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United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain spouses a full deduction for contributions to an individual retirement account.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1993
Community Development Flexibility Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to increase the maximum amount of community development block grant assistance that may be used for public service activities.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1993
Worker Protection Warnings Act of 1993 - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to direct the Secretary of Labor to issue a final regulation establishing, as occupational safety and health standards, uniform warnings for personal protective equipment for occupational use. Requires such regulation to be issued within 12 months after enactment of this Act, meet certain conditions, and incorporate specified considerations. Preempts State and local law with respect to such standards.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1993
Designates April 10 through 16, 1994, as Primary Immune Deficiency Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1993
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should take all appropriate actions necessary to secure the compliance of the Government of Libya with United Nations Security Council Resolution 731 (regarding the bombing of Pan American Airways Flight 103), including, if necessary, the imposition of an embargo on oil produced in Libya.
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1993
Designates December 21, 1993, as the Fifth Anniversary Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1993
Designates May 2 through 8, 1994, as Public Service Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1993
Designates October 23 through 30, 1993, as National Red Ribbon Week for a Drug-Free America.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1993
Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the release of personal information about any individual obtained by a State department of motor vehicles (DMV) in connection with a motor vehicle operator's permit, title, identification card, or registration, unless such individual has authorized such disclosure. Makes exceptions for specified routine uses if the person receiving the information has certified that the information will be used only for one of the specified permissible purposes, including use: (1) by any Federal, State, or local court or agency in carrying out its functions; (2) in connection with matters of automobile and driver safety, in any civil or criminal proceeding involving a motor vehicle, and in research or marketing activities; and (3) by any insurer in connection with claims investigation and antifraud activities. Prohibits (with exceptions): (1) a State motor vehicle department, organization, or person from disclosing, selling, or otherwise making available or using such personal information, except in accordance with this Act; and (2) any person or organization from making any false representation to obtain personal information about any such individual from a State DMV or other person or using personal information obtained from State DMV or other person for any purpose other than as requested by that person or organization, or other than the purpose for which such information was disclosed. Sets penalties for willful and nonwillful violations by individuals, organizations, and DMVs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1993
Commends the Government of Italy on its commitment to halting software piracy. Congratulates the Guardia di Finanza, the Carabinieri, and the Italian national police for their continuing antipiracy actions. Expresses hope that the Italian authorities will continue to prosecute software laws rigorously and that copyright agencies around the world will follow Italy's example.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1993
Designates May 1 through 7, 1994, as National Walking Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1993
Older Americans' Housing Preservation Act - Delays the effective date of certain regulations governing the admission of single persons into public and assisted housing for the elderly.
United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1993
1995 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue commemorative one-dollar silver coins bearing a likeness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Requires the Secretary to distribute proceeds from surcharges ($10 per coin) in equal allocations to: (1) the National Park Foundation Restricted Account for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; and (2) the National Park Service Restricted Construction Account for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1993
Designates the week beginning November 7, 1993, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1993
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Reauthorization Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for primary health services for homeless children. Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to extend homeless program authorizations of appropriations for: (1) community demonstration projects for the mentally ill; (2) adult education; (3) education for homeless children and youth; (4) job training; (5) emergency community services; and (6) family support centers.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1993
Designates December 7, 1993, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Requests the President to urge that the U.S. flag be flown at half staff on December 7, 1993, in honor of the individuals who died as a result of their service at Pearl Harbor.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1993
Designates October 29, 1993, as National Firefighters Day.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1993
Calls for: (1) the President to encourage the United Nations (UN) to permit representatives of Taiwan to participate fully in UN activities; and (2) cabinet-level exchanges between Taiwan and the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1993
Designates the third Sunday in November of 1993 as National Children's Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1993
Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to direct the Secretary of Labor to enter into a cooperative agreement with the National Center for Housing Management to provide for a training program to assist recently discharged members of the Armed Forces to obtain training and employment as managers and employees with public housing authorities and management companies. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1993
Health Care Information Modernization and Security Act of 1993 - Amends the Social Security Act to establish the Health Care Data Panel to: (1) develop and submit to the Office of Management and Budget for implementation proposed regulations for an integrated electronic health care data interchange system; (2) select and establish data and transaction standards, conventions, and requirements for the data interchange system; and (3) provide for appointment of a National Health Informatics Commission to advise the Panel on its activities. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1993
Designates October 16, 1993, and October 16, 1994, as World Food Day.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993
Designates the week beginning October 25, 1993, as World Population Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993
Designates October 19, 1993, as National Mammography Day.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1993
Designates the weeks beginning November 14, 1993, and November 13, 1994, as Geography Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1993
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise drug education programs to assist States and local educational agencies to attain the national educational goal of safe and drug-free schools and communities. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to States and local education agencies for drug and violence prevention programs. Requires each recipient State to establish a State Drug and Violence Prevention Coordinating Council. Allows local agencies that demonstrate implementation of the basic program to carry out an expanded program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and contracts with higher education institutions and consortia for drug and violence prevention programs. Authorizes the Secretary to support a national center to provide training and technical assistance in developing model strategies to prevent violence and the use of illegal drugs by students at postsecondary educational institutions. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out national programs to prevent illegal use of drugs and violence among students at all educational levels. Prohibits the Secretary from prescribing the use of specific curricula for programs supported under this Act, but allows evaluation of the effectiveness of such curricula and other strategies in drug and violence prevention. Prohibits use of funds under this Act for: (1) construction, except minor remodeling; (2) drug treatment or rehabilitation; and (3) psychiatric, psychological, or other medical treatment or rehabilitation, other than school-based counseling for students or school personnel who are victims or witnesses of school-related crime.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Increases from $200 to $500 the monthly special pension payable to persons named to the Medal of Honor Roll. Includes losses sustained on the resale of property in the net-value calculation for purposes of provisions regarding defaults on veterans' loans. Provides for a permanent extension of the authority of such provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Wastewater Treatment Operator Training and Certification Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to revise provisions concerning training grants and contracts to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) implement a national program to train persons in the operation of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment works and other water pollution control facilities; (2) make grants to, or contracts with, institutions of higher education to support such programs; and (3) publish guidance on the minimum elements of such programs. Requires chief operators and other designated personnel of publicly owned treatment works to be certified as proficient by the Administrator. Directs the Administrator to publish: (1) guidelines on minimum standards for certification; and (2) a treatment works operator's manual. Authorizes the delegation of authority for a certification program to a State, subject to certain conditions. Makes certifications valid for a five-year period. Permits recertification for an additional five years provided that the individual complies with in-service training and related education. Requires institutions of higher education, in addition to other requirements for receiving scholarships for individuals planning to enter occupations involving treatment works, to: (1) have participated in the treatment works training program; and (2) ensure representation of minorities and women in the scholarship program. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Church Retirement Benefits Simplification Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to recodify and revise qualifications for church retirement and pension plans. Makes employee contributions to such plans nonforfeitable. Requires the plan to meet minimum vesting requirements. Recodifies the authority of a church or a convention or association of churches to be treated as an employer making contributions to retirement income accounts. Subjects church-related hospitals and universities to certain coverage and related rules in the case of a contract purchased by a church. Requires distributions from retirement income accounts provided by churches to be in accordance with distributions under cash or deferred arrangements. Provides for determining the beginning date for such distributions. Allows self-employed ministers and chaplains who work for non-church employers to participate in their church plans. Provides that certain rules aggregating employees do not apply to churches. Restores qualified voluntary employee contributions to church plans. Treats self-employed ministers as employees for purposes of certain welfare benefit plans and retirement income accounts. Allows a deduction for contributions to retirement income accounts by such ministers. Provides that a church plan maintained by more than one employer shall not be treated as a single plan. Provides that accounting methods of deferred compensation plans of State and local governments and tax-exempt organizations do not apply to a church plan. Exempts a church plan from the requirement to maintain separate accounts for medical benefits for key employees. Provides that the special rules for computing employee contributions to pension plans do not apply to certain foreign missionaries. Repeals the elective deferral catch-up limitation for church retirement income accounts. Allows church plans to annuitize benefits and increase benefit payments. Provides that rules for self-insured medical reimbursement plans are not applicable to church plans. Provides that retirement benefits of ministers are not subject to the tax on net earnings from self-employment.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Declares it is the Congress' intent that the Secretary of Transportation, in negotiating under the auspices of the Land Transportation Standards Subcommittee established under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), uphold U.S. truck safety standards, including truck sizes and weights, and safety standards such as truck driver hours of service, front brake and other safety equipment requirements, and the truck driver record system.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the accounting standards proposed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board will have grave economic consequences, particularly for businesses in new-growth sectors, which rely heavily on entrepreneurship; and (2) the Board should not change the current accounting rules by requiring that businesses deduct the value of stock options from profits.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Requests the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to publish, within one year, proposed amended regulations that specify the components of an adequate operator training program and that provide that only trained employees be authorized to operate powered industrial trucks.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: School-to-Work Opportunities Basic Program Components Title II: School-to-Work Opportunities System Development and Implementation Grants to States Subtitle A: State Development Grants Subtitle B: State Implementation Grants Title III: Federal Implementation Grants to Partnerships Title IV: National Programs Title V: General Provisions School-of-Work Opportunities Act of 1993 - Establishes a national framework for development of School-to-Work Opportunities systems in all States. Declares the congressional intent that the Secretaries of Education and of Labor jointly administer this Act in a flexible manner. Directs the Secretaries to jointly administer the programs established by this Act. Title I: School-to-Work Opportunities Basic Program Components - Requires School-to-Work Opportunities (SWO) programs to: (1) integrate work-based and school-based learning; (2) provide students with the opportunity to complete career majors; and (3) incorporate specified program components including work-based and school-based learning and connecting activities. Title II: School-to-Work Opportunities System Development and Implementation Grants to States - Subtitle A: State Development Grants - Authorizes the Secretaries to award development grants to applicant States to complete development of a comprehensive, statewide SWO system. (Such development may have begun with funds awarded under the Job Training Partnership Act and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act.) Subtitle B: State Implementation Grants - Allows States to apply to the Secretaries for competitive implementation grants, with applications containing: (1) plans for comprehensive, statewide SWO systems meeting content requirements; (2) descriptions of how funds will be allocated to local SWO partnerships; and (3) optional requests for waivers of certain statutory or regulatory requirements. Title III: Federal Implementation Grants to Partnerships - Authorizes the Secretaries to award competitive SWO implementation grants to partnerships in States that have not received State implementation grants. Authorizes the Secretaries to award grants to implement SWO programs in high poverty areas. (Such funds may be awarded in combination with funds appropriated for the Youth Fair Chance Program.) Title IV: National Program - Directs the Secretaries to provide for: (1) research, demonstration, and other projects; (2) performance outcomes and evaluation, in collaboration with States; and (3) training and technical assistance. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) State requests and responsibilities for waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; (2) such waivers by each of the Secretaries; (3) program safeguards, including nondisplacement of current workers; and (4) acceptance of gifts. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Tobacco Price Support Elimination Act of 1993 - Amends specified agricultural Acts to eliminate price supports and other production and marketing assistance for tobacco.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Repeals the Helium Act (an Act concerned mainly with the extraction and recovery of helium for national defense purposes). Directs the Secretary of the Interior to sell or otherwise dispose of: (1) all facilities, equipment, and real or personal property held for activities under such Act; and (2) all helium reserves held by the United States other than those required for specific immediate needs. Requires sale proceeds to be used solely to reduce outstanding Federal debt.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Irrigation Assistance Repayment Reform Act - Amends the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to provide that any costs of construction incurred after September 30, 1992, which are allocated to irrigation, which are beyond the ability of water users to repay, and which may be repaid by revenues from power marketed by the Western Area Power Administration, shall be repaid within 40 years of the in-service date of the irrigation project, division, or development unit upon terms no less favorable to the Government than payment in equal annual installments. Specifies that any increase in wholesale power rates charged by reason of such provision may not exceed one mil per kilowatt-hour per year. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to make a determination of an irrigator's ability to pay construction charges allocated to irrigation at least every five years (except where expressly precluded by contract) and to adjust the amount of such charges accordingly. Specifies that each new or renewed contract entered into by the Secretary shall provide for the recomputation of the irrigator's ability to pay and the repayment of any additional charges resulting from prior adjustments.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Reduces the amounts authorized to be appropriated for international broadcasting activities under the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 by $26 million in each of FY 1994 through 1998.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Amends the International Travel Act of 1961 to reduce certain fiscal year authorizations for the United States Travel and Tourism Administration in the Department of Commerce.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Requires the Secretary of Defense to retire all land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles before October 1, 1997.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Limits the period for which expenses of a former Speaker of the House of Representatives may be paid to one year after the expiration of the term of office as Representative. (Provides that in the case of a former Speaker who is receiving such expenses on the date of the enactment of this Act, the period shall end one year after such date.)
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Provides that funds authorized to be appropriated under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 shall remain available for obligation and expenditure not more than 36 months after the close of the fiscal year in which they are appropriated. Authorizes the President to waive such limitation if in the national interest.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to eliminate FY 1994 through 1998 funding for the essential air service program. Rescinds any unobligated funds for such program.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Terminates funding for Federal information centers.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Prohibits funds available for the Department of Defense for FY 1994 from being expended for proceeding into low-rate initial production: (1) during FY 1995 for the Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile program; and (2) under the Javelin Antitank Weapon System-Medium program.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Directs the Secretary of Defense to terminate the Ground-Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) program. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds for the GWEN program, except for program termination purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Amends the Federal criminal code and other Federal law to limit the duration of Secret Service protection and monetary allowances for former Presidents. Repeals the mandate for office space provided by the Administrator of General Services.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Repeals provisions authorizing U.S. Senators departing office (except by expulsion) to purchase office equipment and furnishings used in their former district offices.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Prohibits the use of franked mass mailings by Senators, Senators-elect, and Senate offices beginning in FY 1994. Requires the chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration to have printed in the Congressional Record: (1) the dollar amount of the allocation of official mail costs made to each Senator, Senator-elect, and Senate office for the fiscal year; (2) the quarterly costs that were incurred by them; and (3) the balance of such allocations that remain available to each individual and office. Requires the Secretary of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms, and the Doorkeeper of the Senate, in connection with their FY 1995 budget presentations, to submit a report to the Senate Committee on Appropriations describing: (1) the best available and most recent information relating to the amount of expenditures made from each Senate office account for official mail activities during FY 1994 and 1993; and (2) the amount of any difference between the two fiscal years for such expenditures attributed to franked mass mailings. Prohibits a member, officer, or employee of the Senate from using any appropriated funds, equipment, or other resources paid for with appropriated funds for procuring, gaining access to, or using a mailing list of any kind (including a voter registration list) that is produced by any public or private entity except a mailing list of: (1) postal patrons; (2) members of the communications media; (3) Federal, State, or local government officials; or (4) fewer than 500 persons identified as having an interest in a legislative topic that is different from a topic in any list previously used for a mass mailing.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Designates December 1993 as National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1993
National Food Stamp Anti-Counterfeiting Act of 1993 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the domestic production of food stamp coupons.