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Flüchtlinge bzw. Vertriebene aus dem Kosovo seit 1990; Tötungen durch Serben; Internierungslager, Konzentrationslager und Massengräber (G-SIG: 14040521)

Germany · German Bundestag · 28 May 1999

Urging the President to call for the United Nations to resolve the crisis in Yugoslavia.

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1999

Declares that: (1) the United States should work with the United Nations (UN) as the primary conduit for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Yugoslavia; and (2) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should cease air strikes in Yugoslavia to give the UN the necessary window of opportunity to bring peace to the people of Kosovo. Urges the President to engage the UN as an intermediary in negotiations between NATO and Slobodan Milosevic to: (1) bring an end to the NATO bombing in Yugoslavia; (2) end the intimidation and expulsion of the Kosovo civilian population; (3) cease all activities of the Yugoslav military and paramilitary forces in Kosovo and to withdraw those forces; (4) facilitate the return of refugees and displaced persons to their homes; and (5) deploy an international peacekeeping force to ensure a secure environment for the refugees and humanitarian aid.

Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) concerning the establishment of "Eurodac" for the comparison of the fingerprints of applicants for asylum and certain other aliens

European Union · European Commission · 26 May 1999

Bring Them Home Alive Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1999

Bring Them Home Alive Act of 1999 - Directs the Attorney General to grant refugee status in the United States to any alien (and the parent, spouse, and child of such) who: (1) is a national of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, China, or any of the independent states of the former Soviet Union; and (2) personally delivers into U.S. custody a living American Vietnam War POW or MIA. Requires the granting of the same status to any alien (and parent, spouse, and child) who is a national of North Korea, China, or any of the independent states of the former Soviet Union and who personally delivers a living American Korean War POW or MIA. Directs the International Broadcasting Bureau to broadcast to such foreign countries information that promotes such refugee programs. Requires: (1) a minimum level of such broadcasting; and (2) the Bureau to ensure that such information is made available on the Internet. Expresses the sense of the Congress that RFE-RL, Inc., Radio Free Asia, and any other recipient of Federal grants that broadcasts to such countries should also broadcast such information.

Gutachten über Asylpraxis und Auswirkungen der Fremdengesetze

Austria · National Council · 19 May 1999

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten MMag. Dr. Madeleine Petrovic und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Inneres betreffend Gutachten über Asylpraxis und Auswirkungen der Fremdengesetze

North Korea Threat Reduction Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1999

North Korea Threat Reduction Act of 1999 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), and North Korea for purposes related to the Agreed Framework Between the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, provided the President determines and reports to specified congressional committees that: (1) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken steps to implement the Joint Declaration on Denuclearization in which the Government of North Korea has committed not to test, manufacture, receive, store, deploy, or use nuclear weapons, including not to possess nuclear reprocessing or uranium enrichment facilities; (2) North Korea is complying with all the provisions of the Agreed Framework; (3) North Korea has not diverted U.S. assistance for purposes for which it was not intended; (4) the United States has reached agreement with North Korea satisfying U.S. concerns regarding suspect underground construction; (5) North Korea is not seeking to develop or acquire the capacity to enrich uranium, or any additional capability to reprocess spent nuclear fuel; and (6) the United States has made progress in eliminating the North Korean ballistic missile threat, including its ballistic missile exports. (Sec. 3) Bars the use of funds to assist the construction of nuclear reactors in North Korea. Withholds the availability to KEDO of amounts appropriated in excess of $35 million until the President determines and reports to specified congressional committees that: (1) the United States has asked all potential donor governments, including Taiwan, to contribute to KEDO; (2) no contributions offered unconditionally by such governments to KEDO have been declined; and (3) even after such contributions are received, KEDO will have financial requirements in FY 2000 that can only be met by the provision of more than $35 million in U.S. assistance. (Sec. 4) Prohibits the use of funds for food assistance to North Korea until the President determines and reports to specified congressional committees that: (1) the Government of the Republic of Korea concurs in the delivery of U.S. food assistance to North Korea; (2) previous U.S. food assistance to it has not been significantly diverted to military use; (3) North Korean military stocks have been expended to respond to unmet food aid needs there; (4) the United Nations World Food Program or other specified private voluntary organizations have been permitted to take and have taken reasonable steps to ensure that food deliveries will not be diverted from intended recipients; and (5) the U.S. Government has directly encouraged North Korea to initiate fundamental structural reforms of its agricultural sector. (Sec. 5) Prohibits any agreement for cooperation between the United States and North Korea, or issuance of a license for the export, or approval for the transfer or retransfer, to North Korea of any nuclear material, facilities, goods, services, or technology that would be subject to such agreement, until: (1) the President determines and reports to specified congressional committees that North Korea has come into full compliance with the Agreed Framework and other specified nuclear nonproliferation agreements, has permitted the International Atomic Energy Agency full access to certain nuclear sites and material, does not have the capacity to enrich uranium, and has terminated its nuclear weapons program; and (2) there is a joint resolution enacted by Congress that concurs with such report. (Sec. 6) Continues certain restrictions imposed under the Trading with the Enemy Act on transactions and activities with North Korea until the President determines and reports to specified congressional committees that North Korea: (1) has agreed to institute a total ban on exports of missiles and missile technology; (2) has terminated its long-range missile and nuclear weapons programs, including efforts to acquire, develop, test, produce, or deploy such missiles and weapons; (3) does not have, and is not seeking to acquire or develop, the capability to enrich uranium; and (4) is in full compliance with the Agreed Framework and the Joint Declaration on Denuclearization. (Sec. 7) Declares it shall be U.S. policy to work with friendly Asian-Pacific region governments to develop and deploy ballistic missile defenses capable of countering ballistic missile threats in the region. Earmarks certain funds to support the establishment of a joint early warning system in the Asia-Pacific region. (Sec. 8) Declares it shall be U.S. policy to oppose the involuntary return of North Korean refugees to North Korea, to support the provision of international assistance to such refugees in the People's Republic of China and other countries of asylum, and to facilitate their resettlement in South Korea and other neighboring countries. Earmarks migration and refugee funds for North Korean refugees in China and other countries of asylum, and to support their resettlement in South Korea and other neighboring countries. (Sec. 9) Directs the President to report to specified congressional committees with respect to North Korea's obligations under the Agreed Framework.

To require the Attorney General to promulgate regulations relating to gender-related persecution, including female genital mutilation, for use in determining an alien's eligibility for asylum or withholding of deportation.

United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1999

Directs the Attorney General to promulgate regulations relating to gender-based persecution, including female genital mutilation, for use in determining an alien's eligibility for asylum or withholding of deportation.

Northern Mariana Islands Covenant Implementation Act

United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1999

Northern Mariana Islands Covenant Implementation Act - Amends the Covenant to establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America (the Covenant Act) to direct the Attorney General to determine minimum standards to ensure an effective system of immigration control for the Commonwealth. Directs the Attorney General to make certain findings with respect to the Commonwealth's ability to administer such system consistent with the minimum standards. (Sec. 2) Grants the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit original and exclusive jurisdiction (except for review by the U.S. Supreme Court) over any complaint of the Northern Mariana Islands with respect to the minimum standards or the Attorney General's findings. Declares that the Immigration and Nationality Act shall apply to the Commonwealth if it does not have the institutional capability to meet the minimum standards or has not demonstrated a genuine commitment to enforce an effective system of immigration control. Applies the Immigration and Nationality Act to the Commonwealth over a ten-year transition period during which the Attorney General shall implement an immigration transition program for it. States that the transition program shall provide for the issuance of nonimmigrant temporary alien worker visas, as well as family-sponsored and employment-based immigrant visas. Sets forth a statutory scheme for: (1) temporary alien workers; (2) immigrants; (3) adequate employment in the Commonwealth's hotel industry after the transition period ends; (4) nonimmigrant investor visas; (5) lawful entry under Commonwealth immigration laws; and (6) travel restrictions for certain asylum applicants. Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and of Labor to develop a technical assistance program to aid employers in securing employees from among U.S. labor or lawfully admissible freely associated state citizen labor. Authorizes the Attorney General and the Department of Labor to establish Immigration and Naturalization Service, Executive Office of Immigration Review, and Department of Labor operations in the Commonwealth. Directs the President to report to certain congressional committees an evaluation of the overall effect of the transition program and the Immigration and Nationality Act upon the Commonwealth. Prohibits the Commonwealth from permitting an increase in the total number of temporary alien workers present on the Islands during the period between enactment of this Act and either: (1) the date that the Attorney General finds that the Government of the Commonwealth possesses the institutional capability and genuine commitment to enforce an effective system of immigration control; or (2) if the Attorney General finds that it fails to meet such conditions, the effective date of the transition program. Authorizes appropriations.

94 Mr. Howlin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Kosovar refugees reported to be in Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro or Bosnia; the financial contribution, if any, Ireland has made to ease the plight of the refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12023/99]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 1999

94 Mr. Howlin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Kosovar refugees reported to be in Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro or Bosnia; the financial contribution, if any, Ireland has made to ease the plight of the refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12023/99]

31 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the extent to which Ireland has contributed aid to alleviate the refugee crisis in Kosovo; the proposals, if any, he has to enhance or extend the scope and scale of this aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12053/99]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 1999

31 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the extent to which Ireland has contributed aid to alleviate the refugee crisis in Kosovo; the proposals, if any, he has to enhance or extend the scope and scale of this aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12053/99]

94 Mr. Howlin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Kosovar refugees reported to be in Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro or Bosnia; the financial contribution, if any, Ireland has made to ease the plight of the refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12023/99]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 1999

94 Mr. Howlin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Kosovar refugees reported to be in Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro or Bosnia; the financial contribution, if any, Ireland has made to ease the plight of the refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12023/99]

31 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the extent to which Ireland has contributed aid to alleviate the refugee crisis in Kosovo; the proposals, if any, he has to enhance or extend the scope and scale of this aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12053/99]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 1999

31 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the extent to which Ireland has contributed aid to alleviate the refugee crisis in Kosovo; the proposals, if any, he has to enhance or extend the scope and scale of this aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12053/99]

Abschiebestopp von Asylwerbern/innen bis zum Abschluß aller anhängigen Verfahren

Austria · National Council · 10 May 1999

Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Dr. Volker Kier und Genossen betreffend Abschiebestopp von Asylwerbern/innen bis zum Abschluß aller anhängigen Verfahren

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the condition and humanitarian needs of refugees within Kosovo.

United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1999

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic should provide the necessary security assurances to the United Nations interagency mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to permit them to safely and accurately provide the international community with an objective, first-hand assessment of the condition of refugees inside of Kosovo and Yugoslavia. Encourages member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to weigh the value of this humanitarian mission toward ending human suffering in Kosovo, and to consider reasonable measures to enhance the safety of this international delegation during its mission within Yugoslavia.

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1664) making emergency supplemental appropriations for military operations, refugee relief, and humanitarian assistance relating to the conflict in Kosovo, and for military operations in Southwest Asia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1999

Sets forth the rule (open) for the consideration of H.R. 1664 (Kosovo and Southwest Asia emergency supplemental appropriations).

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the congressional leadership and the Administration should support the efforts and recommendations of the United States Congress-Russian Duma meeting in Vienna, Austria, held April 30 to May 1, 1999, in order to bring about a fair, equitable, and peaceful settlement between warring factions in Yugoslavia.

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1999

Urges the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the majority leader of the Senate, and the Administration to support the efforts and recommendations of the U.S. Congress-Russian Duma meeting in Vienna, Austria, held April 30 to May 1, 1999, to bring about a fair, equitable, and peaceful settlement between warring factions in Yugoslavia. Urges that focus be provided on the following three tasks (without regard to sequence) to achieve such a settlement: (1) the termination of bombing by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; (2) the withdrawal of Serbian armed forces from Kosovo; and (3) the cessation of the military activities of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Calls for such tasks to be accomplished through a specified series of confidence-building measures, including: (1) the release of all prisoners of war; (2) the repatriation of all refugees; and (3) an agreement on the composition of the international forces which would administer Kosovo after the Serbian withdrawal.

Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee and Emergency Oil and Gas Guaranteed Loan Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1999

Kosovo and Southwest Asia Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 - Chapter 1: Department of State - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 1999 to the Department of State for: (1) diplomatic and consular programs; (2) security and maintenance of U.S. missions; and (3) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service. Chapter 2: Department of Defense - Military - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military personnel; (2) operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund (including a transfer of funds); (3) weapons, aircraft, missile, and ammunition procurement; and (4) the Operational Rapid Response Transfer Fund (including a transfer of funds). (Sec. 201) Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1999 to increase by $800 million the amount authorized to be transferred by the Secretary of Defense from DOD working capital funds for military functions. (Sec. 202) Earmarks funds appropriated under this Act for costs related to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operations in and around Kosovo. (Sec. 203) Earmarks funds appropriated or transferred under this Act for the funding of foreign intelligence activities. (Sec. 204) Provides that certain special authorities granted to the Secretary with respect to defense programs participating in the DOD acquisition pilot program shall continue to apply until June 30, 2002, with respect to contracts awarded or modified for the Joint Direct Attack Munition program. (Sec. 205) Directs the President to seek equitable reimbursement from NATO, member nations, and other appropriate organizations and nations for costs incurred by the United States Government in connection with Operation Allied Force. Requires a report from the President to Congress on measures taken to increase such reimbursement. (Sec. 206) Directs the President to report to Congress on current U.S. participation in such Operation. (Sec. 207) Makes emergency supplemental appropriations to DOD (earmarking such funds to specified military O&M accounts) only for: (1) spare and repair parts and associated logistical support necessary for the maintenance of weapons systems and equipment; (2) depot level maintenance and repair; (3) military recruiting and advertising initiatives; (4) military training, equipment maintenance, and associated support costs required to meet assigned U.S. military readiness levels; (5) base operations support costs at DOD facilities; and (6) increases during FY 2000 in the rates of military basic pay and increased payments to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund. Chapter 3: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for: (1) international disaster assistance; (2) the Economic Support Fund; (3) assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States; (4) migration and refugee assistance; and (5) the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund. (Sec. 301) Mandates that the value of commodities and services authorized by the President through March 31, 1999, to be drawn down to support international relief efforts related to the Kosovo conflict shall not be counted against the ceiling limitation on such authority under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Chapter 4: Department of Defense - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for: (1) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program; and (2) military construction accounts. Chapter 5: General Provision - Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from remaining available for obligation beyond FY 1999 unless expressly so provided. (Sec. 502) Expresses the sense of Congress that there should continue to be parity between the adjustments in compensation of members of the armed forces and U.S. civilian employees.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 921/1999 of 30 April 1999 providing for special measures to distribute fruit and vegetables withdrawn from the market to refugees from Kosovo

European Union · EUR-Lex · 30 April 1999

21st Century Justice Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: New Millennium Law Enforcement Assistance Subtitle A: Local Law Enforcement Block Grants Subtitle B: New Millennium Public Safety and Policing Grants Subtitle C: Crime Identification Technology Act Improvements Subtitle D: Protection of State and Local Police and Corrections Officers Title II: Combating Drugs and Crime Subtitle A: New Millennium Drug Free Act Subtitle B: Drug Treatment Subtitle C: Gangs and Domestic Terrorism Subtitle D: High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Title III: Criminal Use of Firearms by Felons Subtitle A: Criminal Use of Firearms by Felons Subtitle B: Apprehension and Treatment of Armed Violent Criminals Title IV: Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention Subtitle A: Juvenile Justice Reform Subtitle B: Juvenile Crime Control, Accountability, and Delinquency Prevention Subtitle C: General Provisions Title V: Protecting Victims of Crime Subtitle A: Victims Rights Subtitle B: Combating Violence Against Women and Children Subtitle C: Victims Rights Amendment Subtitle D: Recognition of Victims in Sentencing Title VI: Prisons and Jails Subtitle A: Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive Grants Subtitle B: Criminal Alien Incarceration Subtitle C: Drug-Free Prisons and Jails Subtitle D: Prison Work Subtitle E: Federal Incarceration Improvement Subtitle F: United States Marshals Service Subtitle G: Federal Prisoner and Criminal Alien Detention Subtitle H: Prison Litigation Reform Title VII: Criminal Law and Procedural Improvements Subtitle A: Equal Protection for Victims Subtitle B: Reform of Judicially Created Exclusionary Rules Subtitle C: Federal Law Enforcement Improvements Subtitle D: Federal Law Enforcement Agency Improvements Title VIII: 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Years 2000, 2001, and 2002 Subtitle B: Authorizations of Appropriations for Specific Programs Subtitle C: Permanent Enabling Provisions Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Title IX: Miscellaneous 21st Century Justice Act of 1999 - Title I: New Millennium Law Enforcement Assistance - New Millennium Law Enforcement Assistance Act - Subtitle A: Local Law Enforcement Block Grants - Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grant Act of 1999 - Requires the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to pay to qualifying local governments specified sums for reducing crime and improving public safety, including for: (1) hiring, training, and employing on a continuing basis new, additional law enforcement officers and support personnel; (2) paying overtime to increase the number of hours worked by presently employed officers and support personnel; (3) procuring equipment, technology, and other material directly related to basic law enforcement functions; (4) enhancing security measures in and around schools and any other facility or location which is considered by the unit of local government to have a special risk for incidents of crime; (5) establishing crime prevention programs that may involve, though not exclusively, law enforcement officials and that are intended to discourage, disrupt, or interfere with the commission of criminal activity; (6) establishing or supporting drug courts; (7) establishing early intervention and prevention programs for juveniles to reduce or eliminate crime; (8) enhancing the adjudication process of cases involving violent offenders, including the adjudication process of cases involving violent juvenile offenders; (9) enhancing programs under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Safe Streets Act) drug control and system improvement grant program; (10) establishing cooperative task forces between adjoining local governments to work cooperatively to prevent and combat criminal activity, particularly criminal activity that is exacerbated by drug- or gang-related involvement; (11) establishing a multijurisdictional task force, particularly in rural areas, composed of law enforcement officials representing local governments, that works with Federal law enforcement officials to prevent and control crime; and (12) establishing or supporting programs designed to collect, record, retain, and disseminate information useful in the identification, prosecution, and sentencing of offenders. Prohibits a local government from expending any of the funds provided under this subtitle to purchase, lease, rent, or otherwise acquire tanks or armored personnel carriers, fixed wing aircraft, limousines, real estate, yachts, consultants, or vehicles not primarily used for law enforcement unless the Attorney General certifies that extraordinary and exigent circumstances exist that make the use of funds for such purposes essential to the maintenance of public safety and good order. Deems such circumstances to exist with respect to a local government in a rural State upon certification by such government's chief law enforcement officer that such government is experiencing an increase in production or cultivation of a controlled substance or listed chemical and that fixed wing aircraft will be used in the detection, disruption, or abatement of such production or cultivation. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the timing of payments; (2) payment adjustments; (3) reservation of sums for adjustments; (4) repayment of unexpended amounts; (5) requirements that such funds not be used to supplant State or local funds; (6) matching funds; (7) oversight accountability and administration; and (8) technology assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Allows appropriations for activities authorized in this subtitle to be made from the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund. Requires the Director to: (1) establish procedures under which a local government is required to provide notice to the Director regarding the proposed use of funds made available under this subtitle; and (2) establish a process for the ongoing evaluation of projects developed with funds made available under this subtitle. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) general qualification requirements; (2) sanctions for noncompliance; (3) maintenance of effort requirements; (4) the allocation and distribution of funds, including grants to Indian tribes and to Puerto Rico, and unavailability and inaccuracy of information; (5) the use of funds to contract with private, nonprofit entities or community-based organizations; and (6) public participation. Subtitle B: New Millennium Public Safety and Policing Grants - Amends the Safe Streets Act to rewrite provisions regarding public safety and community policing to delete references to community-oriented policing and to authorize grants to develop, implement, and expand law enforcement strategies which emphasize zero-tolerance policing, crime mapping, and command accountability to target high-crime areas. Includes among permissible grant uses funds to: (1) promote the active involvement of citizens in neighborhood crime control and prevention activities, such as Neighborhood Watch programs, neighborhood video monitoring, and citizen ride-along programs; and (2) augment law enforcement personnel with such personnel on loan or temporary transfer from another jurisdiction, subject to specified requirements. (Sec. 1203) Authorizes the renewal of grants for hiring or rehiring career law enforcement officers for up to four years, subject to specified requirements. (Sec. 1204) Limits funds for hiring or retaining such officers to $50,000, unless the Attorney General grants a waiver. (Sec. 1205) Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Attorney General to allocate up to ten percent of the funds for grants to communities experiencing crime rates at least one and one half times greater than the national average. Subtitle C: Crime Identification Technology Act Improvements - Amends the Crime Identification Technology Act of 1998 to authorize the use of grant funds to establish, develop, update, or upgrade systems to provide real-time information about street crime in order to facilitate development of crime forecasting models, crime analysis, and other information to assist policing activities to address and prevent crime. Increases authorizations for grants. (Sec. 1303) Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to develop a voluntary plan to assist State and local forensic laboratories in performing deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analyses of DNA samples collected from convicted offenders. Directs that such plan require that each laboratory performing DNA analyses satisfying quality assurance standards and utilize state-of-the-art testing methods, and require that each DNA samples collected and analyze the accessible only to criminal justice agencies for law enforcement identification purposes, in judicial proceedings if otherwise admissible pursuant to applicable statutes or rules, for criminal defense purposes to a defendant who shall have access to samples and analyses performed in connection with the case in which such defendant is charged, or if personally identifiable information is removed for a population statistics database, for identification research and protocol development purposes, or for quality control purposes. Requires the Director of the FBI to implement the plan developed with State and local forensic laboratories that elect to participate. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 to require the Director of the FBI to expand the combined DNA Identification System (CODIS) to include information on DNA identification records and analyses related to criminal offenses and acts of juvenile delinquency under Federal law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and the District of Columbia Code (DC Code). Modifies Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (VCCLEA) provisions regarding an index to facilitate law enforcement exchange of DNA identification information to cover DNA identification records of adjudicated delinquents for acts of juvenile delinquency and to require that such index include DNA identification records and DNA analyses that are prepared by laboratories and DNA analysts that undergo semi-annual external proficiency testing. Requires the Director of the FBI by regulation to establish a list of qualifying offenses, and standards and procedures for: (1) the analysis of DNA samples collected from individuals convicted of or adjudicated delinquent for a qualifying offense; (2) the inclusion in the index of the DNA identification records and DNA analyses relating to such samples; and (3) the expungement of such DNA identification records and analyses from the index in any circumstance in which the underlying conviction or adjudication for the qualifying offense has been reversed or expunged. Includes within the list of qualifying offenses: (1) each criminal offense or active juvenile delinquency under Federal law that constitutes a crime of violence, or in the case of an act of juvenile delinquency, would, if committed by an adult, constitute a crime of violence; (2) each criminal offense under the DC Code that would, if committed in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, constitute a crime of violence; and (3) any other offense under Federal law or the DC Code, as determined by the FBI Director. Sets forth provisions regarding the collection of DNA samples from Federal prisoners and from Federal offenders on supervised release, parole, or probation. Authorizes the Government of the District Of Columbia to: (1) identify one or more categories of individuals who are in the custody of, under supervision by, the District of Columbia, from whom DNA samples should be collected; and (2) collect the DNA samples from each individual in any category so identified. Provides for the collection of DNA samples from District of Columbia offenders on supervised release, probation, or parole, subject to waiver. Provides for the inclusion of DNA information relating to violent military offenders. Sets criminal penalties for failure to cooperate in the collection of a DNA sample. Authorizes punishment of an individual from whom the collection of a DNA sample is required but who fails to cooperate in the collection of that sample as a court marshal. Authorizes appropriations. Incorporates requirements with respect to cooperation in the collection of a DNA sample within conditions of probation, supervised release, and release generally. Requires the Attorney General to: (1) conduct an evaluation to identify criminal offenses, including offenses other than qualifying offenses that, if serving as a basis for the mandatory collection of a DNA sample under the VCCLEA or under State law, are likely to yield DNA matches, and the relative degree of such likelihood with respect to each such offense, and determine the number of investigations aided, and rates of prosecution and conviction of suspects identified through DNA matching; and (2) report to Congress describing the results. Subtitle D: Protection of State and Local Police and Corrections Officers - Chapter 1: State Correctional Officers and Other State Officials - Amends the Federal criminal code (the code) to extend provisions regarding the killing of persons aiding Federal investigations or State correctional officers to cover: (1) State and joint Federal-State investigations; and (2) situations where the incarcerated person is incarcerated pending an initial appearance, arraignment, trial, or appeal for an offense against the United States. Chapter 2: Access to Body Armor; Donations of Body Armor - James Guelff Body Armor Act of 1999 - Directs the United States Sentencing Commission (the Commission) to amend the Federal sentencing guidelines to provide an appropriate sentencing enhancement, increasing the offense level not less than two levels, for any offense in which the defendant used body armor. (Sec. 1415) Authorizes the head of a Federal agency to donate body armor directly to any State or local law enforcement agency if such body armor is in serviceable condition and is surplus property. Permits specified officers from the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury to act as the head of a Federal agency. Chapter 3: Grant Programs for Purchase of Body Armor and Video Cameras - Amends the Safe Streets Act to authorize the Director of the BJA to make grants to States, units of local government, and Indian tribes to purchase: (1) bullet resistant equipment for use by State, local, and tribal law enforcement officers; and (2) video cameras for use by State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies in law enforcement vehicles. Sets forth provisions regarding permissible uses the funds, preferential consideration, minimum and maximum amounts, matching funds, fund allocation, and application requirements. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1423) Expresses the sense of Congress that entities receiving the assistance should, in expending the assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and products. (Sec. 1424) Amends the Safe Streets Act to authorize the National Institute of Justice to: (1) conduct research and otherwise work to develop new bullet resistant technologies for use in police equipment; (2) inventory bullet resistant technologies used in the private sector, in surplus military property, and by foreign countries; and (3) promulgate relevant standards for, and conduct technical and operational testing and evaluation of, bullet resistant technology and equipment, and otherwise facilitate the use of that technology in police equipment. Directs the Institute to give priority in testing and engineering surveys to law enforcement partnerships developed in coordination with High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 1425) Amends the Safe Streets Act to authorize the Director to waive, in whole or in part, in the case of fiscal hardship, a matching funds requirement for law enforcement armor vests. Chapter 4: Miscellaneous - Amends the Safe Streets Act to provide for the inclusion of railroad police officers in FBI law enforcement training, subject to a limitation on travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses during training. Title II: Combating Drugs and Crime - Subtitle A: New Millennium Drug Free Act - New Millennium Drug Free Act - Chapter 1: International Supply Reduction - Subchapter A: International Crime - Part I: International Crime Control - International Crime Control Act of 1999 - Prohibits, and sets felony penalties for, violence committed while eluding inspection or during violation of arrival, reporting, entry, or clearance requirements, including conspiracy and reckless endangerment. Part II: Strengthening Maritime Law Enforcement Along United States Borders - Prohibits, and sets penalties for: (1) failing to obey an order to heave to (on being so ordered by an authorized Federal law enforcement officer); and (2) failing to comply with an order of such officer in connection with the boarding of the vessel, impeding or obstructing a boarding, arrest, or other law enforcement action authorized by Federal law, or providing false information to such an officer during a boarding regarding the destination, origin, ownership, registration, nationality, cargo, or crew of the vessel. Authorizes: (1) a foreign country to consent or waive objection to the enforcement of U.S. law by the United States under this subtitle by international agreement or, on a case-by-case basis, by radio, telephone, or similar oral or electronic means; (2) the Secretary of State or his or her designee to prove a consent or waiver by certification; and (3) the seizure and forfeiture of a vessel used in violation of this chapter. (Sec. 2022) Sets a civil penalty of not more than $25,000 for failure to comply with a lawful boarding, obstruction of boarding, or provision of false information. Provides for in rem liability. (Sec. 2023) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to define an "authorized place" to board vessels to include a location in a foreign country at which U.S. customs officers are permitted to conduct inspections, examinations, or searches. Part III: Smuggling of Contraband and Other Illegal Products - Prohibits, and sets penalties for, smuggling contraband and other goods from the United States and for facilitating the transportation of such goods prior to exportation. Makes such smuggling, and smuggling goods into foreign countries, a predicate offense under the money laundering statute. Amends the Tariff Act to provide for the forfeiture of merchandise illegally exported or attempted to be exported from the United States. (Sec. 2032) Increases the penalty for entry of goods by means of false statements. Prohibits, and applies such penalty to, embezzling, stealing, or wrongfully converting to personal use funds, assets, securities, or other property entrusted to a person's care or to the care of another for the purpose of paying any lawful customs duties. (Sec. 2033) Prohibits, and sets penalties for, false certifications relating to exports. Part IV: Denying Safe Havens to International Criminals - Authorizes the Attorney General, if a foreign government makes a request for the extradition of a person who is charged with or has been convicted of an offense within that government's jurisdiction, and if an extradition treaty between that government and the United States is in force but does not provide for extradition for the offense for which the person has been charged or convicted, or if no treaty is in force, to authorize the filing of a complaint for extradition, subject to specified conditions. (Sec. 2044) Grants the Attorney General the authority, if a person is being held in pretrial detention or is otherwise in custody in a foreign county based upon a violation of the law in that country and the person is found extraditable to the United States by the competent authorities of that country while still in pretrial detention or custody, to: (1) request the temporary transfer of that person to the United States to face prosecution in a Federal or State criminal proceeding; (2) maintain the custody of that person while he or she is in the United States; and (3) return that person to the foreign country at the conclusion of the criminal prosecution, including any imposition of sentence. Sets forth similar provisions regarding the Attorney General's authority with respect to the temporary transfer of persons in pretrial detention or custody in the United States to foreign governments seeking their extradition. (Sec. 2045) Amends the Federal judicial code to prohibit a person from using the resources of the U.S. courts in furtherance of a claim in any related civil forfeiture action, or a claim in third party proceedings in any related criminal forfeiture action, if that person: (1) purposely leaves U.S. jurisdiction; (2) declines to enter or reenter the United States to submit to its jurisdiction; or (3) otherwise evades the jurisdiction of the court in which a criminal case against that person is pending. (Sec. 2046) Removes restrictions on the transfer of foreign prisoners to serve sentences in their country of origin where provided by treaty. (Sec. 2047) Authorizes the Attorney General to permit the temporary transit through the United States of a person wanted for prosecution or imposition of sentence in a foreign country. Part V: Seizing and Forfeiting Assets of International Criminals - Prohibits, and sets penalties for, violations of anti-money laundering orders. (Sec. 2052) Provides that, for purposes of proving a violation of the prohibition against owning or operating an illegal money transmitting business, it shall be sufficient for the Government to prove that the defendant knew that the business lacked a license required by State law, and it shall not be necessary to show that the defendant knew that operation of the business without the required license was an offense punishable as a felony or misdemeanor under State law. (Sec. 2053) Grants the district courts jurisdiction over any foreign person, including any financial institution registered in a foreign country, that commits a money laundering offense involving a financial transaction that occurs in whole or in part in the United States, if service of process is made as specified. Authorizes the court to take action necessary to ensure that any bank account or other property held by the defendant in the United States is available to satisfy a judgement under this section. (Sec. 2054) Amends the money laundering statute to include foreign banks within the definition of "financial institution." (Sec. 2055) Amends the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to authorize the court: (1) in the case of property that has been placed beyond the court's jurisdiction, to order the defendant to return the property to the court's jurisdiction so it may be seized and forfeited; and (2) to order the defendant to repatriate any property subject to forfeiture pending trial and to deposit that property in the registry of the court, or with the United States Marshals Service or the Secretary, in an interest-bearing account (and sets penalties for failure to comply). (Sec. 2056) Amends the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917 (TWEA) to provide that information obtained under such Acts may be withheld only to the extent permitted by statute, except that information submitted, obtained, or considered in connection with any transaction prohibited under such Acts, including license applications, licenses or other authorizations, information or evidence obtained in the course of any investigation, and information obtained or furnished in connection with international agreements, treaties, or obligations shall be withheld from public disclosure, unless the release of the information is determined by the President to be in the national interest. (Sec. 2057) Increases the civil penalty and the criminal fine for violations of IEEPA. (Sec. 2058) Amends TWEA to cover attempted violations of the Act. (Sec. 2059) Specifies circumstances under which a person who commits an offense outside the United States that would constitute fraud or another prohibited related activity in connection with an access device shall be subject to the penalties for such offense as if it were committed in the United States. Part VI: Promoting Global Cooperation in the Fight Against International Crime - Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize the Attorney General to present a request made by a foreign government for assistance with respect to a foreign investigation, prosecution, or proceeding regarding a criminal matter the execution of which requires the use of compulsory measures in more than one judicial district, to a judge or judge magistrate of any one of such districts or of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Grants such judge or magistrate the authority to issue orders to execute the request. (Sec. 2072) Grants the Attorney General authority to temporarily transfer a person who is serving a sentence, is in pretrial detention, or is otherwise being held in U.S. custody, whose testimony is needed in a foreign criminal proceeding, subject to specified requirements, if such transfer is consistent with the international obligations of the United States. (Sec. 2073) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make an exception to the prohibition against training of foreign law enforcement agencies with respect to assistance and training provided for antiterrorism purposes. (Sec. 2074) Authorizes the Attorney General to make payments from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund to return forfeited property repatriated to the United States by a foreign government or others acting at the direction of a foreign government, and interest earned on the property under specified conditions. Subchapter B: International Drug Control - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the President, by November 1 of each year, to submit to Congress a separate plan for the activities to be undertaken by the United States in order to address drug-trafficking and other drug-related matters in each country that is determined by the President to be a major drug-transit country or a major illicit drug producing country, with which the United States is maintaining diplomatic relations. (Sec. 2102) Prohibits any funds appropriated for any fiscal year after FY 1999 for U.S. counter-drug or counter-narcotics activities from being obligated or expended for such activities between November 1 of such fiscal year and the later of the notification date required in such fiscal year under provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 regarding authority to transfer excess defense articles or the date of the submittal of the plans required by this subtitle. (Sec. 2103) Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding Colombia (regarding counter-narcotics assistance and human rights), Mexico (regarding a maritime agreement to improve cooperation in interdicting seaborne drug smuggling), and Iran and Syria (regarding narcotics). (Sec. 2107) Authorizes the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to purchase a King Air aircraft for DEA activities, and station the aircraft, in Brazil. Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding narcotics trafficking in Brazil, Jamaica, and North Korea. Subchapter C: Foreign Military Counter-Drug Support - Directs: (1) the Departments of State and Defense to report monthly to specified congressional committees on the current status of any formal letter of request for foreign military sales of counter-narcotics-related assistance from the head of any police, military, or other appropriate security agency official in an Andean country; and (2) the Department of State to review and forward to the Congress an analysis of the current foreign military sales program within 180 days of this Act's enactment. Subchapter D: Additional Funding For Source and Interdiction Zone Countries - Authorizes appropriations, beyond sums appropriated for Colombia and Peru for counter-narcotics operations for a fiscal year, for: (1) Peru and Colombia to support additional surveillance, pursuit of drug aircraft, and general support for counter-narcotics operations; and (2) Bolivian counter-narcotics programs for FY 2000. (Sec. 2132) Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 2000 for enhanced efforts in counter-narcotics matters for countries in Central America by the United States Coast Guard, Customs Service, and other law enforcement agencies. Chapter 2: Domestic Law Enforcement - Subchapter A: Criminal Offenders - Specifies that, for purposes of this Act, an offense is committed in the presence of a child if: (1) it takes place in the line of sight of an individual who has not attained age 18; or (2) an individual who has not attained age 18 habitually resides in the place where the violation occurs. Directs the Commission to amend the Federal sentencing guidelines to provide for specified sentencing enhancements with respect to a CSA offense that is committed in the presence of a child. (Sec. 2202) Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take immediate and effective action at and near the U.S.-Mexican border to control violence and other illegal acts. Directs the Attorney General to report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on what steps are being taken to ensure the safety of U.S. citizens at and near the border, and to prevent the illegal acquisition of sites and facilities in such areas by drug traffickers, and what steps need to be taken to ensure the safety and well being of the people of the United States along that border. (Sec. 2203) Amends the code to authorize the use of a clone pager (defined as a numeric display device that receives communications intended for another numeric display paging device). Prohibits the installation or use of a pen register, trap and trace device, or clone pager without first obtaining a court order under the code or under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, except as provided in this section. Amends provisions regarding the use of pen registers and trap and trace devices to cover the use of clone pagers. Authorizes a provider of electronic communication service, upon the request of an attorney for the Government or an officer of a law enforcement agency authorized to use a clone pager, to furnish to such investigative or law enforcement officer all information, facilities, and technical assistance necessary to accomplish the programming and use of such pager unobtrusively and with a minimum of interference with the paging services provided. Sets forth provisions regarding application for an order for use of a clone pager and issuance of such an order. Subchapter B: Powder Cocaine Mandatory Minimum Sentencing - Amends CSA and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to decrease (from five kilograms to 500 grams, and from 500 to 50 grams) the amounts of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of coca leaves, cocaine, ecgonine, or compounds thereof (cocaine powder) the manufacture, distribution, or possession of which is punishable by specified penalties under such Acts. Directs the Commission to promulgate or amend guidelines to reflect the amendment made by this subchapter. Subchapter C: Drug-Free Borders - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to direct the Attorney General, in each of FY 2000 through 2004, to increase by not less than 1,500 the number of positions for full-time, active-duty border patrol agents within the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) above the number of such positions for which funds were allotted for the preceding fiscal year, to achieve a level of 15,000 positions by FY 2004. (Sec. 2222) Prohibits a border patrol agent from ceasing pursuit of an alien suspected of unlawfully entering, or of an individual unlawfully importing a narcotic into, the United States, until State or local law enforcement authorities are in pursuit and have the alien or individual in their visual range. Chapter 3: Demand Reduction - Subchapter A: Education, Prevention, and Treatment - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Congress and the President should: (1) make the reauthorization of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 a high priority for the 106th Congress, and that such reauthorization should maintain substance abuse prevention as a major focus; and (2) make the reauthorization of Federal substance abuse prevention and treatment programs a high priority for the 106th Congress, and provide more flexibility to States in the use of Federal funds for provision of drug abuse prevention and treatment services while holding States accountable for their performance. (Sec. 2253) Directs the National Institute on Standards and Technology to: (1) conduct a study of drug-testing technologies in order to identify and assess the efficacy, accuracy, and usefulness for purposes of the national effort to detect the use of illicit drugs of any drug-testing technologies that may be used as alternatives or complements to urinalysis as a means of detecting the use of such drugs; and (2) report on the results to Congress. (Sec. 2254) Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to require: (1) the Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to ensure that the results of all current alcohol research that is set aside for services is widely disseminated to treatment practitioners in an easily understandable format, and in a manner that provides easily understandable steps for the implementation of best practices based on the research, and make technical assistance available to the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to assist alcohol and drug treatment practitioners to make permanent changes in treatment activities through the use of successful treatment models; and (2) the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse to take analogous steps with respect to drug abuse research and treatment. (Sec. 2255) Amends the PHSA to prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds made available to carry out any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes to individuals for the injection of any illegal drug. (Sec. 2256) Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish an incentive grant program to assist the States in improving their laws relating to controlled substances and driving. Sets forth grant requirements, including regarding the use of grant funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 through 2004. (Sec. 2258) Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to authorize an eligible crime victim compensation program to expend appropriated funds to offer compensation to elementary and secondary school students or teachers who are victims of school violence. Authorizes the Director of the BJA to make a grant for a demonstration project or for training and technical assistance services to a program that: (1) assists State and local educational agencies in developing, establishing, and operating programs to protect victims of and witnesses to incidents of elementary and secondary school violence; or (2) supports a student safety toll-free hotline that provides students and teachers in such schools with confidential assistance relating to the issues of school crime, violence, drug dealing, and threats to personal safety. (Sec. 2259) Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to States, and State and local educational agencies, to develop, establish, or conduct innovative programs to improve unsafe elementary or secondary schools. Provides priorities for programs that: (1) provide prompt parent and teacher notification of certain school incidents; (2) provide annual reports to parents and teachers regarding such incidents; and (3) enhance school security measures. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 to authorize innovative voluntary random drug testing programs. Subchapter B: Drug-Free Families - Drug-Free Families Act of 1999 - Directs the DEA Administrator to make a grant to the Parent Collaboration, a legal entity established by specified organizations, to conduct a national campaign to build a new parent and family movement to help parents and families prevent drug abuse among their children. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 4: Funding for United States Counter-Drug Enforcement Agencies - Subchapter A: Border Activities - Amends the Customs Procedural Reform and Simplification Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for drug enforcement and other noncommercial operations, commercial operations, and air and marine interdiction for FY 2000 through 2001. Directs the Commissioner of Customs to submit to specified congressional committees the projected amount of funds for the succeeding fiscal year that will be necessary for Customs Service operations. (Sec. 2302) Makes specified FY 2000 funds available until expended for acquisition and other expenses associated with implementation and deployment of specified narcotics detection equipment along the United States-Mexico border, the United States-Canada border, and Florida and the Gulf Coast seaports. Earmarks specified FY 2001 funds for the maintenance and support of, and training of personnel to maintain and support, such equipment. (Sec. 2303) Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) peak hours and investigative resource enhancement; (2) air and marine operation and maintenance funding; (3) compliance with performance plan requirements; (4) a change of salary for the Commissioner of Customs from level III to level IV of the executive pay schedule; and (5) passenger preclearance services. Subchapter B: United States Coast Guard - Authorizes additional funding for the United States Coast Guard for FY 2000 and 2001 for operation and maintenance. Subchapter C: Drug Enforcement Administration - Authorizes additional funding for the DEA for FY 2000 for counter-narcotics and information support operations. Subchapter D: Department of the Treasury - Authorizes additional funding for the Department of the Treasury for FY 2000 and 2001 for counter-narcotics, information support, and money laundering efforts. Subchapter E: Department of Defense - Authorizes additional funding for the Department of Defense for FY 2000 and 2001 to expand activities to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. (Sec. 2342) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects to establish an air base or bases for use in support of counter-narcotics operations in the southern Caribbean Sea, northern South America, and eastern Pacific Ocean, located in Latin America or the Caribbean Sea, or both. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 2343) Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Defense for FY 2000 for the procurement of a Relocatable Over the Horizon Radar, located in South America. (Sec. 2344) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the President should allocate funds appropriated for FY 1999 pursuant to the authorizations of appropriations for that fiscal year in the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act to fully carry out the purposes of that Act during that fiscal year, and should include with the budgets for FY 2000 and 2001 that are submitted to the Congress a request for funds for such fiscal years in accordance with the authorizations of appropriations for such fiscal years in that Act; and (2) the Secretary of Defense should revise the Global Military Force Policy of the Department of Defense to treat the international drug interdiction and counter-drug activities of the Department as a military operation other than war (thereby elevating the priority given such activities to that given to peacekeeping operations), and allocate Department assets to such activities in accordance with the priority given such activities under the revised Policy. Chapter 5: Faith-Based Substance Abuse Treatment - Faith-Based Drug Treatment Enhancement Act - Amends the PHSA to declare that the amendments made by this Act apply to each program that makes awards of Federal financial assistance to prevent or treat substance abuse. Allows, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a religious organization to be an award recipient, make subawards, provide services through vouchers, or accept vouchers for providing services. Makes religious organizations eligible on the same basis as any other nonprofit private organization. Prohibits Federal or State: (1) discrimination against an organization on the basis that the organization has a religious character; and (2) requirements that a religious organization, in order to be a program participant, remove religious art, icons, scripture, or other symbols. Requires a religious organization to arrange for services through an alternative entity if an individual objects to the religious organization. Allows a religious organization to require a beneficiary who has elected to receive services from the organization to actively participate in religious practice, worship, and instruction. Prohibits using funds for sectarian worship or instruction, unless the beneficiary may choose where the assistance is redeemed or allocated. Declares that assistance to or on behalf of a beneficiary is aid to the beneficiary and not to the organization. Requires, if a State law or constitution would prevent the expenditure of State or local funds by religious organizations, that the Federal funds shall be segregated from State or other public funds. Requires, for personnel working in religious organization drug treatment programs, giving credit for religious education and training equivalent to credit given for secular course work. Mandates waiver of educational requirements if the religious organization has a record of successful drug treatment and the State or local government fails to demonstrate empirically that the educational qualifications are necessary. Chapter 6: Methamphetamine Laboratories - Determined and Full Engagement Against the Threat of Methamphetamine or DEFEAT Meth Act of 1999 - Directs the Commission to amend the Federal sentencing guidelines with respect to any offense relating to the manufacture, attempt to manufacture, or conspiracy to manufacture amphetamine or methamphetamine in violation of the CSA, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, or the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, by: (1) increasing the base offense level so that the base offense level is the same as that applicable to an identical amount of cocaine base; and (2) increasing such level three levels higher if the offense created a substantial risk of danger to the health and safety of another person. Directs the Commission to promulgate amendments pursuant to this Act in accordance with the procedure set forth in the Sentencing Act of 1987, as though the authority of that Act had not expired. (Sec. 2363) Directs the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to implement a comprehensive approach for targeting and investigating methamphetamine production, trafficking, and abuse to combat the trafficking of methamphetamine in areas designated by the Director of National Drug Control Policy as high intensity drug trafficking areas. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director to: (1) combat methamphetamine trafficking in areas designated as high intensity drug trafficking areas, including by hiring new laboratory technicians in rural communities; and (2) engage in specified methamphetamine abuse prevention efforts. Authorizes appropriations. Grants priority to assisting rural and urban areas that are experiencing a high rate or rapid increases in methamphetamine abuse and addiction. Sets forth provisions regarding analyses and evaluation and annual reports. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 4) Amends the CSA to include: (1) among list II chemicals red phosphorus and sodium dichromate; and (2) within the definition of "drug paraphernalia" items primarily intended or designed for use in introducing methamphetamine into the body. Chapter 7: Doctor Prescriptions of Schedule I Substances - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary of HHS) to: (1) promulgate regulations that require any and all hospitals or health care service providers who receive Federal medicare or medicaid payments based upon appropriate compliance certification, as an additional certification requirement, to certify that no physician or other health care professional who has privileges with such hospitals or health care service provider, or is otherwise employed by them, is currently, or will in the future, prescribe or otherwise recommend a schedule I substance to any person; and (2) report to Congress the number and names of institutions refusing or otherwise failing to fill the certification requirement. Requires the Attorney General to promulgate regulations to revoke the DEA registration of any physician or other health care provider who recommends or prescribes a schedule capital I controlled substance. Subtitle B: Drug Treatment - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to direct the Attorney General and the Secretary of HHS to make grants to a consortium within a State of State or local juvenile justice agencies, State or local substance abuse and mental health agencies, and child service agencies to coordinate the delivery of services to children among those agencies. Sets forth provisions regarding the use of funds, applications for coordinated juvenile services grants, and reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 2402) Amends the Safe Streets Act to authorize the use of residential substance abuse treatment grants to provide nonresidential substance abuse treatment aftercare services for inmates or former inmates if the State's chief executive officer certifies to the Attorney General that the State is providing, and will continue to provide, an adequate level of residential treatment services. Makes specified funds available to a State to make grants to local correctional facilities in the State for the purpose of assisting jail-based substance abuse treatment programs established by those facilities. Sets forth provisions regarding the Federal share, application requirements, review of applications, State implementation of a statewide communications network to track the participants in jail-based substance abuse treatment programs established by local correctional facilities in the State as those participants move between such facilities within the State, the use of grant sums, reporting requirements, and performance review. (Sec. 2403) Amends the Safe Streets Act to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to States, State and local courts, local governments, and Indian tribes to establish programs that: (1) continue judicial supervision over juvenile offenders with substance abuse problems; and (2) integrate administration and other sanctions and services, including substance abuse treatment for each participant. Sets forth provisions regarding the use of grants for treatment, counseling, and other related and necessary expenses not covered by other funding sources, continued availability of such grants, application requirements, the Federal share, reporting requirements, and technical assistance, training, and evaluation. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Gangs and Domestic Terrorism - Chapter 1: Juvenile Gangs - Amends the code to prohibit and set penalties for the use of any facility in, or traveling in, interstate or foreign commerce, or causing another to do so, to recruit another person to be or to remain as a member of a criminal street gang, including conspiring to do so. (Sec. 2502) Amends: (1) the CSA to increase penalties for using minors to distribute drugs; and (2) the code to prohibit and set penalties for knowingly and intentionally using a minor to commit a Federal crime of violence, or to assist in avoiding detection or apprehension for such offense. (Sec. 2504) Authorizes the Attorney General to designate high intensity interstate gang activity areas, and to facilitate the establishment of a regional task force and direct the detailing of personnel from any Federal department or agency to such areas. Sets forth criteria for such designation. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 2505) Amends the code to increase penalties for the use of physical force, or the threat of force, to tamper with witnesses, victims, or informants. Chapter 2: Travel Act Amendment - Amends the Travel Act to increase: (1) penalties for violations (regarding interstate and foreign travel or transportation in aid of criminal gangs); and (2) the scope of unlawful activities under such Act. Chapter 3: Distribution of Information on Destructive Devices - Amends the code to prohibit and set penalties for teaching or demonstrating the making or use of an explosive, destructive device, or weapon of mass destruction, or distributing such information, with intent or knowing that such activity constitutes or is for, or in furtherance of, a Federal crime of violence. Chapter 4: Animal Enterprise Terrorism and Ecoterrorism - Amends the code to increase penalties for animal enterprise terrorism. (Sec. 2532) Requires the Director of the FBI to establish and maintain a national animal terrorism and ecoterrorism incident clearinghouse. Subtitle D: High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas - Requires the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to designate appropriate areas along the northern border of the United States, including Minnesota, as a high intensity drug trafficking area. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Criminal Use of Firearms by Felons - Subtitle A: Criminal Use of Firearms by Felons - Criminal Use of Firearms by Felons (CUFF) Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish in 25 specified jurisdictions a Criminal Use of Firearms by Felons Program to: (1) provide for coordination with State and local law enforcement officials in the identification of violations of Federal firearms laws; (2) provide for the establishments of agreements with State and local law enforcement officials for the referral to the U.S. Attorney for prosecution of persons arrested for violations of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and specified firearms-related provisions of the Internal Revenue Code; (3) require the U.S. Attorney to designate not less than one Assistant U.S. Attorney to prosecute violations of Federal firearms laws; (4) provide for the hiring of agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms to investigate specified violations under the Brady Act; and (5) ensure that each person referred to the U.S. Attorney for firearms violations be charged with a violation of the most serious Federal offense consistent with the act committed. Directs the U.S. Attorney to carry out an extensive media campaign focused in high-crime areas to: (1) educate the public about the severity of penalties for violations of Federal firearms laws; and (2) encourage law-abiding citizens to report the possession of illegal firearms to authorities. (Sec. 3003) Directs the Attorney General to report annually to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees with respect to the Program. (Sec. 3004) Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth provisions regarding the use of funds. Urges that sums made available for the public education campaign be matched with State or local funds or private donations. Subtitle B: Apprehension and Treatment of Armed Violent Criminals - Amends the code to define "crime of violence" to include possession of explosives or firearms by convicted felons (thus making such persons subject to pretrial detention). Bars the court from granting a probationary sentence to a person who has more than one previous conviction for a violent felony or a serious drug offense, committed under different circumstances. Title IV: Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention - Subtitle A: Juvenile Justice Reform - Repeals provisions of the code regarding the surrender to State authorities of juveniles arrested for the commission of Federal offenses. (Sec. 4102) Authorizes juveniles age 14 years or older to be tried as adults, with an exception involving Indian country, at the discretion of the U.S. Attorney, in Federal district court for violations of Federal law which are serious violent felonies or serious drug offenses or which are other felony offenses, if the U.S. Attorney certifies that there is a substantial Federal interest to warrant the exercise of Federal jurisdiction or that the ends of justice otherwise so require. Authorizes the U.S. Attorney (or in the case of certain felony offenses, the Attorney General), upon declining prosecution of the charged person as a juvenile, to refer the matter to the appropriate legal authorities of the State or Indian tribe with jurisdiction over both the offense and the juvenile. Directs the U.S. Attorney in the appropriate jurisdiction (or in the case of certain felony offenses, the Attorney General), in cases of concurrent jurisdiction between the Federal Government and a State or Indian tribe over both the offense and the juvenile, to exercise a presumption in favor of referral unless the U.S. Attorney (or Attorney General) certifies that: (1) the prosecuting authority or the juvenile court or other appropriate court of the State or Indian tribe refuses, declines, or will refuse or decline to assume jurisdiction over the offense or the juvenile; and (2) there is a substantial Federal interest in the case or the offense to warrant the exercise of Federal jurisdiction. Authorizes a juvenile to be prosecuted and convicted as an adult for an offense that is properly joined under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure with a Federal offense that is a serious violent felony or serious drug offense, or that is a conspiracy or attempt to commit such offense. Permits conviction of a lesser included offense. Makes a determination to approve or not to approve, or to institute or not to institute, such a prosecution unreviewable. Directs the court in which criminal charges have been filed in such prosecution, if the juvenile was less than age 16 at the time of the offense, or in the case of certain felonies, upon motion of the defendant and after a hearing, to determine whether to issue an order to provide for the transfer of the defendant to juvenile status for purposes of proceeding against the defendant. Sets forth time requirements. Prohibits the court from ordering the transfer of a defendant to juvenile status unless the defendant establishes by clear and convincing evidence or information that removal to juvenile status would be in the interest of justice. Sets forth provisions regarding status of orders, inadmissibility of evidence, and applicable procedures. Subjects juveniles prosecuted as adults in U.S. district court to the same procedures and penalties as adults, except that no person under age 18 shall be subject to the death penalty. Makes mandatory restitution provisions applicable to juveniles tried as adults for specified offenses. Grants the U.S. Attorney (or, as appropriate, the Attorney General), in making determinations concerning juvenile arrest or prosecution, complete access to prior Federal and State (if permitted by State law) juvenile records. Specifies that certification regarding the trial of a juvenile as an adult shall not be made nor granted with respect to a juvenile who is subject to the criminal jurisdiction of an Indian tribal government if the juvenile is under age 15 at the time of the offense and is alleged to have committed an offense for which there would be Federal jurisdiction solely based on commission of the offense in Indian country, unless the governing body of the tribe having jurisdiction over the place where the alleged offense was committed has, before the occurrence of the alleged offense, notified the Attorney General in writing of its election that prosecution as an adult take place. Requires the court, in the case of a defendant convicted for conduct that occurred before the juvenile attained age 16, to impose a sentence without regard to any statutory minimum sentence upon finding at sentencing, after affording the Government an opportunity to make a recommendation, that the juvenile has not been previously adjudicated delinquent for, or convicted of, a serious violent felony or a serious drug offense. Directs the Commission to: (1) amend the Federal sentencing guidelines to require that prior juvenile convictions and adjudications for crimes of violence, controlled substance offenses, any other offense for which the defendant received a sentence or disposition of imprisonment for one year or more, and any other offense punishable by a term of imprisonment of more than one year for which the defendant was prosecuted as an adult, receive a criminal history score for any juvenile offender being sentenced as an adult similar to that which the defendant would have received if those offenses had been committed by the defendant as an adult, if any portion of the sentence had been imposed or served within 15 years; (2) determine whether the criminal history treatment of juvenile adjudications or convictions for other offenses should be similarly adjusted and make any additional guideline amendments necessary; (3) assign criminal history points for juvenile adjudication based principally on the nature of the acts committed (and authorizes adjusting the score in light of the length of sentence the juvenile received); (4) submit emergency guidelines or amendments to Congress; and (5) amend the guidelines to provide for inclusion in any determination regarding whether a juvenile or adult defendant is a career offender, and in any computation of the sentence that any defendant found to be a career offender should receive, of any act for which the defendant was previously convicted or adjudicated delinquent as a juvenile that would be a felony if committed by the defendant as an adult. (Sec. 4104) Modifies code provisions regarding custody prior to appearance before a magistrate to direct that: (1) the arresting officer notify the U.S. Attorney of the appropriate jurisdiction as soon as practicable and promptly take reasonable steps to notify the juvenile's parents, guardian, or custodian of custody; and (2) the juvenile not be subject to detention under conditions that permit prohibited physical contact or sustained oral communication with adult inmates. (Sec. 4105) Provides for pretrial detention of juveniles tried as adults on the same basis as adults. Prohibits the pretrial or predisposition detention of juveniles with adults. (Sec. 4106) Extends the period in which the trial of a juvenile in detention must be commenced from 30 to 70 days after the beginning of detention. Applies in juvenile cases the same tolling provisions for such time period that apply in adult prosecutions. Directs the court, in determining whether an information should be dismissed with or without prejudice, to consider the seriousness of the alleged act of juvenile delinquency, the facts and circumstances of the case that led to the dismissal, and the impact of a re-prosecution on the administration of justice. (Sec. 4107) Revises code provisions regarding the sentencing of juveniles found to be delinquent but not tried as adults to direct the court to hold a dispositional hearing within 40 court days after the finding of delinquency, unless the court has ordered further study. Requires: (1) a predisposition report to be prepared by the probation officer who shall promptly provide a copy to the juvenile, the juvenile's counsel, and the attorney for the Government; (2) victim impact information to be included in the report; (3) victims or their official representatives to be provided the opportunity to make a statement to the court or present information in relation to the disposition; and (4) the court to place the juvenile on probation or commit the juvenile to official detention and to impose any fine that would be authorized if the juvenile had been tried and convicted as an adult. Directs the court to enter an order of restitution. Requires that any such imprisonment be terminated on the juvenile's 26th birthday and prohibits a juvenile sentenced to a term of imprisonment from being released from custody simply because the juvenile reaches age 18. (Sec. 4108) Rewrites code provisions regarding the use of juvenile records to permit disclosure to unauthorized persons of the records of a juvenile proceeding and release of such records only to the extent necessary for specified purposes, including (subject to specified requirements): (1) docketing and processing by the court; (2) responding to inquiries from courts, law enforcement agencies, the director of certain treatment agencies or facilities, and victims and their immediate family; and (3) communicating with a victim or the victim's official representative. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) records transmission to, and maintenance by, the FBI; (2) availability of records to schools in limited circumstances; (3) notification of the juvenile, and the juvenile's parent or guardian, of the juvenile's rights vis-a-vis adjudication record; and (4) records of juveniles tried as adults. (Sec. 4109) Revises code provisions regarding juvenile commitment to require the sentence for a juvenile who is adjudicated delinquent or found guilty of an offense in U.S. district court to be carried out in the same manner as for an adult defendant, with exceptions. Specifies that the parent, guardian, or custodian of a juvenile sentenced to pay a fine or ordered to pay restitution or a special assessment may not be made liable for such payment by any court. Prohibits a juvenile under age 18 who is committed to the custody of the Attorney General for incarceration from being placed or retained in any jail or correctional institution in which the juvenile has prohibited physical contact with an adult inmate or can engage in sustained oral communication with adult inmates. Directs that violent juveniles be kept separate from nonviolent juveniles. Requires the Attorney General to: (1) commit a juvenile to a foster home or community-based facility located in or near the juvenile's home community if such commitment is practicable, in the juvenile's best interest, and consistent with community safety, with an exception; and (2) study and report to Congress on the capabilities of Indian tribal courts and criminal justice systems relating to the prosecution of juvenile criminals under tribal jurisdiction; and (3) evaluate an expansion of tribal court criminal jurisdiction. (Sec. 4110) Extends the jurisdiction of Federal magistrate judges to class A misdemeanors. Permits magistrate judges to impose terms of imprisonment on juveniles. (Sec. 4111) Amends the Sentencing Reform Act to: (1) apply Federal sentencing guidelines regarding maximum penalties for violent crimes and serious drug crimes to juveniles tried as adults; and (2) direct the Commission, by affirmative vote of not fewer than four of its members, to promulgate and distribute to all U.S. courts and to the U.S. Probation System guidelines for sentencing juveniles tried as adults in Federal court and for dispositional hearings for juveniles adjudicated delinquent in the Federal system. (Sec. 4112) Directs the Attorney General to conduct a study of the juvenile justice systems of Indian tribes, and to report to specified congressional committees. Subtitle B: Juvenile Crime Control, Accountability, and Delinquency Prevention - Chapter 1: Reform of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 - Rewrites provisions of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to establish in the Department of Justice an Office of Juvenile Crime Control and Prevention, headed by an Administrator. Directs the Administrator to develop objectives, priorities, and short- and long-term plans, and implement overall policy and strategy to carry out such plan, for all Federal juvenile crime control, prevention, and juvenile offender accountability programs and activities relating to improving juvenile crime control, the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders, the prevention of juvenile crime, and the enhancement of accountability by offenders within the U.S. juvenile justice system. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to eligible States to provide financial assistance to eligible entities to carry out projects designed to prevent juvenile delinquency, including educational projects or supportive services for juveniles to encourage juveniles to remain in elementary and secondary schools or in alternative learning situations in educational settings, projects that use neighborhood courts or panels that increase victim satisfaction and require juveniles to make restitution or perform community service for the damage caused by their delinquent acts, projects that expand the use of probation officers, and projects that leverage funds to provide scholarships for postsecondary education and training for low-income juveniles who reside in neighborhoods with high rates of poverty, violence, and drug-related crimes. Sets forth provisions regarding State eligibility to receive grants, State plan approval and modification by a State Advisory Group, compliance with statutory requirements, and grant allocations. Establishes within the National Institute of Justice a National Institute for Juvenile Crime Control and Delinquency Prevention. Directs the Administrator to: (1) establish within the latter a training program designed to train enrollees regarding methods and techniques for the prevention and treatment of juvenile delinquency; and (2) conduct a study, and report, on the effect of incarceration on status offenders compared to similarly situated individuals who are not placed in secure detention. Requires the Administrator to make grants to or enter into contracts with public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions to establish and support programs and activities that: (1) involve families and communities and that are designed to carry out specified purposes, such as preventing and reducing juvenile participation in the activities of gangs that commit crimes, targeting elementary school students in steering students away from gang involvement, and providing treatment to juvenile gang members; and (2) reduce juvenile participation in illegal gang activities, develop regional task forces involving State, local, and community-based organizations to coordinate gang disruption, prosecution, and curtailment, facilitate coordination and cooperation among specified agencies and community-based programs, and support programs that are designed to encourage courts to develop and implement a specified continuum of post-adjudication restraints, and assist in the provision by the Administrator of information and technical assistance to States in the design and utilization of risk assessment mechanisms to aid juvenile justice personnel in determining appropriate sanctions for delinquent behavior. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, States, local governments, Indian tribal governments, public and private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions, and individuals, or combinations thereof, to carry out projects for the development, testing, and demonstration of promising initiatives and programs for the prevention, control, or reduction of juvenile delinquency. Directs the Administrator: (1) by making grants to and entering into contracts with local educational agencies, to establish and support programs and activities for the purpose of implementing mentoring programs; and (2) to make a grant to a qualified cooperative extension service for the purpose of expanding and replicating family mentoring programs to reduce the incidence of juvenile crime and delinquency among at-risk youth. Authorizes the Administrator, in cooperation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to make grants to cooperative extension services to establish such family mentoring programs. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005. Makes religious nondiscrimination provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 applicable to a State or local government exercising its authority to distribute grants to applicants under this title. Sets forth restrictions on the use of appropriations for experimentation on individuals, construction by private agencies, lobbying, and legal action against Federal, State, or local agencies, institutions, or employees. Sets penalties for violations. Repeals provisions regarding incentive grants for local delinquency prevention programs. (Sec. 4203) Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (the Act) to: (1) include findings that it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to assist in the development of an accurate national reporting system on runaway and homeless youth and that services for such youth are needed in urban, suburban, and rural areas; (2) authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to establish and operate local centers to provide services for such youth and their families; (3) require a grant applicant, to be eligible for assistance, to include assurances that the applicant shall submit an annual report that includes, with respect to the year for which the report is submitted, statistical summaries describing the number and the characteristics of such youth and youth at risk of family separation who participated in the project and the services provided to such youth by the project; and (4) modify the services that applicants must plan to provide in order to use grant money for street-based, home-based, and drug abuse education and prevention services. Revises Act provisions regarding: (1) approval of applications to direct the Secretary to consider the geographical distribution in the State of the proposed services and which areas of the State have the greatest need for such services, and to give priority to eligible applicants who have demonstrated experience in providing services to runaway and homeless youth and who request grants of less than $200,000; (2) authority for the transitional living grant program to repeal definitions of "homeless youth" and "transitional living youth project"; (3) eligibility for assistance by stating that the annual report submitted by grant applicants to the Secretary must include statistical summaries describing the number and characteristics of the services provided to the homeless youth;(4) coordination by the Secretary of the activities of the Department of Health and Human Services with respect to matters relating to the health, education, employment, and housing of runaway and homeless youth; and (5) authority to make grants for research, demonstration, and service projects to repeal references to home-based and street based services from the research and demonstration projects. Repeals provisions of the Act directing that assistance to potential grantees include information on the need for the establishment of additional runaway and homeless youth centers in the geographical area identified by the potential grantee involved. Amends the Act to require the Secretary, by April 1, 1999, and biennially thereafter, to submit to specified congressional committees a report on the status, activities, and accomplishments of entities that receive grants under the Act. Lists information that must be included in the report. Requires the Secretary to include summaries of the Secretary's evaluations of grantees and descriptions of the qualifications and training of the individuals administering the evaluations. Modifies the Act to authorize the disclosure or transfer of records containing the identity of individual youths to an individual or public or private agency for purposes of the disposition of criminal or delinquency charges against, or the coordinated delivery of services to, individual youths. Authorizes appropriations under such Act for FY 2000 through 2005. Sets forth the division of appropriations among the programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to nonprofit private agencies to provide street-based services to runaway and homeless, and street youth, who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, or sexual exploitation. Directs the Secretary to give priority to nonprofit private agencies that have experience in providing services to runaway and homeless, and street youth. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 through 2005. Grants the Secretary authority to implement a single consolidated application review process. (Sec. 4204) Amends the Missing Children's Assistance Act to direct the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to annually make a grant to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which shall be used to: (1) operate a national 24-hour toll-free telephone line by which individuals may report information regarding the location of any missing child, or other child age 13 or younger whose whereabouts are unknown to such child's legal custodian, and request information pertaining to procedures necessary to reunite such child with the child's legal custodian; (2) coordinate the operation of such telephone line with the operation of the national communications system referred to in the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act; (3) operate the official national resource center and information clearinghouse for missing and exploited children; (4) provide to State and local governments, public and private nonprofit agencies, and individuals, information regarding free or low-cost legal, restaurant, lodging and transportation services that are available for the benefit of missing and exploited children and their families and the existence and nature of programs being carried out by Federal agencies to assist missing and exploited children and their families; (5) coordinate public and private programs that locate, recover, or reunite missing children with their families; (6) disseminate, on a national basis, information relating to innovative and model programs, services, and legislation that benefit missing and exploited children; (7) provide technical assistance and training to law enforcement agencies, State and local governments, elements of the criminal justice system, public and private nonprofit agencies, and individuals in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing and exploited children; and (8) provide assistance to families and law enforcement agencies in locating and recovering missing and exploited children, both nationally and internationally. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005. Requires the Administrator, either by making grants to or entering into contracts with public or nonprofit private agencies, to: (1) periodically conduct national incidence studies to determine for a given year the actual number of children reported missing each year, abducted by strangers, kidnaped by parents, and recovered each year; and (2) provide to State and local governments, public and private nonprofit agencies, and individuals information to facilitate the lawful use of school records and birth certificates to identify and locate missing children. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to and enter contracts with the Center for specified purposes, such as for research, demonstration projects, or service programs designed to assist in the locating and return of missing children. (Currently, such grants or contracts may only be made with public or nonprofit private organizations, or combinations thereof.) Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005. Repeals requirements regarding a study to determine the obstacles that prevent or impede individuals who have legal custody of children from recovering such children from parents who have illegally removed such children from such individuals, and regarding a report on such study. (Sec. 4205) Transfers functions and allocates appropriations and personnel to the new Office of Juvenile Crime Control and Prevention. Chapter 2: Accountability for Juvenile Offenders and Public Protection Incentive Grants - Amends the Safe Streets Act to direct the Attorney General, subject to the availability of appropriations, to make grants to States for use by States and local governments in planning, establishing, operating, coordinating, and evaluating projects for the development of more effective investigation, prosecution, and punishment of crimes or acts of delinquency committed by juveniles, programs to improve the administration of justice for and ensure accountability by juvenile offenders, and programs to reduce the risk factors associated with juvenile crime or delinquency. Sets forth provisions regarding use of grants, State grant allocation and distribution, grant allocation among qualifying States and restrictions on use, and grants to Indian tribes. Directs the Attorney General, upon application from a State, to makes grants to eligible States that maintain certain records regarding juvenile criminal history and fingerprints and that will establish procedures by which an official of an elementary, secondary, and post-secondary school may, as appropriate, gain access to the juvenile adjudication record of a student enrolled or seeking to enroll at that school. (Sec. 4222) Directs the Attorney General to establish a pilot program to encourage and support communities that adopt a comprehensive approach to suppressing and preventing violent juvenile crime patterned after successful State juvenile crime reduction strategies. Sets forth program requirements. (Sec. 4224) Extends the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund under the VCCLEA. (Sec. 4225) Amends: (1) the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 to provide for the reimbursement of States for costs of incarcerating juvenile aliens; and (2) the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to require annual reporting of the number of illegal juvenile aliens committed to State or local juvenile correctional facilities. (Sec. 4226) Expresses the sense of the Congress that each State should enact legislation to provide, on motion of the prosecution and with court approval, that an individual who is between age ten and fourteen may be tried as an adult and, upon conviction, may be subject to any penalty (other than a sentence of death) if the individual is charged with an offense that, if committed by an adult, would be a felony offense for which the maximum penalty is a sentence of death. Chapter 3: Alternative Education and Delinquency Prevention - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct: (1) the Secretary of Education to make grants to State or local education agencies for not less than ten demonstration projects that enable the agencies to develop models for and carry out alternative education for at-risk youth; and (2) each agency receiving such a grant to enter into a partnership with a private sector entity to provide alternative educational services to at-risk youth. Sets forth application, grantee selection, matching, and evaluation requirements. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2003. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit firearms possession by persons who have committed an act of violent juvenile delinquency. (Sec. 4302) Amends the Webb-Kenyon Act to authorize the Attorney General, if the Attorney General of the State has reasonable cause to believe that a person is engaged in, or is about to engage in, or has engaged in, any act that would constitute a violation of a State law regulating the importation or transportation of any intoxicating liquor, to bring a civil action for injunctive relief against the person as necessary to restrain the person from engaging or continuing to engage in the violation and to enforce compliance with the State law. Sets forth provisions regarding Federal jurisdiction, requirements for injunctions and orders, and consolidation of the hearing with trial on the merits. Specifies that an action brought under this section shall be tried before the court. Title V: Protecting Victims of Crime - Subtitle A: Victims Rights - Chapter 1: General Reforms - Amends the code to provide for victim allocution in pretrial detention proceedings. Requires the Government, prior to any detention hearing,to make a reasonable effort to notify the victim of the hearing and of his or her right to be heard on the issue of detention. Requires the court: (1) at the hearing, to inquire of the Government as to whether the notification efforts were successful and, if so, whether the victim wishes to be heard on such issue; and (2) if so, to afford the victim such opportunity, subject to a limitation to protect the integrity of the process of identification of the defendant by the victim. (Sec. 5103) Requires a judge to consider, in determining whether to grant a continuance, the interests of the victim (or the victim's family, if the victim is deceased or incapacitated) in the prompt and appropriate disposition of the case, free from unreasonable delay. (Sec. 5104) Grants each victim of an offense the right to be present at the sentencing proceedings of a defendant convicted of the offense. Specifies that a victim who, at the time that the sentencing proceedings of the defendant are conducted, is incarcerated in any Federal, State, or local correctional or detention facility, shall not have the right to appear in person at sentencing proceedings of a defendant, but shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to present views by alternate means. Grants each victim of the offense, present in person or through counsel, the opportunity to address the court on the issue of sentencing. (Sec. 5105) Directs that notice of commitment to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (Bureau) be provided to each victim of the offense for which the person is committed. Directs the Bureau to notify each victim of an offense for which a person is imprisoned regarding prisoner transfers, escapes, and release. Makes it the victim's responsibility to notify the Bureau of any change in the victim's mailing address while the defendant is subject to imprisonment. Requires the Bureau to ensure the confidentiality of any information relating to a victim. (Sec. 5106) Amends rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to direct the attorney for the Government to consult with the victims of all offenses chargeable to the defendant regarding any plea agreement with the defendant. Authorizes the attorney for the Government to impose, and request the court to enforce, such confidentiality requirements on the victim as the attorney for the Government deems appropriate. Directs the court to consider the views of the victim in determining whether to accept or reject the agreement. Sets forth provisions regarding victims rights to notification of plea agreement hearings and to address the court. Directs the Judicial Conference of the United States to report to Congress with recommendations for amending the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to provide enhanced opportunities for victims to be consulted by the attorney for the Government, to provide the court views on the issue of whether or not the court should accept a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, and to have such views considered by the court. (Sec. 5107) Makes this chapter applicable to hearings regarding revocation of probation, supervised release, and resentencing upon failure to pay to fine or restitution. (Sec. 5108) Authorizes a victim to present information or otherwise participate at trial. Amends: (1) the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 to specify that the intention of a victim to present information or otherwise participate in a sentencing proceeding shall not be grounds to exclude a victim; and (2) the Victim and Witness Protection Act to specify that victim statements at sentencing, other information presented by or on behalf of a victim at sentencing, and other victim participation shall not be considered to be testimony. (Sec. 5109) Directs the Attorney General to establish and carry out a program to provide for pilot programs to establish and operate Victim Ombudsman Information Centers in specified States. Sets forth provisions regarding agreements, objectives, duties, oversight, review of program effectiveness, and termination of pilot programs. (Sec. 5110) Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to: (1) provide for the deposit into the Crime Victims Fund of any gifts, bequests, or donations from private entities or individuals; (2) direct that specified unobligated balances transferred to the judicial branch for administrative costs be returned to the Crime Victims Fund, which may be used to improve services for crime victims in the Federal criminal justice system; (3) direct that States that receive supplemental funding to respond to incidents of terrorism or mass violence be required to return to the Fund for deposit in the reserve fund amounts subrogated to the State as a result of third-party payments to victims; (4) increase the percentage of funding for crime victim compensation and authorize a certain percentage to be used for evaluation; and (5) authorize the use of grant funds for training and technical assistance that address the significance of and effective delivery strategies for providing long-term psychological care. Chapter 2: Victim Restitution Enforcement - Victim Restitution Enforcement Act of 1999 - Amends the code to revise procedures for the issuance and enforcement of restitution orders. Directs the court to: (1) order the probation service of the court to obtain and include in its presentence report, or in a separate report, information sufficient for the court to exercise its discretion in fashioning a restitution order (which shall include a complete accounting of the losses to each victim, any restitution owed pursuant to a plea agreement, and information relating to the economic circumstances of each defendant); and (2) disclose to the defendant and the attorney for the Government all portions of the report pertaining to such matters. Makes specified provisions of the Federal criminal code and Rule 32(c) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure the only laws and rules applicable to proceedings for the issuance and enforcement of restitution orders. Authorizes the court, upon application of the United States, to enter a restraining order or injunction, require the execution of a satisfactory performance bond, or take any other action to preserve the availability of property or assets necessary to satisfy a criminal restitution order, if specified circumstances apply. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) notice requirements; (2) evidence and information that the court may consider at a hearing; (3) the use of temporary restraining orders; (4) disclosure of financial information regarding the defendant; (5) the use of consumer credit reports; and (6) timetables for the attorney for the Government to provide the probation service of the court with information available to the attorney, including matters occurring before the grand jury relating to the identity of the victims, the amount of losses, and financial matters relating to the defendant. Directs the attorney for the Government to provide notice to all victims as soon as practicable. Authorizes: (1) the court to limit the information to be provided or sought by the probation service under specified circumstances; (2) a victim who objects to any information provided to the probation service by the attorney for the Government to file a separate affidavit with the court; and (3) the court to require additional documentation or hear testimony after reviewing the report of the probation service. Provides for the privacy of records filed and testimony heard and permits records to be filed or testimony to be heard in camera. Establishes procedures regarding the court's ascertaining of the victims' losses. Permits the court to refer any issue arising in connection with a proposed restitution order to a magistrate or special master for proposed findings of fact and recommendations as to disposition, subject to a de novo determination of the issue by the court. Prohibits consideration of compensation for losses from insurance or other sources. Requires that the court resolve any restitution dispute by the preponderance of evidence. Directs the court to order restitution to each victim in the full amount of each victim's losses as determined by the court without consideration of the defendant's economic circumstances. Sets forth provisions regarding situations where the amount of the loss is not reasonably ascertainable, and where there is more than one defendant. Specifies that no victim shall be required to participate in any phase of a restitution order. Requires the defendant to notify the court and the Attorney General of any material change in the defendant's economic circumstances that might affect the defendant's ability to pay restitution. Authorizes the court to adjust the payment schedule. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) court retention of jurisdiction over criminal restitution judgments; and (2) enforcement of restitution orders. Specifies that: (1) a conviction of a defendant for an offense giving rise to restitution shall estop the defendant from denying the essential allegations of that offense in any subsequent Federal civil proceeding or State civil proceeding, regardless of any State law precluding estoppel for a lack of mutuality; and (2) the victim, in the subsequent proceeding, shall not be precluded from establishing a loss that is greater than that determined by the court in the earlier criminal proceeding. (Sec. 5123) Adds restitution to a provision governing the post-sentence administration of fines. Provides that an order of restitution shall operate as a lien in favor of the United States for its benefit or for the benefit of any non-Federal victims against all property belonging to the defendant. Authorizes the court, in enforcing a restitution order, to order jointly owned property divided and sold, subject to specified requirements. (Sec. 5124) Specifies that a defendant shall not incur any criminal penalty for failure to make a payment on a fine, special assessment, restitution, or cost because of the defendant's indigency. (Sec. 5125) Authorizes the court, where a defendant knowingly fails to pay a delinquent fine, to increase the defendant's sentence to any sentence that might originally have been imposed under the applicable statute. Subtitle B: Combating Violence Against Women and Children - Chapter 1: Violence Against Women - Violence Against Women Act of 1999 - Subchapter A: Strengthening Law Enforcement to Reduce Violence Against Women - Amends the Safe Streets Act to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to eligible States, Indian tribal governments, or local governmental units to provide technical assistance and computer and other equipment to police departments, prosecutors, and courts to facilitate the widespread, including interstate, enforcement of protection orders. Instructs the Attorney General to give priority to grant applicants that: (1) have established cooperative agreements with neighboring jurisdictions to facilitate the enforcement of protection orders from other jurisdictions; and (2) will use the grant to develop and install data collection and communication systems linking police, prosecutors, and courts in order to identify and track protection orders and violations of such orders. Directs the Attorney General to compile and disseminate information about successful data collection and communication systems. (Sec. 5204) Reauthorizes appropriations through FY 2003 for grants to: (1) combat violent crimes against women; and (2) encourage arrest policies. (Sec. 5206) Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to institutions of higher education for use by campus personnel and nonprofit victim services programs to assist campus administrators and campus security personnel to develop and strengthen: (1) effective security and investigation strategies to combat violent crimes against women on campuses, particularly sexual assault, stalking, and domestic violence; and (2) victim services in cases involving violent crimes against women on campuses, which may include partnerships with local criminal justice authorities and community-based victims services agencies. Sets forth provisions regarding application and certification requirements, disbursement of funds, and the Federal share. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2003. (Sec. 5207) Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to reauthorize through FY 2003: (1) rural domestic violence and child abuse enforcement grants (and allots not less than five percent of the total made available for each fiscal year for grants to Indian tribal governments); and (2) national stalker and domestic violence reduction grants. (Sec. 5209) Modifies Federal criminal code provisions regarding interstate domestic violence, interstate stalking, and interstate violation of a protective order to cover situations where persons travel in interstate or foreign commerce or to or from Indian country. (Sec. 5210) Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) conduct a review of the occurrence of domestic violence by members of the Armed Forces at military installations inside and outside the United States and the actions taken with the Department of Defense to prevent, control, and otherwise respond to such violence; and (2) report to Congress. Subchapter B: Strengthening Services to Victims of Violence - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to reauthorize appropriations through FY 2003. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to conduct a nationwide needs assessment relating to family violence prevention and services programs. Requires that, in awarding grants, the application indicate the number of persons served and develop a plan for evaluating need and utility services. (Sec. 5212) Extends through FY 2003 the authorization of appropriations for the national domestic violence hotline. (Sec. 5213) Makes changes to the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, aimed at removing barriers to adjustment of status for victims of domestic violence, removing barriers to cancellation of removal and suspension of deportation for such victims, and eliminating time limitations on motions to reopen removal and deportation proceedings for such victims. Subchapter C: Limiting the Effects of Violence on Children - Reauthorizes appropriations through FY 2003 under: (1) the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act; and (2) the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 for the court-appointed special advocate program and for child abuse training programs for judicial personnel and practitioners. Directs the Secretary and the Attorney General, respectively, to compile annually and disseminate, especially to community-based programs (including domestic violence and sexual assault programs), specified information about the use of amounts expended and the projects funded under such Acts. Subchapter D: Strengthening Education and Training to Combat Violence Against Women - Directs the Attorney General to make grants to States and nongovernmental private entities to provide education and technical assistance for the purpose of providing training, consultation, and information on violence, abuse, and sexual assault against women who are individuals with disabilities. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2003. (Sec. 5217) Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to make grants to groups that provide services to or advocate on behalf of individuals with disabilities eligible for demonstration grants for community initiatives. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through FY 2003. Chapter 2: General Reforms - Makes religious organizations eligible to participate in grant programs authorized by the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. Prohibits Federal and State governmental agencies receiving funds under any such program from discriminating against an organization based on its religious character. (Sec. 5222) Amends the code to authorize the death penalty for fatal interstate domestic violence offenses and fatal interstate violations of protective orders. (Sec. 5224) Amends rule 404 of the Federal Rules of Evidence to allow the admission of evidence of the defendant's disposition toward the victim in domestic violence and other cases. (Sec. 5225) Amends the code to provide for testing for the human immunodeficiency virus in sexual assault cases. Directs the Commission to amend the Federal sentencing guidelines to enhance the sentence in such cases where the offender knew he or she was infected, except if the offender did not engage or attempt to engage in conduct creating a risk of transmission of the virus to the victim. Amends VCCLEA provisions regarding payment of the cost of testing for sexually transmitted diseases to authorize the Government to obtain an order requiring that the defendant be tested for the presence of the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Chapter 3: Miscellaneous Provisions - Increases penalties for possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors and material constituting or containing child pornography. (Sec. 5232) Includes within the definition of first degree murder a murder perpetrated as part of a pattern or practice of assault or torture against a child or children under the perpetrator's care or control. (Sec. 5233) Directs the Commission to: (1) review and amend its guidelines and policy statements to provide for increased penalties for persons convicted of crimes of violence that are committed in the presence of a child; and (2) report to Congress on issues relating to the exposure of children to crimes of violence. (Sec. 5234) Amends the code to provide for alternatives to live in-court testimony for a child witness. Includes child witnesses within provisions applicable to child victims regarding privacy protections, closing of a courtroom, and adult attendants. (Sec. 5236) Amends the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 to make grants available: (1) to assist Federal law enforcement agencies in providing services to victims of non-Federal crime; (2) for the financial support of services to U.S. citizens who are victims of crime occurring outside the United States; and (3) for the establishment of a fellowship or internship program in the Office for Victims of Crime to utilize the expertise and experience of the victims community to carry out training and technical assistance services and special projects authorized. Authorizes the Director of the Office to make supplemental grants to States for compensation and assistance to victims of terrorism or mass violence occurring within, and in specified circumstances outside, the United States. (Sec. 5237) Amends the Crime Victims With Disabilities Awareness Act to direct the Bureau of Justice Statistics to initiate revisions to the National Crime Victimization Survey to systematically gather data from individuals with developmental disabilities relating to the nature of crimes against such individuals and the specific characteristics of such victims. (Sec. 5238) Amends the code to grant wiretapping authority for investigations relating to travel with intent to engage in sexual acts with juveniles. Subtitle C: Victims Rights Amendment - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should pass and refer to the States for consideration and ratification an amendment to the Constitution recognizing and protecting the rights of crime victims. Subtitle D: Recognition of Victims in Sentencing - Amends the Federal judicial code to require that at least two of the members of the Commission who are not Federal judges be victims of a crime of violence or, in the case of a homicide, an immediate family member of such a victim. Title VI: Prisons and Jails - Subtitle A: Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive Grants - Amends the VCCLEA to direct the Attorney General to provide Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive grants to eligible States, subject to specified requirements, to open or operate a correctional facility or jail, including the hiring and training of correctional officers and other correctional facility or jail personnel. Directs each State to reserve not more than 20 (currently, 15) percent of funds allocated in a fiscal year for counties and local governments to construct, develop, expand, modify, or improve jails and other correctional facilities. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005. Directs the Attorney General to reserve, as payments for incarceration on tribal lands, an amount equal to that to which all Indian tribes that qualify for a grant would collectively be entitled if such tribes were collectively treated as a State. Repeals VCCLEA provisions regarding: (1) payments to eligible States for incarceration of criminal aliens; and (2) support of Federal prisoners in non-Federal institutions. Subtitle B: Criminal Alien Incarceration - Transfer of Alien Prisoners Act of 1999 - Directs the Attorney General to begin transferring undocumented aliens who are incarcerated in the United States and whose convictions have become final to the custody of the government of the alien's country of nationality for service of the duration of the alien's sentence in that country, except for aliens who are nationals of a foreign country that the Secretary of State (Secretary) has determined has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism. (Sec. 6203) Directs the Secretary to: (1) renegotiate all treaties requiring the consent of such an alien to such a transfer; and (2) withdraw the United States as a party to any such treaty requiring such consent if the Secretary is unable to negotiate a new treaty that would go into effect by December 31, 2000. Specifies that the consent of an alien covered by this title shall not be required before such alien may be designated for transfer or before such alien may be transferred to the country of nationality of that alien. (Sec. 6204) Directs the President, by March 1 of each year, to submit to the Congress: (1) a certification as to whether each foreign country has accepted, and has confined for the duration of their sentences, such persons; and (2) a report describing the operation of the provisions of this title, particularly with regard to the ten countries having the greatest number of their nationals incarcerated in the United States. (Sec. 6207) Provides for the withholding of bilateral assistance, opposition to multilateral development assistance, and withholding of visas with respect to countries refusing to accept at least 75 percent of such nationals designated for transfer or to confine such persons for at least 85 percent of their sentences, with exceptions. Sets forth provisions regarding certification procedures, waivers, congressional review, and denial of assistance for countries decertified. (Sec. 6208) Directs: (1) the Secretary to begin to negotiate and renegotiate bilateral prisoner transfer treaties; and (2) the President to submit to Congress an annual certification as to whether each such treaty in force is effective. Subtitle C: Drug-Free Prisons and Jails - Amends the VCCLEA to direct the Attorney General to make incentive grants to eligible States and Indian tribes in order to encourage the establishment and maintenance of drug-free prisons and jails. Sets forth provisions regarding reservation of funds, grant eligibility, application requirements, permissible uses of funds, and allocation of funds. (Sec. 6302) Modifies code provisions to direct the Bureau to endeavor to make available appropriate substance abuse treatment for each prisoner who is determined by the Bureau to have a treatable drug abuse problem, with priority given to younger offenders and those who would benefit most from the treatment. (Sec. 6303) Creates an exemption from certain wiretapping-related restrictions by a law enforcement officer if: (1) in the case of any wire, oral, or electronic communication, at least one of the parties is an inmate or detainee in the custody of the Attorney General or is in the custody of a State or political subdivision thereof; or (2) in the case of a pen register, a trap and trace device, or a clone pager, the facility is regularly used by such an inmate or detainee. Directs the Attorney General to promulgate regulations governing such interceptions to protect communications protected by the attorney-client privilege and the right to counsel. Authorizes: (1) discovery of a statement recorded from a telephone in a Federal, State, or local correctional or detention facility if the defendant shows the substantial likelihood that the statement will lead to admissible evidence; and (2) the routine recording or monitoring by officers of any such facility of any electronic communication, one of the parties to which is an inmate or detainee in such facility. Amends the code to expand those covered by the prohibition against providing or possessing contraband in prison. Subtitle D: Prison Work - Prison Work Act of 1999 - Requires the Director of the Bureau to ensure that each convicted inmate in the custody of the Attorney General and confined in any Federal prison, correctional facility, jail, or other facility be engaged in work, with the type of work determined on the basis of appropriate security and disciplinary considerations and by the inmate's health, with exceptions. Disallows any inmate entitlement to compensation or to a cause of action arising out of such work. (Sec. 6403) Amends the code to revise the requirements for procurement of products of Federal Prison Industries (FPI). Directs a Federal agency which has a requirement for a specific product listed in the current edition of the FPI catalog to: (1) provide a copy of the notice required under the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to FPI at least 15 days before the issuance of a solicitation of offers for procurement of such product; (2) use competitive procedures (with exceptions); and (3) consider a timely offer from FPI for award in accordance with the specifications and evaluation factors specified in the solicitation. Requires the agency to: (1) negotiate a contract with FPI for a product on a non-competitive basis if the Attorney General determines it is unreasonable to expect that FPI would be selected on a competitive basis and it is necessary to award the contract to FPI to maintain work opportunities that are essential to the safety and effective administration of the penal facility at which the contract would be performed or to permit diversification into the manufacture of a new product that has been approved for sale by the FPI board of directors; and (2) award the contract to FPI if the contracting officer determines that FPI can meet the agency's requirements with respect to the product in a timely manner, at a fair and reasonable price. Directs FPI, to the extent practicable, to concentrate any effort to produce a new product or to expand significantly the production of an existing product on products that are otherwise produced with non-U.S. labor. Modifies the prohibition against the transportation or importation of prison-made goods. Makes such provision inapplicable to goods, wares, or merchandise manufactured or produced, or services provided, by inmates at an industry: (1) provided by FPI, unless the Attorney General has exercised authority with respect to that product; or (2) provided by a State, unless the industry is operated by a person other than the State and after September 30, 2008, the State does not have in effect any requirement that the departments and agencies of the State purchase a portion of their requirements for such goods, wares, merchandise, or services provided by products produced by inmates at that industry. Requires the Director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to make an initial determination of those goods of which 95 percent or more of the amount sold in the United States are fabricated in a foreign place, and to report to Congress. (Sec. 6404) Authorizes the chief executive officer of a Federal penal or correctional facility, as part of an inmate work program, to provide products or services, free of charge or at minimal cost, to private, nonprofit organizations or to a component of any State government or political subdivision thereof, subject to specified requirements. Subtitle E: Federal Incarceration Improvement - Federal Incarceration Improvement Act - Directs the Attorney General to report to specified congressional committees on overcrowding in the Federal prison system, including ten-year projections for the population of the system and specific recommendations on prison space needs. (Sec. 6503) Amends the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 to authorize the court, in any civil action brought by a person convicted of a crime and confined in a Federal correctional facility, to make a finding whether: (1) the claim was filed for a malicious purpose or to harass the party against which it was filed; or (2) the claimant testified falsely or otherwise knowingly presented false evidence or information to the court. Directs the Bureau, if the court makes such affirmative finding, to revoke unvested good time credit or the institutional equivalent accrued to the prisoner. Specifies that: (1) credit that has been revoked may not later be reinstated; and (2) credit awarded may be revoked by the Bureau for noncompliance with institutional disciplinary regulations at any time before vesting. (Sec. 6504) Revises provisions regarding the implementation of a death sentence to direct the Attorney General to promulgate regulations to provide for such implementation. Requires a U.S. marshal charged with supervising such implementation to use appropriate Federal facilities for that purpose. (Sec. 6505) Requires the Bureau to ensure that no prisoner or detainee (prisoner) under its jurisdiction: (1) engages in any physical activity designed to increase or enhance the prisoner's fighting ability or physical strength; and (2) is permitted access to, use of, or possession of specified materials or equipment, such as in- cell television viewing (with an exception), movies rated NC-17, R, or X, heating elements, pornographic or sexually explicit printed material, bodybuilding or weightlifting equipment, and electric or electronic musical equipment. Authorizes the Director of the Bureau to grant certain exceptions if a licensed medical doctor employed by or under contract to the Bureau certifies that such exception is medically necessary for the prisoner to pursue a program of physical therapy or rehabilitation. (Sec. 6506) Authorizes the Director of the Bureau to assess and collect a fee for health care services provided in connection with each health care visit requested by a prisoner, except for preventative health care services. Requires that each fee assessed be collected by the Director from the account of: (1) the prisoner receiving health care services in connection with a health care visit requested by the prisoner; or (2) in the case of such services that results from an injury inflicted on a prisoner by another prisoner, the prisoner who inflicted the injury. Sets a minimum fee of two dollars. Specifies that the prisoner's consent shall not be required for the collection of the fee. Specifies that nothing herein may be construed to permit refusal of treatment to a prisoner on the basis that: (1) the prisoner's account is insolvent; or (2) the prisoner is otherwise unable to pay. Requires that sums collected under this Act, where the prisoner is: (1) subject to a restitution order, be used for restitution of the victims in accordance with such order; and (2) not subject to such an order, be deposited in the Crime Victims Fund (75 percent), and be available to the Attorney General for administrative expenses incurred in carrying out this Act (25 percent). Sets forth reporting requirements by the Director. Authorizes a State or local government to assess and collect a reasonable fee from a Federal prisoner's trust fund account (or institutional equivalent) for health care services if the prisoner is confined in a non-Federal institution under specified circumstances. (Sec. 6507) Requires the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to report to the Chief Justice of the United States, the Attorney General, and specified congressional committees on the resources of the probation service of the Federal courts. (Sec. 6508) Amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare) to require a provider of services, to be qualified to participate and to be eligible for payments, to file with the Secretary of Health and Human Services an agreement to be a participating provider of medical care for prisoners and detainees in the custody of the Attorney General, in accordance with the practices, payment methodology, and amounts prescribed under regulations issued by the Attorney General. (Sec. 6509) Amends the code to make medical quality assurance records created by or for the Bureau as part of a medical quality assurance program confidential and privileged. Prohibits any part of such a record from being subject to discovery or admitted into evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding, and any person who reviews or creates such records for the Bureau or who participates in any proceeding for the purpose of reviewing or creating such records from being permitted or required to testify regarding such records, with exceptions for: (1) a Federal, State, or local law enforcement officer, if the record is requested in connection with a criminal investigation; (2) a criminal or civil law enforcement agency or instrumentality charged under applicable law with the protection of public health or safety, upon written request; (3) health care personnel to the extent necessary to meet a medical emergency affecting the health or safety of an individual; or (4) a Bureau officer or employee who has a need for such record or testimony to perform official duties. Prohibits disclosure of such a record or testimony for any purpose except that provided in this section. Exempts medical quality assurance records from the Freedom of Information Act. Limits civil liability for a person who participates in or provides information to a person or body that reviews or creates medical quality assurance records if made in good faith based on prevailing professional standards at the time the program activity took place. Authorizes the Director to prescribe regulations to implement this section. Sets penalties for violations. (Sec. 6510) Replaces a provision authorizing the Attorney General to accept gifts or bequests of money for credit to the Commissary Funds, Federal Prisons, with one authorizing the Director to establish, operate, and maintain commissaries in Federal penal or correctional facilities, from and through which articles and services may be procured, sold, rendered, or otherwise provided for made available for the benefit of inmates confined within those facilities. Establishes in the Treasury a revolving fund, the Prison Commissary Fund. Authorizes the Director to accept gifts or bequests. Sets forth provisions regarding deposits into, and uses of funds from, the Fund. (Sec. 6511) Authorizes the Director to enter into a service agreement with a physician assistant or nurse practitioner that provides for the completion of a specified period of service in the Bureau in return for an allowance for the duration of such agreement in an amount to be determined by the Director and specified in the agreement, but not to exceed $20,000. Sets forth restrictions on the use of use allowance. (Sec. 6512) Redesignates the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, as the Federal Correctional Complex. (Sec. 6513) Includes persons in the custody of the Bureau or the Attorney General or confined in any institution or facility by direction of the Attorney General within the scope of provisions regarding sexual abuse offenses, assaults, and murders by Federal prisoners. Increases penalties for sexual abuse offenses. (Sec. 6514) Directs that a defendant be given credit toward the service of a term of imprisonment for any time spent in official detention prior to the date the sentence commences only if that detention: (1) is as a result of the offense for which the sentence was imposed; and (2) has not been credited toward another sentence or applied in any manner to an undischarged concurrent term of imprisonment. Modifies code provisions regarding: (1) the transfer of offenders serving sentences of imprisonment to provide that good time and other credits toward the service of sentence be combined by the Bureau and deducted from the sentence imposed by the foreign court; and (2) modification of an imposed term of imprisonment to allow a court to impose a sentence of probation or supervised release under specified circumstances. (Sec. 6515) Amends rule 43(c) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to authorize video teleconferencing for certain proceedings. Subtitle F: United States Marshals Service - Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize the U.S. Marshals Service to provide for the residential security for Federal jurists. (Sec. 6602) Authorizes the Attorney General, in any investigation with respect to the apprehension of a fugitive, to subpoena witnesses for the purpose of the production of any records that the Attorney General finds relevant or material in the investigation. (Sec. 6603) Revises code provisions regarding subsistence for prisoners to direct the Attorney General to acquire subsistence and medical care for persons in the custody of the Marshals Service at fair and reasonable prices. Limits expenses incurred for medical care for Federal prisoners. (Sec. 6605) Amends Federal law to expand the definition of "public aircraft" to include: (1) a privately leased or rented aircraft and crew that is operated for the purpose of transporting prisoners or detainees; and (2) an aircraft that is used for purposes of law enforcement, search and rescue, or responding to an imminent threat to property or natural resources. Subtitle G: Federal Prisoner and Criminal Alien Detention - Amends the code to authorize the Director of the Marshals Service to: (1) designate districts experiencing or projected to experience a severe shortage, or high growth, in the number of spaces for Federal detainees; and (2) enter into contracts or cooperative agreements to meet the long-term detention needs of the district or districts designated. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 6702) Directs the Attorney General to report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on detention space for Federal detainees in the custody of the Marshals Service and the INS. (Sec. 6703) Amends rule 46 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to require the district court to declare a forfeiture of bail if the defendant fails to appear as required by (currently, if there is a breach of condition of) a bond. Subtitle H: Prison Litigation Reform - Incorporates provisions of the code concerning remedies regarding prison conditions into the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (the Act). Amends such Act to set forth court procedure for entering orders of prospective relief in civil actions regarding prison conditions. Authorizes plaintiffs to oppose termination of prospective relief on the ground that the relief is necessary to correct a current and ongoing violation of a Federal right. Sets forth specific elements to be included in answers opposing termination of relief entered before and after enactment of the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Describes: (1) requirements for responses to answers; (2) the burden of persuasion; and (3) required findings for terminating, or denying termination of, prospective relief. Makes certain requirements regarding special masters under the Act inapplicable to special masters appointed before the enactment of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, unless their original appointment expires after such enactment date. (Sec. 6802) Revises provisions limiting attorney's fees in prisoner suits. Authorizes any defendant to waive the right to respond to any complaint in any civil action arising under Federal law brought by a prisoner. Bars relief to a plaintiff unless a response has been filed. Authorizes the court to direct defendants to file a response to the cognizable claims identified by the court. (Sec.6803) Permits the court, in any civil action brought in Federal court by a prisoner (other than one confined in a Federal correctional facility), to make findings that a claim was filed for malicious or harassment purposes or was knowingly false. Authorizes the affected State Department of Corrections to: (1) revoke such amount of good time credit accrued to the prisoner as appropriate; or (2) consider such finding in determining whether the prisoner should be released from prison under any other State or local program governing the release of prisoners. (Sec. 6804) Denies a Federal court jurisdiction, in a civil action regarding prison conditions, to enter or carry out a prisoner release order that would result in the release from or nonadmission to a prison, on the basis of prison conditions, of any person subject to incarceration, detention, or admission to a facility because of a felony conviction under the laws of the relevant jurisdiction, or a violation of the terms or conditions of parole, probation, pretrial release, or a diversionary program, relating to the commission of a felony under the laws of the relevant jurisdiction. Title VII: Criminal Law and Procedural Improvements - Subtitle A: Equal Protection for Victims - Amends: (1) rule 24 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to provide for six peremptory challenges by each side; (2) rule 23 to allow six-member juries under specified circumstances; and (3) rule 404 of the Federal Rules of Evidence to permit rebuttal of attacks on the victim's character. (Sec. 7104) Amends the code to repeal a requirement that notice of release of prisoners be used only for law enforcement purposes. (Sec. 7105) Amends the Federal judicial code regarding the balance in the composition of rules committees. Subtitle B: Reform of Judicially Created Exclusionary Rules - Amends code provisions regarding the admissibility of confessions to define the term: (1) "any criminal prosecution by the United States" to include a prosecution by the United States under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ); and (2) "offense against the laws of the United States" to include an offense under the punitive articles of the UCMJ. (Sec. 7202) Amends the Federal judicial code to provide that no writ of habeas corpus or other post conviction remedy or any other provision of Federal law shall lie to challenge the custody or sentence of a person on the ground that the custody or sentence is the result in whole or in part of the voluntary confession of the person. (Sec. 7203) Requires the attorney for the United States: (1) in a Federal criminal prosecution where the defendant seeks to suppress or to exclude from evidence the defendant's own voluntary confession, to seek the admission of the confession into evidence; and (2) in any appeal from a ruling admitting or suppressing a defendant's voluntary confession, to argue that the code requires the admission of the confession or forbids its suppression. (Sec. 7204) Declares that Federal law shall not bar the admission into evidence in State court of the voluntary confession of any defendant in the criminal prosecution of that defendant if: (1) the prosecuting authority does not seek admission of the confession to establish its case in chief; or (2) the confession was obtained by interrogation reasonably prompted by a concern for public safety. (Sec. 7205) Provides that the act of a person acting under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of the United States or of any State or territory or the District of Columbia in seeking or obtaining the voluntary confession of another person shall not, by itself and in the absence of any other act that violates a person's right under the Constitution, give rise to any liability of the person in an action under Federal law. (Sec. 7206) Amends the code to bar the exclusion of evidence obtained as a result of a search or seizure carried out under circumstances justifying an objectively reasonable belief that the search or seizure was in conformity with the Fourth Amendment. Specifies that the fact that evidence was obtained pursuant to and within the scope of a warrant constitutes prima facie evidence of the existence of such circumstances. Prohibits the exclusion of evidence on the ground that it was obtained in violation of a statute, administrative rule or regulation, or rule of procedure unless the exclusion is expressly authorized by statute or by a rule prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to statutory authority. Provides that evidence which is otherwise excludable under such provision shall not be excludable where the search and seizure was carried out in circumstances justifying an objectively reasonable belief that it was in conformity with the pertinent statute, administrative rule or regulation, or rule procedure. (Sec. 7207) Amends the Federal judicial code to prohibit a Federal court from barring the retrial in State court of a person who files an application for a writ of habeas corpus. Subtitle C: Federal Law Enforcement Improvements - Chapter 1: General Provisions - Amends the code to eliminate a requirement that an assault with a dangerous weapon within the U.S. special maritime and territorial jurisdiction be committed with intent to do bodily harm in order for the attacker to be punished. Amends the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to cover acts and threats committed in Indian country or in other areas of exclusive Federal jurisdiction. Increases penalties for voluntary manslaughter within the U.S. special maritime and territorial jurisdiction. (Sec. 7302) Redefines: (1) "biological agent" to include bacteria, fungi, rickettsias, protozoa, or any synthesized component of any microorganism or infectious substance; and (2) "toxin" to include the toxic product of plants, animals, microorganisms, or a synthesized molecule. (Sec. 7303) Modifies provisions regarding violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity to increase penalties for specified attempt and conspiracy offenses. (Sec. 7306) Eliminates as a requirement for carjacking that the offense be committed with intent to cause death or serious bodily harm. (Sec. 7307) Sets penalties for criminal offenses committed by persons formerly serving with, presently employed by, or accompanying the armed forces outside the United States. (Sec. 7308) Adds attempt coverage for the interstate domestic violence offense. (Sec. 7309) Includes threats to kill within the interstate threat statute. (Sec. 7310) Expands provisions regarding protection of officers and employees of the United States to cover killings and attempts to kill a Federal officer or employee because of their status as a Federal officer or employee, and a person assisting who is an officer or employee of a State, local, or Indian tribal government, because of that status. (Sec. 7311) Revises the drive-by shooting statute to cover shootings with intent to kill. (Sec. 7312) Expands the list of those covered by provisions regarding threats against former presidents and others eligible for secret service protection. (Sec. 7313) Includes among internationally protected persons, for purposes of a prohibition on the murder or manslaughter of such persons, any participant or guest attending any international sporting event sponsored or sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee or U.S. Olympic Committee. (Sec. 7314) Directs the Commission to amend the sentencing guidelines to include the following: (1) post-offense rehabilitation shall not be a ground for imposing a sentence outside the applicable guidelines range, except where the defendant initiates substantial steps toward rehabilitation before the defendant has reason to believe that law enforcement authorities have learned of the defendant's offense; and (2) plea bargaining and other prosecutorial policies, and differences in those policies among different districts, are not a ground for imposing a sentence outside the applicable guidelines range. (Sec. 7315) Amends the code to increase the civil penalty for knowingly imparting or conveying false information. Chapter 2: Professional Standards for Federal Prosecutors - Amends the Federal judicial code to replace provisions regarding ethical standards for attorneys for the Government with ethical standards for Federal prosecutors. Subjects a Federal prosecutor (defined as an attorney employed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) who is directly engaged in the prosecution of violations of Federal civil or criminal law) to all laws and rules governing ethical conduct of attorneys of the State in which such prosecutor is licensed as an attorney, except to the extent such law or rule is inconsistent with Federal law or interferes with the effectuation of Federal law. Directs the Attorney General to establish by rule that it shall be punishable conduct for any DOJ officer or employee, in the discharge of his or her official duties, to intentionally: (1) seek the indictment of any person in the absence of a reasonable belief of probable cause; (2) fail to disclose exculpatory evidence to the defense; (3) mislead a court as to the guilt of any person by knowingly making a false statement of material fact or law; (4) offer evidence known to be false; (5) alter evidence; (6) attempt to corruptly influence or color a witness's testimony with intent to encourage untruthful testimony; (7) violate a criminal defendant's right to discovery; (8) offer or provide sexual activities to any Government witness or potential witness in exchange for his or her testimony; or (9) improperly disseminate confidential, non-public information to any person during an investigation or trial. Requires the Attorney General to: (1) establish a range of penalties for engaging in such prohibited conduct, including reprimand, demotion, dismissal, suspension from employment, referral of ethical charges to the bar, and referral of evidence related to the conduct to a grand jury; and (2) report annually to specified congressional committees on the activities and operations of DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility. Establishes a Commission on Federal Prosecutorial Conduct. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 7322) Makes code provisions holding criminally liable whoever: (1) "directly or indirectly, gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any person, for or because of the testimony under oath or affirmation given or to be given by such person as a witness upon a trial, hearing, or other proceeding" inapplicable to a public official who is acting within the scope of official duties to investigate or prosecute any violation of criminal or civil law (thus allowing a prosecutor to promise leniency to a cooperating witness in exchange for testimony, notwithstanding the July 1, 1998 decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in United States v. Singleton ); and (2) "directly or indirectly, demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally for or because of the testimony under oath or affirmation given or to be given by such person as a witness" inapplicable to a potential witness who demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value that may be directly or indirectly given, offered, or promised consistent with clause (1). Chapter 3: Amendments Relating to Courts and Sentencing - Amends the code to: (1) allow appeals by the United States in a criminal case to lie to a court of appeals under specified circumstances as to any part of any count; and (2) repeal a requirement that the U.S. Attorney certify to the district court that the appeal is not taken for purpose of delay and that the evidence is substantial proof of a fact material in the proceeding. (Sec. 7333) Amends: (1) the VCCLEA to direct the Commission to promulgate or amend guidelines to provide sentencing enhancements of not less than three offense levels for offenses that the court at sentencing (currently, the finder of fact at trial) determines beyond a reasonable doubt are hate crimes; and (2) the code to authorize the court to impose a sentence of probation or supervised release with or without conditions when reducing a sentence of imprisonment in certain cases. (Sec. 7336) Revises code provisions regarding contempt power, destruction of letter boxes, and breaches of official duty to permit the imposition of both a fine and imprisonment for violations. (Sec. 7338) Amends the Federal judicial code to provide that no Federal court shall have jurisdiction to hear any cause or claim arising from the exercise of a State's executive clemency or pardon power or the process or procedures used under such power. Chapter 4: Amendments Relating to White Collar Crime - Amends the code to provide for coverage of "attempts" under various theft and embezzlement-related prohibitions. (Sec. 7343) Expands a provision regarding breaking into a post office (including attempts to do so) to include breaking into any post office box or postal stamp vending machine. (Sec. 7344) Makes provisions regarding transportation, and sale or receipt, of stolen vehicles applicable to vessels. (Sec. 7348) Eliminates the proof of value requirement for property constituting "matters occurring before the grand jury" with respect to felony theft or conversion of grand jury material. (Sec. 7349) Amends the interstate travel fraud statute to cover travel by the perpetrator. (Sec. 7350) Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to drop the threshold from 100 to 50 marihuana plants to trigger specified penalties for violations of such Act. (Sec. 7351) Amends the code to authorize personnel of a foreign government or of a State, subdivision of a State, or an Indian tribe to participate in interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications. (Sec. 7352) Amends code provisions regarding tampering with a witness, victim, or informant, and regarding release or detention pending trial, to add "supervised release" to references to "probation, parole, or release" pending judicial proceedings, trial, sentencing, appeal, or completion of sentence. (Sec. 7353) Amends a provision regarding entry of goods by means of false statements to increase penalties and to specify that such provision shall not be construed to require proof of any mental state as to whether the defendant's willful act or omission would deprive the Government of any lawful customs duties. (Sec. 7354) Amends financial crimes provisions of the code to provide that the definition of "State" in the International Banking Act of 1978 shall be deemed to include a U.S. commonwealth, territory, or possession. (Sec. 7358) Expands jurisdiction over child buying and selling offenses to include U.S. special maritime areas and U.S. commonwealths. (Sec. 7359) Restores wiretap authority for certain money laundering offenses. (Sec. 7360) Amends the CSA to decrease the amount of flunitrazepam necessary to trigger penalties. (Sec. 7361) Repeals provisions of: (1) the Immigration and Nationality Act that sunset the S visa classification program (involving certain aliens who assist Federal or State law enforcement authorities or a Federal or State court in prosecuting individuals involved in a criminal organization or enterprise); and (2) the code regarding fugitives from, and jurisdiction of offenses in, the Panama Canal Zone. (Sec. 7364) Amends the code to prohibit and set penalties for fraud involving aircraft or space vehicle parts in interstate or foreign commerce. Sets forth provisions regarding civil remedies, criminal forfeiture, investigative demand procedures, enforcement, and immunity from civil liability for good faith compliance with a subpoena. Provides wiretap authority with respect to this section. Chapter 5: Fraud Against the Elderly - Directs the Attorney General, as part of each National Crime Victimization Survey, to include statistics relating to: (1) crimes targeting or disproportionately affecting seniors; (2) crime risk factors for seniors; and (3) specific characteristics of the victims of crimes who are seniors. (Sec. 7473) Directs the Commission to: (1) review and, if appropriate, amend the sentencing guidelines to include the age of a crime victim as one of the criteria for determining whether the application of the sentencing enhancements is appropriate; and (2) report to Congress on issues relating to the age of crime victims. (Sec. 7474) Directs the Commission to: (1) review and, if appropriate, amend the guidelines and the policy statements of the Commission with respect to persons convicted of offenses involving fraud in connection with a health-care benefit program; and (2) report to Congress on issues relating to such offenses. (Sec. 7475) Amends the code to increase penalties for fraud resulting in serious injury or death. (Sec. 7476) Expands the scope of telemarketing fraud subject to enhanced criminal penalties to include wire communications utilizing a telephone service. Requires a common carrier subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission, if notified in writing by the Attorney General, acting within the Attorney General's jurisdiction, that any wire communications facility furnished by such common carrier is being used or will be used by a subscriber for the purpose of transmitting or receiving a wire communication in interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of executing any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, in connection with the conduct of telemarketing, to discontinue or refuse the leasing, furnishing, or maintaining of the facility to or for the subscriber after reasonable notice to the subscriber. Prohibits damages against any common carrier for any act done in compliance with a notice received from the Attorney General under this section. (Sec. 7477) Authorizes a court, upon ex parte motion of an attorney for the Government showing that such disclosure would be of assistance to enforce any provision of Federal law, to direct the disclosure of any matter occurring before a grand jury during an investigation of a Federal health-care offense to an attorney for the Government to use in any investigation or civil preceding relating to fraud or false claims in connection with a Federal health-care program. (Sec. 7478) Amends the CSA to prohibit a defendant from using property subject to forfeiture to satisfy an order of restitution, with an exception if there are one or more identifiable victims entitled to restitution and the defendant has no assets other than the property subject to forfeiture with which to pay restitution to the victim or victims (but, in such case, the Government shall restore the forfeited property to the victims once the ancillary preceding has been completed and the costs of the forfeiture action have been deducted). Subtitle D: Federal Law Enforcement Agency Improvements - Repeals a provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 that requires compilation of statistics relating to intimidation of Government employees. (Sec. 7502) Amends the code provision regarding flight to avoid prosecution or giving testimony to cover such flight by those entering or leaving Indian country. (Sec. 7503) Expands the definition of "prison," for purposes of the prohibition against providing or possessing contraband in prison, to cover any facility (including any privately owned facility) housing persons detained under the Immigration and Nationality Act. (Sec. 7504) Modifies provisions of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 to: (1) authorize the FBI Director, during the four-year period beginning on the enactment date of such Act, to establish a personnel management system meeting specified requirements; and (2) prohibit an employee from being separated from employment with the FBI or from receiving a reduction in pay by reason of the termination of authority. (Sec. 7505) Revises provisions of the Crime Control Act of 1990 regarding authorization of appropriations for humanitarian expenses to authorize the Administrator of the DEA and the FBI Director to pay humanitarian assistance expenses incurred by a DEA or FBI employee as a result of, or by a member of the employee's immediate family incident to, the serious illness or injury, or death, of the employee occurring while on official business. Authorizes specified other assistance. Authorizes appropriations to the DEA and FBI for each fiscal year. (Sec. 7506) Authorizes the heads of the DOJ law enforcement agencies to send employees in supervisory positions as students to accredited masters degree programs in areas related to their jobs, subject to specified requirements. (Sec. 7507) Authorizes: (1) a Schedule B appointment DEA employee to be converted noncompetitively to a career or career-conditional appointment on completion of at least three years of full time service under specified circumstances; and (2) the DEA Administrator to grant Schedule B appointments to individuals who are selected for positions in the GS-132 or GS-1801 job series. (Sec. 7508) Amends the CSA to grant the Attorney General subpoena authority with respect to investigations into allegations of misconduct by DEA employees. (Sec. 7509) Authorizes appropriations to the U.S. Customs Service to carry out programs established by its Cybersmuggling Center. Directs the Service to provide 2.5 percent of each such fiscal year appropriation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for the operation of the child pornography cyber tipline of the Center and for increased public awareness of the tipline. Grants the Service certain discretionary authority over remaining amounts appropriated. Title VIII: 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act - 21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Years 2000, 2001, and 2002 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 through 2002 to carry out DOJ activities for: (1) General Administration; (2) Administrative Review and Appeals; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) General Legal Activities; (5) the Antitrust Division; (6) U.S. Attorneys; (7) the FBI; (8) the Marshals Service; (9) the DEA; (10) the INS; (11) Fees and Expenses of Witnesses; (12) Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement; (13) the Federal Prison System; (14) the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; (15) the Community Relations Service; (16) the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (17) Federal Prisoner Detention; (18) the U.S. Parole Commission; and (19) official reception and representation expenses of DOJ. (Sec. 8102) Makes specified funds available for FY 2000 through 2002 for Federal Prison Industries. (Sec. 8103) Authorizes the Attorney General to appoint 200 assistant U.S. attorneys. Sets forth provisions regarding selection of appointees and termination of positions. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Authorizations of Appropriations for Specific Programs - Amends the VCCLEA and the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to authorize appropriations for various programs, including (with respect to the former) expeditious deportation for denied asylum applicants, border control improvement, expanded special deportation proceedings, training programs, a missing Alzheimer's disease patient alert program, a motor vehicle theft prevention program, and rural domestic violence and child abuse enforcement assistance. (Sec. 8202) Reauthorizes appropriations under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act., and the Immigration and Nationality Act (for criminal alien assistance). (Sec. 8205) Amends the VCCLEA to provide for the transfer of funds through FY 2005 for the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund. Sets forth provisions regarding discretionary spending limits, points of order in the Senate with respect to such limits, waivers, appeals in the Senate from decisions of the Chair, and determination of budget levels. Subtitle C: Permanent Enabling Provisions - Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize the Attorney General to use available funds to carry out DOJ activities for specified general purposes (including the payment of translators, the payment of rewards, and health care and travel expenses for DOJ employees serving abroad), specific permitted uses (such as for the purchase of firearms and ammunition), subsistence and medical expenses of persons in the custody of the Marshals Service, and fees and expenses of witnesses. Authorizes the FBI to establish and collect fees to process fingerprint identification records and name checks for non-criminal justice, non-law enforcement employment and licensing purposes, and for certain employees of private sector contractors with classified Government contracts. Makes funds available for the INS and for the Federal Prison System for specified purposes. Sets forth provisions regarding limits on compensation of individuals employed as attorneys and regarding reimbursements paid to Government entities. (Sec. 8302) Amends the Federal Judicial Code to direct the Attorney General to report to Congress whenever the Attorney General or any other DOJ officer: (1) establishes or adopts a policy to refrain from enforcing any provision of a Federal statute within the officer's responsibility because of that officer's (or the President's) opinion that the provision is unconstitutional; or (2) determines to contest, or to refrain from defending or asserting, in any proceeding any provision of a Federal statute, or not to appeal any determination affecting its constitutionality, because of that officer's (or the President's) opinion that the provision is unconstitutional. (Sec. 8303) Sets forth provisions regarding notification of Congress with respect to the reprogramming or transfer of funds authorized. (Sec. 8304) Amends: (1) the Economic Opportunities Act of 1964 to define "political activity" to include any activity designed or intended to contest or challenge before any tribunal the constitutionality of any statute or regulation; (2) the Safe Streets Act to prohibit drug control and system improvement (Byrne) grants or contracts to provide security enhancements or equipment to a nongovernmental entity; and (3) the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 to prohibit funds appropriated to the Legal Services Corporation in such Act or any future Act from being used for specified purposes, and to substitute for references to 1998 and 1999, references, in any given fiscal year, to the last and the current fiscal years. (Sec. 8305) Amends the Federal judicial code to: (1) reauthorize the Attorney General's authority to transfer property of marginal value and to make such transfer subject to the satisfaction of the recipient involved of any outstanding lien against the transferred property; and (2) authorize the Attorney General to appoint officials to assist in the protection of the Attorney General. (Sec. 8307) Authorizes DOJ and the Department of the Treasury, respectively, to pay an extended assignment allowance or bonus to any individual assigned to a permanent position located in Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, or U.S. territories and possessions when the Attorney General or the Secretary of the Treasury, as to his respective agency, determines that the position is difficult to fill and that it is in the interests of the pertinent Department to encourage an incumbent employee to remain in that position, subject to limitation. (Sec. 8308) Prohibits the use of funds available to the Attorney General in any fiscal year from being used to require any person to perform, or facilitate the performance of, any abortion. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous - Repeals certain open-ended authorizations of appropriations for the National Institute of Corrections and for the Marshals Service. (Sec. 8404) Revises Federal law regarding the Counterterrorism Fund to authorize reimbursement of Federal departments and agencies for costs incurred in connection with: (1) counterterrorism technology research and development; and (2) providing training and related equipment to State and local law enforcement agencies for prevention and response capabilities against bombs and against chemical, biological, nuclear, and cyber attack. (Sec. 8406) Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act to authorize the Solicitor of Labor to appear for and represent the Secretary of Labor on litigation in Act enforcement (current law) with the express permission of and under the direction and authority of the Attorney General. (Sec. 8407) Directs the Attorney General, by February 1 of each year, to provide to specified congressional committees: (1) a report identifying and describing every grant, cooperative agreement, or services contract that was made or extended in the preceding fiscal year by the Office of Justice Programs; and (2) a performance review thereof. Amends the Legal Services Corporation Act to: (1) consider the Legal Services Corporation to be a department or agency of the Government for specified purposes; and (2) require applicants for financial assistance from the Corporation to file applications supported by written declarations under penalty of perjury. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct an annual audit of the Corporation and report to Congress and the Attorney General. (Sec. 8408) Amends the Federal judicial code to make the Assistant Attorney General for Administration the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for DOJ. Terminates the existing CFO position. Makes the CFO of DOJ an executive level IV salary position. Title IX: Miscellaneous - Amends the code to exempt qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms. Gives the consent of Congress to any two or more States to: (1) enter into compacts or agreements for cooperative effort in enabling individuals to carry concealed weapons as dictated by laws of the State within which the owner of the weapon resides and is authorized to carry a concealed weapon; and (2) establish agencies or guidelines as the States may determine to be appropriate for making effective such agreements and compacts. (Sec. 9102) Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to exempt the return of a firearm to a person from whom the firearm was received from the requirement that an instant criminal background check be conducted in connection with the transfer of a firearm. (Sec. 9103) Directs the Attorney General to provide annual funding for the National Center for Rural Law Enforcement if the executive director of the Center certifies in writing to the Attorney General that the Center meets specified requirements, including that it shall use sums made available for development of an educational program for law enforcement agencies serving rural areas and the employees of those agencies. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005. (Sec. 9104) Directs the Attorney General, subject to the availability of appropriations, to fund the DOJ Center for Domestic Preparedness. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2004.

Admiral James W. Nance Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001

United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Authorizations of Appropriations for Department of State Title II: Department of State Basic Authorities and Activities Subtitle A: Basic Authorities and Activities Subtitle B: Consular Authorities Title III: Organization and Personnel of the Department of State Subtitle A: Organization Matters Subtitle B: Foreign Service Reform Subtitle C: Other Personnel Matters Title IV: Embassy Security and Counterrorism Measures Title V: United States International Broadcasting Activities Title VI: Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and National Security Subtitle A: Arms Control Subtitle B: Nuclear Nonproliferation, Safety, and Related Matters Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions Subtitle A: People's Republic of China Subtitle B: Other Matters Title VIII: International Organizations and Commissions Subtitle A: Authorizations of Appropriations Subtitle B: United Nations Activities Subtitle C: International Organizations Other Than the United Nations Title IX: Arrears Payments and Reform Subtitle A: General Provisions Subtitle B: Arrearages to the United Nations Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001 - Title I: Authorizations of Appropriations for Department of State - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 2000 and 2001 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs; (2) international commissions; (3) migration and refugee assistance; (4) U.S. informational, educational, and cultural programs; and (5) the Asia Foundation. Title II: Department of State Basic Authorities and Activities - Subtitle A: Basic Authorities and Activities - Urges the Secretary of State to fill the position of Director of the Office of Children's Issues of the Department of State with a career member of the Senior Executive Service at the earliest date practicable. Designates in each U.S. diplomatic mission an employee who shall serve as the point of contact for matters relating to international abductions of children by parents. Directs the Secretary 24 hours after notice of a possible abduction of a child by a parent to a location abroad to report it, along with other specified information, to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. (Sec. 202) Amends the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 to make permanent the requirement that the Secretary report to the appropriate congressional committees on compliance by member countries to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (done at The Hague on October 25, 1980). Requires such report to include (among other things): (1) specific actions taken by the U.S. chief of mission in the country to which a child is alleged to have been abducted; and (2) a description of the efforts of the Secretary to encourage the parties to the Convention to facilitate the work of nongovernmental organizations within their countries that assist parents seeking the return of children under the Convention. Expresses the sense of Congress that the annual human rights report by the Department of State should include a section on each country regarding the treatment of children in that country. (Sec. 205) Requires the Secretary to study the feasibility of establishing a Russia-based foundation for the promotion of democratic institutions in the Russian Federation. Earmarks funding. (Sec. 206) Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 to authorize the United States Information Agency (USIA) to use certain funds to carry out its responsibilities: (1) under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 to provide for U.S. participation in international fairs and expositions abroad; (2) with respect to encouraging foreign governments, international organizations, and private individuals, firms, associations, agencies, and other groups to participate in international fairs and expositions and to make contributions for U.S. participation in such fairs and expositions; and (3) to facilitate support to the U.S. Commissioner General for participation in international fairs and expositions. Subtitle B: Consular Authorities - Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 with respect to fees charged for processing machine readable nonimmigrant visas and machine readable combined border crossing identification cards and nonimmigrant visas. Makes any fee collections that exceed a certain amount for FY 2000 and 2001 available for deposit as an offsetting collection to any State Department appropriation to recover the costs of providing consular services only if Congress is notified in accordance with specified reprogramming notification procedures. Repeals: (1) provisions making inapplicable certain requirements concerning accounting for consular fees to fees collected under this section; and (2) the prohibition against the charging of fees to citizens of countries signatory to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). (Sec. 212) Authorizes the Secretary to charge a fee for State Department services provided to ensure that an affidavit of support provided by a sponsor is properly completed before it is forwarded to a consular post for adjudication of an immigrant visa. (Sec. 213) Amends the Passport Act to provide that a nonrefundable fee of $10 shall be collected for the filing of each passport application (including the cost of passport issuance and use). (Sec. 214) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to revise requirements concerning the State Department and the death of U.S. citizens abroad. Sets forth requirements regarding: (1) notification of next of kin by consular officers; (2) the appointment of such officers as administrators of a decedent's estate; and (3) losses in connection with the conservation of the estate. Title III: Organization and Personnel of the Department of State - Subtitle A: Organization Matters - Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to specified congressional committees a plan for establishment of legislative liaison offices for the State Department within the House of Representatives and Senate office buildings. Subtitle B: Foreign Service Reform - Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to limit to no more than 33 percent (currently, 50 percent) the percentage of Senior Foreign Service members that may receive performance pay in any fiscal year. (Sec. 314) Requires the Director of the Foreign Service to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the placement of Senior Foreign Service personnel. (Sec. 315) Directs the State Department to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the feasibility of modifying current training programs so that the Department can provide significant and comprehensive management training at all career grades for Foreign Service personnel. (Sec. 316) Requires the Secretary of State to report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and a specified Senate committee on: (1) the steps taken and planned in furtherance of maximum compatibility among agencies utilizing the Foreign Service personnel system, and the development of uniform policies and procedures and consolidated personnel functions; and (2) a five-year workforce plan, including projected personnel needs, by grade and by skill. (Sec. 317) Requires any record of disciplinary action taken against a member of the Foreign Service (including any correction of such record) to remain a part of the personnel records until such person is tenured as a career member of the Service or next promotion. (Sec. 318) Requires an employee, at any time the Secretary recommends such employee be separated from the Service, to be placed on leave without pay pending final resolution of the case, subject to reinstatement with back pay if cause for separation is not established in a hearing before the Foreign Service Grievance Board. (Sec. 319) Requires the Director General of the Foreign Service to report annually to specified congressional committees on the number of positions in each overseas mission requiring foreign language competence that became vacant during the previous year and were filled by individuals having the required foreign language competence. (Sec. 320) Declares that nothing shall prevent a Foreign Service grievant from placing a rebuttal to accompany a record of disciplinary action in such grievant's personnel records, nor prevent the Department from including a response to such rebuttal, including documenting those cases in which the Board has reviewed and upheld the discipline. (Sec. 321) Reduces from three years to one year after the occurrence giving rise to such grievance the deadline for the filing of a grievance by a Foreign Service employee with the Department; or, if the grievance arises from an employee's performance evaluation, one year after the date on which the employee ceased to be supervised by the reviewer in the evaluation. Requires the Chairman of the Board to report to specified congressional committees on its activities during the previous year. Subtitle C: Other Personnel Matters - Requires a Foreign Service employee who regularly commutes from his or her place of residence in the United States to an official duty station in Canada or Mexico to receive a border equalization adjustment (locality pay adjustment). (Sec. 332) Amends Federal law to set forth provisions regarding contributions made to the Thrift Savings Fund by Foreign Service employees who are reemployed by the Service after a temporary transfer to an international organization. (Sec. 333) Authorizes the spouse and dependents of Foreign Service employees who have died at post in a foreign country to receive a transfer allowance (extraordinary, necessary, and reasonable subsistence and other relocation expenses) for their return to the United States. (Sec. 334) Provides for an education allowance to an employee at a post in a foreign area not to exceed the cost of obtaining kindergarten, elementary and secondary educational services, plus room and board, where adequate schools are not available at the employee's post, and periodic transportation between that post and the school chosen by the employee, not to exceed the total cost to the Government of the dependent attending an adequate school in the nearest locality where an adequate school is available. (Currently, an employee can receive an allowance only for a school at the nearest locality). (Sec. 335) Authorizes up to three months advance pay to: (1) an employee (other than an employee appointed by the Secretary and employed as a family member of a Government employee) who is a U.S. citizen, stationed outside the United States, and requires (or has a family member who requires) medical treatment outside the United States; (2) a foreign national employee; and (3) a U.S. citizen who is not a family member of a government employee assigned abroad, but who is hired abroad for a position customarily filled by Foreign Service personnel or foreign nations, and who is located, and must undergo medical treatment, outside of the country of employment. (Sec. 336) Declares that Congress finds that administrative and technical personnel posted to U.S. missions abroad who do not have diplomatic status suffer financial disadvantages from their lack of such status. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees on such disadvantages, including proposals to alleviate them. Title IV: Embassy Security and Counterterrorism Measures - Secure Embassy Construction and Counterterrorism Act of 1999 - Establishes within the Treasury an embassy construction and security account for the purpose of constructing, or providing major security enhancements to, U.S. diplomatic facilities in order to meet specified security requirements. Specifies among such requirements that: (1) threat assessments such as the Emergency Action Plan (EAP) and the Security Environment Threat List address threats to U.S. missions from large vehicular bombs and transnational terrorism; (2) in the selection of sites for new U.S. diplomatic facilities abroad, all U.S. Government agency personnel (except those under U.S. military command) be located on the same compound; (3) each newly constructed or acquired U.S. diplomatic facility be sited not less than 100 feet from the perimeter of the property on which the facility is situated; (4) appropriate State Department and U.S. diplomatic personnel undertake crisis management training for mass casualty and mass destruction incidents relating to diplomatic facilities; (5) there is adequate State Department support for the Foreign Emergency Support Team (FEST); (6) the Secretary enter into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Secretary of Defense setting out rapid response procedures for mobilization of personnel and equipment of their respective departments to provide more effective assistance in times of emergency with respect to U.S. diplomatic facilities; and (7) all U.S. diplomatic missions have emergency equipment and records stored at a secure off-site facility. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 405) Directs the Secretary to report annually for five years to the appropriate congressional committees an identification of U.S. diplomatic facilities that are priority for replacement or for major security enhancement because of vulnerability to terrorist attack, setting them out, in groups of 20, from the most vulnerable to the least vulnerable. Dedicates the use of account funds to facilities in the first four groups. (Sec. 407) Directs the Secretary to review, and report to Congress on, the findings of the Overseas Presence Advisory Panel with respect to the closure of vulnerable U.S. diplomatic missions overseas. (Sec. 408) Amends the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986 to require the Secretary to convene a Board not later than 60 days after the occurrence of serious injury, loss of life, or significant destruction of property, or breach of security at a U.S. diplomatic mission (except that such 60-day period may be extended for two additional 30-day periods if it is necessary for the convening of the Board). Requires the Secretary whenever he or she convenes a Board to inform the chairman of a specified congressional committee and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. (Sec. 409) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the President to award a Foreign Service star to any member of the Foreign Service or any other civilian Government employee who while employed at, or assigned permanently or temporarily to, an official mission overseas, or while traveling abroad on official business, incurred a wound or other injury or an illness (whether or not resulting in death): (1) as the person was performing official duties; (2) as the person was on the premises of a U.S. mission abroad; or (3) by reason of the person's status as a U.S. Government employee. Specifies award requirements. Title V: United States International Broadcasting Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for international broadcasting activities, radio construction, and broadcasting to Cuba. (Sec. 502) Amends the United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 to: (1) authorize appropriations for FY 2000 and 2001 for Radio Free Asia; and (2) extend its authority through FY 2005. (Sec. 503) Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 to require the President to appoint (currently, designate) one member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors as Chairman of the Board, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. Title VI: Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and National Security - Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and National Security Act of 1999 - Subtitle A: Arms Control - Authorizes the Secretary of State to transfer available State Department funds to the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Energy (DOE), or any other agency of the intelligence community, as needed, for retraining, researching, developing, or acquiring technologies or programs relating to the verification of arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament agreements or commitments. Earmarks amounts (Key Verification Assets Fund) to carry out this section, with limitation. (Sec. 612) Directs the Secretary to designate one of the Assistant Secretaries of State as the Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance. (Sec. 613) Amends the Arms Control and Disarmament Act to require a certain annual ("Pell") report by the President to Congress to include (among other things): (1) a detailed assessment of adherence of the United States to obligations undertaken in arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament commitments (including the Missile Technology Control Regime); and (2) a specific identification, to the maximum extent practicable in unclassified form, of each and every question that exists with respect to compliance by other countries with arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements with the United States. (Sec. 614) Requires the Director of Central Intelligence to report to the appropriate congressional committees on: (1) a comprehensive identification of all monitoring activities associated with the START and START II treaties; (2) the specific intelligence community assets and capabilities which the Senate was informed, before giving advice and consent to ratification of the treaties, would be necessary to accomplish those activities; (3) an identification of the extent to which those assets and capabilities have, or have not, been attained or retained, and the corresponding effect this has had upon U.S. monitoring confidence levels; and (4) an assessment of any Russian activities relating to the START Treaty which have had an impact upon the U.S. ability to monitor Russian adherence to the Treaty. (Sec. 615) Requires the Secretary, upon the request of the chairman or ranking member of specified congressional committees, to report to such committee on the degree to which elements of an arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament proposal are capable of being verified. (Sec. 616) Requires the Government to make certain raw seismological data available to the public. (Sec. 617) Directs the U.S. National Authority to reimburse the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for all costs (up to $1 million) incurred by it in connection with the protection of U.S. companies. (Sec. 622) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer available State Department funds to the DOD, DOE, or any military departments for researching, developing, adapting, and deploying technologies to achieve the destruction or removal of antipersonnel landmines for humanitarian purposes. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Nuclear Nonproliferation, Safety, and Related Matters - Prohibits any Executive agency, in carrying out any U.S. obligation under the Convention on Nuclear Safety, from imposing any new reporting obligation upon any U.S. business. (Sec. 632) Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to authorize the President to suspend nuclear cooperation with any nation that has not ratified, among other treaties, the Convention on Nuclear Safety. (Sec. 634) Amends the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 to require certain Federal agencies to notify specified congressional committees with respect to their activities for preventing proliferation, including the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, or their means of delivery. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence to notify such committees about the current activities of foreign nations which are of significance from the proliferation standpoint. (Sec. 635) Directs the Secretary of Energy to report to specified congressional committees with respect to the effective use of resources under the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention (IPP) program. Prohibits the provision of any assistance under the International Science and Technology Center program or the IPP to any person who is involved in the research, development, design, testing, or evaluation of offensive chemical or biological weapons. (Sec. 636) Directs the Secretary of Energy to report to specified congressional committees with respect to the agreement between the United States and Russia for the disposition of excess weapons plutonium. Prohibits the use of State Department or DOE funds to establish a mixed oxide fuel fabrication or production facility in Russia unless the Secretary makes a certain certification with respect to such facility. (Sec. 637) Prohibits, subject to waiver in certain circumstances, the approval of a license for the export of certain controlled items to Hong Kong or Macao, unless appropriate U.S. officials are provided the right to conduct prelicense verification of the validity of the item's stated end-user and end-use. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires the submission to a specified congressional committee of a summary of the activities of any U.S. delegation engaged in negotiations on arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament with another country. (Sec. 642) Prohibits any U.S. employee from knowingly withholding information from the chairman or ranking member of specified congressional committees with respect to certain required reports concerning the activities of certain Federal agencies to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Requires the Secretaries of State, Defense, Commerce, and Energy, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to issue regulations to implement their responsibilities with respect to such reports. Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Subtitle A: People's Republic of China - Earmarks specified funds for FY 2001 for the support of additional personnel in U.S. Embassies in Beijing, Kathmandu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenyang, Chengdu, and Hong Kong, China, in order to monitor political and economic conditions there, including the respect for internationally recognized human rights. (Sec. 703) Establishes the Prisoner Information Registry for the People's Republic of China which shall provide information on all political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, and prisoners of faith in China. Makes funds available to nongovernmental organizations for such monitoring activities. (Sec. 704) Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the feasibility of establishing an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Asia. (Sec. 705) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Government of China should stop the harvesting and transplanting of organs for profit from prisoners that it executes; and (2) the President should bar from entry into the United States any Chinese government official known to be directly involved in such activities. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Prohibits the Secretary, subject to waiver in certain circumstances, from issuing any visa to, and the Attorney General from admitting to the United States, any foreign national that has been directly involved in the establishment or enforcement of population control policies forcing a woman to undergo an abortion against her free choice or forcing a man or woman to undergo sterilization against his or her free choice. (Sec. 722) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the status of U.S. efforts to support the membership, or appropriate level of participation by, Taiwan in international organizations that do not or may require statehood as a prerequisite to membership. (Sec. 723) Declares that Congress: (1) commends the State Department for the U.S. vote against United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-10-6 affirming that the text of such resolution politicizes the Fourth Geneva Convention which was primarily humanitarian in nature; and (2) urges the State Department to continue its efforts against convening the conference. (Sec. 724) Authorizes the President to waive certain prohibitions with respect to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that: (1) it is in the national interest; and (2) neither the PLO, the Palestinian Authority, nor the Palestinian Legislative Council has made a declaration of statehood outside the framework of negotiations with Israel. (Sec. 725) Earmarks, with specified limitation, certain funds for FY 2000 and 2001 for the construction of a U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Israel. (Sec. 726) Declares that the United States: (1) supports a timely transition to democratic, civilian government in Nigeria; and (2) encourages the incoming civilian government in Nigeria to make the political, economic, and legal reforms necessary to ensure the rule of law and respect for human rights there. (Sec. 727) Directs the President to vest and liquidate so much of blocked Libyan assets as is necessary to pay for the reasonable costs of travel to and from the Hague, Netherlands, by immediate family members of U.S. citizens who were victims of the crash of Pan American flight 103 in 1988, for the purpose of attending the trial of the individuals suspected of terrorist acts causing the crash. (Sec. 728) Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should support members of Russia's Jewish community and continue to provide assistance to Russian Jewish refugees resettling in Israel. (Sec. 729) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President and other senior U.S. Government officials should raise at each bilateral meeting between U.S. officials and Russian Federation officials the issue of the extradition of Lt. General Igor Giorgadze to Georgia. Title VIII: International Organizations and Commissions - Subtitle A: Authorizations of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to the State Department for FY 2000 and 2001 to carry out U.S. foreign affairs with respect to: (1) international organizations; and (2) international peacekeeping activities. Earmarks amounts, with limits, for the U.S. assessment for the civil budget of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). (Sec. 801) Withholds a specified percentage of funds for the assessed U.S. contribution to the UN until the Secretary certifies that the UN has taken specified actions. Prohibits the use of funds for any U.S. contribution to: (1) pay for any expense related to the holding of any UN global conference (except for any conference scheduled prior to October 1, 1998); or (2) the UN budget for the U.S. proportionate share of any other framework treaty-based organization, including the Framework Convention on Global Climate Change, the International Seabed Authority, the Desertification Convention, and the International Criminal Court. Authorizes appropriations to offset adverse fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. Urges the United States to insist that the UN and its affiliated agencies refund any excess contributions made by its members. (Sec. 802) Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to require the President, with specified exceptions, to: (1) consult monthly with Congress on the status of UN peacekeeping operations; and (2) notify designated congressional committees at least 15 days before the United States provides any assistance to the UN to support such operations. Subtitle B: United Nations Activities - Declares it to be U.S. policy to: (1) promote an end to Israel's inequity in the UN due to its denied acceptance into any of the UN's regional blocs; and (2) seek abolition of certain UN Palestinian groups. Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees on: (1) actions taken by U.S. representatives to encourage nations of the Western Europe and Others Group (WEOG) to accept Israel into their regional bloc; (2) other measures taken to ensure and promote Israel's full participation in the UN; and (3) steps taken by the United States to secure the abolition of the UN Palestinian groups. (Sec. 812) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the President to provide the Secretary General of the UN with data regarding all costs incurred by DOD, as well as all costs incurred by all UN members, during the preceding year in support of all UN Security Council resolutions. (Sec. 813) Amends the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to direct the President to obtain reimbursement from the UN for expenses incurred by it in UN peacekeeping operations, with specified exceptions. Provides a waiver for such requirement if it is in the national interest of the United States. Subtitle C: International Organizations Other Than the United Nations - Prohibits the use of funds made available by any Act to: (1) support the International Criminal Court unless the United States becomes a party to the Court; (2) extradite a U.S. citizen to a foreign nation that is under obligation to surrender persons to the Court unless such nation confirms that applicable prohibitions on reextradition apply to such surrender or gives other assurances that it will not extradite or transfer that citizen to the Court; or (3) provide consent to the extradition or transfer of a U.S. citizen to a third country by a foreign country that is under obligation to surrender persons to the Court, unless the third country makes such confirmation. (Sec. 823) Amends the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 to make permanent certain requirements prohibiting, without a prior estimated expense report to the Department's Director of the Office of International Conferences, the use of funds under such Act to pay: (1) foreign travel expenses of an employee of the U.S. Executive agencies (with certain exceptions) in attending any international conference; or (2) the routine services that a U.S. diplomatic mission provides in support of travel by such employee. Makes permanent the requirement that the Director report to Congress with respect to each international conference. (Sec. 824) Authorizes the Commissioner of the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission to provide, upon request of a State or local government, technical tests, evaluations, information, surveys, or other similar services on a reimbursable basis. Title IX: Arrears Payments and Reform - Subtitle A: General Provisions - United Nations Reform Act of 1999 - Defines terms. Subtitle B: Arrearages to the United Nations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1999 and 2000 only for the payment of arrearages in assessed contributions to the UN for: (1) the U.S. share of assessments for the regular UN budget; (2) the U.S. share of UN peacekeeping operations; (3) the U.S. share of UN specialized agencies; and (4) the U.S. share of other international organizations. Authorizes the disbursement of such funds only upon submission to Congress of certain certifications concerning the reform of UN fiscal, budget, and personnel practices, assessments, and peacekeeping operations. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds to pay any arrearage for: (1) the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, including any costs to merge it into the UN; (2) the costs associated with any UN organization from which the United States has withdrawn; or (3) the World Tourism Organization, or any other organization with respect to Congress has rescinded funding.

Aufhebung erstinstanzlicher Bescheide des unabhängigen Bundesasylsenates, Kosovo-Flüchtlingen Asyl zu gewähren

Austria · National Council · 22 April 1999

Mündliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Helene Partik-Pablé an den Bundesminister für Inneres betreffend Aufhebung negativer erstinstanzlicher Bescheide durch die jüngsten Entscheidungen des unabhängigen Bundesasylsenates, Kosovo-Flüchtlingen in Österreich Asyl zu gewähren <br><br>Wie beurteilen Sie den Umstand, daß durch die jüngsten Entscheidungen des unabhängigen Bundesasylsentes, Kosovo-Flüchtlingen in Österreich Asyl zu gewähren, negative erstinstanzliche Bescheide aufgehoben werden?

Asylgewährung für Deserteure und Stellungsflüchtlinge in Jugoslawien

Austria · National Council · 22 April 1999

Mündliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Terezija Stoisits an den Bundesminister für Inneres betreffend Asylgewährung für Deserteure und Stellungsflüchtlinge des Krieges in Jugoslawien <br><br>Werden Sie sich dafür einsetzen, daß im Zusammenhang mit dem Krieg in Jugoslawien Deserteuren und Stellungsflüchtigen Asyl gewährt wird, wenn sie in Österreich einen Asylantrag stellen?

Information der Kosovo-Albaner ihres Rechtsanspruchs auf Stellung eines Asylantrages

Austria · National Council · 22 April 1999

Mündliche Anfrage des Abgeordneten Dr. Volker Kier an den Bundesminister für Inneres betreffend Information der nach Österreich kommenden Kosovo-Albaner hinsichtlich ihres Rechtsanspruchs auf Stellung eines Asylantrages <br><br>Werden Sie nach Österreich kommende Kosovo-Albaner umfassend darüber informieren, daß sie einen Rechtsanspruch auf Stellung eines Asylantrages haben, anstatt als Vertriebene nach § 29 FrG aufgenommen zu werdne?

Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen aus dem Kosovo

Austria · National Council · 21 April 1999

Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Dr. Volker Kier und Genossen betreffend Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen aus dem Kosovo

Waffenstillstand und humanitäre Hilfe für Flüchtlinge aus der Kriegsregion

Austria · National Council · 21 April 1999

Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten MMag. Dr. Madeleine Petrovic und Genossen betreffend Waffenstillstand im Kosovo und humanitäre Hilfe für Flüchtlinge aus der Kriegsregion

Hilfestellungen für die Kosovo-Vertriebenen

Austria · National Council · 21 April 1999

Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Dr. Helene Partik-Pablé und Genossen betreffend Hilfestellung für die Kosovo-Vertriebenen in der Region bzw. in den angrenzenden Nachbarstaaten

Hilfsmaßnahmen für Flüchtlinge, insbesondere Deserteure der Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien

Austria · National Council · 21 April 1999

Unselbständiger Entschließungsantrag der Abgeordneten Mag. Terezija Stoisits und Genossen betreffend Aufenthaltsgarantie für Bürger der Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien, die im wehrpflichtigen Alter sind und sich als Deserteure oder Wehrdienstverweigerer ausweisen

Kosovar Albanian Refugee Humanitarian Assistance Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1999

Kosovar Albanian Refugee Humanitarian Assistance Act of 1999 - Directs the President to provide humanitarian assistance for Kosovar Albanian refugees. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the President to use ships and aircraft of the armed forces (including private ships and aircraft contracted by such forces) for the transportation of Kosovar Albanian refugees. Directs the President to establish a fund for private contributions for the relief and recovery effort in the Balkan region. Directs the President to exercise specified authority under the Immigration and nationality Act to admit to the United States up to 100,000 Kosovar Albanian refugees. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of State to establish a program to assist Kosovar Albanian refugees.

Amended proposal for a Council Decision on a Joint Action adopted by the Council on the basis of Article K.3 of the Treaty on European Union establishing measures to provide pratical support in relation to the reception and the voluntary repatriation of refugees, displaced persons and asylum applicants, including emergency assistance to persons who have fled as a result of recent events in Kosovo

European Union · European Commission · 13 April 1999

Serbia Democratization Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1999

Serbia Democratization Act of 1999 - Title I: Support For the Democratic Opposition - Authorizes the President to furnish assistance and other support for individuals and independent nongovernmental organizations to promote and strengthen institutions of democratic government and the growth of an independent civil society in Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), including ethnic tolerance and respect for internationally recognized human rights. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the President to take all necessary steps to ensure that such assistance shall not be provided to the Government of Yugoslavia or the Government of Serbia. (Sec. 102) Authorizes the President to provide assistance to the Government of Montenegro if the President determines, and reports to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and a specified congressional committee, that such government is committed to, and is taking steps to promote, democratic principles, the rule of law, and respect for internationally recognized human rights. (Sec. 103) Directs the Broadcasting Board of Governors to further the open communication of information and ideas through the increased use of radio and television broadcasting (Voice of America and Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, Incorporated) to Yugoslavia in both the Serbo-Croatian and Albanian languages. Title II: Assistance to the Victims of Serbian Oppression - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) humanitarian assistance to the victims of the conflict in Kosovo (including refugees and internally displaced persons), and all assistance to rebuild damaged property there, should be the responsibility of the Government of Yugoslavia and the Government of Serbia; (2) under President Milosevic's direction neither government has provided the resources to assist innocent, civilian victims of oppression in Kosovo; and (3) because neither government has fulfilled the responsibilities of a sovereign government toward the Kosovar people, the international community offers the only recourse for humanitarian assistance to victims of oppression in Kosovo. (Sec. 203) Authorizes the President to use authorities of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to: (1) provide humanitarian assistance to individuals living in Kosovo, and refugees and individuals displaced by the conflict there currently residing in Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; (2) provide direct and other assistance to individuals and their families from Kosovo who have been victims of atrocities there; and (3) support Kosovar community organizations in their effort to build civil society in Kosovo. Prohibits assistance to any group that maintains within its ranks any individual whom the President has determined to have committed terrorist acts or any other gross violations of internationally recognized human rights. Title III: Measures Against Yugoslavia - Imposes certain economic and non-economic ("outer wall") sanctions against Yugoslavia until the President certifies to the Speaker of the House and a specified congressional committee that the Government of Yugoslavia has met specified conditions, including to: (1) agree to resolve peacefully the conflict in Kosovo; (2) comply with the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina; (3) implement internal democratic reform; (4) settle all succession issues with the other republics that emerged from the break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; and (5) cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, including the transfer of all indicted war criminals in Yugoslavia to the Hague. Sets forth such sanctions, including instructing: (1) the U.S. executive directors of the international financial institutions to oppose, and vote against, any credit extension by such institutions of any financial assistance of any kind to the Government of Yugoslavia; (2) the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to oppose and block any consensus to allow the participation of Yugoslavia in the OSCE; (3) the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) to oppose any resolution in the UN Security Council to admit Yugoslavia to the UN, including to oppose any proposal to allow it to assume the membership of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the UN General Assembly; (4) the U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council to oppose the extension to Yugoslavia of membership in the Partnership for Peace program or any other affiliated NATO organization; and (5) the U.S. Representatives to the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI) to actively oppose the extension of SECI membership to Yugoslavia. (Sec. 301) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President: (1) should not restore full diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia until the President has determined, and reported to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and a specified congressional committee, that Yugoslavia has met the aforementioned conditions; and (2) should encourage all other European countries to diminish their level of diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. (Sec. 302) Expresses the sense of Congress that if any international financial institution approves a loan or other financial assistance to the Government of Yugoslavia over the opposition of the United States, then the Secretary of the Treasury should withhold from payment the U.S. share of any increase in the paid-in capital of such institution in an amount equal to the amount of such loan or other assistance. (Sec. 303) Blocks all property of the Government of Serbia and the Government of Yugoslavia (including commercial, industrial, or public utility or entities) that is in the United States. (Sec. 304) Directs the Secretary of State to deny a visa to, and the Attorney General not to admit to the United States, any alien who: (1) holds a position in the senior leadership of the Government of Yugoslavia or the Government of Serbia; or (2) is a spouse, minor child, or agent of such person. (Sec. 305) Authorizes the President to restore nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations) to the products of Serbia and Montenegro after the President certifies to Congress that such republics have, among other things, a freely elected government that is based on democratic principles and the rule of law, and that respects internationally recognized human rights. (Sec. 306) Prohibits the export of computers, computer software, or goods or technology intended to manufacture or service computers to or for use by the Government of Yugoslavia or by the Government of Serbia (including the military, the police, the prison system, and the national security agencies of such republics). (Sec. 307) Prohibits: (1) any Government agency (including the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation) from extending any loan, credit guarantee, insurance, financing, or other financial support to Yugoslavia; and (2) the availability of any funds for activities of the Trade and Development Agency in or for Yugoslavia. Urges all other countries, particularly European countries, to suspend any of their programs that provide financial support to Yugoslavia, including rescheduling Yugoslavia debt under more favorable conditions. Prohibits any U.S. national from making or approving any loan or other extension of credit (except if it is for housing, education, or humanitarian benefit to assist the victims of repression in Kosovo), directly or indirectly, to the Government of Yugoslavia or to the Government of Serbia. Exempts Montenegro from such prohibitions, provided certain conditions are met. (Sec. 308) Prohibits any U.S. agency from cooperating, directly or indirectly, with the armed forces of the Government of Yugoslavia or of the Government of Serbia. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibition if he determines, and reports to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and a specified congressional committee, that it is necessary to further the development in Yugoslavia of a government based on democratic principles and the rule of law, and that respects internationally recognized human rights. (Sec. 309) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should encourage all other countries, particularly European countries, to take measures similar to those contained in this title. (Sec. 310) Provides for the termination or modification of measures against Yugoslavia. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Declares it is U.S. policy to support the indictment of President Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal under the relevant statutes of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia if it decides to indict him. (Sec. 402) Declares it is U.S. policy to insist that the Government of Yugoslavia engage in good faith negotiations with the governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Slovenia on the ownership and use of, or on the arrangement for prompt, adequate compensation for, specified properties located in the United States. Expresses the sense of Congress that, if the Government of Yugoslavia refuses to negotiate in good faith, the President should take steps to return such properties to such governments. (Sec. 403) Expresses the sense of Congress that once the regime of President Slobodan Milosevic has been replaced by a government committed to democratic principles and the rule of law, and that respects internationally recognized human rights, the President of the United States should support the transition to democracy in Yugoslavia by providing assistance, including facilitating Yugoslavia's integration into international organizations.

Serbia Democratization Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1999

Serbia Democratization Act of 1999 - Title I: Support for the Democratic Opposition - Authorizes the President to furnish assistance and other support to promote and strengthen institutions of democratic government and the growth of an independent civil society in Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), including ethnic tolerance and respect for internationally recognized human rights. Authorizes appropriations. Urges the President to take all necessary steps to ensure that such assistance shall not be provided to the Government of Yugoslavia or the Government of Serbia. (Sec. 102) Authorizes the President to provide assistance to the Government of Montenegro, unless the President determines, and reports to the appropriate congressional committees, that the leadership of such government is not committed to, or is not taking steps to promote, democratic principles, the rule of law, or respect for internationally recognized human rights. (Sec. 103) Directs the Broadcasting Board of Governors to further the open communication of information and idea through the increased use of radio and television broadcasting (Voice of America and Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, Incorporated) to Yugoslavia in both the Serbo-Croatian and Albanian languages. Title II: Assistance to the Victims of Serbian Oppression - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) humanitarian assistance to the victims of the conflict in Kosovo (including refugees and internally displaced persons), and all assistance to rebuild damaged property there, should be the responsibility of the Government of Yugoslavia and the Government of Serbia; (2) under President Milosevic's direction neither government has provided the resources to assist innocent, civilian victims of oppression in Kosovo; and (3) because neither government has fulfilled the responsibilities of a sovereign government toward the Kosovar people, the international community offers the only course for humanitarian assistance to victims of oppression in Kosovo. (Sec. 203) Authorizes the President to furnish assistance (including economic support funds) under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 for: (1) relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction in Kosovo; and (2) refugees and persons displaced by the conflict there. Prohibits assistance to any group that has been designated as a terrorist organization. Title III: "Outer Wall" Sanctions - Imposes certain economic and non-economic ("Outer Wall") sanctions against Yugoslavia until the President determines, and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees, that the Government of Yugoslavia has made significant progress in meeting certain conditions, including: (1) agreement on a lasting settlement in Kosovo; (2) compliance with the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina; (3) implementation of internal democratic reform; (4) settlement of all succession issues with the other republics that emerged from the break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; and (5) cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, including the transfer of all indicted war criminals in Yugoslavia to the Hague. (Sec. 301) Sets forth such sanctions, including instructing: (1) the U.S. executive directors of the international financial institutions to oppose, and vote against, any extension of any financial assistance of any kind to the Government of Yugoslavia; (2) the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to oppose and block any consensus to allow the participation of Yugoslavia in the OSCE; (3) the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) to oppose any resolution in the UN Security Council to admit Yugoslavia to the UN, including to oppose any proposal to allow it to assume the membership of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the UN General Assembly; (4) the U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council to oppose the extension to Yugoslavia of membership in the Partnership for Peace program or any other affiliated NATO organization; and (5) the U.S. Representatives to the Southeast European Cooperation Initiative (SECI) to actively oppose the extension of SECI membership to Yugoslavia. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President: (1) should not restore full diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia until the President has determined, and reported to the appropriate congressional committees, that Yugoslavia has met the aforementioned conditions; and (2) should encourage all other European countries to diminish their level of diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. (Sec. 302) Expresses the sense of Congress that if any international financial institution approves a loan or other financial assistance to the Government of Yugoslavia over the opposition of the United States, then the Secretary of the Treasury should withhold from payment the U.S. share of any increase in the paid-in capital of such institution in an amount equal to the amount of such loan or other assistance. Title IV: Other Measures Against Yugoslavia - Blocks all property of the Government of Serbia or the Government of Yugoslavia (including commercial, industrial, or public utility or entities) that is in the United States. (Sec. 402) Directs the President to use the authorities under the Immigration and Nationality Act to suspend the entry into the United States of any alien who: (1) holds a position in the senior leadership of the Government of Yugoslavia or the Government of Serbia; or (2) is a spouse, minor child, or agent of such person. (Sec. 403) Prohibits the export of computers, computer software, or goods or technology intended to manufacture or service computers to or for use by the Government of Yugoslavia or by the Government of Serbia (including the military, the police, the prison system, and the national security agencies of such republics). Declares that nothing in this section shall prevent the issuance of licenses to ensure the safety of civil aviation and safe operation of U.S.-origin commercial passenger aircraft and to ensure the safety of ocean- going maritime traffic in international waters. (Sec. 404) Prohibits: (1) any Government agency (including the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation) from extending any loan, credit guarantee, insurance, financing, or other similar financial assistance to the Government of Yugoslavia or the Government of Serbia; and (2) any funds being made available for activities of the Trade and Development Agency in or for Serbia. Urges all other countries, particularly European countries, to suspend any of their programs that provide similar financial assistance to the Government of Yugoslavia or the Government of Serbia, including rescheduling either government's debt under more favorable conditions. Prohibits any U.S. national from making or approving any loan or other extension of credit (unless it is for housing, education, or humanitarian benefit to assist the victims of repression in Kosovo), directly or indirectly, to the Government of Yugoslavia or to the Government of Serbia. (Sec. 405) Prohibits the U.S. Government (including any Federal agency or entity) from providing assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control Act (including the provision of Foreign Military Financing or international military education and training (IMET)) or providing any defense articles or defense services under such Acts, to the armed forces of the Government of Yugoslavia or of the Government of Serbia. (Sec. 406) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should continue to seek to coordinate with other countries, particularly European countries, a comprehensive, multilateral strategy to further the purposes of this Act, including, as appropriate, encouraging other countries to take similar measures contained in this title. (Sec. 407) Exempts from the sanctions imposed in this Act both Kosovo and Montenegro (unless the President determines and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the leadership of the Government of Montenegro is not committed to, or is not taking steps to promote, democratic principles, the rule of law, or respect for internationally recognized human rights). Provides for a waiver and termination of sanctions imposed against Yugoslavia. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Declares it is U.S. policy to support the investigation of President Slobodan Milosevic by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention. (Sec. 502) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should call on NATO allies in negotiating the future of Kosovo to establish guarantees for the rights of the ethnic Hungarian community of Vojvodina. (Sec. 503) Declares it is U.S. policy to insist that the Government of Yugoslavia has the responsibility to engage in good faith negotiations with the Governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Slovenia for resolution of outstanding property issues and disposition of specified properties located in the United States. Expresses the sense of Congress that if the Government of Yugoslavia refuses to negotiate in good faith, the President should take steps to return such properties to such governments. (Sec. 504) Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to Yugoslavia if he determines, and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees, that the Government of Yugoslavia is committed to democratic principles and the rule of law and respects internationally recognized human rights.

Enhancement of Trade, Security, and Human Rights Through Sanctions Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1999

Enhancement of Trade, Security, and Human Rights Through Sanctions Reform Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to establish an effective framework for consideration by the legislative and executive branches of unilateral economic sanctions in order to ensure coordination of U.S. policy with respect to trade, security, and human rights. (Sec. 3) Declares that it is U.S. policy to: (1) pursue U.S. interests through vigorous and effective diplomatic, political, commercial, charitable, educational, cultural, and strategic engagement with other countries, while recognizing that U.S. national security interests may sometimes require the imposition of economic sanctions on other countries; (2) foster multilateral cooperation on vital matters of U.S. foreign policy, including promoting human rights and democracy, combating international terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and international narcotics trafficking, and ensuring adequate environmental protection; (3) promote U.S. economic growth and job creation by expanding exports of goods, services, and agricultural commodities, and by encouraging investment that supports the sale abroad of U.S. products and services; (4) maintain the reputation of U.S. businesses and farmers as reliable suppliers to international customers of quality products and services; (5) avoid the use of restrictions on exports of agricultural commodities as a foreign policy weapon; and (6) oppose policies of other countries designed to discourage economic interaction with countries friendly to the United States or with any U.S. national, and to avoid use of such measures as instruments of U.S. foreign policy. States that when economic sanctions are necessary, it is U.S. policy to: (1) target them as narrowly as possible on those foreign governments, entities, and officials that are responsible for the conduct being targeted, thereby minimizing unnecessary or disproportionate harm to individuals who are not responsible for such conduct; and (2) to the extent feasible, avoid any adverse impact of economic sanctions on the humanitarian activities of the United States and foreign nongovernmental organizations in a country against which sanctions are imposed. (Sec. 5) Expresses the sense of Congress that any bill or joint resolution imposing or authorizing the imposition of a unilateral economic sanction by the executive branch, and considered by the House of Representatives or the Senate, should: (1) state the U.S. foreign policy or national security objective; (2) terminate after two years unless specifically reauthorized; (3) provide for contract sanctity; (4) provide presidential authority to adjust or waive the sanction in the national interest; (5) target the sanction as narrowly as possible against the parties responsible for the conduct being targeted (without restricting medicine, medical equipment, or food, disaster relief or refugee assistance, or other specified foreign assistance); and (6) provide for expanded export promotion programs if sanctions are likely to target an export market for American farmers. (Sec. 6) Sets forth a procedure for congressional consideration of any bill or joint resolution that imposes, or authorizes the imposition of, any unilateral economic sanction by the executive branch. Requires specified reports: (1) from the President assessing the likelihood that the proposed unilateral economic sanction will achieve its stated objective within a reasonable period of time, as well as the impact of the proposed unilateral economic sanction on U.S. foreign policy, national security, and humanitarian activities; and (2) from the Secretary of Agriculture assessing the extent to which any country or countries proposed or likely to be sanctioned are markets that accounted for more than three percent of all U.S. agricultural export sales in the preceding calendar year, as well as the likelihood that U.S. agricultural exports will be affected by the proposed sanction or by retaliation by any country proposed or likely to be sanctioned, and specific commodities which are most likely to be affected. Considers any bill or joint resolution that imposes any unilateral economic sanction to include a Federal private sector mandate for purposes of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995. Requires the Congressional Budget Office, in its report pursuant to such Act, to assess the likely short- and long-term costs of the proposed sanction to the U.S. economy. (Sec. 7) Requires the President to publish notice in the Federal Register at least 45 days in advance of the imposition of a unilateral economic sanction of his intention to implement such sanction. Authorizes the President to waive such notice in cases where the sanction involves freezing the assets of a foreign country or entity, if it is determined that U.S. national interest would be jeopardized. Requires any executive sanction to include an assessment of whether the sanction is likely to achieve a specific U.S. foreign policy or national security objective within a reasonable and specified period of time. Requires, before imposition of a unilateral economic sanction, that the President and the Secretary of Agriculture report to appropriate congressional committees the same assessments required in connection with any bill or joint resolution imposing or authorizing the imposition of a unilateral economic sanction by the executive branch. Requires the President to request a report by the U.S. International Trade Commission on the likely short- and long-term costs of the proposed sanction to the U.S. economy, including the potential impact on U.S. competitiveness. Provides, in the case of a national emergency, for allowing the President temporarily to waive most of the requirements for executive action in order to act immediately, generally requiring the waived requirements to be met within 60 days after imposition of the sanction (which shall terminate after 90 days if such requirements are not met). Establishes within the executive branch an interagency Sanctions Review Committee to coordinate U.S. policy regarding unilateral economic sanctions and provide appropriate recommendations to the President. (Sec. 8) Authorizes the President to waive any sanction or prohibition contained in specified sections of the Arms Export Control Act, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, or the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 for periods of six months each if it is determined that it would advance the purposes of such Acts or the national security interests of the United States.

International Trafficking of Women and Children Victim Protection Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1999

International Trafficking of Women and Children Victim Protection Act of 1999 - Establishes within the Department of State in the Office of the Secretary of State an Inter-Agency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking. (Defines "trafficking" as the use of deception, coercion, debt bondage, the threat of force, or the abuse of authority to recruit, transport within or across borders, purchase, sell, transfer, receive, or harbor a person for the purpose of placing or holding such person, whether for pay or not, in involuntary servitude, slavery, or slavery-like conditions or in forced, bonded, or coerced labor.) Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) report annually, with the assistance of the Task Force, to Congress describing the status of international trafficking; and (2) ensure that U.S. missions abroad maintain a consistent reporting standard and thoroughly investigate reports of trafficking. Requires U.S. mission personnel to seek out and maintain contacts with human rights and other nongovernmental organizations, including receiving reports and updates from such organizations and, when appropriate, investigating such reports. Makes any government of a foreign country identified in the latest report as one that has failed to take effective action towards ending the participation of its officials in trafficking and that has failed to investigate and meaningfully prosecute those officials found to be involved, ineligible for police assistance, subject to a presidential waiver if in the U.S. national interest. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for a nonimmigrant classification for trafficking victims. Provides for a waiver of grounds for ineligibility for admission with respect to such an individual if the Attorney General considers it to be in the national interest to do so. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to jointly promulgate trafficking regulations for law enforcement personnel, immigration officials, and Foreign Service officers concerning response training and victim treatment and protection. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide, through the Office of Refugee Resettlement, assistance to trafficking victims and their children in the United States; and (2) the President to provide programs and activities to assist trafficking victims and their children abroad. Authorizes appropriations for the Task Force, the Secretary of HHS, and the President. Bars the use of funds made available to carry out this Act for the procurement of weapons or ammunition.

Community action programme for the integration of refugees

European Union · European Parliament · 22 March 1999

Community action programme for the integration of refugees

European Union · European Parliament · 22 March 1999

Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2000

United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Authorizations of Appropriations Title II: Department of State Authorities and Activities Title III: Organization of the Department of State; Personnel of the Department of State; Foreign Service Title IV: United States Informational, Educational, and Cultural Programs Title V: International Broadcasting Title VI: International Organizations and Commissions Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001 - Title I: Authorizations of Appropriations - Chapter 1: Department of State - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 2000 and 2001 for: (1) the administration of foreign affairs; (2) contributions to international organizations and international peacekeeping activities; (3) international commissions; (4) migration and refugee assistance; (5) public diplomacy programs; (6) certain voluntary contributions to international organizations; and (7) the Asia Foundation. Withholds a certain amount of funds from the United Nations Development Program that will be spent in Burma during each fiscal year unless the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the Program's activities in Burma: (1) are focused on eliminating human suffering and addressing the needs of the poor; (2) are undertaken only through international or private voluntary organizations that are independent of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) (formerly known as the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)); (3) provide no financial, political, or military benefit to the SPDC; and (4) are carried out only after consultation with the leadership of the National League for Democracy and the national Coalition Government of the Union of Burma. Prohibits the use of U.S. voluntary contributions to international organizations for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) unless the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that: (1) the UNFPA has terminated all activities in China; or (2) during the 12 months preceding the certification, there have been no abortions as the result of coercion by the Government of China. Chapter 2: Broadcasting Board of Governors - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2000 and 2001 for the Broadcasting Board of Governors to carry out certain international broadcasting activities. Title II: Department of State Authorities and Activities - Chapter 1: Authorities and Activities - Authorizes the Secretary of State and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to lease commercial aircraft to transport equipment and personnel in the event of a terrorist attack abroad, provided there have been reasonable efforts to obtain appropriate Department of Defense (DOD) aircraft and such aircraft are unavailable. (Sec. 202) Directs the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the extent of international drug trafficking from or through Cuba. (Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the compliance by the parties of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction with such convention. (Sec. 204) Repeals specified Federal laws eliminating certain reports. (Sec. 205) Amends the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (as enacted by division D of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999) to make permanent certain reporting requirements, including reports on: (1) claims by U.S. firms against the Government of Saudi Arabia; (2) certain determinations under title IV of the Libertad Act; and (3) relations with Vietnam. Extends through January 1, 2002, the requirement that the President report to specified congressional committees on cooperative projects with Russia in the area of ballistic missile defense, including in the area of early warning. (Sec. 206) Repeals a provision concerning the return of passport fees upon refusal to vise'. (Sec. 207) Directs the President to attempt, through negotiations with all Wassenaar Arrangement countries, to achieve the foreign policy goal of an international arms sales code of conduct that restricts or prohibits arms transfers to countries that: (1) do not respect democratic processes and the rule of law; (2) do not adhere to internationally recognized norms on human rights; (3) are engaged in acts of armed aggression; or (4) do not participate in the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms. Directs the President to report on such countries and negotiations to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 208) Establishes within the Department of State the Human Rights and Democracy Fellowship Program. Provides for the employment of not more than 12 fellows in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor who have expertise in human rights policy, human rights law, or related subjects and who are not permanent employees of the U.S. Government. (Sec. 209) Authorizes interest accrued on certain joint funds under agreements for cooperation in environmental, scientific, cultural and related areas to be used by the Department of State without return to the Treasury and without further appropriation by Congress. Chapter 2: Consular and Related Activities - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to revise provisions concerning the State Department and the death of U.S. citizens abroad. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) notification of next of kin by consular officers; (2) the appointment of such officers as administrators of the estate; and (3) losses in connection with the conservation of the estate. Chapter 3: Refugees - Bars the use of funds (including migration and refugee assistance) for the involuntary return of a person to a country in which the person has a well founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. (Sec. 272) Requires a certain human rights report in connection with the provision of security assistance to a foreign country to include the extent to which such country has extended protection to refugees (including the provision of first asylum and resettlement). (Sec. 273) Includes State Department employees within guidelines that address potential biases by such personnel that are hired abroad and involved with duties which could constitute a barrier to a refugee claim if such personnel carries a bias against the claimant on the grounds of religion, race, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations to ensure that persons with potential biases against a refugee applicant shall not be used in processing determinations of refugee status, including interpretation of conversations or examination of documents presented by such applicants. (Sec. 274) Bars the use of funds to support a larger number of personnel assigned to U.S. diplomatic or consular posts in Vietnam than the number assigned to such posts on March 22, 1999, unless the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that certain conditions with respect to Vietnamese refugees have been met. Title III: Organization of the Department of State; Personnel of the Department of State; Foreign Service - Chapter 1: Organization of the Department of State - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to establish within the Department of State the Bureau for International Information Programs and the Bureau for Educational and Cultural exchange Programs. (Sec. 302) Amends specified Federal laws to remove the Inspector General of the Foreign Service from its provisions. Chapter 2: Personnel of the Department of State - Provides for the award of the Foreign Service Star. (Sec. 322) Eliminates provisions allowing leaves of absence with pay in accordance with prevailing law and employment practices in the locality of employment for non-family members of foreign national employees of the Foreign Service and U.S. citizens hired abroad for employment in positions customarily filled by Foreign Service employees. (Sec. 323) Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to require a Foreign Service employee who regularly commutes from his or her place of residence in the United States to an official duty station in Canada or Mexico to receive a border equalization adjustment (locality pay adjustment). (Sec. 324) Declares that nothing shall prevent a Foreign Service grievant from placing a rebuttal to accompany a record of disciplinary action in such grievant's personnel records nor prevent the Department of State from including a response to such rebuttal, including documenting those cases in which the Foreign Service Labor Relations Board has reviewed and upheld the discipline. (Sec. 325) Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees concerning the extent to which administrative and technical personnel posted to U.S. missions abroad who do not have diplomatic status suffer financial disadvantages from their lack of such status, including proposals to alleviate such disadvantages. (Sec. 326) Authorizes the Secretary to extend hiring authority to the heads of Federal agencies or other Government entities to appoint individuals abroad (including family members of the Foreign Service or of other Government employees) to positions to which career Foreign Service employees are not customarily assigned. (Sec. 327) Amends Federal law to authorize up to three months advance pay to be paid to: (1) a U.S. citizen employee of a Government agency (other than family members of Government employees) who is assigned or located, and must (or a family member who must) undergo medical treatment, outside the United States; and (2) each foreign national employee or nonfamily member U.S. citizen who is located, and must undergo medical treatment, outside of the country of employment. (Sec. 528) Authorizes the spouse and dependents of Foreign Service employees who have died in a foreign country to receive a transfer allowance (extraordinary, necessary, and reasonable subsistence and other relocation expenses). Title IV: United States Informational, Educational, and Cultural Programs - Amends the Human Rights, refugee, and Other Foreign Relations Provisions Act of 1996 to designate educational and cultural exchange programs between the United States and Tibet as the 'Ngawang Choephel Exchange Programs'. (Sec. 401) Extends through FY 2001 scholarships for Tibetan and Burmese students and professionals who live outside Tibet and Burma, respectively. (Sec. 402) Prohibits any educational and cultural exchange program between the United States and a foreign country from being conducted through a contractor or grantee that is associated with any government that denies democracy or violates the right to freedom of expression or other internationally-recognized human rights. (Sec. 403) Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to prohibit the Secretary (currently, the United States Information Agency (USIA)) from awarding any grant or contract with respect to educational and cultural exchange programs until 45 days (currently, 15 days) after notice is provided to specified congressional committees of the intent to award such grant or contract. (Sec. 404) Directs the Secretary to take all appropriate steps to ensure that no foreign espionage agent is a participant in any educational and cultural exchange program. (Sec. 405) Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to: (1) rename the North-South Center Act of 1991 as the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center Act of 1991; and (2) redesignate the North-South Center as the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center. (Sec. 406) Repeals a specified section of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 calling for the abolition of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (effectively continuing the Commission). (Sec. 407) Prohibits the State Department (currently, the USIA) from expending any funds for a U.S. Government funded pavilion or other major exhibit at any international exposition or world's fair registered by the Bureau of International Expositions in excess of amounts expressly authorized and appropriated, with specified exceptions. Title V: International Broadcasting - Amends the United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994 to make permanent the authorization of funding for Radio Free Asia. Repeals Radio Free Asia funding limits. (Sec. 502) Repeals policy statements urging the privatization of Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, Incorporated (RFE-RL). Increases the limit on grant amounts to RFE-RL, Incorporated. (Sec. 503) Grants immunity from civil liability to members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors when acting in their capacities as members of the board of directors of RFE-RL, Incorporated and Radio Free Asia. Title VI: International Organizations and Commissions - Provides for the appointment of members as part of the American delegation to the conference of the Bureau of the Interparliamentary Union whenever Congress does not appoint its allotment of members to the American delegation. Renames the United States-European Community Interparliamentary Group as the Transatlantic Legislative Dialogue. (Sec. 602) Authorizes the Commissioner of the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission to provide technical tests, evaluations, information, surveys, or other similar services to state or local governments upon request on a reimbursable basis.

Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1999

Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1999 - Provides for the permanent resident adjustment of status of certain Liberian nationals present in the United States.

Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1999

Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize specified assistance, including humanitarian, economic, migration and refugee, development, border control, and democracy building assistance, to the South Caucasus and Central Asia countries to: (1) promote sovereignty, independence with democratic government, and respect for human rights; (2) assist in the resolution of regional conflicts and facilitate the removal of impediments to cross-border commerce; (3) promote economic cooperation and market-oriented principles; (4) assist in the development of infrastructure necessary for communications, transportation, education, health, and energy and trade on an East-West axis in order to build strong relations and commerce between those countries and the democratic, market-oriented countries of the Euro-Atlantic community; and (5) support U.S. business interests and investments in the region. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, assistance to the governments of such countries if the President determines and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that such governments: (1) are engaged in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights; (2) have knowingly transferred controlled missiles or missile technology to another country, or any equipment or technology that would contribute to the ability of such country to manufacture weapons of mass destruction (including nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons); (3) have repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism; or (4) are prohibited from receiving such assistance by specified Federal laws. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the President should use all diplomatic means to press for an equitable, fair, and permanent resolution to the conflicts in the South Caucasus and Central Asia; and (2) the United States should, where appropriate, support the establishment of neutral, multinational peacekeeping forces to implement peace agreements reached between belligerents in the countries of those regions.

International Trafficking of Women and Children Victim Protection Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1999

International Trafficking of Women and Children Victim Protection Act of 1999 - Establishes within the Department of State in the Office of the Secretary of State an Inter-Agency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking. (Defines "trafficking" as the use of deception, coercion, debt bondage, the threat of force, or the abuse of authority to recruit, transport within or across borders, purchase, sell, transfer, receive, or harbor a person for the purpose of placing or holding such person, whether for pay or not, in involuntary servitude, slavery, or slavery-like conditions or in forced, bonded, or coerced labor.) Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) report annually, with the assistance of the Task Force, to Congress describing the status of international trafficking; and (2) ensure that U.S. missions abroad maintain a consistent reporting standard and thoroughly investigate reports of trafficking. Requires U.S. mission personnel to seek out and maintain contacts with human rights and other nongovernmental organizations, including receiving reports and updates from such organizations and, when appropriate, investigating such reports. Makes any government of a foreign country identified in the latest report as one that has failed to take effective action towards ending the participation of its officials in trafficking and that has failed to investigate and meaningfully prosecute those officials found to be involved, ineligible for police assistance, subject to a presidential waiver if in the U.S. national interest. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for a nonimmigrant classification for trafficking victims. Provides for a waiver of grounds for ineligibility for admission with respect to such an individual if the Attorney General considers it to be in the national interest to do so. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to jointly promulgate trafficking regulations for law enforcement personnel, immigration officials, and Foreign Service officers concerning response training and victim treatment and protection. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide, through the Office of Refugee Resettlement, assistance to trafficking victims and their children in the United States; and (2) the President to provide programs and activities to assist trafficking victims and their children abroad. Authorizes appropriations for the Task Force, the Secretary of HHS, and the President. Bars the use of funds made available to carry out this Act for the procurement of weapons or ammunition.

Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1999

Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize specified assistance, including humanitarian, economic, migration and refugee, development, border control, and democracy building assistance to the South Caucasus and Central Asia countries to: (1) promote sovereignty, independence with democratic government, and respect for human rights; (2) assist in the resolution of regional conflicts and facilitate the removal of impediments to cross-border commerce; (3) promote economic cooperation and market-oriented principles; (4) assist in the development of infrastructure necessary for communications, transportation, education, health, and energy and trade on an East-West axis in order to build strong relations and commerce between those countries and the democratic, market-oriented countries of the Euro-Atlantic community; and (5) support U.S. business interests and investments in the region. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should use all diplomatic means to press for an equitable, fair, and permanent resolution to the conflicts in the South Caucasus and Central Asia. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, assistance to the governments of the South Caucasus and Central Asia if the President determines and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that they: (1) are engaged in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights; (2) have knowingly transferred controlled missiles or missile technology to another country, or any equipment or technology that would contribute to the ability of such country to manufacture weapons of mass destruction (including nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons); (3) have repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism; or (4) are prohibited from receiving such assistance by specified Acts. Amends the Freedom Support Act to waive the restriction on assistance to Azerbaijan if the President certifies to Congress that such restriction would not be in the national interest of the United States.

Honduran Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1999

Honduran Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1999 - Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain Honduran nationals (and spouses and children) present in the United States.

To deny to aliens the opportunity to apply for asylum in Guam.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1999

Prohibits aliens from applying for asylum in Guam. Provides for: (1) detention of such aliens pending transport to another port of entry for asylum review; and (2) reimbursement of local costs.

Liberian Refugee Immigration Protection Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1999

Liberian Refugee Immigration Protection Act of 1999 - Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain Liberian nationals who were granted, or are eligible to apply for, temporary protected status as of a specified date.

Bring Them Home Alive Act of 2000

United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1999

Bring Them Home Alive Act of 1999 - Directs the Attorney General to grant refugee status in the United States to any alien (and the parent, spouse, and child of such) who: (1) is a national of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, China, or any of the independent states of the former Soviet Union; and (2) personally delivers into U.S. custody a living American Vietnam War POW or MIA. Requires the granting of the same status to any alien (and parent, spouse, and child) who is a national of North Korea, China, or any of the independent states of the former Soviet Union and who personally delivers a living American Korean War POW or MIA. Directs the International Broadcasting Bureau to broadcast to such foreign countries information that promotes such refugee programs. Requires: (1) a minimum level of such broadcasting; and (2) the Bureau to ensure that such information is made available on the Internet. Expresses the sense of the Congress that RFE-RL, Inc., Radio Free Asia, and any other recipient of Federal grants that broadcasts to such countries should also broadcast such information.

Projekte zugunsten der Flüchtlinge

Austria · National Council · 24 February 1999

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Helene Partik-Pablé und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Inneres betreffend Projekte zugunsten der Flüchtlinge

Abschiebung abgelehnter Asylbewerber nach Togo angesichts der dortigen politischen Situation (G-SIG: 14050390)

Germany · German Bundestag · 12 February 1999

United States-Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Human Dignity Act

United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1999

United States-Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Human Dignity Act - Amends Federal law to prohibit the affixation of the "Made in the USA" label to a textile fiber product from the Northern Mariana Islands unless: (1) each worker producing such product was paid a minimum wage equal to or greater than a specified amount; (2) the product was manufactured in compliance with all Federal labor laws, including, but not limited to, the National Labor Relations Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; (3) the factory or other business producing the product has full-time employees in nonmanagerial positions who are U.S. citizens or nationals, aliens lawfully admitted into the United States for permanent residence, citizens of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, or the Federated States of Micronesia, aliens admitted into the United States as refugees, or aliens granted asylum in the United States, in specified percentages; and (4) the factory or other business producing the product does not employ individuals under conditions of indentured servitude. (Sec. 3) Applies to the Northern Mariana Islands: (1) the minimum wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as modified by this Act (requires a minimum wage through December 31, 1999, of $3.55 per hour, adjusted semiannually thereafter in $.50 increments until it equals the minimum wage required by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938); and (2) the Immigration and Nationality Act. Prohibits any product of the Northern Mariana Islands from entering the customs territory of the United States duty-free or not subject to quota as a product of an insular possession unless specified requirements relating to fair labor practices and country of origin are met. Requires the President, for a two-year period, to deny an exporter duty-free and quota-free treatment if it is determined that such exporter has willfully falsified information regarding the country of origin of a product of the Northern Mariana Islands for which such treatment is claimed. (Sec. 4) Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to authorize the inspection by the Customs Service of any vessel from a foreign port or from a place in any U.S. territory or possession arriving at a port or place in the Northern Mariana Islands (currently, the United States or the Virgin Islands) (Sec. 5) Requires a study of the extent of human and labor rights violations in the Northern Mariana Islands, including any efforts being taken by the united States or the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands to address or prohibit such violations. Requires a report on the results of the study to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 8) Authorizes appropriations.

Strategy paper on the European Union's migration and asylum policy

European Union · European Parliament · 8 February 1999

2 Ms O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will address the issue of the right to work for asylum seekers in the context of his proposal to introduce legislation as a result of the court decision concerning the Aliens Act, 1935; if he will also address the need for public education with regard to race relations and allow for the delegation of powers by the Refugee Commissioner which would facilitate the full implementation of the Refugee Act, 1996; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3073/99]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 February 1999

2 Ms O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will address the issue of the right to work for asylum seekers in the context of his proposal to introduce legislation as a result of the court decision concerning the Aliens Act, 1935; if he will also address the need for public education with regard to race relations and allow for the delegation of powers by the Refugee Commissioner which would facilitate the full implementation of the Refugee Act, 1996; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3073/99]

Violence Against Women Act of 1999

United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1999

Violence Against Women Act of 1999- Title I: Continuing the Commitment of the Violence Against Women Act - Subtitle A: Law Enforcement and Prosecution Grants to Combat Violence Against Women - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (the Act) to authorize appropriations for grants to combat violent crimes against women. (Sec. 102) Revises grant allocation guidelines governing prosecution grants, victims' services and State court systems. Expands grant purposes to include training that addresses sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking for State, local, and tribal judicial personnel, as well as training of sexual assault forensic nurse examiners, and supporting the development of sexual assault response teams. Directs the Attorney General to deny State grant applications that fail to provide documentation of collaborative efforts with other agencies or organizations. Redefines "victims' services" to include advocacy and assistance for victims seeking legal, social, and health care services. Includes as a prerequisite for Federal reimbursement of forensic medical exams of victims of sexual assault that the participating governmental entity notify all victims that such reimbursement is neither contingent upon the victim's report to law enforcement officials nor upon the victim's cooperation in the prosecution of the assault. (Sec. 103) Directs the Attorney General to make grants to State domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions for purposes of coordinating with: (1) victim services activities; and (2) Federal, State, and local entities engaged in violence-against-women activities. Subtitle B: National Domestic Violence Hotline - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to authorize increased appropriations for the national domestic violence hotline grant. Requires grantees to submit a grant evaluation report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the HHS Secretary) for publication and public comment as a prerequisite to a grant award or renewal. Subtitle C: Battered Women's Shelters and Services - Battered Women's Shelters and Services Act - Amends the FVPSA to authorize appropriations for State grants. Modifies guidelines governing: (1) allotment of appropriations; (2) grants for information and technical assistance centers; and (3) authorization of appropriations. (Sec. 123) Instructs the HHS Secretary to award grants for: (1) State domestic violence coalitions and local domestic violence programs providing shelter or related assistance, in order to develop model strategies to address domestic violence in underserved populations; (2) each State domestic violence coalition for an emergency assistance fund for domestic violence victims; (3) technical assistance and training for State and local domestic violence programs; and (4) private, nonprofit, tribal domestic violence coalitions with representatives from a majority of the programs for victims of domestic violence operating within Indian reservations, and programs whose primary focus is the populations of such Indian country. Subtitle D: Community Initiatives - Authorizes appropriations for demonstration grants for community initiatives. Subtitle E: Education and Training for Judges and Court Personnel - Amends the Equal Justice for Women in the Courts Act of 1994 to permit training grants for judges and court personnel to include: (1) child custody, visitation, and safety issues raised by domestic violence and child sexual assault; and (2) the extent to which addressing domestic violence and victim safety contributes to the efficient administration of justice. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies - Amends the Act to reauthorize appropriations to implement the functions of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. (Sec. 153) Mandates that at least five percent of appropriated funds be used for grants to Indian tribal governments to treat domestic violence as a serious violation of criminal law. Subtitle G: Rural Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Enforcement - Amends the Safe Homes for Women Act of 1994 to authorize appropriations for rural domestic violence and child abuse enforcement. Mandates that five percent of such funds be used for grants to Indian tribal governments. Subtitle H: National Stalker and Domestic Violence Reduction - Amends the Safe Homes for Women Act of 1994 to authorize appropriations for grants to enter stalking and domestic violence data into crime information databases. Subtitle I: Federal Victims' Counselors - Amends the Safe Streets for Women Act of 1994 to authorize appropriations for the United States Attorneys to appoint Victim-Witness counselors for the prosecution of domestic violence and sexual assault crimes. Subtitle J: Education and Prevention Grants to Reduce Sexual Abuse of Runaway, Homeless, and Street Youth - Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to authorize appropriations for street-based outreach and education to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation. Subtitle K: Victims of Child Abuse Programs - Amends the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for: (1) the court-appointed special advocate program; and (2) child abuse training programs for judicial personnel and practitioners. (Sec. 195) Amends the Act to authorize appropriations for grants for closed-circuit televising of testimony of child abuse victims. Title II: Limiting the Effects of Violence on Children - Subtitle A: Safe Havens for Children - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to public or private nonprofit nongovernmental entities to establish and operate supervised visitation centers. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Violence Against Women Prevention in Schools - Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary of Education to provide grants to State, local, or tribal school systems to implement programs for elementary, middle, and secondary schools which address domestic violence, assault and stalking. Subtitle C: Family Safety - Family Safety Act - Amends the Parental Kidnaping Prevention Act of 1980 to include among its purposes: (1) the promotion of cooperation between State and tribal courts to protect parents and children from domestic violence or sexual assault; (2) the promotion of realistic and protective standards for interstate relocation when parents dispute custody; (3) the avoidance of jurisdictional conflicts between State courts in matters of child custody and visitation consistent with not endangering or inappropriately punishing parents who are victims of domestic violence, or children who are victims of sexual assault. (Sec. 233) Amends the Federal criminal code (the code) to provide as a defense to prosecution of either a criminal custodial interference or parental abduction charge, or criminal contempt of court relating to an underlying child custody or visitation determination, that the defendant was fleeing an incident or pattern of domestic violence or sexual assault of the child, or would otherwise have a defense under the Parental Kidnaping Prevention Act. Directs the Attorney General to issue guidelines to assist U.S. Attorneys and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine whether to initiate or terminate an action due to the potential availability of such defense. (Sec. 234) Amends the Federal judicial code to: (1) provide that no State shall be required to enforce any order obtained in a proceeding which would violate the constitution of the enforcing State if the proceeding were conducted in the enforcing State; and (2) declare that the intent of full faith and credit doctrine in child custody determinations is to preempt inconsistent State law. Declares that a protection order regarding custody and visitation of a minor child that is consistent with this Act shall be given full faith and credit by the courts of any State where the party who sought the order seeks enforcement. Modifies State court jurisdiction guidelines governing: (1) relocation of the child due to domestic violence or sexual assault; and (2) court authority to decline to exercise jurisdiction on behalf of parents engaged in specified conduct. Subtitle D: Domestic Violence and Children - Expresses the sense of the Congress that for purposes of determining child custody: (1) it is in the best interest of children to have a presumption that their main physical residence should be with their primary caretaker parent unless such parent is unfit; (2) child abuse and sexual abuse allegations shall be fully investigated regardless of when raised, or whether the child has withdrawn the allegation; (3) States shall not order specified measures if they may endanger either parent or child; and (4) States shall provide training to all relevant professionals on how domestic violence and sexual assault affects determinations of custody, child support, and visitation. Subtitle E: Child Welfare Worker Training on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault - Directs the Attorney General to make grants in consultation with the HHS Secretary to enable child welfare service agencies to train their staffs and modify their policies, procedures, programs, and practices in order to make them consistent with specified principles and goals. Sets forth grantee eligibility criteria. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Child Abuse Accountability - Child Abuse Accountability Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the assignment or alienation of any pension benefit payable to a participant pursuant to a qualified child abuse order. Exempts qualified child abuse orders from preemption by ERISA. Title III: Sexual Assault Prevention - Subtitle A: Rape Prevention Education - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the use of certain State funds exclusively for rape prevention and education programs conducted by rape crisis centers and private nonprofit nongovernmental State and tribal sexual assault coalitions for specified programs. Instructs the HHS Secretary to establish a National Resource Center on Sexual Assault when appropriations reach a specified minimum level. Mandates that State grantors ensure that at least 25 percent of the funds are devoted to educational programs targeted for middle school, junior high, and high school aged students. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Standards, Practice, and Training for Sexual Assault Examinations - Standards, Practice, and Training for Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations Act - Directs the Attorney General, in conjunction with the HHS Secretary, to: (1) evaluate standards of training and practice for licensed health care professionals performing sexual assault forensic examinations, and develop a national recommended training standard; (2) recommend sexual assault examination training for health care students to improve recognition of injuries suggestive of rape and sexual assault; and (3) establish a mechanism for nationwide dissemination of a national protocol on sexual assault for forensic examinations. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Violence Against Women Training for Health Professions - Violence Against Women Training for Health Professions Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the HHS Secretary, when making health care grants for rural areas, to give preference to a health professions entity that requires, as a condition of receiving a degree or certificate, each student to have had significant training in identification, examination, treatment, and referral of victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Subtitle: D: Prevention of Custodial Sexual Assault by Correctional Staff - Prevention of Custodial Sexual Assault by Correctional Staff Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish and disseminate to the States certain guidelines regarding the prevention of custodial sexual misconduct by correctional staff. Requires withholding of specified correctional facilities funds from any State that fails to implement: (1) such guidelines; or (2) criminal penalties explicitly prohibiting custodial sexual misconduct by correctional staff against prisoners. (Sec. 345) Directs the Attorney General to create a national, confidential, toll-free telephone hotline to collect data, and to provide information and assistance to prisoners who have experienced custodial sexual misconduct by corrections staff. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Hate Crimes Prevention - Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999 - Amends the code to establish criminal penalties for willfully causing bodily injury because of a person's race, color, religion, or national origin. (Sec. 355) Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to study the issue of adult recruitment of juveniles to commit hate crimes, and, where appropriate, to amend Federal sentencing guidelines to provide sentencing enhancements for adult defendants who do such recruiting. (Sec. 356) Directs the Administrator of the Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to make grants to State and local programs to combat hate crimes committed by juveniles. (Sec. 357) Authorizes appropriations for the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Justice (including the Community Relations Service), to increase the number of personnel to prevent and respond to such hate crimes. Subtitle F: Rescheduling and Classification of Date-Rape Drugs - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) transfer flunitrazepam from schedule IV to schedule I; and (2) add ketamine hydrochloride to schedule III and, by order, add Gamma Hydroxy Butyric Acid to schedule I. Subtitle G: Access to Safety and Advocacy for Victims of Sexual Assault - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to designated grantees and services to improve legal assistance to victims of sexual violence through access to the justice system, legal advocacy, and representation. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Domestic Violence Prevention - Subtitle A: Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victims' Housing - Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victims Housing Act - Authorizes increased appropriations under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act exclusively for qualified, nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, and solely to provide supportive housing andtenant-based rental and financial assistance for persons leaving a residence due to victimization by domestic violence, stalking, or adult or child sexual assault. Subtitle B: Full Faith and Credit for Protection Orders - Amends the code to: (1) grant a tribal court civil and criminal jurisdiction over any person who violates a protection order within its jurisdiction, subject to Federal habeas corpus review, and after tribal court remedies are exhausted; and (2) require the Attorney General to reduce the amount of certain grants to any State that fails to comply with Federal full faith and credit requirements for protection orders. (Sec. 412) Authorizes the Attorney General to provide grants to assist governmental entities to develop and strengthen law enforcement and recordkeeping strategies to enforce protective orders issued by other governmental entities. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Victims of Abuse Insurance Protection - Victims of Abuse Insurance Protection Act - Prohibits an insurer from denying or restricting insurance coverage on the basis that the applicant or insured (or any employee or associated person) is, has been, or may be the subject of abuse or has incurred or may incur abuse-related claims. Confers enforcement jurisdiction upon the Federal Trade Commission. Authorizes a private cause of action by an applicant or insured adversely affected by a violation of this Act. Subtitle D: National Summit on Sports and Violence - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) a national summit should be promptly convened to develop a multifaceted action plan to deter acts of violence, especially domestic violence and sexual assault; (2) the members of such summit should include sports, community, political, and media leaders, as well as Members of Congress and other governmental and community leaders with relevant expertise; and (3) summit members should assume leadership roles deterring acts of domestic violence and sexual assault. Subtitle E: Keeping Firearms from Intoxicated Persons - Amends the code to declare unlawful the transfer of a firearm or ammunition to any person reasonably believed to be intoxicated. Subtitle F: Access to Safety and Advocacy - Access to Safety and Advocacy Act - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to designated grantees and services to improve legal assistance to victims of domestic violence through access to the justice system, legal advocacy, and representation. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle G: Strengthening Enforcement to Reduce Violence Against Women - Amends the code to revise guidelines governing persons who travel in interstate and foreign commerce and engage in domestic violence and stalking, or who violate protection orders. Subtitle H: Disclosure Protections - Amends the Social Security Act , Title IV part D, to modify disclosure protections in connection with the Federal Parent Locator Service and State plan requirements for child and spousal support. Title V: Violence Against Women in the Military System - Subtitle A: Civilian Jurisdiction for Crimes of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence - Amends the code to declare that domestic violence and sexual assault offenses committed by persons formerly serving with, or presently employed by or accompanying the armed forces outside of the United States shall be subject to prosecution in the Federal District Court of the jurisdiction of origin of the person arrested. Provides for concurrent jurisdiction with other military tribunals and foreign governments. (Sec. 502) Amends Federal law governing separation from the armed forces to mandate that: (1) a copy of records of any penal action taken against the departing member of the armed forces be transmitted to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and (2) any member convicted by court-martial of an offense of a sexual nature provide whatever specimen is necessary to conduct DNA analysis for inclusion in the Combined DNA Identification System of the FBI. Subtitle B: Transitional Compensation for Abused Dependents of Members of the Armed Forces - Revises Federal guidelines governing transitional compensation for abused dependents of former members of the armed forces. Subtitle C: Confidentiality of Records - Prescribes guidelines under which the Secretary of Defense is directed to: (1) study procedures of military departments for protecting the confidentiality of communications between military dependents involved in sexual or intrafamily abuse and the professionals from whom they seek services in connection with the effects of such abuse; and (2) issue regulations to provide the maximum protections for the confidentiality of such communications; and (3) report to the Congress on results of such study and implementation of the regulations. Title VI: Preventing Violence Against Women in Traditionally Underserved Communities - Subtitle A: Older Women's Protection From Violence - Older Women's Protection From Violence Act of 1999 - Chapter 1: Violence Against Women Act of 1994 - Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to direct the Attorney General to: (1) make grants to law school clinical programs to fund the inclusion of cases addressing issues of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including domestic violence, and sexual assault against older individuals; and (2) develop curricula and provide for training programs in those issues for law enforcement officers and prosecutors (including tribal authorities). Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 2: Family Violence Prevention and Services Act - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to require federally-funded State domestic violence coalitions to include programs and providers of direct services targeted to older individuals. 606) Authorizes entities eligible for a community initiatives demonstration grant to include representatives of adult protective services entities. Chapter 3: Older Americans Act of 1965 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to direct the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Aging to consider the importance of research about the sexual assault of older women when establishing research priorities for grants or contracts for research and demonstration projects on elder abuse. (Sec. 609) Authorizes appropriations without fiscal year limitation for grants to implement a State long-term care ombudsman program. (Sec. 610) Directs such Assistant Secretary to update and improve curricula and implement continuing education training programs to improve the ability of designated health care and social services providers to recognize and address instances of elder abuse, including domestic violence and sexual assault. (Sec.611) Directs the Assistant Secretary, when making grants and contracts, to give special consideration to projects designed to: (1) expand access to domestic violence shelters and programs for older individuals and encourage the use of certain facilities as emergency short-term shelters; and (2) promote research on legal, organizational, or training impediments to providing services to older individuals through shelters and programs. (Sec. 612) Authorizes appropriations for the ombudsman and the elder abuse prevention program. (Sec. 613) Directs the Assistant HHS Secretary to make grants to: (1) nonprofit private or tribal organizations to support projects in local communities to coordinate activities for intervention in and prevention of elder abuse, including domestic violence and sexual assault; and (2) develop outreach programs for assisting elder abuse victims, including some for assisting individuals in certain senior housing facilities. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 4: Public Health Service Act - Elder Abuse Identification and Referral Act of 1999 - Amends the Health Service Act to instruct the HHS Secretary, when awarding grants or contracts, to give preferences to health professions schools or programs that condition the awarding of their degrees or certificates upon significant student training in specified areas of elder abuse identification and treatment. (Sec. 616) Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize: (1) area health education centers to include training in domestic violence, sexual assault, and elder abuse screening and referral protocols; and (2) Federal grants to geriatric education centers for training and retraining of faculty to provide instruction regarding elder abuse situations. Subtitle B: Protections Against Violence and Abuse for Women with Disabilities - Protections Against Violence and Abuse for Women with Disabilities Act - Makes the protection of women with disabilities eligible for grants and research under the following Acts: (1) the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; (2) Family Violence Prevention and Services Act; (3) Safe Homes for Women Act of 1994; and (4) Equal Justice for Women in the Courts Act of 1994. (Sec. 625) Authorizes the HHS Secretary to: (1) develop curricula and implement training programs to improve the ability of social service and health providers to recognize and address domestic violence directed against women with disabilities; and (2) make grants and enter into contracts for such training programs for health professionals. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 627) Directs the HHS Secretary to consider the importance of research about the sexual assault of, and violence against, women with disabilities in establishing certain research priorities. (Sec. 628 ) Directs the Attorney General to establish a grants program for States, nongovernmental private entities, and tribal organizations to provide education and technical assistance for information dissemination on abuse and violence against women with disabilities. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Battered Immigrant Women -. VAWA Restoration Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify procedures and provide special rules for battered spouses and children with respect to: (1) adjustment of status; (2) removal and deportation; (3) implementation of immigration provisions in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); (4) waivers and exceptions to inadmissibility for otherwise qualified battered immigrants; (5) calculation of physical presence in VAWA cancellation of removal proceedings and suspension of deportation proceedings; (6) VAWA immigration protections; (7) VAWA cancellation of removal and adjustment of status for certain nonpermanent residents; and (8) good moral character determinations for self-petitioning immediate relatives. (Sec. 638) Prescribes guidelines for: (1) discretionary first time offender waivers for aliens making child support payments; (2) misrepresentation waivers for battered spouses of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents; (3) waiver of deportability; (4) inapplicability of public charge determinations for designated aliens; and (5) access to naturalization for divorced victims of abuse. Authorizes the Attorney General to grant certain battered applicants documentation signifying authorization of employment during the pendency of certain application procedures.. Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to redefine "qualified alien" to include certain battered aliens for purposes of welfare and public benefits eligibility. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 to declare restrictions on the use of assisted housing inapplicable to certain battered aliens. (Sec. 639) Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 to provide that requirements and restrictions placed upon Legal Services Corporation funding shall not be construed to prohibit a recipient from providing related legal assistance to certain aliens who have been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty. (Sec. 640) Amends the Act to require each branch of the U.S. military to train its supervisory military officers in domestic violence dynamics in military families, and the protections available for battered immigrant women and children. Expands the purposes of training grants to combat violent crimes against women to include: (1) training immigration and asylum officers and judges; and (2) training justice system personnel on the judicial ramifications of the Violence Against Women Act, and the potential immigration consequences for perpetrators of domestic violence. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to express the intent of the Congress that statutory constraints upon the powers of immigration personnel not be construed as discouraging crime and domestic violence victims from reporting crimes to the police, from cooperating in criminal prosecutions, or from obtaining the legal relief needed for protection from ongoing violence. Subtitle D: Conforming Amendments to the Violence Against Women Act - Amends the Act to make technical and conforming amendments to law enforcement and prosecution grants. Title VII: Violence Against Women and the Workplace - Subtitle A: National Clearinghouse on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault and the Workplace Grant - Authorizes the Attorney General to award a grant to a private non-profit entity, including a tribal organization, to provide for establishment of a national clearinghouse and resource center to disseminate information and assistance to employers and labor organizations responding to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Victims' Employment Rights - Victim s' Employment Rights Act - Prohibits an employer from taking any discriminatory employment action towards an individual for reasons pertaining to sexual or domestic violence, or stalking.. Prohibits any adverse job action for an employee's participation in related judicial proceedings requiring absence from work. Prescribes enforcement guidelines, including civil action by an affected employee for actual and treble punitive damages. (Sec. 726) Sets forth defenses to such an action, including extraordinary threats to workplace safety, and undue hardship. Subtitle C: Workplace Violence Against Women Prevention Tax Credit - Workplace Violence Against Women Prevention Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer a workplace safety program tax credit for 40 percent of the costs of implementing workplace safety and education programs to combat violence against women. Subtitle D: Battered Women's Employment Protection - Battered Women's Employment Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for unemployment compensation for separation from employment as a direct result of an employee's experience of domestic violence. (Sec. 743) Amends the Social Security Act to provide for the training of claims reviewers and hearing personnel in the nature and dynamics of domestic violence, and in methods of ascertaining and keeping confidential information about domestic violence experiences so that employment separations stemming from such violence are identified and adjudicated while full confidentiality is provided for the employee's claim and submitted evidence. (Sec. 744) Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to establish an entitlement for leave resulting from certain domestic violence situations for both Federal and non-Federal employees. Prescribes confidentiality guidelines for an employee's situation of domestic violence. Requires that employees, under State law, be permitted to use existing leave for domestic violence situations. Empowers the Secretary of Labor to enforce the entitlement for leave due to an employee's domestic violence situation. Subtitle E: Education and Training Grants to Promote Responses to Violence Against Women - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to public and private nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations for the education and training of individuals who, as a result of their employment responsibilities, are likely to come into contact with victims of domestic violence or sexual assault. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Workers' Compensation - Expresses the sense of the Congress that State workers' compensation laws should: (1) provide benefits to eligible female victims of workplace violence, including full compensation for physical and nonphysical injuries; and (2) permit the employee to pursue an action at law (other than statutory workers' compensation benefits) against an employer's role in the act of workplace violence. Title VIII : - Violence Against Women Intervention, Prevention, and Education Research - Amends the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 to direct the HHS Secretary and the Attorney General to establish a multi-agency task force coordinating research on violence against women. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 901) Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to make grants to entities to: (1) support research to further the understanding of the causes of violent behavior against women; and (2) evaluate education, prevention, and intervention programs. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Departments of Health and Human Services and of Justice to make grants to domestic violence and sexual assault organizations, research organizations and academic institutions to expand knowledge about violence against women, with a particular emphasis on exploring such issues as they affect underserved communities. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to study and report to the Congress on specified aspects of domestic violence. Directs the Secretary to award grants to designated entities to gather data on the experiences of women and girls who become pregnant as a result of sexual assault within State and tribal health care, judicial, and social services systems. Authorizes appropriations. Instructs the Attorney General to conduct a national study and report to the Congress on the status, implementation and efficacy of Federal, State, and tribal laws regarding rape and sexual assault offenses and their effectiveness in addressing those crimes and protecting the victims. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary and the Attorney General to establish three research centers to: (1) support the development of research and training programs that focus on violence against women; (2) provide collaboration mechanisms between researchers and practitioners; and (3) provide technical assistance for integrating research into the provision of services. Authorizes appropriations.