. (Sec. 421) Authorizes the Secretary of State to deny or restrict passport privileges to child support debtors subject to State arrest warrants. Denies Federal benefits, loans, guarantees, and employment to debtors with child support arrearages exceeding specified amounts. (Sec. 423) Amends part D of SSA title IV (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to mandate that approved State plans include procedures to satisfy child support arrearages by permitting State courts to order: (1) assignments of life insurance benefits; and (2) assignment of an interest in jointly held property. (Sec. 425) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the U.S. should ratify the United Nations Convention of 1956. Mandates that the States treat international child support cases in the same manner as interstate child support cases. (Sec. 426) Prescribes guidelines for shielding depository institutions from liability for providing financial records to State enforcement agencies in child support cases. (Sec. 427) Mandates that approved State plans include procedures to ensure: (1) cost-of-living adjustments in child support orders; (2) annual exchange of financial information by parties to a child support order; and (3) criminal penalties for failure to pay child support and the granting of use immunity may be granted to compel testimony in specified civil child support proceedings. Title V: Collection and Distribution - Prescribes priorities in the distribution of collected child support pursuant to an approved State plan. Directs the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on studies and pilot projects of systems under which States would be required to pay child support to the individuals to whom it is owed before making reimbursements to any State for AFDC provided with respect to such child. (Sec. 502) Mandates that approved State plans include procedures which limit State claims against the noncustodial parent to the assistance provided to the child. (Sec. 503) Revises the fee guidelines for State child support collection and paternity determination services. Title VI: Federal Role - Directs the Secretary to establish the Office of Child Support Enforcement under the direction of an Assistant Secretary. Expands the training programs for State child support enforcement programs. (Sec. 604) Directs the Secretary to develop the methodology for determining each State child support and paternity establishment program's staffing requirements. (Sec. 605) Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to revise the definition of "medical child support order". (Sec. 606) Instructs the Secretary to: (1) contract for a study of the audit process of the Office of Child Support Enforcement; and (2) make grants to the States for demonstration projects implementing a system of assured minimum child support payments. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 608) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to create the Children's Trust Fund for making expenditures to implement this Act. (Sec. 609) Instructs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress on: (1) the causes for nonpayment of child support; and (2) the efficacy of processing child support and parentage cases in States that use administrative processes as compared to those that use judicial or quasi-judicial processes. (Sec. 611) Directs the Office of Child Support Enforcement to: (1) produce and update a certain compendium entitled "A Guide to State Child Support and Paternity Laws" and (2) establish a permanent advisory committee on child support matters. Title VII: State Role - Mandates that State plans for child and spousal support include: (1) agency advocacy promoting the greatest economic security possible for children; (2) certain information on plan services for dissemination to each custodial parent; (3) an administrative procedure as the sole procedure for change of payee; and (4) conflict-of-interest restrictions upon State modification of a child support order. (Sec. 705) Provides for increased payments to States under the Child Support and Establishment of Paternity program, repealing provisions for State incentive payments.
Bill· SS. 2489 (103rd)referred
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.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 225 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1994
Designates the weeks of February 5 through February 11, 1995, and February 4 through February 10, 1996, each as National Burn Awareness Week.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 223 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1994
Designates March 1995 and March 1996 as Irish-American Heritage Month.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 220 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1994
Designates October 19, 1994, as National Mammography Day.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 257 (103rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1994
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the National Air and Space Museum's Enola Gay exhibit should reflect appropriate sensitivity toward the men and women who served in the armed forces during World War II.
Bill· SS. 2424 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 August 1994
Expands the boundaries of the Stones River National Battlefield in Tennessee. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 2347 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1994
Smithsonian Institution Sesquicentennial Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue five-dollar gold coins and one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the scientific, educational, and cultural significance of the Smithsonian Institution. Mandates that: (1) all but a certain portion of surcharges received from coin sales be paid by the Secretary to the Smithsonian Institution to support programming related to the 150th anniversary and general activities of the Smithsonian Institution; and (2) a certain portion of such surcharges be dedicated to supporting the operation and activities of the National Numismatic Collection at the National Museum of American History.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 212 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1994
Designates August 2, 1994, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 208 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1994
Designates the week of November 6 through 12, 1994, as National Health Information Management Week.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 206 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1994
Designates September 17, 1994, as Constitution Day.
Bill· SS. 2239 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Medicare Program Subtitle A: Covered Outpatient Prescription Drugs and Rebates Subtitle B: Drug Use Review Subtitle C: Effective Date Title II: Medicaid Program Title III: Commissions Title IV: Additions to the Master Agreement Pharmaceutical Marketplace Reform Act of 1994 - Title I: Medicare Program - Subtitle A: Covered Outpatient Prescription Drugs and Rebates - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to cover as medical and other services certain outpatient drugs and biologicals, certain prescription drugs used in immunosuppressive therapy furnished to organ transplant patients, erythropoietin for dialysis patients, anticancer chemotherapeutic oral drugs, as well as other outpatient drugs or biologicals for which payment may be specially allowed. (Sec. 102) Conditions payment for a covered outpatient drug on the manufacturer's having entered into a rebate agreement containing certain terms with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Requires a rebate or discount to Medicare of 17 percent off the average manufacturer's retail price (AMRP). Authorizes negotiation of higher rebates as well as standard or higher rebates for new drugs. Requires the HHS Secretary to establish a generic-only dispensing policy, subject to a Federal upper limit, for any multiple source (generic) covered outpatient drug for which there are three or more therapeutically and pharmaceutically equivalent brands of the drug sold and marketed in the United States. Requires exclusion from payment of any innovator version of a multiple source (brand name) drug unless the prescription, in the physician's handwriting, contains the phrase "brand medically necessary" and, at the Secretary's option, a medical justification is provided. Authorizes the Secretary to establish, as a condition of outpatient drug coverage or payment, a system requiring approval of a drug before its dispensing. Subtitle B: Drug Use Review - Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for a drug use review program; (2) establish a methodology to provide payment to pharmacists for prospective drug review and certain pharmaceutical care activities; (3) establish standards for counseling by pharmacists of individuals receiving covered outpatient drugs; and (4) a Drug Use Review Board (DUR Board) of physicians and pharmacists. (Sec. 111) Requires the DUR program to provide for case management of drug therapy for individuals receiving covered drugs who are at high risk for potential medication-related problems. Subtitle C: Effective Date - Sets the effective date of this title. Title II: Medicaid Program - Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to deny Federal payment to a State for any brand name drug unless the prescription, in the physicians' handwriting, contains the phrase "brand medically necessary" and, at the Secretary's option, a medical justification is provided. (Sec. 201) Denies Federal payments for any State expenditures for the dispensing of brand name drugs that exceed 15 percent, for 1995, or ten percent, for 1996 and after, of expenditures for the dispensing of all multiple source drugs, brand name and generic. (Sec. 202) Provides for an 11 percent rebate to Medicaid for a generic drug if its price is more than half the price of the corresponding brand name drug. Specifies decreasing rebates, from nine to seven to five percent, from 1995 through 1997 and after for generic drugs whose price does not exceed half the price of the corresponding brand name drug. (Sec. 203) Denies Medicaid payments for any calendar quarter to any State which fails to have in effect regulations requiring each health care plan offered in the State covering outpatient prescription drugs to establish a pharmacy and therapeutics committee or drug use board of physicians and pharmacists which shall make recommendations to the plan to assure that outpatient prescription drugs used by enrollees are medically appropriate and likely to result in positive medical outcomes. Requires each health care plan to establish a therapeutic formulary of committee- or board-approved outpatient prescription drugs. Requires each health care plan to establish a pharmaceutical care services program ensuring services by licensed pharmacists and including drug use review, drug therapy and case management, preapproved or protocol-approved interchange of pharmaceutical products, management of patient compliance incentive programs, and other pertinent services. Requires each health care plan to establish a system under which any pharmacists providing outpatient prescription drugs to enrollees is provided payment for services required to comply with any requirements imposed on the pharmacists by this Act. Title III: Commissions - Amends SSA title XI (General Provisions and Peer Review), as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, to direct the Secretary to provide for the appointment of a Pharmaceutical Marketplace Information Commission, which shall: (1) provide general information about pharmaceutical prices in the U.S. market and in international, industrial-based markets; (2) provide information to buyers about whether the prices of new drugs are reasonable, based on specified factors; (3) monitor the use and prices of generic drugs; and (4) make recommendations to the Congress on the desirability of extending patents on certain pharmaceutical products. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 302) Requires the Director of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to provide for the appointment of a Prescription Drug Payment Review Commission to monitor Medicare drug program operations, conduct studies, and make recommendations to the Congress on the operation of the program in general. Title IV: Additions to the Master Agreement - Amends Federal law with respect to limitations on prices procured by the Department of Veterans Affairs and other Federal agencies. Requires the master agreement between the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and each manufacturer of covered drugs to require each manufacturer of single source and brand name drugs to offer them for sale to every buyer on equal terms and conditions including any rebates, free merchandise, discounts and other similar adjustments. Permits such manufacturers to offer rebates, free merchandise, discounts and other similar adjustments only if the manufacturer experiences savings as a result of specified efficiencies in purchasing. (Sec. 402) Requires the master agreement also to require each manufacturer of single source and brand name drugs to report certain information to the Pharmaceutical Marketplace Information Commission.
Bill· SS. 2234 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1994
Amends the Mississippi River Corridor Study Commission Act of 1989 to extend until June 30, 1996, the deadline for the Mississippi River Corridor Study Commission to make its final report.
Bill· SS. 2216 (103rd)open
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.
Bill· SS. 2192 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1994
Unlisted Trading Privileges Act of 1994 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to modify the guidelines under which a national securities exchange may extend unlisted trading privileges for corporate securities. Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to prescribe, as necessary, the time period after commencement of an initial public offering during which a national securities exchange is prohibited from extending unlisted trading privileges. Subjects the extension of unlisted trading privileges by a national securities exchange to Commission rules and/or approval. Provides for suspension and reinstatement of such privileges.
Bill· SS. 2183 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1994
World War II Peace Accords Commemorative Coin Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the 50th anniversary of the signing of the World War II peace accords on the U.S.S. Missouri should not go unrecognized at the national level; and (2) the United States should recognize such anniversary by minting and issuing a commemorative coin. Sets forth specifications for half dollar clad coins. Mandates that the surcharges received from the sale of such coins be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Admiral Nimitz Foundation for the purpose of preserving the Pacific War heritage of the United States.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 198 (103rd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1994
Designates 1995 as the Year of the Grandparent.
Bill· SS. 2164 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1994
Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program Act of 1994 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program. Permits the Secretary, as part of the Program, to conduct an annual competition to: (1) solicit the submission by elementary and secondary school students of designs relating to migratory bird conservation; and (2) select winning designs for use for licensing and marketing. Authorizes the Secretary to license and market winning designs and stamps bearing such designs, to be known as Junior Duck Stamps. Makes licensing and marketing proceeds available solely for awards and scholarships to individuals who submit designs, awards to further education activities related to the conservation education goals of the Program, and expenses for licensing and marketing. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 2148 (103rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1994
CVN-76 Procurement Termination and Deficit Reduction Act of 1994 - Prohibits entering into any contract for the procurement of a CVN-76 aircraft carrier before October 1, 1999. Terminates all such contracts entered into before the date of enactment of this Act.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 194 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1994
Designates the second week of August 1994 and the second week of August 1995 as National United States Seafood Week.
Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 69 (103rd)open
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.
Bill· SS. 2051 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1994
Volunteer Firefighter and Rescue Squad Worker Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude from coverage any employee fire fighters or rescue squad members during the period in which they volunteer their services at a location where they are not employed. Waives overtime compensation requirements when fire fighters or rescue squad members volunteer their services to their employer and sign a legally binding waiver. Prohibits employer coercion of such volunteering.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 183 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1994
Designates the week beginning May 1, 1994, as Arson Awareness Week.
Bill· SS. 2040 (103rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1994
Amends Federal law (known as the Intergovernmental Personnel Act) to treat the assignment of: (1) a Federal agency employee to another organization (especially a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC)) in the same way as an assignment of a Federal agency employee to a State or local government; and (2) an employee of another organization (especially an FFRDC) in the same way as an assignment of a State or local government employee to a Federal agency.
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